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

[Publius Ovidius]

Rag n Bone man (not that one), horse and cart coming up the road, man shouting “any old lumber?”

And your Nan being given a selection of horse poo from the bag hanging off the back of the horse for the garden!

 

[Machiavelli]

Spending the majority of your life away from a screen.
Spending the vast majority of your life away from a screen.

 

[Dancin Ninja BHA]

Going on a day out to something your parents wanted to see, not having the entire day based around what the kids what to do, what the kids want to eat, how the kids feel.
“We are going round this country manor, I don’t want to hear any moaning and if, IF your well behaved you might get an ice cream at the end”.

So, so true

 

[Medwayseagull]

Watneys party 7
Scrumpy cider from the barrel.

 

[zefarelly]

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!

There was a dog called Woody that lived up Victoria Road in Shoreham who used to walk himself round towm. He would actually sit at the zebra crossing waiting to cross. he was also excellent at football. Funnily enough I bumped into his owner a few weeks ago.

There were a few dogs down Stoney Lane on the council estate you'd give a wide berth . . .likewise half the kids down there!

 

[Gwylan]

Wearing shorts to school everyday, irrespective of the weather

Starting your paper round as early as the shop opened (might be 6am) in PITCH DARKNESS with minimal lighting to see your way

Yep. I had to leave for school at 7.40 so I had to make sure the paper round was done by 7.00 so I could have shower and breakfast before school. I probably would have done paper round sooner if I hadn't stopped to read the papers on the way.

My round BTW was about 90% Daily Mirror, about 5% Express and about 5% all the rest (I had no Guardian, Times or FT. There was one Telegraph, counter-balanced by one Morning Star)

 

[zefarelly]

probably been done

outside toilet

our neighbours still have one . . .only the chosen few know its there, which is perfect for garden parties as you never have to queue!

The council houses in Durrington had them in the back garden. Barrington Road? I guess they were built in the 50's.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Going on a day out to something your parents wanted to see, not having the entire day based around what the kids what to do, what the kids want to eat, how the kids feel.
“We are going round this country manor, I don’t want to hear any moaning and if, IF your well behaved you might get an ice cream at the end”.

This hasn't changed in my house. In fact, you could've quoted me verbatim.

 

[The Clamp]

This hasn't changed in my house. In fact, you could've quoted me verbatim.

Genuinely gives me hope

 

[Silverhatch]

Military uniformed Parkies (90% with small tasches)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I was born in the year of our Lord 1971.

Mrs T was right. I imagined you were younger.

 

[Dancin Ninja BHA]

On the theme of getting 'treats' as a bonus not as a given, when I used to play mini-rugby in Haywards Heath with my brother early to mid 1980s, my father would stop off occasionally at the shop on the way home and we'd SHARE a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut if he thought we'd done okay.

2 chunks each maybe twice a month, if we were lucky Different times now, there is an expectation now with the 'younger lot' of "what you gonna buy me?!!"

 

[Fungus]

Shops closing every Wednesday afternoon. Or Saturday afternoon, depending on the town. And all day Sunday.

 

[The Clamp]

Knock out ginger isn't beating up Weasley types.....

Knock out ginger? You mean knock down ginger?

 

[Bakero]

Bloke coming door to door asking to sharpen your knives on his grinding wheel on his bike..........also said he could do lawn mowers!!!!

You still get that in Spain. The guy plays a tune on his harmonica to let you know he's there. Vietnam too, where the guy rides around chanting "Mài dao oi" (Sharpen knife).

 

[AmexRuislip]

Knock out ginger? You mean knock down ginger?

 

[The Clamp]

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.

Thanks in part to stuff like Stranger Things and Guardians of the Galaxy, cassettes and all things 80’s in general are coming back.
A yearning for simpler times.
Nostalgia sells in times of difficulty. Tory government, covid, austerity. All fuels the market for such things.

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

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.

We're going to keep on rocking forever...
forever
forever
forever
forever

 

[Braggfan]

winding a cassette tape with a biro.

a cassette tape.

I genuinely miss cassettes.

 

[Braggfan]

Chatting with friends and nobody being able to remember which actor was in a film, or who sung a particular song. Then 2 or 3 months later accidentally stumbling across the answer and feeling like you've just made the discovery of the century. Rather than just googling it and finding out in about 5 seconds time.