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

[jefmcg]

Making Halowe'en Lanterns out of swedes, not pumpkins (Mums were hard in those days).
Spelling Halowe'en with an apostrophe in the middle.

I don't think you can lose the double L. It all hallows (saints) eve.

 

[BrumJim]

I don't think you can lose the double L. It all hallows (saints) eve.

Sorry - corrected now.

 

[jefmcg]

Sorry - corrected now.

I wish I'd seen a traditional English/Irish Halloween. The terrible orange pumpkins that have no flavour, and all the plastic tatt are a little depressing.

 

[AndyRM]

I remember going guising in Scotland, had to sing a song or recite a poem to get your "treat".

 

[petek]

Darning socks. We were taught how to darn in primary school under instruction to
"Bring a sock with a hole in and your mother's darning mushroom".
Everybody turned up with a sock and wooden mushroom so presumably everybody's mum owned a darning mushroom.
That said, I never quite grasped the intricacies of darning.

 

[And]

Clothes pegs for the Mini choke

 

[Drago]

YPVS and EXUP.

 

[Cronorider]

Showers that go cold when somebody runs another tap

 

[Andrew_P]

Hitting a tree in a much more poorly made version of this, and taking out your two front teeth and a huge shiner! I can still see the tree coming at me and pulling the string and nothing happening

 

[Illaveago]

The blue white light of mercury vapour street lights.

 

[AndyRM]

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.

 

[NorthernDave]

https://www.dialupsound.com/

That reminds me - having to wait until 6pm to try and log onto the internet. I say "try" as the rest of the country was trying to do the same thing...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The weekend trip to the launderette.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Mr R doesn't know how to do that ... and he's hardly a youngster.

Them you need to train him better

 

[Deleted member 26715]

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.

What?