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What was really the original meaning of the rubber shell toe? Was it to protect the toes from bouncing basket balls or what?
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They were designed to protect you from electrocution if your basketball ever ended up in one of those dangerous sub-stations from them adverts in the 70's and 80's.
It was fuckin' obvious that that cunt was gonnae fuck some cunt.
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JIMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
fc wants to see them public information films back on telly
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-yGTrd4Z7I[/youtube]
fc hopes poor sod takes heed and stays away from sub-stations
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Ah, that takes me back.
It was fuckin' obvious that that cunt was gonnae fuck some cunt.
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me too.. me too..
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Fucking terrifying.
[/broken into many a sub station]
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Damn that's a brutal advert. Effective but brutal. You couldn't air something like that here. It might scare the children. Better a dead kid than a traumatized one.
These kicks need their own theme music.
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People of a certain age and born in the UK on here will remember many more, keep away from train tracks, chip pan fires, polished carpets, not to mix cross ply and radial tyres 
I think they aren't shown anymore for that reason - "They'll scare children, there're too traumatic!"
Which is entirely missing the point.
fc wants them all back
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