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« on: December 28, 2016, 04:36:22 PM » |
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you are in conversation with an 18 year old
you say
"we used to have to connect to a telephone line to access the internet on dial-up, there was a sound for a minute or two while it connected. After a set period of time the line would hang up and you'd have to dial up again"
and he goes "no, really?"
"we used to have to get up off the sofa to change channels on the TV" Pause "There were three channels".
and he goes "no, really?)
what else from your youth would you tell an 18 year old now that they wouldn't believe....
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My eyes are open wide
By the way,I made it through the day
I watch the world outside
By the way, I'm leaving out today
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arbboy
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« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2016, 04:40:54 PM » |
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There was no soccer Saturday when i was your age to see the scores instantly from kick off to final whistle. There was no livescore.com either. You used to have to use this thing called teletext on your tv and you needed to be loaded to afford a teletext tv as well. You had to wait for each page (sometimes up to 5 or 6 pages) to rotate in turn for around 30 seconds each before you saw the score you actually wanted.
Wasn't teletext just awesome back then though? In running betting prices from Stan James in the top corner of the screen are probably worthy of another post from the mid 1990's.
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« Last Edit: December 28, 2016, 05:04:39 PM by arbboy »
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Graham C
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« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2016, 04:43:32 PM » |
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I thought teletext was amazing when I got a tele with fast text - those four coloured buttons that went straight to a page without having to type numbers in.
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arbboy
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« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2016, 04:44:47 PM » |
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When you went into the betting shop to place a bet you had to decide whether to pay 10% tax on your stake or decide to have 10% deducted from your entire returns of your bet. It was impossible to back a long odds on shot shorter than 1/10 as a single because you couldn't win after tax.
On top of that if you wanted to have a bet on an EPL game if it wasn't live on TV (which most games were not back them) you have to place at least a treble with 2 other games in order for the bet to be accepted. On top of this most coupons would be bet to 113% as well so it literally was impossible to win as a punter. You would come out of said bookmakers also stinking of smoke at 11am on a Saturday morning so you couldn't lie to anyone about where you had been either.
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arbboy
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« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2016, 04:48:07 PM » |
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When loading your computer game when i was a kid you used to have to connect your Spectrum to a separate tape recorder and then insert the game into the tape recorder and listen to the most insane screeching noise for circa 5-10 minutes whilst it loaded before you could actually play it.
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« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2016, 04:49:50 PM » |
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When you went into the betting shop to place a bet you had to decide whether to pay 10% tax on your stake or decide to have 10% deducted from your entire returns of your bet. It was impossible to back a long odds on shot shorter than 1/10 as a single because you couldn't win after tax.
On top of that if you wanted to have a bet on an EPL game if it wasn't live on TV (which most games were not back them) you have to place at least a treble with 2 other games in order for the bet to be accepted. On top of this most coupons would be bet to 113% as well so it literally was impossible to win as a punter. You would come out of said bookmakers also stinking of smoke at 11am on a Saturday morning so you couldn't lie to anyone about where you had been either.
I used to go in the bookies on my own from about the age of 15. Think my old dear thought I was a secret smoker |
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« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2016, 04:50:32 PM » |
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When loading your computer game when i was a kid you used to have to connect your Spectrum to a separate tape recorder and then insert the game into the tape recorder and listen to the most insane screeching noise for circa 5-10 minutes whilst it loaded before you could actually play it.
Then have it crash right at the end of loading and have to start again |
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« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2016, 04:51:32 PM » |
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Computers never used to actually turn off when you pressed shut down, they loaded up a screen that said 'it is now safe to turn off your computer' and you had to press the button on the tower
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arbboy
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« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2016, 04:53:40 PM » |
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If you wanted to have a late night punt at the casino after a few lagers at 3am on a Saturday night you would be kindly refused entry to said casino because you hadn't joined 48 hours in advance. You would be kindly asked to fill out a membership form and told you could then come in on Monday night at 3am at the absolute earliest and they would send you on your way. If you told the doorman you were a member of Stanley's in Leicester but you were in Northampton that evening he would just laugh at you and tell you that you had to join each individual casino you wanted to enter 48 hours before entry and it made no difference at all if you were already a member at another one of the chain's casinos. If you were lucky enough to already be a member of the casino you would have an hour to punt before they booted you out at 4am on the dot every night. That was on the premise of you being suitably dressed in proper shoes, trousers and a collared shirt in the vast majority of casinos even if some of the casinos in that era such as Annabell's in Leicester were truly not worthy of any dress code in the slightest given the absolute cess pit the place was.
If you were doing your cash and couldn't wait to return you would have to wait for the casino to re open at 2pm the next day. In addition if you fancied a drink whilst you gambled at the tables that would be impossible as drinking any alcohol at the tables was illegal and you would have to leave your pint in the bar area and sprint backwards and forwards from the roulette wheel between spins to have a sip at the bar.
If you won the £500 jackpot in the fruit machines you didn't get paid out by a lovely clean ticket which you easily carried to the cash desk for your wages you had to sit and watch 500 pound coins hammer out of the machine whilst everyone in the place knew you had had it off from the noise this created whilst collecting a bucket from the cash desk to ship them all into before returning to the cash desk to be paid whilst they bagged up the pound coins ready to be put back into the machine.
If you had done all your wages in your wallet your options for re loading were severely limited to the following options for the vast majority of punters each night. There were no ATM's available inside the casino so if that was your usual option you would be forced to leave the casino and go out into the street to find the nearest cash machine. If you were lucky enough to have your cheque book (wtf is a cheque book i hear the kids ask) AND your cheque guarantee card on you (as you do on a piss up in town on a Saturday night) then you would usually be allowed to cash 2 or 3 cheques up to the cheque guarantee card limit which was usually £50 or £100 (ie fuck all). If you were lucky enough to win by 355am when you were cashing out you could 'buy back' the cheques from the cashier so they wouldn't be cashed and your bank manager wouldn't have to know what a fucking late night pissed up degen you were when the casino presented the cheques to your bank for payment. This routinely resulted in numerous degens of this era requesting new cheque books after very few of the previous 50 cheques in the last book had actually been cashed. This led to questions from your bank as to why you needed a new cheque book in the first place.
The ability to use your bank card over the counter via chip and pin to instantly get access to a grand wasn't available back then.
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Kev B
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« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2016, 05:07:23 PM » |
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Pubs used to call last orders at 10.30.
We had to go down to the cellar to put ten bob in the metre so we could have electricity.
We only used to have 3 TV channels.
We used to used jumpers for goal posts.
We used to put dubbing on our footy boots.
Yes I'm an old fecker.
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RED-DOG
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« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2016, 05:33:31 PM » |
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One day, you'll realise that most of the stuff you think is really important really isn't.
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The older I get, the better I was.
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« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2016, 05:39:08 PM » |
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Pubs closed in the afternoon....unless you were in Scotland, in which case on visiting it was compulsory to go and have a pint  |
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« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2016, 05:41:41 PM » |
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Teletext holidays was the nuts.
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arbboy
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« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2016, 05:43:09 PM » |
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Pubs closed in the afternoon....unless you were in Scotland, in which case on visiting it was compulsory to go and have a pint Imagine every pub being closed on a Sunday between 2.30pm and 7pm nowadays? |
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ripple11
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« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2016, 05:49:02 PM » |
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You could make a mixed cassette tape of songs by recording from the radio.
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