This is a long, rambling, comprehensive thought train leading to a question.

My children will probably at some stage see a cassette tape. After their first arrest. Although it's easy enough to record and burn to disc or memory card, I'm guessing tapes are cheaper, quicker and easier.

I remember when I was a kid, at the caravan there was a little rabbit-eared black & white TV. At my nana's, and ols school tube telly that sat on the floor, and you went and twisted the knob to change the channel and shit, (all 10 of them, (0 being a channel!!)

Dad even had a VCR with a remote control that had a cord that ran from the remote to the unit. That remote had maybe 8 buttons! At the moment they've got about 40, and by the time my kids are in primary school, we'll just be waving a hand around to change the channel, change the volume, probably sneeze to set a fucking alarm clock.

My dog spilt coke on my phone the other day, and using the one I've borrowed, (colour screen, camera, games etc), I can't help but miss my full on organiser, awesome camera, USB port, GPS, AV plug... hang on... I remember being 14, and the coolest thing you could get for a phone was a coloured cover for a 5110!!

All this technology and snake still is one of the best games around! Nintendo Wii has revolutionised gaming, the Blu-Ray and HDMI output in PS has also brought things up to another level.

I love Nintendo 64 (never owned one, prob will buy one in the retro media mood I've been hit with lately), however I did have a Nintendo, Super Nintendo (an American version that wasn't compatible, however I used the gay purple controllers), and bring the funk back, a Gameboy colour.

Fuck things have gone a long way though. My kids will never see a Betamax (although no great loss), probably never touch a VCR, or a VHS tape, and I doubt if they'll even see a cd-rom!!!! I'll be breeding quickly if I get munchkins quick enough for them to even burn things on to DVD. Vinyl is in with a chance. although they may just own 2, if they're DJs, and blank ones just to authenticate live scratching via MP3 if they happen to be DJs!!!

They couldn't survive without a computer. I remember in primary school, we had the Macs with the green screens, the colour screens were for the high school kids.

I could honestly go all day, but I've already missed my point I think. So I guess I'll get to the question.
The 20th century was full of technological revolution. Cars, planes, space, media. I'm sure generations before us had little things that they think we missed out on. (60s and 70s, fuck I wish I grew up in that time, I wouldn't have been jumping on mushrooms with Mario let me tell you!).

What things do you miss, and what little things are you spewing your kids won't get to go through?

With technology like now, and the world at their fingertips well... it's useful, but I'm glad I wasn't born yesterday, and growing up in this world were everything is accessible.

Tight parker!

A big thumbs up to Carson Tully via Facebook. We're all aware that Guinness world record's aren't always practical, however, did we ever really think about it?

Check out the bloke above, awesome parking. Impressive. Great work. Hopefully he's getting a coffee, not heaps of shopping hey?

Skills so fantastic it might impress a bird enough to go home with him. Hopefully she brought her car because, well,

How the fuck do you get out of that parking spot?

Double or nothing. I pick the double too =o(

Prices everywhere, of course, vary. However this phenomenon I'm sure will remain the same suburb to suburb, state to state, country to country ffs.

At the Mickey D's on my way home, a cheeseburger is $2.10. I have one nearly every day. On the odd occasion I have a double cheeseburger.

You get double the cheese. Double the burger. Can't argue with the name. However, you don't get double the ingredients, nor does it take double the amount of labour to produce one.

Yet it costs $4.25.

Why the fuck are we prepared to accept this?

If it was double the price, you'd cop it, muttering "farken cunce" under your breath, but you'd cop it.

Before it became a menu item, you could order it, and it did not cost you double. Just the set price for the extra patty and cheese. That's fair.

I guess you're fucked.

Serious question. Sort of. There's a place in Austria called Fucking.

If you're from here, are you called a Fuck or a Fucker?

Memory blanks.

I do remember the odd thing or 2 from my childhood, but not in very vivid detail. However, there's quite a lot I don't remember. This applies to both long term and short term things. Sometimes you try and learn things and you struggle, they're just so hard to memorise.

I was listening to the radio this morning though, and someone mentioned "Hey, do you remember that show Trapdoor?" (below).

YES. YES. YES. I LOVED THAT SHOW!



I remembered exactly what it looked like, what channel it was on, and all sorts of things. It wasn't something I'd rush home to watch, or something the whole family would watch. Basically, it had no significance in my life, as with many other shows I watched as a child. So my question is...

Howcome some things you don't remember, and other seemingly insignificant things that you've not thought of on a regular basis, flood back in such vivid detail once mentioned??