Can you name things that youngsters of today won't know?

[classic33]

Wading through snow over my knees in Worksop

Are people getting shorter?

 

[classic33]

Proper winter for me is when there is snow on the ground for more than a couple of days on more than one occasion and when there are weeks of frosts.

I don't keep records but just from memory winters were regularly proper before I moved to the states in the mid 80s, and infrequently proper after I came back at the end of the 80s. We've had one or two proper-ish ones since then, but I couldn't name the years.

'94, we'd snow whilst April.

Did the Summer MLTB training in March, in knee deep snow.

 

[Andy_R]

Not even a top ten coldest temp in the UK. 2010 was not a severe winter by any standard and in no way can be considered comparable to 1963.

The sea froze for a number of miles off shore in 63 did not even come close in 10.

As has been said, that year was an extreme, not a norm. Average December 2010 temperatures were 5C lower than usual for the month.

 

[Proto]

Citroen 2CV's.

There’s one in my garage.

Mine is the red one.

 

[Dirk]

Wing mirrors on cars.

 

[Beebo]

When Mac and cheese was called macaroni cheese.

Why has the name changed? Was it too long for the youth of today?

 

[classic33]

Managing a 15 minute train trip without letting everyone else know what they'd done/not done. Courtesy of a non-stop call on a mobile phone. Some get so carried away they don't realise they're going through a tunnel.

 

[classic33]

You're breaking up, I'm just going into a tunnel ... I said ... I'M JUST GOING INTO A TUNNEL. HELLO? HELLO? I'M IN A TUNNEL!

Or the local "Valley of the deaf", which has similar results.

Both assume they realise there's a problem, signal wise.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Or the local "Valley of the deaf", which has similar results.

I live in the "Village of the Deaf and Dumb" no phone signals on any network - so much for technology (it's fine if you stand in the middle of a field however )

 

[Fnaar]

Taking your washing to the launderette.

 

[Blue Hills]

Feeding the pigeons in trafalgar square.

 

[Blue Hills]

Transporting a large table on the tube.

 

[John the Monkey]

The term "BOBFOC", which I used today to describe Aphex Twin's video for Windowlicker. I was a bit surprised as I thought it a well known bit of slang, but not apparently with 20 year olds.

Who I've just realised were 2 when that song was released.

I might try a Matrix reference tomorrow.

A bloody classic. A pal bought me the calendar that was, incongrouously, part of the Windowlicker merch offering.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That a safe space used to be somewhere under the floorboards.

 

[Blue Hills]

That a safe space used to be somewhere under the floorboards.

No longer true?
What do you suggest?