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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #100 on: December 18, 2015, 12:38:50 PM »
We used to measure temperature in F and the magic number was 100 (37.8 C)
Now we use C and the magic number is 40 (104F)
Just remembering this as we look at the third day in Adelaide of over 40 with 44 due tomorrow.

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #102 on: December 18, 2015, 03:38:55 PM »
Waiting for 6.10pm to listen to Dad & Dave on the radio

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #103 on: December 18, 2015, 04:10:27 PM »
And don't forget this one!  ;D

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #104 on: December 21, 2015, 04:32:26 PM »
Some cool old movies back then too.

Two Lane Blacktop.
Running On Empty.
Christine.
Duel.
Orig. Mad Max.

Loads of others too and worth a watch on YouTube from time to time.
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #105 on: December 21, 2015, 05:04:34 PM »
from the glass drink bottles we pinched from the back of the shop, then walked around the front of the shop and got the 5c refund;D
I did exactly the same thing????

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #106 on: December 21, 2015, 05:12:51 PM »
Some cool old movies back then too.

Two Lane Blacktop.
Running On Empty.
Christine.
Duel.
Orig. Mad Max.

Loads of others too and worth a watch on YouTube from time to time.
Midnight spares is another of my favourites
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #107 on: December 21, 2015, 05:20:16 PM »
Or when the capital city TV stations closed transmission for the day by about 11pm-12mn....    Gota love the Test Pattern. .....

In Brisbane....   Channel 10 was called Channel 0 (zero)...  and because of something to do with the frequency - always gave poor reception. ...

Or the original  (wooden and "humped") Hornybrook Hi way bridge into Redcliffe.....

That wad 3 bridges ago.....

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #108 on: December 21, 2015, 05:30:44 PM »
The bumpity bumpity bump bridge
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #109 on: December 22, 2015, 05:49:27 AM »
Or when the capital city TV stations closed transmission for the day by about 11pm-12mn....    Gota love the Test Pattern. .....

In Brisbane....   Channel 10 was called Channel 0 (zero)...  and because of something to do with the frequency - always gave poor reception
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Or in Regional Qld you had 2 channels, abc and another which was like a blend of the others.
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #110 on: December 22, 2015, 06:34:15 AM »
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #111 on: December 22, 2015, 06:37:35 AM »
The kitchen didnt over flow with every convenience known to exist, just the basics ..You made butter in a churn, home made pressed tounge cold meats / silverside ,  jams and bread,  bench mounted hand cranked meat mincers, killed a beast and hung it from a tree and did all the butchering at home, [ We used to swap half with our Italian neighbours for half a  pig and home made salami's ] , you would go down the creek flats with a hex barrel pump action .22 and shoot pidgeons and parrots for dinner,  Blue annadised alluminium milk jugs,  the kero run fridges and the PYE brand grey oval TV on four legs with two dials on top and a string of antenna ribon nailed to the wall .
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #112 on: December 22, 2015, 07:10:01 AM »
I grew up on a farm.
I remember carrying buckets of milk to dump into the bulk tank before pipelines.
I remember walking next to the hay wagon in the fields throwing and stacking hay bales on the wagon before kicker balers.
Being 1 of 4 boys in my family I remember Dad renting us to neighbor farmers for $5.00 each a week to get their hay in as well.
I remember doing a couple hours of chores before going to school.
I remember using a pitchfork to unload the manure wagon until we could afford a pto driven one.
I remember pulling one of the front tires off the old narrow front end Massy Furgeson tractor in the winter so it would go through snow easier.
I remember carrying buckets of sap to the bulk tank on the sled in spring time to boil down into maple syrup, again this was before pipelines.
So much more I remember, but thats the gist of it.
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #113 on: December 22, 2015, 07:13:58 AM »
Having to call into my grandmothers everyday on my way home from school to chop wood so she could cook her dinner.
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #114 on: December 22, 2015, 07:27:19 AM »
Remember when fuel didn't go up days before every long weekend/public holiday and there wasn't this fictional "price cycle" ???
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #115 on: December 22, 2015, 07:50:46 AM »
What about how the old folks would happily drain off all the sludge out of the Sunbeam electric frypan -- (after that morning's bacon and chops fry up....)...   only to pour it into a hideous looking vat; for reuse on the next fry up; infinitum....

Well at least the fat vat had a 5 micron....  er; I mean 5mm strainer at the top......

Then who had a "slops bucket" in their kitchen - under the sink?....   presumably to preserve the drainage. .....

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #116 on: December 22, 2015, 10:00:53 AM »
Or in Regional Qld you had 2 channels, abc and another which was like a blend of the others.

I miss this - I mean it's great having all channels and all, but here in Bendigo we had our own identity with the station. We had our own proper local news (for a while they even made their own national mixed local/national bulletin), sporting events - hell even the Saturday morning cartoons show were a local production. We get "local news" made in Ballarat or Canberra, no other programming at all, not even the local Bendigo cup, which was screened for many many years before aggregation. According to Wikipedia, we were an early TV station too:
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The first regional television stations were launched five years after the rollout of television to metropolitan Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. GLV-10 in Traralgon opened on 9 December 1961 and was followed 14 days later by GMV-6 in Shepparton and BCV-8 Bendigo.

So instead of a local identity, we get hours upon bloody hours of infomercials...
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #117 on: December 22, 2015, 10:12:21 AM »
Getting the cane at school.
6 of the best on each hand.
Ahhh the good old days.


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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #118 on: December 22, 2015, 10:58:16 AM »
Remember when movies had story lines.
Didn't have sex, car chases destroying hundreds of cars or special effects so detailed that you can really believe the monsters existed?

Remember buying a wagon wheel and not being able to get through it, not like today when a child can swallow it in one go?

Remember fishing without having to need a licence or knowing 13 million rules and have maps of each and every inch of the lake so you didn't fish illegally?

Remember when Cops were friendly and criminals were scary?

Remember when each and every aspect of our lives was not legislated, outlawed, fines imposed and public servants generated to reap in the cash?

Remember when councils actually did something for the money you paid them?

Remember when new clothes were rare and hand me downs were the norm, brand name clothes didnt exist?

Remember when made in Japan was rubbish?

Remember when we made things in Australia and people were employed?

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #119 on: December 22, 2015, 11:03:11 AM »
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #120 on: December 22, 2015, 11:32:34 AM »
What about how the old folks would happily drain off all the sludge out of the Sunbeam electric frypan -- (after that morning's bacon and chops fry up....)...   only to pour it into a hideous looking vat; for reuse on the next fry up; infinitum....


My grandmother always cooked in butter and would drain the leftover cooking fat off and store it in an old margarine tub in the fridge. It would separate and the top used to go a pale creamy colour. She also stored left overs in the same margarine tubs.

I came home from the pub one night hungry, remembering we'd had mashed potato for dinner. I opened the fridge and saw nice tub of left over mash potato sitting there, put my spoon in and took a huge scoop...

and spent the next 20 minutes cleaning up the kitchen
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #121 on: December 22, 2015, 03:57:30 PM »
I grew up on a farm.
I remember carrying buckets of milk to dump into the bulk tank before pipelines.
I remember walking next to the hay wagon in the fields throwing and stacking hay bales on the wagon before kicker balers.
Being 1 of 4 boys in my family I remember Dad renting us to neighbor farmers for $5.00 each a week to get their hay in as well.
I remember doing a couple hours of chores before going to school.
I remember using a pitchfork to unload the manure wagon until we could afford a pto driven one.
I remember pulling one of the front tires off the old narrow front end Massy Furgeson tractor in the winter so it would go through snow easier.
I remember carrying buckets of sap to the bulk tank on the sled in spring time to boil down into maple syrup, again this was before pipelines.
So much more I remember, but thats the gist of it.
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #122 on: December 22, 2015, 04:12:14 PM »
Paying the 10c toll on the original wooden humpy hornibrook bridge. Redcliffe
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #123 on: December 22, 2015, 04:19:50 PM »
Accidentally swallowing the sixpence in the Christmas pudding

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #124 on: December 22, 2015, 05:01:08 PM »
The Williamstown Ferry, and the old coal fired Newport Power Station.
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