Thread: 40 years ago today

Originally Posted by doug the slug

not an attack on you peter just my sardonic take on the situation

I know Doug. When I joined the bank it was an honourable profession. The community looked up to you unlike now.

Maybe that was because you were pleased to see customers actually in the bank, you greeted them by name not their account number, paid them interest on their savings account and when you gave a savings bank home loan the interest rate was fixed for the term of the loan. Also the charges were equitable for the service rendered and they did not make obscene profits.

Mind you it's now about 35 years since I left the bank, befor the rot set in.

Peter.

40 years ago mum and dad had some fun. I was born 9 months later.

Originally Posted by IanW

Yes, despite the grizzles from the 'old pharts' of the day, most quickly embraced the new money system - pounds shillings and pennies just seem so bizarre, now. Cheers,

Ian,

One of the grizzlers was fairly young.

As the silver content of the old ( pre WW2 ) shillings and two shillings was worth about five times more than the face value of the coins he regularly got a quantity of coins for sorting out and then melting them down for the silver content. The government made a fortune from the silver and copper out of the old coins.

Kept him supplied with beer money.


Peter.

hmmmm 40 years ago , first year of doing 6 years at secondary school, high school rugby, discovering drink and women, acne, pointed shoes, tight trousers, narrow ties ...... sounds uncomfortable now.
Yup, 1972 for optional metric dimensioning just to add to my confusion,
school = imperial measurement
university = metric
first (real) job = back to imperial
second (real) job = back to metric
... and bra sizes were still in imperial as i discovered when my mother removed 1 from the glovebox after I had borrowed her car to take out my second (real) girlfriend ...
can't remember if she is my current SWMBO so post ends now ...
Fletty

I finished my apprenticeship as carpenter/joiner on this day 40 years ago. Chucked my job to go chase a bit of skirt who I am still married to and got all this funny money for my pay, boy, sure was lots of it but it didn't go far.
Gave the building game away some 15 years ago but now seeing what my son earns nowdays I should have stayed in it. I don't know what it's like elsewhere but here carpenters are getting $60 an hour on subcontract on the job he's working on.

40 years ago I was a pint sized little chicky (ok, not much different from today ) attending Lucindale Area School. Weekly pocket money was one shilling ... threepence for a comic, twopence for an icecream and sixpence for the collection plate at Sunday School. Out went the pounds, and in came the cents ...got ten of them the next week and couldn't afford the icecream (was it my poor budgeting, or did prices rise when decimal currency was introduced?)

Cheers
Tikki

Gday.
What I would like to know fron you ol' timers - was there a valentines day on 14 Feb 40 years ago??
Les

My memory is that our largely american based TV programmes started to push Valentines Day on us with a vague and non specific promise of sex if we bought chocolate and flowers and gave them out with unsubtle hints as to who they were from. I remember getting even more acne from eating the chocolates because I didn't know any girls to give them to AND the leftover flowers, which then adorned my bedroom, added to my father's fear that I might be gay because I didnt know any girls to give them to ... which is why I still had them in the first place.
I took up woodwork until I worked out what the World is all about and now I have 3 daughters who I am trying to get to take up woodwork so that .......
Fletty

Originally Posted by fletty

...sex if we bought chocolate and flowers and gave them out with unsubtle hints as to who they were from. .....

Worked for me.

The flowers were sitting in a bucket in the sink this morning & when she came back to thank me, I whipped the box of chocies with the sloppy card out from under the bed...

40 years ago today I wasn't.




Here, the girls give chocolate to the guys, and in one month's time, the guys give chocolate to the girls.

And not to who you might be sweet on, to the boss/coworker/friend/teacher/etc.

Chocolate company conspiracy more than anything else methinks.

" What I would like to know fron you ol' timers - was there a valentines day on 14 Feb 40 years ago??
Les "

That's more than I can tell you Les, I think it might have been the Yanks who kicked it off but any day that we got to date a girl seemed like a valentines days. We had to ask her old man first, then pass the third degree and turn up in our best clobber and make sure she got home on time.<!-- / message -->

Originally Posted by Exador

That was only for the currency; the measurement system didn't change until 1972 and it was needed because it's a much easier and better system to use. It's internally consistent and is easy because it's base 10. It also brought us into line with the civilised world. (America STILL isn't civilised ).

Being an uncivilized yank, I would like to here an argument better than "its much easier to use." Its base 10, but does not divide as nicely in to quaters or thirds, proportions frequetly used in woodworking. So civilize me .

Originally Posted by 9Fingers

Being an uncivilized yank, I would like to here an argument better than "its much easier to use." Its base 10, but does not divide as nicely in to quaters or thirds, proportions frequetly used in woodworking. So civilize me .

When you can eat Vegemite on toast we will start to civilise you.

Originally Posted by Termite

When you can eat Vegemite on toast we will start to civilise you.

Where can I pick up some Vegemite??