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Post by poppy on Feb 27, 2018 23:02:49 GMT -5
Not having a tv remote usually just means it fell under the sofa somewhere. In this house it means TB has been in and put them back under the television. He apparently is the only one who can use the remotes all others are suppose to get up to change channels.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 28, 2018 6:09:24 GMT -5
YES, my cousin had a Creepy Crawlers set and I remember making them when I was over there. And those bicycles!
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Post by whothingie on Mar 1, 2018 2:53:11 GMT -5
Yes and Odenor which I used to calculate the butterfat content in the milk for the local dairy factory. Great was the delight when we got our first 10 digit adding machine. And remember 6 pages of fine A3 (elephant paper in those days) with carbon copy between. Really showing my age now. The highlight of one of our school visits (not that we had many) was to the nearest town and a visit to see the phone switchboard as in Liisa's post, and of course the formal visit to the dairy factory. Most of which was unnecessary as we were in and out of the factory on a daily basis when back on the farm either with school friends who were part of that fraternity. Well before the days of tankers. For a while our circumstances were a bit weird as my widowed mother was an epileptic so while she could drive the tractor on the farm she couldn't drive it across the road to the factory, and was petrified of horses so for about 12 months I hitched the horse and dray, she rolled the cans onto the dray, and I drove down the track across the road to the factory, the men unloaded and I drove back and unhitched before school while she continued with the farm work by tractor. Then they found medication that stopped the fits and she got her licence back. Wouldn't be allowed now and probably shouldn't have been then but no one stopped us as technically it wasn't illegal. Don't ask me why one of the factory staff didn't wander over and drive the tractor for her.... at 11 you don't ask the whys you just do it.
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Post by groo on Mar 1, 2018 4:11:41 GMT -5
I think that beats almost anything that any of us could say about our childhood years. I will, at least for a few days, be silent.
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Post by poppy on Mar 1, 2018 5:15:09 GMT -5
travelling along the great ocean road, sitting on hay bales in a tandem trailer, having fun singing whatever. being driven each week to club in a car full of kids - could be up to six squashed on the back seat - no seat belts. having strict rules in regards to trampoline use - this was at camp - at all times we were to have a person on each side watching and ready to catch if you flew off! You were never allowed to just jump off, it was sit on the edge then off, apparently you could break a leg by just jumping off. Having two on at one time was very risky. walking in the heat of the day with little or no sun protection. having tomato rubbed all over sunburn to take the sting out of it. Cooking yourself with baby oil to get a better sun tan!
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Post by whothingie on Mar 1, 2018 14:25:36 GMT -5
I think that beats almost anything that any of us could say about our childhood years. I will, at least for a few days, be silent. Don't Groo. Just because I had a weirdo upbringing for a while shouldn't stop you. It wasn't until in my late teens that I finally got the truth as to why she pushed herself and us past the point of stupidity to stay longer on that farm. My aunt (in law) enlightened me as my mother refused any comments.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 9, 2018 0:33:46 GMT -5
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Post by libbyh on Mar 15, 2018 22:32:54 GMT -5
When smart young things on TV quiz shows don't know obvious answers about some major event that happened prior to about 1980. "But I wasn't even born then" is their usual excuse, as though history only commenced on the day they were born.
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Post by Oweena on Mar 19, 2018 21:56:39 GMT -5
The latest gift I received? Something I've always associated with being used by old people.
Trekking poles.
The worst part is they're awesome. So that's (further) confirmation I'm old.
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Post by whothingie on Mar 19, 2018 22:26:41 GMT -5
When airline tickets were printed with red carbon on the back to carry through the details and you needed to watch like a hawk to make sure that the check in person didn't accidentally tear two out. Happened to a relative and it wasn't until quite late in a multi destination journey he realised he was one short.
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Post by rikita on Mar 20, 2018 4:14:07 GMT -5
how are trekking poles for old people? most people i know who use them are about my age ... and a. would like to have some, and she's pretty young (we found a broken one in a garbage on our journey home from the alps last year and she insisted taking it along and pretended to be using the two broken parts as two trekking poles) ...
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Post by fishface on Mar 20, 2018 4:43:07 GMT -5
Gah misread
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Post by groo on Mar 20, 2018 4:44:12 GMT -5
Yes indeed! The Memsahib and I have only recently started using them.
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Post by psw on Mar 20, 2018 7:38:10 GMT -5
I started using a single trekking pole when I was having some problems walking years ago to create an impression of an intrepid senior citizen rather than an old cripple with a cane.
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Post by Oweena on Mar 20, 2018 9:31:03 GMT -5
how are trekking poles for old people? most people i know who use them are about my age ... and a. would like to have some, and she's pretty young (we found a broken one in a garbage on our journey home from the alps last year and she insisted taking it along and pretended to be using the two broken parts as two trekking poles) ... Probably because the only people I see using them are my age or older. May be a regional thing.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 20, 2018 10:32:51 GMT -5
i saw people of many ages use them in hokkaido
i remember pay phones
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Post by psw on Mar 20, 2018 12:30:25 GMT -5
<<i remember pay phones>>
I remember long rows of phone booths in hotel lobbies and other public places. When I was a kid I would go down the line and check all the coin-returns for loose change. Sometimes I got quite lucky. Remember, in those days 5 cents would buy a popsicle or a candy bar or a pack of gum!
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 20, 2018 14:53:32 GMT -5
<<i remember pay phones>> I remember long rows of phone booths in hotel lobbies and other public places. When I was a kid I would go down the line and check all the coin-returns for loose change. Sometimes I got quite lucky. Remember, in those days 5 cents would buy a popsicle or a candy bar or a pack of gum! Oh yes, 5 cents or sixpence as it was here could buy you many things. Anyone else here remember the song, "I've Got Sixpence"? Looking at some of the images in this video brings back many memories.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 20, 2018 17:52:30 GMT -5
I remember pay phones, and having to carry around a card with the AT&T account number on it so I could charge long distance calls to it.
I also remember traveling for business with a laptop the size of a small child, a 9600-baud modem, and a length of cable and having to crawl around hotel room floors trying to find the phone plug in order to connect the modem via dialup.
I am not nostalgic for any of this.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 21, 2018 12:16:33 GMT -5
oh my god on one trip, i had to carry this humongous brand newi toshiba laptop! oh, just no! i had to fax daily reports to control freak boss.
i also remember sample cases & being the only girl in the business lounge
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 21, 2018 15:47:27 GMT -5
Do you remember not all that long ago when you would see people carrying around a black brick held against their ear? They were the "new" mobile phones of the day.
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Post by psw on Mar 24, 2018 16:31:54 GMT -5
Knowing I'm old: I'm getting ready to take my daughter out to dinner on the eve of her 50th birthday.
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Post by tinaja on Mar 24, 2018 17:32:52 GMT -5
You just commented on a FB post about a restaurant you discovered 40 years ago. Miracle it is still in business.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 24, 2018 23:04:57 GMT -5
there was still an automat when i moved to new york
i ate @ the woolworth's counter
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 25, 2018 5:58:10 GMT -5
there was still an automat when i moved to new york i ate @ the woolworth's counter My dad used to take me to the Automat when I was a kid, but he preferred the Chock Full o' Nuts counter. There was a Woolworth's with a lunch counter in the neighborhood where my office building is back in the 70s. Nobody believes me when I tell them that. It had a wooden floor.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 25, 2018 9:51:26 GMT -5
Of course the catch with writing that is that I now have the Chock Full O' Nuts commercial jingle stuck in my head.
Chock Full O' Nuts is the heavenly coffee. Heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee. Chock Full O' Nuts is the heavenly coffee! Better coffee a millionaire's money can't buy!
Lordy
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Post by tzarine on Mar 25, 2018 13:33:59 GMT -5
ohmygod! chock fullo nuts
how i miss those counters went to the woolworth's counter in san francisco & the one on 42nd street. loved the waitresses who had been there since the war it seemed
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 25, 2018 13:38:35 GMT -5
what is an automat?
I don't think we had those, we also didn't have drive in movies... my sad upbringing
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 25, 2018 13:42:40 GMT -5
You have them now in Amsterdam! It's those places that are pink and white and you get a nasty little sausage by opening a little door... what is the name? *looks it up*
Oh right: FEBO!
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 26, 2018 13:57:58 GMT -5
Well Febo is red and yellow, but yes. This one offers sate croquette, beef croquette and veal croquette. The tagline "de lekkerste" means "the most delicious", but they don't define what of.
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