Nostalgia

[BZN]

Balmain Street view, in 1972.
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This looks a bit like the street where, when you got to the bottom of the hill the only way you could turn the bus around was to reverse onto a platform built over the water.
And I was told when I was training to become a State Transit driver, that a couple of their buses actually ended up going into the water.

 

[Halbrowne61]

This looks a bit like the street where, when you got to the bottom of the hill the only way you could turn the bus around was to reverse onto a platform built over the water.
And I was told when I was training to become a State Transit driver, that a couple of their buses actually ended up going into the water.

Proper turning circle these days, Gov needs every bus they’ve got !

 

[BZN]

Dusters, chalk, whatever a teacher had in their hand at the time would fly at your head. There was no running home and crying to mum.
I once had a teacher send me out of the room as soon as I walked in to class. He said he was "saving himself the time of doing it later".
Ah the good times!

Sounds like the teacher had a good sense of humor, or you were a real little bugger.
Did you actually stay in class long enough to learn enough to go past 3rd year in high school?
I left at the end of 3rd year because I was to friggin dumb to go any further.

 

[BZN]

I once had a teacher send me out of the room as soon as I walked in to class. He said he was "saving himself the time of doing it later".
That line must have been in the teachers handbook back in the day, I heard that plenty throughout the years. Often teachers would just say to kids as they walk through the door for class "I don't like your face, get out"

My Geography teacher threw one of those huge wooden chalkboard compass things at a school mate of mine cause he wouldnt shut up. The metal end pierced his arm, nothing happened to the teacher, the kid got 2 weeks of lunch detentions and never opened his mouth again in Mr Smiths class.....the good old days.

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Some of the teachers I had in high school would end up being jailed if they treated the kids today like they dished out the cane back in the 60's.
They were proper bloody mongrels.

I once had a teacher send me out of the room as soon as I walked in to class. He said he was "saving himself the time of doing it later".
That line must have been in the teachers handbook back in the day, I heard that plenty throughout the years. Often teachers would just say to kids as they walk through the door for class "I don't like your face, get out"

My Geography teacher threw one of those huge wooden chalkboard compass things at a school mate of mine cause he wouldnt shut up. The metal end pierced his arm, nothing happened to the teacher, the kid got 2 weeks of lunch detentions and never opened his mouth again in Mr Smiths class.....the good old days.

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[GNR4LIFE]

Cricket once meant summer on Channel 9.
But not now.


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The cream, the white, the off white, the bone, the ivory or the beige?

 

[BZN]

View attachment 7560The greatest American hero

Is that a photo of You Gallagher?

 

[BZN]

Great show in its day with a great theme song.
🎼🎶🎵
Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me

Next guess...it must be you then Buttface?

 

[BZN]

Paul Walker, missed forever from Fast and Furious



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I like the way you did that special effect T1.

 

[Todd Packer]

Sounds like the teacher had a good sense of humor, or you were a real little bugger.
Did you actually stay in class long enough to learn enough to go past 3rd year in high school?
I left at the end of 3rd year because I was to friggin dumb to go any further.

Yeah I ended up doing a Social Work degree at Sydney Uni only because I didn't know what else to do with myself.
I was just chatty and I annoyed the crap out of the poor bloke.

 

[Todd Packer]

It took me until much later in life to reach my true calling of degenerate gambler.

 

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[innsaneink]

My 1st car was a 2nd hand FJ Holden which looked good from the outside, but unbeknown to me at the time was ready to fall to bits mechanically, so I spent more on repairs than it cost me to buy it.
2nd car a really nice used 1964 EH Holden, turquoise with a white roof and one of the best cars I have owned.
3rd Holden was a used 2 speed auto dark green V8 HT Holden Monaro with gold stripes up the middle of the bonnet and I hated it after a while due to very stiff suspension.

Used to see a lot of them, a dark green almost olive or british racing green

Head mistress in primary school had one

 

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[BZN]

Can anyone remember?


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When I had my FJ I got booked for not giving one of them, and there wasn't another car in site.
Another time I got drenched by a car coming in the opposite direction due to the fact I had my window down ready to make a turn when it was p'ing down raining.

 

[BZN]

It was a great add for a ghastly piece of rubbish that people ate,i think i only ever had 2 bites out of 1

I still eat em or similar on occasions and obviously like em.

 

[Buttface]

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I got 4 words for you, All You Can Eat.