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@crucial said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@victor-meldrew said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
K bars. How good were they ? They were inconsistent though, how my teeth survived the tougher ones is anyone’s guess.
The tuck shop was full of shit, those big gobstoppers, giant Jaffa's, no wonder we had so much energy in class.
Yep. Pies and sausage roles were the healthy alternative and the only vegetables were onions on the pizza slices. And yet they blame the food available for kids being much fatter these days!
Tuck Shop on Fridays. For $1 it was 2 meat pies and a donut, or 1 meat pie and three donuts.
Pie, Sally Lunn and a Spaceman drink for 30c
Oh yeah! Sally Luns! I remember them being massive. If they were buttered in the middle that was even more fancy.
When at Primary school (Hamilton East Primary)there was no canteen so you had to order when you arrived at school (Friday was the only day I was allowed to buy my lunch) The options were Big Ben Mince pie and Custard squares. That's it. To this day, I still love Big Ben pies
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most of the places that do Sally Luns now are rubbish at them!
What were those corn chips, were they Kraft? In the big orange bag, and the chicken in particular used to have extra flavour settle in the crease of some of the chips, those were fantastic!
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@godder said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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.
Yeah a bunch of us did the all nighter for telethon at a sleepover back in around 1988 or 89. Mum and Dad couldn’t figure out why I had to go to bed at about 4pm the next day…..
Looking back I can’t believe I stayed up for a bunch of Z grade celebs and lame gags but there y’go.
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@taniwharugby said in Old people talk about the olden days:
most of the places that do Sally Luns now are rubbish at them!
What were those corn chips, were they Kraft? In the big orange bag, and the chicken in particular used to have extra flavour settle in the crease of some of the chips, those were fantastic!
YEah you can still get those. I love those. I haven't seen S&V flavour in years, just chicken now I think
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@victor-meldrew said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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.
I think that I am younger than you. Telephone exchanges were not fully manual when I was a kid.
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At intermediate I worked in the tuck shop on a Friday so that was the day I was able to buy my lunch. I always got a Sally Lun with my pie but sometimes the local bakery that supplied us (probably the same as @Hooroo) would substitute the Sally Luns for 4 Chelsea buns with the pink icing and cinnamon, so I always put one of those aside for me. That was a winner and more for the same price.
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@hooroo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@crucial said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@victor-meldrew said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
K bars. How good were they ? They were inconsistent though, how my teeth survived the tougher ones is anyone’s guess.
The tuck shop was full of shit, those big gobstoppers, giant Jaffa's, no wonder we had so much energy in class.
Yep. Pies and sausage roles were the healthy alternative and the only vegetables were onions on the pizza slices. And yet they blame the food available for kids being much fatter these days!
Tuck Shop on Fridays. For $1 it was 2 meat pies and a donut, or 1 meat pie and three donuts.
Pie, Sally Lunn and a Spaceman drink for 30c
Oh yeah! Sally Luns! I remember them being massive. If they were buttered in the middle that was even more fancy.
When at Primary school (Hamilton East Primary)there was no canteen so you had to order when you arrived at school (Friday was the only day I was allowed to buy my lunch) The options were Big Ben Mince pie and Custard squares. That's it. To this day, I still love Big Ben pies
Friday Pie Day is still a thing!
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@victor-meldrew said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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.
only really used the tapping method to call mum to pick me up from the pools, so didnt need long...plus my phone number was 88808, so not alot of taps haha
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@hooroo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@taniwharugby said in Old people talk about the olden days:
most of the places that do Sally Luns now are rubbish at them!
What were those corn chips, were they Kraft? In the big orange bag, and the chicken in particular used to have extra flavour settle in the crease of some of the chips, those were fantastic!
YEah you can still get those. I love those. I haven't seen S&V flavour in years, just chicken now I think
i fucking love the S&V ones but yes, i absolutely cannot find them when ever i come back
them and caramel chews
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@victor-meldrew said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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
I only learnt that when I went to uni and we used to do it with the phone card phones.
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@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@victor-meldrew said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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
I only learnt that when I went to uni and we used to do it with the phone card phones.
Funny how we have gone full circle, Telstra Phone Boxes are now free to call any national number both fixed and mobile.
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@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@victor-meldrew said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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
I only learnt that when I went to uni and we used to do it with the phone card phones.
Funny how we have gone full circle, Telstra Phone Boxes are now free to call any national number both fixed and mobile.
Huh??? So anyone can rock up to a Telstra phone box and make a call for free?
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@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@victor-meldrew said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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
I only learnt that when I went to uni and we used to do it with the phone card phones.
Funny how we have gone full circle, Telstra Phone Boxes are now free to call any national number both fixed and mobile.
Huh??? So anyone can rock up to a Telstra phone box and make a call for free?
Yep.
No coins? No worries. Telstra's 15,000 payphones are now free
Telstra says local and national calls, and calls to mobile phones will no longer incur a charge from its network of payphones across the country.
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@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@victor-meldrew said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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
I only learnt that when I went to uni and we used to do it with the phone card phones.
Funny how we have gone full circle, Telstra Phone Boxes are now free to call any national number both fixed and mobile.
Huh??? So anyone can rock up to a Telstra phone box and make a call for free?
Yep.
No coins? No worries. Telstra's 15,000 payphones are now free
Telstra says local and national calls, and calls to mobile phones will no longer incur a charge from its network of payphones across the country.
There's actually one just down the road from me, I've never seen it being used, although I sometimes stand in it to read my phone while waiting for friends to pick me up.
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@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@victor-meldrew said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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
I only learnt that when I went to uni and we used to do it with the phone card phones.
Funny how we have gone full circle, Telstra Phone Boxes are now free to call any national number both fixed and mobile.
Huh??? So anyone can rock up to a Telstra phone box and make a call for free?
Yep.
No coins? No worries. Telstra's 15,000 payphones are now free
Telstra says local and national calls, and calls to mobile phones will no longer incur a charge from its network of payphones across the country.
There's actually one just down the road from me, I've never seen it being used, although I sometimes stand in it to read my phone while waiting for friends to pick me up.
Yuck. Phone boxes must be the grubbiest things on the planet.
After a work party one year in London I was escorting a team mate to the tube station to get her home safely. She was so hammered that she insisted on me taking her photo in an old school red phone box outside the British Museum. I tried to stop her but when she opened the door the stench of urine was gagging. She then picked up the phone itself. Ugggh! -
@hooroo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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
Wow!!! I laughed at that in sheer surprise! You must have a squillion nieces and nephews!!
mate I gave up counting at 50 odd nephews and nieces, and with the next step down I buggered!!
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