Things your kids will never do

[Jimmy Recard]

I'm in my twenties and I've bought tapes and CDs. I still do buy CDs but not that often now.

[daddy cool]

Thankyou4calling said:

I disagree. It's far too easy nowadays and that makes music throaway.
Back then it was like a mission, you had to use real money, go into a shop, transact for the record, take it home and out of it's sleeve to pop on the record player.
it was special.
And if you went to more than one shop it made it even more so.
Now, people have everything and look forward to very little.e

I agree... with cassette tapes i found i listened to the entire album - both the songs i liked and the ones i didnt so much. But after repeated plays, you ended up liking those too.
CD's made it easier to skip forward a track (FFwding a tape was always something i hated doing) but mp3 has taken it a step further - you can delete the songs you dont immediately like, or just not include them on your playlist, so you will likely never hear them a 2nd time...

[austinsmirk]

having to go to a record or computer shop to pay a deposit and order in yr preferred music or computer game (obviously if not on the shelf)

then wait several weeks and get that amazing phone call of "its arrived".


I remember when computer games started to get slightly cheaper and "bundled"....... they were about £9.99 per cassette in 1983...... eventually you might get two games on one tape, or even 10 games on 2 tapes !!! wow !!!

[DannyScene]

Jimmy Recard said:

I'm in my twenties and I've bought tapes and CDs. I still do buy CDs but not that often now.

Twenty what?

I'm 25 and the only cassette I've ever owned was Chris de Burgh - Lady in Red which I think my granddad left in a cassette player he gave me to do karaoke on when I was about 5

[JatHanspal]

Electronicpants said:

Have a go one one of these



or one of these



With nothing to stop you when you fall other than rock hard tar/concrete with broken glass strewn everywhere. None of your bouncy surface Elf and Safety nonsense

Our local park still has one of the horse ride/rockers. My kids went on it last week. Not seen a helicopter climbing frame for while now, most parks tend now to have cargo net/rock wall style climbing frames.

[EskimoArapaho]

Electronicpants said:

Have a go one one of these




... None of your bouncy surface Elf and Safety nonsense

I've got a lovely scar on me noggin from one of those. Can confirm that the horsey head thungy was really quite solid.

[Jimmy Recard]

DannyScene said:

Twenty what?

I'm 25 and the only cassette I've ever owned was Chris de Burgh - Lady in Red which I think my granddad left in a cassette player he gave me to do karaoke on when I was about 5

I'm about the same as you. I went back to tapes for a while in my early teens because I had a CD Walkman that skipped badly so I used an older tape one instead.

That's the main reason - not because there wasn't an alterntive

[feef]

DannyScene said:

Thankyou4calling said:

DannyScene said:

I can't think of anything more annoying, travelling all the way to a shop to find out they haven't got what you wanted, if woolworths also didn't have it you had to go without I assume having spent money to get to the shops in the first place

From the comfort of any chair I choose I can browse buy and download any single/album I want in minutes

Sometimes the old ways are not the best

I disagree. It's far too easy nowadays and that makes music throaway.

Back then it was like a mission, you had to use real money, go into a shop, transact for the record, take it home and out of it's sleeve to pop on the record player.

it was special.

And if you went to more than one shop it made it even more so.

Now, people have everything and look forward to very little.e

I think I can see what you mean but for me the ease of things nowadays overrides the specialness of playing a single, probably because I've never experienced it

My earliest memories of buying a CD was a huge long list of copied CD's someone down the local pub could get us for £2 each

I can't remember who said it but one radio DJ commented that it used to be the case that if a CD arrived on your desk, it meant someone liked your music, but nowadays, it just meant you liked your music

[Jonboy_t]

feef said:

DannyScene said:

Thankyou4calling said:

DannyScene said:

I can't think of anything more annoying, travelling all the way to a shop to find out they haven't got what you wanted, if woolworths also didn't have it you had to go without I assume having spent money to get to the shops in the first place

From the comfort of any chair I choose I can browse buy and download any single/album I want in minutes

Sometimes the old ways are not the best

I disagree. It's far too easy nowadays and that makes music throaway.

Back then it was like a mission, you had to use real money, go into a shop, transact for the record, take it home and out of it's sleeve to pop on the record player.

it was special.

And if you went to more than one shop it made it even more so.

Now, people have everything and look forward to very little.e

I think I can see what you mean but for me the ease of things nowadays overrides the specialness of playing a single, probably because I've never experienced it

My earliest memories of buying a CD was a huge long list of copied CD's someone down the local pub could get us for £2 each

I can't remember who said it but one radio DJ commented that it used to be the case that if a CD arrived on your desk, it meant someone liked your music, but nowadays, it just meant you liked your music

Sir Tim Rice, on top gear. Never a truer word spoken.

[DoubleSix]

JatHanspal said:

Electronicpants said:

Have a go one one of these



or one of these



With nothing to stop you when you fall other than rock hard tar/concrete with broken glass strewn everywhere. None of your bouncy surface Elf and Safety nonsense

Our local park still has one of the horse ride/rockers. My kids went on it last week. Not seen a helicopter climbing frame for while now, most parks tend now to have cargo net/rock wall style climbing frames.

My local (rather nice) park has retained it's heli climbing frame exactly as thar pictured despite loads of investment and improvement.

My two and half year old loves climbing up the ladder/rotor

[Cotty]

prand said:

Anyone remember smoking in offices? I remember most people's desks had ashtrays, people like the boss would have cigarette boxes we would raid and we'd pile into a meeting we'd all spark up. Smoking on the tube was pretty mad too, bad with the Kings X fire (although that was after it had been stopped on trains, just someone sparking up on the escalator so I believe...)

I remember smoking in the office. Someone found some ashtrays made like mini BBQ's. You would rest your cig on the grate and the ash would drop though.

[Moonhawk]

GAjon said:

Play with balls of liquid mercury in Physics lesson.

I went into hospital as a kid and they had one of these in the children's ward play room:



Can you imagine finding one of those in a hospital these days - it would likely be enough to shut the place down for decontamination. Imagine what the meeja headlines would be

[Squiggs]

Buy sweet cigarettes, a liquorice pipe or packs of tobacco made from coconut.

[Doug Phillips]

Using the front cover of a cassette box, to scrape the ice off of you windscreen.

Sliding across the back seat in a Morris Oxford, as it wallowed around a corner at speed (20 MPH +)

[Einion Yrth]

Squiggs said:

Buy sweet cigarettes, a liquorice pipe or packs of tobacco made from coconut.

Still available; although doubtless some would consider it irresponsible.

[Thankyou4calling]

Doug Phillips said:

Using the front cover of a cassette box, to scrape the ice off of you windscreen.

Sliding across the back seat in a Morris Oxford, as it wallowed around a corner at speed (20 MPH +)

The cassette box was pretty much the perfect tool for windscreen scraping and its demise is difficult to replace.

You always had one in your car and they fitted your hand perfectly.

A credit card does an OK job but not quite there and yes, kids will never be able to do this.

[Jimmy Recard]

They'll never smoke legally in a pub.

Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

[Mr_C]

Monkeylegend said:

See Queen play live in Hyde Park.

I'm 32 and I never got to do that

[Moonhawk]

Squiggs said:

Buy sweet cigarettes, a liquorice pipe or packs of tobacco made from coconut.

Sweet cigarettes are still available - although they are now just called "candy sticks" and don't have the packaging or 'lit tip'

[DoubleSix]

My kids will (probably) never:

Buy throwing stars when on holiday in France, sharpen them, use each others beds as target practice....

Fashion blow pipes out of a length of copper tube and a small cone of paper with a nail through it...

Where swimming goggles for eye protection and recreate WW1 with french bangers, casually throwing them at each others faces whilst laughing uncontrollably...

Sleep out unsupervised in the black mountains with a bit of tarp and a st sleeping bag back when Scouts was proper...

Be given a gat gun aged 10 (still shocks me!)....

Fly to France unaccompanied aged 12....

Do a treasure hunt across a major city aged 9 encompassing your first train ride without an adult, clues left with shop keepers, museums etc. 'Treasure' being a Schwartz Bros burger....





It's difficult being a parent these days but actually I'll try and encourage as much of the above as I sensibly can.