Grumpy Old Man
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@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Is this... flirting? It's been a while, and, I'm out of touch. Also... not gay. Sorry. Nothing against it. Just... no attraction to penii. Barely even my own.
send him those dick pics could be considered leading him on.....
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@chimoaus said in Grumpy Old Man:
Young men today have no idea how much courage it took to ask a girl out (In Person) then ring their family home on the landline not knowing if her parents would answer the phone first.
And imagine not being able to message or talk to your girlfriend 100 times a day because neither of you had a phone. You actually like had to talk in person. So weird.
was dating a chick that went to otago.. $26 a phone call!
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@WillieTheWaiter said in Grumpy Old Man:
@chimoaus said in Grumpy Old Man:
Young men today have no idea how much courage it took to ask a girl out (In Person) then ring their family home on the landline not knowing if her parents would answer the phone first.
And imagine not being able to message or talk to your girlfriend 100 times a day because neither of you had a phone. You actually like had to talk in person. So weird.
was dating a chick that went to otago.. $26 a phone call!
Would have been cheaper to visit the Golden Palace.
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@chimoaus I dont believe that place exists any longer...
haha I have exactly that conversation with TR Jnr about how much 'easier' they have it now (similarly with the 20-somethings about Tinder making thier lives easy) often they follow one another on social media through common friends, nek minut they are 'dating', video calling every day for weeks on end, nek minut, they break up despite not ever meeting...
back in the day, standing in the hallway, with the 5m extension on the phone cord for a bit of privacy, only for your brother to pick up the spare phone and call you a dickhead or something, or a parent pick up saying they needed to use the phone so you had to get off, when you'd only been on it for an hour and ignored all the call waiting beeps....good old days when life was simple.
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@chimoaus I dont believe that place exists any longer...
haha I have exactly that conversation with TR Jnr about how much 'easier' they have it now (similarly with the 20-somethings about Tinder making thier lives easy) often they follow one another on social media through common friends, nek minut they are 'dating', video calling every day for weeks on end, nek minut, they break up despite not ever meeting...
back in the day, standing in the hallway, with the 5m extension on the phone cord for a bit of privacy, only for your brother to pick up the spare phone and call you a dickhead or something, or a parent pick up saying they needed to use the phone so you had to get off, when you'd only been on it for an hour and ignored all the call waiting beeps....good old days when life was simple.
Cordless phones were such a game changer. Always good to take one in your room so no one could hear.
Siblings were annoying though ( not mine, I’m an only child ) but I was going out with a twin, her sister loved answering and pretending to be her. I wasted a lot of sweet talk on the wrong one and they used to piss themselves about it.
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I was in NZ last year, I'm coming over in a couple of weeks time. Hotels are more than double the price, rental cars are triple the price. What is happening? Surely that can't just be inflation?
Hmm, I just checked my usual Coolangatta hotel and it is roughly 75% more than the last time I was there (which was school holidays).
Da fuq.
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@Nepia this! we've been over a couple of times once we were able too after COVID including xmas just been....and now we thought it would get in early and book flights for next xmas...over $2k from melb to chch
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It's crazy how expensive it used to be to call long distance. I remember working at a call centre in Brisbane while at uni and there was a guy who worked there in the evening exclusively to pay for long distance calls to his girlfriend in Sydney. I suggested they just chat on the internet and he looked at me like I was insane.
My old man is German and every call to Deutschland was basically Hello, how's everyone, goodbye in less than 5 minutes.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia this! we've been over a couple of times once we were able too after COVID including xmas just been....and now we thought it would get in early and book flights for next xmas...over $2k from melb to chch
I don't bother going back at Xmas time due to the cost - although it would be nice to go back for Xmas hangi.
One thing I did get cheap was my flights, as AirAsia is now flying Syd - Auk, and I have a bunch of Covid credits with them that I could partially use. To make me more grumpy though they can only be used on actual ticket cost (not fees etc) even though they were for ticket AND fees.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
It's crazy how expensive it used to be to call long distance. I remember working at a call centre in Brisbane while at uni and there was a guy who worked there in the evening exclusively to pay for long distance calls to his girlfriend in Sydney. I suggested they just chat on the internet and he looked at me like I was insane.
My old man is German and every call to Deutschland was basically Hello, how's everyone, goodbye in less than 5 minutes.
Yeah I vaguely remember calls to my Grandparents in Scotland….
Lots of awkward pauses and pardons and crackling and disconnections and apparently it cost a fortune.
My boys can video call their grandparents whenever they want ( all NZ based but still, doesn’t matter where in the world they are )
As an ex telecom salesman I remember yarning to the real old school managers…..
( This is back when I thought these phones were flash )
Apparently brick phones cost thousands and each call ( in the 80s ) was about $5.50 a minute !
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@Kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
over $2k
What the... we're looking at booking some for £1800... maybe you should see if you can go around the world and throw in a second destination!
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@chimoaus when I was living in the UK with the old dial up modem, my pc picked up a virus and what it did was turn off the modem sound so you didn't hear it reconnecting to a premium rate site.
Fortunately it was the 2nd to last bill before I came back to NZ, was like £400 or something extortionate, I rang them up (with my best Aus accent) and told them I wasn't paying and they would be better off trying to stop this happening in the future as I was heading g home to Aus next week and they wouldn't find me...
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@taniwharugby oh yeah, a virus eh
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@Bones it was, you catch them visitng dodgy sites...
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones it was, you catch them visitng dodgy sites...
So tell us how you stumbled on to The Silver Fern then?
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Flights are fucked right now. We are booking flights to Brisbane for my daughters athletics comp in April. Return flights are $750pp, a cheeky $3,750 for a fucking 1hr flight, get fucked Qantas and your slimy leprechaun leader
Sorry for the language, and yes, I know I shouldn’t have had [so many] kids
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
Return flights are $750pp
Da fuq, from where?
Sydney to Brisbane
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
Return flights are $750pp
Da fuq, from where?
Sydney to Brisbane
Surely Jetstar or Virgin had something cheaper?
