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praek tih kl jo kr
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This is just a thread on the good old times when life was simpler
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remember when the derestricted speeds zones existed outside Sydney.
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I remember when you could get 10c for the big glass coke bottles. There'd be fights at the bin in the park over them.
We'd go to the small deli in our suburb and cash them in to buy lollies, he didn't lock the gates out back so we'd knock them off the next day and take them to the big deli, he unfortunately did lock his gates ![]()
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…When you could hug someone without wondering if it was going to come back in ten years as a DV charge against you?
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praek tih kl jo kr
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when you could let your kids play in the street, leave your front door unlocked and put your car keys on the visor, drive ins, service stations (not petrol stations like now) Bog laps in town.
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When you could say every colour under the sun without being questioned or frowned upon.
Redskins ! No parking meters. Have loud exhausts no one would care. Servo attendants. Milk and bread delivered home. Watch Benny Hill On the Bus’s Love They Neighbour ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Shenanigans..............
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Take the bunny gun and ride down to the river to fetch some din-din.
Fireworks And while down at the river, see an old holden or two dumped in there. |
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or, take a girl to the drive-in movies, find heaven in the back seat of your (insert car name), and not be charged with sexual assault at some indeterminate time in the distant future.
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Where it's cold and lonely by the dashboard light.
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Remember when only women competed in women's sport.
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As a young kid around 12/13 I would walk up to the local shopping centre after dinner to go slot car racing. I'd walk the 2 miles home around 8:30 pm. Not a worry in the world.
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praek tih kl jo kr
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When you used to write a letter and wait a few weeks for a response, actually talk to someone with speech (not text), when a phone only was a phone, you got paid in Cash, you could talk to your bank manager, your friends were either a girl or a boy
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.............. crack a joke in a group of 10 people without offending 9 of them for 9 different reasons.
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I remember life being so much simpler, no mobile phones or internet.
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As an arthritic 70 year old, it's: do up your shoe laces without any pain or aids for the aged, form fist with your hands and repair mechanical watches and read ingredient lists on food packaging without needing a microscope.
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eat real food, no Soylent Green.
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Advise a mate about to paint old varnished timber panelling in an old house, to use a blocker with shellac to prevent bleed, without being told in response "no- we cannot use shellac in paint -we are vegan...."
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reminds me of going to the hardware store (a little independent) and being able to buy Coprinol, Red lead or copper roves and naturally seasoned timber.
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Shenanigans..............
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Get vaccinated and not catch autism.
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…borrow Grandads STEN SMG (a left over from WW2, we never really did find out how it came into his possession), take it down to the local rifle range and fire off a few rounds without anyone giving a shiit. Those were the days!
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backyard burning off fires.....
Ride your mini or motorcross bike down the paths and into the bush and go for your life ! No battery powered power tools !
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Same,no idea how he got it, we think he traded it for something. After the buy back business from Port Arthur, handed it in to the Army Museum here in WA, didn't want to get caught with that.
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Speaking of guns, school cadets. A open air firing range down behind the basketball courts and we took our guns home on the bus for cleaning before various displays. Hilariously unthinkable now.
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...renovate a house without having to worry about whether the materials inside could potentially kill you. Or not having to worry about getting in a professional to suit up, wrap the house in plastic and pay them a fortune just coz you wanted to demolish that wall.
Not everything was better.......
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I remember doing my BAS, paying the required tax and still having funds left over in the business bank acct.
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