80s nitelife https://youtube.com/shorts/7WDdYxmi1q0?si=6bVBCD5HQEI3RiAo Yes I had a greek's fisherman cap !

https://cdn.sweetandsavory.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/16143242/Parents-12.jpeg Chicken and a smoke to celebrate the birth of one's baby in Canada 1978 ! Nice work Mom 👌

back in my day, life sucked, i chose to correct that

Okay.... Back in my day banks were actually banks with tellers that took in deposits and gave you cash when you made a withdrawal. Went to the local ANZ branch in the village as I needed to confirm some information and make a deposit. I hadn't been there for months and when I walked in there were no tellers and a big sign stating that they no longer made over the counter deposits or withdrawals. Use the ATM or go to the branch in the next suburb. So I waited in line to ask a bank employee my question and as soon as he finished with the customer I asked him my question. He replied: "This gentleman can handle your enquiry." and walked away. He could have easily answered the question as there was only one other customer in the bank at that time. So another 10 minute wait for that bank employee to finish with his customer to get the answer. IMO if banks want to be banks they should have to deal in cash at all their branches or they should lose their banking licence. The village has branches for all the major banks plus Bendigo bank too. It also used to have a Bank of Melbourne branch as well, but that closed. Banks doing this sort of thing are bad for local businesses and shops because if someone needs to go to the next suburb to do their banking they will probably do their shopping there or having lunch there as well. I wonder how many more bank branches we are going to lose over the near future..... Doesn't look good.

Hey Hey its Saturday

No TV, Party phone, no internet. Listened to radio mostly but most time was spent outside. Happy days.

I'm still very young so i'm probably not qualified to use that phrase yet haha.... but i can still say to people even younger than me: back in my day, the computer made weird loud noises at you when you wanted to use the internet, and god forbid someone decided to make a phone call because you'd be booted off without warning until they were done. AND back in my day, that phone was made of two separate chunky pieces with loads of wires, and you had to turn a wheel then patiently wait for it to spin back for each number you wanted to dial.

And you'd sometimes get a prize doing this back in my day too...right ....down ...the bottom .. https://pin.it/7HkDG7p0Z

Using your math skills to give change after a purchase.

Back in my day we did not have computers. Pocket calculators were around but we students were not allowed to use them in school. We had to do all mathematical calculations in longhand and the only aid we were allowed to use was a slide rule. Them were the days!

Back in my day as a child, I could play outside by myself, walk to my friends' homes and we could all play outside and walk or ride our bikes places on our own without being worried about getting kidnapped. My mother could give me some money and I could walk to the convenience store a few blocks away all by myself and get a few things with no fear. Parents didn't have to worry so much and it was a common rule to come home by dinner time, and there was no constant checking in once outside playing and we didn't have cell phones. Edited 26-Feb-24 23:05pm

back in my day we rode around with a cooler full of beer in the backseat,, but it was out in the country,, and we were only 13, so if the law,, (1 cop),, for the whole town, would have stopped us we would have told him the driver run off,, uphill, both ways, in 3 feet of snow, in his underwear,, Edited 26-Feb-24 13:56pm

In my day parents used to know who your friends were and who their parents were .. they could hear your conversations on the phone at most points as the phones were communal house phones , and pity the times a sibling upstairs would pick up the extension whilst you were on a very intimate call... ! You'd hear the giggle or breathing then a click as they got yelled at to hang up! Nowadays it's all just silence texting or in gaming rooms over headphones ,, invisible friends over the net in other neighbourhoods ,states .. overseas ..they don't just rock up on their push bikes and stay for dinner anymore .Edited 24-Feb-24 15:10pm

Did you ever wonder? 01. If a bottle of poison reaches its expiration date, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous? 02. Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C? 03. Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned? 04. Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty. 05. The word "swims" upside-down is still "swims". 06. Over 100 years ago, everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses. 07. If people evolved from monkeys, why are monkeys still around? 08. Why is there a 'D' in fridge, but not in refrigerator? 09. I'm responsible for what I say, not for what you understand. 10. Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it the most never use it. 11. My tolerance for idiots is extremely low these days. I used to have some immunity built up, but obviously, there's a new strain out there. 12. It's not my age that bothers me - it's the side effects. 13. I'm not saying I'm old and worn out, but I make sure I'm nowhere near the curb on trash day. 14. As I watch this generation try and rewrite our history, I'm sure of one thing: it will be misspelled and have no punctuation. 15. As I've gotten older, people think I've become lazy. The truth is I'm just being more energy-efficient. 16. I haven't gotten anything done today. I've been in the Fruit and Vegie section trying to open this stupid plastic bag. 17. If you find yourself feeling useless, remember: it took 20 years, trillions of dollars, thousands of lives and four presidents to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. 18. I want to be 18 again and ruin my life differently. I have new ideas 19. I'm on two simultaneous diets. I wasn't getting enough food on one. 20. I put my scale in the bathroom corner and that's where the little liar will stay until it apologizes. 21. Hard to believe I once had a phone attached to a wall, and when it rang, I picked it up without knowing who was calling. 22. My wife says I keep pushing her buttons. If that were true, I would have found mute by now. 23. There is no such thing as a grouchy old person. The truth is that once you get old, you stop being polite and start being honest.

I remember throwing rotting vegetables (and some rocks) at the Romans

Back in my day it was well known that you couldn't trust anyone who was older than 20.

I remember holding onto the opposite sex while dancing - mission impossible today. We did have a few naysayers but they were limited in spreading their message unfortunately that does not apply these days.

Back in my day we walked, rode bikes or took a bus to school. Almost everyone gets driven nowadays.

Back in my day, we gathered around the radio to listen, and our mum always read us bedtime stories. We also grew all our own veggies and mum cooked all our meals, no takeaways…

Back in my day, you would cough to cover up a fart. Now, with COVID-19, you have to fart to cover up a cough. Edited 17-Feb-24 09:20am

Back in the day was not a 'good time' for me - but I am not a W.A.S. P. (lucky me) - however, I do remember the gang wars (gang member), color and white signs posted everywhere (segregation - at its finest moment), drugs (pusher), violence (lynchings of minorities without due process of the law), and the list goes on - back in the day (HAHA) - it was strictly about 'survival' for me (which left scars - mental and physical scars for the rest of my life - which unfortunately - never heal).Edited 19-Feb-24 09:10am

back in the day i walked to school, 3 miles, in 2 feet of snow, uphill both ways,,,,

When you look back now....we had a lot of things in them days they don't have now.......rickets...diptheria.......Hitler....and eee didn't we all look grand!..... going off to school with all us little heads painted purple... cause we all had ringworm.... Edited 16-Feb-24 23:40pm

back in the day, we used to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper we were too poor for cups, we used to wake up half an hour before we went to sleep there were 6 of us living in a shoebox kids today don't know how lucky they are

Back in my day I read "Noddy and Big Ears" and most kids owned a "Golliwog"

Back in my day doing a paper for school meant going to the library and doing research, and sometimes writing places the old fashioned way (postal mail) to find out info....no googling or emailing companies . etc. Just some old fashioned research. We typed our papers on typewriters or wrote it in long hand. I remember walking two or three miles from my friends house late at night by myself, no fear of being hurt or worse,

No tv, party line phones, came home when it got dark without worries.

Back in my day we didn't have cell phones, we had to actually be home to use the phone and it was stuck to the wall in the kitchen with no privacy!

Back in my day it was safe to walk in the street late at night with a bag of broken crisps I had bought for a few pence

20 cents bag of mixed lollies would be over flowing and 10 cents for chips rolled up in newspaper or the butcher paper .And the corner store finds

Two things spring to mind - the book "Bullshit and Jelly beans" by Tim Shadbolt and a not so famous quote from the the early 60s when roading was going through a difficult phase in NZ - it was about the Minister in charge of the Ministry of Works at the time " If Bullshit were tarseal he could shit a highway"

This came to mind :) I remember not being bothered by people stopping by with no notification long ago, but now: https://youtu.be/5CznoAW2k1I?si=Q1ztGq3q695teFLW

It was a real struggle being part of the team building the Pyramids just out of town (Cairo). So, so hot. Still we got the job done but glad I was not part of the team that had to move those massive stone blocks into place.

I think I'm a bit too young for all of this, haahha but I do recall my mother distinctly telling us how she used to walk a certain amount of miles to school in the snow and arrive home with blue knees from the frost. And us girls had it easy!!

Back in my day ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWOx5oRkZgA

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.5469bc3aa1572abb66b2505d28705ddd?rik=RVATljSkwGgQKA&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.dumpaday.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2015%2f11%2fback-in-the-day.jpg&ehk=tVkT1m1QsZ8SPDjthKy0BfUmAZZrm73OWTqxJvomUOg%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0 Edited 15-Feb-24 09:54am

Back in my day, I could go to the store with a dollar and come back with a bag of chips, 6 chocolate bars, candy and a comic book. Store security wasn’t so good back then.Edited 15-Feb-24 09:53am