Things the next generation simply won't understand

[jpx2rk]

Bench seats in your parents car that you borrowed on Friday/Saturday nights for that hot date (no tats or muffin tops).

[Erich]

Some may have this with remote acreage, but the idea of not just turning on the faucet would be foreign too many 

[Erich]

cold war drills thru the early 80’s. subdue dropping the big one and duck and cover would (some how) save you.

[gun sane]

[Erich]

One of my favorites from when I was a kid. Spinning around in circles while flyin a Cox glow plug P-40. marginally safer for bystanders than lawn darts 

[TripleGGG]

[TripleGGG]

[TripleGGG]

11 minutes ago, Erich said:

One of my favorites from when I was a kid. Spinning around in circles while flyin a Cox glow plug P-40. marginally safer for bystanders than lawn darts 

Some great times

[NoBanStan]

How I spent most of my time at my grandparents farm.

[gregintenn]

4 minutes ago, TripleGGG said:

Sparkomatic! There's a name I haven't seen in years. Right next to Jensen.

[gregintenn]

Just now, NoBanStan said:

How I spent most of my time at my grandparents farm.

We lived on a creek when we first got married. Our fist son spent every day the weather let him in the creek. I swear he must have thrown every rock in the creek to the other side at least once. He grew to be a pretty good baseball pitcher.

[NoBanStan]

1 minute ago, gregintenn said:

Sparkomatic! There's a name I haven't seen in years. Right next to Jensen.

Magnavox.

Brings back memories of having to catch your favorite song on the radio so you could record it on tape. Not just any tape either. It was a tape you didn't like anymore, so you stuck paper in the holes so it could be overwritten.

[gregintenn]

3 minutes ago, NoBanStan said:

Magnavox.

Brings back memories of having to catch your favorite song on the radio so you could record it on tape. Not just any tape either. It was a tape you didn't like anymore, so you stuck paper in the holes so it could be overwritten.

You'd call and request a song and wait patiently with your finger on play and record until you heard the first note.

[Erich]

you were nobody in high school during the early 80’s if you didn’t wear these with your 501’s

[NoBanStan]

2 minutes ago, Erich said:

you were nobody in high school during the early 80’s if you didn’t wear these with your 501’s

I'm pretty sure those are probably back in style. But remember, this thread is about stuff the kids won't understand!

[TripleGGG]

[NoBanStan]

 

[NoBanStan]

1 minute ago, TripleGGG said:

Maybe we need to airdrop these down south like the liberator

[OldIronFan]

[OldIronFan]

Music Videos on MTV

3 channels and no remote control on a console TV

Cable Box with a rotary knob/dial 
(and flipping that rotary dial back and forth quickly to try to catch a glimpse of a channel you did not have!) 

Gas below $1.00 per gallon 
 

Edited January 31 by OldIronFan

[OldIronFan]

2 hours ago, DHF said:

3 Pedals is so rare now. Last time I took my wife's car to a place we needed to valet park I had to do it myself. The no one on the valet staff knew how to drive a manual. 

 

58 minutes ago, Erich said:

Some may have this with remote acreage, but the idea of not just turning on the faucet would be foreign too many 

Or a well in general even with an electric pump. My grandparents place still had 2 active wells, one with the above hand pump and one with an electric pump out in a small pump house. 

Edited January 31 by OldIronFan

[NoBanStan]

3 minutes ago, OldIronFan said:

Music Videos on MTV

3 channels and no remote control on a console TV

Cable Box with a rotary knob/dial 
(and flipping that rotary dial to try to catch a glimpse of a channel you did not have!) 

Gas below $1.00 per gallon 
 

Setting the first knob to 3 and then using the second to change the channel. That's even vague for me

[Garufa]

We talking Millenials, Gen Z, or what’s coming after cause those first two groups already don’t know.

Signed,

Gen X, The Last Generation.  

 

Edited January 31 by Garufa

[Erich]

[Johnny Rotten]