Things your kids will never do

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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?

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Never open a car door with a key.

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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.

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morgs_ said:

Smarties don't come in tubes any more? This is devastating news!

I need to check that because if they don't there'll be trouble.

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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?

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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

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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.