... Incidentally, it's not 'Blue Tack', as Ciao would have it. Ask for 'Blue Tack' in Tesco and they'll just laugh right in your face. Admittedly, in the incorrect spelling the 'e' is silent, so it makes little difference, phonologically, but people'll know and mock you mercilessly for your ... Read review
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The X-tack is a synthetic grip manufactured with a combination of polyurethane and fiber ... more
layers which makes the grip feel firm but comfortable and provides shock absorption. The final polyurethane coating insures a long lasting tacky feel even in wet conditions.
Postage & Packaging:Free! Availability:Usually dispatched within 4-5 business days...
The X-tack is a synthetic grip manufactured with a combination of polyurethane and fiber ... more
layers which makes the grip feel firm but comfortable and provides shock absorption. The final polyurethane coating insures a long lasting tacky feel even in wet conditions.
Postage & Packaging:Free! Availability:Usually dispatched within 4-5 business days...
Advantages: Everything is an advantage in the Blu Tack world. Disadvantages: None!
...Tack is squidgy, slightly sticky blue stuff. In a way, it presents a better miracle than the kind that Jesus got a bit of a name for, because it is sticky without actually sticking to you. That's the kind of miracle Jesus could only dream about, frankly. It costs just over a quid to buy a packet that's just less than half the size of a sheet of A4 paper. It's available from all shops that are proud to maintain a reputation for selling top-notch sticky ... ...for is of a little blue snowstorm atop your target's head. Blu Tack is light and sticky enough to cling to someone's hair without them noticing unless they go to the toilet and look in the mirror. Also, it's an innocuous enough substance that you can't really be accused of bullying in the workplace after your attack has been rumbled.
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I've been giving this some thought today (mainly, in honesty, because I've been bored, had far too much sugar and found out that there is a finite number of photocopiers that you can break in one day), and I've come to the (perhaps surprising) conclusion that water is not the stuff of life. It's an arrogant little git, is water. Can water give you a blood transfusion? Does water put a new battery in your watch when it starts going a bit slow? Do you ever get home of an evening to find that water's put the dinner on and had a bit of a tidy round for you? No, it bloody does none of those things. It's time, therefore, that the rightful heir to the throne was reinstated. Blu Tack is the stuff of life! Yeah!
(Oh God, I've just had a wee reread of that paragraph. I can't be arsed to delete it and think of something better, so you'll just have to bear with it. I'll throw in some interesting facts in a few paragraphs time. You'll be glad of that, I imagine.)
Anyway, Blu Tack. Incidentally, it's not 'Blue Tack', as Ciao would have it. Ask for 'Blue Tack' in Tesco and they'll just laugh right in your face. Admittedly, in the incorrect spelling the 'e' is silent, so it makes little difference, phonologically, but people'll know and mock you mercilessly for your ignorance of all things Blu Tacky.
Blu Tack is beloved of the following groups of people: students, teachers, and people who break loads of stuff. Coincidentally, and amazingly, I'm in all three groups and thus uniquely qualified to write a detailed, and possibly slightly demented, review. I'll just point out, though, that I'm not a student in the traditional sense of the word. I don't wear the same pants three days running, or anything. No, no, I have a proper job and do my studenting in the evening (which makes me, I think, the gold standard of studenting (if you think that's a word I just made up, you'd be right. Also, if you think that I've managed to get brackets within brackets, which takes a bit of doing, you'd be right on that score, too)).
**There is a condition called 'Exploding Head Syndrome', but it's nowhere near as fun as it sounds. If you get it your head won't even explode or anything. I feel a bit cheated by that, frankly.**
Now, if you're stupid/have been trapped in a cage all your life/blind (although, if you are blind, it was a bit optimistic buying a computer, really, wasn't it? Dell are probably laughing all the way to the bank, though) you may not know what Blu Tack is. I'll tell you, shall I? Your life'll be transformed. Blu Tack is squidgy, slightly sticky blue stuff. In a way, it presents a better miracle than the kind that Jesus got a bit of a name for, because it is sticky without actually sticking to you. That's the kind of miracle Jesus could only dream about, frankly. It costs just over a quid to buy a packet that's just less than half the size of a sheet of A4 paper. It's available from all shops that are proud to maintain a reputation for selling top-notch sticky stuff. One packet'll last ages, because you don't need that much (unless you've broken your telly. In that case you might be better off splashing out on two packets) and when you've decided that your posters are crap and your taste in modern art sucks, you can peel it off and re-use it.
However, don't be fooled into thinking that Blu Tack's only good for sticking stuff up with. Oh no, there are myriad other uses that I have found (and hardly any of them are endorsed by Bostick).
**A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months. Prior to that they can go on crime sprees with impunity.**
Blu Tack is the best possible material for rolling up into tiny little balls and throwing at people's heads. The effect you're aiming for is of a little blue snowstorm atop your target's head. Blu Tack is light and sticky enough to cling to someone's hair without them noticing unless they go to the toilet and look in the mirror. Also, it's an innocuous enough substance that you can't really be accused of bullying in the workplace after your attack has been rumbled.
Blu Tack is also handy for making Blu Tack people out of when you're bored at work. It's pliable and can be moulded to make features, adhesive enough to stick hair on to, and can be quickly made to look like innocent sticky stuff when your boss walks in.
**The lion costume in The Wizard of Oz film was made of real lions.**
Lastly, but most importantly, Blu Tack will fix ANYTHING (Well, I say anything, but you know what I mean. I doubt orthopaedic surgeons are using it. You'd hope not, anyway). It's magic in that respect. At a conservative estimate, I'd say that 75% of everything in my house is currently held together with it. Also, should someone drive into you and knock your wing mirror off, Blu Tack will hold it together well enough for your car to pass the MOT (it won't fix a punctured tyre, though. I tried that, and it just did not work at all).
**I am wearing black sparkly shoes. They hurt a bit, but I forgive them this for the sparkliness (I ran out of interesting facts a wee bit there towards the end).**
Apologies to stupid people, blind people and Jesus lovers (he was good at the miracles, really. Just not as good as Blu Tack. That's all I'm saying).
...call a wallet. This is Blue in colour with white writing on the front. Turning the packaging over you will see a white area of Card where the following information is available to you.
“Clean, safe and easy to use, Blu-Tack provides an ideal alternative to drawing pins and sticky tapes with hundreds of uses around the home, office or school environment. Blu-Tack holds up: Posters, cards, children’s paintings, party decorations, maps, ... ...been left with hard, crusty blue blobs on her ceiling that she can’t get rid of. You’ll have to buy some lighter fluid and try that Dawn. The good thing about Blu-Tack is, providing it hasn’t been left to dry out, it is reusable. So you can afford to fall out of lust with your heartthrobs and use the same little blobs of the blue stuff to put up posters of your new ones.
Blu-Tack is not suitable for children under 36 months as ...
Dodie 15.02.2004
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Advantages: Clean, cheap, easy to use and above all fun. Disadvantages: you might be seen as boring if you list this as one of your hobbies on your CV
...it was a sort of blue chewing gum type substance, but a little less sticky. When you first grab a piece off the main slab, its quite cold to touch but then as you mould it between your fingers it becomes warm and malleable. You can use it again and again to stick things on walls, on counters, on the dashboard of your car. It’s a re-usable adhesive.
•••Where can I buy it? •••
Well its available in all good ... ...it has Bostik (the manufacture’s name) written in a yellow box in the left hand corner. The box itself is like a slim cardboard envelope which is 10cm x 23cm (Hope you all go shopping with your rulers in tow!) It costs about £1.50 a go.
•••How to use it•••
That’s kind of explained in the first paragraph but there are instructions on the back of the packet, just in case you are really daft!
1. Ensure ...
MadeinScotland 09.04.2003
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Advantages: Re-usable over and over again Disadvantages: Not strong enough to stick everything
...is. Well firstly it is blue in colour and yes you've guessed, it is also tacky, but don't dismiss it there. As far as adhesives go Blu Tack is pretty versatile and the one thing that sets it apart from other adhesives like glue or sellotape is that it is re-usable. Once you find another use for it, you simply roll it back into a ball and use it again
Blu Tack is sold in a blue and white flat cardboard sleeve packet, with the manufacturer's name ... ...the product itself is a blue slab, wrapped between two layers of white shiny greaseproof paper, which stops it from sticking to the packaging. The slab itself is quite cold to the touch.
To use the Blu Tack you simply pull off a small corner, roll into a little ball between your thumb and finger and then apply.
So what can it be used for?
It is not a particularly strong adhesive like superglue, and therefore it is much more suitable for sticking ...
micksheff 27.06.2005
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Advantages: very useful Disadvantages: doesn't bounce :(
...rolling a lump of this blue marvel between my fingers it struck me to do a search for it here! Lo and behold, there's a category for it. So naturally, here I am writing about the joys of this substance!
*glares at Ciao for the mis-spelling of Blu-Tack!*
Blu-Tack (The Original Reusable Adhesive!!) itself is an ingenious substance produced by a company called Bostik who, strangely enough, are an adhesive manufacturer!
I've scoured Google searching ... ...cardboard packs which are mainly blue in colour with Blu-Tack written across the top in big white letters. Also there is a cartoony picture of what it can be used for on the front (and more details on the back).
Inside the cardboard the stuff is rolled flat and sandwiched between two sheets of plasticky paper (much like the backing of a sticker I suppose) to keep the stickyness of this sticky stuff as sticky as stickily possible.
Costs/availability:
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unnameable 19.12.2003 (20.12.2003)
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Advantages: Endless Disadvantages: It's hard to get out of carpet or clothes once squished in-trust me
...that Blu Tack is a blue (duh!) sticky substance of a similar consistency to plastecine. It is most typically used as a mild adhesive to stick light objects to a surface.
It is typically purchased at a price no cheaper than 99p however if you're in a bargain shop of sorts you may find it cheaper (I recommend you don't settle for any alternatives as you will save yourself no more than 30p and it's never quite as good: You really can't beat the original ... ...a (you guessed it) blue packet as you can see above. If you haven't tried it, try it. Go on, go out and buy it!
Enjoy! Dearyxxx
**P.S. The first picture, with the circuit board?-Who knows?! It's provided by Ciao, a normal picture is provided below.** ...
deary_ma_leary 25.06.2005
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