Reminders of your childhood

[Bring back John Fifita]

Saturday mornings....

 

[The Mad Hatter]

My daughter used hairspray the other day, does not usually.

That smell made me think of my long deceased mother.

Never got to meet her granddaughter, yet 30 years later, a smell made me think of her.

My nan used hairspray and I smelled it recently and I had flashbacks.

Another weird one is a certain disinfectant I smell from time to time takes me back to school. Instaflashbacks of 1991-1993.

 

[horrie hastings]

My nan used hairspray and I smelled it recently and I had flashbacks.
.

Not quite hair spray but i can remember these
contraptions at hair saloons when my mother used to go to them.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

They still use them.

 

[horrie hastings]

They still use them.

That shows how long since iv'e been into a hair salon

 

[The Mad Hatter]

That shows how long since iv'e been into a hair salon

I was in one yesterday. That's how I know LOL.

Just on a few posts back about NRTV and Prime and RVN-AMV and rural TV etc.

I've noticed it for a while...probably last 10-15 years but when I was a kid in the 80's and 90's...there was literally 5 channels - 7, 9, 10, ABC and SBS. If you were lucky to have 2 TVs, you had some autonomy on watching telly. But most people usually watched the same stuff.

Same with music.

Now, there are a million TV channels, all the streaming platforms and and gazillion music niches and no one I know watches or listens to anything I listen or watch any more. I feel like with the increase of choices and devices, there's been this wedge between everyone's viewing and listening habits.

I'm not saying everyone should like, watch or listen to the same thing, but there doesn't seem to be any unity in stuff any more. Even ads on TV. There were ads literally everyone knew. Now...I couldn't tell you an ad for anything. TV shows come and go and I don't even mind missing stuff now and maybe one day I'll catch up.

The weird thing is, everything is so pop cultural savvy and self-referential, that the gulf between the past pop cultural - say up to 2000 and post-2000 - is widening.

I've been drinking so probably none of this makes sense.

 

[muzby]

I was in one yesterday. That's how I know LOL.

Just on a few posts back about NRTV and Prime and RVN-AMV and rural TV etc.

I've noticed it for a while...probably last 10-15 years but when I was a kid in the 80's and 90's...there was literally 5 channels - 7, 9, 10, ABC and SBS. If you were lucky to have 2 TVs, you had some autonomy on watching telly. But most people usually watched the same stuff.

Same with music.

Now, there are a million TV channels, all the streaming platforms and and gazillion music niches and no one I know watches or listens to anything I listen or watch any more. I feel like with the increase of choices and devices, there's been this wedge between everyone's viewing and listening habits.

I'm not saying everyone should like, watch or listen to the same thing, but there doesn't seem to be any unity in stuff any more. Even ads on TV. There were ads literally everyone knew. Now...I couldn't tell you an ad for anything. TV shows come and go and I don't even mind missing stuff now and maybe one day I'll catch up.

The weird thing is, everything is so pop cultural savvy and self-referential, that the gulf between the past pop cultural - say up to 2000 and post-2000 - is widening.

I've been drinking so probably none of this makes sense.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Yep.

It's weird how it just happened.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Anyone remember this fella?

 

[horrie hastings]

I was in one yesterday. That's how I know LOL.

Just on a few posts back about NRTV and Prime and RVN-AMV and rural TV etc.

I've noticed it for a while...probably last 10-15 years but when I was a kid in the 80's and 90's...there was literally 5 channels - 7, 9, 10, ABC and SBS. If you were lucky to have 2 TVs, you had some autonomy on watching telly. But most people usually watched the same stuff.

When I was growing up in Paddington back in the 60s we had 4 chanells in Sydney 2, 7, 9 and 10 but we could pick up 5A which was the regional version of the ABC, ch 3 which was Newcastle and 4 from Wollongong. Strangely enough ch 3 from Newcastle was one of our clearest channels reception wise. Didn't watch 3 or 4 a lot but do remember some different shows at the time.

 

[thorson1987]

Was reading through them comments on a post on FB about the new Bonds ad with the 2 guys kissing.

Some lady tried to claim that ads never used to be sexual and that was her issue with it and I remembered this ad.


Also just remembered watching this whenever it was on

 

[The Mad Hatter]

When I was growing up in Paddington back in the 60s we had 4 chanells in Sydney 2, 7, 9 and 10 but we could pick up 5A which was the regional version of the ABC, ch 3 which was Newcastle and 4 from Wollongong. Strangely enough ch 3 from Newcastle was one of our clearest channels reception wise. Didn't watch 3 or 4 a lot but do remember some different shows at the time.

I remember being on the Central Coast when NBN used to play Test Matches and ODIs all day long when there were still blackouts in host cities, up to about 2005/06.

 

[horrie hastings]

I remember being on the Central Coast when NBN used to play Test Matches and ODIs all day long when there were still blackouts in host cities, up to about 2005/06.

The one thing I remember about 5A was that when the ABC had the Saturday game of the round if you were lucky enough to get decent enough reception you could watch the game live instead of watching the 6pm replay on ch2, when we moved to Kingsford 5A was almost unwatchable but you could still work out what was happening. My earliest memories of NBN 3 when I was at Paddington was that they had a lot of Western shows on( western as outlaws or something similar to cowboys and Indians ) , you would be watching it then suddenly for a few seconds the taxis combined signal would cut through it, it was weird , you could hear what they would say over the taxi 2 way system like when they were calling cabs to pick up fares close by, the base wasn’t to far away at the time close to Central station. It was truly bizarre.

 

[horrie hastings]

I remember being on the Central Coast when NBN used to play Test Matches and ODIs all day long when there were still blackouts in host cities, up to about 2005/06.

Win 4 was like that too, not sure what year it all stopped but can remember watching some of ODIs during the black out periods for the Sydney broadcasts

 

[axl rose]

I remember being on the Central Coast when NBN used to play Test Matches and ODIs all day long when there were still blackouts in host cities, up to about 2005/06.

Ah yes I remember the cricket being blacked out when I was on holiday in Sydney.

I'm also old enough to remember a Test Cricket rest day. According to my google research it was usually on a Sunday.

 

[axl rose]

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Now, there are a million TV channels, all the streaming platforms and and gazillion music niches and no one I know watches or listens to anything I listen or watch any more. I feel like with the increase of choices and devices, there's been this wedge between everyone's viewing and listening habits.

I'm not saying everyone should like, watch or listen to the same thing, but there doesn't seem to be any unity in stuff any more.

I've been drinking so probably none of this makes sense.

There is just way too much of it, it would take me 5 years to catch up. Actually makes perfect sense, don't know a single person in 'real' life who watches any tv series I do. Black Sails, Cobra Kai, The Boys...whatever. Only through social media can I find them and they're usually whinging and nitpicking about everything.

 

[axl rose]

Who could forget this titillating show

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

Does anyone still use these?

The old corker cricket balls - straight painted cork

Was a pretty good nut from memory.

Might chop up a bit on your rougher bitumen.

 

[Willow]

Does anyone still use these?

The old corker cricket balls - straight painted cork

Luxury!

Seriously, I only recall unpainted cork balls, like this...

Painted versions were for the rich kids.

 

[Zadar]

There is just way too much of it, it would take me 5 years to catch up. Actually makes perfect sense, don't know a single person in 'real' life who watches any tv series I do. Black Sails, Cobra Kai, The Boys...whatever. Only through social media can I find them and they're usually whinging and nitpicking about everything.

How frickin good is this show!!