Would you let your child play with your handcuffs?

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or would it just be too hard to explain?

I had my suspicions about you saltire.

I live in fareham, no where near pompey!

It's not that far away, saltire and I know you don't like it to be said, LL, but Southsea is technically Pompey, isn't it?

saltire did try to point the finger at you. Smokescreen perhaps?

my 5yo has been known to play with my dad's!

Just make sure that if it goes wrong your dad is the one to make the trek to the fire-station.

lol - ds's hand will still slip out of them atm, they also have a pin through them so they can't be locked - as the key appears to be long gone.
v old police ones, dad joined the force 45 years ago - and was probably issued with them then.

Oh FFS. loads of people have handcuffs in their bedrooms (and Portsmouth is full of perverts - and squaddies, for that matter ahem), and a mate of mine once had to have a set chopped off her at the local nick - she was messing about with the ones this complete local pillock always wore on his belt (to show what a cool dude he thought he was) - he was a prize pillock as he used to ponce around with these cuffs on his belt but had lost the key about 3 years previously. Hence red-faced trip to the nick.

... and sailors.

Oh no, I can just imagine me in that situation 'oh yes, honestly, it was someone's idea of a funny secret santa present, I took them home, just to be polite, and they somehow never quite made it off the bookcase at the bottom of the stairs, and my daughter appears to have got stuck in them'.

Disclaimers:

• it was not me
• I have a DD not a DS
• I haven't lived in the coastal parts of Hampshire for many years now
• they honestly were a secret santa present
• I don't know WHAT image I'm presenting to my colleagues to deserve that
• if DD did get stuck in them, the keys are on my keyring along with the house and car keys, so that'd be okay

You've really thought about this possibility.

Well I have NOW ... been too busy thinking about what DD would make of the contents of my bedside drawer, what with her pink fixation and everything. Eep.

my exbf was a soldier based in portsmouth, ll

there is a big base there

he was port and maritime

i cant remember where it was, i only went there once with him

it was definitely an army base tho, not navy

Is there? An Army base I mean?
I thought they were all naval establishments with one or two now tri-service

i saw a gazillion soldiers wandering about but no naval people

he told me it was an army base

of course i dont mind being corrected

i cant remember if it was camo or not tbh, it was last march

brain has aged rapidly, but he was always saying how it was an army base

he could ahve been lying of course, or omitting certain facts

he may not have been a soldier at all but a cleaner

Well you see my DH would tell the Dses that anyone they saw wandering around in camos were RAF - just to be awkward, friendly rivalry and all that

sounds like it, is it an army base then?