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

[Tin Pot]

I still drive one.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That what they do now with diet and exercise will shape their health and lifestyle throughout their adult lives.

 

[tyred]

Or - god help us - a slide night!

My secondary school Mechanical Drawing teacher used to start off term each September by showing us all the slides from his holidays which was evening more boring than drawing in isometric projection.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I still drive one.

So do I, if you can call it a car

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That they will get old, and will start moaning about young people.

That people who moan when they are old, moaned when they were young, they just got older.

 

[NorthernDave]

How to fix a puncture, other than by replacing the innertube.

When I returned to cycling I asked for a puncture repair kit along with all the other gubbins I needed (lights, lock, etc). The shop assistant was genuinely surprised to be asked for one and told me that most people don't bother fixing punctures anymore as tubes are so cheap. However they still stocked them and I bought one (along with 5 tubes for a tenner)

Dad teaching you to change a tyre/ tube using the kitchen spoons .

And then trying to bend the spoons back to the right shape to be put back in the kitchen drawer, hoping no-one would notice...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

That people who moan when they are old, moaned when they were young, they just got older.

And old fellows in the pub felt a compulsion to show you their war wounds, though it was always doubtful that any of them got their scars anywhere near battle.


Anyone remember Green Shield Stamps? The first way that supermarkets invented for making the other customers behind wait just that bit longer. Nowadays, everything has to be packed away before considering paying for it, by which time they've forgotten how much it was so they ask again and the cashier has to look at their display and tell them. (There was a pink equivalent of Green Shield stamps. It might have been something to do with Fine Fare supermarkets but I'm too old to remember which shops they were issued in.)

Safeways supermarkets have been gone long enough to be completely forgotten.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just how useless bike lights were back in the day...

 

[tyred]

 

[Dirk]

Disabled 2nd world war veteran newspaper sellers........'Eeeenin May-ul'!
Always remember the one on New Street, Birmingham. He had one arm, a flat cap and a constant fag on.

 

[tyred]

It's difficult to understand why people still buy newspapers at all.

 

[classic33]

And old fellows in the pub felt a compulsion to show you their war wounds, though it was always doubtful that any of them got their scars anywhere near battle.


Anyone remember Green Shield Stamps? The first way that supermarkets invented for making the other customers behind wait just that bit longer. Nowadays, everything has to be packed away before considering paying for it, by which time they've forgotten how much it was so they ask again and the cashier has to look at their display and tell them. (There was a pink equivalent of Green Shield stamps. It might have been something to do with Fine Fare supermarkets but I'm too old to remember which shops they were issued in.)

Safeways supermarkets have been gone long enough to be completely forgotten.

Morrisons are bringing the name back.

Prestos has long since gone.

 

[classic33]

It's difficult to understand why people still buy newspapers at all.

Something to read.

 

[raleighnut]

It's difficult to understand why people still buy newspapers at all.

Maz always gets the free 'Metro' paper when she goes into town (she likes the crossword and I need something to light the Woodburner with) me I'm a 'Saturday Grauniad' kind of fella.

 

[Brains]

My first day at work.

"Do you know how to use a pen knife"
"I'm a Scout, of course I do"
"OK, here is a pen knife"
"...and here is a feather, make me a quill... "

1976