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

[Rambo]

Smoking on planes. When you think about it now it’s absolutely mental.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

You made them

no,but I do remember my stepmother getting the classic heavy breathing and we had a prowler too.l always thought it was the next door neighbour,you'd think he'd just knock the door instead of going through all that trouble

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Weekly bath, and the same shirt all week?! Or was that just me? (Honestly can't remember how often we changed underwear!)

Clean pants and socks on Monday, because Monday was washing day.

 

[Easy 10]

Getting Luncheon Vouchers to pay for lunch, as no in-house canteen to purchase grub .......or the hint of apps to purchase food and have it delivered.

Ahhh, luncheon vouchers. I got £30 a month of those when I was working for LTSB.

Straight round to the Uncle Sams at the top of West Street (spiral staircase) for a double cheese with fries and a banana milk shake.

Scenes.

 

[Berty23]

Banana angel delight with a bag of maltesars is the pudding of kings.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

House phone was always by the front door. Must have been seen as the same as answering the door.

A specific piece of furniture for putting said phone on incorporating a leatherette seat. A money box beside the phone.

Cross lines listening to a neighbour. Operator connect calls and reverse calls

 

[Codner pharmaceuticals]

Winding down windows in a car

 

[jakarta]

Dieing in your 60s of "old age"...

Absolutely this, grew up in a horrible stinking Chemical Works Town (Northwich) where everyone worked at ICI, whether pushing a brush or being a Site Manager. They all breathed in the foul muck chucked out of the three Plants.

The ICI Pension Fund was a bit like Norways Sovereign Wealth Fund as no-one survived retirement for more than 18 months or so. I wonder where all that dosh ended up?

 

[jcdenton08]

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.

Back in 19 dickity six. You'd get five bees for a nickel.

I'm going to go with ladettes and 90's culture I adored. Bands like Sleeper, Game On on the telly (Sam Janus was my first crush - Mandy "Shagger" Wilkins) and Euro 96 with the whole country behind us. Oasis tearing up the charts, Spice Girls on The Big Breakfast while Denise Van Outen made poorly disguised knob gags.

Oh, and Gamesmaster. With even more knob jokes.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Winding down windows in a car

not having to wear a seat belt

and a car that didn't make a thousand noises when you got into it

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Winding down windows in a car

not having to wear a seat belt

and a car that didn't make a thousand noises when you got into it

Sticking an arm out of the car window to indicate.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Progressing from a Chopper or a Grifter to a racer.

Having to get the TV Times at Christmas and then seeing your parents had marked everything you were going to watch for the next 2 weeks.

Using Kay’s Catalogue underwear section as an alternative wankbank when someone stole your Razzle.


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[HalfaSeatOn]

Building camps
Roy of the Rovers and Look-In
Mum sewing knee pads on trousers worn out playing subuteo
Using the lamppost cover as a cricket wicket
Dodging the idiot who drove his bike through your games
Breaking down with overheating cars
Football cards, stamps, coins, even 3D cards
Keeping score of John Player sunday cricket match showing on tv

 

[Mr H]

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

Thursday afternoon if you lived in Chichester

 

[zefarelly]

Oi i had a few mates that lived down there. Your right about the dogs though.

J, So did I . . Ian lived down there when I first met him. must have been our first year at Buckingham. Garrick was a pain in the arse.

 

[dolphins]

Wow, what a thread! So many memories... here's a few more, that have come to me:

It's frothy, man!

Made to make your mouth water...

Applying for concert tickets with a stamped addressed envelope and a potential six week wait to see if you got any.

Clunk, click every trip

Watch out, there's a Humphrey about...

Those air fresheners that attached to the side of the toilet cistern and sprayed manky scent up the wall as it was never fitted correctly!

Pearl & Dean

Smoking on one side of the cinema

Amazin' Raisin chocolate bars

Spangles of various types, also Pacers, Texan bars, Five Centres, Chocolate cigarettes

Using the phone to dial "16" (I think it was) for Dial-A-Disc

Had morning paper rounds with no such things as trolleys to lug 'em around. One house had a weekly part work (Lover's Guide? Something like that?) that was a glorified dirty mag dressed up as an educational thing to help enhance people's lives. Didn't enhance the lives of people later on my route that day each week as they'd get their papers a lot later! haha...

California Slalom skateboard trucks - and skateboard wheels which weren't the size of a five pence piece.

The old sized post-decimal coins (I'm too young to remember pre-decimal) - and the half-penny, with a lot of things bizarrely priced with a half-p amount.

Those one-year passports (a folding bit of cardboard) you got from the post office

Buying a multi-pack of VHS (often E240s for the extra space) reading for taping things over Christmas.

 

[zefarelly]

Thursday afternoon if you lived in Chichester

SO its just the posh towns that have early closing THursday? , all the plebby places on a Wednesday

 

[Guinness Boy]

SO its just the posh towns that have early closing THursday? , all the plebby places on a Wednesday

I'm not sure. Portslade closed early on Wednesday......................but so did Hove

Cyprus still closes early on Wednesdays!

 

[FamilyGuy]

Smoking on aircraft
- and on buses
- and in cinema's
- and in supermarkets
- and in pubs
- and in restaurants
- and at parties that your parents held "at home" and the disgustingly smelly aftermath when you came downstairs the next morning

 

[Jack Straw]

probably been done

outside toilet

Mine still is!