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

[classic33]

Hard work.

Sat on my backside, eight hours a day, was the worst I've done. But to say it was hard work is an overstatement.

 

[Freds Dad]

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

Have you tried swotting a fly with an iPad?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Anyone remember Green Shield Stamps?

Yep, we found a half book of them a couple of years back

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

Prestos has long since gone.

What about Hillard's got bought out by Tesco's

Have you tried swotting a fly with an iPad?

Probably a good use for them

 

[cyberknight]

The vacuum tubes in shops they used to transport messages etc .

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Kettles that went on the stove

 

[Threevok]

The run up to the end of the year, when you got excited about Christmas, not John Lewis Adverts

 

[petek]

Gas fired hot water geyser that ignited with an impressive mini-exposion above the Belfast sink in the kitchen.

 

[raleighnut]

The vacuum tubes in shops they used to transport messages etc .

Still got em in our Co-op, used so that they don't need to carry cash through the shop.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Neighbourhood dads vs. sons football matches on Boxing Day.

 

[jefmcg]

Neighbourhood dads vs. sons football matches on Boxing Day.

Pah! Boxing day is for cricket.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

The vacuum tubes in shops they used to transport messages etc .

Or the wooden balls & rail, no cash in the till, the money with a note was put in the ball, sent to the cash office at the back, they dispensed the change & sent it back

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Making your own Christmas decorations

 

[User482]

Pah! Boxing day is for cricket.

Quite so. It's an annual fixture for my old club:

 

[classic33]

Still got em in our Co-op, used so that they don't need to carry cash through the shop.

Tesco have them.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Gas fired hot water geyser that ignited with an impressive mini-exposion above the Belfast sink in the kitchen.

- and a bath in the kitchen (the arrangements in our first house when we bought it back in 1970s - that and a loo just off the kitchen was the extent of the plumbing).