Things your kids will never do

[KaraK]

morgs_ said:

Apparently we're 10 years late to this new: BBC Article. Second comment down though

Yep.. remember doing that, I even remember trying with various different methods to get the lid to fly further and faster (stamping on it, hitting it with a big book etc etc)

I'm rather shocked that it's been 10 years though - how have I not noticed this?

[TheExcession]

Rower said:

Go to a Berni Inn, eat a Prawn Cocktail a T Bone steak and a Black forest Gateaux washed down with a bottle of Mateus Rose followed by a shag in her parents 1964 Cortina (New !) total cost including 20 Rothmans and a packet of 3 was about a Fiver !!

Winner

[Squiggs]

Build a go-cart using wheels from an old pram.

Wait 5 mins for the TV to warm up before the black and white picture appeared then making do with only 3 channels before finally hearing the national anthem playing at the end of the broadcasting day.

[StuTheGrouch]

Squiggs said:

Wait 5 mins for the TV to warm up before the black and white picture appeared then making do with only 3 channels before finally hearing the national anthem playing at the end of the broadcasting day.

I'm in my 30s and I doubt my Dad even did that!

[Einion Yrth]

Squiggs said:

Build a go-cart using wheels from an old pram.

Wait 5 mins for the TV to warm up before the black and white picture appeared then making do with only 3 channels before finally hearing the national anthem playing at the end of the broadcasting day.

Three? Luxury...

[WinstonWolf]

Einion Yrth said:

Squiggs said:

Build a go-cart using wheels from an old pram.

Wait 5 mins for the TV to warm up before the black and white picture appeared then making do with only 3 channels before finally hearing the national anthem playing at the end of the broadcasting day.

Three? Luxury...

One of 'em didn't broadcast the whole day. And you couldn't just buy a TV, it had to be adjusted by an installer before you could use it.

[loafer123]

Become lawyers.

I have told them I will support them in anything they choose to do, apart from that.

[WestyCarl]

Secretly watch "red triangle films" late at night on C4

[TwigtheWonderkid]

StuTheGrouch said:

Squiggs said:

Wait 5 mins for the TV to warm up before the black and white picture appeared then making do with only 3 channels before finally hearing the national anthem playing at the end of the broadcasting day.

I'm in my 30s and I doubt my Dad even did that!

I'm 53 and I recall this routine as a kid. As the youngest, it was my job to walk around the room with the aerial to get a decent picture.

[austinsmirk]

I'm not so sure these days they would spend all day long out in the woods/fields, building dens, lighting fires: for the purposes of camp fires to cook on.

Swimming in canals, rivers, lakes, making rafts etc


they'll be some health and safety nutter about.

I think we were all good kids generally, not prone to vandelism and were cub scouts when young so got taught out door skills and so on.

having said that things could have gone so wrong, plus being miles from home, not a penny on us usually to even find a phone box to ring home !!!

[davhill]

Zod said:

You needed eyebleach for some of the pages though - the ones with industrial strength underwear for old and/or fat ladies.

Ah yes, who could ever forget The Ironclads?

[davhill]

Have a dental procedure done under gas.

[blindswelledrat]

Have to take a phone call from their girlfriend and remain 6 feet from the point in the wall where the wire goes in, in full earshot of the rest of the family.

[Cotty]

Use a public pay phone. They have just removed the two at my train station, obviously not being used.

[Bluedot]

blindswelledrat said:

Have to take a phone call from their girlfriend and remain 6 feet from the point in the wall where the wire goes in, in full earshot of the rest of the family.

[Kermit power]

Jimmy Recard said:

I got one to go off about 6" from my mare's ear. I threw it from about 20'.

He said one ear rang for nearly a week. Skills

You'd have thought, if you had a talking horse, it would've told you it wasn't a bloke!

[stuartmmcfc]

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Einion Yrth said:

GetCarter said:

£2?… it were half a crown in my day! .. and a tanner for the programme at White Hart Lane.

Luxury. (etc).

Just a cheaper form of purgatory.

[Kermit power]

Take glass pop bottles back to the newsagent to buy sweets with the deposit money.

This was quite lucrative until the newsagent realised we were taking them out of the crates he stored behind the shop!

[Jimmy Recard]

Kermit power said:

Jimmy Recard said:

I got one to go off about 6" from my mare's ear. I threw it from about 20'.

He said one ear rang for nearly a week. Skills

You'd have thought, if you had a talking horse, it would've told you it wasn't a bloke!

bks. I always miss one

[Jimmy Recard]

jesta1865 said:

i have a mate who when he was a teenager ate as much white chocolate as he could so that he would have white poo.

no white poo, but i was told he was sick as a dog for week

Every time I saw one I'd accuse a mate of doing it. No idea why but it seemed funny then