Two types of people in this world
 

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

Or the two types are those who group people into two types and those who don't.

However, this poll is to see which of two types you are:

Paste eater or non paste eater?

Think kindergarten, first grade.

You know who you are.

it was minty? it just tasted like paste to me.

I never saw the attraction myself of the glue myself, but there was a small fad of putting straight pins through the top layer of skin on your finger.

Paste tasted salty to me though, similar to sucking on a seatbelt (which was also enjoyable at the time)

Did that. How about harnessing flies with human hair? {glue eater but never minty}

Spitballs, yes, paste, no.

Never ate paste.:headshake Used to put it on the palm of my hand and after it dried pick it off. :cool:

Paste, never. Matches, more often.

No paste eating here, although I had several first grade classmates who did. There was this one girl who would eat the paper off the Crayolas.

itsjulie, what you describe is something that I would do with overages of Elmer's Glue, but paste never dried quite the same way on your hands ... I liked making glue fingerprints.

Does anyone even make the old style of semi-solid paste with the plastic applicator? Admittedly I haven't gone looking for it in quite some while, but I don't recall seeing it recently. It's all glue stick this and glitter glue that these days. What kind of fun is glue with the glitter already mixed in??? You can't hardly make any kind of mess with that! It's all washable and guaranteed not to stain, dries clear?? Theres' no fun in a glue that dries clear! Sheesh. And hey, anybody seen a glass bottle of mucilage lately?

feh.

Kids these days. They don't know what they're missing. You try to tell them and they think you're crazy.

Perhaps my kids are exceptionally talented in this area :rolleyes: but they are quite capable of making a big mess with glitter glue. (Also, Play-doh has been banned from the house for 5 years, but that's another story.)

Must have been a big fad. It made it up to Maine, where I grew up.

We also took it a step further. We would take the straight pin and place it into the crook of our elbow with our arm extended, and then fold our arm up so the pin would poke into the loose folds of skin in the elbow. If you did it right, it looked like you were stabbing yourself bad with the pin, but the skin was all loose so it didn't actually puncture the skin.

We were stupid kids.

We would also lick the terminals of a fresh 9 volt battery. Somehow this happened to come up at a party a couple of years ago. A battery was found and passed around. It was amusing to see the reaction of the 9 volt battery virgins.

It's obviously a US thing - I thought you meant paste as in meat/ fish paste (pic attached in case you don't have that!)

The child-safe glue when I was growing up smelt strongly of rotten fish - enough to put anyone off eating it I assume. But we did put it on our hands & pretend to have a skin disease as we pulled it off.

Our fish and cows must be assembled better at the factory than yours. We don't need to repair them at home.

(I shouldn't mock other countries about their foods. We have deviled ham and peanut butter.)

Good lord, Sundae Girl. I'd sooner eat glue.

Never ate the paste. Our school was an Elmer's Glue kind of place. I liked smelling it and peeling it off my hands, but never wanted to eat it. Tried Play-Doh, but it was too salty and upset my stomach.

I liked the lemony tang of the Glue Stick.

I still do the peeling skin thing with glue. I remember the paste smelling minty, but couldn't fathom why my table mate ate it.

I remember mucilage and the red rubber tips that eventually cracked.

I wonder if the purple when wet and clear when dry glue sticks taste like grape and then don't taste like anything when they dry.

I ate paste, and matches. The most fun I had was sticking silly putty in my sisters hair.

I used to love doing the peely thing with Elmers glue! I wan't big on eating it though - I guess it never occured to me.

On the other hand, on many occasions I gave in to the temptation to taste a smelly sticker. It just *had* to taste good if it smelled so yummy.
Yech. Bitter, perfumey, papery nastyness was all I got..... every time.

Hehh... I never did any of these stuff (though some of my classmates did). I thought it was gross.

I sampled the play doh at one point, but like Noodle, found it to be too salty for my liking. Never sampled the glue. We had mostly mucilage. The stuff looked like snot. Who was going to eat that? YUCK! By the way, Wolf, mucilage can still be found in the book repair area in the back offices of your public library.

Yuk :crazy:

you could take the white, thick paste with the plastic applicator and make small balls of it, let it dry and presto!..desk candy. I wonder if anyone ever figured out how to stop the mucilage from leaking out in your bookbag?

never tried mucilage.....

With a name like mucilage, It's GOTTA suck. Sounded like some type of body fluid to me. But then.... I was a rather strange child.......

I always thought that the people who had too much fun with paste were the ones who ended up on Real Sex talking about liquid latex.http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/wink.gif

BTW, at the Forks Halloween bash I spoke with a very interesting (and very attractive) woman who swore that whoever came up with colored cling wrap had to be a member of the bondage movement. Which just goes to show you, food item/arts and crafts tool/sex toy, it all depends on your point of view.http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/smile.gif

I guess you gotta be a real Geezer to remember when every gradeschool classroom had a big ol' jar of paste for every couple of desks. It was actually a problem in our school, more of the paste got eaten than ended up on the papers it was meant for. Although I frequently saw classmates stick fingers into the paste and eat it, I never did it myself, after taking a taste once at somebody's urging I had no further interest. Maybe somebody else got "minty" paste, but back in North Carolina ours just tasted like flour and water, only slimier :sick:

GEEZER???
Whoa Nellie! I resemble that remark Tonchi. I'm jusst barely able to cop to middle age (assuming I make it to 90) now you wanna saddle me with geezerhood?

I dunno, what was YOUR score on the Geezer Test on that other thread? I read somewhere that nobody in high school today even knows there used to be only vinyl records. How does that make us feel? :rolleyes:

Now the flour-and-water papier-maché paste -- that smelled wonderful, somewhere between Play-doh and Cream of Wheat. But I don't think anybody in my third grade ate any.

Zombie thread, live again! Liiiiiiiive! Liiiiiiive!

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There are three kinds of people in this world - those that can count and those that can't.

No, only two kinds: Those who can count, those who can't and those who don't care.

You're confusing this with the alarming statistic that seven out of five people don't understand fractions.

That's a fine example of a proper improper fraction. And of an improper proper fraction. Understand?

Listen to the Fraction Faction up there. ↑

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Three out of every five people make up 60% of the population.

But 45% of people don't want to be thought of as a statistic.

There are two types of people: those who know what the two types are, and those who don't. Which type are you?

I did the glue-on-the-hands-and-peel-it-off thing - almost as good as peeling sunburn, without the pain of the burn! :D

I never ate the glue, but we had these flimsy paper bus tickets back then, which tasted disgusting but we could get them down. Until that day the ticket inspector got on...