Things the new kids today won't know
The tv show around the twist? Genie genie from down under? Off peak saver bus tickets on weekends?
Posted Apr 22, 2017, 5:31 AM UTC
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Having to use the landline at your mates to call your mum to ask if you can stay for dinner
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- tops @ myer centre
- punks outside mall hungry jacks
- transformers nightclub
- Seven Rock in Stereo simulcast with FM104
- Myer Coorparoo
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Charlie Cheese's Grundy's
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transformers nightclub
Knew the bloke who bought the bulk of their sound system when they shut down. He lived in a flat. There was basically enough room to walk between the speakers from one end to the other and that was about it. I don't think he got on well with his neighbours.
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wonder where the plane wing went.
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- transformers nightclub
Or City Rowers, or Euphoria, or Heaven, or 131.
Clubs in this city come and go with fair frequency
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Grand Orbit
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punks outside mall hungry jacks
Now it's goths
Faux or real? I can't tell.
Hungry Jacks is forever.
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Myer Coorparoo
Had not thought of that in a long time.... Buildings still there right?
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Nope, it's been knocked down. They're building a massive apartment block there with shops underneath. They did save the old Myer sign though, apparently it's going to be put up once the new building is completed.
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gone. Cause we need more apartments.
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Round the Twist is on Netflix.
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Have you ever, ever felt like this
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When strange things happen
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Library catalogue cards in the pocket in the back of the book
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Had to explain what this was to my son the other day as it was still in a library book from school.
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Brisbane Bitter
The sprung Cloudland dance floor
Ernie Sigley
Aggro
AM radio only
Channel 0
Dirt roads to Mt Glorious
Fanging it up Gap Creek Rd
Drive In movies
Having sex in Drive in Movies
Blowing the horn after sex at the drive in and getting cheers
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Thank you for making me feel not so old.
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My mum used to baby sit Jill's kids so whenever Jill and Aggro came to Brisbane we would always go and get to sit right up front and get to stay after the show had finished chatting and whatever. Those were some good days, Jamie Dunn was a nice guy too.
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Doesn't Agro only have 1 g?
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It may well.
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I went to a drive in last month, no sex though...
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Kfc original zinger being actually hot.... i miss it heaps
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Oporto Burgers before they became petite sized.
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Get the chilli relish added on.
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KFC hot & spicy actually being hot and spicy too. I don't think my taste buds have changed that much but back when they first brought out years ago as a limited thing it was actually spicy. Then it came back and it was never the same again. The simple things in life...
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Penalty rates
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Budget surpluses.
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Pay phones being a normalcy, egg timers, less than 30 minutes of ads before a movie at the cinemas, tazos, beyblades, atmosfear (the board game), house phones, dial up internet, reverse calls, having to go to Coleslwoolies to get a receipt for phone credit, keycards without chips, T9 keyboards, cars without seat belts, CRT TV, Commodore 64/Sega Megadrive/NES/Xbox/PS1 & 2/N64, 2G mobile data, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000, boomboxes, CD/tape walkmans, classic iPod's, analogue TV, no direct debit, no cardless cash, no mobile/online banking, school tables with the storage bit under the top if you lift it up.
I think that'll do for now...
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I had actually forgotten how we would have to buy credit from a store... also dial up Internet being limited by minutes and coming on a CD that you had to insert into the computer (which had a CD drive!)
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There you go, now you taught me something, I didn't know about having limited minutes, mine never had that (Lizzy internet represent!)
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It didn't always. I had unlimited time, but a download limit. I can't remember what it was, but it was pathetically small compared to what even my phone has now.
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Ah, I don't recall if Lizzy ever had a download limit, I don't think they did...
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Actually beyblades are a thing again now. Kids love them and they are already being banned from some schools because they annoy some of the teachers, so they make them out of Lego instead.
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Oh yeah? Well the kids will never know the original ones.
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Too true, the new ones are flimsy and would get eaten up by the old ones.
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Yeah no direct debt also meant paying by cheque even for small amounts.
Edit: forgot the word 'no'.
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Untangling cassette tape
Getting an un-rewound movie from the video hire
Having to remember phone numbers
Having to wait days to weeks to see how the photo you just took turned out
Having to wait until the next day to read new news
Only having a choice of two or three types of beer
Awful ghosting television pictures
Idiotic comments on social media not being news
No cash on you means you can't buy anything
Being frustrated because you couldn't remember a simple fact (no google)
Free p0rn meant finding thrown away nudie mags in a public bin
Having to pay for every phone call
You couldn't tell friends you were running late as no one had mobile phones (and you had to be on time within a few minutes)
Needing a watch
Dickheads smoking inside and ashing on you (and coming home stinking of cigarettes even though you don't smoke)
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On phones, calling your girlfriend and afraid when anyone but her answers. Or when you expect your girlfriend to call, you run to the home phone.
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*69 to see if that call you just missed really was your boy/girlfriend
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Actually knocking on the front door when seeing your friend.
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Going around to a friends place and not knowing if they were home or not until they answered the door, their parents answered the door, or nobody answered the door.
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Hypercolour t-shirts.
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Or the heat changing colour shirts.
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Johnny Rockets at the Myer Centre
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Just came back from Bali and after making sure to eat there twice, remembered that Johnny Rockets Myer Centre was amazing.
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Watching the poor staff dance was always fun
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Waiting for a tape to rewind
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Not smoking ice
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When ice wasn't called ice.
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Yeah people just used to inject it more.
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Stretching a standard Telstra home phone cord as far as it will go to take a phone call away from your family and then getting yelled at for fucking up the cord.
Taping songs off JJJ and going for years without knowing what it was called or who sang it because no internet. Similarly, sprinting through the house to press record when a good song came on.
The anxiety of ringing your boyfriend/girlfriend but having someone else answer the home phone.
Want to make plans with someone? Too bad you have to wait hours until they get home.
Being able to actually hang up on someone satisfactorily (I haven't had a home phone for years, sometimes I miss slamming the receiver down).
Not carrying water bottles or having access to money yet still surviving.
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Cheez TV
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Agro's Cartoon Connection.
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Super Saturday Show / Super Sunday Show as well!
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Recovery
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I used to set the video player to record DBZ before school then fridays we'd all get together at a mates place to watch the weeks episodes before playing games.
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Not being allowed in clubs with the following: Sneakers. Black boots. Jeans any other colour than blue. Shirts not tucked in.
I 'member going out in the Valley in 1995 when the Valley was a scary place and just feeling at home because you could get into the Empire Hotel in cargo shorts.
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Good old moon bar
I remember drinking at the rugby club and my team mates questioning where I was heading at 10pm.
Really hard to explain I was hitting the valleys predominantly gay clubs to neck pills and dance with scene girls to early 90's techno.
God the valley was great ( and grimey) before the City Rowers crowd started to wonder why the cute girls weren't on the dancefloor
Having to wear a t shirt under your collared shirt so you could take it off to rave and buying shoes that could pass security in the city and the valley
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God the valley was great ( and grimey) before the City Rowers crowd started to wonder why the cute girls weren't on the dancefloor
Oh god yes.
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Smoking in the Moon Bar. Those were the days!
I still have a black matchbook from the Empire. Pretty little thing it is. They used to have them in a big jar on the bars, complimentary.
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Don't know if it counts but when kg had grass in it and wasn't a barren wasteland
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Shops closing at midday on Saturdays.
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Christmas shopping hours close for 3-5 days.
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Polio
This list would be a lot longer but for fuckwit anti-vaccers