Conputers who had computers,,, just having a calculator could get you expelled
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Conputers who had computers,,, just having a calculator could get you expelled
I remember when I was a boy..".........., I cud cry when my dad live home and I don't even wanna see him....
I remember ............. pan toilets, the "fruit-o man", eating lots of rabbits, sixpence would buy you lots of lollies, cracker night, ink pots at school, being great friends with a young Greek kid ( bloody wog ), mum actually talking to the bank manager, floating "stick boats" down flooded gutters etc ........ simple, better days.
must be the same vintage as I too did all that, first pay was $12.85 boy was I rich back then LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by bazzaboy
I must have had a better job than you. I got $17.50 putting the handles on aluminum fry-pans. I lasted 2 weeks. I knew that there had to be something better than that. Joined the PMG. Delivered telegrams on a push-bike and then became one of Sydney's first "modern motorcycle" postmen.Quote:
Originally Posted by threedogs
Started work @ 15 as a sewing machine mechanic as it was known then.after 2 yrs I was the highest paidQuote:
Originally Posted by bazzaboy
for my age in Vic. That was working for Holeproof in Sydney rd Brunswick, right behind Frank Mussett motorcycles.
Where my passsion for bikes started. Still repair a machine every now and then
Back then you were paid by your age,,,lol
As a family going Rabbiting on Saturday & Sunday and earning more money than Dad did in a whole Week.
We kept about 10 Ferrets and would take them all Ferreting for the two days.
The Rabbits were not killed when caught but put in the back of a Ute with Loose Hay.
We also had a big Tandem Trailer that was used for the same purpose.
My brother and I would kill each night just on dusk. Gut and Pair them.
The Rabbits were placed on Long Wires strung between Trees and covered with Hessian.
The Rabbit buyer would collect them each Sunday Night and put our Money in a Tobacco Tin
hidden under one of the Trees.
We were paid 2 shillings and six pence (25cents) a Pair.
It was Hard Work as we worked about 10 hours a Day but we loved every minute of it.
cant do that today eh, you'd be lucky these days to even see a rabbitQuote:
Originally Posted by Bob
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Originally Posted by Bob
I hate ferrets. My mate's father had them and they stunk. I supposed being fed bread & milk does that to you. I remember one day out at Sofala while we were rabbiting, my mate's father had to dig a ferret out of an extensive burrow. I had my 22 hornet and put a bullet through his ferret's head thinking it was a rabbit coming out. He wasn't overly happy with me. I just thought... 1 down, 3 to go.
I can't resist -
#I remember when there were only 2 types of people, blokes and sheilas !!
#Our 'town car' was a Holden Premier, despite the 50miles to nearest town being dirt and the first 25 miles or so not much more than 2 wheel tracks with grass in between them and a few sandy creeks.....and you didn't see 4WDs in the big smoke!
#Often driving 25-30 miles in the Willys jeep to visit cousins from about 8yo
#First job after leaving school paid $40/week....7 days a week with maybe a day or half day off each fortnight...5am start every morning to milk the cow and fill the wood box before breakfast....sounds a bit tough by today's standard but I reckoned I had it made at the time!
# I was about 28 before I had access a fixed line telephone.....remember the old black public phones ?? press button A...press button B !
Loved the post about the dinosaurs....thanks to the Mrs, our 5yo is convinced I had one as a pet when I was his age!!!
@Kennedy what a cool story Id run with it , you can say you had a veloceraptor
but had to sell it cause it ate the neighbours dog, you then brought a tryceritops.
lol lol
I remember going to the outhouse and see hanging from some hemp rope
squares of the white pages about 6" x 6",,,,,,,,,,,, stuff this 4 ply rubbish,
butts were butts back then lol
When I was a boy his name was Opie not Ron Howard
award winning director or Richie Cunningham.
Combat with Vic Morrow was on TV.
Had to have a TV licence back then too,,,lol
pretty sure life was a lot less stressful than today'
I remember fighting for the leg bone of the Sunday roast. Hang on! I still have to fight for it.
Well we didn't have money so we made our own entertainment , went fishing sometimes alone on the Goulburn river , would be gone all day at age seven .
Barz the shank bone, worked most times and then suck the marrow out.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
must get a marrow spoon lol
I share your passion for bikes. I started riding road bikes when I was 16. Used to ride my 500 Triumph to school and back on my last year. Since then ..... so many bikes. Sold my last one, a 1500 Honda Valkyrie, a couple of years ago when I felt I'd "lost my edge". You'll know what I mean. 62 now and still love them, and still work on friends bikes occasionally. Got more involved in my 4WD as an alternative/replacement. Enjoy it, but it's not the same. Miss that unique feel of freedom that only bikers understand.Quote:
Originally Posted by threedogs
same vintage I sold my bike when my first son was born.Quote:
Originally Posted by bazzaboy
The wife just asked me the other day if I missed the bikes.
In a heart beat I answered you betcha. two things I could do well
run fast and ride a road bike. Ive raced on most tracks in Vic.
even the old Hume weir track, Calder was just around the corner
so easy to slip in a few laps, I rode with the Vigilante MCC for about
6 years, Ive even swung off a sidecar now thats fun lol lol
I remember when I was a lad, that Australia wasn't full of soft, whingeing, sookylala politically correct freaking, fun & freedom hating wowsers
First 12" vynyl LP I purchased was "Best of Johnnie Cash"
I think it was Live at San Quentin, happy to be wrong
when you pressed the button to cross the road there was a "dude"
telling you to walk, How far can they take this PC shite fcol
Bon Scott headed AC/DC when I was a boy
Our house in Moora when I was a kid 5 to 8 years old
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The house just last year. A few extra trees and the back yard dunny has gone.
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I've changed more than the house.
Whats on everyones play list, my taste is wide.
from The Three Tenors to Jethro tull, Deep Purple
etc etc, I have over 1000 songs on my SD card
but need to put less so I can hear all of them lol
Even Jet and Wolfe Mother and here somewhere
When I was young I used to carry condoms in my wallet. Now I carry bandaids and pills.
I remember nothin :o;
I remember being so poor that i was lucky to be born a boy......
Otherwise i wouldn't have anything to play with
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Only thinking yesterday when there was only 2 types of bread to buy, white or brown and you had to buy it from the local bakers
Had a great read and laugh threw this post. Im gen y but alot of this stuff has related to what my dad has told me over the years. Seen a few comments about getting the snip, i reamber in primary school getting the whole sex ed and they told us about the snip. So i went home in horror and told my dad he told me when he was done he couldn't walk for 9 months i thought bloody hell it must of hurt haha then he told be they used it for a fan belt for a truck!
But the best times when i was a boy was at chistmas time my dad worked alot to keep food on the table but for a week we would pack up the 60 series cruiser and head camping 4wding and fishing time of my life. As im getting older a 4yo son of my own i can see the work and effort he put in to do this with us.
I remember when telephone boxes were red and had buttons A and B, or U could yell thru the receiver to be heard without paying.
When the grey water passed thru the gully trap and poured out into the road side gutter.
Yea, now you either land a speccy jump in your Patrol or stack it and do 10k damage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plasnart
Running down to the local milk bar to buy the old man a pack of Dunhill cigarettes and getting annoyed when the price jumped closer to 20 CENTS a pack, as it lessened the left over amount you got to spend on lollies! I am thinking this was around 1967 - 68.
Brothers being given a gift of an original ‘Tirfor’ great bit of torture kit at the fun times!
Oneday our futuristic self powered versions will fail and we’ll be glad to have packed the extra 20kg + cable carry spool :-)
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They are heavy and take up a bit of space too but cannot fail.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
Managed to double kink its cable in my stupid 20’s Tony, he’d be pissed mate!
Never ever slack off and hook/tie point a vehicle drag that last few metres. Old school Tirfors don’t slip, just lock down jaws and wreck the beaut spool, idiot MB20350 :-)
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Going around the rabbit traps at night as a young boy with the kero lantern and being taught not to put the lamp next to the set. Rabbits would know that somethings up. Use to get 7 and sixpence a pair and wired up the skins to dry. Mid 60's (10yrs of age). Main activity for many yrs apart from building wooden billy carts.
Don't think battery powered torches were around then, we certainly did not have one anyway.
Luxury & Paradise ;-)
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MB so good Monty Python there mate.
I remember bob a job but I wasn't scout so I was lucky to get a ha'penny. Have to go back and tie some flies to go fish'n later in the morn...
Luxury! Haha!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bidja
Should be bliss couple of nights and quiet as (Just me). Probably a few brumbies poking around, but they can be a bit curious and unpredictable sometimes. S-E of Kiandra (Snowy Mnts).Quote:
Originally Posted by Plasnart
Someone has to be there. .. lol