Name one thing from your childhood that children today wouldn't understand.

@InOtterWords Politically incorrect satire is around more now than it ever was lol

Rewinding a tape though, yeah that's a thing of the past.

@BlueMetalChick not so much in the UK

@InOtterWords With the advent of the internet, people can say all sorts of edgy shit they didn't used to be able to lmao

@Keepitsimple Sad, but true!

@WintaTheAngle Yes! The smell! ☺️

@SW-User You’re definitely overthinking the intention of the question, but I understand.

@WanderingThrough More like underthinking. Too lazy to name a few so I chalked it up to that. Still true 😚

@badminton I remember using encyclopaedias for school research, I loved them! And the library was like my second home.

@SW-User Oh! I know kids who do this.

@revenant I think that's still around but people call it cops and robbers now.

@BlueMetalChick are they allowed that ???😳

@revenant My best friend had a sibling who is still in middle school and he says they sometimes play cops and robbers.

@Eternity I don't think there is much danger of those who have water now ever running short except by reason of mismanagement. The problem is that those who are currently short of water are likely to remain so or have even less.

Unless the population near me goes up by a factor of ten I don't think I will ever be short of water. If all the water that falls on the kommune in which I live were collected we would have nearly eight tonne of water per person per day. The Norwegian average use is 0.2 tonne per person per day.

@DeWayfarer My mom has explained the party line phone to me and I vaguely understand. Such a bizarre concept to me. 😂

@WanderingThrough I was a kid myself at the time. Mid 1960s. I wasn't supposed to answer the phone. Of course I often did.

@DeWayfarer Haha, of course you did! I think most children would. 😂

@Beatbox34 Ah, people were always antisocial. It was just considered taboo back then so people had to pretend they didn't hate it.

@BlueMetalChick True but thing is I like and hate technology.

It's a bane and a boon to mankind. It changed human interaction a lot.

@Beatbox34 You ain't kidding. I absolutely love so many things about it but I also hate it for many reasons.

@SW-User Haha! YES!

@PirateMonkeyCabinet I still think most kids recognize those from cartoons.

@BlueMetalChick It does pop up in cartoons, I'll give it that... but there's also plenty of videos of parents giving their kids and teenagers the task of figuring out how to actually make a call and they usually struggle to understand how to operate it.

@PirateMonkeyCabinet It's like if you have a telegraph to someone in the 70's lol

@Muldoon they wouldn't?

@PhaqueYou maybe

How many kids drive a stick shift today. I'm thinking they aren't making many manual transmissions.
Landlines are for computers.

@Muldoon Interestingly enough, my friend’s son who is learning to drive has chosen to drive stick shift. He’s passionate about cars though.

@SW-User how so?

Kids today, I see, got grief all over.

Even with situations that should not be this day and age.

... but STILL are.

😐

@PhaqueYou I mean it’s not a common thing that children have experienced death of someone close and know what grief feels like

@SW-User it's not?

I guess in my experience it's common.

I feel bad for kids these days.

Most hardships should be avoidable but....

Seems we've gone backwards & that progress is a taboo.

@masterofyou Thankfully there wasn’t much for social media when I was a teenager.

@Thespis I miss Blockbuster. 🥺

@revenant I fucking miss Blockbuster.

@BlueMetalChick so do I. They sure had much greater selection

@Curvyvixen I’ve literally had teenagers ask my why I’d memorise a phone number. 😂

@SW-User and the first time.e you hear the news of something is from the newspaper.

@InOtterWords yeah. We had to be silent while my Dad read it and I just remember the sound of it. Makes me all nostalgic

@Wanderer1964 so interns at the Smithsonian wouldn't?

@travelguy01 Yes! Haha.

@V00doo Yes! I don’t think you can fully comprehend it unless you’ve had to use it.

@FullMetalFatPig Walking to school is still fairly common. I don't think it's as common as it used to be though, because attending a neighborhood school isn't as regular as it once was.

Being outside until dark and after with no supervision is MORE common now than used to be.

@BlueMetalChick You wouldn't know by hometown - attending a neighbourhood school, is still common - but even on a spring afternoon, hundreds of people line up to pick up their child? The school possibly holds 200 kids? I was on a bus route, in a different school, where they relied on busing mostly (down the street, they still do) .. so a school designed where students could walk home, now how's hundreds of parents lined, idling their vehicle, etc. Canada wonders it's environmental issues and "needs".