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Anyone remember the tv/video remote controls that had a cord connected to the remote?
What was daily life like in the 80s/90s/00s?
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Tattoo artists had books to look through
Oh yeah that's a really good one.
Every second person on the street hadn't copied each other with some lame tattoo.
Every second person on the street hadn't copied each other with some lame tattoo.
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Buying the Trading Post every week hoping to find cars, motorbikes, car parts, musical instruments etc etc you thought you could get a good deal on.
Buying nothing then renting softcore pr0n from Blockbuster.
Buying nothing then renting softcore pr0n from Blockbuster.
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Our TV and both grandparents you had to get up to clunk the channels over.
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Yeah as a kid myself sometimes I thought that's what kids were for.
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Buying the Saturday paper to check for jobs.
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The first video recorder we got in the early 1980s had a cord for the remote, we hardly ever used it though, we just used the controls on the machine.
Back then before video recorders became commonplace there weren't the big video chains like Blockbuster and Video Ezy with all the cheap weekly deals and specials, there was just a handful of small video shops where the selection of videos was piss poor so we watched a lot of shitty movies.
My dad also got some bootleg copies of movies from overseas so we would watch them over and over again, movies like The Blues Brothers, Smokey and the Bandit, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars. I watched them so many times I could pretty much recite the dialogue from them word for word.
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Yeah I remember a friend whose parents had a VCR before anyone else I knew. I remember watching a bootleg copy of ET with him, before the movie came out in cinemas in Aus.
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In the late 80s early 90s on a Friday (if it was available) mum would rent an NES system and a couple of games from the local video shop.
It was exciting.
Also dunno if it's an 80s thing but we used to bring school animals home for the weekend like lizards, frogs etc
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It was exciting.
Also dunno if it's an 80s thing but we used to bring school animals home for the weekend like lizards, frogs etc
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Yeah we got a bootleg copy of ET too but it was such poor quality it wasn't worth watching and I never liked that movie anyway, soppy Spielberg shit.
I used to rent Sega mega drive games from my local Blockbuster video store in the early 90s, you could rent them for a few bucks for a few weeks,
Hardly anyone else rented them so they didn't care if you brought them back late, I probably could have just kept them and they wouldn't have cared.
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Yeah but the TVs back then weren't exactly HD. And they weren't the size they are today.
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The Smiths were the one of the few English bands that were still keeping it real and telling it like it was in the UK back in the 1980s.
They got zero coverage in Australia, didn't feature on Countdown, it was all Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Wham, The Smiths were too hot to handle.
They are now widely regarded as one of the best and most influential bands of the 1980s.
They got zero coverage in Australia, didn't feature on Countdown, it was all Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Wham, The Smiths were too hot to handle.
They are now widely regarded as one of the best and most influential bands of the 1980s.
Funnily enough in 95 online chat rooms were quite popular before the Karens arrived.
a/s/l ruled the waves
Sunday nights were always a time to get excited for a lot of kids as this was when they'd play the US top 40 with K C Kasem and you would sit there with your tape recorder waiting for your fave songs to come on so you could record them.
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The chat rooms were all the rage back in the mid 90s early internet days, I had a mate at uni who was a big tech head that got me into the chat rooms.
We used to troll the hell out of people there, it didn't take long before it went from this internet is amazing to let's start trolling people and let's get pr0n.
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BF wasn't around back then.
If only I had the foresight of Chief, the most stable genius, to create a football forum dedicated to trolling I would be rolling in money right now.
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There used to be a nightclub at Subiaco called Jerichos in the 90s that had free beers between 8pm and 9pm on a Sunday to get the punters in.
Back when we were poor uni students we would turn up there at 8pm and get as many free beers as we could get before the 9pm shut off.
Some great memories of listening to these 90s dance tunes as we were knocking back the free beers.
Back when we were poor uni students we would turn up there at 8pm and get as many free beers as we could get before the 9pm shut off.
Some great memories of listening to these 90s dance tunes as we were knocking back the free beers.
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Aerosmith made a big comeback with this song.
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The only late 80s power ballad that could compete with Janie's Got A Gun was this song.
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