Not a deal. Been this price since 1985

I drove past a small park at the edge of a housing estate last week, it was glorious sunshine and there were kids playing and I thought, that is awesome, the scourge of our modern technology where everyone is looking down at a smartphone posting inane pointless drivel to each other on inane pointless social media platforms, and there's some kids just enjoying the simplicity of being alive, at this point I didn't stop and drop kick my smartphone over one of the houses, I just kept on driving. I actually preferred the times before smartphones and tablets, those days were precious.

Having penalty shoot outs with this ball and saving it with your face. Good times!

I'll buy two at that price!

Fly-aways are what we referred to these as :laughing:

We used to call them Flyweights, the only ball I ever scored with because they suited my toe punt style!

Leather balls always ended up as a ‘banana shot !’

these used to bounce of the surface of the water still at the same speed you hit it at

awesome for the pool and for smashing into the little kids face

It's an ad network tracking link, as are pretty much all deal links here (the site automatically adds the redirect so you hit that on the way to the actual website), that's how the site makes it's money and has been doing that for years, nothing new.

My mac recognise this is spam link thought http://ad.doubleclick.net !!

Good idea, I'm going to leave my phone, tablet and computers by the door. Leave it unlocked and everything will be back to 2005. Bliss.

Back in old days when nobody locked their doors.... Because there was nothing in the house worth stealing

Kind of is a deal... it should cost £2.90 due to inflation since 1985 - but it doesn't, still a pound :smirk:

You were clearly born after 1985! #Humbug

Using the online historic inflation calculator, these would/should be £2.90 based on being £1 in 1985, therefore these clearly are a flyaway bargain :man:

Looks like this deal got stuck on the roof of HUKD just like these balls do! :smile:

Kids of the 90s we had them in the 80s.
Anyway got 2 from Wilkos on Sunday for £1 each also.

kids of the 90's? you dont know.

Can we get this crap off the front page, sick of looking at it

Laughing hard at this comment cheers bud...

Well l would say it's OK to be fat and mental and it is nice to know Im not the only one!
I liked the old SLF back in the day, but thought it strange Bruce played with the band?! Nice he is doing From The Jam, l saw them a few mths ago and they are tight,to be fair.

I saw Bruce playing with Stiff Little Fingers in Brixton Academy in 1991, was pretty good, that was long before I was fat and mental as I am now sadly. Good times :smiley:

Ah.. Yes you have the idea Mr Fish master. Have to say Bruce hair is a bit long then,for a mod!

God knows why this was made a HUKD PICK is there anyway I can block this from my homepage for the next month?

think its you that sounds like a billy no mates, i come on this site every now and again to see if theres any decent deals, you come on to get some fond memories? sad act

Yes l am starting to hate the modern world, l said in 1978 "This is the modern world"
How wrong was l ,the good old day's of the 80s when you could make real money, the bands and the scene . The 90s and rave and Brit pop!
Thing's left to chance thing's just happened!
Now everything is a bore,technology as taken over the day's of the p.c long gone now you can't get away from it with your smartphone and Tab's and laptop's always on the move can never get away from it, and work is no more 9-5 it's 24-7!
Punk,mods and two-tone we need to go back to the late 70s and start again!
Yes Mr Cool as gone mad, and yes I'm on my tab saying all this and its time for action!

Cold 99p in Morrison's

:laughing: if you didn't feel l like any of that you could always kick your mate in the balls. :laughing:

Ahh yeah there was that too. That used to annoy the hell out of me, you could still get half a game out of the ball until someone handball and had enough of the game, usually because they were loosing.
Then there was the we won you lost argument. :smile:
Then either a scrap started or lots of swearing :smiley:

I just remembered after that it was usually do something like collect conkers, stand on a wall, play the game where you run into your mate and send them flying, throw stuff about, kick stuff, go or do something against the school rules, or generally cause havoc.

After the ball was punctured by being booted into a rose bush or hedge, we'd valiantly try carrying on playing, but it was like kicking a pillow. Invariably some kid would then squeeze all the air out (or enough air) to make a concave shape so they could wear it like a hat or helmet.

You couldn't beat a good ole game of "kick the can" back in the day. It was like a team hide-n-seek/tig with the kicking of the can the start of the game. Anyone do that, or was that just a Scottish kids game?

So many memories. It was either a floater or tennis ball. Unless one of the well off kids brought their footie in.

Can you remember how they burst. It was either like a sagging condom over something or a spectacular comedy cartoon bang with bits flying all over.

Had many of these, were absolutely epic until it went anywhere near the rose bush!

Haha I remember the harder you kicked them the more crazy the flightpath they had. And I'm sure they went slower if I recollect.

My school roof was littered with these blow aways including mine.

What the hell is it????

Has anyone ever managed to head one of these balls and generate any power at all? I always remember shots swazzing all over the place like a Carlos free kick, but headers falling out of the air like a stone.

Rule one of HUKD - Want 1000°+ heat, simply post a non deal with a funny description, OR an average deal with an unrelated but oh so hilarious pic. Heat guaranteed :wink:

It is somewhat surprising that this post has made it to over 1500C for a regular price item :-)

Sure you didn't get arrested for being a pedophile? That's what would happen usually these days. :\

Are people voting this hot out of principle that kids should get out more instead of staring at a screen?

In my day we had to make do with a tin can!

Posting these kinds of comments online :smile:

I had been the office all day on the PC a few weeks back and on driving home seen a few kids playing in the field like I used to as a kid, a keeper and the others taking in turns to have a shot at goal. I drove past smiling, bringing back the memories of when I was a kid, then turned the car around and drove back, rolled up the trousers, slipped on the trainer's and joined in having a kick about. I was there a good hour really enjoyed, just don't see enough of it these days. Too much tech these days is no good for anyone, it's gone to far and the balance is not right, will be interesting to see what happens to this generation 30-40 years down the road.

Used to call them Garage Balls as you'd only be able to get one from the local petrol station

Was known as a "fly away" when I was a kid in Scotland.

Exactly, £1 is much less now than it was in 1985 and even then it was cheap lol

Interesting, that is

Change is good, just needs appropriate amount of balance.

Good point, a very big difference. There's probably something to learn from both sides on reflection. Embracing the future, but nurturing the past.

Observation rather than worry :smiley:

You know the Victorians did the same thing ... doesn't that tell you something. Get with the modern times and stop worrying about the past. :smiley:

I dunno, a shopping trolley only costs a £1...

Ahh these were great :-) Heat !

Heat for the memories!

poundland have always been selling these . I don't understand why its such a good deal??!!

Lot of good grandpa stories here about how life was better before smartphones.

Exactly the same argument our parents made about TV...

And their parents made about the wireless...

There is actually written evidence in Latin and Greek texts about elders complaining that "youngsters are too lazy these days."

Smartphones are not destroying kids, you are just old.

We used to call these penny floaters! Now the price is more, it's a pound floater!

ah, deliberately toe blasting these full force so they zigzagged and spun about everywhere. Impossible to save. Such good memories.

don't want to sound like a party pooper but I just picked up 2 of these for 89p each at home bargains.
either way - my boys absolutely loved them! bargain at either price

Well thanks for the education lesson - I thought a shoot floater ball was one of those little floater balls you popped in the toilet for little ones to have target practice at. :laughing:

Good price for this - voted hot.

You assume you mean. It's that assumption which can be the difference between fact and reality :smiley:

Is that Christian Eriksen?

He says whilst browsing HUKD on his smartphone :confused:

But if you take inflation to account it now make it the equivalent of 34p!

You've got me thinking now. I've moved on from the floater, I'm looking for a Wembley Trophy, remember them; upgraded vinyl, size 5, so a bit more weight & stability, orange with black lines. just need to find a deal on one!

Still prone to the dog & thorns risk though!

Wow just found one on ebay for 20 quid. Now that is inflation.

It's because you were that guy that we didn't allow you to play.

We called them Frido (we pronounced it Fido). Had a characterisitc smell and went 'boing' when kicked.

I remember catching a toe punt from a mate on the inside of my thigh on a freezing winters day, and watching the mirror image of 'Frido' develop in white inside the circular red mark left by the ball.

Tell that to the kids of today and they'll never believe you...

89p at B&M

its a ball that misses the goal, no matter how hard you try to score!

Anyone who doesn't get this deal is either not a child from the 80s

Or

Was a billy no mates from the 80s

ITS A BALL !

And it's hot because it brings back fond memories for kids from the 80s of good days playing footy with mates.

And all that for just £1

Just got my boys one of these each they lasted 2 mins there now over next door

Pound in poundland too go figure

I fondly remember the days of playing in the street with Flyaways, those rock hard stolen school balls with the name of the school written on them in permanent marker, on very rare occasions with good casey's but usually knackered casey's with no leather/pvc left on them, just the bladder basically. Or playing curby with my spalding basketball that came free with some trainers, good times :smiley:

surely, taking inflation into account, these are an absolute bargain as £1 is now worth... etc.etc.

Only 89p in home bargains so surely a much better deal, that 11p makes all the difference :smile:
I am sure others would have posted a separate deal trying to get recognition for themselves. :neutral_face:

[quote=]Not a deal. Been this price since 1985[ .../No change since "1985"!!!...then that makes it an EXCEPTIONAL DEAL!!!!!

what is this crap, and why is it a hukd pick?

immediately =/= last week.

Also these are fly aways! Suckers!

Ha, glad you said that as I always flinched when my kids made me goalie in the garden and blasted these at me, I thought they stung in all weather!!!
We would always have loads of these in the garden as they were bound to deflect over the fence a couple of times a day.
We called them fly aways. Wonder if it is a regional thing

Air-Floaters in my neck of the woods

These use to sting like hell in the winter when someone blasted them at you during a free kick

Having penalty shoot outs with this ball and saving it with your face. Good times!

I'll buy two at that price!

good ol floaters :smile:

Whoosh!

Standard etymology dates the word awesome to the late 16th Century 'in the sense filled with awe". You'll duly be delighted to discover that the word curmudgeon also finds itself originating somewhere in the late 16th Century.

Links broke, can't find the download button

Brilliant :smiley:

I preferred the days when people used the word amazing and great and brilliant instead of being Americanized and saying Awesome but I guess the world moves on and we have to with it. :smiley:

Not a deal. Been this price since 1985

Ahh good old days :smiley: heat added thanks

Once a thorn or dog had punctured it you could cut it in half, turn it inside out & have half each with a mate to wear on your heads & play kung fu experts "ah-grasshopper"

Funny how I'm only 22 and feel nostalgic about something like this. Gonna pop to asda tomorrow come home and completely unintentionally kick it over my fence :laughing:

Cos Steve Austin went on Soccer AM to tell your stoopid lil a$$ that this is the best damn deal on the best damn ball there is! Uh uh! Someone throw me a Shoot5 and a god damn beer! ... and that's the bottom line.. cos Hawt! UK! Dealz! SAYS SO!!!

Is that the first division teams?

I remember the white ones with all the first division team names printed on them - many perished at the hands of the rose bushes in the garden

Somewhat confused why this is the hottest deal of the day. Surely there have been £1 forever? Or am I old?!

Topic title...best pound you will ever spend Shoot floater ball...


'get your kids off the computers and show them how we used to bend it like Beckham'...


I've never bent like Becksham...I neither have or want tax credit passports...


:smiley:

Not enough credit. Just the right amount of detail and sarcasm

Come again? :confused:

One of these and two jumpers as the goal posts! happy days :smiley:

Best pound spent is getting the bus to a NHS place for free condoms :wink: Saves you and the tax man a fortune...

the only ball you could kick and it would come back to you on a windy day lol :laughing:

Not only did the aul witch next door keep sticking a knife in ours but the physco then sliced them in half. My mate still has nightmares.

Yes, that's all well and good, but didn't you just use a smartphone or some tech connected to the Internet to post your comment? I doubt that would've been possible back then with a brick phone :stuck_out_tongue:

Get two and carry them under your t-shirt! Great for the beach.

We had the mighty mitre delta but thats for another time

Best thread ever this btw haha nostalgia has hit me like a flyaway right in the mush.... and I love it

Haven't read through to check but these are 89p in home bargains Cambourne maybe nationwide.

I remember on a windy day you could put loads of backspin on that ball and it would go up in the air and then behind you . Or you could just toe-end it maximum pelt!

At school it was mitre ultimax and delta cosmics. I remember the later would move a fair bit.

Classic football if the 90's, good luck to whoever is the keeper! :laughing:

Ahh. Nostalgia making people believe that these balls are anything but the crap they've always been. Waste of a pound.

I thought it was one of those toilet ones for a second

Not really since 99% of charitys are corrupt, i use to work for one, got paid decent and didnt even do much work lol... the bosses are LOADED!

A quids been cheaper forever, youve never been able to get much for a quid, those days? 1985 is not victorian days mate.

No idea if this has been mentioned, but they're only 89p at Home Bargains.

poster after my own heart...100% agree,

that the illusionary world we mortals choose to believe in and live for...we were definitely not put on this earth or created to waste our lives on social media like brainless techono-bots or scuttling around like cockroaches, greedily and selfishly overpopulating the earth and destroying the environment and consuming all it resources like there is no tomorrow :sunglasses:

i wld say - forget doing it to make you feeling better - just give £1 to charity and that is far better period :stuck_out_tongue:

Give a £1 to charity it will make you feel bettee

I fear your head may explode when you find out what these are called.

I reckon we may have known oneanother.

Ahhh, me and my mates used to push each other into stinging nettles then frantically look around for a dock leaf, make catapults out of knicker elastic and use crab apples for ammo, fashion Chinese arrows tipped with a dart head, smoke those beige coloured reed things stuffed with dried grass we could snap off from the hedgerow and rob railway detonators so we could set them off outside school.
We were definitely more creative back in them days :smiley:

We use to call them air floaters :smiley:

Yes but they are a pound not a penny, and a pound was not cheap in those days.

My point was they never cost a penny.. And pennies don't float.

Some people all right.

Good ol' penny floater

thanks for posting op. heat from me

Penny = cheap and floater = coz they float

Jesus christ some people

Your end seems crap, penny floaters all day...

I think he means write off, but there again.

Haha i remember this :smiley:

Well, that escalated quickly.

Er...what?

I took one of these over the park once and some guys dog burst it! The guy came over and gave me a fiver to replace it! Upgraded to a 'proper' football!

Do give these Shoot5's the bounce test before you buy, the first few i tried where egg shaped before i found a nice round winner. Game on!

Only kids of the 90s will understand?!??!

Next you'll be telling us Brylcreem is the next big thing... :laughing:

We used to call these penny floaters, no idea why. :confused:

This ball was so much fun, had so many laughs with friends...miss the days when it was a few of us kicking the ball around...then random others ask to play...then it's 5 a side...then more people ask if they can play too...and so on and on...until you got the whole neighborhood playing 20 a side in all different coloured tops...and you still knew who was on your team...!

Loved a game with these back in the day, £1 at the local corner shop circa 1988

I saw this in my local morrisons at 99p. which is slightly cheaper for those looking for a slightly better bargain :smiley:

So, is a "floater" the same as an "unflushable"?

:wink:

I was a kid in the 90s but I don't remember these things. That being said I had a C64, a SNES, a Megadrive, an Atari Lynx etc. so I didn't really venture outside too much.

Best pound you will ever spend!!!!!!! No the best pound I ever spent was in one of those posh toilets after a curry.

Omg, lol the memories with these fly overs... Great times! Haha heat from me :smiley:

​Got some tadpoles on the go in the back garden now. Jealous?

This is the kind of ball that you'd use to show off in front of little kids on how high you can kick a ball!! ;-)

Got the yellow one - less damage to surroundings in the hands of inexperienced youngsters!!!
Totally unpredictable ball flight when toe-punted!!!

Flyaway also, ours always had a funny taste but thats a different story. That sinking feeling when somebody hit one, it went all over the place and ended up stuck in the brambles getting smaller by the second. Yep, its burst


Im going home for me tea

Yes... and where have all the frogs gone? Anyone else remember collecting frogspawn and watching the tadpoles develop? Haven't seen a frog, toad or newt for years.

if this went anywhere near a plant thorn it would've had it. GOOD STUFF!

Ah the days of cycling miles to the woods to light fires or going minnow fishing with jam jars or scavenging at the local tip. Now I don't let my kid out of my sight, what has happened?

We don't kick these around the shop at all at night.... best thing Asda ever did lol

Better have no thorn bushes in your garden

Everytime :disappointed:

If it was this price in 1985 then its a deal and a bargain now
Have you not heard of inflation, a loaf of bread was 16p in 85 and now its a £1!!!!!!!!!

I got 3 for £3 poundland, £1 each but got blue, red & yellow.

Hands up if you read this with Stephen Merchant's accent

Flyaway here too. And I seem to remember them having a really distinctive smell!!!!!

JJB sports used to have giant racks full of them with different faces on. These bring back great memories of lunchtime playground football

Or maybe you just did? :wink::wink:

Factoring in inflation, this costs less than it did 31 years ago.

I think you guys are missing the point

its a penny floater brings back memories

You're easy to make laugh, I'll have to tell you some of my jokes.

Where's that then? HOT OP

Brings back memories of having to run over to the corner shop at lunch time to buy another as they were always being booted onto the school roof at play time lol

Yeah waiting for the post everyday was like Christmas morning, every morning, except Sundays, when the Postman had a lie in.

Oh the memories.

Oh brings back the memories. Remember ones many times who got too over enthusiastic scoring a goal but for the penny floater to be flying over the nearby glass walled cordon off land with the whole team to be let down by the idiot to carrying on playing with a tennis ball until the next posh kid brings a real football.:smiley:

Ahh thanks comic book analogy makes much more sense now :confused:

Love the irony of this, good times when kids were out playing on a field etc with no internet capable smartphones, tablets, computers etc (and this is a post on a website)

always known them as penny floaters

I thought this was a dog mauling joke at first.

Don't even start telling him about discounted cash flows and net present value, his would would be blown!

These were never £1.00 in the 80's every 50p shop sold them, you could prob get 3 for a £1.00 in the 80's

and for the record BeerDrinker is right these were fly-aways, the alternative were Casey's

When I read the title. I thought it was one of those floating balls you leave in the loo to encourage blokes to improve their aim.

Great until the neighbour sticks a knife in it for going over their garden too much lol

89p in home bargains

Yes but a pound is worth less now.

We used to get these from Woolworths in the 1970's. I think we had one on the beach at Bridlington whilst holidaying in my auntie's caravan. It can be rather bracing on Brid beach. I kicked it into the wind and never saw it again. Probably came down in Hull.

Oh don't say that, I thought there was some faith left in our future youth for a minute then!

I'd rather buy a packet of Haribo.

My big cousin was the Great British "Kerbie" champion. He once went to the USSR to face their champion. He "grannied" the Soviet 10-0. Sadly, my cousin started getting into extreme Kerbie, and was knocked down and killed in a high stakes match on the M25. But yeah, i remember that game mate.

I used to play curbie with them back in the day if anyone remembers that game

"We playing football today?"
"Yeah, but Mike has an airflow ball"

what I never understood with these balls is they always curled in the opposite direction than a normal ball

Round our way we called them Air Flows.

I drove past a small park at the edge of a housing estate last week, it was glorious sunshine and there were kids playing and I thought, that is awesome, the scourge of our modern technology where everyone is looking down at a smartphone posting inane pointless drivel to each other on inane pointless social media platforms, and there's some kids just enjoying the simplicity of being alive, at this point I didn't stop and drop kick my smartphone over one of the houses, I just kept on driving. I actually preferred the times before smartphones and tablets, those days were precious.

It's just a very light football.
They are always £1, this is not a deal.

Well I'm a 70/80s kid so have no idea what this is. We used to have bouncy balls, I'm guessing this is a souped up version of that?

Then its a great price at only £1 now...

Not a patch on the Hacky Sack, I'm afraid :wink:

Driving? I expected you to be travelling by horse, bannermen by your side.

It's amazing what people go mad over on here

*goes borrow dogs*
*dog punctures ball*
*run*

The ball that turned the average kid into Roberto Carlos!

99p where I lived

I'd be England captain by now if I'd ever worked out who owned the ball.

"Can I play?"

"Sorry mate not my ball"

Penny floaters

Would've been £2.28 if inflation was factored in so saving £1.28!
I think you should consider inflation in future, schoolboy error. :wink::stuck_out_tongue:

Even better save yourself a while penny & get one from morrisons for 99p

Aren't these just cheap plastic footballs?

Ahhh the old windy popper, good times.

Cold. Saw these for 90p in Home Bargains. Buy 10 in Asda you could've got 11 in Home Bargains wi 10p left over for a Mr Freeze icepole.

heat

Quality ball of you fancy putting a bit of Swaz on it.To be honest it wouldn't take much.Some things in life can't make you feel as good as kicking a shoot ball lol :smile:

[quote=jono49]
only kids of the 90's will understand

Really we had them in the 70s along with the rock hard leather ones

Leave his wife alone!

haha the good old days these were called wind blowers or windies where I am brilliant tho as I goal keeper these were a nightmare to face but to be fair it tuned up the old reflexes to cat like lol

Im going to kick one of these over in to my neighbours garden - right off his puss

Haha, memories !

Trevor Brooking learned with a tennis ball, and if he used his 'other foot' his dad made him do ten press ups.
And he had ten o levels.

Messi puts his entire skill down to training with one of these.

I couldn't stop laughing reading all the comments, this is best thread I've read on hotuk.... Honestly I was in stitches, cant than you enough

The fly-away. The only ball you needed no skill at all to hit a free kick like Roberto Carlos. Goalkeepers were always scared when facing a shot from these balls.

if you want more than one, Amazon would be cheaper.

"Plaggy **** Off" I remember them being called

Fly-aways are what we referred to these as :laughing:

sorry I didn't understand your title, looked like a lotto ball!

these have always been a £1 I'm most stores , £1 shop, b&m and pound stretcher

Great for swimming pool volleyball.

The classic wind-floater!

Back then you could settle a rough tackle with either a free kick, drop ball or 'replay'. Today, you'd get shot for a rough tackle.

Face stingers in the wet :smile:

These things were amazing back in the day. You could get swerve like Roberto Carlos from a free kick with these little belters. Crap on a windy day - unless your opposition goal was down wind :laughing:

Penny floater!

Good deal but I'll keep my £1 in my pocket rather than on a neighbour's roof, thanks. :wink:

As Derby stated, It goes 'PWANG'

What does this do?

Once I kicked this so hard, It went into space :confused:

that pwang noise means you toed it