Born before 1986? Read this...

[Charlie]

Normally I cant stand junk e-mails that bleat about how women should defend themselves in supermarket carparks and how people use coca-cola to degrease their engine bays; especially when they are on their third cycle through my inbox.

But here's a goodie which put a smile on my face. :niceone:
I'm always starting conversations "remember when..." and rolling my eyes at the soft-cock, P.C 21st century.
Sorry if its whored its way into your inbox (or on KB) and you've read it 100 times already.... (it's a bit of a novel too).


According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived,
because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based
paint which was promptly chewed and licked.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and
fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags and
riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted
the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar
in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside
playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and
no-one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top
speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After
running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the
problem.
We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as
we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one
minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile
phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.
We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played elastics
and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!&n bsp; We fell out of
trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits. We had
full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We played knock-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the
owners catching us.
We walked to friends' homes.
We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy
or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs
of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent bailing
us out if we broke a law was unheard of...they actually sided with the
law.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem
solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion
of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how
to deal with it all. And you're one of them. Congratulations!
Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids,
before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read
about us.
This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a
smile on your face:
The majority of students in universities today were born in
1986........they are called youth. They have never heard of We are the
World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by
Westlife
not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena
Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.
For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.
AIDS has existed since they were born.
CD's have existed since they were born.
Michael Jackson has always been white.
To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't
imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.
They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films
from last year.
They can never imagine life before computers.
They'll never have pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of Hazard or
the Famous Five.
They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they
will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile
phone.

:clap:

[Colapop]

My childhood rocked because of those things. It's probably one of the best reasons I can think of as to why I like biking too. Remember sliding down hills on bits of cardboard in the summer? And getting a hiding from your old man when you got in trouble (real trouble - like when he caught doing something naughty). Good times.

[SPORK]

The fuck? I just ranted about people not looking for duplicates of rubbish forwards.

Here's a search term you can use to help you find similar posts.

"misguided fuck's rant"

[Milky]

My childhood rocked because of those things. It's probably one of the best reasons I can think of as to why I like biking too. Remember sliding down hills on bits of cardboard in the summer? And getting a hiding from your old man when you got in trouble (real trouble - like when he caught doing something naughty). Good times.

Ah ditto... I just scrape in to this bracket, but I remember most of those things fondly - going to one tree hill and sliding down on old cardboard boxes, bailing, ripping clothes, skin - all part of the fun... Most of the 'lectrical stuff came along when I was 10 or 12, so the best part of my life was spent doing all that cool stuff. Good times indeed.

[Motu]

Shit,we used to ride our dirt bikes on One Tree Hill! Just ride off the road and into it.

It used to shock me when I came across people who didn't know about Pounds Shillings and Pence and who were born after man walked on the moon....those kids are in their 30s now....

[DMNTD]

Wouldn't care if that was concidered "junk mail". Best flash back I've had in many years thank you.
I have a constant battle with my kids that claim that there's nothing to do outside,that is nless it involves $$$$$$$ etc. It blows me away as we live 100m above a beach,has bush and banks...to me I'd see it as the perfect playground. So much to do out there yet nothing,apparently.
In a weird way I don't think kids of today realise how unlucky they really are...and it shows when a 15y/o has a wobbley as posted above :weird:

[Colapop]

F*ck Chris I woulda killed to have that land for home (I'd just about kill have it now...)
Easy solution though, cut the male plugs off the end of all the electrical equipment and pelace them with female sockets. Then just make up a few male-male plugs and keep them with you. The only time things get plugged in is when you're home. They'll moan for a couple of days until they've made some of their own fun.

[Grahameeboy]

Ah ditto... I just scrape in to this bracket, but I remember most of those things fondly - going to one tree hill and sliding down on old cardboard boxes, bailing, ripping clothes, skin - all part of the fun... Most of the 'lectrical stuff came along when I was 10 or 12, so the best part of my life was spent doing all that cool stuff. Good times indeed.

They still do this stuff on North Head and Mt Victoria ewe know..........not all is lost......I guess it depends where you live maybe....okay I am lucky and live in Devonport where there are lots of 'Good Time' things still to do for kids despite the fact that it is suppose to be a place where parents can afford to spoil kids.....makes ewe think eh?

[enigma51]

The fuck? I just ranted about people not looking for duplicates of rubbish forwards.

Here's a search term you can use to help you find similar posts.

"misguided fuck's rant"

having a bad day are we :corn:

[wildcat_lgf]

Ah, the good 'ole days...fond memories of tree huts, and kites, and playing cowboys and indians in the bush.

TV has been the killer of imagination and motivation - I suffer a little from it myself now days...I'll have to throw the damn thing out! I should be out in the garage instead, fixing/restoring cars, modifying bikes...all the good stuff in life.

Thanks for the post, it cheered my dreary day :)

[Colapop]

They still do this stuff on North Head and Mt Victoria ewe know..........not all is lost......I guess it depends where you live maybe....okay I am lucky and live in Devonport where there are lots of 'Good Time' things still to do for kids despite the fact that it is suppose to be a place where parents can afford to spoil kids.....makes ewe think eh?
Baaaabaaaraa? Ewe seem to have an affinity with having fun possibly with something else in the outdoors??!!?

[DMNTD]

F*ck Chris I woulda killed to have that land for home (I'd just about kill have it now...)
Easy solution though, cut the male plugs off the end of all the electrical equipment and pelace them with female sockets. Then just make up a few male-male plugs and keep them with you. The only time things get plugged in is when you're home. They'll moan for a couple of days until they've made some of their own fun.

Not a bad idea re the plugs too Col. :niceone:
Yeah it's bloody awesome here,for a "city".
This is the view from my bedroom...all jokes aside. Just way too much to do.

[Grahameeboy]

Baaaabaaaraa? Ewe seem to have an affinity with having fun possibly with something else in the outdoors??!!?

Ewe are now officially banned from Devonport.........:kick:

[SPman]

Shit,we used to ride our dirt bikes on One Tree Hill! Just ride off the road and into it.

It used to shock me when I came across people who didn't know about Pounds Shillings and Pence and who were born after man walked on the moon....those kids are in their 30s now.... And Mt Eden! And at night! Pissed! - no wonder they put up all those barricades! Only ever fell into the crater once!

[Colapop]

Come on Eillen, that's not wooly all that nice...

[Grahameeboy]

Come on Eillen, that's not wooly all that nice...

I know you like to 'raid' but our women and children need to feel safe!!!!

and can you refrain from calling me Eillen in public......I dunno..how many times do I have to tell you....

[Colapop]

We're actually pretty selective. Some places we only pillage!

[Sniper]

Nostalgia, not a bad feeling

[Grahameeboy]

We're actually pretty selective. Some places we only pillage!

We will fight you on Cheltenham Beach....then Narrowneck, then Devonport........fuck it....easier to just invite you in for a beer........free tickets to Victoria Cinema be enough?

[T.W.R]

Ha what a trip lols! but who ever wrote the original must have grown up on the good side of town looking at some of the activities & taste in music lols

wheres the school games of brand-ball & barbadore etc or twink bombing blackboards. and when a ten speed pushie was a flash deal & BMX bikes rocked

led zep , floyd, eagles, motorhead etc were cult bands. blondie, dire straights,men at work, van halen were the in thing. INXS & G n R weren't even heard of lols

[marty]

having a bad day are we :corn:

well it is nearly the end of the holidays....

[Pixie]

we used to go through the bush down Oakley creek,in Avondale,with machetes and air guns.
Do that now and you'll have a AOS call out.

Bloody Precious Lamb Syndrome.

[Charlie]

Yeah I went to a country school and lived on a farm; so combine that with the good ol days and you have one heck of a childhood!
At 7 my younger sis and I had a motor bike each (had 3 wheels though!) and we were as proud as punch following along behind Dad on his (as was he). We thought creaks with eels and crawlies were the best ever place to play, no matter what time of year it was.

Ahh, kids were as tough and strong as their imaginations were creative.

[oldrider]

That takes me back a while. :bs:

It never ceases to amaze me, every time I fly between Wellington and Christchurch. :cool:

Do you realise that the first journey, of which I can consciously remember (as a kid) our family taking. :banana:

It took longer to go out and catch the horse and get it harnessed up into the dray to get ready to go than it does to fly between Welly and CHCH. :yes:

The major difference is once everything was ready we only travelled about three to five miles away from the farm and back. :blip:

I don't think there were ever many happier times than that and there was a world war raging. :laugh: :ar15:

Things were very scarce then as well. :doh: Showing my age now. :zzzz: Cheers John.

[Colapop]

We will fight you on Cheltenham Beach....then Narrowneck, then Devonport........fuck it....easier to just invite you in for a beer........free tickets to Victoria Cinema be enough?
WHAT??!! No tea or bikkies?? Damn you heathen! Just have your servants bring the loot to the ferry - we'll take it from there. (literally)

[In The Breeze]

The fuck? I just ranted about people not looking for duplicates of rubbish forwards.
Here's a search term you can use to help you find similar posts.
"misguided fuck's rant" ok does little boy feel left out? Go squeeze ya pimples and pack your lunch.
Fond memories of all mentioned. Great post and thanks

[Charlie]

...wheres the school games of brand-ball & barbadore etc or twink bombing blackboards. ...

Do schools still even have blackboards?
Did I see right some flash schools/uni's have electronic O.H.P thingies, so whatever the teacher writes on the whiteboard, it is scaned and saved so they dont even have to take notes? Or they just download the Powerpoint presentation all on their electronic tablet/P.C what-ya-ma-call-it?

Too complicated for me....

[Grahameeboy]

WHAT??!! No tea or bikkies?? Damn you heathen! Just have your servants bring the loot to the ferry - we'll take it from there. (literally)

no servants left....they get sent out to fight first silly and we will be eating the tea and bikkies so none left........hey don't ewe know that an invaded people always hide what is precious to them??

[Patrick]

The fuck? I just ranted about people not looking for duplicates of rubbish forwards.

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"misguided fuck's rant"

Has Mr Magoo even heard of Mr Magoo?????

Great opening post about the good ole days by the way... haven't seen it before, lived it though....

[In The Breeze]

Has Mr Magoo even heard of Mr Magoo?????
green sparkles your way. Wonder if he knows what sparkles are too

[Patrick]

green sparkles your way. Wonder if he knows what sparkles are too

Right back at ya....Bwahahahahahahaha...:niceone:

[Colapop]

Yeah I know - but we don't want your ol' ladies!! Material possesions is what it's about these days. Used to be the girls, the music and the good times. To quote an oldy but a goody "Where have all the good times gone?"

An don't tell me money don't make ya happy - only people who've got it say that.

[Charlie]

green sparkles your way. Wonder if he knows what sparkles are too
Wasnt a packet 10c too?
Oh the joy of being given FIFTY cents on Saturdays and cycling to the dairy to buy a huge bag of 1c lollies. (Remember 1c coins? Cant say I remeber shillings and pence though sorry).
Dairy owners were so patient too...
"I'll have one of those, and 5 of those, 5 of those and one of those. How much do I have left? One of those, 10 of those. How much now???" :wacko:

[Str8 Jacket]

Yep I remember those day's, though I only just scrape in being born in 1980! I was lucky enough to grow up in Ohakune, there were no end of things to do. Those were the days when chopping down trees and mowing the lawns for your olds was fun and 50 cents was ALOT of money for a kid to spend at the diary. Im sorry but Scoots Magoo you just proved the point of the whole thread.

[Colapop]

Yeah, when $10 did four of us kids to the movies, with snacks, AND change!! Ya just don't hear the Jaffa's rolling done the aisles anymore.

[Charlie]

Yeah, when $10 did four of us kids to the movies, with snacks, AND change!! Ya just don't hear the Jaffa's rolling done the aisles anymore.
When you pay four bucks for jaffas they are too valuable to be dropping! :mellow:

The do make fantastic missiles though....

[Colapop]

Seriously $4 for Jaffas??!! F*ck Me!

[Charlie]

Seriously $4 for Jaffas??!! F*ck Me!
Cinemas charge through their teeth... thats why you go the the supermarket, stock up for cheep,and smuggle them in!:msn-wink:

[Patrick]

Wasnt a packet 10c too?
Oh the joy of being given FIFTY cents on Saturdays and cycling to the dairy to buy a huge bag of 1c lollies. (Remember 1c coins? Cant say I remeber shillings and pence though sorry).
Dairy owners were so patient too...
"I'll have one of those, and 5 of those, 5 of those and one of those. How much do I have left? One of those, 10 of those. How much now???" :wacko:


Jeeezzzz i remember when they were 4 for a cent!!!!

[Colapop]

Yep I remember getting bread and milk (in glass bottles!) and having enough to get a big handful of lollies (from a european shopkeeper). How about getting Saveloys from the local Butcher?

[Coyote]

Ridiculous. Making fun of the younger generation for growing up in a world you created. If we're screwed up you shouldn't be blaming us

[Kornholio]

I remember running around all day in just shorts and not getting sunburnt, just brown. Making huts on the farm in any place I deemed suitable for a hut to be built ie under a hedge, in trees, on carryall trays, in the haybarn....even made a tunnell hut in a sandy bank, had 3 rooms with a fireplace even :D.
Showing my cousin how to make a flamethrower with a syringe and petrol....and burning half the haybarn down(also showed cousin primo hiding spot down farm :/ )
Towing an old car bonnet behind the tractor at full noise around the paddock with brothers hanging on for dear life and aiming for all the fresh cow shits and cali thistles
Falling off my BMX when I was bringing up cows one day and got tangled in 6 wire fence on of which was barbed and fucking electric...lay in fence screaming til the old man came down and pulled me out...estimated time 5minutes with a barb in my leg shocking me the whole time :|(still got teh scar too)
Getting whacked on the arse by the old man with hand, wooden spoon, jugcord, ALKATHENE!!(you got a problem child....alkathene will sort it out lol) sticks.......
Learning to ride the farmbike when I was 7 yrs old(Honda SL 100 lol) and couldnt stop laughing the whole time I was on it....I was hooked on bikes from that day on :D
Making jumps for said farmbike out of everything and anything, falling off said farmbike so many times the old man had to get a new farmbike, and a couple of years later another one

Things were cool back then but still cool now but a bit more fast paced and in yer face....thats progress folks :)

[Charlie]

Ahhh this is much better than working... :spudbn:
I remember savs from the butcher! Didnt go there often though, 99% of our meat came from the paddock. Used to help Dad gut, slice and dice the sheep.
Remember aniseed wheels (can you still get them?), and when 100's and 1000's were a FLASH biscuit!
Kids TV programs (the limited amount we watched) have changed too... now theres another whole new topic...

[Str8 Jacket]

Kids TV programs (the limited amount we watched) have changed too... now theres another whole new topic...

My olds didnt get a TV until I was 10 or 11! Geez I dont know how I survived!

[Patrick]

Ahhh this is much better than working... :spudbn:
I remember savs from the butcher! Didnt go there often though, 99% of our meat came from the paddock. Used to help Dad gut, slice and dice the sheep.
Remember aniseed wheels (can you still get them?), and when 100's and 1000's were a FLASH biscuit!
Kids TV programs (the limited amount we watched) have changed too... now theres another whole new topic...

That cartoon with Seaman Staines, Master Bates and Roger the cabin boy????

Now there is that one with the red guy and his bright red arse hanging out... WTF is that all about too??? But we digress....

[Colapop]

Oh yeah the ALKATHENE!! I cut up the old man's belt so he couldn't smack my arse and the comment that I got when he leaned in real close (after he slammed it down on the kitchen table in front of me) was "Cut that up, there's 300 more metres of it out there..." He said it real quiet and didn't give me a hiding with it that day. I tell ya, I musta stayed outa trouble for almost a week!
Hahaha Charlie. I started off as a townie and that lasted 5 seconds after me moved to Pirinoa (just by the Ngawi turnoff). The first sheep I killed was called Bambi. Townies and pet sheep - Muahahahaa!

[BuFfY]

Well I grew up in Gore!! And was born in 1987 but we were so behind that it was like being in 1980!!
One thing I remember was having BBQ's in the middle of winter with snow outside and everything! A bit of snow wasn't going to stop us from having a BBQ!!:yes:
I really miss the good old days when you could easily entertain yourself... making forts in the house out of all the couches and pillows if it was too wet/snowy outside, exploring the neighbours paddocks and having picnics on the top of the coal shed roof!! Yet today I am bored out of my mind because there is nothing on TV! Very very sad
People make fun of me for growing up in Gore but I loved it, loved being able to walk everywhere and knowing everyone. Only downside was that the movie theatre was closed over xmas and all the new movies were 2 months later to arrive!!

[Charlie]

Hahaha Charlie. I started off as a townie and that lasted 5 seconds after me moved to Pirinoa (just by the Ngawi turnoff). The first sheep I killed was called Bambi. Townies and pet sheep - Muahahahaa!
I love the country! Miss it HEAPS!
We had loads of pet sheep, even had the annual school pets day.
We eventually ate them all though. I see the truth now... convince the kids they can have a sheep or calf as a pet just so it survives to be plumped up for next summers BBQ! Returned to play with with its sheep friends my arse! :scratch:

[Colapop]

Well I grew up in Gore!! .... Only downside was duelling Bajoes being played before every movie instead of the National Anthem!
You know I'm jus' playing with ya!

[Charlie]

You know I'm jus' playing with myself!

hehehehehhehe :buggerd:

[T.W.R]

ha sav's from the butcher & cherios lols and they were free, a pack of chewing gum was 10c & Canned soft-drink came in a steel can & bottled soft drink was in glass bottles

gob stoppers & jaw breaker lollies haha

Video game parlors were seedy dives not like Timeout lols, ChCh people would remember Wizards & the Dog House:Punk:

Casio calculators were the bees knees for games; spacys, boxing, & baseball a PS2,PSP or Xbox would have been science fiction and cellphones lols whats that the phone was big plastic thingy with a dial:shit:

[Colapop]

Even though we were townies we were under no illusions. We had a pig called "Lunch" (which it would come running to) and a Calf/Steer/Dinner called "Steak"! They both 'disappeared' - "Must have run away to join the circus" was Dad's answer.

[Colapop]

hehehehehhehe :buggerd:
"I sense an anomaly in the Force" from the first time it was screened. When you had to "phone home" it was with a pay phone not a cell phone and text was words you wrote down.

[BuFfY]

You know I'm jus' playing with ya!

hahaha yeh don't worry I'm used to it! But it would be more likely to be folk dancing being shown... Gore is very famous for the Golden Guitar awards! and we all had to learn how to folk dance!! :wari:

[Kornholio]

hahaha yeh don't worry I'm used to it! But it would be more likely to be folk dancing being shown... Gore is very famous for the Golden Guitar awards! and we all had to learn how to folk dance!! :wari:

Mikey Havoc and Newsboy said it was famous for something else.....:spudbooge

[Colapop]

hahaha yeh don't worry I'm used to it! But it would be more likely to be folk dancing being shown... Gore is very famous for the Golden Guitar awards! and we all had to learn how to folk dance!! :wari:
You be getting giggity with this then....

Bugger I can't upload that file type ...

[Motu]

I think the defining memory in NZ would be - do you remember steam trains? And for Aucklanders,do you remember the trams?

I remember steam trains,shit they were big black hissing smoking scary things! I don't remember trams,although I went on them,but remember the tram tracks,it was a long time before they were pulled up.

[Ixion]

I remember trams. The defining memory is do you remember the windmill ? And the vehicular ferries from the North Shore. And steam trains were (and are) exciting exhilerating things

EDIT: Actually, the defining memory is probaby getting the front wheel of your motorbike stuck in the blurdy tramn tracks on the corner of Queen and Wellesley Sts.

[Colapop]

hahaha yeh don't worry I'm used to it! But it would be more likely to be folk dancing being shown... Gore is very famous for the Golden Guitar awards! and we all had to learn how to folk dance!! :wari:
How about this then...?

[BuFfY]

Wow it's like being home again!! Thanks so much for that hahaha :hug:

[BuFfY]

I think the defining memory in NZ would be - do you remember steam trains? And for Aucklanders,do you remember the trams?

I remember steam trains,shit they were big black hissing smoking scary things! I don't remember trams,although I went on them,but remember the tram tracks,it was a long time before they were pulled up.

When I was younger I got to go on the Crunchie train!! It used to go from Dunedin to Invercargil so for a field trip we got to go for a ride on it!:niceone:

And yeh I was wondering how long it would take for someone to mention Havoc and Newsboy!!

[Colapop]

Didn't you like that reminder of home?

[BuFfY]

Loved it... thats why ya got a hug!!

[Colapop]

I was fishing for a sympathy hug (I shoulda read the prev. page - Doh!)

[Edbear]

Wasnt a packet 10c too?
Oh the joy of being given FIFTY cents on Saturdays and cycling to the dairy to buy a huge bag of 1c lollies. (Remember 1c coins? Cant say I remeber shillings and pence though sorry).
Dairy owners were so patient too...
"I'll have one of those, and 5 of those, 5 of those and one of those. How much do I have left? One of those, 10 of those. How much now???" :wacko:

You got 50c???!!! I had to mow 6 lawns when I was 11 to earn 50c per lawn, though by the time I was 13 I was getting $1 a lawn! Didn't get my first pushbike til I was 14 and that was an old Rudge. I loved it though and was a bit disappointed when I sold it to buy my first new bike. Paid that off at $1.50 per week, helped by my old man. Cost $60! I did put a 3-speed hub on the new one though, and boy could I really fly then!!! Yeah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be! Can't remember ever being bored, though, funny that! And fish&chips was 10c. Can remember being rather confused by the switch to decimal currency, too.

[Ixion]

Slide rules. That's pretty definative. How many here have ever used one? Or still possess one (Still got mine, but buggered if I can remember how to drive it - I used to be a whiz , too)

[Motu]

do you remember the windmill ? .

I don't remember the windmill,but then maybe I never went past it? But all through my childhood and into my teens two paintings hung in my grandmothers dining room,the focal point of the house,they were painted by some inlaw relation,and although ownership could be contested possesion is 9/10 the law.One was of the windmill,and I can see it now...30 years of seeing it almost every day means it can't be taken away.

The other was taken from the viewpoint of almost the exact location of the dining room,which was on The Parade of Bucklands Beach.It was painted on soft board,unframed....and was the view from Bucklands Beach looking towards Point England and Mt Wellington - all green,not a house to be seen,I guess it was painted in the late 40s,early 50s.

[Colapop]

How about walking to the local baths in the summer? We used to go to the baths in Kandalah and catch the crawlies that got into the pool from the stream that fed it. The attendant used to pay us a whole ice block - each! What riches.

[Ixion]

I don't remember the windmill,but then maybe I never went past it? But all through my childhood and into my teens two paintings hung in my grandmothers dining room,.....One was of the windmill,and I can see it now...30 years of seeing it almost every day means it can't be taken away.
...

Now all the young 'uns willl be saying "Windmill? Windmill?? Wot windmill? Woz 'e on about? Wot are those geriatic old gits raving about now?"

[Skyryder]

Seen it before. Very true. So is this

The worst case sceniaro of a one night stand was a dose of the clap.

Now ........a one night stand can kill you.

Skyryder

[SPORK]

Ridiculous. Making fun of the younger generation for growing up in a world you created. If we're screwed up you shouldn't be blaming us
Ex-fucking-actly.

[Motu]

Now all the young 'uns willl be saying "Windmill? Windmill?? Wot windmill? Woz 'e on about? Wot are those geriatic old gits raving about now?"

Heh,heh - Windmill Rd...The Bullock Track,road names from a different Auckland.One day the young guys of today will be telling tall tales about when there used to be a speedway track in the middle of the city - racing every saturday night of the week over summer.Silly old fools...

[FROSTY]

OYYY YOU LOT --I want none of yas talking to baby bikie.
forts in the back yard -riding his pushbike -swimming and walking to school--NOONE has told him its not normal for a modern kid.

[SPORK]

OYYY YOU LOT --I want none of yas talking to baby bikie.
forts in the back yard -riding his pushbike -swimming and walking to school--NOONE has told him its not normal for a modern kid.
It's things like that which rile me up. Do you guys think you're superior because you lived in a different time period? What's it got to do with us? Sure things are different, but through no fault of our own. It's you guys that are changing things, but then you decide to gloat about living in a time where you were smoking the 420 while driving a car through a farm or something. It's ridiculous.

[scumdog]

You got 50c???!!! I had to mow 6 lawns when I was 11 to earn 50c per lawn, though by the time I was 13 I was getting $1 a lawn! Didn't get my first pushbike til I was 14 and that was an old Rudge. I loved it though and was a bit disappointed when I sold it to buy my first new bike. Paid that off at $1.50 per week, helped by my old man. Cost $60! I did put a 3-speed hub on the new one though, and boy could I really fly then!!! Yeah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be! Can't remember ever being bored, though, funny that! And fish&chips was 10c. Can remember being rather confused by the switch to decimal currency, too.

Worked for the Catchment Board (remember them?) for 54 cents an hour - AND was taxed on it too!

12 pennies was equal to 10 cents, used to get a seat at the movies (the flics) for 9 pennies (7.5 cents)
Petrol cost 3/6 (about 35 cents) a GALLON = 4.54 litres.

[Ixion]

3/4d a gallon in Auckland - maybe have been dearer in the sticks ?

[scumdog]

3/4d a gallon in Auckland - maybe have been dearer in the sticks ?

Maybe - but it WAS for Super - probably 98 octanes of leaded horsepower juice!!

[Pixie]

That cartoon with Seaman Staines, Master Bates and Roger the cabin boy????

Now there is that one with the red guy and his bright red arse hanging out... WTF is that all about too??? But we digress....
Captain Pugwash it was.His ship The Black Pig wouldn't be acceptable today.
And The Klangers,on their weird planet with the soup dragons that guarded the pea soup wells.

[Pixie]

How about walking to the local baths in the summer? We used to go to the baths in Kandalah and catch the crawlies that got into the pool from the stream that fed it. The attendant used to pay us a whole ice block - each! What riches.
We used to go into the bush behind Tawa and catch and cook crawlies.And watch the tiger moth topdresser taking off from the airstrip on the ridge.
Now, the nimbies would bleat about the noise

[Dadpole]

We used to go into the bush behind Tawa and catch and cook crawlies.And watch the tiger moth topdresser taking off from the airstrip on the ridge.

Fortunately I live in an area where my son (10) can still do all that stuff, and I encourage him to fall out of trees, get covered in mud etc and do what used to be considered "normal kid stuff".
This attitude should not be confused with that of his mother.

[Indiana_Jones]

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Indy says that 1986 is f*cking awsome!

:done:

-Indy

[Dadpole]

Bloody 'ell.
That could put a man off his corn flakes.

[scumdog]

Indy says that 1986 is f*cking awsome! [/FONT][/CENTER]

:done:

-Indy

Bloody hell, was in my 30's then!!

[buellbabe]

What a great read, love remembering those days...
I used to walk everywhere until I got a 2nd-hand bike for Xmas (and thought I was SO lucky).
My best friend and I would go wandering the whole day and so long as we turned up for dinner the folks weren't worried.
Mum never 'taxi-ed' me anywhere, I learnt to catch buses...
My parents used to get abandoned vehicles towed into our back yard for my brother and I to play with... we were endlessly amused!
Sigh, life was good.

[Wolf]

Admittedly my kids are savvy with how to operate TV, DVD player and computer even at 2 and 3 years of age but they also are fearless adventurers outside as well, climbing over adventure playgrounds designed for much older kids since they began walking (net ladders, climbing walls, swing bridges etc) and the three-year old rides a bike he cannot get onto without assistance around the BMX track near Minogue Park in Hamilton (and falls off and gets back on the bike and his legs are a mass of bruises) and gets varied reactions from other kids (7-year-old BMXer: "He rides well for a 3-year-old"; assorted PC snotty-nosed BMX kids: "It's cruel making him ride over that big track"; 13-year-old girl (on BMX with no armour, gloves or helmet) to PC kids: "Ahh, shut up!").

The 2-year-old was riding a trike before he could walk and would probably be riding a pushbike by now if he hadn't broken his leg trying to balance on a ball.

I want them to grow up building their own tree huts and mucking about with home-made go-karts etc - I will be there supervising them until I deem them to be proficient enough that they don't need me breathing down their necks.

[Ixion]

..

I want them to grow up building their own tree huts and mucking about with home-made go-karts etc - I will be there supervising them until I deem them to be proficient enough that they don't need me breathing down their necks.

Spoilsport - admit it, you just want to play too!

[Wolf]

Spoilsport - admit it, you just want to play too!
I plead the Fifth Amendment :whistle:




If you can call running around Minogue Park BMX track after a three-year-old "playing" - direct supervision was easier when he was just cycling around the lawn at around walking speed. This is why I want to get him a motor bike: he'll have to go "back a step" (flat terrain, speed limited to walking pace) for a while until he learns proper control, so I won't have to run!

[Colapop]

Only over to where he's fallen off!

[Wolf]

Only over to where he's fallen off!
Since I'll be walking alongside, that shouldn't be far.

[Charlie]

What a great read, love remembering those days...
I used to walk everywhere until I got a 2nd-hand bike for Xmas (and thought I was SO lucky).

My grandad use to make our bikes with second hand bike parts. Would tinker in his garage for ages taking all the good parts and assembling them to make 1 good bike. Then just a lick of paint and I was the proudest biker in Jellicoe Street! Grandads ROCK!!!!

[Colapop]

Yeah Grandad's do rock! My Grandad was a keen golfer and boilermaker, so he made us a set of clubs to use round the yard when we came over. And the used to chase us up the Macrocapa trees when we broke a window in someones house. Sliding down the branches was fun too.

[iwilde]

Me and a few mates used to go behide the local dairy (owned by Europeans) and steal the empty coke bottles, go to the next dairy down the road and buy hugh bags of mixed lollies with the bottle money. When we got by the local cop (Jack Orchard?) he kick our arses, scared the shit out of us then watched as our parent kick our arses again! After that we were carefull enough to not get caught, well not for that crime again anyway.

[Charlie]

It's things like that which rile me up. Do you guys think you're superior because you lived in a different time period?
From what I've read this is a thread about stories of growing up, or remembering things how they used to be because they may no longer exist. There is no debate over which generation is more superior. Times change; its a given.
I'm 27 and love to "remember when" in the 80's. I'm sure those here who are my parents age or granparents will remember very different stories of a time BEFORE mine and thought I had it easy, and I love hearing those stories too.
Am sure when mini Magoos are zappingy round on space bikes and message you on virtual reality holograms, you'll smile and recall the simple outdated technology of cell phone, ipods and PS2's and when bikes had wheels.
As equally I'm sure your childhood stories are interesting and differ from the 5yr olds of today.
No one is superior, its just fantastic to hear so many people had memorable and happy childhoods no matter what era they were from. Some kids arent even that lucky.

[Wolf]

My grandad use to make our bikes with second hand bike parts. Would tinker in his garage for ages taking all the good parts and assembling them to make 1 good bike. Then just a lick of paint and I was the proudest biker in Jellicoe Street! Grandads ROCK!!!!

Dad used to do similar when he was alive. Back in the day when the dump was an area you drove to and dropped junk at, rather than a money-making exercise for the local council, he used to fossick around the dump and bring home all sorts of stuff that needed only minor repairs or, sometimes, no repairs at all (someone must've just got sick of it).

Now you've got to buy salvageable goods off the dump!

The bikes our three-year-old is learning on are second hand - given to us for nothing. Recently took the brakes off the smaller one and put them on the larger one as he's riding that one now.

[Charlie]

Yeah Grandad's do rock! My Grandad was a keen golfer and boilermaker, so he made us a set of clubs to use round the yard when we came over. And the used to chase us up the Macrocapa trees when we broke a window in someones house. Sliding down the branches was fun too.
CUTE - my Grandad made us golf clubs too! And a miniputt course. He'd dig wee holes in his lawn, nail a few holes in the bottom of a tin can and push it in the hole.
Was loads of fun and we were pretty lucky - cause I know how Grandad loves his lawn!

[Colapop]

Getting your arse kicked - it's funny coz it's true! Also true what you're saying to SMg, good memories and fun times are always good to share. I remember my Dad tellingme about when he was a young fella. Stories that ranged from shooting rabbits up on Khandallah hill (Top of Madras St) to him and his mates cutting up an A30 and putting a V8 or summat in it. They had fun, we had fun, and hopefully our kids or those that are younger will remember the times that they did things as having had fun.

[iwilde]

Talking about V8 conversions, we through a 350 chev into a rusty 1600 Mk1 capri leaving all the 4cyl suspension and brakes. Crazy car, on the following monday my mate went into the post office and told them about the new motor, they stamped the ownership papers on the spot with the new cc rating. No cert, no inspection, no engineers report! BTW the car was rolled at warp 9 cause it didn't go round corners to well.

[scumdog]

Talking about V8 conversions, we through a 350 chev into a rusty 1600 Mk1 capri leaving all the 4cyl suspension and brakes. Crazy car, on the following monday my mate went into the post office and told them about the new motor, they stamped the ownership papers on the spot with the new cc rating. No cert, no inspection, no engineers report! BTW the car was rolled at warp 9 cause it didn't go round corners to well.

Guys 'round here did same sort of stuff - 390 Ford in '55 Chev, engine was set back so far the rear 4 cylinders were INSIDE the car, shifter came through the floor about the rear bit of the front seat.
And then there was the 302 Cleveland powered Hillman Hunter ( Herman Grunter) episode, fire killed it before it killed somebody.

[Patrick]

Ex-fucking-actly.

Mr Magoo is dribbling again...wash his mouth out with soap.

[myvice]

Got dragged home by the local cop (traffic) when he caught me screaming around the block on a mini bike we had resurrected.
Thought my mum was guna kill me!
If it happened now youth and family would be round and everyone in the street would need counselling!
My son gives me so much shit, love driving along and telling him "I can remember when this was all farm"
We used to disappear for hours, off at 9ish and back at dark.
Now we cant get the kid to leave the house, and if he dose he’s on his bloody cell phone!

Fuck! Sounds like I'm 90! Only 31!
Was it safer back then? Even if it was only 20 years ago there didn’t seem to be the danger that there is now, maybe I'm just more aware?

[Motu]

Guys 'round here did same sort of stuff - 390 Ford in '55 Chev, engine was set back so far the rear 4 cylinders were INSIDE the car, shifter came through the floor about the rear bit of the front seat.
And then there was the 302 Cleveland powered Hillman Hunter ( Herman Grunter) episode, fire killed it before it killed somebody.

In the early 70s in my area there was a radical conversion done by a local entity who later became a focal point for us as he made parts for our choppers.He was a rodder and one night the converstion got around to ''wouldn't it be neat to....''And one was to put a V8 into a Fordson....but the consensus was it couldn't be done.''Bet I can'' he said,and the dare was on!

He got an old flathead and bolted it engine/gearbox/diff,no torque tube,like an old rail.He brought the radius rods together in front of the motor,and fitted a trailer coupling to them.Then he put a crossmember behind the cab and fitted a 1 7/8 tow ball to it.The rear spring fitted into the Fordson rear Xmember,the front onto the tow ball !! Hoses snaked through the cab to the Fordson radiator,and a collection of linkages brought the gearlever into the back of the cab.It had a tray fitted,and 6 straight copper pipes came out the rear....and painted flat black waaaaay before that was trendy.

It was around our area for awhile,a mate of mine had it at one stage,and he wheelstood it into the roof of his fathers carport! I wanted to buy it - $150,but my mother wouldn't let me,one of the few times she put her foot down and said no! to me.

I used to have a CA Bedford van - with a Vanguard 6 cyl engine and gearbox,and Cresta diff...my bike hauler.Sheeee it!

[Colapop]

Probably the reason why you survived to tell the tale!
I just keep going back to the start of this thread.... and getting home when it was dark. When we lived on the farm I was up before Dad (a builder so up a at sparrow's) on a Saturday and gone til Sunday night during the summer. Had my trusty little Kawa 90 and did some mental k's on that!

[Indiana_Jones]

Man I wish I was a teen in the 80's, but no, I was only born in '86 and got stuck with the lame generation lol, ahwell I guess it makes me stand out from the crowd.

and westlife did a cover of uptown girl? ewwwwwwwww *shudders*
I shall have to sing it on my singstar 80s now :D

-Indy

[Milky]

Fuck! Sounds like I'm 90! Only 31!
Was it safer back then? Even if it was only 20 years ago there didn’t seem to be the danger that there is now, maybe I'm just more aware?

Haha... I assume you are a parent now, and that probably explains it.

[Kornholio]

I shall have to sing it on my singstar 80s now :D

-Indy

Actually it wouldnt surprise me if you did :eyepoke:

[Indiana_Jones]

Actually it wouldnt surprise me if you did :eyepoke:

Is there something wrong with the 80's ness of it? :spudbn:

-Indy

[skidMark]

We will fight you on Cheltenham Beach....then Narrowneck, then Devonport........fuck it....easier to just invite you in for a beer........free tickets to Victoria Cinema be enough?

ive been to the restaurant there geez it's crap been there like 5 times (parents and relatives go there for birthdays and crap) always the same stuff and hardly any of it i come home hungrier than when i left

life without tv....maybe then i would actually get some stuff done on my bike which ive been putting off for ages........ like finishing wiring my bike which i never finished since new....

the odd wire hanging off here and there :blank:

stupid tv always distracts me...stuff i don't even want to watch seems to draw me in i know i have to work on my bike but the nights just waste away watching bullshit which i cant pull myself away from

:done:

MA

[iwilde]

[QUOTE=markauckland]ive been to the restaurant there geez it's crap been there like 5 times (parents and relatives go there for birthdays and crap) always the same stuff and hardly any of it i come home hungrier than when i left]

Shit! You to? That place can't feed a small child!

[skidMark]

it's the only place i know where they charge you for nibbles and a main and you only get the nibbles lol

[iwilde]

it's the only place i know where they charge you for nibbles and a main and you only get the nibbles lol

But at least they know how to charge! I complained and they gave me $5 back for some McD's! Talk about a rip!

[Meanie]

I can relate to all that, those were the days

[2much]

F*ck Chris I woulda killed to have that land for home (I'd just about kill have it now...)
Easy solution though, cut the male plugs off the end of all the electrical equipment and pelace them with female sockets. Then just make up a few male-male plugs and keep them with you. The only time things get plugged in is when you're home. They'll moan for a couple of days until they've made some of their own fun.

An interesting idea but please don't anyone try this!

Think about it for a minute, you have the potential for live exposed prongs with only the male-male connector plugged in. You will electrocute your kids and/or yourself.

If you really wanted to try something I would suggest you fit overseas plugs on you appliances, then carry adapters. And also ensure you use 3 pronged for earthed appliances. And the number one rule: If in doubt, don't touch it. Get someone who knows what they doing, I've seen the results when incompetence and electricity mix and it ain't pretty.

[Colapop]

Story of my life really bright ideas - poor application....

[SPman]

Enjoyed growing up in the country so much, I made a point of moving to a farm in Mid Canterbury for 5 yrs, in the 80's, so my 2 boys could get a taste of i. So they got to catch eels, climb the highest trees, feck of for a day and just explore or fossick, teach then how to use guns and chainsaws and stuff....(well, really, it was for me as well).
Im pretty certain I can just recall seeing the windmill - once - but I must have been bloody young...Solent flying boats coming into the harbour, long queues for the weekend vehicular ferries, being dragged onto a tram that didnt seem to want to stop, in Queen St...going to the family bach at Milford!, for the summer holidays..being burned so bad that the skin would peel of your back in sheets - but that was ok, a bit of vinegar fixed that! Taking my brother for a ride on the tractor, with him standing on the hydraulic linkage crossbar and me towing chain harrows! Shit - lucky he could cling on tight!