Category: When I Was Your Age
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During the rise of video shops there was a real mixed bag of titles on offer and the selection often varied from store to store. Everybody knew the stuff being released that was previously in the cinemas. I am not sure of the exact duration, but there was always a decent hiatus between the end…
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I find it astounding that anyone would take up smoking in this day and age. Based on the price alone it’s a foolish move. To pay extortionate prices for the privilege to inhale toxic smoke into your lungs for no clear benefit other than looking cool/grown-up/tough etc. is even stupider than paying ludicrous amounts for…
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It was a nerve-racking experience taking that cassette out of its case and slipping it into the tape deck. “You guys are gunna love this!” you would assert with a nervous smile. As soon as you pressed play your musical taste was on trial. That first song could make or break your reputation. The mob…
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I was 11 years old when The Karate Kid was released. Back then it took a while before any big movie made its way down under, so I was probably 12 when I got to see it. I can still remember rushing into the cinema with my mate Jonno because we were late. We missed…
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My dad loved a drink, but I have no memory of him drinking at home unless there was a party or some visitors. He loved the pub and he loved a punt. Looking back over his life I reckon the grog came in 3rd on his list of fun at the local watering hole (excluding…
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I can still remember my amazement the first time I hooked up a TV and it tuned itself in automatically. Wow! Such wonderous technology! When I was a kid, we had to tune every single station individually using that fucking spinning dial around the channel knob. Kneeling on the floor twisting that fucken dial waiting…
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I would like to continue regarding generation X in Australia and our limited fact checking ability. This time I am curious about the potential gullibility this creates. I cannot personally remember ever being so eager for proof of something that I went trolling through the library referencing system (don’t get me started). I am sure…
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I mentioned in an earlier post how cut off generation Xers were in Australia regarding sports and martial arts. Well, the same goes for pretty much all information. The library was not high on our list of places to be, and the Dewey Decimal System was like a foreign language. As I also mentioned in…
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Growing up as a kid in the 1970s, restaurant and take away food outlets were much less prevalent than our fast-food saturated cities of today. Hamburgers, sandwiches, fish and chips were the usual fair. In my suburb there were two hamburger shops: the famous Cobb & Co. drive in (Cobbo) and Boss’s fish and chip…
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Let’s talk about generation X and the martial arts. In Australia we were quite cut off from the rest of the world. No internet, no cable TV. The only time we saw anything outside the ordinary was on the news or a TV show like ‘The Wide World of Sports’. Even then we could easily…
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