Speaker 1: We want to know one of those useless but nostalgic
Speaker 1: skills that you have that are no longer in use
Speaker 1: now that you want to pass on.
Speaker 2: To this generation.
Speaker 1: Like when the things called cassette tapes and you used
Speaker 1: to get a pencil and rewind it with using a
Speaker 1: pencil sticking in the middle and then spin it around.
Speaker 3: That's if all the stuff came out yes or the
Speaker 3: cassette yes came out of the cassette.
Speaker 1: Also the using the perfect skill, your ninja skills, and
Speaker 1: when a commercial came on the telly, you timed your
Speaker 1: run to the bathroom or to get a snack, just
Speaker 1: to get back before the TV show you're watching started again.
Speaker 3: Before TV shows could be paused yes or rounded forward.
Speaker 4: Also, you couldn't skip the ads.
Speaker 1: You couldn't skip Yeah, you had to right wait till
Speaker 1: the right ad came on, going okay, cool, and know
Speaker 1: how long this lasted for and you'll be able to
Speaker 1: jump over the couch, go to the bathroom and then
Speaker 1: back even if there.
Speaker 2: Was a few more commercials before.
Speaker 5: He Hate Saturday started.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, run back and grab a drink from the
Speaker 1: fridge and then head back to the couch to continue
Speaker 1: watching what are those skills that you can use and
Speaker 1: they can bring back.
Speaker 5: I was very good at tetris, Yeah, very good.
Speaker 3: I used to sometimes think, as I was sitting there
Speaker 3: on my game boy that if there was an Olympic
Speaker 3: version of tetris, like I could actually go. It was
Speaker 3: the one sport I was good at.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I really really believed in myself.
Speaker 2: You're really good at it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how would you go?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: I still go. I love Tetris. I absolutely love tetris.
Speaker 3: So you get set the nerves and so I've tried
Speaker 3: to use that later in life for like packing skills. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because you've gotta and then you sing the song at
Speaker 3: the same time.
Speaker 5: Those times you need to pack colored blocks.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure there would be, because like playing Call
Speaker 1: of Duty and video game online, they have massive competitions.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure there might be.
Speaker 5: I do have the app on my phone.
Speaker 2: A competition out there that you can play tetris.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine the people there? Oh my gosh, wow,
Speaker 5: the smell.
Speaker 2: I can use a Refordex, okay.
Speaker 3: I tried to explain to my kids the other day
Speaker 3: what a Refordex was, okay, because we were using Google gup.
Speaker 5: I said right, get in Google apps. I don't know
Speaker 5: where I'm going.
Speaker 3: And I said, when we were younger, we used to
Speaker 3: have a book that had They were like what and then,
Speaker 3: but how do you do that when you're driving?
Speaker 5: And I seriously cannot remember how we did it all.
Speaker 1: I remember because I was working in the cars before
Speaker 1: I had the job with you guys here, and we'd
Speaker 1: have the Refordex that'd be in the side door. You'd
Speaker 1: open it up and you go, Okay, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go here, here, here, And so you'd map out your
Speaker 1: the whole day on the Refordex and then put little
Speaker 1: markers in there so you got to go here and
Speaker 1: then open it up.
Speaker 5: But how dangerous was that? We were driving and reading
Speaker 5: a map at the same time.
Speaker 2: Over?
Speaker 6: Well, come on, I would always pull over. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 6: no way, no way off. So we want to know
Speaker 6: you're useless an outdated skill, Mandy?
Speaker 2: For what yours?
Speaker 7: Playing elastics?
Speaker 5: Oh very much?
Speaker 2: Were you very good at it? Mandy?
Speaker 7: I could get up to waste tight.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Was that before supporting bras as well? Mandy? Because I'm
Speaker 5: not you and I might have an accident. And if
Speaker 5: we try that tomorrow.
Speaker 7: And I need flippers and my other skill was collect
Speaker 7: calling to let my mum know to come and pick
Speaker 7: me up with Actually I used to say, that's what
Speaker 7: your mom's name is. Hi, mum, come and pick me
Speaker 7: up at Astra Affairs, and that was your name, so
Speaker 7: just hang up.
Speaker 2: Ah, nice, that's fantastic.
Speaker 4: We used to do three rings, so it was always
Speaker 4: if you call from a payphone, you get money in
Speaker 4: three rings and then hang up to get the money back.
Speaker 4: And three rings meant it was time to come pick
Speaker 4: them up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I know where you were just a random paper.
Speaker 5: But this is a fun game. Now Dad, find me
Speaker 5: three rings? No, hang on, he saved your forty cents.
Speaker 5: That's nice. Greg from Ashmore? What is your outdated skill?
Speaker 6: Learning or sorry? Researching using an encyclopedia?
Speaker 5: And yes were the days.
Speaker 1: My mom still has her encyclopedia. And I remember the
Speaker 1: day when the guy came and he had like a
Speaker 1: suit time and he was selling the encyclopedias.
Speaker 3: Ours was green, ours of red, and it would sit
Speaker 3: in the green cupboard. I don't know if that was
Speaker 3: just a theme in that room, the green room.
Speaker 5: But.
Speaker 3: I still remember the smell of the encyclopedia. I thought
Speaker 3: it was but It was years later when Dad moved.
Speaker 5: Out lots of lights and stuff again big bill.
Speaker 4: Sorry, thank you Greg, trying to paint the picture.
Speaker 2: What's the use of outdated skill you have, guys.
Speaker 6: I don't know if i'd even call it a skill,
Speaker 6: but it'd have to be drawing that one s with the.
Speaker 7: Three lines of the top and.
Speaker 5: The three lines at the bottom.
Speaker 7: Everybody had to learn how to do it, but no
Speaker 7: one knew why.
Speaker 2: We spoke about that last week.
Speaker 5: I still remember doing it at bellby Puck State School.
Speaker 2: Now, when you do the S, do you do a
Speaker 2: point all rounded?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: Round has to be pointy, They've got to be straight lined.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, big t red for the driver.