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

[User16390]

Yep 'civilization' ended at Whetstone.

I remember picking magic mushrooms on the cricket pitch behind the Dog and Gun pub in Whetstone in the 1980's.
The club members must have wondered why the local hippies would be pacing up and down the field at 7am in the morning

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Exercise can just be part of an activity you enjoy and does not need to be measured or analysed or compared.

 

[Dirk]

To have a teacher throw a chalk-dust laden duster at you from 20 feet with perfect aim.

Ours used wooden backed blackboard cleaners.

 

[tyred]

Poor little blighters won't know the joys of connecting to the internet with one of these:

 

[Drago]

Fawlty Towers.

Teletext/Ceefax.

Only 3 TV channels (or 1 when the Beeb went on strike in '78)

 

[classic33]

The Roman occupation of Britain.

Stonehenge before the Druids nicked it.

Witches.

They found one near me when they dug the road up. In a kneeling posistion, wooden stake through and into the ground.

Buried at a the nearest to a crossroads, Y junction, outside the local manor house.

 

[Profpointy]

Poor little blighters won't know the joys of connecting to the internet with one of these:
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56kbs - pah, luxury. I started with something a bit like this

https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?img...hXFvhQKHZP1AVU4yAEQMwgMKAowCg&iact=mrc&uact=8

A blistering 110bs-1

(And no, I haven't accidentally misse out the k)

 

[classic33]

To have a teacher throw a chalk-dust laden duster at you from 20 feet with perfect aim.

Paddy "Mac" McMahon, maths teacher could turn, throw & be back facing the blackboard, before it landed.

 

[classic33]

Their mobile number, let alone their home telephone number.

 

[robjh]

The pips in a phone box phone, when you had to put your 2p in.


Or in fact phone boxes with phones in, rather than books or defibrillators.

 

[alicat]

Phone boxes with A and B buttons. What was the A button for?!

Party lines.

Reverse charge calls.

Ringing twice then hanging up to say you were ready to be picked up.

 

[Dirk]

Hand knitted Balaclavas.

 

[pjd57]

They won't know about the years the clocks didn't get put back an hour and we had to go to school in the dark.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Pre CAD days.....

 

[Mo1959]

Ringing twice then hanging up to say you were ready to be picked up.

I've just rang my dad 3 times to let him know I'm home after visiting. Lol.