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RE: Something young kids today will never understand
May 31, 2018 at 6:17 am
Lighting a mosquito coil and a candle before you go to the outside dunny at night, checking for snakes or toads under the wooden rim and then shovelling sawdust into the hole after you're finished.
Washing your clothes in two concrete tubs with an electric wringer.
Everybody congregating in the kitchen at night because we only had one portable gas light during the biweekly blackouts.
Mosquito nets over the beds.
Bread in a wax packet, glass milk bottles and brown paper shopping bags.
The excitement of remembering family holidays on slide night with the Kodak projector.
Visiting other countries in mostly black and white on the view master.
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RE: Something young kids today will never understand
May 31, 2018 at 7:06 am
plot hole!
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RE: Something young kids today will never understand
May 31, 2018 at 7:17 am
The day that "Hot August Night" came out on 8 track. A shout out to the tree people!
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RE: Something young kids today will never understand
May 31, 2018 at 7:27 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2018 at 7:29 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
The excitement of seeing a blockbuster film for the first time because it's being shown on TV 8 years after everyone else saw it at a cinema.
I had an interesting conversation a few years back. One of the women in the office was talking about how she had been watching video tapes of when she was born. I thought about this and wondered if her dad had been an early adopter of technology and she said not really. I asked how old she was and it turned out that she was 12 years younger than me so I kept quiet. A few minutes passed and she returned to the conversation and asked how old I was. We had both assumed we were roughly the same age.
But it must be interesting to be able to see your first years alive in high definition video rather than a few black & white or faded colour still photos.
It's a Star Wars movie.
