I know what they are but I have never seen them in real life nor used them. I had these:
Can I ask you when you were born? Because I remember using the paper strips when I was really young and then at some point they dissapeared and got replaced by those plastic rings. I was born in 94.
I used both. Am from 93.
I can see why they went to the rings. You could do the whole strip with a thumbnail if you were a young idiot.
you could also get the whole strip with a thumbnail of you just wanted to have some fun
similar age. I used both. I think the strips did get harder to find at the dollar store when I got older
92, Baltics
They sold these and the strips next to one another at the dollar store when I was a kid. Born '95
During the pandemic, percussion caps for black powder guns were unavailable and I got those types of caps to work marginally well.
A friend and I had the bright idea to hit a whole roll of those with a hammer. We also were smart enough to know that it should be on something hard, like a garage floor. We also knew that we didn’t want anyone to see us. So, we made sure all the garage doors were good and shut. I swear, it literally blew his hair back, and my ears have been ringing ever since.
We did the same thing, but I was the smart dumbass who knew that’s how you lose fingers, so I had us hide behind a board and drop a bowling ball into it. It cracked the fucking ball! My parents were livid
Thanks for doing my intrusive thoughts
See? Scotty doesn’t know…about toy safety and hearing protection! This is why OSHA would be upset!
I had at least a few and they never fucking fired right like 95% of the time. The clack of the hammer was louder than the damn cap itself.
Later I got one of those that takes an orange revolver style cap set and they were so much more reliable. Except you ran out of ammo in like 3 seconds and getting a parent to go buy more of those expensive ass refill things was nearly impossible.
You can still buy these.
I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).
All I know is that they smelled good.
You mean the sulfur?
Yeah.
You’re gonna love farts.
Everyone loves their own brand, but I’ve not really enjoyed them in general.
More for the rest of us!
“Anyone who says they hate farts is choosing to have less joy in their life, but the same amount of farts”
Damn, that hit home.
sulphur from caps. Farts are hydrogen sulfide.
To all the “hammer people”. What you do is you fold it lengthwise down the middle (opening each “dot”) and then carefully pack several rolls into a cylinder. Let say the plastic cylinder these things came in. Then use electrical tape and tape it good and tight. Preferably several cylinders. Remember to put in a fuse. A rubber band clipped open will work in lieu of a proper fuse.
These things blows like flash bangers
Yes! I did this so many times as a t(w)een! Good times.
Wrap the strip tightly around a penny and then tape the whole thing is what I used to do. Remarkably potent when tossed on the ground.
I feel like a video of this in action would be classic 2000s internet.
A scene that would have gone viral was when were 12 four of us pooled our money and bought a display box of the rolls.
What commenced was an conveyer belt style production of the things. Being total idiots we had no real idea what we were doing so we taped together several cylinders and while one packed the rest folded. The “packer” used that back end of a fork to get the stuff real tight in the cylinder and since he was sitting with it between his legs in the crotch area he started simulating masturbation with the fork as an attempt to amuse. (Did I mention we were 12 AND idiots?)
What happens was that the friction of cource ignites the damn thing. Luckily it was early in the production so he did not set of much. What happened was teared jeans, some spectacular brucing and a visit to the emergency room. No permanent damage.
The thing is I still work with explosives in a professional capacity and I found that these things are still being sold… P1 pyrotechnic articles, “low hazard” so its still not to late to go viral…
That’s wild and I’m really glad your buddy didn’t lose his real fork!
“Must be used under adult supervision”
Classic disclaimer
Hah… Adult supervision = benign neglect.
And see what I found!
HOT DAMN TIME TO MAKE SOME FLASHBANGS
I can smell them too.
It was fun to take a hammer and hit the entire roll at once. They actually made quite the noise.
For reference, I was born in 1970 so yeah I grew up with those things.
Can still smell the burnt sulphur
Haha, bought a couple of rolls of these recently to show the kids. Can’t believe no-one’s mentioned penny bangers yet. Take a roll, fold in half lengthwise and wrap radially around a penny, tape off the end, then throw it hard against a hard surface.
Look who’s back shitposting!
We missed you, Mickey.
If you see these and think, “I have no idea what those are, no cap,” you’re too young to be on the internet.
You can still get the plastic revolver style.
Yeah these rolls were way better though you got a lot more shots too.
even as a kid I disliked the waste
Walmart sells these today. Free delivery.
Cursed fruit of the foot
