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@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry
18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
I remember all the hoopla when TV3 came out back in 1990. So exciting, a strange mix of shithouse NZ game shows and hilarious US comedies.
We didn't have it in Hawkes Bay for a long time, so my sister's friend used to send her a videotape of recorded Home and Away each week. I do remember staying up in Auckland and watching Gabriella Sabatini in the tennis on TV3. Hubba hubba.
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@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
I remember all the hoopla when TV3 came out back in 1990. So exciting, a strange mix of shithouse NZ game shows and hilarious US comedies.
We didn't have it in Hawkes Bay for a long time, so my sister's friend used to send her a videotape of recorded Home and Away each week. I do remember staying up in Auckland and watching Gabriella Sabatini in the tennis on TV3. Hubba hubba.
Night line was good value as it always had strange videos of strip clubs, wet t shirt contests and seeing tits was awesome in my early teens.
Well, seeing tits is awesome at 44 too come to think of it.
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@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
I remember all the hoopla when TV3 came out back in 1990. So exciting, a strange mix of shithouse NZ game shows and hilarious US comedies.
We didn't have it in Hawkes Bay for a long time, so my sister's friend used to send her a videotape of recorded Home and Away each week. I do remember staying up in Auckland and watching Gabriella Sabatini in the tennis on TV3. Hubba hubba.
Night line was good value as it always had strange videos of strip clubs, wet t shirt contests and seeing tits was awesome in my early teens.
Well, seeing tits is awesome at 44 too come to think of it.
Joanna Paul and Belinda Todd wasn't it? Their irreverance was a big departure from the BBC straight laced style of TVNZ at the time. Now it's almost all trash
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@canefan said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
I remember all the hoopla when TV3 came out back in 1990. So exciting, a strange mix of shithouse NZ game shows and hilarious US comedies.
We didn't have it in Hawkes Bay for a long time, so my sister's friend used to send her a videotape of recorded Home and Away each week. I do remember staying up in Auckland and watching Gabriella Sabatini in the tennis on TV3. Hubba hubba.
Night line was good value as it always had strange videos of strip clubs, wet t shirt contests and seeing tits was awesome in my early teens.
Well, seeing tits is awesome at 44 too come to think of it.
Joanna Paul and Belinda Todd wasn't it? Their irreverance was a big departure from the BBC straight laced style of TVNZ at the time. Now it's almost all trash
Yeah I was channel surfing late at night, fuck knows where the folks ( who usually monopolised some crap on TV1 ) were and the roving reporters were interviewing two topless chicks at a jelly wrestling contest. Outstanding TV.
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@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
Jesus I remember watching coronation st and bonanza in black and white
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@crucial said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Milk at 2c a bottle. Used to stop at the dairy half way home from school and scull a cold one.
That or the milk bottles of “fruit juice”. Not sure what that flavour was but it was bloody nice.Juice was orange or grapefruit. In glass bottles. Green, blue and silver foil topped milk in glass bottles. Delivered by the milkman
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@crucial I dont recall it that cheap, but they used to have milkshakes as well IIR, tasted great.
Think of all the jobs that were about back then that dont really exist anymore...milk man, recycling centres, telephone operator even paper rounds are becoming less common
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@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only two TV channels back in the day to be fair
Two! Looxury. We only got two channels if we had gone to Auckland.
We did have the first colour TV in Kaeo though ...
Just in time for the Chch Comm Games.
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@booboo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only two TV channels back in the day to be fair
Two! Looxury. We only got two channels if we had gone to Auckland.
We did have the first colour TV in Kaeo though ...
Just in time for the Chch Comm Games.
And I recall "South Pacific Television" (Channel Two) launching.
And Dougal reading the news on NZBC.
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@snowy said in Old people talk about the olden days:
10 minus the required number to be dialed was the number of "taps" as I recall. So a seven was 3 taps.
New Zealand dials were effectively upside down compared to Europe and the US (which is why 111 in NZ is 999 in the UK). We were told when I was training in the NZPO it was due to a cock-up when NZ ordered its first telephone exchanges in the 1900's.
The old telephone exchanges were mainly manned 24/7 in those days and someone tapping from a phone box was easily spotted/heard. We'd often wait until the call went thru and then drop the call, sometimes 2-3 times. Man, the persistence of some people was impressive. They were the most fun.
PS: A safety pin pushed into one of the cables to the coin box and held against the metal gave you free calls and obliviated the need for tapping
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I walked a mile (1.6km) to primary school, and walked to kindy before that. Despite living in Christchurch city, we had a field behind us with horses...
I vaguely remember Waimairi district amalgamating with Christchurch (I suspect Belfast and other outlying suburbs joined at the same time), and 6 digit phone numbers, but 4 digit numbers outside Christchurch (like in Sumner) with a 2 digit area code.
Telethon was always a fun night.
Old people talk about the olden days
