Amateur.

We had these.



and before that these:



The bastard tapes took ages to load and if you had one glitch on it you had to start it all over again.

How do I make those photos smaller?

how about going to school on these, my bus was the 606.......

We got our first computer at home when I was about 14. It was one of these bad boys.

First time I got the internet at home I was 25.

Edited by u4486662: 25/11/2014 08:58:54 AM

Used to chuck those commodore64 cassettes into my walkman*, crank the volume up to 100% and hold the headphones over the ears of my mates :lol:

*Not an official Sony one but they were all called walkman in those days :P

Edited by mcjules: 25/11/2014 09:06:46 AM

Back in my day you were a nerd if you mentioned the word "Internet."

Now all the #coolkids are taking selfies and whinging about 4chan.

N00bs

I'll always remember the first time I heard about the internet.

I was in Year 1, and the teacher asked if any of us had it. Only one girl said yes, and the teacher asked what she had used it for. The girl said she looked up the Spice Girls on it.

For some time after that, I was sure that I would never get the internet and would never need it - and my reasoning was "why dafuq would I want to research the Spice Girls" :lol:

The first time I actually used it was to find guitar chords for songs that were posted up on this website. Prior to that you had to transcribe it yourself, learn it off a mate or buy the sheet music which cost a fortune.

I was absolutely blown away that there were thousands of songs all over these "websites" which were free. FREE!

BIMD: Swearing in front of children, and for that fact women, just didn't happen.

The amount of foul language that is used in public these days is a joke.

I'll swear as much as the next bloke but there's a time and a place.

Show some common decency you bunch of cunce.





Edited by MUNRUBENMUZ: 27/11/2014 12:13:05 PM

Back in my day:

- Only criminals, sailors and rock stars had tatts
- Men behaved like men, and women behaved like women
- Kids were allowed outside of the house
- Kids weren't chauffered to school unless it was raining
- One could own a home without signing your life away to the bank$
- Home renos and other boring shit weren't dinner party topics
- Corporate profits were less than most countries' annual GDP
- Free educashun
- Journalists reported
- Some politicians almost had integrity. Almost
- No speed cameras
- HR and marketing types weren't leeching from society
- No smart phone zombies

As Penn Jillette would often remark, "Two things are always true, the world is always getting better and the people always think the world is getting worse."

matter of opinion

Back in my day: (And the Finkman wil back me up here.)

If you were in the pub and some bloke didn't like the shape of your head for whatever reason you were offered to "step outside".

If you proceeded to accept said challenge you, him and everyone else in the pub would step out into the carpark or where ever for the fight to commence.

A couple of important things to note.

1) The fight was between 2 willing participants.
2) The fight was over when the bloke hit the ground and declined to get up.
3) Usually the fight ended with a handshake.
4) Everyone went back into the pub.

Now apparently it's OK to randomly punch blokes in the head, (even if they aren't even looking to punch on), particularly from behind, knock blokes to the ground, and this is the worst bit, put the boot into the poor bastard and stomp on his head.

Even worse other cunce think that when a bloke hits the deck that's their invitation to jump in and kick 7 shades of shit out of him.

Once a bloke hit the deck back in my day that was it, the fight was over or you waited for him to get up and have another crack.

Woe was anyone that tried to kick some bloke who was on the ground. (Gutless springs to mind.) Short of shagging your mates's wife this was about as low as you could go and usually blokes would jump in to make sure it didn't happen.

The old days weren't all sunshine and lollipops but there were some things that were a lot better.

Not only that, but a man didn't also have to square off against the other bloke's 10 mates.

100% accurate.......and a fight was with fists not weapons

Have to laugh at the rose coloured memory fog.

does anyone remember going to the town show and there being a boxing tent?????

Does anyone remember back in the day being in Primary School and ordering 'Sunnyboys' from the 'tuck' shop for something like 10c...if you scored a 'free one' it was like winning lotto...

White Knights had some game as well....

HEAR HEAR!

Back when men were men and women stayed in the kitchen!

-PB

Its not an opinion. Its true.

I'm surprised you weren't using punch cards.

the world is always getting better ??????

Back in my day there was no 3 point line on the basketball crt and we used a bag of spuds as a ball.

Back in my day, kid's party games only had one (maybe 2) winners. Not this "everyone's a winner" rubbish. Was at one last month and the pass the parcel game had a prize under each wrapper. Apart from the cost to the parents hosting, not sure whether it's teaching kids the right things.

Also we used to get lolly bags with a dollar or so worth of mixed lollies when we left. Now they're gift bags with crap toys that the kids couldn't give two shits about.

x2

I'm not sure how blokes ganging up on and stomping on some blokes head or randomly king hitting someone is an example of the world getting better.

I'm not a "everything was better back in the day" bloke but as I said some things were better.

Another example would be swearing in front of children. Explain to me how that is a good thing?

I hate that. So much.

I'm not a fan of swearing in public (admittedly as the beer tally stacks up...) but in front of kids is just houso stuff. I nearly got in a bust up with one of my best mates one time over the way he conducted himself around kids.

It's just feral and never necessary.

My sister and eldest niece swear a fair bit in general, and they don't exactly tame themselves around my youngest niece and nephew. It kills me, every single time. But apparently, the few times I've confronted them about it privately, it's none of my business because they're not my kids. But in that same discussion, I'll get told I'm not acting enough of a male role model/father figure for them by being at certain events or spending enough time with them.

Sisters mate :lol: