What was daily life like in the 80s/90s/00s?

[peternorth]

Putting masking tape on half of a tennis ball for backyard cricket to make it swing a mile in the air.

Playing table tennis on the kitchen table with a makeshift net.

over a rubber band(s) for seam

 

[the_interloper]

Using clear tape on a ball was great because it would still bounce on the swing side, wouldn't last long though.

I used to go better after Xmas in cricket season I reckon, typically because I'd had a summer on half pitches against a taped tennis ball, great practice.

 

[kickazz]

Using clear tape on a ball was great because it would still bounce on the swing side, wouldn't last long though.

I used to go better after Xmas in cricket season I reckon, typically because I'd had a summer on half pitches against a taped tennis ball, great practice.

The summer I got good at batting was when we played at school using a stake (about 3 or 4 cm wide) for a bat for a few weeks. Trained you to middle everything and really watch the ball. Of course now you can actually buy skinny bats which I assume are for this sort of practice.

 

[Shell]

Putting masking tape on half of a tennis ball for backyard cricket to make it swing a mile in the air.

Playing table tennis on the kitchen table with a makeshift net.

I was not a rich kid, but I was lucky enough to have a proper table tennis table growing up. We had it in the rumpus room.


Upon reflection I had it pretty good. While we didnt have a shitload of toys like kids do these days, it was still a happy time. Had a computer, TTT, bike, and my best friend living next door with a TV in her room

 

[GROTTO]

In 2000/01, Seven brought forward Friday night footy in SA to 7:30pm (so generally only a 30 minute delay instead of 90 minutes). The exception was when a SA team was involved as the away team - then the game was live.

Then when 9 got Friday night footy in 2002 it went back to an 8:30pm start.

Geez I totally forgot about those games where it was delayed, it made no sense as a football supporter but it was all to do with TV ratings. Some lame TV show at 730pm would rate higher than the footy.

 

[GROTTO]

Cricket in the host city was delayed or not even shown unless the game was a sellout.

Gough may know when that stopped being a thing ?

Im fairly certain Test cricket was only shown in the host city from tea time onwards.

Really hated that.

 

[GROTTO]

Long live the channel 10 5-minute warning noise, that was ten times louder than the broadcast and scared the * out of you if you werent paying attention

I used a stopwatch to try and work out how much time remaining, I would stop it when time on was called.

 

[GROTTO]

Putting masking tape on half of a tennis ball for backyard cricket to make it swing a mile in the air.

Playing table tennis on the kitchen table with a makeshift net.

As an adult, I genuinely miss backyard cricket and all the stupid rules that go with it.

Good times.

 

[Shell]

As an adult, I genuinely miss backyard cricket and all the stupid rules that go with it.

Good times.

Yep backyard cricket before or after xmas lunch on xmas day. The legit best.

 

[Shell]

As an adult, I genuinely miss backyard cricket and all the stupid rules that go with it.

Good times.

One bounce off the wall, one hand catch?

Over the fence = six and out

Auto wicky keeper

No LBW

 

[Shell]

I still remember clean bowling my (older) cousin at my aunty's holiday house. Was a thing of pure poetry.

 

[Gough]

I had a terrible bat grip and my stance was too closed as a result of the limited opportunities for off side play in our garden.

 

[GROTTO]

One bounce off the wall, one hand catch?

Over the fence = six and out

Auto wicky keeper

No LBW

Auto Wicky is hilarious, especially when you consider how easily slip catches are dropped.

One hand, one bounce was something. Really taught good hand eye coordination.

Do kids today even play backyard cricket?

Didnt the intro of Neighbours back in the day, show them all playing cricket on Ramsey Street?


EDIT. I thought i was drunk, they did.

 

[GROTTO]

I had a terrible bat grip and my stance was too closed as a result of the limited opportunities for off side play in our garden.

Stopped you from being an international cricketer. lol.

 

[Shell]

Auto Wicky is hilarious, especially when you consider how easily slip catches are dropped.

One hand, one bounce was something. Really taught good hand eye coordination.

Do kids today even play backyard cricket?

Didnt the intro of Neighbours back in the day, show them all playing cricket on Ramsey Street?


EDIT. I thought i was drunk, they did.

Idk ill ask some rn..

 

[Shell]

Idk ill ask some rn..

The answer is an definite YES.

And the rules are the same basically.

 

[Roobs321]

Handball or mini-tennis on those long driveways was more the go for me. With friends or siblings you could spend thousands of hours doing that. School holidays you could alternate between that, beach, videogames, kick at the local oval, bakery, a few rentals, etc.

 

[GROTTO]

Handball or mini-tennis on those long driveways was more the go for me. With friends or siblings you could spend thousands of hours doing that. School holidays you could alternate between that, beach, videogames, kick at the local oval, bakery, a few rentals, etc.

Gosh I totally forgot about handball. Yes back in primary school.

Do kids even play this today in 2023?

 

[Gough]

Stopped you from being an international cricketer. lol.

Absolutely. If only the garage and granny flat hadn't been there...

 

[nobbyiscool]

I was not a rich kid, but I was lucky enough to have a proper table tennis table growing up. We had it in the rumpus room.


Upon reflection I had it pretty good. While we didnt have a shitload of toys like kids do these days, it was still a happy time. Had a computer, TTT, bike, and my best friend living next door with a TV in her room

A computer, a rumpus room, a table tennis table? Maybe you weren't rich by older standards, but you sure as hell were by today's.

 

[Roobs321]

Luckily I tended to live on quiet flat streets, or with decent distance from door to curb. One of those hilly slant streets like Baldwin st in Dunedin would be fked, although like anything you’d invent some kid game or get into skateboarding or hill-train or something. Kiama was the nearest place to me growing up that was infested with steep streets and driveways.

 

[Shell]

A computer, a rumpus room, a table tennis table? Maybe you weren't rich by older standards, but you sure as hell were by today's.

The rumpus room was a pigsty tho- you may be picturing like a finished room you can sleep in. Its nothing like that. Basic computer, and a ttt might seem like big gifts but it was between three of us kids, we werent spoilt.

 

[Bostonian]

The behaviour of everyone hasn't changed and wasn't better than what it is now, it's hypocritical if you think so.

Yes it has and it was.

The way today's youth speak to and treat the elderly is vastly different to when we grew up in the 70s-90s.

Back then we did actually listen and take advice from older people. There was a level of respect for how they grew up and what they had learned.

Nowadays they are taking advice from morons on tik tok.

Today's Gen Z types think they know it all and talk down to older people all the time.

 

[mr bagcroft]

A computer, a rumpus room, a table tennis table? Maybe you weren't rich by older standards, but you sure as hell were by today's.

Used to be called Middle Class, much like myself.
Powers that be doing their level best to destroy the Middle Class, for reasons unknown.
But there would be reasons.

 

[Caesar]

I had a terrible bat grip and my stance was too closed as a result of the limited opportunities for off side play in our garden.

Yeah I feel that - off side meant risking the wrath of mum for broken flowers and windows, so everything was played off the pads into the street

I think most of my cricket team had similar problems for similar reasons, we had the down-the-ground sloggers who played in driveways, wannabe Mark Waughs like me, and the odd cut shot king. Nobody could play all around the ground.