I am an “Old Fart”, DOB November 1940, back then all of lifes support systems cost 3/- that’s 3 shillings. Beer was 3/- a bottle, that’s a 26 and 2/3 fluid ounce bottle, the reason for 26 and 2/3 is so that half a dozen equalled one Imperial gallon,
the Seppos were into deception back then, 44gallons imperial = 50 US gallons! Cigarettes were 3/- a pack of 20 unfiltered fags. Way back then not everyone had a telephone, and they were all landlines, no mobiles back then, AND they were not all dial phones, they all started out manual exchanges, you picked up your hand set and a voice said “What number please?” and you told them, our home number was “Windsor 5209” and Dads work number was “Central 4033”. Local calls cost a penny. In Victoria the pubs shut at 6:00 pm and weren’t open on Sundays hence the 6 o’clock swill and the Victorian road toll was 1100+ a year, it is now about 300 / year, point 05, and compulsory seat belts have helped here I could go on for hours, but I will leave space/ time for others to contribute their observations.

Ta for those recollections bob.

I remember shillings & pence from England but Oz was already dollars & cents when I ended up here in the 1960s. But you could still buy a few lollies for 2c.

I remember selling a load of my drawings to Ukrainian relatives and friends in England in 1966, and making enough shillings to buy a big haul of Matchbox cars from the local toyshop.

Are you still making money from your art work?

Bubblecar said:

Ta for those recollections bob.

I remember shillings & pence from England but Oz was already dollars & cents when I ended up here in the 1960s. But you could still buy a few lollies for 2c.

That was late 1960s. I still remember on the 14th of February 1966.

bob(from black rock) said:

Are you still making money from your art work?

Yes but the money is not important these days. I’m entering the phase of my life where I do my best work purely for its value as a humble contribution to human culture.

Bubblecar said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Are you still making money from your art work?

Yes but the money is not important these days. I’m entering the phase of my life where I do my best work purely for its value as a humble contribution to human culture.

I was never an artist who had anything to sell.

Lollies in my day were four a penny. I’m still spending thousands on rotten teeth.

Bubblecar said:

Ta for those recollections bob.

I remember shillings & pence from England but Oz was already dollars & cents when I ended up here in the 1960s. But you could still buy a few lollies for 2c.

I was already at school, primary level, when Australia converted to decimal currency. I remember the song we learnt and the utter relief at not having to do sums in class with the old money :/ Decimal currency was so much easier on the brain for mathematics.

I remember buying lollies from Mick’s (the grocers) just past the pub. We could get so much for a few pennies and half-pennies. I loved cobbers and freckles.

kii said:

Bubblecar said:

Ta for those recollections bob.

I remember shillings & pence from England but Oz was already dollars & cents when I ended up here in the 1960s. But you could still buy a few lollies for 2c.

I was already at school, primary level, when Australia converted to decimal currency. I remember the song we learnt and the utter relief at not having to do sums in class with the old money :/ Decimal currency was so much easier on the brain for mathematics.

I remember buying lollies from Mick’s (the grocers) just past the pub. We could get so much for a few pennies and half-pennies. I loved cobbers and freckles.

I was in high school in 66.

I can still remember how the music used to make me smile.

Peak Warming Man said:

I can still remember how the music used to make me smile.

can you remember the day it died?

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I can still remember how the music used to make me smile.

can you remember the day it died?

I can certainly remember the day Buddy Holly died.

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I can still remember how the music used to make me smile.

can you remember the day it died?

I can certainly remember the day Buddy Holly died.

Yeah, me too. It was a wet year here and dad was rowing me down the street in a boat.

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

can you remember the day it died?

I can certainly remember the day Buddy Holly died.

Yeah, me too. It was a wet year here and dad was rowing me down the street in a boat.

So….the levee wasn’t dry?

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I can still remember how the music used to make me smile.

can you remember the day it died?

I can’t remember the day it died, but I do remember “they” were all were singing
“Bye bye miss American pie, drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry, and “Good old boys” were drinking whisky and rhye, singin,this will be the day that I die.

what I love is that to my children, right now is going to be ‘the good old days’ and my good old days were in the seventies and early 80’s. that’s the great thing about nostalgia… it only belongs to one

Arts said:

what I love is that to my children, right now is going to be ‘the good old days’ and my good old days were in the seventies and early 80’s. that’s the great thing about nostalgia… it only belongs to one

Yeah but nostalgia ain’t what it used to be!

kii said:

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I can certainly remember the day Buddy Holly died.

Yeah, me too. It was a wet year here and dad was rowing me down the street in a boat.

So….the levee wasn’t dry?

Not where I lived. We rowed up to the top of the steps of the lounge bar and walked in.

bob(from black rock) said:

Arts said:

what I love is that to my children, right now is going to be ‘the good old days’ and my good old days were in the seventies and early 80’s. that’s the great thing about nostalgia… it only belongs to one

Yeah but nostalgia ain’t what it used to be!

Today they are nostalgic about when they first saw the Simpsons or the day they got their first smurf.

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind.

dv said:

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind.

but not where..

remember what?

dv said:

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind.

AH ! but you cant remember where you lost it can you?

too slow, bob (fbr)

JudgeMental said:

remember what?

Think the question was when.

roughbarked said:

JudgeMental said:

remember what?

Think the question was when.

WTF was When Watt?

Arts said:

what I love is that to my children, right now is going to be ‘the good old days’ and my good old days were in the seventies and early 80’s. that’s the great thing about nostalgia… it only belongs to one

Nostalgia just isn’t the same as it used to be, Aunty Arts.

Remember , remember the 5th of November…….

Will you remember…

I remember you..

kii said:

Will you remember…

The cranberries, hardly memorable.

roughbarked said:

kii said:

Will you remember…

The cranberries, hardly memorable.

Well, they are for me. My dead sister gave me that CD.

kii said:

roughbarked said:

kii said:

Will you remember…

The cranberries, hardly memorable.

Well, they are for me. My dead sister gave me that CD.

Precious then.

Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain.

It came as a bit of a shock recently to realise that my wife’s father, still alive, was ten years old when Pluto was discovered. Cars back then were sufficiently rare and simple that he built his own from scratch.

bob(from black rock) said:

I am an “Old Fart”, DOB November 1940, back then all of lifes support systems cost 3/- that’s 3 shillings. Beer was 3/- a bottle, that’s a 26 and 2/3 fluid ounce bottle, the reason for 26 and 2/3 is so that half a dozen equalled one Imperial gallon,
the Seppos were into deception back then, 44gallons imperial = 50 US gallons! Cigarettes were 3/- a pack of 20 unfiltered fags. Way back then not everyone had a telephone, and they were all landlines, no mobiles back then, AND they were not all dial phones, they all started out manual exchanges, you picked up your hand set and a voice said “What number please?” and you told them, our home number was “Windsor 5209” and Dads work number was “Central 4033”. Local calls cost a penny. In Victoria the pubs shut at 6:00 pm and weren’t open on Sundays hence the 6 o’clock swill and the Victorian road toll was 1100+ a year, it is now about 300 / year, point 05, and compulsory seat belts have helped here I could go on for hours, but I will leave space/ time for others to contribute their observations.

What’s a “mobile”? I still only use landline. Mrs m only stopped using a typewriter two years ago.

My “I remember when” is more recent, along the lines of I remember when the first calculators came out, not hand-held – these were desktop machines. The first computer I used, in 1975, had punched tape – it wasn’t until 1977 that I progressed to punched cards. Computer storage was on refrigerator sized units with tape drives about 1 foot in diameter.

I was in primary school when pounds became dollars, and when pounds became kilograms.

I remember when Pluto’s atmosphere was first discovered (1985). I really enjoyed reading Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” column in Scientific American in the 1970s. I enjoyed Grimbledon Down cartoons in New Scientist in the 1970s, and even before that the “Frontiers of Science” cartoons in the same magazine. I remember the discovery of the charm quark in 1974, and hints about its possible existence two years earlier. I remember when the big bang theory was just one of several options (including Hoyle’s steady state and the “little big bang” theory). The book I learnt cosmology from (Jagjit Singh, 1961) pre-dated the discovery of the first quasar 3C273 in 1963, and I eagerly watched the redshifts of the latest discovered quasars rise; many people still thought that quasars were hypervelocity stars ejected from the Milky Way. I can remember when the origins of the solar system were still uncertain, was it Jeans’ theory that a passing star had pulled a filament out of the Sun or Schmidt’s theory that the Sun collected the matter that formed the planets as it passed through a gas cloud in the Milky Way? Well, neither.

I remember when Alvarez in 1980 found iridium levels that proved that the death of the dinosaurs coincided with the impact of a big asteroid. I remember when magnetic stripes adjacent to mid-ocean ridges proved the existence of continental drift and plate tectonics.

I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing “Hallelujah.”

Teleost said:

I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing “Hallelujah.”

in the style of Leonard Cohen? or Jeff Buckley?…

I remember when the only prehistoric fossil humans were called Neanderthal, Peking Man, Java Man, the Taung skull and most recently Zinjanthopus. I clearly remember the excitement when Lucy was discovered in 1974.

Watson’s book “The double helix” came out in 1968, but I wasn’t interested in DNA until a few years later.

I was able to stay up past my bedtime to watch the manned landing of Apollo 11, and subsequent, starting in 1969.

mollwollfumble said:

I remember when the only prehistoric fossil humans were called Neanderthal, Peking Man, Java Man, the Taung skull and most recently Zinjanthopus. I clearly remember the excitement when Lucy was discovered in 1974.

Watson’s book “The double helix” came out in 1968, but I wasn’t interested in DNA until a few years later.

I was able to stay up past my bedtime to watch the manned landing of Apollo 11, and subsequent, starting in 1969.

We watched the moon landing in the science lab at school.

I can remember when University education in Australia was free.

I remember the rain on our skin
And his kisses hotter than the
Santa Ana winds

I remember when Sydney Harbour was so polluted that you couldn’t fish in it. Nobody would dream of swimming in it, the closest place to swim was 75 km upstream at Wisemans Ferry.

I remember when all the suburbs surrounding Port Kembla were black, covered in a layer of carbon soot. Chances were that the washing on the clothes line would come in filthier than when it had gone into the washing machine.

I remember when in 1972 the Club of Rome computed that world gold reserves would run out in just 9 years, tin in 15 years, natural gas in 22 years. World food per capita would peak in the year 2005, as worldwide pollution killed off food crops.

I remember when in the mid 1960s the crown of thorns starfish was expected to kill off the Great Barrier Reef in just a few decades.

How old are you mollwollfumble ?

mollwollfumble said:

I remember when in the mid 1960s the crown of thorns starfish was expected to kill off the Great Barrier Reef in just a few decades.

It is still a major problem and has, and is, currently destroying vast areas of the Barrier Reef. Pity you don’t update your memories.

Cymek said:

How old are you mollwollfumble ?

It’s divisible by 3 but not 5. Each of its digits is a prime, and the difference between its digits is a prime.

mollwollfumble said:

Cymek said:

How old are you mollwollfumble ?

It’s divisible by 3 but not 5. Each of its digits is a prime, and the difference between its digits is a prime.

21

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

Cymek said:

How old are you mollwollfumble ?

It’s divisible by 3 but not 5. Each of its digits is a prime, and the difference between its digits is a prime.

21

LOL. Context. “It’s divisible by 3 but not 5. Each of its digits is a prime, and the difference between its digits is a prime” is also true of my daughter’s age.

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

It’s divisible by 3 but not 5. Each of its digits is a prime, and the difference between its digits is a prime.

21

LOL. Context. “It’s divisible by 3 but not 5. Each of its digits is a prime, and the difference between its digits is a prime” is also true of my daughter’s age.

Given the “difference between its digits is a prime” probably implies a two digit number, and assuming we accept 1 (but not 0) as prime, we get the following options:

12
21
27
57
72

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

21

LOL. Context. “It’s divisible by 3 but not 5. Each of its digits is a prime, and the difference between its digits is a prime” is also true of my daughter’s age.

Given the “difference between its digits is a prime” probably implies a two digit number, and assuming we accept 1 (but not 0) as prime, we get the following options:

12
21
27
57
72

so I’d be impressed if the combinations were

21 & 12
72 & 12