Without saying how old you are, what is something from your childhood that a younger person would not understand
For me - 2 jam tin lids and a string in between was our "mobile phone"
-- Edited by sir alvisar on Tuesday 17th of January 2017 02:44:57 PM
Aussie1 said
03:02 PM Jan 17, 2017
I think Optus still supply them as one of their top of the range models !!!
ants_oz said
03:07 PM Jan 17, 2017
"His Masters Voice"
2weis said
03:16 PM Jan 17, 2017
bread and dripping sandwich
Dougwe said
03:18 PM Jan 17, 2017
A land line....one that was in two pieces, hold one to ear and talk to other bit on wall.
Outside dunny that a man came and put on his head and carried down side of house to waiting vehicle.
Jumping of the shed roof with towel around my neck thinking I could fly I was a little older then.
Goldfinger said
03:21 PM Jan 17, 2017
I used to lie in bed each night in Brissy, and listen to my 'Crystal Set'...no power, no battery's, no cost.....crystal sets used the power in radio waves to power the set for free...!..Hoo Roo
-- Edited by Goldfinger on Tuesday 17th of January 2017 03:24:37 PM
Colin Penrose said
03:56 PM Jan 17, 2017
No such bloody thing as OH &S !!
jimboz said
03:57 PM Jan 17, 2017
Hop Harrigan.... Cx4 to control, Cx4 to control.... Hop Harrigan coming in....
Hendo said
04:13 PM Jan 17, 2017
The muddle headed wombat
Carl53 said
04:14 PM Jan 17, 2017
Brylcream, boiled chokos, lambs tongue in a tin with jelly, warm milk in a bottle at "play lunch", leather soccer balls with mutton fat applied to the stictching, "scraps" form the fish and chip shop for 2 pence, LSD ( the currency!), reds under the bed, red rattlers, travelling with the train doors open, tuppeny bungers, GI cordial, dired ice.
woofta and precious said
05:00 PM Jan 17, 2017
Ha Ha, my son uses Brylcream to this day, AND he has HAIR!
RosieW said
05:11 PM Jan 17, 2017
Bread & dripping, bread & butter pudding, tin can phone, rotary phones, cortinas, the original VW beetles, the orignina mini, using our imaginations to entertain ourselves..........
Froggos said
05:14 PM Jan 17, 2017
Milkman delivering milk, in his horse and cart.
Ron-D said
05:19 PM Jan 17, 2017
Television did not exist in Australia ..
jimboz said
05:20 PM Jan 17, 2017
The iceman in his horse & cart down the back lane with block ice. How much do you need son, 1 1/2 blocks please & then watch him with his ice pick cut the blocks clean as a whistle.
adreamer said
05:32 PM Jan 17, 2017
Gob stoppers, 2 inches of water in a bath on a Saturday night, eating my dinner without talking, new pair of shoes at Christmas, Mum's roast every Sunday, playing in the street with 52 other kids until 9.00 at night, sleeping of the front lawn when it was hot,
Black cats, bottle coke with nail holes in the lid (so it would last longer), living without power in my Grandma's house and cowboys and indians with my brother's ) I always had to play dead). Ahhhhhhhhhh the 'good ol days!!
Helen
aussie_paul said
05:34 PM Jan 17, 2017
Goldfinger wrote:
I used to lie in bed each night in Brissy, and listen to my 'Crystal Set'...no power, no battery's, no cost.....crystal sets used the power in radio waves to power the set for free...!..Hoo Roo
-- Edited by Goldfinger on Tuesday 17th of January 2017 03:24:37 PM
Yes, got me interested in radio eventually gaining my full call amature radio licence.
Aussie Paul.
hako said
05:34 PM Jan 17, 2017
Honesty and integrity from politicians - pig iron Bob was the last with some of that.
6 O'Clock closing and shooting bumpers. Clothesline prop man and the rabbito. The crankhandle and greasegun.
Tones said
06:15 PM Jan 17, 2017
CRACKER NIGHT! (and lots of letterboxes)
tones
madaboutled said
06:31 PM Jan 17, 2017
Fat Cat and Percy P Penguin
Desert Dweller said
06:37 PM Jan 17, 2017
''Slippery Sam'' icy-poles, ''Kreem Between'' & ''Two In One'' ice-creams.
Jet Jackson the Flying Commando & Texas Rangers .
Lancelot Link said
06:55 PM Jan 17, 2017
Party telephone lines, milk delivered in billies, ice man, still warm bread loaves delivered by horse drawn carts and two favourites, no plastic bags, brown paper bags and wrapping, and fish and chips wrapped in newspaper and I still reckon they tasted better!
Dwilz said
07:29 PM Jan 17, 2017
Soft drink bottle with marball to seal
Possum3 said
07:52 PM Jan 17, 2017
The Rabbito, long drop dunny, potatoes and sugar in hessian bags, open air pictures on Friday night, monkeys in cages inside theatre, goat cart, milk in a billy scooped by milko from 10 gallon cans on horse drawn wagon, the clothes prop man. Best of all would have to be parents retuning home after war.
Chicken strangler said
08:08 PM Jan 17, 2017
Pop guns that fired corks,wood fired stoves,ink wells with pen and nibs,three wheeler bikes,the yard stick on my bum Sucking a chalk stick when the teacher was mad at me.
Ralph
chicken strangler.
meetoo said
08:23 PM Jan 17, 2017
The Banana Splits on tv and the Munsters. Walking miles to school. Most else already covered.
Cheers, John.
Grubbygypsy said
08:37 PM Jan 17, 2017
Coco the friendly dog......
Slightly off topic.....as I get to go to lots of museums these days.....I always find it disturbing to see common items of my past in them lol
Treecrest14 said
08:42 PM Jan 17, 2017
I received this from a friend today and maybe sums it up:
I remember the corned beef of my childhood
And the bread that we cut with a knife
When the children helped with the housework
And the men went to work not the wife.
The cheese never needed cold storage
And the bread was so crusty and hot
The children were seldom unhappy
And the wife was content with her lot.
I remember the milk from the bottle
With the yummy cream on the top
Our dinner came hot from the oven
And not from a freezer or shop.
The kids were a lot more contented
They didn't need money for kicks
Just a game with their friends in the road way
And sometimes the Saturday flicks.
Do you think that bruised our ego?
Or our initiative was destroyed?
We ate what was put on the table
And I think life was better enjoyed.
Craig1 said
08:43 PM Jan 17, 2017
Chip heater for hot water, " Flat as a **** carters Hat" , town water that muddy it scratched your bum in the bottom of bath, tin bath that took three days to dry after repaint. My Dad brought home ice in a spud bag, hanging over his shoulder while peddling push bike. Milkie waters down milk to get to end of round. could go on, great memories from all above. cheers Craig
Aus-Kiwi said
09:00 PM Jan 17, 2017
Jelly tip ice cream topsy . Cruising interstate on $10 of fuel . Lol .
Without saying how old you are, what is something from your childhood that a younger person would not understand
For me - 2 jam tin lids and a string in between was our "mobile phone"
-- Edited by sir alvisar on Tuesday 17th of January 2017 02:44:57 PM
A land line....one that was in two pieces, hold one to ear and talk to other bit on wall.
I was a little older then.
Outside dunny that a man came and put on his head and carried down side of house to waiting vehicle.
Jumping of the shed roof with towel around my neck thinking I could fly
I used to lie in bed each night in Brissy, and listen to my 'Crystal Set'...no power, no battery's, no cost.....crystal sets used the power in radio waves to power the set for free...!..Hoo Roo
-- Edited by Goldfinger on Tuesday 17th of January 2017 03:24:37 PM
No such bloody thing as OH &S !!
Brylcream, boiled chokos, lambs tongue in a tin with jelly, warm milk in a bottle at "play lunch", leather soccer balls with mutton fat applied to the stictching, "scraps" form the fish and chip shop for 2 pence, LSD ( the currency!), reds under the bed, red rattlers, travelling with the train doors open, tuppeny bungers, GI cordial, dired ice.
Television did not exist in Australia ..
The iceman in his horse & cart down the back lane with block ice. How much do you need son, 1 1/2 blocks please & then watch him with his ice pick cut the blocks clean as a whistle.
Gob stoppers, 2 inches of water in a bath on a Saturday night, eating my dinner without talking, new pair of shoes at Christmas, Mum's roast every Sunday, playing in the street with 52 other kids until 9.00 at night, sleeping of the front lawn when it was hot,
Black cats, bottle coke with nail holes in the lid (so it would last longer), living without power in my Grandma's house and cowboys and indians with my brother's ) I always had to play dead). Ahhhhhhhhhh the 'good ol days!!
Helen
Yes, got me interested in radio eventually gaining my full call amature radio licence.
Aussie Paul.
6 O'Clock closing and shooting bumpers. Clothesline prop man and the rabbito. The crankhandle and greasegun.
CRACKER NIGHT! (and lots of letterboxes)
tones
Fat Cat and Percy P Penguin
Jet Jackson the Flying Commando & Texas Rangers .
Pop guns that fired corks,wood fired stoves,ink wells with pen and nibs,three wheeler bikes,the yard stick on my bum Sucking a chalk stick when the teacher was mad at me.
Ralph
chicken strangler.
The Banana Splits on tv and the Munsters. Walking miles to school. Most else already covered.
Cheers, John.
Slightly off topic.....as I get to go to lots of museums these days.....I always find it disturbing to see common items of my past in them lol
I remember the corned beef of my childhood
And the bread that we cut with a knife
When the children helped with the housework
And the men went to work not the wife.
The cheese never needed cold storage
And the bread was so crusty and hot
The children were seldom unhappy
And the wife was content with her lot.
I remember the milk from the bottle
With the yummy cream on the top
Our dinner came hot from the oven
And not from a freezer or shop.
The kids were a lot more contented
They didn't need money for kicks
Just a game with their friends in the road way
And sometimes the Saturday flicks.
Do you think that bruised our ego?
Or our initiative was destroyed?
We ate what was put on the table
And I think life was better enjoyed.