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Title: remember when
Post by: Adam on March 28, 2011, 06:27:26 PM
when space raiders was 10p?

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Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Celticgoddess on March 28, 2011, 06:29:40 PM
aww...Flo :heart:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Adam on March 28, 2011, 06:32:15 PM
yeah she's cute isn't she? :)

I added a whole Flo page to my website, with pictures of her on it. That was one of the ones I found
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: earthboundmisfit on March 28, 2011, 06:38:02 PM


What are Space Raiders?
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Adam on March 28, 2011, 06:38:31 PM
crisps!

I like the spicy ones
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Binty on March 28, 2011, 06:44:17 PM
A child's travelcard was £2?  Now it's £3  :grrr:  Wanker Cameron.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Adam on March 28, 2011, 06:45:48 PM
large fries from mcdonalds was 99p? then 1.09 then 1.19 then 1.29 now it's 1.39 fucking cocksuckers
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on March 28, 2011, 06:46:55 PM
Gas was $.589 a gal
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 28, 2011, 06:50:07 PM
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Binty on March 28, 2011, 06:57:09 PM
Adult single bus fare used to be 60p.  Now without an Oyster card it's £2.20 :o
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on March 28, 2011, 07:25:03 PM
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.
My parents had a Studebaker when I was born. the >589 is from the first time I remember looking at how much gas cost in 1978.  Cigarettes were $.59 also the same year.

School milk was five cents
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 28, 2011, 07:29:06 PM
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.
My parents had a Studebaker when I was born. the >589 is from the first time I remember looking at how much gas cost in 1978.  Cigarettes were $.59 also the same year.

School milk was five cents

Dad loved Studebakers and Nash Ramblers.  I didn't like the Studebaker, in fact I deliberately miscalled it the Student Breaker.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: DukeNukem on March 28, 2011, 07:29:19 PM
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.
My parents had a Studebaker when I was born. the >589 is from the first time I remember looking at how much gas cost in 1978.  Cigarettes were $.59 also the same year.

School milk was five cents

There is a third digit in cents? :o
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 28, 2011, 07:30:26 PM
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.
My parents had a Studebaker when I was born. the >589 is from the first time I remember looking at how much gas cost in 1978.  Cigarettes were $.59 also the same year.

School milk was five cents

There is a third digit in cents? :o

Yeah, it has something to do with the federal tax on gasoline.  Most places just round up now, but back then they showed all 3 digits.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 28, 2011, 09:11:57 PM
All this furren currancy is makins mah head hurd
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 28, 2011, 10:42:14 PM
All this furren currancy is makins mah head hurd

aren't you used to different currencies as you errant around on your quests, sir knight?
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 28, 2011, 10:51:18 PM
All this furren currancy is makins mah head hurd

aren't you used to different currencies as you errant around on your quests, sir knight?

There's an App for that :)
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 29, 2011, 12:53:43 AM
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.

$.399/gallon must have been around 1920 or so here in Sweden. It's almost $10/US gallon here now.  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on March 29, 2011, 01:11:01 AM
aww...Flo :heart:

That's what I was thinking too. Awww.... Flo
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on March 29, 2011, 01:15:19 AM
When bread was 25 cts a loaf, and an egg had the same price.

Now a simple bread is around 2 euro, more than 17 times as expensive, and an egg costs 20 cents at the most. Not even twice as expensive.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on March 29, 2011, 04:46:06 AM
Beer was under $2 for a six pack
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: eris on March 29, 2011, 11:37:54 AM
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.

$.399/gallon must have been around 1920 or so here in Sweden. It's almost $10/US gallon here now.  :thumbdn:

when I started driving in 1998 it was under a dollar a gallon I remember .... It's $3.49 a gallon right now :(
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 29, 2011, 11:41:55 AM
Remember when cans of food were 16 ounces, not 14.5 ounces and tuna was 6 and 1/2 ounces, then 6 ounces, now 5 ounces.  Oh wait that was 2 years ago.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 29, 2011, 11:43:28 AM
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.

$.399/gallon must have been around 1920 or so here in Sweden. It's almost $10/US gallon here now.  :thumbdn:

when I started driving in 1998 it was under a dollar a gallon I remember .... It's $3.49 a gallon right now :(

When I moved cross-country from Florida to Idaho in 1999 I filled up my gas tank for $0.99 a gallon, when I arrived it was $1.10 and hasn't dropped back below since.  I'm paying $3.39 a gallon now at the cheapest place in town :(
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 29, 2011, 12:12:17 PM
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.

$.399/gallon must have been around 1920 or so here in Sweden. It's almost $10/US gallon here now.  :thumbdn:

when I started driving in 1998 it was under a dollar a gallon I remember .... It's $3.49 a gallon right now :(

I started driving (or got my license; I could drive when I was 13) in 1989. Then it costed a little less than a dollar a litre here. One US gallon is 3.8 litres.  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: eris on March 29, 2011, 12:14:21 PM
that sucks, :( If that happened here "all of a sudden" , the economy would collapse.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on March 29, 2011, 12:59:03 PM
TVs and radios had tubes in them you could take out and check at the drug store

Here is a box of them I picked up at a tag sale for reference for you younger folk :P
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/024.jpg)
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 29, 2011, 03:07:09 PM
We didn't have Velcro?
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 29, 2011, 03:09:24 PM
Smoking was allowed in hospitals.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 29, 2011, 03:11:52 PM
Smoking was allowed in hospitals.

The parish (county) run hospital actually allowed drinking if you were a patient and the doctor prescribed it. This was in the 1980's.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 29, 2011, 03:17:47 PM
When kids could buy cigars and cigarettes without any questions.

When we just had two TV channels, TV1 and TV2. That was actually until 1990 or so.



Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on March 29, 2011, 03:37:52 PM
When kids could buy cigars and cigarettes without any questions.

When we just had two TV channels, TV1 and TV2. That was actually until 1990 or so.





Oh wow. We could receive three German channels beside the Ned 1 and Ned 2.

And yes, I got the cigarettes for my Dad. And was behind a bar tapping beer at age 10  :asthing:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 29, 2011, 03:41:52 PM
When drugs were legal to use but not to possess. This meant that you couldn't get busted if the drug was already in your body, because according to the narrow judicial definition, possession didn't include things already absorbed by your body. Unfortunately I wasn't interested in them then.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: renaeden on March 30, 2011, 06:32:08 AM
I remember petrol being 68cents per litre when I first got my licence in 1996.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: earthboundmisfit on March 30, 2011, 07:21:39 AM


I recall when quarrels were settled with fisticuffs or a duel.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 30, 2011, 07:56:54 AM
I remember that time I once typed this right now.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on March 30, 2011, 10:05:49 AM
You had to bring your film to get developed after taking photos
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 11:16:10 AM
You didn't need any seatbelts. Seat belt in the frontseat became compulsory in 1975 here, while you didn't need any in the backseat until 1986. Though if the car is older than a 1969 model you still don't need any seat belt in it.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on March 30, 2011, 12:33:05 PM
Leaded gasoline
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 12:36:38 PM
When you could - legally  :angel: -  buy fireworks per mail.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 31, 2011, 08:56:59 AM


I recall when quarrels were settled with fisticuffs or a duel.

Remember that time long ago when you said this?
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on March 31, 2011, 09:18:36 AM
If you wanted to watch something on TV you had to watch it when it aired or wait for a rerun
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2011, 09:23:13 AM
When you had no remote control for the TV and you didn't have a colour TV. We didn't have a colour TV until the late 70's and no remote control until the mid 90's.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 31, 2011, 09:23:37 AM
If you wanted to watch something on TV you had to watch it when it aired or wait for a rerun

I remember those days...and if you missed the rerun, too bad, that was it.  :emosad:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 31, 2011, 10:30:05 AM
If you wanted to watch something on TV you had to watch it when it aired or wait for a rerun

Thank god for progress
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: odeon on March 31, 2011, 10:52:41 AM
I remember when we had only a single TV channel in Finland. The second was up and running but their broadcasts were too weak for us to receive. On a good and clear day, we could see static resembling Sweden's TV1.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: P7PSP on March 31, 2011, 11:27:34 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtqUNEKXdg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtqUNEKXdg)
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: odeon on March 31, 2011, 11:35:09 AM
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: P7PSP on March 31, 2011, 11:37:56 AM
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
Kids are required to wear helmets to ride bicycles in most states now.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: odeon on March 31, 2011, 11:38:24 AM
I think it's the same here.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2011, 11:40:35 AM
I think it's the same here.

Yup, up to 15.  :-\
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 31, 2011, 12:44:21 PM
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
Kids are required to wear helmets to ride bicycles in most states now.

I never learned to ride a bike because we had no sidewalks on our street and weren't allowed to go far from the house unsupervised.   :dunno:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: P7PSP on March 31, 2011, 12:50:43 PM
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
Kids are required to wear helmets to ride bicycles in most states now.

I never learned to ride a bike because we had no sidewalks on our street and weren't allowed to go far from the house unsupervised.   :dunno:
We used to hike in the hills around Pittsburg CA trying to find Garter snakes and King snakes while avoiding Rattlesnakes. Once we found a dead decomposing Fox, I was surprised at how small it was.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 31, 2011, 12:58:53 PM
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
Kids are required to wear helmets to ride bicycles in most states now.

I never learned to ride a bike because we had no sidewalks on our street and weren't allowed to go far from the house unsupervised.   :dunno:
We used to hike in the hills around Pittsburg CA trying to find Garter snakes and King snakes while avoiding Rattlesnakes. Once we found a dead decomposing Fox, I was surprised at how small it was.

Growing up I would spend at least 2 hours a weekday and 8 hours or more every Saturday and Sunday hiking around the old logging roads in the forest behind the house I grew up in outside Seattle.  Birds, squirrels, all kinds of things.  I once found the head and legs of a poached Elk and watched them decompose over several weeks.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: P7PSP on March 31, 2011, 01:04:05 PM
That ^^^ is good education.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 31, 2011, 01:12:36 PM
That ^^^ is good education.  :thumbup:

By the time I was in college I was defleshing and disarticulating dog and cat skeletons.  A good education, but not one that screams "normal".  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: P7PSP on March 31, 2011, 01:15:26 PM
That ^^^ is good education.  :thumbup:

By the time I was in college I was defleshing and disarticulating dog and cat skeletons.  A good education, but not one that screams "normal".  :evillaugh:
You can stay here, but you can't be I2s own Temperance Brennan. odeon has already claimed that niche.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Celticgoddess on March 31, 2011, 01:21:45 PM
Birthday cakes with coins baked inside. You got to keep any money that you found in your piece of cake. Nothing says safety like baking choking hazards inside food. Gotta love the 70's.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 31, 2011, 01:21:56 PM
That ^^^ is good education.  :thumbup:

By the time I was in college I was defleshing and disarticulating dog and cat skeletons.  A good education, but not one that screams "normal".  :evillaugh:

Was that in the context of your college courses, or was it just your hobby at the time? Should I be afraid?   :hide:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2011, 01:37:18 PM
Birthday cakes with coins baked inside. You got to keep any money that you found in your piece of cake. Nothing says safety like baking choking hazards inside food. Gotta love the 70's.  :thumbup:

Oh, I remember some bonbons that I ate in the 70's. They were read and made my shit look like blood. We were on vacation, but my dad drove me over 100 kms home to town to the hospital to find out that it was nothing wrong with me. They don't make any nice colourants that colours your piss and shit anymore either.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 31, 2011, 01:41:46 PM
Birthday cakes with coins baked inside. You got to keep any money that you found in your piece of cake. Nothing says safety like baking choking hazards inside food. Gotta love the 70's.  :thumbup:

Oh, I remember some bonbons that I ate in the 70's. They were read and made my shit look like blood. We were on vacation, but my dad drove me over 100 kms home to town to the hospital to find out that it was nothing wrong with me. They don't make any nice colourants that colours your piss and shit anymore either.

My mother never allowed colored cereals in the house because of the big 1970s Red Dye #2 cancer scare. We had good cereal,
but none of the cartoony stuff advertised on TV. One of my big childhood adventures was the two-course breakfast of colored cereals
that I ate one morning when I was away at Girl Scout camp! The milk turned beige and then pink. It was a whole new experience!   :baked:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Celticgoddess on March 31, 2011, 01:51:50 PM
Birthday cakes with coins baked inside. You got to keep any money that you found in your piece of cake. Nothing says safety like baking choking hazards inside food. Gotta love the 70's.  :thumbup:

Oh, I remember some bonbons that I ate in the 70's. They were read and made my shit look like blood. We were on vacation, but my dad drove me over 100 kms home to town to the hospital to find out that it was nothing wrong with me. They don't make any nice colourants that colours your piss and shit anymore either.

My mother never allowed colored cereals in the house because of the big 1970s Red Dye #2 cancer scare. We had good cereal,
but none of the cartoony stuff advertised on TV. One of my big childhood adventures was the two-course breakfast of colored cereals
that I ate one morning when I was away at Girl Scout camp! The milk turned beige and then pink. It was a whole new experience!   :baked:

My Aunt had a mastectomy last week and I was her caregiver when she came home from the hospital. The day before surgery they inject her with nuke meds. Made her pee really bright green. I told her she was peeing kryptonite. :laugh:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 31, 2011, 01:53:40 PM
That ^^^ is good education.  :thumbup:

By the time I was in college I was defleshing and disarticulating dog and cat skeletons.  A good education, but not one that screams "normal".  :evillaugh:

Was that in the context of your college courses, or was it just your hobby at the time? Should I be afraid?   :hide:

Both.  I was pre-vet for a few years, and worked as a veterinary nurse for a decade or so.  Canine and Feline anatomy, physiology, chemistry and medicine has been a special interest of mine for a lot of years.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 31, 2011, 01:54:25 PM
Birthday cakes with coins baked inside. You got to keep any money that you found in your piece of cake. Nothing says safety like baking choking hazards inside food. Gotta love the 70's.  :thumbup:

Oh, I remember some bonbons that I ate in the 70's. They were read and made my shit look like blood. We were on vacation, but my dad drove me over 100 kms home to town to the hospital to find out that it was nothing wrong with me. They don't make any nice colourants that colours your piss and shit anymore either.

My mother never allowed colored cereals in the house because of the big 1970s Red Dye #2 cancer scare. We had good cereal,
but none of the cartoony stuff advertised on TV. One of my big childhood adventures was the two-course breakfast of colored cereals
that I ate one morning when I was away at Girl Scout camp! The milk turned beige and then pink. It was a whole new experience!   :baked:

My Aunt had a mastectomy last week and I was her caregiver when she came home from the hospital. The day before surgery they inject her with nuke meds. Made her pee really bright green. I told her she was peeing kryptonite. :laugh:

That's right, green pee is just weakness leaving the body! I wish her a full recovery.  :viking:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: P7PSP on March 31, 2011, 02:05:17 PM
That ^^^ is good education.  :thumbup:

By the time I was in college I was defleshing and disarticulating dog and cat skeletons.  A good education, but not one that screams "normal".  :evillaugh:

Was that in the context of your college courses, or was it just your hobby at the time? Should I be afraid?   :hide:

Both.  I was pre-vet for a few years, and worked as a veterinary nurse for a decade or so.  Canine and Feline anatomy, physiology, chemistry and medicine has been a special interest of mine for a lot of years.
Do you still work in that field?
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 31, 2011, 02:09:11 PM
No - now I work in insurance law.  Not nearly as exciting or fun, but pays a hell of a lot better.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on March 31, 2011, 02:21:24 PM
Our Mercedes back in the 60s didn't have seat belts installed. When I was three or four my dad used to take me with him into town. I would sit in the front, next to him, without any kind of protection. Back then it was the normal state of things but today the naysayers would get their knickers in a twist and my dad would probably be jailed for endangering my life. :laugh:
Kids are required to wear helmets to ride bicycles in most states now.

Kids can still ride bikes without helmets here. I wonder for how long........
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on March 31, 2011, 02:23:25 PM
Birthday cakes with coins baked inside. You got to keep any money that you found in your piece of cake. Nothing says safety like baking choking hazards inside food. Gotta love the 70's.  :thumbup:

Oh, I remember some bonbons that I ate in the 70's. They were read and made my shit look like blood. We were on vacation, but my dad drove me over 100 kms home to town to the hospital to find out that it was nothing wrong with me. They don't make any nice colourants that colours your piss and shit anymore either.
:LMAO:

Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on March 31, 2011, 03:44:16 PM
Rotary phones.  I still have one and it works from the 1940's
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 31, 2011, 03:52:24 PM
Rotary phones.  I still have one and it works from the 1940's

I liked those.  I didn't know they still worked with current telecommunications.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2011, 04:04:45 PM
We still have one in the garage to this very day, though it's "only" 30 years old or so.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on March 31, 2011, 04:06:46 PM
Rotary phones.  I still have one and it works from the 1940's

I liked those.  I didn't know they still worked with current telecommunications.

For now they still work in my area,  not sure how much longer they will though
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2011, 04:18:48 PM
Rotary phones.  I still have one and it works from the 1940's

I liked those.  I didn't know they still worked with current telecommunications.

For now they still work in my area,  not sure how much longer they will though

They will work fine as long as there is a stationary telephone net of the kind we have now. The telecommunication industry plans for decades ahead. The mobile phone net in Sweden was planned already in the 1960's, for instance.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 31, 2011, 04:25:26 PM
Automated drip coffee pots came out?  We never used a percolator, just Mom standing at the stove, dripping the water over the grounds into the white enamel coffee pot.  Dad gave her one for Christmas and she was free, free, free.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on April 01, 2011, 03:34:30 AM
Automated drip coffee pots came out?  We never used a percolator, just Mom standing at the stove, dripping the water over the grounds into the white enamel coffee pot.  Dad gave her one for Christmas and she was free, free, free.

 :lol:

And now I use my drip coffee machine as a mere holder for filter and pot, to hand drip my coffee. Because I like the taste better that way.
And I hand whip the milk for it too.

Not an excessive coffee-drinker, but, when I have it, I want it to be the just the way I like it.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on April 01, 2011, 05:03:50 AM
Dollar movies
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 01, 2011, 09:04:33 AM
Dollar movies

I still have those  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Callaway on April 01, 2011, 09:23:01 AM
Birthday cakes with coins baked inside. You got to keep any money that you found in your piece of cake. Nothing says safety like baking choking hazards inside food. Gotta love the 70's.  :thumbup:

Oh, I remember some bonbons that I ate in the 70's. They were read and made my shit look like blood. We were on vacation, but my dad drove me over 100 kms home to town to the hospital to find out that it was nothing wrong with me. They don't make any nice colourants that colours your piss and shit anymore either.

My husband's sister sent us a red velvet cake for Christmas that dyed poop red, so I guess they must still make that kind of dye here.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: odeon on April 01, 2011, 10:28:04 AM
I'm at the cinema, about to show a film about Göteborg's premier football team, IFK Göteborg, and its glorious past. Now, *those* were the days. In 1982 and again in 1986, they won the UEFA cup. :viking:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: SBI_Patience on April 01, 2011, 10:41:10 AM
I remember the days when chips are less than a pound... Now just for a portion of chips on its own is £1.30, just too insane. :thumbdn:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 01, 2011, 10:43:36 AM
I remember the days when chips are less than a pound... Now just for a portion of chips on its own is £1.30, just too insane. :thumbdn:

In the states a pound of chips goes for closer to $4.00

(intentional septic humour)
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on April 01, 2011, 11:02:45 AM
I remember when there were 1, 2, 5, 10 and 25 öre coins and 5 kronor bills but no 10 kronor coins and no 20 or 500 kronor bills.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 01, 2011, 11:06:41 AM
I can remember when $2 bills were in fashion.  I can also remember at least 3 separate $1 coins that have come and gone.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on April 01, 2011, 11:15:46 AM
A five krona with the old king and two one kronor with the current king. All three are still valid.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 01, 2011, 12:19:36 PM
Automated drip coffee pots came out?  We never used a percolator, just Mom standing at the stove, dripping the water over the grounds into the white enamel coffee pot.  Dad gave her one for Christmas and she was free, free, free.

 :lol:

And now I use my drip coffee machine as a mere holder for filter and pot, to hand drip my coffee. Because I like the taste better that way.
And I hand whip the milk for it too.

Not an excessive coffee-drinker, but, when I have it, I want it to be the just the way I like it.

I still have my Mom's and her Mom's drip white enamel coffee pots with the hand-made cotton filters for them.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on April 01, 2011, 12:31:44 PM
If you got 25 channels in your cable package that was a lot
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 01, 2011, 04:50:22 PM
If you got 25 channels in your cable package that was a lot

Cable?  Hell, I remember black and white.  And the little deer lamps that people would put on the TVs so you wouldn't get eye strain in the dark.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: renaeden on April 02, 2011, 02:39:57 AM
I remember when tvs were big enough on top so the cat could sleep on it. That was before we got a video player.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Eclair on April 02, 2011, 02:57:14 AM
^ I remember when you actually had to get off your ass to change the TV channel and commit to a show before you sat down again.

There was no such thing as channel surfing for any extended period of time!
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: renaeden on April 02, 2011, 03:06:13 AM
Yeah our tv had one of those twisty dials to change the channel. I remember when we first got Channel 10.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Eclair on April 02, 2011, 03:08:19 AM
He he...this convo sent me to Countdown clips on youtube.

I remember when this guy was hawt in the 70's....now all I can see is a freaky male version of Julia Roberts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5EwpVVOAs&feature=related
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Eclair on April 02, 2011, 03:30:08 AM
ESP moment. Pretty Woman is on tonight.

I remember when I first saw it, in a hotel room in Melbourne back in 1991.

How the fuck can that be 20 years ago?  :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 02, 2011, 04:15:43 AM
I'm still young so the 90's are like eons ago for me.

I remember when 600ml bottles of coke were just 500ml bottles with 20% bonus extra. AND they were only $1.50.

I remember when we couldn't get Ten and NBN on TV because we didn't have UHF aerial on our roof.

Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 02, 2011, 05:54:06 AM
If you got 25 channels in your cable package that was a lot

Cable?  Hell, I remember black and white.  And the little deer lamps that people would put on the TVs so you wouldn't get eye strain in the dark.

YES! The TV lamp, my mother kept it in back of the big monstrous black-and-white TV, which of course was kept on a TV cart
with WHEELS on it, and it had the rabbit-ear antennae, and my father put pieces of tinfoil on the ends of the rabbit ears to
improve the reception. We turned this TV on an off manually, and changed channels manually. We got about 8 channels.  :chin:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 02, 2011, 09:30:59 AM
When a television was a piece of furniture
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Al Swearegen on April 02, 2011, 10:03:33 AM
I remember when Space Invader arcades came out. They were really groovy
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on April 02, 2011, 12:17:46 PM
Everything wasn't made in China
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 02, 2011, 12:18:51 PM
Everything wasn't made in China

What a sad truth that is!
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: odeon on April 02, 2011, 01:39:12 PM
If you got 25 channels in your cable package that was a lot

Cable?  Hell, I remember black and white.  And the little deer lamps that people would put on the TVs so you wouldn't get eye strain in the dark.

Ah, yes, I remember those. We had one.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on April 02, 2011, 04:33:10 PM
If you got 25 channels in your cable package that was a lot

Cable?  Hell, I remember black and white.  And the little deer lamps that people would put on the TVs so you wouldn't get eye strain in the dark.

Thank you.

Only now I get why the windmill lamp would be on. No deer here, a wooden windmill with warm yellow light.

It could make music too btw, but that of course would not happen during watching TV
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on April 02, 2011, 04:59:18 PM
The video and TV games were to blame for violence, and the karate movies and the cartoons.  :facepalm2:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 02, 2011, 07:03:55 PM
The video and TV games were to blame for violence, and the karate movies and the cartoons.  :facepalm2:

Well, they ARE to blame, you know. That's why I limit my entertainment choices to wholesome places like this.  :M
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 02, 2011, 07:06:44 PM
ESP moment. Pretty Woman is on tonight.

I remember when I first saw it, in a hotel room in Melbourne back in 1991.

How the fuck can that be 20 years ago?  :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry:

Also 20 years ago: Thelma and Louise  and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.    :orly:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on April 02, 2011, 08:14:42 PM
There were pay phones everywhere and even phone boths
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 02, 2011, 08:35:58 PM
There were pay phones everywhere and even phone boths

One of the agencies I often audited was the Orleans Parish Levee Board, which was located at the Lakefront Airport.  Up until Hurricane Katring the airport had an old wooden phone booth that I would specifically go into to call home because it was so much fun to do. Sadly the airport was outside the levee system and fared very badly. 
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on April 03, 2011, 07:32:47 AM
The video and TV games were to blame for violence, and the karate movies and the cartoons.  :facepalm2:

Well, they ARE to blame, you know. That's why I limit my entertainment choices to wholesome places like this.  :M

I don't even dare to imagine what video and tv games could have turned you into.  :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on April 03, 2011, 07:49:23 AM
My brother and I looked on Vietnam and karate movies during the whole late 80's and early 90's and then I transformed into a gun crazy Little Nazi Pony.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on April 03, 2011, 07:56:25 AM
My brother and I looked on Vietnam and karate movies during the whole late 80's and early 90's and then I transformed into a gun crazy Little Nazi Pony.  :zoinks:

I watched and read a lot on WWII as a kid. And I transformed into a blue green cow.
Oh, and of course I saw lots of Bonanza dubbed in German too.

This needs further research.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Eclair on April 03, 2011, 08:02:52 AM
The video and TV games were to blame for violence, and the karate movies and the cartoons.  :facepalm2:

Well, they ARE to blame, you know. That's why I limit my entertainment choices to wholesome places like this.  :M

I don't even dare to imagine what video and tv games could have turned you into.  :zombiefuck:

Meh, TheoK isn't that much younger than me. I doubt how 'Frogger, Space Invaders, or Galaxian' could have turned us into spiteful fruitloops...

I suspect the old Theo got corrupted by much more than video games. :P And he liked it. >:D
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on April 03, 2011, 08:05:01 AM
The video and TV games were to blame for violence, and the karate movies and the cartoons.  :facepalm2:

Well, they ARE to blame, you know. That's why I limit my entertainment choices to wholesome places like this.  :M

I don't even dare to imagine what video and tv games could have turned you into.  :zombiefuck:

Meh, TheoK isn't that much younger than me. I doubt how 'Frogger, Space Invaders, or Galaxian' could have turned us into spiteful fruitloops...

I suspect the old Theo got corrupted by much more than video games. :P And he liked it. >:D

I was wondering what CBC could have been turned into, had she had the 'right' stimulants.  :autism:
Could have been downright dangerous.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on April 03, 2011, 08:05:37 AM
My brother and I looked on Vietnam and karate movies during the whole late 80's and early 90's and then I transformed into a gun crazy Little Nazi Pony.  :zoinks:

I watched and read a lot on WWII as a kid. And I transformed into a blue green cow.
Oh, and of course I saw lots of Bonanza dubbed in German too.

This needs further research.

Bonanza in German.  :green: Hände hoch! :litigious:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 03, 2011, 08:17:01 AM
My brother and I looked on Vietnam and karate movies during the whole late 80's and early 90's and then I transformed into a gun crazy Little Nazi Pony.  :zoinks:

I watched and read a lot on WWII as a kid. And I transformed into a blue green cow.
Oh, and of course I saw lots of Bonanza dubbed in German too.

This needs further research.

Bonanza in German.  :green: Hände hoch! :litigious:
:laugh:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 01, 2011, 12:39:37 PM
Looking at porn meant magazines
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: eris on May 01, 2011, 02:06:51 PM
Looking at porn meant magazines

 :indeed:



I just had a discussion with a friend about "VCR porn"

how when we were kids we would try to remember the exact  second it was on, and we would try to rewind it to the exact point so we didnt get caught
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 01, 2011, 03:27:33 PM
CB radios

Stag and Male magazines

Letters as a means of correspondence

Plug in phones.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on May 01, 2011, 03:39:19 PM
Making mice out of handkerchiefs.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 01, 2011, 04:04:19 PM
Movie night at home was on 16mm
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: 'andersom' on May 01, 2011, 04:13:59 PM
Movie night at home was on 16mm

It was slideshows at my home.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 01, 2011, 04:16:46 PM
Movie night at home was on 16mm

It was slideshows at my home.

We had both my brother was a photography student and we had our own equipment the library used to have 16mm movies and shorts
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 01, 2011, 04:47:53 PM
Movie night at home was on 16mm

It was slideshows at my home.

  I was just about to say that!  My favorite slide was my parents' photo of their flowering crapapple tree,
  its blossoms dusted with snow during a freak May snowstorm (I think that happened in 1977).   :chin:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: renaeden on May 02, 2011, 05:49:03 AM
1977? I was born then.

I remember when no one had more than one tv.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 02, 2011, 07:01:00 AM
1977? I was born then.

I remember when no one had more than one tv.

  We had two!  Both black-and-white with fairly crummy reception, but oh well!  :zoinks:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: renaeden on May 02, 2011, 07:05:36 AM
Oh I used to hate black and white tv. Things just don't look right. I remember when I was growing up a friend of mine had black and white tv and I refused to watch it, heh.

The first tv I remember our family having was a big coloured one which you had to turn the dial on to change channels. And we had three channels, 2, 7 and 9.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 02, 2011, 07:07:41 AM
Oh I used to hate black and white tv. Things just don't look right. I remember when I was growing up a friend of mine had black and white tv and I refused to watch it, heh.

The first tv I remember our family having was a big coloured one which you had to turn the dial on to change channels. And we had three channels, 2, 7 and 9.

 We had the manual dial too, and the button that you pulled out to turn the TV on and pushed in to turn the TV off.    :nerdy:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 02, 2011, 07:10:58 AM
I remember the kind of tv that you opened the panel and turned the little dials to make preset channels, and then pushed little silver buttons outside the panel to go to the presets.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 02, 2011, 08:55:52 AM
And indoor and outdoor TV antennas. 

Dad on the roof with us in the living room and the window open relaying info to him on the best direction for the antenna for TV reception.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: renaeden on May 03, 2011, 12:14:18 AM
Oh I used to hate black and white tv. Things just don't look right. I remember when I was growing up a friend of mine had black and white tv and I refused to watch it, heh.

The first tv I remember our family having was a big coloured one which you had to turn the dial on to change channels. And we had three channels, 2, 7 and 9.

 We had the manual dial too, and the button that you pulled out to turn the TV on and pushed in to turn the TV off.    :nerdy:
I remember that now. There was also room for the cat on top of the tv - he used to love the warmth there.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: odeon on May 03, 2011, 04:08:50 PM
Movie night at home was on 16mm

Or Super 8. Anyone remember that format?
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on May 03, 2011, 04:10:39 PM
Movie night at home was on 16mm

Or Super 8. Anyone remember that format?

Yup. We actually had it in the kindergarten.  :viking:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: odeon on May 03, 2011, 04:18:39 PM
Movie night at home was on 16mm

Or Super 8. Anyone remember that format?

Yup. We actually had it in the kindergarten.  :viking:

I made lots of films with Super 8 equipment in my teens.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 03, 2011, 06:01:55 PM
TV stations went off the air in the middle of the night
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 03, 2011, 06:04:25 PM
TV stations went off the air in the middle of the night

  YES!  I'd forgotten that!  Even when I first had cable in 1988/89, I remember certain stations would just show a test pattern
   in the wee hours of the morning, or they'd show hours of infomercials.  I miss the late 80s, they were dorky but fun.   :chin:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: renaeden on May 04, 2011, 04:06:21 AM
TV stations went off the air in the middle of the night

  YES!  I'd forgotten that!  Even when I first had cable in 1988/89, I remember certain stations would just show a test pattern
   in the wee hours of the morning, or they'd show hours of infomercials.  I miss the late 80s, they were dorky but fun.   :chin:
Yeah I remember the test pattern and really daggy muzak (or however it is spelt). Either that or just static.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2011, 05:19:56 AM
Typing and correction tape.   I used to use so much correction tape and white out I used to photocopy the papers to get them to look right
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: renaeden on May 04, 2011, 05:22:47 AM
I remember in Year 9 we had typing class. It was before I knew anything about computers and the internet. Geez I feel old.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2011, 05:24:49 AM
I had in in year 9 also.  And in year 3 or 4 as part of special ed  because of my bad handwriting
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: renaeden on May 04, 2011, 05:29:29 AM
I still never learnt to type properly, I use two fingers and am pretty slow at it. I never got along with my typing teacher and I didn't really learn anything in that class. We had electric typewriters though which were fun to use.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2011, 05:31:56 AM
I failed it in year 9 and hated the teacher which had a lot to do with it.  Never felt I learned much either and I type with two fingers also :laugh:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: renaeden on May 04, 2011, 05:36:07 AM
I think I failed it too. :D Failed pretty much everything that year anyway. Changed schools for the next year and did a lot better.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 04, 2011, 05:37:29 AM
TV stations went off the air in the middle of the night

  YES!  I'd forgotten that!  Even when I first had cable in 1988/89, I remember certain stations would just show a test pattern
   in the wee hours of the morning, or they'd show hours of infomercials.  I miss the late 80s, they were dorky but fun.   :chin:
Yeah I remember the test pattern and really daggy muzak (or however it is spelt). Either that or just static.

   Static, yeah!  If you fell asleep in front of the TV and woke up at 2 in the morning, it would be all snowy!   :orly:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2011, 05:38:55 AM
Well at least I was in good company :2thumbsup:

That year was bad I was in a very rebellious stage. that started in 8 and continued into 10.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 04, 2011, 05:44:09 AM
  I remember computer classes at my high school.  I probably still have my floppy disk around here somewhere.   :nerdy:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2011, 05:49:38 AM
And the only computers where in the special computer room in the library

 
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 04, 2011, 05:53:26 AM
And the only computers where in the special computer room in the library

 We had a special computer classroom filled with them.  Not sure I ever saw one in the library though.  :chin:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on May 04, 2011, 05:54:42 AM
I had "natural science" in high school in the late 80's. We spent 12 hours in 3 years in the computer room.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2011, 05:55:40 AM
Computer screens where green , amber or that kinda gray like a BW tv
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2011, 05:56:44 AM
I had "natural science" in high school in the late 80's. We spent 12 hours in 3 years in the computer room.

I think I was in there maybe 15 minutes they were for the Smart kids :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: eris on May 04, 2011, 01:47:20 PM
shit, I graduated in 1998 and my school didnt have that many computers. It was also situated in the middle of a cow field  ::)
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: earthboundmisfit on May 04, 2011, 02:33:16 PM


I remember the ones with a cassette tape instead of a disk drive. Mid eighties.
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: TheoK on May 04, 2011, 02:36:24 PM


I remember the ones with a cassette tape instead of a disk drive. Mid eighties.

My brother had those. He's five years younger but was always ahead of me with technical stuff, except for explosives/pyro stuff. :nerd!:
Title: Re: remember when
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 04, 2011, 03:06:39 PM
Speaking of typewriters, the last company to make manual typewriters has stopped making them.  They have about 500 in stock and expect to sell them to the military or other users who might not have access to electricity.