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In the 80s our farm was on a party line to the local exchange - a bit like the below.
Our phone "number" was 14R.
Went digital in the late 80s. Phone number was 3 digit area code then 6 digit number, and when Australia moved to 10-digit numbers (had left the farm by that stage) they reorganised the area codes:
14R
(067) 297 087
(02) 6729 7087
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@mn5 TBF I think they have changed the recipe massively (and not for the better) and made them smaller.
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@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
K bars. How good were they ? They were inconsistent though, how my teeth survived the tougher ones is anyone’s guess.
The tuck shop was full of shit, those big gobstoppers, giant Jaffa's, no wonder we had so much energy in class.
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@taniwharugby said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 TBF I think they have changed the recipe massively (and not for the better) and made them smaller.
No, our hands just got bigger !!!!!
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One of the scary things about my youth was the lack of seat belts and how many times we were in the back of the ute/panelvan just chilling whilst we drove into town. I remember my Dad would often put me on his lap and let me think I was steering the car.
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@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
One of the scary things about my youth was the lack of seat belts and how many times we were in the back of the ute/panelvan just chilling whilst we drove into town. I remember my Dad would often put me on his lap and let me think I was steering the car.
Initially it was only kids had to wear seatbelts I think. Most vehicles didn't have them in the back anyway. The best was driving from the farm to the pub, Pukemanu which was next to the park thankfully, fucking about in the park, getting a bag of chips for dinner, then falling asleep in the back of the station wagon. Wake up next morning in bed, parents having got us home at some point
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@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
K bars. How good were they ? They were inconsistent though, how my teeth survived the tougher ones is anyone’s guess.
That would be the lime ones. Tough as diamonds. Best way to eat them was to get dad to put them on the car dashboard in the sun for a bit.
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@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
One of the scary things about my youth was the lack of seat belts and how many times we were in the back of the ute/panelvan just chilling whilst we drove into town. I remember my Dad would often put me on his lap and let me think I was steering the car.
Bench seats! Mum, Dad and the 5 kids no problem. Even more room if one was lying in the back window.
No need for people movers in those days.Edit: I assume that bench seats contributed to the need for lots of room for kids as well
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@kruse said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus memes:
@billy-tell said in Coronavirus memes:
Locations of interest.
Look at that Blenheim Phone number!!!
Yeah - I remember having a 4-digit number in Cambridge - pretty sure it was 6333.
Moved to Hastings, and realised it was the big-smoke, because I now had 5 digits to remember.yeah we had 4 digit in cambridge well rural cambridge
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@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
K bars. How good were they ? They were inconsistent though, how my teeth survived the tougher ones is anyone’s guess.
The tuck shop was full of shit, those big gobstoppers, giant Jaffa's, no wonder we had so much energy in class.
Yep. Pies and sausage roles were the healthy alternative and the only vegetables were onions on the pizza slices. And yet they blame the food available for kids being much fatter these days!
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@nta said in Old people talk about the olden days:
In the 80s our farm was on a party line to the local exchange - a bit like the below.
Our phone "number" was 14R.
Went digital in the late 80s. Phone number was 3 digit area code then 6 digit number, and when Australia moved to 10-digit numbers (had left the farm by that stage) they reorganised the area codes:
14R
(067) 297 087
(02) 6729 7087That's Kaitaia 1983 right there.
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@crucial said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
One of the scary things about my youth was the lack of seat belts and how many times we were in the back of the ute/panelvan just chilling whilst we drove into town. I remember my Dad would often put me on his lap and let me think I was steering the car.
Bench seats! Mum, Dad and the 5 kids no problem. Even more room if one was lying in the back window.
No need for people movers in those days.Edit: I assume that bench seats contributed to the need for lots of room for kids as well
Put some armor all on the bench seats and slide around from side to side as Dad takes the corners fast.
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One of my first memories is visiting my grandad in Lower Hutt and being given some money to buy some ice blocks. Shoved the money in my hand and pointed me and my brother in the direction of the shop. Only problem is we got lost on the way home and the ice blocks melted. I was 4 at the time. My brother, who was 2, was in hysterics.
Contrast that with the hyperventilating and tut tutting when certain people hear that my partner allows her 11 year old daughter to walk to the shops alone despite having a phone.
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@ploughboy said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@kruse said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus memes:
@billy-tell said in Coronavirus memes:
Locations of interest.
Look at that Blenheim Phone number!!!
Yeah - I remember having a 4-digit number in Cambridge - pretty sure it was 6333.
Moved to Hastings, and realised it was the big-smoke, because I now had 5 digits to remember.yeah we had 4 digit in cambridge well rural cambridge
when did you leaveWhen I started with the missus her parents' farm (rural Cambridge) had a 4 number phone and only recently gone off party line. IIRC that moved to 5 digits then 7.
It all made sense at the time as non local calls were expensive and considered long distance. The extra numbers were all the dialling codes you needed, region, area, town, exchange etc. As time went on it became a pain to have to look up all the codes so they got added to the number. Eventually we ended up with the large call regions that we have now. -
@booboo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus memes:
@hooroo I still remember our 5 digit number, and even remember plenty of my rellies 3 digit number on their party lines...probably cos they still live there and thier last 3 digits are still the same, just have 4 more in front of them!
And crank handle phones ... Kaitaia in the mid-80s.
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Haha I remember in Taranaki as a kid No was 21M, crank handle phone ,party line and our ring was short-long-short
Old people talk about the olden days
and I believe a childhood friend now owns the farm.
