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[NSC] Things your kids would NEVER understand...
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Coldeanseagull
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I last used a log table to prop up a wonky real table....A pint of brown and mild for 20p and 21p for a packet of Carlton premium! Just remembered them. About the same time as the great ladybird summer of '76. God that was a hot one
Sid in the Sharknado
New member
I've never even seen a slide rule.
There was both a non calculator exam and a mental maths exam when I was at school in the 2000s.
The mental maths exam was played on a tape.
To be honest, I'm a little concerned at how many of the things listed on this thread I do remember.
CaptainDaveUK
Well-known member
- Oct 18, 2010
- 1,534
Taking 2p out with you, just in case you needed to phone home from a call box in an emergency, or phoning the operator to reverse the charges, even though you knew you’d get told off for doing so, then asking for a lift.
Coldeanseagull
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R. Slicker
Well-known member
- Jan 1, 2009
- 4,490
Videoplus+ punching about 10 digits into your video, to record completely the wrong program.
Butch Willykins
Well-known member
Being out shopping on a Saturday afternoon and having to stand outside Dixons at 4.45pm to watch the football scores on Ceefax.
B-right-on
Living the dream
TV finishing at the end of the day (midnight?) and then the test card coming on until 6am. None of this 24hrs TV lark.
And didn't the BBC play the National Anthem at night at the end of the day?
And didn't the BBC play the National Anthem at night at the end of the day?
1066familyman
Radio User
- Jan 15, 2008
- 15,233
Knocking round the estate for 50p's for the electricity meter.
Which naturally no one ever had as every one stashed their own.
Taking a mixing bowl out to the ice cream van to fill for afters as a treat on the occasional Sunday.
Knockdown Ginger. Especially with a fishing line and hook for the houses on a corner with a fence around
Playing chicken on your bike. Last one to put their foot down was the winner. We ruled the roads on our estate, not cars.
Making Dutch arrows from sycamore saplings, elastic band, two playing cards and a shoe lace.
Can honestly say that growing up on a council estate was the best years of my life. Until some evil witch took them off of us.
Which naturally no one ever had as every one stashed their own.
Taking a mixing bowl out to the ice cream van to fill for afters as a treat on the occasional Sunday.
Knockdown Ginger. Especially with a fishing line and hook for the houses on a corner with a fence around
Playing chicken on your bike. Last one to put their foot down was the winner. We ruled the roads on our estate, not cars.
Making Dutch arrows from sycamore saplings, elastic band, two playing cards and a shoe lace.
Can honestly say that growing up on a council estate was the best years of my life. Until some evil witch took them off of us.
METALMICKY
Well-known member
- Jan 30, 2004
- 6,821
Poised over the piano like clunky keys hammering down when your fave track came on. Invariably you'd miss a bit at the start.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
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My memory was the vidiprinter outside Redifussion in George Street. That clacking little cursor working its way across - punching the air if it came up with a 0 for the home team if we were off at some far-flung northern griefhole, then the anticipation (and slight deflation) if BHA also came up 0.
Such a brutal way to see a score.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,666
Goal keepers picking up back passes.
Super Steve Earle
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1066familyman
Radio User
- Jan 15, 2008
- 15,233
Oh, and when was the last time you saw kids with playing cards in their rear bike wheel spokes, attached via a clothes peg on the seat stays, to make it sound like a motorbike? 
CYCLING to school on all weathers, with a cycle cape when necessary (and on the road, with lights on when it was dark!)
Sine and Cosine tables too - whatever they were (yes, I know; triangles!) Slide rules as well ..................... and all carried in your satchel!
AmexRuislip
Retired Spy 🕵️♂️
Nobody will understand Knock Out Ginger, it's Knock Down Ginger
Thats for the posh West Sussex, in East Sussex I was brort up to knockoutginger
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
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Oh, and when was the last time you saw kids with playing cards in their rear bike wheel spokes, attached via a clothes peg on the seat stays, to make it sound like a motorbike?
My grandson will be fully versed in this process, once he is old enough. "Grumps" (as I am known) will make sure of it. Its a dying art.
- May 8, 2018
- 10,613
Finding a porn stash in a bush.
Asking someone out face to face with the fear of public rejection on the cards.
They’ve got it too easy these days.
N.B may have shown a degree of personal evolution here
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Asking someone out face to face with the fear of public rejection on the cards.
They’ve got it too easy these days.
N.B may have shown a degree of personal evolution here
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