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

[Berty23]

Toilet roll covers for the spare loo roll. I have not seen one you years. They were usually knitted type appearance and hid the spare loo roll on top of the toilet. I never understood these and why anyone had them. Was it a case of two loo rolls being unsightly but one is okay?

Black and white tv with a coat hanger as the antenna.

Going to the library to find the encyclopaedia so that you could complete your homework. Speaking of libraries. Those little cards that then books had which went into the little orange holder to show which books you had.

Presenting a girl with a tape you made for her.

Shin pads with pointless plastic sticks down them that offered zero protection. I never understood why you could remove them. Very odd.

Brighton were absolute crap and almost fell out of the football league.

 

[Baldseagull]

As a kid, knowing to avoid the ‘funny bloke’ who lived on his own because he likes little boys/girls.

Taking advantage of the "funny bloke", by getting him to buy you a bag of sweets in the hope you might "sit on his lap", and pedalling off as soon as you had them. Chap known as "Bert the Bender" to all politically incorrect young boys in Crawley.

 

[Baldseagull]

Clean drugs.
Not stabbing people.

You didn't grow up in Crawley.

 

[1066familyman]

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

And whack a Beano or Dandy album on them and use them as skateboards to sit on.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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

I hve a horrible feeling Jim did fix it for you, and your consequent contribution to NSC is understandable acting up.

There can be no other explanation.

 

[Easy 10]

Taking advantage of the "funny bloke", by getting him to buy you a bag of sweets in the hope you might "sit on his lap", and pedalling off as soon as you had them. Chap known as "Bert the Bender" to all politically incorrect young boys in Crawley.

Dark.

 

[1066familyman]

Big block bike lights powered by multiple D batteries.

Made by Pifco. The challenge was to keep them on their metal bracket. If they feel off that was almost certainly game over.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Brighton were absolute crap and almost fell out of the football league.

Not alot (sic) of people know that #sparemetheentitledwhoshallburninthefiresofhades

 

[pastafarian]

The toilets in the North Stand


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In fairness, most of us adults who experienced the North stand crapper have never understood it.
One of lifes mysteries.............right up there with the Bermuda Triangle and the urinal in the Flying Scotsman at Kings Cross.

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Maps

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The very notion of 960 small coins to make a GBP.

Come to think of it - tables! £sd; Feet, inches, yards, chains and furlongs; tons, cwts, stones, lbs and ozs; pints, quarts and gallons - today's kids just couldn't take it!!

Anybody remember to what is 63,360 the answer?

Still masses of those still about, to be fair.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Don't. I'm...I'm tearing up

Don't get me started on Going LIVE! Phil and Sarah. Oh man.

This is brilliant.
It had nothing to do with kids entertainment, look at them they are bewildered as to what is going on as they adults just mess about.

https://youtu.be/CDXXaJKoNNI

 

[pastafarian]

Table Cloths and Darned socks ffs

WTF.....really?
Table cloths?

I will give you darned socks

 

[pastafarian]

Sure its been mentioned, but they would never understand how easy it was to drink in a pub underage
(relatively speaking to nowadays)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Acid drop Spangles and throop'ny bits.

Depends on whose throop'ny bits you're talking about?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Dark.

Easy, matter of tackle family curiosity, how old are you?

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Cigarette vending machines on the outside of shops full of money and fags.
And they stayed there for years.
I would love to do an experiment and see how long one would last today.
Also chewing gum (XL and Beech Nut) and bubble gum (free packet every 4th turn)

And fingering, girls loved fingering (usually in the woods, a bit like young teen dogging) but they never reciprocated with your todger.

 

[Bakero]

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

I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary.

 

[Easy 10]

Easy, matter of tackle family curiosity, how old are you?

I was born in the year of our Lord 1971.

 

[Boys 9d]

I agree with much of the above but would like to add continuous performances at cinemas.

At busy periods you might have to queue until someone already inside left. This would allow you to advance until you were at the head of the queue. A factor to be taken into consideration was the different bands of seat prices which might mean someone behind you who could afford a higher price seat than you could get inside before you.

Your entry might be in the middle of a film so you would see the ending not knowing how it had begun. There were usually 2 films about 75 to 90 minutes long separated by a number of adverts and a newsreel. Three to three and half hours later you left having seen the beginning of the original film. Your leaving could allow somebody in the outside queue to take your seat.