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@nta said in Old people talk about the olden days:
In the 80s our farm was on a party line to the local exchange - a bit like the below.
Our phone "number" was 14R.
Went digital in the late 80s. Phone number was 3 digit area code then 6 digit number, and when Australia moved to 10-digit numbers (had left the farm by that stage) they reorganised the area codes:
14R
(067) 297 087
(02) 6729 7087
In high school in the late 80s/early 90s, I had a girlfriend on a party line, she had to go to boarding school in the city because she lived so far away.
Friends of mine live about 400m from her old place now and I swear it's less than 20 minutes drive to the nearest centre (Taradale) and they have full UFB (a good version of NBN for the Aussies on here).
So weird that the change from the early 90s to now. Actually, they've been living out there for over 10 years and have always had at least ADSL.
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Since we're all reminiscing, does anyone here remember Pizzos chips? With their slogan Pizzas in a bag Pizzos Pizzos. I'm almost at the point that I think I've made them up. But then I thought that about the TV show Galaxy Rangers and eventually I found that on the net. SO I'm still holding out hope.
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@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Since we're all reminiscing, does anyone here remember Pizzos chips? With their slogan Pizzas in a bag Pizzos Pizzos. I'm almost at the point that I think I've made them up. But then I thought that about the TV show Galaxy Rangers and eventually I found that on the net. SO I'm still holding out hope.
you might want to wash that down with some zap chocolate milk!
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@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Since we're all reminiscing, does anyone here remember Pizzos chips? With their slogan Pizzas in a bag Pizzos Pizzos. I'm almost at the point that I think I've made them up. But then I thought that about the TV show Galaxy Rangers and eventually I found that on the net. SO I'm still holding out hope.
you might want to wash that down with some zap chocolate milk!
Is that you acknowledging the existence of Pizzos?
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@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Since we're all reminiscing, does anyone here remember Pizzos chips? With their slogan Pizzas in a bag Pizzos Pizzos. I'm almost at the point that I think I've made them up. But then I thought that about the TV show Galaxy Rangers and eventually I found that on the net. SO I'm still holding out hope.
you might want to wash that down with some zap chocolate milk!
Is that you acknowledging the existence of Pizzos?
actually no, I dont remember them, just that the thought of chips made me think of another old favourite..
sorry!
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@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Since we're all reminiscing, does anyone here remember Pizzos chips? With their slogan Pizzas in a bag Pizzos Pizzos. I'm almost at the point that I think I've made them up. But then I thought that about the TV show Galaxy Rangers and eventually I found that on the net. SO I'm still holding out hope.
you might want to wash that down with some zap chocolate milk!
Is that you acknowledging the existence of Pizzos?
actually no, I dont remember them, just that the thought of chips made me think of another old favourite..
sorry!
Downvote.
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@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Since we're all reminiscing, does anyone here remember Pizzos chips? With their slogan Pizzas in a bag Pizzos Pizzos. I'm almost at the point that I think I've made them up. But then I thought that about the TV show Galaxy Rangers and eventually I found that on the net. SO I'm still holding out hope.
you might want to wash that down with some zap chocolate milk!
Is that you acknowledging the existence of Pizzos?
actually no, I dont remember them, just that the thought of chips made me think of another old favourite..
sorry!
Downvote.
ha ha did that brand that exist like when Hawkes Bay won the NPC?
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@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Since we're all reminiscing, does anyone here remember Pizzos chips? With their slogan Pizzas in a bag Pizzos Pizzos. I'm almost at the point that I think I've made them up. But then I thought that about the TV show Galaxy Rangers and eventually I found that on the net. SO I'm still holding out hope.
you might want to wash that down with some zap chocolate milk!
Is that you acknowledging the existence of Pizzos?
actually no, I dont remember them, just that the thought of chips made me think of another old favourite..
sorry!
Downvote.
ha ha did that brand that exist like when Hawkes Bay won the NPC?
Grrr. Just because you guys got lucky with the randomness of the very first NPC.
Anyway, this guys Flickr account has a pic of them but I don't know how to embed pics from Flickr.
So, I'm already feeling happier.
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@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@bayimports said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Since we're all reminiscing, does anyone here remember Pizzos chips? With their slogan Pizzas in a bag Pizzos Pizzos. I'm almost at the point that I think I've made them up. But then I thought that about the TV show Galaxy Rangers and eventually I found that on the net. SO I'm still holding out hope.
you might want to wash that down with some zap chocolate milk!
Is that you acknowledging the existence of Pizzos?
actually no, I dont remember them, just that the thought of chips made me think of another old favourite..
sorry!
Downvote.
ha ha did that brand that exist like when Hawkes Bay won the NPC?
Grrr. Just because you guys got lucky with the randomness of the very first NPC.
Anyway, this guys Flickr account has a pic of them but I don't know how to embed pics from Flickr.
So, I'm already feeling happier.
actually i do remember them, just needed a picture and a reference to bluebird ha ha
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@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry
18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
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@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
I remember all the hoopla when TV3 came out back in 1990. So exciting, a strange mix of shithouse NZ game shows and hilarious US comedies.
EDIT: Come to think of it Home Improvement and Family Matters haven’t aged particularly well…..
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@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
I remember all the hoopla when TV3 came out back in 1990. So exciting, a strange mix of shithouse NZ game shows and hilarious US comedies.
We didn't have it in Hawkes Bay for a long time, so my sister's friend used to send her a videotape of recorded Home and Away each week. I do remember staying up in Auckland and watching Gabriella Sabatini in the tennis on TV3. Hubba hubba.
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@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
I remember all the hoopla when TV3 came out back in 1990. So exciting, a strange mix of shithouse NZ game shows and hilarious US comedies.
We didn't have it in Hawkes Bay for a long time, so my sister's friend used to send her a videotape of recorded Home and Away each week. I do remember staying up in Auckland and watching Gabriella Sabatini in the tennis on TV3. Hubba hubba.
Night line was good value as it always had strange videos of strip clubs, wet t shirt contests and seeing tits was awesome in my early teens.
Well, seeing tits is awesome at 44 too come to think of it.
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@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
I remember all the hoopla when TV3 came out back in 1990. So exciting, a strange mix of shithouse NZ game shows and hilarious US comedies.
We didn't have it in Hawkes Bay for a long time, so my sister's friend used to send her a videotape of recorded Home and Away each week. I do remember staying up in Auckland and watching Gabriella Sabatini in the tennis on TV3. Hubba hubba.
Night line was good value as it always had strange videos of strip clubs, wet t shirt contests and seeing tits was awesome in my early teens.
Well, seeing tits is awesome at 44 too come to think of it.
Joanna Paul and Belinda Todd wasn't it? Their irreverance was a big departure from the BBC straight laced style of TVNZ at the time. Now it's almost all trash
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@canefan said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@nepia said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
I remember all the hoopla when TV3 came out back in 1990. So exciting, a strange mix of shithouse NZ game shows and hilarious US comedies.
We didn't have it in Hawkes Bay for a long time, so my sister's friend used to send her a videotape of recorded Home and Away each week. I do remember staying up in Auckland and watching Gabriella Sabatini in the tennis on TV3. Hubba hubba.
Night line was good value as it always had strange videos of strip clubs, wet t shirt contests and seeing tits was awesome in my early teens.
Well, seeing tits is awesome at 44 too come to think of it.
Joanna Paul and Belinda Todd wasn't it? Their irreverance was a big departure from the BBC straight laced style of TVNZ at the time. Now it's almost all trash
Yeah I was channel surfing late at night, fuck knows where the folks ( who usually monopolised some crap on TV1 ) were and the roving reporters were interviewing two topless chicks at a jelly wrestling contest. Outstanding TV.
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@dogmeat said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only
twoone TV channels back in the day to be fairFucking kids
Jesus I remember watching coronation st and bonanza in black and white
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