Stuff that didn’t seem weird at the time but when you tell someone younger they think it’s nuts

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Just that really.

The other day I explained to my 11 year old niece that when I was at junior school we used to have a small bottle of milk with a straw every morning, and she looked at me like I’d lost my mind.

Fucking Hell!

I remember when we got our first fridge, in the 1960s.

My parents were so up-to-date.

🤣🤣🤣

In senior school being made to run around the area local to the school in gym knickers! Late 90s/early 00s. Also being chucked out onto the street outside our gym building in various states of undress if we were taking too long.

I actually went on to become a smoker for a couple of years as a teen/early twenties in the 2010’s so after the smoking ban and even during that time of smoking myself I couldn’t think of anything more rancid than smoking or being around smokers whilst eating or on a plane. I smoked secretly in my room a couple of times as a teen and it absolutely stank for days, as did my bedding. I can’t imagine how bad it was with multiple people smoking in the environments listed above 😂

This thread is ADDICTIVE!!!!
your post reminded me of putting tiny little paper envelopes through loads of front doors of neighbours homes.
All they had to do is fill it with money (usually pennies from down the back of a sofa), and then lick and seal the envelope which would then be collected by a volunteer the next week.

Talking about coins... do children these days take a coin, then put it under a sheet of (preferably thin) paper, and then use a pencil to trace the coins image onto the paper?
I used to trace both sides, and glue them together, after putting something small and flat inside... give them away for the recipient to open and find the "surprise " inside.
Such simple fun, and it was exciting to do, and lovely to receive...
Maybe I could teach my young step grandkids to do it... I hope that it not just computerised games they are interested in.

This inspired to see how much my "first job" pays now.
I had £52 per day. It now pays £63.27 per day.

It includes food as well (and accommodation and uniform) but I'm sort of shocked how far below minimum wage it is now!

(Army Reserves)

Mid 80s we had a formidable deputy head who wore tweed smoked and patrolled the field at lunchtime due to the 15 minute overlap in lunch hours between our school and the boys school. There was a sports pavilion in the middle separating our field from the boys. Sixth formers and prefects from each school were allowed to meet at the pavilion which was OUT OF BOUNDS to the rest of us, but Miss L would make sure there was "NO TOUCHING" by bellowing at any miscreants. Am pretty sure I remember her bringing her stout and robust black labrador with her quite often. She was both wonderful and terrifying.

I remember being on a transatlantic flight in 1995 when more and more airlines had banned smoking (before the ban became compulsory). There was an ad on the back of the in-flight magazine that I can picture to this day - it was for a boat tour company, and the big selling point they’d highlighted was that this was one form of transport where you could still smoke. Complete with a picture of people on deck happily puffing away as they stared out to sea.

The whole smoking thing - it was seen as almost a right for people to smoke wherever and whenever they liked. I hated smoke as a kid, and never smoked as a result.
It was considered polite to wait til the end of a meal before starting to smoke… so as kids we’d beg to be let to leave the table or wait outside while the adults puffed away to ‘finish’ their meal out.
Bizarre if you think about it now.

Saving up the foil lids off Pot Noodles to be able to get my first 7" single. This was about 1981.

Advent calendars didn't used to have anything in, the reward was the picture.
That blew my DC's minds - "you used to open them to see a picture?"

I was telling someone about the bander machine the other day!! How did it even work?

The test card of the little girl and her doll that was on the TV when no programmes were playing.

Ring pulls on cans that came totally off the can, leaving a sharp bit of metal on the ring. My mum wouldn't let me or my brother drink from cans in case we cut ourselves on the sharp metal. I'm sure there were also issues with dogs getting cut paws from them being dropped on the ground too.

And my dad would occasionally drink cans of Guinness at home but you had to start pouring it as soon as you opened the can or the Guinness would come flying out of the can and go everywhere. When they invented the cans that didn't do that we were all fascinated and it took a long time before we actually trusted that it worked.

Argh!

Xerox duplicating machines in offices.

Unbelievably messy and inconvenient.

No way of telling when the next bus was coming.

You just stood at the stop and waited.

What a lovely memory! I love old style Easter eggs, the newer ones don't seem the same somehow!

I sometimes imagine if my mum came back to life..all the mad people walking round talking to themselves (on mobile phones especially those wearing headphones and talking), people eating that sour turned bad milk ( yoghurt) women driving ( only two uncles out of loads of relatives had cars),

I remember that.

I loved seeing the pictures every day.

It was exciting that the picture on Dec. 24th had double doors.

Telegrams.

I have a telegram sent from Wales to my late Nana to tell her of her Father's death.

My first car was the same when I stared uni! It was an old Mercedes. This was in 2016 at University of Pretoria!

Hiring televisions from Radio Rentals.

If you didn't pay, they came and took your telly away.

And you had to ring the shop if the telly went wrong, and they sent the repair man round.

Yes, you're right it was a VHS player!!

Despite growing up amidst such massive changes in technology I still can't get it right.

It got passed on to us eventually, I loved that machine.