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.

gosh I remember those days.. as they said in a monty python sketch ' just try telling young folk today they just wouldn't believe you"

Pressing play & record on stereo system to record the top 40 on a Sunday evening, being careful to stop the tape before the DJ announces the end of the song. Then going through it, afterwards with play,stop,play,stop while you try and scribble down the words of the songs you like!

And loving when you bought a tape that had all the lyrics on the fold out paper sleeve!

when you bought a tape that had all the lyrics on the fold out paper sleeve!

I'm just trying to imagine that with my eyesight in the state it's in now (in my sixties).

I do still actually have some pre-recorded cassettes from the nineteen-eighties. I should have a look to see whether I can read the text on the inlay cards.

Did you tell those self same kids that he was a “so called” terrorist because he was protesting the murders of catholics throughout the nation due to religious persecution

Not sure if anyone else has already mentioned this, but my DD thought it was hilarious that we used to rent televisions from good old Radio Rentals.

Got my first email account in 1992. It was absolutely no use at all because I didn’t know even one other person with an email account.

I haven't looked to see if this has already been mentioned ~ dictionaries! I had a handy bedside dictionary for reading in bed, another in the living room and a smaller but cute one in the kitchen. They are nowhere to be seen now. I wouldn't have binned these trusty stalwarts and I'm wondering if they just slunk away feeling obsolete after being ignored for so long.

my DD thought it was hilarious that we used to rent televisions from good old Radio Rentals.

Is Radio Rental still used as rhyming slang?

A set of encyclopaedias, & how expensive they were. My kids have had immediate, unlimited, instant, free information all of their lives.

Recently travelling with my son down a back road in North Yorkshire we came across a closed level crossing.
We waited for the train to go through at which point a man came down from the signal box, manually opened the gates, turned off the warning lights and returned to the signal box.
The look on my 30 something year olds face was one of total disbelief.

I still keep my dictionary by the bed (had it 44 years now! It was a present when I started secondary school) as I still like to look up the odd word without picking up my phone to google the meaning.

The cinema in my town (Granada) used to have one screen. They had two programmes per week, so Sunday to Weds there would be a main film with a B movie support. With an advert break in between
. Then, Thurs to Sat there would be 2 different films.
Now the weird bit. We, and others, would buy a ticket and go in no matter where the programme was. So we may enter half way through the supporting film. We would then see the end of that film, the ads, the main film. Then the sequence would begin again. We would sit there watching the B movie until we got to where we came in, get up and leave. If we wanted to, we could have stayed right through the films again, but rarely did. Seems very odd to me now, never mind youngsters.

That's a very interesting point of view that has never struck me before! Are you able to tell me what nationality the student is?

My friend left school at 15 to be an apprentice hairdresser. Her parents had to pay the owner a substantial sum for taking her on, and training her.

My grandma had a big estate car and me and my sister used to fight over who got to get in the boot and we would roll around while she drove… she crashed once and I shot from the boot and banged my head on the driver seat… they didn’t take me to hospital they put butter on the lump and I was given an extra supper and stayed up late I thought it was brilliant 😆 she used to chain smoke while driving us around

Yes we used to have to put money in the back of ours… the kids can’t believe our electric would run out if we didn’t have any 50ps

The phone boxes in our town have defibrillators and books in them.

No one knows of Guy Fawkes outside the UK.

That there were only had 3 TV channels, though our TV couldn't get BBC2 so we only had BBC1 & ITV.

The screen was only 9' too! (1970s)

I don't remember chocolate ones but I recall sweets that were white sticks, with pink ends that felt like they were trying to be cigarettes?

I identify with so many of these 😄

Only 2 channels for a few months when ITV went on strike! 😄 1979?

Getting paid in cash, didn’t have a bank account.
Not having TV before ‘57 and then it was rented

Can't answer for that poster, but it is a conversation I have with my US colleagues regularly. They find it mind blowing that centuries later we celebrate burning a terrorist at the stake.

I had a Saturday job in BHS aged 16. 1984. Fond memories of trekking to the cash office for the princely sum of £5.10 for four hours' work. (I had a babysitting job too, felt like I was minted 😂)