Topic: The best fucking thing ever

[Andy @ Allerton!]

I never had one, but when I was a kid and some of my mates had Sony Trinitron TVs they were the bollocks.

Absolutely amazing and beat everything else out there.

What other things - anything at all - would you say were world beaters?

[reddebs]

Technics 1210s.  Still the best too.

Sent from my Pixel 4a (5G) using Tapatalk

[Jon2lfc]

the first Ford Focus

[kesey]

It has to be the old 147 bus . The manouvere it took into Barnham Drive towards Well Lane was a thing of beauty. It meant I had to walk less to buy a weed from Hartsbourne heights .

[CHOPPER]

Kenny Dalglish

[Medellin]

One of those Xmas presents that I never thought I'd get..
It pissed all over me mates Scalextrix.
When I started work & bought my first pair of Nike too..they were only a few days old when one of me brothers wore them an put a hole in the toe of them, returned them to their place..when I got home from work it went off..he never wore anything of mine again after that.

[rob1966]

One of those Xmas presents that I never thought I'd get..
It pissed all over me mates Scalextrix.
When I started work & bought my first pair of Nike too..they were only a few days old when one of me brothers wore them an put a hole in the toe of them, returned them to their place..when I got home from work it went off..he never wore anything of mine again after that.

TCR was shite. We twice got TCR for Christmas and It was knackered both times by Boxing Day.

Now Race and Chase



There was a button on the top of the controller that reversed the current on your car, so it would reverse and do a J turn. You could get it to do handbrake turns as well. I've got two sets of these in my stepdads loft in Southport, they are about 45 years old.

TCR was fucking shite. We twice got TCR for Christmas and It was knackered both times by Boxing Day.

[Medellin]

Must have been dropped Rob, I have 2 TCR sets in the loft, both original & all cars & tracks still work on both. 

[rob1966]

Must have been dropped Rob, I have 2 TCR sets in the loft, both original & all cars & tracks still work on both. 

Maybe we were too rough with it. I remember the first set, on Christmas Day, a tyre came off and overtook the car, following day the set was dead. Tried again a couple of years later with the 3 tier set and that died boxing day too 

It was brilliant for the time it worked, slip streaming and overtaking

[Macphisto80]

I never had one, but when I was a kid and some of my mates had Sony Trinitron TVs they were the bollocks.

Absolutely amazing and beat everything else out there.

What other things - anything at all - would you say were world beaters?

There were two types of Trinitron. One was the normal commercial version, but it was the professional monitor models that were, and still are, amazing. I'd a Sony KX-27PS1 back in the mid 90's to play imports on, and back then, there was very little else out there like it in terms of compatibility and image quality. Looked amazing too. I regret getting rid of it, as they're like hens teeth now.

[Medellin]

Maybe we were too rough with it. I remember the first set, on Christmas Day, a tyre came off and overtook the car, following day the set was dead. Tried again a couple of years later with the 3 tier set and that died boxing day too 

It was brilliant for the time it worked, slip streaming and overtaking

Yeah the tyres were an issue, we used to turn them inside out when they wore a bit.

[tubby]

Lego.

[rob1966]

Lego.

[bradders1011]

Rennies.

They just work.

[Nobby Reserve]

the first Ford Focus

Good call.

Could go round a corner at far-too-fast mph, and still cling to the road like a limpet. Best handling car I've ever had.

[TepidT2O]

Good call.

Could go round a corner at far-too-fast mph, and still cling to the road like a limpet. Best handling car I've ever had.

No car handled better than the Peugeot 106....

[gazzam1963]

As a kid ..the chopper bike

[rob1966]

Good call.

Could go round a corner at far-too-fast mph, and still cling to the road like a limpet. Best handling car I've ever had.

My wife has got an Astra H, 2006 1.6 and that sticks to the road like shit to a blanket. I can get around the slip road at the Croft Interchange, going M6 North to M62 East at around 75 mph. Its funny as fuck as any BMW tries to sit on my arse before the panic sets in and you can see the Beemer weaving everywhere and can imagine what the electronics are doing

[Lynx the saucy mynx]

Bumble Tumble (not to be confused with Beehive Bedlam) and King Tutti on sky games back in 2000.

[Ziltoid]

As a kid ..the chopper bike

As an adult...the chopper bike

[.adam]

Got a Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin about eight years ago and it still sounds absolutely amazing. I've got a few Google Home Maxs around the house and the Zeppelin still sounds fantastic compared to them.

Looks fucking boss mounted to the wall as well.

[AndyMuller]

Got a Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin about eight years ago and it still sounds absolutely amazing. I've got a few Google Home Maxs around the house and the Zeppelin still sounds fantastic compared to them.

Looks fucking boss mounted to the wall as well.

What is it, a speaker? Looks like a spaceship 

[.adam]

What is it, a speaker? Looks like a spaceship 

Yep, a wireless speaker. I've got mine set up with a Google Chromecast Audio so I can us it with multi-room speakers dotted around the house.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

As a kid ..the chopper bike

Great call!

[Nobby Reserve]

As a kid ..the chopper bike

I disagree. My mate had one and let me have a go. I struggled with the handlebars, wobbled, tried to hop off it as you would an ordinary bike, my leg hit the seat's backrest thing, and down I went, like a sack of shit, onto my face.

They were shit.

[TepidT2O]

Impaling your testicles on the gear stick too...

But they were cool with their seat

[rob1966]

I disagree. My mate had one and let me have a go. I struggled with the handlebars, wobbled, tried to hop off it as you would an ordinary bike, my leg hit the seat's backrest thing, and down I went, like a sack of shit, onto my face.

They were shit.

I rode a Chopper once and nearly crashed trying to change gear, never wanted to ride one again.

One of the best bikes I had was a Raleigh Bomber, dead comfortable.

[Son of Spion]

I disagree. My mate had one and let me have a go. I struggled with the handlebars, wobbled, tried to hop off it as you would an ordinary bike, my leg hit the seat's backrest thing, and down I went, like a sack of shit, onto my face.

They were shit.

I think I have to agree on this.

Having said that, I really wanted a Chopper back in the day, but my Dad refused to buy me one. He was one of those fellas who was in a cycling club and would do mid-Wales and back to Liverpool in a day. He said Choppers were shite, and not a proper bike. I was well pissed off. 

I actually got it not too long later though, when a few mates and I decided to ride over to Conwy on our bikes. No way in the world would we have made it on a Chopper. They were cool for arsing around on back on our council estate, but utter shite for much else. I had to begrudgingly admit my dad was right. My 5-speed racer was just the job. 

[Buck Pete]

Rennies.

They just work.

The pain of waking up in the middle of the night with heartburn after a late night cheese fest, only to realise you have no indigestion remedy left.

Then... like an angel sent from above...

You find a stray strip of Rennie's at the back of the bedside drawer.  A feeling of unrivalled utopia as the acid disappears a mere seconds after this tablet of unadulterated goodness dissolves in your gut.

[Zlen]

Vans Skate Hi in black.
Old pop in lighters in cars.

[[new username under construction]]

Skyways BMX 

[BarryCrocker]

Gray Nicolls Twin Scoop Cricket Bat.



Adidas Copa Mundial

[Crosby Nick]

Vans Skate Hi in black.
Old pop in lighters in cars.

When I was about 3 me and my brother were left I the car while my dad went to the shops (dogs die in hot cars!). My brother, clearly bored, pushed in the lighter and then when it was heated up told me to touch it. Soon learned not to do whatever he told me!

Another time we were dating each other to do stuff and I ended up burning a hole in the drivers seat. After much panicking, winding down. The windows and wafting the smoke out we managed to persuade my mum it had always been there, and that our gran must have done it (it was her old car!).

Mad invention though weren’t they. It was just assumed that everyone was a massive smoker!

[Big Red Richie]

When I was about 3 me and my brother were left I the car while my dad went to the shops (dogs die in hot cars!). My brother, clearly bored, pushed in the lighter and then when it was heated up told me to touch it. Soon learned not to do whatever he told me!

Another time we were dating each other to do stuff and I ended up burning a hole in the drivers seat. After much panicking, winding down. The windows and wafting the smoke out we managed to persuade my mum it had always been there, and that our gran must have done it (it was her old car!).

Mad invention though weren’t they. It was just assumed that everyone was a massive smoker!

Oooh. Keep it  in the family. Eh. 

[Crosby Nick]

Oooh. Keep it  in the family. Eh. 

Haha fucks sake!

[۩ Imperator ۩]

Loeb Classical Library editions of Latin texts.

Nothing else quite looks, feels, smells like a dusty Loeb.



I have about 70, but if I came into money, I'd buy the lot.

Also, gold Gillette Slim Adjustable, 1960s.



And still the best watch in the world, and still virtually unchanged 74 years after they started making them:

[Zlen]

My father had that Gillette.
It was a thing of beauty.
I can recall the weight of it after almost 40 years.

[rob1966]

Loeb Classical Library editions of Latin texts.

Nothing else quite looks, feels, smells like a dusty Loeb.



I have about 70, but if I came into money, I'd buy the lot.

Also, gold Gillette Slim Adjustable, 1960s.



And still the best watch in the world, and still virtually unchanged 74 years after they started making them:

That Omega is gorgeous, gonna get me one of those.

[Nobby Reserve]

When I was about 3 me and my brother were left I the car while my dad went to the shops (dogs die in hot cars!). My brother, clearly bored, pushed in the lighter and then when it was heated up told me to touch it. Soon learned not to do whatever he told me!

At least you had your brother to blame.

This dickhead here, also left in the car whilst my dad went a shop, touched the red-hot lighter stub out of some dumb curiosity. Stupidest thing is, I knew it'd burn but sort of wondered if it'd feel different to a 'normal' burn. No. It hurt just like a normal burn, but did leave a cool-looking, spiral-shaped mark on my finger for a while.

Years later, after passing my test, I thought sparking up whilst driving by using the lighter stub was uber-cool.

[BarryCrocker]