[Closed] Things you used to do in the olden days?

The Inbetweeners movie BTW. I had to weigh up getting up off my fat arse or paying a fiver to stream it

Ride a bike with 26" wheels. And another with 3*9.

(Had to be first)

Also sometimes watch broadcast TV.

Put a record on..

Do jumps and drops

Mix tapes.

Dance like a loon on a weekend before falling drunkenly asleep to awake in strange(rs) gardens.

I'll never tire of jumping off kerbs! 😆

I used to create nostalgia threads on web forums. Of course back then we called them bulletin boards, and oddly they were more feature rich than STW.

Take things seriously

Wet myself and puke everywhere.

Oh, hang on...

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Brush my hair...

binners - Member

I'm about to put a DVD on

Amateur!
I'm about to watch Tommy on VHS.

I'm about to watch Tommy on VHS.

Play sports hard for hours and not feel like I was going to die for the following day or so!

Sleep during the day

Chapeau PP 🙂

Feel good about living in the UK.

read paper newspapers

Lay ins.
Anything past 9 am and I feel like I've wasted the day.

Look at the weather on ceefax

Wait 'up to 28 days' for delivery

Pour milk out of glass bottles

Make tiny Frisbees from drink can ring pulls and fire them using the integrated launcher.

180mph on public roads on 1000cc bikes.... I think back now with a slight shudder of "WTF were you thinking boy"

I still recall an overtake on my Ducati 916 where a mate was about to get held up on the A5 by a car ahead, so i went the opposite way around a 200m central reservation at 160+ ! It was slightly ropey to say the least !

go caving in the afternoon whilst the pub was shut

Loading cd changer in car. (has Bluetooth audio as well)

Writing a cheque.

Using the landline to make a call.

Using the laptop to surf the Internet.

Unlocking the car with a key (flat keyfob battery)

That's my recent experiences

Loading cd changer in car. (has Bluetooth audio as well)

Writing a cheque.

Using the landline to make a call.

Using the laptop to surf the Internet.

Unlocking the car with a key (flat keyfob battery)

That's my recent experiences

Are you me?

I just used a pen and paper to play hangman with my eldest although when i was a lad we never had a sheet of paper about so we would use the back of a leftover roll of wallpaper.

zippykona - Member

Lay ins.
Anything past 9 am and I feel like I've wasted the day.

Nine!

Jesus, my Daughter slept in till 07:30 this morning, I woke up in a panic I was going to miss my flight - I don't even have any flights booked for today or any other day, I rarely fly - wtf?

Anyway, yes - when I was a teenager - Friday night Pub home for 1am (because I'm not nuts) Saturday work 8-4 Disco Nap, Pub / Club till 4am Sunday - sleep till 1pm, doze and watch T4 / black and white film till 6pm - Gym to sweat out all the booze and drugs. Monday - look like it never happened.

Nowadays, Friday night mong in a post working week haze, bed for 10pm up at 6 - do Dad stuff all day, Saturday night 3-4 beers maybe as much as 3 pints worth! Put to bed by the Wife because outcome uncertain if left to my own devices - up at 6pm - Bike to sweat out all the stress and acidic flavour of computers from my mind.

You named your daughter Jesus?

Are you me?

Going to footy at 3pm on a Saturday and paying a couple of quid at the turnstile.

So, the Baby Jesus is your daughter ??

How cool.

Yeah but we pronounce it as 'Hey-Zeus' like they do in Central America and aggressively correct anyone who doesn't get it right.

Ride a bike with 26" wheels. And another with 3*9.

If the olden days was last weekend, then amen brother.

Buy bread from Greggs

A couple of times a year I get some nookie with a woman I married.

Popping out to the video shop to rent a vhs video, then finding it wsnt on the shelf and moaning loudly about somebody not returing the only crappy copy the shop had.

Listening to olderpeople talk about the old days, and then suddenly realise im starting to become one of those older people talking about the old days.

Watty - in a similar style, the first time we went to Glastonbury (89) we only decided we were going, after someone suggested it in the pub on Thursday night. We drove down Friday morning and paid on the gate.

it was full of proper crusty hippies and dangerous scousers, and absolutely nobody called Tabatha from Notting Hill 😀

The other week me and Mrs Binners had an actual game of Scrabble, on an actual Scrabble board, not Words With Friends on an Iphone

The other week me and Mrs Binners had an actual game of Scrabble

Jeez man, you've only just married her, it should take years until the marriage hits that kind of low.

I still regularly watch DVD's and BluRays! I even have a LoveFilm subscription as I hate it when streaming occasionally drops the quality for a few seconds 👿

In the last few weeks I have:

Helped a neighbour set the valve clearances on his old Metro using feeler gauges.
Set up a bike with cantilevers and thumbies.
Played a cassette.
Bought a CD in a shop.
Used a landline phone at my parent's house.

Oh and this:

Listening to olderpeople talk about the old days, and then suddenly realise im starting to become one of those older people talking about the old days.

Ring the speaking clock.

Pore over the underwear section of a Grattan's Catalogue.

Build dens.

Just sit and listen to music without the guilt feeling that I should be doing something else.

IHN - You spend a week living with me. Believe me, a game as Scrabble is a highlight. Anyway, its stops her crying

😉

I've another,

Go on training road rides all over Shropshire and Mid Wales without a mobile phone. In fact, without anything much other than what I carry today on rides: puncture repair kit, pump, lever.

Going to footy at 3pm on a Saturday and paying a couple of quid at the turnstile.

and buy a Golden Goal, a Pukka Pie and cup of Bovril at Half time, and a copy of the Pink (or Green, depending or where you lived) sports paper to get the day's other results

I used to create nostalgia threads on web forums. Of course back then we called them bulletin boards,

I'm logged into a [url= http://www.mono.org ]bulletin board[/url] right now.

A couple of times a year I get some nookie with a woman I married.

Same here.

You have a lovely house, by the way.

He's been wondering where those Thundercats underpants came from.

Now he knows.

Not waiting 24 hrs to receive something I had bought!

Sit down & talk to my wife 🙁

Press one button to turn the radio on.

In the delightful world of convergent technology, I use my iPhone for radio in my kitchen. By the time I've turned on the bluetooth speaker, opened the radio app, clicked play, opened up iOS control centre and selected the speaker to Airplay the audio to, I've gone through 7 clicks/swipes! And that doesn't even include unlocking the phone!

<goes on Amazon looking for old-skool radios>

You can buy internet radios that work like a traditional radio but play well.. iternet radio stations.

work like a traditional radio

You mean I can press one button and be instantly listening to the radio?

Yes, as I understand it.

"Alexa...Play Radio 2 in Tune in" - No buttons

Thanks Perchy. I did wonder whether Alexa was one solution. I assume I could get an Echo Dot and hook up to my existing speaker...

I am off to buy a dvd as i cant find an [s]ill[/s]legal download, quite looking forward to the nostalgia of that and being in HMV, not been there in well over a decade.

I did wonder whether Alexa was one solution

It is. That's why we got one.

If you've not been in HMV for a while, then its all changed. In the olden days, it was full of CD's. Nowadays it's full of vinyl 🙂

Very occasionally I'll write a cheque, it's usually for something like wood or coal where the merchant hasn't the facility to do distance payments and I won't be at home when it's delivered so I'll leave them a cheque. The coal merchant now puts their bank details on the invoice so the next delivery I'll do via online bank transfer.

"Alexa...Play Radio 2 in Tune in" - No buttons

you don't even need to say "in Tune in".

"Alexa...Play Radio 2 in Tune in" - No buttons

Rather a vastly over-engineered solution for listening to Radio 2 though, eh?

Rather a vastly over-engineered solution for listening to Radio 2 though, eh

Agreed, but still less "over engineered" than this ...........

In the delightful world of convergent technology, I use my iPhone for radio in my kitchen. By the time I've turned on the bluetooth speaker, opened the radio app, clicked play, opened up iOS control centre and selected the speaker to Airplay the audio to, I've gone through 7 clicks/swipes! And that doesn't even include unlocking the phone!

and for not much more than the cost of buying a DAB radio

a DAB radio.....

Rather a vastly over-engineered solution for listening to Radio 2 though, eh?

Agreed....but this is STW and we have standards.

Agreed....but this is STW and we have standards.

I thought the standard was Radio 6 Music? But you'd need a DAB radio for that or some sort of internet streaming capability 🙂

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"Alexa.....conduct an internet argument on my behalf while I piss off down the pub"

I thought the standard was Radio 6 Music?

that's only the graphic designers, and painter and decorators.

Care.

Rather a vastly over-engineered solution for listening to Radio 2 though, eh?

Well it's cheap and it works, and that's also not the only thing it does.

Check the hedges for grot mags.

Smoke weed

Drink Newcastle Brown

and, because I still live in the olden days, use this in my truck

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Globalti
not been married long then??

shout at my wife not to pick up the phone cos I was on the internet.

Turn up at a place and time arranged without any phone calls from mobile phones.

Check the oil on my wife's car with a dip stick.. Mine doesn't have one and is done through the computer. I prefer the old fashioned method (any excuse to open the bonnet and look at the engine).

Turn up at a place and time arranged without any phone calls from mobile phones.

If find it hard to work out how that ever worked, but it did. If someone didn't show the rest of you just had to make an assumption about if they ever would and let them suffer for being rubbish at time keeping.

Writing essays or reports without the aid of google or wikipedia using actual books to find stuff out.

Send and receive personal e-mails, and wait for a reply because not everyone, in fact very few people had the internet at home then.

[i][b]...do you occasionally indulge yourself in?[/b][/i]

I think a few people missed (ignored) this bit. It would certainly be fruitless searching bushes for hedgepron these days. And good luck with the speaking clock - I can't even remember the number.

I used to always listen to music in the car on these lovely little things -
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Occasionally dig one out for a listen as still have a player in my hifi

Mr Overshoot. 🙁

Take care.

Well that would rule out globalti's suggestion

Ride a bike then - I occasionally do that.