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Post by groo on Feb 24, 2024 16:00:08 GMT -5
The people across the road from us even had a cow.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 24, 2024 16:09:06 GMT -5
There were no farms near where I lived as a kid, but there was one called Sherwood Farm that was near my grandparents' house, a couple miles away; they had chickens and turkeys and such. Now if you search "Sherwood Farm" in that town, you get a housing development that somehow manages to be both expensive and unappealing.
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Post by Queen on Feb 24, 2024 16:37:57 GMT -5
*sigh* we were the family that had chickens, in a city house with not a lot of room. They were quite tame, and would come when called.
When we had pet day at school my brother happened to have a broken collar bone and he took the chook called Wilhemina and carried her hidden in the sling. The judges thought he had no pet until she poked her head out.
He did win a prize, for pet with personality.
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Post by vinnyd on Feb 24, 2024 16:49:17 GMT -5
No chickens in my neighborhood growing up, but somebody within earshot in the Bronx in the late sixties had a rooster, and, I assume, hens.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 24, 2024 18:29:17 GMT -5
I still have local friends with chooks.
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Post by whothingie on Feb 24, 2024 18:34:13 GMT -5
We had chooks and 2 cows, which belonged to a neighbor who pastured them on the back of our rather large town section. As he was badly wounded during the war there were days when if the cows were still at our place it was my job to take them to his little shed. If they started to bellow because they weren't milked mum did the job, or non school days I did, by hand, until the day I went to see what the fuss was about and he was hanging from the rafters dead.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 24, 2024 18:38:10 GMT -5
There used to be an urban rooster here in Takoma Park in the 80s - it was named Roscoe. It's since passed over the Rainbow Bridge, but has been memorialized by a rooster statue in the center of town and a pizza place named Roscoe's. It would hang out behind a friend's apartment building. Hey it has an Atlas Obscura article: www.atlasobscura.com/places/roscoe-the-roosterWhoa and while we're there, there's an article about the phone that plays bird songs, too; which is outside my favorite coffee place... was just there this afternoon (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bird-calls-phone-takoma-park)
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 24, 2024 21:29:36 GMT -5
The people across the road from us even had a cow. My great-aunts had a couple of Jersey cows in suburban Meadowbank. I still remember the yellow clotted cream.
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Post by groo on Feb 25, 2024 0:02:34 GMT -5
.... and quite a few of the kids had horses, but generally no saddles.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 25, 2024 21:03:48 GMT -5
The people across the road from us even had a cow. My great-aunts had a couple of Jersey cows in suburban Meadowbank. I still remember the yellow clotted cream. Knowing what Meadowbank is like now that seems really wild.
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Post by groo on Feb 26, 2024 2:34:31 GMT -5
Even at Avoca Beach in the 70s and 80s we had friends with a house cow who supplied us with milk. When we moved up here Henry from across the road did the same.
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Post by jimm on Feb 26, 2024 5:42:02 GMT -5
MY maternal grandmother lived in Stewart St, Woolongong when I was a small child, and she kept a cow in a paddock over the back fence.
Looking at Google street view the block of flats they lived in is still there - with the big stadium at the end of the street, and factories all around.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 26, 2024 5:56:55 GMT -5
I had milk fresh from one of the staff’s cow the other day at school..
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Post by sprite on Feb 29, 2024 12:26:26 GMT -5
I accidentally set a local jazz club to be my 'home' on Google Maps, and between finding this amusing and having no idea how I did it, I'm not turning it off and I'm not resetting it to my real home.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 29, 2024 15:20:41 GMT -5
I accidentally set a local jazz club to be my 'home' on Google Maps, and between finding this amusing and having no idea how I did it, I'm not turning it off and I'm not resetting it to my real home. we live next door to a jazz club you explain that people used to only use paper bags @ markets
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Post by psw on Feb 29, 2024 21:26:06 GMT -5
There's a restaurant in the area that has live/livestreamed jazz on weekends. Great stuff! Their menu looks good, too. Maybe I'll eat there some day and hear some in person. I don't have the energy to go chasing that far for a meal these days.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 3, 2024 21:31:18 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Mar 4, 2024 16:54:27 GMT -5
you long to hold a 60s telephone & hate the shape of current phones
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 4, 2024 18:41:24 GMT -5
We still have a landline for reasons, and these newer phones are SO crap. The old heavy-duty phones were so much better.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 16, 2024 11:32:51 GMT -5
you remember the shows of your childhood or watch reruns of shows that were on before you were born
love lucas & mark's relationship
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Mar 17, 2024 5:11:25 GMT -5
You meet an old wrinkly lady, and she’s a year younger than you.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 19, 2024 5:23:53 GMT -5
DJ talking about your favorite record from when you were 19 years old as though it were some ancient mysterious relic
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Post by Queen on Mar 19, 2024 7:51:39 GMT -5
DJ talking about your favorite record from when you were 19 years old as though it were some ancient mysterious relic I saw one of those 'first reaction' videos recently, where some cool dude bro listens to something for the first time and is blown away by it. Cool Dude Bro was listening to Dire Straits, Sultans of Swing. I was thinking he must have heard it... it was released in 1978. So it's kinda like me listening to Nat King Cole or Bing Crosby at his age. So freaking old.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 19, 2024 7:54:10 GMT -5
Yeah, this record was “You” by Gong, which is only (checks notes) 50 years old…. oh
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Post by tzarine on Mar 19, 2024 11:06:24 GMT -5
your childhood heroes are cooler than the stuff that's out mrs. peel?
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Post by sprite on Mar 20, 2024 13:48:10 GMT -5
Mrs Peel was the bomb. Tara King was far too chirpy. Ass-kicky yes, but too perky.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 20, 2024 16:27:30 GMT -5
Mrs Peel was the bomb. Tara King was far too chirpy. Ass-kicky yes, but too perky. & honor blackman?
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Post by sprite on Mar 21, 2024 11:01:09 GMT -5
oh! I haven't got to that series before. Last night's episode featured the world's most glamourous archeologist, and Tara King fighting a killer robot with champagne.
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 22, 2024 1:00:48 GMT -5
I loved Lassie
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 22, 2024 1:26:43 GMT -5
I wasn’t born when this was made but I remember watching Andy Pandy when we first had a television. I would have been about four years old I think. I used to watch it with mum. All the television presenters had to have the “right” voice. An English Home Counties voice. …
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