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

[Blue Hills]

[QUOTE="Andy_R, post: 5047084, member: 15397". We have a Maritime climate in the UK due to the Gulf Stream, so we shouldn't actually see any snow. .[/QUOTE]
Which meteorological theory is that?

I think it needs working on.

 

[Adam4868]

Cocktail sticks with a small sausage, pineapple and cheese on it. Oh how we partied....

Keys in the ashtray,pampass grass ?

 

[youngoldbloke]

Spare wheel carriers - just in case!


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I remember using those - that looks like cyclo cross wheels being carried to the event. They were used to carry your best wheels to the start of the race - no driving to the start in those days, you cycled there, changed your wheels, raced, swopped wheels again and cycled home. Also useful for carrying your wheels to the bike shop to have the spokes re- tensioned.

 

[Dirk]

Fondue parties.

 

[pplpilot]

Shop assistants counting your change into your hand, now it just gets dropped into your hand.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Green grocers

 

[derrick]

Benelux gears, Might already be on here, but i ain't trolling back to see.

 

[Fnaar]

Cocktail sticks with a small sausage, pineapple and cheese on it. Oh how we partied....

All stuck into half cabbage, covered in foil, to make a 'hedgehog'.

 

[Fnaar]

A compendium of games as a Christmas present.

 

[Katherine]

Outside toilet blocks in the school playground.
Playing 2-ball against the back wall of the toilet block.
40 children in one class.
Going home for lunch.
The school tuckshop.
Long socks.

 

[User10119]

Outside toilet blocks in the school playground.
Playing 2-ball against the back wall of the toilet block.
40 children in one class.
Going home for lunch.
The school tuckshop.
Long socks.

Those outside toilet blocks were _so_ cold, weren't they! Ours was split in two with the girls' door at one end, the boys' at t'other and a breeze block wall not quite up to the corrugated plastic roof in the middle, dividing the two. The school (which was a 2annahalf class village one) got an extension, including a staffroom and indoor toilets, whilst I was there - I remember burying a time capsule in the foundations. Mind, I've seen several classes of 40 in the past 10 years

 

[User10119]

We also walked a mile down the village at lunchtime for our school dinners in the village hall

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Walking or cycling to school when it snows. Because back in the day they did not shut unless the school boiler was broken.

 

[User10119]

I had more snow days back in the 70s/80s than my kids have ever had...

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Walking or cycling to school when it snows. Because back in the day they did not shut unless the school boiler was broken.

I know of a college in Rotherham that shuts if snow is forecast. Every time. Whether it actually snows or not.