Category: When I Was Your Age
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My dad loved a drink, but I have no memory of him drinking at home unless there was a party or some visitors. He loved the pub and he loved a punt. Looking back over his life I reckon the grog came in 3rd on his list of fun at the local watering hole (excluding…
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I can still remember my amazement the first time I hooked up a TV and it tuned itself in automatically. Wow! Such wonderous technology! When I was a kid, we had to tune every single station individually using that fucking spinning dial around the channel knob. Kneeling on the floor twisting that fucken dial waiting…
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I would like to continue regarding generation X in Australia and our limited fact checking ability. This time I am curious about the potential gullibility this creates. I cannot personally remember ever being so eager for proof of something that I went trolling through the library referencing system (don’t get me started). I am sure…
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I mentioned in an earlier post how cut off generation Xers were in Australia regarding sports and martial arts. Well, the same goes for pretty much all information. The library was not high on our list of places to be, and the Dewey Decimal System was like a foreign language. As I also mentioned in…
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Growing up as a kid in the 1970s, restaurant and take away food outlets were much less prevalent than our fast-food saturated cities of today. Hamburgers, sandwiches, fish and chips were the usual fair. In my suburb there were two hamburger shops: the famous Cobb & Co. drive in (Cobbo) and Boss’s fish and chip…
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Let’s talk about generation X and the martial arts. In Australia we were quite cut off from the rest of the world. No internet, no cable TV. The only time we saw anything outside the ordinary was on the news or a TV show like ‘The Wide World of Sports’. Even then we could easily…
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So, you say there’s nothing to watch. 2026 and you can’t find anything to watch? When I was your age, we had four channels to watch on the television; 5 if you had really good reception. 3 commercial stations: Channels 7, 9 and 10. These were the channels that had the money to pay for…
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Reckon it’s time to start a new thread. Feels like I have been trying to squeeze a few ideas into some categories where they don’t quite fit. This one will be a little more random in some ways, but it will basically be what you expect from the title. I was born and a kid…
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