Random Random Chat Thread XL

[Zephyr Spirally]

Dinah parade had the potential to be a grandiose boulevard!

I still don't think it's reaching its grandiose boulevard potential.

This was this morning for a visit to the dentist.
Weird seeing Lincolnville Clinic but it's not Lincolnville clinic anymore.

 

[Doss]

Dinah Parade's biggest problem is the **** off power lines going right down the middle of it.

 

[Runk]

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I still don't think it's reaching its grandiose boulevard potential.

This was this morning for a visit to the dentist.
Weird seeing Lincolnville Clinic but it's not Lincolnville clinic anymore.

Move those trees and I can still see the EK louts hanging out here in their hotted up Holdens back in '82.

 

[Zephyr Spirally]

I remember the EK louts being at that derelict set of shops behind Keilor heights primary. Henry street and Quinn grove?

I wonder where they are now.

 

[Runk]

I remember the EK louts being at that derelict set of shops behind Keilor heights primary. Henry street and Quinn grove?

I wonder where they are now.

Collingwood Cheer squad.

 

[Howard Moon]

You had the louts, we had 'millage' the Avondale toughues who used to break into the milleara primary school canteen every week and set fire to the tyres on the playground

 

[Runk]

You had the louts, we had 'millage' the Avondale toughues who used to break into the milleara primary school canteen every week and set fire to the tyres on the playground

'Millage??' Never heard of those guys. Milleara had a bloody good school footy team for a while there.

 

[Howard Moon]

'Millage??' Never heard of those guys. Milleara had a bloody good school footy team for a while there.

We had a teacher , grade 3 reckon it was 84 or 85, he was obliviously flaming in hindsight but kids don't have any idea of that.

Anyhow he had an aeroplane set up in the corner, 4 rows of actual seats from a taa plane..

You gathered points through the week depending how well you did in class , come friday the most points sat in 1st class, down to the nogoodniks in economy..

We would sit there while a plane noise played on a tape (vacuum cleaner) Mr Crawford would dress as a flight steward, come in serve us food and snacks. Best at the pointy end obv..

Pretty cool for school!

 

[Pweter]

We had a teacher , grade 3 reckon it was 84 or 85, he was obliviously flaming in hindsight but kids don't have any idea of that.

Anyhow he had an aeroplane set up in the corner, 4 rows of actual seats from a taa plane..

You gathered points through the week depending how well you did in class , come friday the most points sat in 1st class, down to the nogoodniks in economy..

We would sit there while a plane noise played on a tape (vacuum cleaner) Mr Crawford would dress as a flight steward, come in serve us food and snacks. Best at the pointy end obv..

Pretty cool for school!

Couldn't do that now because you'd be looked at as grooming kids. I'm glad I grew up before the world screwed itself over (not that we had a teacher giving cookies and drinks but my point stands)

 

[Runk]

We had a teacher , grade 3 reckon it was 84 or 85, he was obliviously flaming in hindsight but kids don't have any idea of that.

Anyhow he had an aeroplane set up in the corner, 4 rows of actual seats from a taa plane..

You gathered points through the week depending how well you did in class , come friday the most points sat in 1st class, down to the nogoodniks in economy..

We would sit there while a plane noise played on a tape (vacuum cleaner) Mr Crawford would dress as a flight steward, come in serve us food and snacks. Best at the pointy end obv..

Pretty cool for school!

How do you react to Airline Hostesses when you're on actual planes?

 

[TheBrightSide]

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I still don't think it's reaching its grandiose boulevard potential.

This was this morning for a visit to the dentist.
Weird seeing Lincolnville Clinic but it's not Lincolnville clinic anymore.

Great snap. Good to see the old Fish and Chip shop is going strong, though it's amazing to think a Milk Bar can still survive these days.
I remember I had a blood test at Linconville clinic many moons ago. I hate needles, they make me woozy. I was so dizzy, I walked home with the tourniquet still on.

 

[Doss]

Milk bars are much more likely to survive in suburbs like Avondale Heights and Fawkner (I name that because I lived there for a few years) that, for want of a better way to put it, are pockets - or not really on the way to anywhere.

There's a long closed one on my street here on the MoPo/Essendon boundary that was recently demolished, no doubt to make way for another block of apartments.

 

[Zephyr Spirally]

I think you're right, Doss. They can only survive without the fluorescent, shiny sterile competitors nearby.

Milkbars can still go alright in little enclaves of shops built in the 60s and 70s, when town planners were thinking about parks and schools. And building communities. The 'developers' were not profiteers. Not sure we even have town planners anymore. Doesn't feel like it.

But how the kids are ripped off by not knowing the seemingly limitless possibilities when in possession of 20 cents at the old fashioned milk bar 1c and 2c lolly counter. Fantales were 5c if I recall. Individually wrapped and very posh.

That was the very definition of 'rich'. Little white bags bursting with colours and flavours, and happiness.

Thankfully the bubble o bill lives on.

 

[Beerfish]

 

[Runk]

Ok, so the wife just asked me if she can go to the gym tonight. Let me be clear she doesn't need my permission but asks out of courtesy. I always say yes anyway. I don't own her.

So as the dog has been outside all day and it's been raining I said 'Sure, so long as you dry the dog.'
Reply: 'Looks like I'm not going now....'
Fast forward a couple of texts after I've asked why and we're now at 'Just don't worry about it....forget I even asked.'

Please explain why I'm in the shit?

 

[Pweter]

Ok, so the wife just asked me if she can go to the gym tonight. Let me be clear she doesn't need my permission but asks out of courtesy. I always say yes anyway. I don't own her.

So as the dog has been outside all day and it's been raining I said 'Sure, so long as you dry the dog.'
Reply: 'Looks like I'm not going now....'
Fast forward a couple of texts after I've asked why and we're now at 'Just don't worry about it....forget I even asked.'

Please explain why I'm in the shit?

Coz women. I'm surprised you had to ask. Getting in the shit for breathing (at least it's as close as I can come to putting my finger on it) is one of my favourite pass times apparently.

 

[Runk]

Coz women. I'm surprised you had to ask. Getting in the shit for breathing (at least it's as close as I can come to putting my finger on it) is one of my favourite pass times apparently.

Apparently I made it a big deal.

WTF is going on?

 

[Beerfish]

Apparently I made it a big deal.

WTF is going on?

Never ask for anything in return. Just be (privately) grateful she wants to go to the gym because in her head that's probably for you anyway which is why she was *asking* you in the first place.. just to let you know that she's planning to work it!

 

[Runk]

Never ask for anything in return. Just be (privately) grateful she wants to go to the gym because in her head that's probably for you anyway which is why she was *asking* you in the first place.. just to let you know that she's planning to work it!

Mhmm

 

[baz_machine]

Fun fact : nostalgia used to be considered a disease.

I miss those times

 

[Lore]

Apparently I made it a big deal.

WTF is going on?

She wanted a short answer, instead she got a whole conversation and a conditional reply. Suddenly going to the gym was more trouble than it was worth

 

[jmoo wan]

Apparently I made it a big deal.

WTF is going on?

she was tired, its cold, and she didn't really want to go to the gym. You my friend, just gave her an out.

source: have wife

 

[Runk]

She wanted a short answer, instead she got a whole conversation and a conditional reply. Suddenly going to the gym was more trouble than it was worth

Well colour me ****ed! FYI she went and hasn't said two words to me since getting home.

 

[Lore]

Well colour me ******! FYI she went and hasn't said two words to me since getting home.

I guess you'll have to dry the dog then

 

[Jack Richards]

Couldn't do that now because you'd be looked at as grooming kids. I'm glad I grew up before the world screwed itself over (not that we had a teacher giving cookies and drinks but my point stands)

Yep or be questioned why you are using up available space in the classroom or what is it's purpose. I had a teacher who sat there with a guitar and played while we did our activities. Nowadays you cannot do that because you have to actually be making sure you see all 22 kids work for each lesson.

He is the one that made learning fun and the reason I became a teacher. Saw him perform at a pub recently with his band.. Still in education as an Assistant Prin at a Catholic school in QLD (he taught me in '96 and '97).