Society & Culture Things that Make You Feel Old

[Hawk Dork]

That I used to ponder why there was a Channel 5A on the VHF dial on our television set, and what purpose the mysterious UHF dial that I wasn't allowed to touch served.

I think we had to wait till SBS to use the UHF

 

[JackOutback]

Wide World of Sports on Saturday afternoon was my jam, covered just about everything (including horse racing, bowling and many other obscure sports).

 

[utility]

These days they can access any show anytime and its easy for them to become so addicted. We try and limit them to an hr free time on it but then we can get lazy and say 'stuff it'.

My kids don't watch television, it's more regulating computer (and YouTube) time. I generally limit the time and only after they've done self-development activities (e.g. music practice, language practice).

I try and build healthy habits rather than go cold turkey.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Wide World of Sports on Saturday afternoon was my jam, covered just about everything (including horse racing, bowling and many other obscure sports).

then you flicked over to the Wrestling on 9
had lunch and then the gladiator movies started then dinner then Disneyland on 7 and the block buster Sunday night movie on 7 9 or 10

 

[utility]

There was this famous Aunty Jack episode which changed from black and white to colour when colour tv arrived here.

I was too young to remember it though and most people here probably didn't have a colour tv then to appreciate it.

There's some really cool technology around colorisation of old footage. This is from the 1890s.

 

[Belushi Brassiere]

 

[Gough]

Docos on forty years of AIDS. I bet I wouldn't be an orphan in one of the first questions I got when I came out in the 90s was "do you have AIDS?" like that was the only reason I'd want to be honest with people about who I am. Breeders are so stupid.

 

[Paul66]

I'm heterosexual, but don't have kids. Am I a "breeder" ?

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[Hawk Dork]

Woke up at 5 AM to my calf spasming
I thought it was going to rip off the bone

Massage gun, voltaren and a few pandols alls good.

 

[FRUMPY]

Woke up at 5 AM to my calf spasming
I thought it was going to rip off the bone

Massage gun, voltaren and a few pandols alls good.

speaking of calf muscles, only a recent thing ive noticed - if i sit with my leg crossed (ankle on the other knee)and look at my calf , it continually twitches. Really small twitches but i find it cool to look at.. Id never noticed it before.

 

[Shell]

Woke up at 5 AM to my calf spasming

Omg that is bad. Happened to me once- my bf at the time was in bed with me. I legit just started screaming, he came to my aide.


The other time I got bad cramps was when I was swimming- up at staff retreat in Marysville. A workmate had to help me out my foot + lower leg was just going mental, was in so much pain.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Omg that is bad. Happened to me once- my bf at the time was in bed with me. I legit just started screaming, he came to my aide.


The other time I got bad cramps was when I was swimming- up at staff retreat in Marysville. A workmate had to help me out my foot + lower leg was just going mental, was in so much pain.

Its not a great way to wake up

Its come good, its happend a few times the last few years,probably just tired from climbing scaffold that Im not used too ????

 

[Shell]

Its not a great way to wake up

Its come good, its happend a few times the last few years,probably just tired from climbing scaffold that Im not used too ????

Dont they say if you get cramps you dont have enough salt in your diet.

Am assuming thats just an old wives tale.

Honestly i would not know- i get cramps rarely- and just those two times, badly.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Dont they say if you get cramps you dont have enough salt in your diet.

Am assuming thats just an old wives tale.

Honestly i would not know- i get cramps rarely- and just those two times, badly.

I have been sweating heaps, humid and painting so probably a factor.
I dont use a lot of salt in my cooking

 

[Shell]

I have been sweating heaps, humid and painting so probably a factor.
I dont use a lot of salt in my cooking

Not that I cook alot of dishes that requires salt- but I've had the same salt shaker still I bought 3 years ago when I moved into this place.

 

[Shell]

I have been sweating heaps, humid and painting so probably a factor.
I dont use a lot of salt in my cooking

Maybe drink something other than just water?? Like gatorade?? Idk

 

[Hawk Dork]

Maybe drink something other than just water?? Like gatorade?? Idk

Ill try white wine with my stir fry for lunch to relax the calf muscle

 

[FRUMPY]

Maybe drink something other than just water?? Like gatorade?? Idk

eat bananas

 

[Shell]

I had 2 yesterday.

As well as a very average Kensington mango.

 

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[Hawk Dork]

I had a local friend who was having heart palpitations they eventually worked out he wasnt getting enough ... I think it was magnesium ???, because he was drinking tank water.
So he started drinking mineral water and it sorted itself out

 

[Paul66]

I used to suffer from debilitating cramps until about 3 years ago when my doctor put me on magnesium tablets.
No more cramps

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[the_interloper]

I remember going to school and for show and tell telling the class that we got a colour tv.

We had an old black and white portable which eventually made it into my bedroom, watched many an SBS movie on it ha ha