Things people don't do anymore!

MysticMonk · 02-06-2017 08:08PM #1

Off the top of my head : Writing letters using a pen and getting up to change the station ( as they were known) on the telly

Quazzie · 02-06-2017 08:09PM

Sitting on the jacks without a mobile phone.

LordSutch · 02-06-2017 08:10PM

.. bless themselves as they pass each & every Church.

(Irish people).

Rubberlegs · 02-06-2017 08:10PM

Make mix tapes by taping songs off the radio and cracking up when the DJ talks over/cuts off the end of the song. Bane of my teenage years

WHIP IT! · 02-06-2017 08:14PM

MysticMonk wrote: »

Off the top of my head : Writing letters using a pen and getting up to change the station ( as they were known) on the telly

73Cat wrote: »

Make mix tapes by taping songs off the radio and cracking up when the DJ talks over/cuts off the end of the song. Bane of my teenage years

I think these are examples of things people don't have to do anymore... better examples are things that people no longer really do that maybe we should - such as, simply for example, call in to each other randomly!

I no longer answer my front door because at least 9/10 times it's some spoofer trying to sell me something or get me to change gas/electric/internet providers.

Winterlong · 02-06-2017 08:16PM

Watch ceefax page 302.

Cortina_MK_IV · 02-06-2017 08:16PM

Go to a concert/event and take it in and not have to hold a f**king phone in the air to film it.

snowflaker · 02-06-2017 08:18PM

post the same old threads every few months... oh wait...

Four Phucs Ache · 02-06-2017 08:18PM

Hope to god the video tape isn't dirty

Solomon Pleasant · 02-06-2017 08:19PM

Borrow ridiculous sums of money and invest it into futile property projects.

Well, not as much anyway.

Del2005 · 02-06-2017 08:19PM

Discipline their children.

02-06-2017 08:21PM

Eat crisps in public

gitzy16v · 02-06-2017 08:21PM

Rent videos from the boot of a car or van.

Wibbs · 02-06-2017 08:22PM

Just a thing that came up on the Motors forum. People are much less likely to do their own simple car servicing these days. When I were a lad(insert pic of short trousers, flat cap and a sweet cigarette hanging from my lip), most dads of a weekend once a month would be under the bonnet doing some fiddling about. Actually a bit of DIY servicing of household stuff in general. People are much more likely to "get a man in". Now stuff has become more complex(often needlessly I would argue) which has an effect and more stuff is "sealed for life", but much of the time you can sort out many problems in short order. Especially now that we have google/youtube that will show you how. Though maybe it's like cookery and gardening programmes and people want to watch rather than do?

Burial. · 02-06-2017 08:22PM

Trim the wives ass hair on the first Sunday of every month.

Barry Badrinath · 02-06-2017 08:23PM

Feed their Tamagotchi in school.

Barry Badrinath · 02-06-2017 08:24PM

Burial. wrote: »

Trim the wives ass hair on the first Sunday of every month.

What the fcuk :pac:

02-06-2017 08:24PM

Not pluck their uni brow. There used to be a massive social stigma against men altering their eyebrows by removing hair so it was quite common to see men with hair between their eyebrows. In the last 10, 12 years due to the pressure of social media, camera phones etc.people in general have become more image conscious resulting in the extinction of the unibrow.

satguy · 02-06-2017 08:25PM

Jump off the back of a moving Bus, Buy 10 GoldBond for 10?p ..

LordSutch · 02-06-2017 08:27PM

Burial. wrote: »

Trim the wives ass hair on the first Sunday of every month.

What :eek:

MysticMonk · 02-06-2017 08:28PM

Very true that. My father and uncles could repair cars,build walls and sheds,do electrical work,wallpaper, paint and pretty much everything else.
As for mechanical work on cars..I witnesses my dad and uncle literally swinging a sledgehammer at a Renault 4 after the axle or something bent on it.
With the exception of painting
I wouldn't probably try any of that stuff myself and would hafta pay for it.
In the 70s a great driver was the fact that nobody had any money. If you needed a wall built you did it yourself,or got somebody to show you

LordSutch · 02-06-2017 08:33PM

MysticMonk wrote: »

Very true that. My father and uncles could repair cars,build walls and sheds,do electrical work,wallpaper, paint and pretty much everything else that I'd probably get someone in to do with the possible exception of painting

Well I would have done a bit of under bonnet work back in the day, along with fixing the exhaust pipe with beans cans, wire, and heat resistant cement. Not any more though

...mind you, I did recently repair the washing machine thanks to Youtube (blocked filter) only accessible by removing back panel & undoing hoses. Found a couple of colour catchers stuck in the filter.

Rumpy Pumpy · 02-06-2017 08:33PM

Use the indicators on their car to indicate where they are fúcking going.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-06-2017 08:34PM

MysticMonk wrote: »

Off the top of my head : Writing letters using a pen and getting up to change the station ( as they were known) on the telly

I still write letters with a fountain pen and receive hand written letters.

Boom_Bap · 02-06-2017 08:36PM

Scutting.

Blowing a cartridge.

glenfieldman · 02-06-2017 08:36PM

Winterlong wrote: »

Watch ceefax page 302.

Football ???

cml387 · 02-06-2017 08:37PM

Play cards.
It was never my thing but my parents wold quite often go to a friends house for a game of 25. They could last till 3 in the morning.

Maybe it still happens but i've never heard of it.

LordSutch · 02-06-2017 08:38PM

Replacing the ink cartridge in your pen.

WHIP IT! · 02-06-2017 08:39PM

LordSutch wrote: »

...mind you, I did recently repair the washing machine thanks to Youtube (blocked filter) only accessible by removing back panel & undoing hoses. Found a couple of colour catchers stuck in the filter.

I bled my radiators with the help of a YouTube video and then patched up a few cracks in the plaster with some pollyfilla-type stuff... felt like Tommy f*ckin Walsh afterward to be honest! Delighted with life, I was

(*lifelong desk jockey and unhandiest man ever!*)

cdeb · 02-06-2017 08:41PM

cml387 wrote: »

Play cards.
It was never my thing but my parents wold quite often go to a friends house for a game of 25. They could last till 3 in the morning.

Maybe it still happens but i've never heard of it.

There was a group of people down my local playing cards for matchsticks one night. Included an aul dear of about 80 sipping on a glass of Guinness. Twas great to see.

rednik · 02-06-2017 08:41PM

Walk.

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