I feel bad for the kids of today

Son Of A Vidic · 15-11-2014 12:51AM

hidinginthebush wrote: »

They'll also never know the sheer panic of ringing a girls house only for her parents to answer.

They'll also never know of the sheer skill required before the mobile phone era, as you organised a Saturday night on the town with your mates. Meeting up at predetermined times & locations with such perfect synchronisation, it would make Seal Team 6 proud.

hidinginthebush · 15-11-2014 01:06AM

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

They'll also never know of the sheer skill required before the mobile phone era, as you organised a Saturday night on the town with your mates. Meeting up at predetermined times & locations with such perfect synchronisation, it would make Seal Team 6 proud.

All executed while frantically finding an 18 year old to buy you drink, stashing the drink, before you all head home for the dinner

GLaDOS · 15-11-2014 01:06AM

Standard nostagia based clickbait

colossus-x · 15-11-2014 04:15AM

The only think I feel sorry about for kids is the amount of junk food they are being fed which is making them very sick. But at least they don't have to go to mass.

Nodin · 15-11-2014 06:11AM

colossus-x wrote: »

The only think I feel sorry about for kids is the amount of junk food they are being fed which is making them very sick. But at least they don't have to go to mass.

You actually went?

Adamantium · 15-11-2014 08:10AM

Waiting every month for favourite games magazine in the late 90's and early-mid 2000's and the demo/videos on the disc, going into newsagents and realising it won't be in for 2 more days and last months one is still there.

The standard of journalism was really bloody high, quite un-PC, the articles funny and insightful, and I think I learned how to write and read well from them as a kid/teenager, games were build word of mouth on their quality, now its all web-based hype and shockingly feels like I'm reading paid press releases.

It's like the difference old timeless Simpsons from the 90's and the new ones.

The tangiblity and the fact there was little to no internet made the hobby feel a lot more personal and special imo. I think my love of reading the magazines made me appreciate the quality of what I would soon buy much more, than if I played them alone.

I haven't played since 2010 really, kinda sad.

Irish Guitarist · 15-11-2014 08:33AM

Records are great. I think anyone who doesn't listen to an album as a whole is missing out. Most of the others things on that list aren't so great.

When I was about fourteen years old one of those Emmanuelle films was on Channel 4. Some of my friends had told me it was great and that there was a part where she combed her pubic hair on a train.

I thought this sounded great so I waited up until about 2.00 AM to record it. I had to rewind the video tape and it sounded like a Boeing 747 taking off. I decided it would be best to rewind it a little at a time so as not to make too much noise at once. It ended up taking ages to rewind and I missed about fifteen minutes of the film.

Then I heard my sister walking down the stairs. As the video had no remote control I had to pull up my trousers and jump up from the chair as quickly as possible to stop the video before she asked what I was recording. I got away with it but just barely.

So, no, teenagers aren't missing out on VHS.

cloud493 · 15-11-2014 11:13AM

VHS were the worse. Either some dick would snap the top bit off, so it was unplayable, or they'd snap the little thing off the bottom, so you couldn't record over it, and you were stuck with what you had.

Grayson · 15-11-2014 11:19AM

Tail Docker wrote: »

The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?

I dunno. They have laserdiscs on that list

Grayson · 15-11-2014 11:20AM

cloud493 wrote: »

VHS were the worse. Either some dick would snap the top bit off, so it was unplayable, or they'd snap the little thing off the bottom, so you couldn't record over it, and you were stuck with what you had.

Sellotape dude. just sellotape the bottom.

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/4d/4db9812d188f52fe482e5a73bca7950c5f52622438351f6f4a1a79a3bf13f9c7.jpg

cloud493 · 15-11-2014 11:42AM

...... My mind is blown, I never knew that.

Buona Fortuna · 15-11-2014 11:46AM

cloud493 wrote: »

...... My mind is blown, I never knew that.

All those wasted tapes

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 15-11-2014 11:48AM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I feel bad for children and young people today because they can't get away with anything without it being recorded and uploaded, shared, and judged for it, a permanent digital reminder of their naivety and occasional stupidity that follows them long into adulthood.

You never expereinced my mother's eidetic memory combined with her penchant for telling compellingly inapproriate (to me anyway) dinner-party stories...

Karl Stein · 15-11-2014 11:59AM

Queues at phone boxes.

To Elland Back · 15-11-2014 12:41PM

I'm 52 and there is nothing on that list that I miss.

However, I do feel sorry for the kids of today in that they have never seen a proper size Curly Wurly.

Grayson · 15-11-2014 12:45PM

Karl Stein wrote: »

Queues at phone boxes.

I remember queueing in the rain when i was at college. You could be stuck there for an hour waiting to call home just to say "Mum, could you stick a tenner in my account".

mad m · 15-11-2014 12:59PM

I wonder do kids do the glass of red lemonade with a lump of HB Vanilla ice cream thrown into it these days?.....yuuuuumm.

colossus-x · 15-11-2014 01:20PM

Nodin wrote: »

You actually went?

Oh my goodness me whatever are you trying to suggest lol

nyarlothothep · 15-11-2014 01:47PM

Walkmans were great though, you would listen to an album from start to finish more so and therefore would be able to appreciate it as a complete work. This skipping back and forth and listening to single downloads reflects the age of instant gratification which is to the detriment of music as an artform. Also games were better, the cutscenes were often pre rendered graphics or cheesy fmv and they were rewards for oft difficult levels so you really appreciated them. Now it's just boring cutscene after boring cutscene as game devs take themselves too seriously. Also VHS had a warm quality to it in comparison to DVD. The world without fb etc was a quieter one which gave more space for reflection and for the imagination to roam.

CelticRambler · 15-11-2014 02:44PM

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

They'll also never know of the sheer skill required before the mobile phone era, as you organised a Saturday night on the town with your mates. Meeting up at predetermined times & locations with such perfect synchronisation, it would make Seal Team 6 proud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p5lZHUrG7w

Tail Docker · 15-11-2014 02:49PM

Grayson wrote: »

I dunno. They have laserdiscs on that list

We didn't even have a telly ffs. Or a car. The old lad was "frugal"..and that's putting it mildly. Laserdiscs?? Some hope.

Grayson · 15-11-2014 03:28PM

Tail Docker wrote: »

We didn't even have a telly ffs. Or a car. The old lad was "frugal"..and that's putting it mildly. Laserdiscs?? Some hope.

Nobody had laserdiscs. they came out, they cost a fortune, they were huge, 12 months later DVD came out. They were so useless

Son Of A Vidic · 15-11-2014 03:32PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

When I was about fourteen years old one of those Emmanuelle films was on Channel 4. Some of my friends had told me it was great and that there was a part where she combed her pubic hair on a train.

I thought this sounded great so I waited up until about 2.00 AM to record it. I had to rewind the video tape and it sounded like a Boeing 747 taking off. I decided it would be best to rewind it a little at a time so as not to make too much noise at once. It ended up taking ages to rewind and I missed about fifteen minutes of the film.

Then I heard my sister walking down the stairs. As the video had no remote control I had to pull up my trousers and jump up from the chair as quickly as possible to stop the video before she asked what I was recording. I got away with it but just barely.

So, no, teenagers aren't missing out on VHS.

Only those of us who lived it can know your suffering.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 15-11-2014 03:39PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Records are great. I think anyone who doesn't listen to an album as a whole is missing out. Most of the others things on that list aren't so great.

When I was about fourteen years old one of those Emmanuelle films was on Channel 4. Some of my friends had told me it was great and that there was a part where she combed her pubic hair on a train.

I thought this sounded great so I waited up until about 2.00 AM to record it. I had to rewind the video tape and it sounded like a Boeing 747 taking off. I decided it would be best to rewind it a little at a time so as not to make too much noise at once. It ended up taking ages to rewind and I missed about fifteen minutes of the film.

Then I heard my sister walking down the stairs. As the video had no remote control I had to pull up my trousers and jump up from the chair as quickly as possible to stop the video before she asked what I was recording. I got away with it but just barely.

So, no, teenagers aren't missing out on VHS.

Ah, they are - the thrill of attempting to watch "Porky's" with friends on someone's rented VCR without their parents catching you is an enhancement of the experience that is never going to be replaced.

Grayson · 15-11-2014 03:48PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Ah, they are - the thrill of attempting to watch "Porky's" with friends on someone's rented VCR without their parents catching you is an enhancement of the experience that is never going to be replaced.

And for some reason the naughty bits were always grainy and fuzzy. Like someone had watched that bit, rewound, watched again, rewound, watched again....

MRnotlob606 · 15-11-2014 03:52PM

This reminds me of a Monty Python sketch.

C14N · 15-11-2014 08:16PM

I think you said "bad for" but meant "jealous of". Just looking at the first few things, it's all stuff I would gladly do without. I mean jeez look at this sh!te. VHS tapes, audio tapes, old video cameras, massive TVs with terrible picture, having to watch TV live (i.e. having to miss TV if something comes up), bad 3-D effects and static on the radio. Why would anyone miss that stuff? It's like hearing someone expressing dismay that today's kids will never know the joys of being treated with leeches or have the opportunity to experience polio.

Dempsey · 15-11-2014 08:24PM

CelticRambler wrote: »

"Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD."

I have a DJ in the house at the moment who says that vinyl is very definitely back in fashion! Of course the article is already five years old - how were they to know that their list would be obsolete by 2014!

David Guetta wishes he had a few vinyls

Dude111 · 16-11-2014 08:07AM

humberklog wrote:

Out of curiousity OP, how old are you?

Wow Im the same age you are buddy

I feel bad for the kids of today

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