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

[BrumJim]

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

Loosing documents because someone didn't file it in the right place.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Switching lights off

 

[Ming the Merciless]

2p machines outside shops, dispensing bubble gum in little plastic eggs

 

[jefmcg]

2p

If I had my way, you would have to explain 2p coins to them first.

Why do we still have them?

 

[Dirk]

2p machines outside shops, dispensing bubble gum in little plastic eggs

1d machines outside shops, dispensing bubblegum.

 

[raleighnut]

Switching lights off

You've turned into your Dad and ICMFP.

 

[Dirk]

Cigarette machines in pubs.

 

[jefmcg]

Cigarette(s)

1d

Again, you'd have to explain 1d first. I didn't know and it took some googling as 1D is One Direction.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

https://www.dialupsound.com/

I want that wav file as my ringtone

 

[BrumJim]

M&B Mild used to be my favourite drink.
Haven't had a decent drop of Mild for years.

M&B mild was the only drinkable thing in an average M&B pub. Going across the border to the Black Country, and if you asked for a pint of Banks's, you generally got a Mild.

 

[GM]

Open coal fires.
Making toast with a toasting fork in front of the coal fire.
As a small child having the weekly bath in a galvanised bath in front of the open fire, and the smell of towels being warmed on the fireguard.

Making a toasting fork in the metalwork class at school.

 

[raleighnut]

Quite right, they all smoke 'spliffs' now.

Unexpected plus due to the smoking ban in pubs though, if you go out to 'toke' on a 'Doobie' no-one wonders why you're outside now.

 

[BrumJim]

32? Blimey!

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Calling a hard drive a "Winchester"

 

[jefmcg]

Calling a hard drive a "Winchester"

They won't know what a hard drive is shortly.

Also, that's not a Winchester

 

[BrumJim]

The rot started earlier than that. I went to University in 1980, and first heard of 'trick or treating' from 2 students from the North East where it was apparently already known. I'm not blaming Geordies for every deterioration of the last 40 years, but they certainly seem implicated in this one.

Making Hallowe'en Lanterns out of swedes, not pumpkins (Mums were hard in those days).
Spelling Hallowe'en with an apostrophe in the middle.