Things your kids will never do

[Negative Creep]

Come back from a night out with their clothes absolutely stinking of cigarettes. Thankfully.

[maxdb]

Have BB gun fights in the street with realistic looking BB guns.

No one used to bat an eye-lid..

[Dr Jekyll]

Walk down the high street from the cadet hut to the drill hall carrying uncovered Lee Enfield rifles.

[matt0677]

Send off an order form, and then...

Allow 28 days for delivery.

[steveo3002]

buy a postal order to send off for stuff

[Monkeylegend]

Lick a stamp.

[ClaphamGT3]

Eric The Camel said:

Do a school assembly about “what I did at the weekend” alongside kids talking about football, dolls and cycling whilst carrying a .410 shotgun.

I can't imagine what the Mail would make of it now but it was 1979 and I was ten, nobody batted an eyelid.

Ah yes - I suspect that they will never experience an officially sanctioned school shooting club run entirely by members of the upper sixth who had their shotgun and firearms certificates.

I suspect also that no child in 2015 will ever undertake a long road trip with their grandparents, where their Grandparents who are sharing the driving have packed a thermos of gin and tonic for the journey

[Monkey boy 1]

Use a 10p or a 2p to make a call using a public phone box to call home to say you will be late for tea.

Never know who 'Joey Deacon' was and how much of an icon he was. (All for the wrong reasons)

Watch the dot fade away in the middle of the tv once it was turned off.

Edited by Monkey boy 1 on Monday 5th October 12:46

[redrabbit]

davhill said:

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?

Best post ever. I've never laughed out loud at any forum post anywhere, until today. Thank you!

[FredClogs]

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

Stanley Park in Blackpool has the exact same horse as that, but I've never seen the helicopter before (I do spend a large amount of time hanging around kiddies play areas, but for entirely innocent reasons)...

Which makes me think my kids will never get to go to the home of the odd guy on the estate and see his new puppies.

[redrabbit]

Apply politically unsound Luftwaffe transfers to the tailfin of an Airfix Stuka

[Frimley111R]

steveo3002 said:

buy a postal order to send off for stuff

I'm 46 and I've never seen a postal order. I have no idea what one is despite having heard of them

[Moonhawk]

Monkey boy 1 said:

Watch the dot fade away in the middle of the tv once it was turned off.

[zebra]

Watch snooker on a black and white TV while a commentator describes the ball colour by location.

[Dr Jekyll]

Send or receive a telegram.

[Kermit power]

Thankyou4calling said:

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.

The rate things are developing, I'm not sure that my own kids (12, 10 & 8) will be able to scrape their own windscreens with credit cards even! Whether they'll want to do so with an iPhone 86 (or other far superior phone for a much lower price) is open to speculation, as who knows, maybe Smart Phones will be as disposable as contact lenses by then?

[Kermit power]

Mr_C said:

Monkeylegend said:

See Queen play live in Hyde Park.

I'm 32 and I never got to do that

I'm 45, and I made my mother sit and watch the whole of Queen at Wembley on The Tube so she could see what she'd made me miss because she wouldn't let me take a day off school (and I didn't have enough cash to just bunk off) as it hadn't actually finished, even though I'd already done my last O level!

She felt so guilty that she paid for me to go and see Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall instead! He was stunning (it was the year his son died, and the music reviewer in the Telegraph (iirc) was telling people to go and see it before the concerts even began, as he's always at his best after a personal tragedy), but I'd still have taken Queen given the chance.

[Monkeylegend]

Kermit power said:

Mr_C said:

Monkeylegend said:

See Queen play live in Hyde Park.

I'm 32 and I never got to do that

I'm 45, and I made my mother sit and watch the whole of Queen at Wembley on The Tube so she could see what she'd made me miss because she wouldn't let me take a day off school (and I didn't have enough cash to just bunk off) as it hadn't actually finished, even though I'd already done my last O level!

She felt so guilty that she paid for me to go and see Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall instead! He was stunning (it was the year his son died, and the music reviewer in the Telegraph (iirc) was telling people to go and see it before the concerts even began, as he's always at his best after a personal tragedy), but I'd still have taken Queen given the chance.

One of those nights/memories that will always be with you.

[MarshPhantom]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Hooli said:

Zod said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Einion Yrth said:

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.

That was after the price increase made them expensive. I recall 8 for 1d (4 for a h'apenny), Blackjacks & Fruit Salads.

You guys must be very old. I remember them at 1/2p.

1/2p for me too, odd how they were always penny sweets though. Guess that came from the old 1d being worth about 1/2p.

That's daylight robbery. A shilling would get me 48 fruit salads or blackjacks. They were the tiny ones though, but individually wrapped.

3 Goldbears for a penny back in the late 70s.

[Ari]

Drive a car with three(!) pedals to be operated by two feet and have to push a lever forwards and backwards every time they need to change gear. Probably.