My daughter (5) got a Scoubidou bracelet set for her birthday, and it has one of these as a charm. My wife spent 10 minutes trying to explain what it is to the kids. They still don’t get it! “You have turn it over? And you can’t choose a song?”
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I bet there’s a fair proportion of people on here who don’t know what it is either!
Remeber how shite the headphones were? Felt like a pair of boom mics on a sharp wire
Where’s my damn pencil? Or my Bic biro…
You *can* choose a song, you just have to press the fast-forward button 10 times until you find the song you want, then the rewind button a few times when you go past the start. Easy.
Thanks for making me feel old as I have no clue what the hell a Scoubidou bracelet is, and then making me feel even older by sharing that your kids don’t understand the workings of a cassette tape.
I’m only 36.
Embarrassed for all these old boomers in here not knowing Scoubidou.
Scoubidou Toilet is a top tier meme. Get with the programme you fossils.
You can however put a pencil in one side and spin it to rewind it. Try doing that with Spotify.
Sounds like an opportunity to buy them a cheap tape player for christmas. They still make new ones, though there is only 1 mechanism being made so the cheapest and most expensive new players have mostly the same internals
Then for some unfathomable reason, you’ve been listening to a song and then it sounded underwater and then you’d hear the dreaded sound of the tape unravelling in the machine you’d run to it but it was all too late.
“Back in my day we had to download and burn mp3s from limewire to a thing called a CD”
“Yes ok grandma, let’s get you a nice cup of tea”.
I remember, during an exasperating moment of hunting for the liner notes and fast-forwarding/rewinding through the tape, how it would be so neat to just be able to pick the song I wanted.
It *is* neat, however I do still like to play an album all the way through instead of having an algorithm/shuffle dictate what’s next.
Next level is explaining how mixtapes were made. Children of today will never understand how hard we ancients (I’m 34) had to work to make a playlist
i’m 19 and used to make scoobies all the time, also got my (now 11) year old cousin into making them! the semi transparent glittery wires were my favourite to make the bracelets with
I’ll just say it, reminds me of a cassette tape
I’ve never heard of Scoubidou it sounds like the toilet thing had a baby with scooby doo
Loved making scoubidou keyrings and then begging my mum to use her lighter to melt the end to make it look nicer
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If they don’t get it after having had it explained, they might just be thick.
A what bracelet?
Tell her it records music on sellotape and rust.
The name Scoubidou just pulled me straight back to Year 7 – I had no idea those were still a thing
https://preview.redd.it/uswc874hshzf1.png?width=498&format=png&auto=webp&s=8caf9d11ee5694ce850d396b024b1c3451a14099
Remeber how shite the headphones were? Felt like a pair of boom mics on a sharp wire
Where’s my damn pencil? Or my Bic biro…
You *can* choose a song, you just have to press the fast-forward button 10 times until you find the song you want, then the rewind button a few times when you go past the start. Easy.
Thanks for making me feel old as I have no clue what the hell a Scoubidou bracelet is, and then making me feel even older by sharing that your kids don’t understand the workings of a cassette tape.
I’m only 36.
Embarrassed for all these old boomers in here not knowing Scoubidou.
Scoubidou Toilet is a top tier meme. Get with the programme you fossils.
You can however put a pencil in one side and spin it to rewind it. Try doing that with Spotify.
Scooby?
https://preview.redd.it/hdiaup8zwhzf1.jpeg?width=2463&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6badcf17497d6d7f29bf10fa1b9640ec3fa65d30
Sounds like an opportunity to buy them a cheap tape player for christmas. They still make new ones, though there is only 1 mechanism being made so the cheapest and most expensive new players have mostly the same internals
Then for some unfathomable reason, you’ve been listening to a song and then it sounded underwater and then you’d hear the dreaded sound of the tape unravelling in the machine you’d run to it but it was all too late.
https://preview.redd.it/aor4tl7w0izf1.jpeg?width=268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29506b6eaf8d4de53f28cebb9f0c3b02b7406540
I was baffled but I realised its just because we called them scoobies and I never learnt the proper name
Haha, LOL, I never even considered that the older generation might not know what Scoubidous are! So a post to catch people at both ends out!
Oh scoubidous, the loom bands of the early 2000’s! I recently uncovered my old collection in the loft. Can’t find them right now though
https://preview.redd.it/ni8bjckf5izf1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4b64e20805e880347e1142ddc7631d5fab23051
Banana badly needed, is it near or far away..??
“Back in my day we had to download and burn mp3s from limewire to a thing called a CD”
“Yes ok grandma, let’s get you a nice cup of tea”.
I remember, during an exasperating moment of hunting for the liner notes and fast-forwarding/rewinding through the tape, how it would be so neat to just be able to pick the song I wanted.
It *is* neat, however I do still like to play an album all the way through instead of having an algorithm/shuffle dictate what’s next.
Next level is explaining how mixtapes were made. Children of today will never understand how hard we ancients (I’m 34) had to work to make a playlist
i’m 19 and used to make scoobies all the time, also got my (now 11) year old cousin into making them! the semi transparent glittery wires were my favourite to make the bracelets with
I’ll just say it, reminds me of a cassette tape
I’ve never heard of Scoubidou it sounds like the toilet thing had a baby with scooby doo
Loved making scoubidou keyrings and then begging my mum to use her lighter to melt the end to make it look nicer
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