Things your kids will never do

[GroundEffect]

SystemParanoia said:

Janluke said:

Use a telephone dial. I tried to explain this to my godson the other day and he couldn't grasp it

Kids react to rotary phones

https://youtu.be/XkuirEweZvM

I'm 27 and never experienced a rotary phone. Maybe you lot are just REALLY old?

[Jimmy Recard]

My grandmother had a telephone with a dial. That's the only one I can recall using though

[xRIEx]

GroundEffect said:

SystemParanoia said:

Janluke said:

Use a telephone dial. I tried to explain this to my godson the other day and he couldn't grasp it

Kids react to rotary phones

https://youtu.be/XkuirEweZvM

I'm 27 and never experienced a rotary phone. Maybe you lot are just REALLY old?

I'm 34 and I've used a rotary phone.

[evoivboy]

Milk at school with a straw

[leigh1050]

Make a reverse charge call from a phone box.

[steviegunn]

Enjoy their cereal in the morning with the cream from the top of a new bottle of full fat milk (homogenisation means no more cream settling at the top).

[eldar]

leigh1050 said:

Make a reverse charge call from a phone box.

It was easier and cheaper to pretend by hitting the hang up buttons the right number of times...

[Iva Barchetta]

Thankyou4calling said:

Never open a car door with a key.

There's plenty of modern cars with a key operated door lock.

[Wacky Racer]

Use a starting handle to start an engine.

Play Tennis with a wooden racket

Stand up for the national anthem at the cinema

Encounter Smog

Eat Spangles

Use a Betamax video reorder

Head a laced up football

Watch "Watch with mother"

Watch a Miss World beauty contest

Change engine oil and filter

Adjust points

Travel to school on a steam train

Buy sweets off the penny tray at the corner shop.

See Led Zeppelin

Be fixed by Jimmy Savile

[Kermit power]

steviegunn said:

Enjoy their cereal in the morning with the cream from the top of a new bottle of full fat milk (homogenisation means no more cream settling at the top).

You're getting your milk from the wrong place. Our milkman still delivers proper silver top milk with the cream on top.

[Kermit power]

Einion Yrth said:

stuartmmcfc said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Calculate the change required by subtracting six and seven from seven and six.

I couldn't do that and I'm nearly 50!

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child.

Why would anyone ever have done that? Surely that's like paying for something costing £4.50 with a fiver and two pound coins?

[Kermit power]

Wacky Racer said:

Use a starting handle to start an engine.

Play Tennis with a wooden racket

Stand up for the national anthem at the cinema

Encounter Smog

Eat Spangles

Use a Betamax video reorder

Head a laced up football

Watch "Watch with mother"

Watch a Miss World beauty contest

Change engine oil and filter

Adjust points

Travel to school on a steam train

Buy sweets off the penny tray at the corner shop.

See Led Zeppelin

Be fixed by Jimmy Savile

Christ! How old are you???? I'm 45, and I've never done any of the ones I've bolded!!! Granted, I've watched others being fixed by Savile, I have used a V2000 VCR, and I did have the opportunity to watch Miss World, but why bother when there was hedge porn to be found, but for the rest - apart from Led Zep, and how many people actually did get to see them anyway, the lucky fkers - these were the domain of kids of the 50s, surely?

[Cliftonite]

Kermit power said:

Why would anyone ever have done that? Surely that's like paying for something costing £4.50 with a fiver and two pound coins?

When buying something for 6s 7d with three half crowns?

[AJS-]

Seen building pram wheel go karts pop up a couple of times. Don't tell me that's now illegal too?

[Thankyou4calling]

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Wacky Racer said:

Use a starting handle to start an engine.

Play Tennis with a wooden racket

Stand up for the national anthem at the cinema

Encounter Smog

Eat Spangles

Use a Betamax video reorder

Head a laced up football

Watch "Watch with mother"

Watch a Miss World beauty contest

Change engine oil and filter

Adjust points

Travel to school on a steam train

Buy sweets off the penny tray at the corner shop.

See Led Zeppelin

Be fixed by Jimmy Savile

Most of those I can relate to (aged 49) but travel to school on a steam train! Blimey.

How about floppy discs, are they/will they still be used?

[AJS-]

Walk 3 miles to a phone box in the pissing rain when they've broken down.

[Bluedot]

AJS- said:

Seen building pram wheel go karts pop up a couple of times. Don't tell me that's now illegal too?

Not illegal but highly doubtful its done these days.
Firstly you dont see those big old prams that you could rip the axle and wheels off of all in one piece anymore (although I think they're now coming back in 'vintage fashion').
Secondly I don't think people can be arsed to make stuff like go-karts anymore.

[AJS-]

How sad. My daughter is 3 and has no interest in go karts at all, but I was on the look out for an old pram for just such a project in the next couple of years. For her benefit, of course.

[HTP99]

Texting using a numeric keypad.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

MrHorsepower said:

Thankyou4calling said:

I was with my brother at the weekend, reminiscing, as you do.

And we talked about how we used to go to the record shop (Our price) on a Saturday and buy a 7 inch single. If the shop didn't have it Woolworths was the next option.

The pleasure we derived from that and taking it home to put on the record player and listen to it non stop all afternoon.

Kids now will never do that!

What else will the youth of today never enjoy or dread?

Don't be so sure. I'm 17 and very pleased to have an expanding collection of vinyl, currently standing at approx 35 LPs and 25 45s. It's fortunate that there's a record shop within walking distance.

What I'm worried about is the future of the print industry. I try not to buy records too frequently because I don't have a proper job yet, but every month, without fail, I will leave school to get to Smith's and pick up my copy of Custom Car on the day of its release. I always get very excited about that. Sadly, with everything going digital, the children of the future may not have that pleasure.

When I splashed out on a new turntable a couple of years ago and dug my vinyl collection out of the loft, my teenage sons were gobsmacked. Thought the whole thing was faintly ridiculous, such a small amount of data on such a large disc and the faff of cleaning the LP, cueing the arm etc.

But they were blown away with the warmth and lusciousness of the sound, and they now use the turntable themselves quite a bit.