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

[Mr Celine]

Switching on the TV and waiting ages for it to warm up.

Leather footballs with laces.

Boys being lifted over the turnstiles at football matches.

Cars with only four gears.

Doing homework by candlelight during power cuts.

 

[slowmotion]

My school had a set of 20th century encyclopedias (Britannica) which had Dragons in it, and didn't have cars or aeroplanes. Try telling that to the youngsters of today.

Our school encyclopedias taught us how to make gunpowder and detonators. At that point, we became eager pupils.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Waiting for winter to come in Game of Thrones.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Pipkins.

 

[classic33]

Pipkins.

He was never there!
They always seemed to be hanging round waiting on him showing up.

 

[Fnaar]

Porn mags in bushes (and bushes in porn mags)

Must've been our next-door neighbour I guess, but in my teens there was a regular supply of mags in a bit of waste land where our gardens met. I used to 'recycle' them

 

[classic33]

My school had a set of 20th century encyclopedias (Britannica) which had Dragons in it, and didn't have cars or aeroplanes. Try telling that to the youngsters of today.

Why haven't we had the 4 Yorkshiremen sketch yet?

I've book that makes no mention of the Wright Brothers.

It does however mention George Caley and has pictures of his gliders.

 

[classic33]

Having to book a telephone call.

 

[raleighnut]

Electrical appliances that could be repaired.

 

[alicat]

Liberty bodices

Horlicks mixers

Tapers

Doilies

Andy Pandy

The Woodentops

 

[Dave 123]

Never bothered me. There was one teacher who'd slide your sleeves back a bit before using it, along your hand and wrist.

I always found it preferable to detention.
I was thinking, they had purpose made ones in our school, so they must have been in the 'teaching supplies' catalogue.

 

[Lozz360]

Trolley buses.

Football terraces.

Pubs closing in the afternoon and at 10:30pm mid-week.

Petrol stations giving customers glassware.

 

[Illaveago]

Choke adustment in cars

Not even Clarkson understands what that is for.

 

[Illaveago]

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.

You forgot to mention the little white dot that remained when you switched off the telly.

 

[Globalti]

Golliwogs on Robertson's marmalade jars that you collected for an enamel badge. I got one.

Green Shield stamps.

The grocer's store where your bill was clipped to an overhead wire and whizzed across the ceiling to the cash desk. The vacuum tube version is still in use in some places.