Remember when you could ...............

[FTE217]

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

Get paid $100 per week and afford to save half

Buy a pack of cigarettes, fill the tank and have enough left out of a $20 to buy dinner

And a few schooners


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[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Trendseeker

I honour my god, I serve my queen, I salute the flag? Marty might be referring to something else, but we used to recite that in infants/primary school in the late sixties. I think it was called “the pledge”.

Yeah. School pledge.



go to a circus.

wave at truckies and they waved back.

use a 40 channel SSB CB.

use a radar detector (well sort of, well not)

navigate using a UBD or Melways and navigate (boat) using only charts.

[FTE217]

school pledge maybe before my time for I don't recall reciting it but God Save The Queen was the anthem back in the day before we got our woeful own anthems that still need to be redone imo for its so dreary ho hum.

OH&S was do the right thing, listen what you've been taught and follow, be alert ask if your not sure.
Fire drill meetings haha was gtfo you idiot and think of others to follow the lead, you didn't need to be told and congregate at or on X outside - ofcourse your gonna get far enough away outside is pure common sense, oh hang your not meant to use that today because we've trained people they are idiots.
HR Dept was interviews with the Boss/owner or next in charge.
Meetings got action within days instead of one dept to another needs to review over a minor bs question and get back to you next schduled meet in 2 or 4wks time lol......

[T3rminator]

On the walk back home with your school mates, stop at a fish and chip shop, get a chico roll, some seafood sticks and chips, and still have left over pocket money to play street fighter 2 on the arcade machine.

[buggerlugs]

Play Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, 20 cents worth of chips and a Fanta.......

[ford71V8]

..and a game of Pinball while waiting for those hot chips.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by T3rminator

On the walk back home with your school mates, stop at a fish and chip shop, get a chico roll, some seafood sticks and chips, and still have left over pocket money to play street fighter 2 on the arcade machine.

and lust after the girl on the poster while you waited.

[FTE217]

they were total spew rolls, repeated on you like dogs breath lol refused to eat them after a few attempts incl the fake crab sticks.
Yep the advertising poster was a rippa for those days.

There you go another

NO more calender girls :(

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by FTE217

they were total spew rolls, repeated on you like dogs breath lol refused to eat them after a few attempts incl the fake crab sticks.
Yep the advertising poster was a rippa for those days.

There you go another

NO more calender girls :(

Always though the spring rolls were better anyway.

collected the Ownerdriver calendar girl posters myself or truck em up posters.

following on....

grid girls

cross girls

roller girls

Cav's already mentioned GC Meter girls.

natural girls. ??

Speed Shops

[Citroënbender]

Hitchhiking. Old enough here, to have thumbed rides, one memorably with a grazier in FJ40 ute complete with gun behind the seats and ammo sitting on the dash.

Ivan, Walter and Richard pretty much nixed those adventures for everyone.

[Charliewool]

Remember when you could go to the pub on payday (usually Thursday AND with cash!) and get hammered for 10 bucks?

[aussiblue]

Remember when you could rely on Australia Post to deliver your tracked parcels and paying for express post meant they not only did they arrived but they were delivered in a few day (they've lost my $300 express post parcel delivery).

[mad2]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

Remember when you could rely on Australia Post to deliver your tracked parcels and paying for express post meant they not only did they arrived but they were delivered in a few day (they've lost my $300 express post parcel delivery).

no .... i don't remember?. i've had items run over [truck tyre marks & twenty odd years ago] & lost a ute handbrake seat base.. turned up months later

[Rallye Sport]

Originally Posted by Charliewool

Remember when you could go to the pub on payday (usually Thursday AND with cash!) and get hammered for 10 bucks?

...and still be able turn up to work the next day

[.:4:.]

Remember when you could sit with your mates on stools at the bar at the pub, ashtrays also on said bar. Sink schooies then after 5 or 6 the one mate who is the lightweight goes to stand up to go to the toilet but stacks it because they haven't had to get up for beers or walk outside for darts?

[FTE217]

ok I'll put my hand up being a lightweight lol......
Could never keep up with the fellas, at least 2 to 1.
I was plastered !

Remember when the fuel crisis and strikes having odds and even plate fill days.
Quickly get Mums odd plate on to my evens.
Imagine the que's today and the anarchy occurring.

Remember when they started charging entry to Disco's haha

[T3rminator]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

Remember when you could sit with your mates on stools at the bar at the pub, ashtrays also on said bar. Sink schooies then after 5 or 6 the one mate who is the lightweight goes to stand up to go to the toilet but stacks it because they haven't had to get up for beers or walk outside for darts?

Ahhh we know that one, who then also happens to then get into a cab and go home, skipping his round..........yes we all have that one mate!

[Trendseeker]

…….not opt out of drinking the free milk delivered to primary school in small bottles. It would be sitting for a while in crates in the hot sun and then you had to drink it under the watchful eye of the teacher.

[MITCHAY]

Remember when there was no speed cameras. I'm only 37 but **** that

[marty351]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Remember when there was no speed cameras. I'm only 37 but **** that

I remember the blue boxes with the flash sitting proudly in front of the operator's Australian built vehicle on the roadside. Then they started getting sneaky by using slightly smaller blue boxes with the little flash.
I didn't take long for our Honourable members to make a whole new industry for the infringement enforcement agency.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Trendseeker

…….not opt out of drinking the free milk delivered to primary school in small bottles. It would be sitting for a while in crates in the hot sun and then you had to drink it under the watchful eye of the teacher.

Remember that well and being diagnosed as lactose intolerant a short time later. (Nice one public education system)



Park at a scenic spot in a panel van and not get hassled by the cops.
(no I can"t)

[Charliewool]

Originally Posted by roKWiz

and lust after the girl on the poster while you waited.

image

Prefer this one…
Worth a fortune nowadays!



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[ford71V8]

Stealing the milk (in glass) off the porches early mornings.

[MrEL]

Watching Kingswood Country.

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by Charliewool

Prefer this one…
Worth a fortune nowadays!
image


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Yep, the original Chiko poster with the chick sitting on the Vincent motorcycle, most fish n chips shops would have these posters on their shop walls back in the day.

Think I still have one put away somewhere.

[buggerlugs]

Put dog poo in a brown paper bag, leave it at someone's front door, knock on front door, light the bag then bolt................



Put 20 cents in a pinball machine or red pay phone with cotton sticky taped to the 20 cents. Hours and hours of fun and at the end, most times you could retrieve the 20 cents...........

[aussiblue]

…….not opt out of drinking the free milk delivered to primary school in small bottles. It would be sitting for a while in crates in the hot sun and then you had to drink it under the watchful eye of the teacher.

Then getting to school early to catch a bus to a sports carnival in another town and seeing a dog ****ing on the milk crate and suspecting it did that every day. And living on dairy farm more less fresh milk was the last thing I needed. I am now milk protein intolerant probably from over-exposure.

[aussiblue]

no .... i don't remember?. i've had items run over [truck tyre marks & twenty odd years ago] & lost a ute handbrake seat base.. turned up months later

Well it was certainly much more reliable last century especially before the 90's. I can go back to the 1950's with this.

[Trendseeker]

Originally Posted by buggerlugs

Put 20 cents in a pinball machine with cotton sticky taped to the 20 cents. Hours and hours of fun and at the end, most times you could retrieve the 20 cents...........

Wish I’d known about this trick back in the day.

[roKWiz]

Spot an exotic cars and think wow.



Sitting waiting for the bus yesterday at Paddington ($yd)

yet another Porsche, yet another Lambo, yet another Roller, Yet another same, same. There so common now.