[NSC] Things your kids would NEVER understand...

[A1X]

 

[East Staffs Gull]

I-Spy books.
Football diaries.
Blue Peter Albums.
Peter Bonetti goalie gloves.
Alan Ball football boots.
Football sock garters.
Howzat cricket game.
Telegrams.
Green Shield stamps.
Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
Score’n’Roar.
It’s a Knockout.

 

[studio150]

winding a cassette tape with a biro.

a cassette tape.

My niece got a cassette with a recent Little Mix release.

Reactions - Isn't this great it remembers where you stopped listening to the tape (This after taking out and turning the player off and then putting back in the next day)
- It's broken, all I'm getting is a click, click - No you need to take the cassette out and turn it over.

Still waiting for the use of a biro.

But cassettes are making a come back, although many of those buying don't have a cassette player.

 

[METALMICKY]

3 TV channels. Then 4. And the arrival of the 4th channel feeling like the 2nd coming of Christ.

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3 channels but you also had some mates who had that strange separate white square Redifusion switch on the wall which meant they could London Weekend as well as the Southern ITV. Used to be dead jealous as they seemed to get more midweek football highlights shows

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Y=X to the power of n, where x=10. n is the log. But not the natural log. Obviously. FFS!

If I remember rightly New Maths started for me in 1968 at Moulsecoomb Secondary School.
I logged out for the next five years and played football instead

 

[Beach Hut]

Metal roller skates like sandals you could adjust to your shoe size

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

White dog shit

 

[junior]

How much i wanted to go on Jim'll Fix It and used to write to Jimmy Saville every year.

 

[Acker79]

Big block bike lights powered by multiple D batteries.

 

[timbha]

We were dead posh.

We had a remote control, with a WIRE draping across the living room.

My dad used a long cane.

Fancy a girl/boy
Go on a date to the pictures
Go for a meal
Get engaged and have a party at a local hall
Spend two years writing your (her!) wedding list
Get married and go somewhere naff for your honeymoon
Take on his surname
Buy a house or flat and move in together
Decorate your new home, cheaply, one room at a time with help from the in laws
Buy a TV, car, carpet after saving for over a year
Have two children looked after by stay at home mum until they reach school age
Work at the same place for 45 years, retire and get given a carriage clock

Double barrelled names were for posh people

 

[Mackenzie]

An advert at the cinema for the "fully air conditioned" Indian restaurant round the corner
Wearing a suit to go on the plane for your holiday (to Torremolinos)

 

[GT49er]

Fvck the white dog shit - people didn't always take their dogs walkies back in the day - they just let the fvckin' thiings out, and you had to know how to keep out of their way on the way to or from school, which short cuts were safe, and when you had to just bloody run!

 

[GT49er]

Big block bike lights powered by multiple D batteries.

Dynamo lights!

 

[Gabbafella]

SM:TV
Pulling the choke out (not a euphemism)
Spending 10 minutes chucking shapes while holding on to a coat hanger, tin foiled to the back of the TV just so you could hunker down in bed with your favourite sock and watch a blurry image of Katie Puckrik on The Word (No? Just me then?)
Burners, Grifters, Choppers and Vektars.
Bauers
Dungeons and Dragons (the cartoon)
Being disciplined by parents and having respect for elders.

 

[PTC Gull]

Milk being delivered to your door
And Trumpton...

 

[Eeyore]

Making your own way to school. If my Mum had walked me to school it would have been met '' But I'm 7, I'm not a child ! ''

 

[Barham's tash]

This whole thread reads like a monologue from a Danny Boyle film. Which is excellent.

Walking then catching two buses to school, or if it wasn’t luzzing it down walking the second bus journey so you had 50p to spend on penny sweets before school. Instead of expecting to be Chauffeured around in some Chelsea tractor.

Being AMAZED when your dad came home with a car phone meaning you believed his car was like Kit from Knight rider.

 

[smudge]

Open the bunker, coalman's here.

 

[timbha]

The Evening Argus being the first place to get local news and football results on a Saturday night (if you had missed Final Score).

Having dinner at dinner time and tea at tea time.

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Any teenage lad who hasn’t gone round his mates to play FIFA with some beers probably just doesn’t have many mates

Seriously though, did you not get the memo, only old people had fun childhoods.
Injury filled, disease riddled childhoods.

I feel old when the new graduates and apprentices don't get my Simpsons references