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

[tyred]

Saw an old man in the newsagents today buying pipe tobacco and I was left thinking that there can't be many pipe smokers left any more (at least I don't see many) and I cannot recall the last time I seen someone use snuff.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

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

Even if the snow is forecast for somewhere else!

 

[Dave7]

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

I well remember.....approx 1956...walking to school in my wellies when the snow was up to the top of them.
School was about 2 miles away and the back of my legs were red raw.
Oh how I laughed.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Space Hoppers.

Using nail varnish to repair the above when punctured. That, rather than chuck it next door.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Lick and stick envelopes?

 

[Dave7]

Single decker, ruled out taking it upstairs. Although if it'd been a double decker, I could have stood it up on the stairs.

That is just silly.
If it was me I would cut it in half and just put it on the seat.
Back home.........bit of super glue.......good as new.

 

[Dave7]

Green grocers

I still remember my local one when I was a lad (1950s).........they had a bacon slicer and (this is genuine) the guy who operated it had one thumb missing. I DO remember me asking how it happened and him telling me.........YEEEUUUKKK.

 

[Dave7]

Jacks

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That's not REAL Jacks..............with REAL Jacks you used any old stones that you could dig up.

 

[Dave7]

Queuing outside a public phone box.

And asking "is that the operator on the line"..........then saying "you had better get off, there is a train coming"..........oh how funny we were then.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

And asking "is that the operator on the line"..........then saying "you had better get off, there is a train coming"..........oh how funny we were then.

Oh that was you?

 

[classic33]

Waiting until it's their turn.
Nowadays waiting to be served seems to have been forgotten, just ignore everyone in front, who were there before them.

 

[classic33]

Saw an old man in the newsagents today buying pipe tobacco and I was left thinking that there can't be many pipe smokers left any more (at least I don't see many) and I cannot recall the last time I seen someone use snuff.

Saturday. There's one or two shops still sell it.

As regards seeing pipe smokers, maybe they're moving onto e-pipes!

 

[User10119]

I thought this was a thread for things that the youth of today wouldn't know, not a thread to slag off the youth of today?

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

The youth of today probably don't know The Youth of Today, by Musical Youth.

Nor Teenage Rampage by The Sweet

 

[Fnaar]

I went to a Catholic primary school ... so extra mass with the other schoolkids on a Wednesday morning. If the service happened to be someone's funeral, a complete stranger had a bunch of schoolkids seeing them off