What makes you feel old?

[T1 Terry]

That's where "spend a penny" came from.

Clearly better equipped than I am, even passing a 1 cent coin would bring a tear to the eye , the 5 cent is the smallest coin now ..... and for that sort of money I'd water a lemon tree

T1 Terry

When the reply to "How's ya day going" by the person waiting to scan your card to extract funds, has change from, "yeah, ok I guess" to "About as well as can be expected for an old bloke" ........ or from "fightin' fit to fighting Centrelink"

T1 Terry

You remember the TV repairman making house calls to fix the TV

T1 Terry

 

[Ian Key]

I remember renting the TV from Radio Rentals.

 

[salty]

The rent man calling round. And all diving behind the sofa. Till he'd gone.

 

[MG Clive]

I remember renting the TV from Radio Rentals.

And the 10p slot meter on the back of the telly.

 

[decrep]

You remember the TV repairman making house calls to fix the TV

T1 Terry

You remember doing that, when they were all valves and small screens with 15kv leads to them. Getting your finger on that could really wake you up, send your screwdriver flying across the room!!!

 

[T1 Terry]

You remember doing that, when they were all valves and small screens with 15kv leads to them. Getting your finger on that could really wake you up, send your screwdriver flying across the room!!!

Fortunately, the TV repairman was a family friend and he showed me the arc when discharging the lead that went in the side of the tube ...... never had an interest in looking in the back of the tele after seeing that

T1 Terry

 

[pdm1]

You're just a kid, I remember Bill & Ben, The Woodentops, and Bagpuss.

Bill and Ben, flobba lobba, but don't forget the weed.

Younger ones may not understand that.

 

[salty]

Bill and Ben, flobba lobba, but don't forget the weed.

Younger ones may not understand that.

Might understand, the Weed bit.

 

[LenEV2016]

This forum is starting to make me feel old

 

[dsimpkins]

 

[Pete G]

I remember when conductors on busses came around to take money and hand out tickets.
Also remember Bread deliveries, where the bread man had a horse and cart.
There was a man who came around the streets with a horse and cart too, who sharpened knives and scissors.
Train conductors came around and punched holes in your ticket to make sure you didn't try to use it again.
There were toilets underground in Sydney streets where you had to pay a penny to use them too.
Oh dear I must be old now

 

[T1 Terry]

Not old enough for the horse and cart, poor horse wouldn't have made it back up our hill with cart on the back, it was really steep ..... but great for riding billy carts .... never see kids riding billy carts anymore these days .....
The baker who was really only delivering bread, buying a half loaf of fresh hot bread and eating the dough part out of the centre before eating the crust.
The Rawleigh's man visiting once a week to sell ointment or what ever but always with a cheer that lifted mum's spirits .....
The green grocer's truck, but that stopped even when I was still very young
Working on a milk run, getting up at 2:30 in the morning, on the run for 2 1/2 hrs carrying 18 1 pint bottles of milk, later 600ml bottles. balanced on the lower arm by the round handle to keep the crate high enough to clear the fences as we ran from house to house ...... leather apron with the money pouch in the front, working out the required change or noting how many bottles went to who while on the run ..... then, somehow, going back to sleep at home for 2 hrs before getting up for school, all for the sum of 60 cents a day ...... Kinda miss that simple life, but mostly miss being that fit
Certainly made my chosen sport, beach athletics easier, running 9 miles up the beach was no effort at all

T1 Terry

 

[Gomev]

Bill and Ben, flobba lobba, but don't forget the weed.

Younger ones may not understand that.

Time for bed said Zebedee.

 

[T1 Terry]

Probably only an Australian thing, but when STD meant making a long distance call, and they were expensive
(Subscriber Trunk Dialling)

T1 Terry

 

[Gomev]

Probably only an Australian thing, but when STD meant making a long distance call, and they were expensive
(Subscriber Trunk Dialling)

T1 Terry

Still same definition here Subscriber Trunk Dialling, originally designed to route "trunk" calls (long-distance) automatically. In the UK, these are now commonly referred to simply as "area codes".

 

[Archev]

Still same definition here Subscriber Trunk Dialling, originally designed to route "trunk" calls (long-distance) automatically. In the UK, these are now commonly referred to simply as "area codes".

Another innuendo knackered

 

[LenEV2016]

Probably only an Australian thing, but when STD meant making a long distance call, and they were expensive
(Subscriber Trunk Dialling)

T1 Terry

STD now has another meaning for our younger population.

 

[Archev]

STD now has another meaning for our younger population.

Sugar Topped Doughnuts ??

 

[T1 Terry]

Still same definition here Subscriber Trunk Dialling, originally designed to route "trunk" calls (long-distance) automatically. In the UK, these are now commonly referred to simply as "area codes".

Over here, the first two numbers are the state the exchange is in, so some towns along a border might have the other states initial code numbers, the next 2 numbers are the regional area code, the next 2 numbers were the local exchange, and the last 4 numbers actually identified your telephone line .... as an example 02 was NSW, 42 was the Illawarra area, 29 was central Wollongong 3493 was the actual workshop line, 10 numbers to get both correct and in the correct order .... simples
Now I really feel old, that dates back to the mid '80s, but I still remember the phone number of my automotive workshop ....

T1 Terry

You know you are old when "a bonk meant getting hit on the head" ..... that was one of the lines for a potato chip claiming to still have the old fashioned quality and flavour

T1 Terry

 

[LenEV2016]

Sugar Topped Doughnuts ??

Don't go in the water without your wellies on as my dad told me when I went off to the RAF as a 17 year old