Things from your childhood that's today youth wouldn't know?

[Deleted member 294929]

Teletext. we were one of the first and got free stams to the tune of a colour tv licence. teletext at the time was the internet

It was...

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Looking for DIY tips

 

[crystal ball]

It was...

I thought that was Prestel

 

[Deleted member 294929]

I thought that was Prestel

Was that French television?

 

[crystal ball]

I remember a geeky subscribing late 70s,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestel

 

[JP_]

Not childhood, but going to the pub and not knowing for sure who would be there.
And arranging something a few months in advance, then doing it without checking 20 times on the day.

 

[Justin Passing]

There was ceefax for bbc and oracle for itv.
If you had both, you could refer to them as

ceef'cle.

My secondary school had two non-white kids in my year of 130, and "they both stank", so everyone stayed away from them.
Any bloke who wasn't 100% testosterone-powered was viewed as someone who would do unspoken unspeakable things to you. Same with any woman who was "too old to be single". That's changed, thank dog.

Starting handles. Ditto.

 

[Justin Passing]

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I remember pics like those. They were what we had for porn - the knicker and bra section of mother's mail-order catalogue. I refused to look at them, they were BAD.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Corner shops were open seven days a week round here

There was a row of corner shops on every street when I was little.

 

[mattylad]

A Reliant Robin (the above post about it is just wrong)
CB radio.
Inches and all it's derivatives.

 

[The Samaritan]

It was Teletext as I said that covered the whole thing.

Frozen milk in glass bottles on one's doorstep.

Telegram

A phone box

Bond Bug

A Pressure Cooker

A coal fire

Shops closing for lunch

A bus conductor

Chimney sweeper

Thanks

 

[Ihavenojob]

White dog sh1t.

 

[securespark]

Going out with your mates after breakfast and not coming home till dinner (evening meal) time.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Going out with your mates after breakfast and not coming home till dinner (evening meal) time.

I think that still happens

 

[HERTS P&D]

It does with you.



Andy