Do you remember the old days...

Rad Dood said:
Used ter eat a handful o cold gravel. Lived in a shoebox in middle t road..etc etc.. C'mon you lot.. These are fantastic times... I remember when a basic computer took up the entire basement of the blue mountains municipal council.i now hold 100 times more computing power in the palm of my hand..lets not forget how technology has advanced our lives..
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I remember loading Stunt Car Racer off the tape onto the commodore 64.Also had a disc drive..5 1/4" floppy disc.Or were they disk with a k?
 
"...and then duck around the back of the shop grab them and cash em in again!!! Don't say you didn't!:lol:"



DAMN! I have had a guilty conscience for well over 60 years for doing that.


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Eureka Moments said:
willrocks said:
Maybe it's my imagination but there seemed to be a lot less fat kids back then?
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You forgot the Fat Kid from Hey Dad!
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You mean this one:

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Source: http://www.heydad8794.net
 
pdkbffwleo said:
Seems like the "good old days" sort of suck...where drunk driving was "cool" and safety restraints were stupid. When having to mail a payment for a bill took 4 days to get there, and when you'd have to wait until the next day to find out the score of a baseball game.

The "good old days" will always be treasured...because it is one person's youth. Youth is always treasured, and therefore, our memories of $.35 candy bars (when we made $12,000 a year) are therefore cherished.

Largely, technology and luxury items are a good thing. Airbags in cars save lives. Drunk driving is bad. Leaving your children running around town until the street lines came on sometimes resulted in kidnapping. Yes, our independence is important, and sometimes children nowadays aren't given the opportunities to figure things out on their own, but not wearing a bicycle helmet and cracking your skull open isn't reminiscent of "good old days."
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The good thing about the 'good old days' is that the conditioning of the population was not so overt and malign as today. There was an immensely larger emphasis on self reliance and personal responsibility - a morality if you like - where you were given freedom and expected to use it responsibly.

Of course there are tales here of the limits being tested and I would expect anyone living in the fifties, sixties and seventies will have tales of near misses and friends who 'lost an eye', but life is dangerous and life is for living and you can be wrapped up in cotton wool and protected by the collective will of the society but the loss of individuality and thus the loss of talent and exploration and adventure is, to my mind too high a price to pay.

I remember the day they started a campaign to try and bring the road deaths in Victoria alone down below 1000 a year (prior there was even a 2 hour radio show on Sunday mornings that raced around town on saturday night recording all the human drama - reality radio if you will - such was the 'sport' of the road toll).

They started the compulsory seatbelts - first country in the world apparently, then the education and safety ads on telly, legislated the safety features in cars (check out a 1950's bumper bar if you want to see non-safety features). Then they let people actually drink at hotels after 6pm which meant no peak hour filled with drunk drivers racing home to dinner, and then they introduced booze buses - otherwise known as policing checkpoints on the highway so that papers and personality could be assessed - oh and alcohol readings. Now everyone thinks it a good idea. 700 lives a year saved. To my mind that could have been achieved without the massive police controls and roadblocks. I find unwarranted highway stops and checks a massive affront to liberty and 'training the population for the totalitarian state that is forming around us.

Now the contrary argument is look at the idiots on the road, road rage, burn-outs, hoons etc. All there back in the good old days but the disapproval of neighbours and family and peers usually kept it in check. These days the danger of everyday life is lessened and so people make their own versions of dangerous games to play and circumstances to tempt fate. (I'll take a drive home with my drunk grandad any day over a Saturday night walk down a nightclub strip full of iceheads and steroid abusers.)

These days we have been trained to expect 'The Government' to take care of things for us. Make the rules to protect us from ourselves and 'the Teachers' to teach our children manners and respect, and the 'Doctors' to fix us when we make ourselves sick. What has been lost in modern life is adventure and freedom and with it the opportunity and requirement to foresee consequences and accept them. Personally I don't find the modern trade off's a good deal overall - more just a long list of massively missed opportunities that the cradle to grave nanny state has wall papered over.

(and b.t.w compulsory bike helmets is a typical example of bureaucracy breaking a walnut with a working party wielding sledgehammers:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ets-should-not-be-compulsory-say-doctors.html
"Since nowhere with a helmet law can show any reduction in risk to cyclists, only a reduction in cyclists, why would anyone want to bring in a law for something which is clearly not effective at reducing the risk to cyclists?" )
 
I got fined for no helmet a couple of years ago, rode out of my driveway onto the footpath and back in the other driveway. Edited, no need to hold a grudge.
 
Marsi said:
I got fined for no helmet a couple of years ago, rode out of my driveway onto the footpath and back in the other driveway. Edited, no need to hold a grudge.
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That's why I like Thailand, you're treated like an Adult there.
 
In the good old days you didn't have to dodge endless zombies staring into their phones and trying to walk down the street.
 
When we were living in "socialism" and there were far less choice in shops and some stuff was really hard to get, but people seemed happier, there was less stress and greedy people weren't eating pop corn and watching and hoping that our economy will collapse, when our country meant something and we were very happy with just little things. When shopping wasn't "religion" and people had more time for each other....
 
Stark said:
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When I spent more time in DOS than Windows.
When I probably couldn't write but could write commands into DOS, which I knew by heart.
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YES!!!

* When command.com wasn't a website but the operating system file
* When the high memory area beyond 65520 bytes was a seriously cool.
* When the Hercules graphics card was the greatest thing ever.
* dir instead of ls
* .bat files instead of .sh
* When we used to spend considerable time tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys
* Soundblaster cards
* When people used to fight over C vs. ASM
 
I miss installing very simple games on my windows 95 with 18 or so floppy discs. "Please insert disc 15 of 18" felt like a hacker from the future :cool:

If only i could get the new far cry in a box with 780 floppy discs
 
The good old days, when you found gold it came in plus ounce nuggets, the only prospectors in W.A were Western Australians, 4x4 vehicles were for using in dinky di 4x4 conditions. 4x4 vehicles were for those who literally liked to rough it, not yuppy upstarts. Camping was for poor people who had to do it as they could not afford exotic holidays and hotels. Camping was camping, not dragging all your bloody house with you along with all the B.S. Mod cons. Aussie blokes were real men, Aussie women were real women, not the fairy piss examples of today, and somehow it's called progress. There was no such thing as paying to stay in a National park, and 4x4 tracks were exactly that, not hard gravel or limestone roads for the wannabe Metro's.
 
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