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What's something from your childhood that would stun children of today?

I would say
Not being able to use Netflix.

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going to the library to do your school research because there was no internet..

having no smartphone/mobiles

schools being lax on students [seems like they are much stricter today than in the past, i was looking at the website for the school i used to go to, it is now an academy and has rules so strict you'd think you were on SAS: Who Dares Wins or some crap]

Reply 2

Sammylou40

Uni was free

There were 3 channels on tv

No internet or mobiles.

Takeaways were virtually non existent

At school we regularly went on strike to get what we wanted and it worked

Corporal punishment existed in school

Reply 3

ANM775

Those ads were so funny 😂

I look them up on youtube though and they are full of dislikes and have a very bad like to dislike ratio.

but at the time literally no one was offended by those ads.

Reply 4

Sammylou40

Original post by ANM775

Those ads were so funny 😂

I look them up on youtube though and they are full of dislikes and have a very bad like to dislike ratio.

but at the time literally no one was offended by those ads.

No we weren’t. Tbh I’m still not offended now. It’s just how they were and it doesn’t matter today

Reply 5

ghostwalker

Using a sliderule in maths lessons.

Reply 6

the bear

A cricket bat. that would proper stun them

Reply 7

username402722

Having a Prime Minister who had a clue what they were doing.

Reply 8

BlueIndigoViolet

lol - have they got rid of this now, 30-somethings with gender studies degrees would be at their throats

Reply 9

MidgetFever

Actually going outside to hang with friends, without mobile phones.

Reply 10

Sammylou40

Original post by MidgetFever

Actually going outside to hang with friends, without mobile phones.

Ah the days of the phone box.
Before phone cards ( remember them?) calls were free by triggering the coin slot with a lolly stick

Reply 11

Charlie101998

I used to play video games on a solid ****ing cube. No joke. Nintendo’s GameCube was and still is the best console ever made

Reply 12

awkwardshortguy

Boys were boys and girls were girls and it was just that simple.

Reply 13

MidgetFever

Original post by Sammylou40

Ah the days of the phone box.
Before phone cards ( remember them?) calls were free by triggering the coin slot with a lolly stick

Oh god, those things. My dad started to collect them after they died out :lol:

Reply 14

Trinculo

Not only was it free - you used to get given money.

Reply 15

Bio 7

Yorkshire puddings are for everyone

Reply 16

Reality Check

Following on from @Sammylou40's post, there was a 'closedown' of television at about midnight and then no further broadcasts until the following evening. Later, there was some children's programming in the morning.

There was absolutely no need for 'daytime television' because who in earth would be watching the television in the daytime? People would either be at work or attending to their domestic chores. Sitting around to watch the television was just unfathomable.