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

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happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
8,163
Eastbourne
We were dead posh.

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

A mate of mine was the first person I know to get a telly with a remote control. To avoid losing it his dad insisted it was kept on top of the telly at all times.
 


Happy Exile

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Apr 19, 2018
2,131
Taking photos and not being able to see them until you'd finished the film, saved up, posted them off and waited 2 weeks for them to come back again
 


GT49er

Well-known member
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Feb 1, 2009
49,171
Gloucester
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?
 




Baldseagull

Well-known member
Jan 26, 2012
11,839
Crawley
Not wanting to have a mobile phone.
 


Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,400
Location Location
A mate of mine was the first person I know to get a telly with a remote control. To avoid losing it his dad insisted it was kept on top of the telly at all times.

When we got a VCR, my mum INSISTED we cover up the front of it at night by leaning a book against the display, lest burglars see the green glow.
 


May 5, 2020
1,525
Sussex
Playing in the road until Someone shouts "CAR"at which point all the kids move to the pavement to let the car through.
The car drives very slowly because there is kids about and then once safely past the kids resume play for another hour or so until the next car comes along.
We would play cricket,tennis,football all in the road.
The best game was kerby I don't know if anyone else played it or if it was just our street.
Kerby was a fantastic game but Impossible to play now.
 






beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius
Jul 21, 2003
36,013


Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,400
Location Location
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Tinder in the 80s
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
56,063
Faversham
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 :moo:

But did you log out using base ten or base e? ???

:wink:

Hope all's well, O man of indomitable spirit and fortitude :bowdown: :thumbsup:
 




lawros left foot

Glory hunting since 1969
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Jun 11, 2011
14,069
Worthing
As a kid, knowing to avoid the ‘funny bloke’ who lived on his own because he likes little boys/girls.
 




Baldseagull

Well-known member
Jan 26, 2012
11,839
Crawley
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.

Motorcycle courier taking rolls of film from the snapper at half time to get pics from the game, to go with Vinicombes report in the night final, which you could buy at Brighton Station by the time you got back there and had bought a bag of chips from Sing Li.
 


May 5, 2020
1,525
Sussex
Wrapping up warm in winter when you go for a drive.
I used to scrape the inside of the windscreen for my mum if we went above 50 mph the windscreen would ice up.
Also getting into a car in the summer and not being able to sit on the seats properly a for while or the plastic seats would burn your legs.
 




Gabbafella

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Aug 22, 2012
4,905
Clean drugs.
Not stabbing people.
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
56,063
Faversham
Base e logarithms - what was that all about ? :)

Well, obviously, the number e, also known as Euler's number, is a mathematical constant approximately equal to 2.71828, and can be characterized in many ways. It is the base of the natural logarithm. It is the limit of (1 + 1/n)n as n approaches infinity, an expression that arises in the study of compound interest. It can also be calculated as the sum of the infinite series

e = ∑ n = 0 ∞ 1 n ! = 1 + 1 1 + 1 1 ⋅ 2 + 1 1 ⋅ 2 ⋅ 3 + ⋯ {\displaystyle e=\sum \limits _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{n!}}=1+{\frac {1}{1}}+{\frac {1}{1\cdot 2}}+{\frac {1}{1\cdot 2\cdot 3}}+\cdots } {\displaystyle e=\sum \limits _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{n!}}=1+{\frac {1}{1}}+{\frac {1}{1\cdot 2}}+{\frac {1}{1\cdot 2\cdot 3}}+\cdots }

It is also the unique positive number a such that the graph of the function y = ax has a slope of 1 at x = 0.

The rest is obvious :shrug:
 




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