Well I did live in Bonavista, we had standards to maintain. When the NEP hit and my parents lost everything they still kept up the allowance thing.
I remember every Sunday my three systems and I would line up outside of his office and go in one at a time, there was a stack of 8 crisp $1 bills and a stack of 4 sheets of loose leaf paper. He'd pull out the paper with my name on it, which had a list of chores and jobs I was responsible for and he'd run through them. Everytime there was something that wasn't done that $2.00 would shrink. Then he'd as he says "Give you what you were worth that week" then pull out a list of new jobs and run through them with you. Then you took you're money or what was left of it and leave.
The girls always had the easy chores, vacuum, wash walls, do the dishes etc. I always got the mow the lawn, paint the fence, sand the deck. Or the spring dig the garden, or the even better ones like, dig a hole 2 feet deep to an exact diameter of 6 feet for a new fire pit. Or the gag worthy spring break one of clean up all of the dog's poop in the back yard the first time the snow vanished.
Back in the day those sort of chores made you a karate expert.
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BIMD - If someone moved out of town or even to distant part of the same town, 90% of the time you stopped being in touch. Even though those people were your "best buddies". Just too inconvenient, as there was no way to keep in touch on a daily base.
BIMD - People mostly talked to each other face to face.
BIMD - Shows only aired on certain hours on TV, and if you missed it or didn't tape it, there was propably no way you could ever see it again.
BIMD - "Hard porn" essentially meant that people on film actually had sex, or maybe an MMF. Bukkake was the newest and kinkiest thing in porn and most people wouldn't admit to knowing either of those terms even if they did.
BIMD - People, not just companies or governments, sometimes sent physical mail to each other. Even though you had to pay for each letter you sent.
BIMD - Most players for Team Finland played in the Finnish league, even for the olympics. On the other hand Team Canada was often a pretty ragtag bunch and few people would actually know any of them, especially since most hockey fans in Finland had never seen an NHL game in any form.
BIMD - You could actually impress someone by compiling ~20 songs for him/her on a used magnetic tape. You needed to enter a physical recording into the machine, usually a different one for each song, look for the right spot and pause, press record on the tape you were working on, then press play on the original, and then stop recording when the song had ended but before the next one started. There were often mistakes, and if you at the end you noticed something had gone wrong, you had to do everything again starting from the point of the mistake.
BIMD - Machines like dishwashers and music players could last for a decade, but films and music could become useless in a couple of years in repeated use. Old people often had working and usable appliances that were 20 or even 30 years old.
BIMD - When music lovers went to visit someone, they could and would check that persons music taste by looking at their physical collection of albums. People used to hide some of their albums for that reason, and some even bought albums just because they'd look good on the shelf.
BIMD - Everybody pretty much knew the same bands and picked their favourites from a list of basicly 2-20, depending on how "into music" they were and what they liked. This was because there was mostly no way to get your hands on anything that was not considered a "classic" or really popular.
BIMD - "Hard porn" essentially meant that people on film actually had sex, or maybe an MMF. Bukkake was the newest and kinkiest thing in porn and most people wouldn't admit to knowing either of those terms even if they did.
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Back in my day Intellivision games cost 50 bucks a game, a small fortune. Now you can get Intellivision lives for about $14.95 and has like 50 of the best games.
That just seems FU to me.
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Back in my day, if you didn't see a sporting event live, you'd have to wait until the last 5 minutes of the 11 o'clock news and hope that they'd show a clip or at least flash the score on the screen. If they didn't show it, you'd have to wait until the next day to check the box score in the newspaper to find out whether your team won.
And to make matters worse, BIMD the newspaper was always 2 days old by the time it was delivered in the secluded northern Manitoba town I grew up in. I remember clipping out the boxscores from 2 days prior to bring to school. I would leave them on my buddy's desk to prove that the Flames had in fact defeated Wayne Gretzky and the L.A. Kings the other night!
So did you listen to skiffle while riding in your Prefect?
Skiffle! Prefect? I'll have you know the only music to listen to while driving around in your Ford Capri was Status Quo, or maybe Junior Giscomb depending on whether you actually got laid or just dreamt about it. Those where the days when no car stereo was complete without a EQ to adjust the sound of your hissing garbled tape that lived on the floor amongst the empty fag packets.
If you ever wondered who were the actually inspiration for Spinal Tap I give you Messers Parfit, Rossi and the denim army
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