I remember when ... (Icy Poles were tuppence [2d])

[Hvr]

Dear America,


The metric system isn't that hard. But I still like you anyway. You could get rid of the pennies though. They aren't fooling anyone.


See you in January.

Love, Erk.

There are two groups of people in the US who understand the metric system, scientists and drug dealers. Nobody there admits to knowing anybody from either group.

 

[serfty]

I'm guessing Imperial units?

3 feet to a yard, 12 inches to a foot, 22 yards in a chain, 1760 yards in a mile, 5280 feet in a mile...

Not sure what the 10 and 20 are; the above is all I know off by heart and guessing.

Thank goodness for the metric system.

Yip!

10 chains in a furlong? 20 furlongs in a mile? I'm off-the-memory guessing...

Correctamando about the chains, a bit long for the mile!

 

[Kangarucci]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Summer meant orange Sunny Boys for 20c (later 40c) from the school canteen.

5c in my days and if you had a Sunny Boy stamp inside, you got a free one.

 

[Kangarucci]

I see there hasn't been any mention yet of Choo Choo bars or fa_s (later renamed Fads).

As a child in the Latrobe Valley we used the word 'chonks' for lollies and everybody in the region including adults understood what you meant.

Same.

A 5c bag of chonks went a long way.

 

[TiredOldFlyer]

I remember when men were taught to stand up when a lady entered a room, taught to hold a door open for ladies, stand and give your seat to a lady on the bus.
But this was in the days before men and women became "equal'.
I also remember when coca cola only came in glass 7 oz bottles, No TV, milk was delivered, not everybody had phones and gay meant you were happy.
(I'm not that old - its just that I have a very good memory- lol )

 

[medhead]

There are two groups of people in the US who understand the metric system, scientists and drug dealers. Nobody there admits to knowing anybody from either group.

Except that NASA scientist that fired a satellite into the surface of mars at a million miles an hour.

 

[Hvr]

I remember the introduction of colour tv, when paper money was the norm, copper coins, the introduction of BankCard and tram conductors.

 

[erkpod]

I remember when men were taught to stand up when a lady entered a room, taught to hold a door open for ladies, stand and give your seat to a lady on the bus.
But this was in the days before men and women became "equal'.

A single female friend of mine had a sookylala the other day that she needed a guy to mow her lawn. Um, no. I don't mow my lawn (I pay a guy to do it for me) so I'm not going to mow hers.

Don't pick & choose when you want to be equal....

 

[erkpod]

Speaking of memories, I saw this DVD for sale recently.

When I had "that talk" years ago, there was a VHS video which I watched. There was also a book.

 

[jetlagger]

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Speaking of memories, I saw this DVD for sale recently.

When I had "that talk" years ago, there was a VHS video which I watched. There was also a book.

You seem quite fortunate to have VHS.
IIRC, we only had an old B&W TV that didn't enhance the moving images too well.. :shock:

 

[erkpod]

You seem quite fortunate to have VHS.
IIRC, we only had an old B&W TV that didn't enhance the moving images too well.. :shock:

The first TV I had in my room that I can remember was B & W complete with rabbit ears. The first video recorder my family had came complete with corded remote.

 

[jukebox333]

VHS?

*cough*

Electric Blue...?

*cough*

 

[Major]

I used to catch a tram to school at Mosman (Sydney) and on the way home we would put a halfpenny on the track. After the tram had flattened it we would then buy 1d worth of lollies at the shop on the corner of Falcon and Miller Sts

 

[RB]

Yip!Correctamando!

There would be some very tired horses if they were trained for a mile but then had to run 20 furlongs

 

[amaroo]

I used to catch a tram to school at Mosman (Sydney) and on the way home we would put a halfpenny on the track. After the tram had flattened it we would then buy 1d worth of lollies at the shop on the corner of Falcon and Miller Sts

Is that shop now a servo?

 

[OATEK]

When Icy Poles were twopence/tuppence, you could be three potato scollops for sixpence. And if you were really broke, and the guy at the Heathcote Fish and Chips shop wanted to get rid of you after school, you could perhaps get two potato scollops for Threepence/thrippence. Treys, Zacs and Dina's - those were the days!

 

[anat0l]

Challenge question: For those who remember that far back to tuppence (or even just after decimalisation), what were the fads / things you were into in your childhood days that your folks (or adults or media) didn't like or signalled, "This is society going down..." or so on.

 

[OATEK]

Challenge question: For those who remember that far back to tuppence (or even just after decimalisation), what were the fads / things you were into in your childhood days that your folks (or adults or media) didn't like or signalled, "This is society going down..." or so on.

My Dad threatened to cut off my long (shoulder-length) hair while asleep! Never carried it out.

 

[Major]

Is that shop now a servo?

I'm not sure...it's been many years since I was down that way

 

[mhen]

Challenge question: For those who remember that far back to tuppence (or even just after decimalisation), what were the fads / things you were into in your childhood days that your folks (or adults or media) didn't like or signalled, "This is society going down..." or so on.

I was 17 and wore a pair of jeans for the first time. My father was horrified.