Things people don't do anymore!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-06-2017 08:42PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Replacing the ink cartridge in your pen.

Still done. Hence cartridges are still readily available in stationers.

pawrick · 02-06-2017 08:42PM

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.

As a family we still do this but only at Chrismas get togethers, it was an annual tradition for us which usually resulted in claims of cheating and people not speaking until the following Christmas.

pawrick · 02-06-2017 08:43PM

Borrow milk/sugar from the neighbour

LordSutch · 02-06-2017 08:44PM

Hadley Poor Software wrote: »

Still done. Hence cartridges are still readily available in stationers.

Really?

I had no idea they were still on the go..

Burial. · 02-06-2017 08:44PM

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.

Still popular among countryside community centres. There's weekly 45 and bridge nights in the locals ones here. House to house games are rare alright though. We'd still play 45 with the neighbours at Christmas. Like you say it'd last until very late until you were too drunk and tired to see the cards.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-06-2017 08:47PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Really?

I had no idea they were still on the go..

Absolutely. And bottles of ink in Blue, Black, Red, or Green.

cml387 · 02-06-2017 08:48PM

pawrick wrote: »

As a family we still do this but only at Chrismas get togethers, it was an annual tradition for us which usually resulted in claims of cheating and people not speaking until the following Christmas.

I never did play much, mostly scared of the post mortems.

"Jesus, why did you put down the queen when you knew the play was coming into him?
"You should have played your five last"
"Why did you renege?"

James 007 · 02-06-2017 08:49PM

Rewind the tape cassette using a HB pencil as the tape recorder slows up 2/3 the way through the rewinding process

MysticMonk · 02-06-2017 08:54PM

LordSutch wrote:

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

My dad had a Spanish windless arrangement using washing line and sticks to hold the engine in place.
NCT these days are too picky

Wibbs · 02-06-2017 08:56PM

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Use the indicators on their car to indicate where they are f?cking going.

Worn polished proof I do. And don't drive a Beemer.

WHIP IT! wrote:

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!*)

Yay! 0/

bodhrandude · 02-06-2017 10:01PM

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

My brother used to tape the charts from the radio, this was before cassette recorder/radio machines. so my brother had a single cassette player with a microphone taping the radio. Anyway one of his tapes is interrupted with my mother coming into the room and shouting 'Jim! Get down for yer dinner chrissake.' we were laughing our heads off when we would play back that tape. Sadly haven't owned a cassette machine since 2006.

purplecow1977 · 02-06-2017 10:10PM

Frantically scribbling down lotto numbers when they appeared after Winning Streak.

Sleepy · 02-06-2017 10:20PM

Make compilation tapes / CDs for friends or girlfriends.
Watch ads on television

I still do a bit of car maintenance and do a lot of household DIY. With the information available online and the likes of the DIY forum here on boards you really can save yourself a fortune.

Stigura · 02-06-2017 10:21PM

Whistle.

indioblack · 02-06-2017 10:22PM

pawrick wrote: »

Borrow milk/sugar from the neighbour

Back then people had less - and often gave more.
Mind you, we had one neighbour who never came round to borrow - she just sneaked over and nicked the bleeding bottles of milk.

gitzy16v · 02-06-2017 10:35PM

Stigura wrote: »

Whistle.

I work alone most of the day....I love to whistle.

NickNickleby · 02-06-2017 10:41PM

Burial. wrote: »

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

What, EVERY month???:eek::eek::eek:

LirW · 02-06-2017 10:41PM

Living around the corner of their parents because it's too expensive :pac:

johnnyrotten · 02-06-2017 10:59PM

http://www.pagesfromceefax.net/

SimpleDimples · 02-06-2017 11:04PM

Take personal responsibility for anything

02-06-2017 11:16PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Make compilation tapes / CDs for friends or girlfriends.
Watch ads on television

.

I still make compilation CDs.
And watch ads on television.

02-06-2017 11:37PM

This thread title reminds me of the thread here in 2009/2010 which asked "Things people don't say anymore" and a few posts in some wag says "I'm off to work". Hehe.

Up there with the reply to the "Worst thing you've ever done thread" - "Yer Ma". Hehe.

wistfuleyes · 03-06-2017 12:01AM

Use telephone boxes/public telephones
Buy penny sweets
Use big paper phonebooks
Be force-fed liver for dinner
Go to roller discos
Use 'Sun-In' on your hair
Use the iron to straighten your hair

beertons · 03-06-2017 12:04AM

Fix things. If it stops working, it gets binned and they buy another.

Filmer Paradise · 03-06-2017 01:56AM

Doing 'risky' things.

Fellas mowing the lawn/drilling a hole/climbing a ladder/wiping their hole, without being kitted out in asbestos suit/safety goggles/steel toe-caps & a Hi-Vis.

Fag in the middle of the mouth seemed to ward off all evil/danger in days gone by.

Filmer Paradise · 03-06-2017 02:01AM

beertons wrote: »

Fix things. If it stops working, it gets binned and they buy another.

This is one thing I feel passionate about.

Lots of appliances in my house working fine well past their 'design life'.

Lucy8080 · 03-06-2017 02:10AM

Get educated by a male teacher (primary school,especially).

I think boys are missing out a lot, these days.

ardinn · 03-06-2017 02:17AM

Wibbs wrote: »

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?

Thats when engines were not covered in sensors - A mechanic doesnt even know how to fix a car anymore = he plugs it in to a computer - it says whats wrong, he changes the parts!

gormdubhgorm · 03-06-2017 03:49AM

1) Nobody dies anymore - people only pass away or pass on.

2) Nobody get's fat anymore - they just have a few extra pounds

3) It has been ages since I heard of a fat person who died

Fuzzytrooper · 03-06-2017 08:36AM

Pistols at dawn. Ah for simpler times

Things people don't do anymore!

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