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

[perthblue]

Chief can you please revoke Plugger’s YouTube video posting privileges

 

[blueboy25]

If you wanted to call a girl you liked you had to call on the home phone which was usually located in the kitchen so your whole family could hear. Then make small talk with her mum and dad when they answered.

 

[Plugger35]

If you wanted to call a girl you liked you had to call on the home phone which was usually located in the kitchen so your whole family could hear. Then make small talk with her mum and dad when they answered.

That was always awkward, we got a cordless phone in the late 80s though so at least you could make phone calls from the privacy of your bedroom.

 

[PT Bar None]

If you wanted to call a girl you liked you had to call on the home phone which was usually located in the kitchen so your whole family could hear. Then make small talk with her mum and dad when they answered.

Yeah, that sucked!

Thankfully I only had to tolerate that during High School dating, as I left home at 17.5.

Which is another point. Kids often left home still as teenagers in the '80's.

 

[Gough]

Yeah, that sucked!

Thankfully I only had to tolerate that during High School dating, as I left home at 17.5.

Which is another point. Kids often left home still as teenagers in the '80's.

When I was nineteen I lived in a rented house a block from King William Rd in Hyde Park (think Crowy territory) sharing with two friends for $50 a week each. It was falling apart at the seams, terrible 50s lean to with an outdoor can and cracks in the wall you could see through then but all cleaned up now you wouldn't get much change from $2 million dollars.

 

[Cuzz09]

That was always awkward, we got a cordless phone in the late 80s though so at least you could make phone calls from the privacy of your bedroom.

We had 2 landline phones. You could listen in on people's conversations and drop in a few Oogy Boogie ghost sounds and fart noises for the massive LOLs when we were little

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[Billy ray]

cheaper

 

[Gough]

We had 2 landline phones. You could listen in on people's conversations and drop in a few Oogy Boogie ghost sounds and fart noises for the massive LOLs when we were little

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My cousin's in Zim were on a party line until the mid 90s.

 

[Pistol Night]

Pizza hut dine in was a big night out

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Smash down 2 small bits of pizza before attacking the ice cream machine ferociously

 

[Cuzz09]

Pizza Hut was fancy looking too. With that red everywhere and stained glass windows and lamps above the booths. It was cool.

Not just the all you can eat part.

There were a few places like that around in the 80s.

There was a restaurant called the red apple or something similar where the chemist is at Fulham Shopping centre. I remember having to get dressed up to go there. Had candles I think.

Also Hard Rock Cafe was awesome in its hey day in the 90s/00s we'd go there after going to most MCG matches for epic nachos

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[Plugger35]

The Pizza Hut all you could eat lunchtime deals for about 5 bucks back in the 90s were great when you were a poor uni student, you would be so stuffed from eating pizza there that you wouldn't need to eat dinner.

I don't think there are any dine in Pizza Hut restaurants left in Perth, the local one we used to go to closed down years ago, it's all just deliveries now.

 

[Andre]

I just want to know what your average daily life was like? What your Saturdays were like?
I don't really care that a pint was cheaper or that there was less security at the airport. I want the boring stuff.

In the 80's (born 73 so an 80's kid) Saturdays were cartoons when younger, early in the morning before hanging out with the neighbours kids and either whoever's house we were all going to, or wandering around until the need to eat hit. Lucky enough to grow up in the Adelaide Hills, with paddocks across the dirt road at the back. As kids we'd wander down to the local creek, climb trees high enough we'd have been paralysed or dead if we fell and not think about it. Sundays and holidays weren't much different, except not so much the cartoons. By around 10 a couple of the neighbours had gotten Commodore 64's so time was split between playing those and outside, but still mostly outside unless the weather was shit. TV was a family event mostly. With one TV until late teens, it was usually after school us kids got to choose shows until around 6.30 - 7pm, then stuck with what parents were watching mostly. It wasn't all bad, I did appreciate British comedies of the 80's. Where it got annoying, was as a teen. You could almost guarantee, that if you and siblings (brothers 2 years younger), were watching a teen movie, the parents weren't interested in watching, that the one scene they'd manage to time their wanting a drink or snack from the kitchen (off from the TV), would be the topless female(s) or make out scene.

School had only just started getting some computers by the time I started high school and by the time Year 11 was reached, getting to do a Semester computer subject was a novelty. The parents having a (by the time at high school over 10 years old) Encyclopedia set was very handy and got use from both myself and my brothers, as well as the neighbours kids on occasion. I went to a decent middle class public high school and now have my own kids doing Year 12 and 10 there this year. They both have their laptops (as all students need) and all the lessons, assignment due dates, etc. are available for both them and me to see. Back then, outside the parent-teacher night, unless you did something seriously wrong they'd barely interact, unlike now where they are more than happy to answer emails or talk (probably not to kids todays appreciation ). The shitty part of 80's schooling was being a geek/nerd. It wasn't like now where that's fine (or up the social hierarchy in some cases). Pretty much ensured you were picked on by the 'jocks'.

So like any decade growing up in the 80's wasn't perfect, but, IMO, it was the best time to grow up. You still had the (now in non-rural areas) largely lost spending most time outside, intersecting with the beginning of tech going mainstream, but not to where it dominated to the detriment (IMO) of kids. I won't even go into 80's action hero's and movie's versus today's, with peak Arnie, Stallone and Van Damme.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

I remember watching people like Bill Cosby, Rolf Harris, and Don Burke on tv in the 80s, and thinking how genuinely nice they all seemed.

 

[Kram]

I remember watching people like Bill Cosby, Rolf Harris, and Don Burke on tv in the 80s, and thinking how genuinely nice they all seemed.

What about the bloke from Hey Dad. Or Craig McLachlan.

 

[Pistol Night]

What about the bloke from Hey Dad. Or Craig McLachlan.

Nudge?

 

[Butters and Pepper]

Ah yeah, forgot about the Hey Dad guy!

I wouldn't quite put CM in the same group as the others mentioned.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

Nudge?

I think he is referring to Arthur McCarthur.

 

[Gough]

I won't even go into 80's action hero's and movie's versus today's, with peak Arnie, Stallone and Van Damme.

Had to endure all those films where America tried to come with Vietnam's legacy though and some of them were really terrible.

 

[Kram]

Nudge?

I wonder what he is doing now along with the little fat kid.

 

[Kram]

Had to endure all those films where America tried to come with Vietnam's legacy though and some of them were really terrible.

 

[Gough]

Kkkkkkkken is cccccccoming to kkkkkkkkkill me.

 

[Plugger35]

A Fish Called Wanda was a must see movie back in the late 80s, a pity that the so called sequel Fierce Creatures in the late 90s couldn't live up to it.

I remember watching people like Bill Cosby, Rolf Harris, and Don Burke on tv in the 80s, and thinking how genuinely nice they all seemed.

While Michael J Fox who was as genuinely nice in real life as he was on tv ended up with Parkinson's disease, there is no justice in this world sometimes.

 

[the_interloper]

I remember watching people like Bill Cosby, Rolf Harris, and Don Burke on tv in the 80s, and thinking how genuinely nice they all seemed.

Don Burke, what a shocking unit, geez he was a big star though, no doubt how he got away with it all.

 

[revo333]

Every time the NFL playoffs happen it reminds me of having to wait the next day to get the results in the paper.

Then you'd have to wait until Saturday afternoon to watch the highlights on the ABC.

 

[Gough]

Every time the NFL playoffs happen it reminds me of having to wait the next day to get the results in the paper.

Then you'd have to wait until Saturday afternoon to watch the highlights on the ABC.

It was difficult to get emotionally invested in foreign teams in the same way you can now. That's why there are so many Liverpool and Man U fans here from the 80s and 90s, when you saw bugger all of the game outside of the Cup Final and an hour a week packaged highlights it was more fun just to support winners. My jumping on the Hammers bandwagon after the 80 Cup Final is a more cautionary tale of that sort of behaviour.