I remember way back when.....

[Brian37]

This is the thread for old fogies to post what life was like "way back when".

I'll go first.

I am old enough to remember smoking being allowed on passenger jets. I actually did that way back.

I also remember in HS when if you were 18 you were allowed to smoke outside. To the youngens, don't start, not worth it.

[Mr.Obvious]

Though i was eight or nine when THE euro was introduced, i still remember, and often convert to, belgian franks

[Fake Messiah]

What about this one? For those that lived back then is this claim true?

[Cod]

I remember when children actually played outside, built dens, went fishing, played tick. These days all they seem to do is sit around and looking at facebook or snapchat or whatever. I was never at home as a kid, always out doing something, I reckon childhood was better then.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I used to hang out in a wood lot near our house. A stream ran through it. Things lived in the water. I drank the water. I looked for it on Google Earth last week. The whole area is paved.

[Little lunch]

I don't remember when a bob was 10 cents, but when there were only telephone boxes to communicate outside of home, parents would always say, 'take two bob for the phone' so you could ring and tell them when you wanted to be picked up.

I also remember having to take a candle, a mosquito coil and a box of matches to the outside dunny and then having to shovel sawdust down the hole when finished.

[Brian37]

I don't remember when a bob was 10 cents, but when there were only telephone boxes to communicate outside of home, parents would always say, 'take two bob for the phone' so you could ring and tell them when you wanted to be picked up.

I also remember having to take a candle, a mosquito coil and a box of matches to the outside dunny and then having to shovel sawdust down the hole when finished.

Foreigners, geeze, maybe we do need a wall....... what is a ""bob" and what is a "dunny"? 

FYI, my first portable radio had an 8 track deck in it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't remember when a bob was 10 cents, but when there were only telephone boxes to communicate outside of home, parents would always say, 'take two bob for the phone' so you could ring and tell them when you wanted to be picked up.

I also remember having to take a candle, a mosquito coil and a box of matches to the outside dunny and then having to shovel sawdust down the hole when finished.

Foreigners, geeze, maybe we do need a wall....... what is a ""bob" and what is a "dunny"? 

FYI, my first portable radio had an 8 track deck in it.

A 'bob' is a shilling - doesn't exist anymore due to decimal coinage. 12p made a shilling, twenty shillings made a pound.  Easy.

 'Dunny' is a toilet.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Foreigners, geeze, maybe we do need a wall....... what is a ""bob" and what is a "dunny"? 

FYI, my first portable radio had an 8 track deck in it.

A 'bob' is a shilling - doesn't exist anymore due to decimal coinage. 12p made a shilling, twenty shillings made a pound.  Easy.

 'Dunny' is a toilet.

Boru

Ten knuts makes a sickle. 43 sickles make a galleon.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'The Triganic Pu is a unit of galactic currency, with an exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu. This is simple enough, but, since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.' - HGTTG

And the following may come in handy if you should ever find yourself in medieval Europe:

4 farthings = 1 penny

5 pennies = 1 groat

5 groats = 1 shilling

2 shillings = 1 florin

2 florins = 1 ducat

2 ducats = 1 silver mark

5 silver marks = 1 sovereign

And from 1970 onwards, my father did nothing but bitch about decimalization.

Boru