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

[Lonestar]

Just looked at an egg and noticed it had an expiry date.Pretty sure we didn't have that in the olden days.

Perhaps it was on the box?

 

[Andrew_P]

Kids standing outside pubs with a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps whilst their parents were inside drinking.

I used to sit in the Car with my Sister while my dad had a "swift" pint.

 

[Andrew_P]

Radio Rentals or Rumbelows

In the Video Shop where I worked straight out of School I used to get nice bonus for getting a Video machine on rental, double if it was a TV and Video that was with Radio Rentals

Bit like the Phillips TV's earlier on all the machines were these, was forever getting Tapes trapped in them. Some really good stories from the Video Shop!

 

[Andrew_P]

One Hour photo developing - My Second job after school, I seemed to follow the trends at first! Even better stories from working there..

 

[swee'pea99]

Duties at Youth Hostels. Mind you, they've been gone so long probably few people remember them even now. We greatly enjoyed a standoff once between the warden and a French bloke who was furious at being told to do domestics and said he would certainly do no such thing. The warden said he wouldn't get his card back unless he did. You just don't get fun like that anymore....*sigh*.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 5019047, member: 259"]Butterflies. There were clouds of frenchies* around in the fields and woods near where I lived when I was a nipper. Even twenty years ago I remember a day you couldn't get into the house without hundreds of swallowtails flying in at the same time.

*Anything other than cabbage whites.[/QUOTE]
On a similar note
House Martins

 

[slowmotion]

Pre CAD days.....
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I wasted a good percentage of my late teens and

early twenties trying to unclog those pens once they had dried up. Anything below 0.35mm and you were on a hiding to nothing. Then I discovered Pentel Caranomatics and life began to look up. Absolutely wonderful ink and great pens.

 

[Deafie]

Jubblys
Kendo Nagasaki
Having a gay time with your friends, or maybe they will. Nowt wrong with it!

 

[Turdus philomelos]

Here's one you may find surprising.

Saving a document/file into their own folder on the school network. Everything is now tablet or smart phone for them

 

[perplexed]

How to wait with patience for anything...

 

[Freds Dad]

When mobile phones weren't that mobile and you could only make calls on them.

 

[Dirk]

Motorways without central barriers.

 

[Gary E]

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

Mr Darley! If you were talking he would walk up behind you, place his ball point pen on your head and click it a couple of times. Probably half the reason I'm bald now - ink poisoning!!!

 

[Drago]

Credence Clearwater Revival.

Jethro Tull.

Deep Purple.

 

[Gary E]

Here's one you may find surprising.

Saving a document/file into their own folder on the school network. Everything is now tablet or smart phone for them

I remember when "Files" and "Folders" were actually Files and Folders and saving them meant putting them in a Filing Cabinet