Whilst making my lunch a few minutes ago it struck me that most tins come with a ring pull and very few actually need a tin opener now. It amused me to think that my kids will grow up never having used a tin opener and I could picture some television programme in fifty years time where the presenter has a tin opener and the panel have to guess what it is.
I then started to think about what else my kids will miss out on. One of the most obvious would be pen friends. When I was a kid I had a pen friend in France and I used to love the excitement and anticipation when his letter was due. I can’t remember his name or anything about him now but the fact that I was communicating with someone in France, which to me was the other side of the world, was amazing. Nowadays, with the internet, we take it for granted that we can chat online to people anywhere in the world and very few people write letters now when they can use email.
So, what else do you think our kids will no longer have that we took for granted???
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I remember the Black Whip!
Innocence, staying a kid until you felt ready to grow up, I think kids miss out on much of their childhood through influence on TV and in media
Spending the day exploring with friends in the summer, there are too many dodgy characters about, to let kids out of your site!
I remember the Black Whip! Innocence, staying a kid until you felt ready to grow up, I think kids miss out on much of their childhood through influence on TV and in media
Spending the day exploring with friends in the summer, there are too many dodgy characters about, to let kids out of your site!
There's loads isn't there?
Here are two:-
Arranging to meet without moblie phones - they've made a huge difference to that. Previously, you had to name a time and place and just make sure you got there. Now kids can run a commentary: "I'm here, over HERE! Waving right at you from the middle of the M25 - strange? there seems to be lots of cars crashing all around me."
Making your own way to school - on your own by foot, bus, cycle or whatever. I did so when still at early Primary School - nowadays, kids seem to be ferried around in cars and, sadly, no one feels so safe.
Here are two:-
Arranging to meet without moblie phones - they've made a huge difference to that. Previously, you had to name a time and place and just make sure you got there. Now kids can run a commentary: "I'm here, over HERE! Waving right at you from the middle of the M25 - strange? there seems to be lots of cars crashing all around me."
Making your own way to school - on your own by foot, bus, cycle or whatever. I did so when still at early Primary School - nowadays, kids seem to be ferried around in cars and, sadly, no one feels so safe.
It is sad to think times are moving so fast, but my thirteen year old daughter has a pen friend in Germany and shewalks/catches the bus to school!
But, she also takes her mobile phone with her in case she misses it and she spends more time on line chatting to friends she has seen at school an hour ago than I do on Swinging Heaven ( I am addicted, is there a help line?)
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But, she also takes her mobile phone with her in case she misses it and she spends more time on line chatting to friends she has seen at school an hour ago than I do on Swinging Heaven ( I am addicted, is there a help line?)
Ju
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Quote by gmanxxx
When my daughter, when she discovered my vinyl LPs, wondered just how they went in the CD player..... I almost wet myself.... only a few years ago....
regards
Gman
My mum got the LP's out at Christmas for the carols, the kids had no idea what it was.
What about the phones when you had to put your finger in holes and drag it round to dial the number?
Dawn :silly:
I can still use a slide rule and log tables to do complex maths problems, not as fast as I can use a calculator admittedly, but my kids were amazed when I showed them that a piece of plastic could do the same as a calculator. 8)
Isn't it strange though that there is more processing power in a arcade game than there was in the first rocket to land on the surface of the moon? :shock:
On a professional level I used to have to take a star sight and do 2 hours of complex calculations to work out the position of a ship in the middle of the ocean and the accuracy was 5 miles at best if i got a good cross. Now I can press a button and achieve <1m accuracy in <1 second!
However I still have my Nories Tables, my starsight book and a Sextant so if it all goes bang tomorrow and I am in the middle of the ocean I will still be able to navigate! 8)
What a sad git!
Perhaps I ought to start a new thread - the most useless thing you have kept hold of JUST in case you need it!
Fred
Isn't it strange though that there is more processing power in a arcade game than there was in the first rocket to land on the surface of the moon? :shock:
On a professional level I used to have to take a star sight and do 2 hours of complex calculations to work out the position of a ship in the middle of the ocean and the accuracy was 5 miles at best if i got a good cross. Now I can press a button and achieve <1m accuracy in <1 second!
However I still have my Nories Tables, my starsight book and a Sextant so if it all goes bang tomorrow and I am in the middle of the ocean I will still be able to navigate! 8)
What a sad git!
Perhaps I ought to start a new thread - the most useless thing you have kept hold of JUST in case you need it!
Fred
Great thread Sarge (as usual)
1. Time. As a kid I'm sure that we had lots of time to go out - play football every evening, come home for dinner and even do our homework. My son goes to a great school but even I am appallled at times by the amount of homework he has to do. Mind you he gets a sound beating if he does not do it (joke)
2. The ability to go out for the day and not have your parents worrying all the time.
3. The loss of the ability to write in Fu**ing English. Sadly, I feel that text speak and e-mail speak will destroy written and indeed spoken word.
4. Sport in general. Too many computer games seem to be more important than taking part in sporting activities. This is so sad.
That will do
Paul
1. Time. As a kid I'm sure that we had lots of time to go out - play football every evening, come home for dinner and even do our homework. My son goes to a great school but even I am appallled at times by the amount of homework he has to do. Mind you he gets a sound beating if he does not do it (joke)
2. The ability to go out for the day and not have your parents worrying all the time.
3. The loss of the ability to write in Fu**ing English. Sadly, I feel that text speak and e-mail speak will destroy written and indeed spoken word.
4. Sport in general. Too many computer games seem to be more important than taking part in sporting activities. This is so sad.
That will do
Paul
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Quote by Dawn_Mids
When my daughter, when she discovered my vinyl LPs, wondered just how they went in the CD player..... I almost wet myself.... only a few years ago....
regards
Gman
My mum got the LP's out at Christmas for the carols, the kids had no idea what it was.
What about the phones when you had to put your finger in holes and drag it round to dial the number?
Dawn :silly:
I have a few genuine rotary phones that actually work. Guests at my house think they're way cool.
Quote by Ice Pie
When my daughter, when she discovered my vinyl LPs, wondered just how they went in the CD player..... I almost wet myself.... only a few years ago....
regards
Gman
My mum got the LP's out at Christmas for the carols, the kids had no idea what it was.
What about the phones when you had to put your finger in holes and drag it round to dial the number?
Dawn :silly:
I have a few genuine rotary phones that actually work. Guests at my house think they're way cool.
and I have cylinder record player, along with wax cylinders...
now you all think I am really V old
Gman
no not Greyman....
Sex God
Quote by gmanxxx
I have a few genuine rotary phones that actually work. Guests at my house think they're way cool.
and I have cylinder record player, along with wax cylinders...
now you all think I am really V old
Gman
no not Greyman....
Wow. I've never even seen one of those. Got loads of vinyl, which is bit of a waste of time at the mo as I don't have a functioning turntable.
I was babysitting my friend's 8-year old son on a glorious day last summer and suggested packing a picnic and going to the local picnic area to spend the day there.
He turned away from his playstation, looked at me and said "you can't drive though".
It was only half an hours walk away but he wouldn't dream of it.
Instead, we spent the whole of the lovely sunny day indoors playing a game I didn't even understand!!
He turned away from his playstation, looked at me and said "you can't drive though".
It was only half an hours walk away but he wouldn't dream of it.
Instead, we spent the whole of the lovely sunny day indoors playing a game I didn't even understand!!
board games without electronics.... I still enjoy Scrabble, though we don't play strip scrabble anymore now that the kids also play!!!!
Risk... the worlds best board game
Monopoly where if you cannot pay the rent bodily favours/ promises may suffice
murder mystery dinner parties....
Gmanxxxx
Risk... the worlds best board game
Monopoly where if you cannot pay the rent bodily favours/ promises may suffice
murder mystery dinner parties....
Gmanxxxx
I remember ITV doing a trial in about 1980 to see if there would be an audience for 24 hr TV. They did it on a Saturday night and showed loads of strange American quizzes and sit-coms (The new newlywed game etc). It was such a novelty that loads of people stayed up most fo the night to watch them. We must have been mad! :shock:
Building your own Go-Kart! Then taking it to the nearest hill, bombing down it, crashing immediately due to lack of brakes of any kind - limping home to fix it ready for the next day!
Had to avoid the gang of big kids too! who always seemed to take it off us and crash it themselves :cry: before we even had a go!
Just can't get those good pram wheels anymore!
Ahhh the good ol days!
Had to avoid the gang of big kids too! who always seemed to take it off us and crash it themselves :cry: before we even had a go!
Just can't get those good pram wheels anymore!
Ahhh the good ol days!
Casanova
My my, is this a real can of worms from the Sgt or what ??
Right just one contribution from myself
Saturday morning meeting up with school friends and going down the arcade to play on the latest video machines. It was at the time of the Space Invaders revolution. Saturday mornings were the highlight of the week, looking forward to see if there were new machines in the arcade!!
Well, with the technology available now that Saturday morning feeling for kids is, what time does Game open so they can go and spend fifty quid on the latest XBox/Playstation2 game!!
" OOOOh I havn't had an egg in ??? " Etc. etc. etc.
Right just one contribution from myself
Saturday morning meeting up with school friends and going down the arcade to play on the latest video machines. It was at the time of the Space Invaders revolution. Saturday mornings were the highlight of the week, looking forward to see if there were new machines in the arcade!!
Well, with the technology available now that Saturday morning feeling for kids is, what time does Game open so they can go and spend fifty quid on the latest XBox/Playstation2 game!!
" OOOOh I havn't had an egg in ??? " Etc. etc. etc.
Casanova
Sorry you got me started now !
Video remote on a wire
Need I say any more??
Video remote on a wire
Need I say any more??
Orgasminator
Quote by MrFC
Chopper bikes
The test card(before tv played all night)
black and white tv
atari games
Raligh (spelling) have just re-released the chopper... less the gear changer on the X-bar for "safety reasons"
My lad plays atari games (box and computer) via emulator on a PC... and we've still got a Atari 1024STE at grannys that he plays on when he goes to stay.
As for black and white TV's, apart from second hand and mini-tvs can you still buy brand new BnW tvs? That said, he reciently downloaded a game that was in black and white... said it was "well cool," lol.
