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

[gavroche]

I will start with: Super8 cine films, tape recorders, single records, manual windows in cars, push buttons tv, Access credit cards.

 

[jefmcg]

Access credit cards.

Oh, I'm younger than I thought

 

[Speicher]

Choke adustment in cars

 

[gavroche]

Oh, I'm younger than I thought

It is the first credit card I ever had, back in the 70's when they were first introduced I think.

 

[Speicher]

Clocks that you wind up.

Telephones with a circular dial

Bus conductors with a ticket machine

 

[jefmcg]

Sometime in the future, there is going to be a "Did you know?" documentary produced with dialogue something like this:

"The reason we 'tape' or 'film' when making a movie is that once upon a time they used actual celluloid film and, later, magnetic tape to record the images.

"And the reason we call the computers in our pockets 'phones' is because that is short for 'telephone', which means 'distance voice' in Greek and originally the primary use of these computers was for voice calls'"

 

[13 rider]

I have an old dial telephone on show my young nephews and niece loved playing with it they had never seen one

 

[Speicher]

Only one flavour of crisps - with a little blue bag of salt.

 

[Drago]

The TV broadcasts ending at midnight.

The plague.

The only overnight radio being Luxembourg or Caroline.

Carburettors.

Slavery.

Transistor radios.

Gary Glitter.

7.62 long rounds.

National Service.

The Raj.

Milkmen.

Biplanes.

Zeppelins.

The blackout.

Cathode ray tubes.

Valve sets.

Cortinas.

British Leyland.

The miners strike.

CND.

Adam and the Ants.

Bodie and Doyle.

Having to periodically buy a new stylus.

MW radio.

MG Midgets.

Blake's 7.

Doing as you're blummen well told at school.

 

[presta]

There were some youngsters on the news last month who didn't know how to use a portable radio.

Then there was a hilarious episode of Maigret made by a cast and crew who obviously had no idea how to light a primus stove.......

 

[Salty seadog]

I will start with: Super8 cine films, tape recorders, single records, manual windows in cars, push buttons tv, Access credit cards.

Oh, I'm younger than I thought

"Your flexible friend"

Only one flavour of crisps - with a little blue bag of salt.

You can still get Smith's. I used to eat half plain then salt 'n shake the last half.

 

[Freds Dad]

Your dustbin emptied every week.

 

[gavroche]

The TV broadcasts ending at midnight.

The plague.









.

The plague is back I believe.

 

[Dirk]

405 or 625 lines.

 

[ianrauk]

Smokers on buses, trains, planes and in cinemas.