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

Playing with wooden toys. It seems that today's kids don't know what to play without a tablet, laptop or TV
Sorry can't allow that one, my two will happily spend the day playing with mere sticks (7 and 11 years old{the girls not the sticks}). Whittling them, burning them, hitting each other with them or playing a bizarre version of street hockey with a stone as the ball and a chalked court on the lane.
 
BCG vaccinations which gave you an arm you thought would drop off ! And, got to mention, Polio oral vaccine. Hopefully I'm amongst the last generation to go to school with mates who had to drag themselves round with metal leg braces as a result of this terrible curse. I never see, or think, of the very word Polio without breathing a silent prayer of thanks to Dr. Salk and his team, God bless them.

JohnnyO. o/
 
BCG vaccinations which gave you an arm you thought would drop off ! And, got to mention, Polio oral vaccine. Hopefully I'm amongst the last generation to go to school with mates who had to drag themselves round with metal leg braces as a result of this terrible curse. I never see, or think, of the very word Polio without breathing a silent prayer of thanks to Dr. Salk and his team, God bless them.

JohnnyO. o/

It's the one I always think of when the Anti Vaccers show up in conversations not from school as I'm a spring chicken compared to some but still from experience.
 
I can remember much of the above. To this day I can still do mental arithmetic in £sd.

As children, we had to memorise the family Co-Op divi number as we were often sent out to get fags for our parents. Another of our jobs was to collect the coupons from the cigarette packets and bundle them up for when Mum and Dad wanted to get something from the Embassy catalogue.

We were also in charge of sticking the Green Shield stamps in the books, too.
 
I can remember much of the above. To this day I can still do mental arithmetic in £sd.

As children, we had to memorise the family Co-Op divi number as we were often sent out to get fags for our parents. Another of our jobs was to collect the coupons from the cigarette packets and bundle them up for when Mum and Dad wanted to get something from the Embassy catalogue.

We were also in charge of sticking the Green Shield stamps in the books, too.
If you forgot, all you had to do was to look on the front door frame, under the doorbell where the milkman had written it.
 
I can remember much of the above. To this day I can still do mental arithmetic in £sd.

As children, we had to memorise the family Co-Op divi number as we were often sent out to get fags for our parents. Another of our jobs was to collect the coupons from the cigarette packets and bundle them up for when Mum and Dad wanted to get something from the Embassy catalogue.

We were also in charge of sticking the Green Shield stamps in the books, too.

GREEN SHIELD STAMPS!!
 
Well, there isn't much I'd add... Not that I am an old geezer...:D... of course...

Maybe...

... when you had to watch the telly (if you had one...) at a given time because if you missed it you couldn't watch it any other day...

... when you really got excited with Christmas presents (on the morning of the 6th of January for me, Christmas morning for you guys...).. and you thought it was magic...

... when you have to use an encyclopaedia...

... when you have to share a Coca Cola with your younger sister...

... when you had to eat it all...
 
...how about not knowing or rather little or no chance of securing a final salary pension scheme; purchasing a family home if you are on an average salary and live in the South-East; receiving free university education; a job for life in a nationalised industry; school class sizes with less than 30 kids in them; free prescriptions, free dentistry; a benefit system that really was a safety net; getting your mortgage paid if you lost your job; being able to take your employer to a tribunal with out excessive fees...the list goes on. Viewed through a different optic one can understand those that say that today's young people have been robbed and screwed by the generation before them. In many ways young people have it much harder and to top it all we are entering a fourth revolution where many of the jobs we now know will not exist and jobs created will require a different skill-set that the education system is not yet equipping them for...and finally we have saddled them with so much national debt that they will have to pay a higher proportion of their earnings in taxes than the generation before...
 
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