We are the last generation that will...

Able to read a clock

Remember a time before the internet and smartphones were invented.

Truly a defining point in human history.

...not be shocked by a church abuse or celebrity paedophile “scandal”.

Harry Palmr wrote: »

What is that thing we all take for granted that our children and certainly grandchildren will not know other than through history?

I'll start with - consume a diet which largely consists of food and drink not developed in a laboratory/giant vats of liquid-based mush made of CO2 and water. By the mid century we'll be consuming product that looks and tastes plausibly like "real food" once processed and packaged but is no such thing.

https://www.labiotech.eu/biotech-of-the-week/solar-foods-space-mission-finland/

They should be putting more effort into technologies and methods that can stop the food supply chain wasting 30% of food before we even get it. It's inevitable though that we'll be eating space rations sooner rather than later.

salmocab wrote: »

Able to read a clock

I think this is frighteningly accurate, in dealing with teenagers recently I am beyond shocked at their complete inability to read a clock, I am asked the time over and over despite there being a clock over my head, which I point to, only to be told that they don't understand that yoke and can I please just tell them what time it is.

Be able to check gender on a document without going through a hundred options.

Being able to work away without a condom.

Remember making hay, threshing corn, going to the bog to save turf. The above all mean nothing to my own children who are growing up in an urban environment. When I talk to them of walking to the village shop/post office to make a telephone call to my auntie in England for Christmas they look at me as if a character from Dickens has taken my place. The horror when I told them our school had outside toilets and we used to spend a day unloading a load of turf for the open fires was something to behold and as for the idea that we had only two television stations!

greenttc wrote: »

I think this is frighteningly accurate, in dealing with teenagers recently I am beyond shocked at their complete inability to read a clock, I am asked the time over and over despite there being a clock over my head, which I point to, only to be told that they don't understand that yoke and can I please just tell them what time it is.

How is that possible? They are thought in primary school. My 6 year old can tell the time on a regular clock and I would say all his classmates.

Harry Palmr wrote: »

What is that thing we all take for granted that our children and certainly grandchildren will not know other than through history?
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That it was a bit odd for a woman to have a willy.

Hear the lonely cry of a Curlew passing overhead.