Things your kids will never do

[5potTurbo]

Forgive me if I'm posting what's already there:

- cycling to school
- wearing school uniform
- paper rounds
- Saturday jobs (not permitted until 18 here!)
- record shopping at WHSmith, Our Price or HMV
- receiving £1 record tokens for birthday "money"
- have a moped at 16 (since even my wife won't let me have a motorbike now!)
- have a full driving licence at 17 (car or bike)


And, because my wife's a domestic soft touch,
- iron their own clothes
- clean their rooms
- learn to cook

Yes, I know - failing at parenting, failing at giving our children the life skills they need for the big, wide world.

[WinstonWolf]

feef said:

Buy icecream from a tray in the 'interval' at the cinema

Actually you still can at the Kinema in the Woods, they also have an organ that comes up though the floor in the interval. It's epic

[Bluedot]

Be told to wait till after 6pm before phoning a mate

[bristolracer]

Buy a high powered air rifle by mail order from the pages of Exchange and Mart

Read road atlases and work out a route

change a car tyre as they will all have cans of gunk and a breakdown card instead of a spare

[Wacky Racer]

Jimmy Recard said:

Wacky Racer said:

Three times.....(With Bonzo)

It's not bad being an old git....

Yeah, but as I remember, didn't you go to a Led Zep gig and in an effort to protect your Capri from theft you took of the HT lead and then left it at the gig?

Good memory... Yes, thank god for the AA. That was at Earls court in 1975....

In those days Fords were a piece of piss to break into, my wife's brother bought an old battered Beetle, and his key went straight in opened the door without any effort whatsoever.....

Astra's were the worst though in the 1980's/90's...a total joke...Mrs WR had hers nicked, along with two of her friends the same month.

[Bluedot]

Wacky Racer said:

Astra's were the worst though in the 1980's/90's...a total joke...Mrs WR had hers nicked, along with two of her friends the same month.

She had her friends stolen as well ? Wow, that's a rough old area she's from.

[Squiggs]

Use a dictionary, thesaurus or encyclopaedia - with proper paper pages and everything!

More recently I heard that a school was going to stop teaching kids how to do joined-up writing in favour of teaching them how to type.

If that's going to be the way forward I guess in years to come we'll be able to add to the list 'use a pen or pencil to write their own name'

[jdw100]

Not get woken up by the knocker upper of a morning

Never go to bed by candlelight

Never have tooth taken out by a dentist

Never have to pay the Nightsoil man.

Bloody kids these days...


Never have to make their own skinning tools from flint.

....

[feef]

WinstonWolf said:

feef said:

Buy icecream from a tray in the 'interval' at the cinema

Actually you still can at the Kinema in the Woods, they also have an organ that comes up though the floor in the interval. It's epic

Do they actually stop the film half-way through, or have a short film before it starts and do it at the end of that?

[jmorgan]

That was when the lights came on and you saw the state of the place. Mind the rats.

[WinstonWolf]

feef said:

WinstonWolf said:

feef said:

Buy icecream from a tray in the 'interval' at the cinema

Actually you still can at the Kinema in the Woods, they also have an organ that comes up though the floor in the interval. It's epic

Do they actually stop the film half-way through, or have a short film before it starts and do it at the end of that?

They stop the film. I've got to go again soon, it feels just like you're in the forties. You even get a proper 'tear in half' ticket...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIpA5upfY[url]

|http://thumbsnap.com/Z4vrHo9S[/url]

[HTP99]

Send a fax.

[bluelightbabe]

Be bored on a Sunday as it is a 'day of rest' and they're not allowed to play outside for fear of making too much noise. Unable to go into town or do anything to resolve the boredom as everywhere is shut on a Sunday.

I used to hate Sundays! I was allowed out to play in the mornings, but not in the afternoon. If I was lucky enough to persuade my parents to let me out it had to be in the back garden and I had to play quietly.

[matchmaker]

HTP99 said:

Send a fax.

Pa! Send a Telex.

[Rosscow]

HTP99 said:

Send a fax.

I still do this often

[HTP99]

Use Teletext.

[Bluedot]

Sit there on a Saturday afternoon watching the 'live' scores rollover on Teletext.

Mind you, had many a good afternoon in pubs doing the same thing.

[Gretchen]

Bluedot said:

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.

My landline rang a while ago and my kids stopped and said "Listen, what's that noise? Like an alarm. Can you hear it?" Then retorted "What's a landline?"



And I'll add wire a plug.

[Gretchen]

WinstonWolf said:

feef said:

WinstonWolf said:

feef said:

Buy icecream from a tray in the 'interval' at the cinema

Actually you still can at the Kinema in the Woods, they also have an organ that comes up though the floor in the interval. It's epic

Do they actually stop the film half-way through, or have a short film before it starts and do it at the end of that?

They stop the film. I've got to go again soon, it feels just like you're in the forties. You even get a proper 'tear in half' ticket...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIpA5upfY[url]

|http://thumbsnap.com/Z4vrHo9S[/url]

I've been a few times now. Thinking of going again this weekend or next. My kids love it here. And Alan is brilliant on that organ.

[Monkeylegend]

Watch England win another football world cup.

Edited by Monkeylegend on Thursday 1st October 18:42