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

[Easy 10]

Old farts thread incoming. I'll kick this off.

Picking up a landline phone and making arrangements, then not having ANY method of communication with the other herbert till you actually meet up at the allotted time and place. Get increasingly pissed off when they're late and you're left hanging around wondering whether to bail.

Having the latest film reserved at the video store (VHS), yomping all the way down there to collect it, only to be told "oh...they haven't brought it back yet"

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

Opening an encyclopedia if you needed to find out something.

 

[R. Slicker]

Using a road atlas when going on a long trip or an A-Z in London.

 

[beorhthelm]

winding a cassette tape with a biro.

a cassette tape.

 

[Easy 10]

winding a cassette tape with a biro.

a cassette tape.

And yet when we record something onto the Sky Q hard drive, we still say "yeah I've taped it"

 

[dadams2k11]

winding a cassette tape with a biro.

a cassette tape.

Copy the charts on said tape from the radio.

 

[Goldstone1976]

A currency system that went base 10, base 20, base 12, base 4.

That it’s possible to do a maths exam without a calculator.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Knocking on your mates door, asking if they wanted to have a kick about.
Walking, yes WALKING to school. In all weathers .
Radio Luxembourg, with it's fading in and out.
Logarithms. Not sure anyone understood those

 

[Easy 10]

Waiting 5-6 minutes for a game to load off a cassette, while your TV screeches at you.

Then getting 'R: Tape loading error' right at the end.

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Football divisions going 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

Any idiot knows that League 1 should be the 3rd tier.

 

[Buffalo Seagull]

Having to get up off the couch to change the tv channel.

 

[AmexRuislip]

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

 

[Easy 10]

Going down the offy for some snacks and tinnies, then spending the night sitting side-by-side with your mate on the end of a bed getting pissed playing Kick Off or Sensible Soccer.

FIFA online has absolutely NOTHING on that.

 

[drew]

The Corona lorry didn't deliver vaccinations!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Knocking on your mates door, asking if they wanted to have a kick about.
Walking, yes WALKING to school. In all weathers .
Radio Luxembourg, with it's fading in and out.
Logarithms. Not sure anyone understood those

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

 

[Easy 10]

Saturday morning TV being seriously brilliant, instead of what we have now, just an endless tedious, soul-crushing loop of people in kitchens.

 

[Codner's Wallop]

Hector’s House

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Walking for an hour up West Hove golf course to find a quiet spot to spark up a joint with my old mate who also posts on NSC.

Subbuteo.

Home brew.

 

[Ken Livingstone Seagull]

Acid drop Spangles and throop'ny bits.

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

Pay on the gate......

 

[Acker79]

Their mother was boring to me. I had to leave them all for the secretary.

That is... erm...


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