Modern socioty has made us a bunch of lazy fackebook fanatics. What things don't you / have not done for a long time, and could you still perform the taks. Plus could the younglings on the site perform the same taks?
To start.
wire a three pin plug
change a pane of glass using the putty method
change the exhaust on the car
lol yes to the fisrt 2 but not to the last but never could enyhow but could on a bike lol did the plug last week the glass in the door adout a month ago
i can use a keyboard without a mouse using the buttons along the top .... yep all them "F something" ones!!!
i can also do the top two above and a bike exhaust but never done a car one!
I can put a stack of singles on a record player and know how to make them play one at a time.... oh how useful that skill is .....
cant think of anything else right now!!
so you used to walk to shops
you used to pay to have hair cut
and you used to eat healthy food?
now its.... bike to shop?, no hair cut and burgers all the way??
Unwrapping the paper off chips and peeling those ones that get stuck Miss that But could easily do it again
I could fit a pain of glass with putty, I used to love the smell and would drive my garndad nuts by leaving my finger prints in it
agree with Shell about the texting family one....think we're all guilty of that.
Just thought of one.... putting a terry nappy on a baby without sticking the safety pin in the baby
and Chris re sex its like riding a bike babes
ewww well while we are at it with the pin... which i can do... there was also the wonderful nappy bucket....
we had a twin tub washing machine in our shared house when i was a teen - put stuff in top put lid on .. then move it all to other compartment put lid back on and it spun it, using wooden tong things!! wow, super technology....
I still stick me fingers in putty if given half the chance now hazelnut .... tis greeat
plug done loads, glass a few times, exhaust put one on a 2a landrover(room enough to crawl under no jack needed)!
change a tyre car or bike(no innertube any more)
talk to someone who isnt looking a somekind of screen every minute
put a roll of film in a camera
Eat a marathon not a snickers, watch a black and white TV with 'gasp' only two channels....then 3 and finally some sex crazed channel as my old dad called (CH 4) ha ha...
I can take a map and a compass, navigate across the hills and actually camp and walk
Read books.. a forgotten pleasure...younsters..they watch the movie..
smoke,fart in other peoples bathrooms and think it hilarious,the hand jive,forgive without revenge,complain that no- my meal wasn't alright,kick people when they're already down.........head butt cashpoints,take off i pod going round bloody tesco,larf at anything on telly,remember to take my tablets like a good boy(WUF),yours victor meldrew aka jinx57
figure out whats wrong with my car or bike without the aid of a laptop.......and mostly be able to fix it
can also read a map and know how to use a compass.
darn socks and sweaters! lol
write proper english without reverting to text speak! arghhhhh!!!!! i hate that