Don Burke, what a shocking unit, geez he was a big star though, no doubt how he got away with it all.
What was daily life like in the 80s/90s/00s?
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Don Burke, what a shocking unit, geez he was a big star though, no doubt how he got away with it all.
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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.
Then you'd have to wait until Saturday afternoon to watch the highlights on the ABC.
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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.
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I remember the only way you could get the English Football results was in Monday mornings paper. And then sometimes they wouldn't print the lower divisions. My old man used to tune into the BBC world service every Sunday evening at 6pm for the English Football results.
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80s/90s was playboy/penthouse under old magazines/paperwork in desk drawer.Midnight pr0n searching required the dial up signal to connect to the internet that the parents could most likelyhear......im sure they knew what was going on
Everyone had their favs
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Cricket TV coverage consisted of first two hours for ODI or final session for tests.
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Haha, brings back memories of sitting around the kitchen table with the old man after a Sunday roast dinner, him with a long neck. It was a bit of a Sunday ritual.
The timeline of:
US Movie made -> screens in USA cinemas -> screens in Australian cinemas -> Available on video -> screened on FTA tv
was much, much longer.
Same with TV shows: in many cases there'd be a series on TV and folks who had been overseas would know the outcome but the vast majority of Australians would be completely in the dark. It was so much harder to get simple info like this that is at our fingertips today.
US Movie made -> screens in USA cinemas -> screens in Australian cinemas -> Available on video -> screened on FTA tv
was much, much longer.
Same with TV shows: in many cases there'd be a series on TV and folks who had been overseas would know the outcome but the vast majority of Australians would be completely in the dark. It was so much harder to get simple info like this that is at our fingertips today.
Only in the home city though - you'd get the whole day if the gaem was interstate.
And for the home city ODIs you always got the one-hour highlights package at 11pm or something like that. Just be sure to program the VCR for an extra 15 mins at the end just in case you chop off an exciting finish!
People wasted time like they do today (watching rubbish shows on TV because they are too lazy to get up after watching an intended show) but we kind of had a bit more control and awareness of how we spent our time.
Sure, you could read the encyclopaedia for a couple of hours, watch TV, read magazines, call people up and have longer conversations. But we didn't have hyperlinks taking us down weird rabbit holes, ads on our 'feeds' making us read about stuff we never intended upon reading.
The number of cars you see o nthe roads and people you see shopping every Saturday and Sunday? That was probably only seen around Christmas. The need to go and buy shit on the weekends was a lot lower - people were more likely to actually do stuff.
Sure, you could read the encyclopaedia for a couple of hours, watch TV, read magazines, call people up and have longer conversations. But we didn't have hyperlinks taking us down weird rabbit holes, ads on our 'feeds' making us read about stuff we never intended upon reading.
The number of cars you see o nthe roads and people you see shopping every Saturday and Sunday? That was probably only seen around Christmas. The need to go and buy shit on the weekends was a lot lower - people were more likely to actually do stuff.
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Shops closed a lunchtime on a Saturday and we're closed all day Sunday. No ATM machines and you could only get to the bank Friday afternoon ( they closed 3pm Mon - Thurs) made saving easier. Got paid in cash so the money you put in the bank Friday arvo you couldn't get to without going to the bank again.
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i had a mate when i was 18 that lived in hyde park in a house just as you described. it was so dank, but you didn't care because you were 18 and not at home!
Sheffield Shield games were on TV
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televised with 2 cameras
Maybe that is a partial solution to the rental crisis - we just need to lower our standards a bit. Or a lot.
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In early 90s, I can remember ringing a certain phone number to get Sheffield Shield score (wasn't televised).
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Saturdays in the 80s and 90s was getting up at the crack of dawn to watch Rage. School sports. Swimming lessons. Going to the SANFL, or in summer, watching the FAI Cup/Mercantile Mutual Cup on tv. Kick the footy down the park after the SANFL, dinner, Hey Hey its Saturday...or in footy season watching the VFL/AFL highlights. In summer it involved wearing nothing but shorts as a kid, melting in the house in between swims in the pool, sleeping with the ceiling fan going so fast that you felt it was going to come away from the ceiling and chop you to pieces.
In the 00s. Get home early from a club, sleep in a bit, 3 hours of Simpsons on Fox8, set the download on Audio Galaxy to download some albums before going to the SANFL/AFL and hoping it was done when you got home (unlikely), catch up for a movie or another night clubbing with mates before getting home in the early hours of Sunday morning, putting on Rage to see who the guest programmer was and going to bed.
In the 00s. Get home early from a club, sleep in a bit, 3 hours of Simpsons on Fox8, set the download on Audio Galaxy to download some albums before going to the SANFL/AFL and hoping it was done when you got home (unlikely), catch up for a movie or another night clubbing with mates before getting home in the early hours of Sunday morning, putting on Rage to see who the guest programmer was and going to bed.
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