You know you are OLD when you can remember........

[Sock Puppet]

they should bring back deadly earnest... i loved that show

Or at least Movie Macabre with Elvira

 

[IgotFrogs]

Oh the memorys .....
when my sister and i about 9 and 14 used to catch a bus and go into town to the swimming pool for the day take a $1 each to buy some lunch and catch a bus back home again ....

when it used to be safe for kids to play in the streets ,,,,,
when we used to say to mum going to so and so;s house and she would never fret that we were safe .....

 

[Ozzie Python]

god you lot are old :shock:

i remeber getting a tv that had a wireless remote control, it was awsome!

and the milk man always calling me "son" for some reason

 

[The Devil]

Getting kicked out of a country picture because I didn't stand when the national anthem and a pic of Lizzy was on the screen

 

[mysnakesau]

Deadly Earnest? Never heard of that...lol... I use to watch Black Beauty, Flicka, Salty the Seal, Flippa, Littlest Hobo, Lassie. Anything with animals were my favourite TV shows.

Use to cost 20 cents to go to local pool and even 20cents was hard to get out of my parents back then.

 

[shellfisch]

When tv went off air at like midnight each night and didn't come back on till morning............

 

[Chris1]

omg i feel so young,..BEST THREAD EVER!!!!!

 

[Darlyn]

All those missing cracker night can come up to Darwin, we still have it!!!!!
yah for us!
I used to have a beer with the last milkie in Camberwell.
If his horse got lazy and sat down he would light a newspaper on fire
and stick it under it's bum to get it moving again.
You certainly couldn't do that in downtown Camberwell these days (Thank god!)

 

[slim6y]

All those missing cracker night can come up to Darwin, we still have it!!!!!
yah for us!
I used to have a beer with the last milkie in Camberwell.
If his horse got lazy and sat down he would light a newspaper on fire
and stick it under it's bum to get it moving again.
You certainly couldn't do that in downtown Camberwell these days (Thank god!)

Is that because no one reads the newspaper anymore?

 

[Dipcdame]

...... waiting five to ten minutes for the ole b&w tv to 'warm up' before it started showing a picture, and watching the dot disappear when you turn the tv off!!
Chips (crisps) with a twisted piece of blue paper in them with salt in, to sprinkle over the crisps!!

 

[Dipcdame]

Getting up off the couch and walking all the way over to the TV to change channels. Only had two channels to choose from then going out of your mind when the 3rd channel started!

Walking across the road to see if you friend was home and if they weren't, staying anyway to chat to whoever was home untill you friend arrived.

Using the rotary phone to call someone and knowing their's and 20 other people numbers off by heart.

What's a "video game"?

Seeing your first video game on a Commodore 64. Waiting 10 minutes for the blooding thing to load!

Going outside right after breakfast and jumping on the trampoline until lunchtime then back on the trampoline untill dinner time.

Coming home at dusk with numb - green feet.

Mobile phone? Oh you mean those things on Star Trek?!

Eating whatever the hell you wanted

OHHHHHHh the memories!!!!

 

[The Devil]

(((((I can remember using a SLATE in primary school)))))


geez where was that neville? Bedrock primary school with fred flinstone and barney rubble


NO not quite THAT old, just sometimes feel it........

 

[norwich]

**** you buggers are making me fell old

 

[mysnakesau]

Yeah I don't remember slate. What did you use it for?

You know my Mum told me a story the other day when she was a little girl they were travelling to Woodburn from Newcastle, and had to travel through Telegraph Point. That narrow road of the main street of Tele Point use to be part of the Pacific Highway. You can still see double YELLOW lines in places and how long ago did they go from yellow to white.

 

[The Devil]

Yeah I don't remember slate. What did you use it for?

You know my Mum told me a story the other day when she was a little girl they were travelling to Woodburn from Newcastle, and had to travel through Telegraph Point. That narrow road of the main street of Tele Point use to be part of the Pacific Highway. You can still see double YELLOW lines in places and how long ago did they go from yellow to white.

Ah to be the tender age of 36 again.......slate was used in place of paper. You had one piece of slate that was about 250 to 300mm square and you could clean off what was written or you could turn it over and use the other side.

 

[wokka]

All those missing cracker night can come up to Darwin, we still have it!!!!!
yah for us!
I used to have a beer with the last milkie in Camberwell.
If his horse got lazy and sat down he would light a newspaper on fire
and stick it under it's bum to get it moving again.
You certainly couldn't do that in downtown Camberwell these days (Thank god!)

I can see it now: "milkman killed by exploding horse after a 'backfire'

 

[Southside Morelia]

I remember the last time the Cronulla Sharks were in a Grand Final....

Me and my brother had a remote control WAY before they were invented...it was a pool cue we used to push the channel buttons etc from the comfort of the lounge....

 

[cockney red]

I cant remember a thing!

 

[Banjo]

I can remember the Dunny man coming to empty the the dunny can from the toilet that was outside and saying "hang on mate, changing the can".
Also selling the afternoon Telegraph for 7 cents each after school so that I could earn enough to buy my first push bike.

 

[The Devil]

I remember the last time the Cronulla Sharks were in a Grand Final....

Me and my brother had a remote control WAY before they were invented...it was a pool cue we used to push the channel buttons etc from the comfort of the lounge....

You remember the Sharkies being in a Grand Final, didn't you tell me that was when they were using a dinosaur as a mascot. Man that's not old that fossilised