Things your kids will never do

[xRIEx]

Einion Yrth said:

Rosscow said:

king arthur said:

Eat a Marathon, or have Sugar Puffs for breakfast.

You can still eat Sugar Puffs for breakfast.....

They've been renamed "Honey monster puffs", thus KA is correct, unless you consider "eating a Snickers" to be the same as "eating a Marathon", which could be argued.

To all intents and purposes, it's the same experience that we had as kids eating a Marathon or eating Sugar Puffs.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

[Einion Yrth]

xRIEx said:

Einion Yrth said:

Rosscow said:

king arthur said:

Eat a Marathon, or have Sugar Puffs for breakfast.

You can still eat Sugar Puffs for breakfast.....

They've been renamed "Honey monster puffs", thus KA is correct, unless you consider "eating a Snickers" to be the same as "eating a Marathon", which could be argued.

To all intents and purposes, it's the same experience that we had as kids eating a Marathon or eating Sugar Puffs.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

I see both sides of that which, as I said, could be argued.

[Squiggs]

A slightly controversial one ...... but what with the ban on smoking in public buildings very few youngsters will take up smoking and be able to go on to learn how to blow smoke rings.

[Moonhawk]

xRIEx said:

Megaflow said:

Wait for a computer game to load.

Have you tried downloading/installing a modern game over an internet connection?

Still probably faster than having to wait until the weekend - then get the bus into town to go and buy it.

[Colonial]

Exist.

[Moonhawk]

xRIEx said:

To all intents and purposes, it's the same experience that we had as kids eating a Marathon or eating Sugar Puffs.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

They are a lot smaller today and the formulations have changed significantly. A modern Snickers, Mars bar, Chunky Aero etc are nothing like the ones we grew up with.

Same with Wham bars - they used to be huge when I was a kid and covered in crystalised sugar grains. Today they are about half the length and a quarter of the width.

[Thankyou4calling]

xRIEx said:

To all intents and purposes, it's the same experience that we had as kids eating a Marathon or eating Sugar Puffs.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

I can't speak for Snickers but Sugar Puffs under there new name aren't worth bothering with.

Nothing like the original at all.

I'm sure the makers will claim they are "New and Improved" test means reduced sugar and not as tasty.

Changed but not for the better.

[Planet Claire]

abitlikefiennes said:

Buy sweets for 1p each.

I remember some sweets for 0.5p! On that note, they won't experience 0.5p coins.

[Crush]

daddy cool said:

Find porn mags in hedges or railway sidings.

Might be making a comeback if the Pigfker gets his way and bans internet porn.

[Einion Yrth]

Planet Claire said:

abitlikefiennes said:

Buy sweets for 1p each.

I remember some sweets for 0.5p! On that note, they won't experience 0.5p coins.

I remember 4 for 1d - yes I am that old.

[Ari]

Interact with other humans in real life instead of on line

Stay out late (staying out late consists of being on their laptops in theeir bedrooms past midnight)

Drive a car (probably - zero interest given)

Ride a bike in order to get from one place to another (as opposed to going for a bike ride, probably after being transported to the bike ride route in a flippin car - complete with bike!)

Read a book and use their imagination to paint the scenes.

Concentrate on anything for more than 30 seconds (except Mincraft)

Leave home permanently

Grow up and get a fking life!

[stuartmmcfc]

I'm waiting for my classic car to arrive and its got wind-up Windows.
That'll confuse my little fkers when they start looking for the button.

[JMGS4]

Never watch "Bill and Ben the flowerpot Men" on a b/w TV!

[HTP99]

See this:



Pay the TV licence
Buy a house in the South East, TBH I can't afford to either and I live in the South East.

[AJS-]

Have ridiculous, long winded arguments that take place over several days at work or in a pub, about who sang such and such a song, when something was invented, which is fastest or any other piece of trivia which can be found on a smart phone in 30 seconds.

[stuartmmcfc]

According to recent posts in the lounge,
Never grow a full European thatch down below.

[Bluedot]

AJS- said:

Have ridiculous, long winded arguments that take place over several days at work or in a pub, about who sang such and such a song, when something was invented, which is fastest or any other piece of trivia which can be found on a smart phone in 30 seconds.

Was going to post something similar, like spending days with the words of a song going round your head desperately trying to remember what song it's from.
Or someone on a TV program, wondering what you'd seen them in before.

[anonymous-user]

Thankyou4calling said:

I can't speak for Snickers but Sugar Puffs under there new name aren't worth bothering with. Nothing like the original at all. I'm sure the makers will claim they are "New and Improved" test means reduced sugar and not as tasty.

Changed but not for the better.

They don't taste as sweet and don't stick together in clumps. Nor do they flavour the milk in the same way. As far as I'm concerned Honey Monster can do one, the splitter. I'll report back on the wee test later after I've eaten some.

Some other things they won't do:

Pester to go on a PGL Holiday
Think they've struck gold if they stumbled across a short run of Road Runner or Tom & Jerry cartoons on TV in between the normal programmes.
On the same score, race home to watch Battle of The Planets/Ulysses/Dungeons and Dragons/Round the Twist on CBBC (and Round the Bend in CITV).
Play with the proper, full-on sharp-edged steel Tonka trucks and diggers.
Play with Matchbox cars and covert the catalogues showing the Motor City play sets.
Watch Grange Hill
Head to Woolworths to stock up on the back-to-school items and maybe nick a pack of blank TDK C60s while you're there.
Buy a bottle of Metz (when a bit older). I loved that stuff.

[Electronicpants]

Eat Fish and chips from a newspaper.

Think all their Christmases have come at once when presented with Findus Crispy Pancakes for tea. And resultantly loose the skin from the roof of their mouth by diving in too quickly.

Ride a bike without a helmet.

[Zod]

HTP99 said:

See this:

That must be recent, given it's an HD test card.