Social Science Things we remember but do not exist now...

[CrazyDon]

The Pollywaffle.... Bring it back!

 

[JUBJUB]

The Pollywaffle.... Bring it back!

loved the Polly Waffle

 

[Papa Juggs]

BigFooty looked much better in VBulletin I reckon.

I did not like your post in honour of VBulletin not supporting that feature.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Loved this show when I was young

Loved it aswell.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

loved the Polly Waffle

Mmm, crunch, aah

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

'The X Files'. I had every episode recorded on VHS, until my Dad taped over them.

I Want To Believe.

Recently I had a massive nostalgia binge and DLed the full set- I'm watching through it from start to finish, it's amazing how good it still is, really a revolutionary TV show and the spiritual father of a lot of the quality story arc tv which followed.

Do love all the cutting edge 90s tech and fashion, mulder and scully rock some house brick cellphones and some ugly ugly laptops.

 

[Marlowe]

Corded home phones. Nostalgia trip.

 

[Scotland]

Corded home phones. Nostalgia trip.

Home phones in general.

Most of my friends are now home owners (ie settled and not renting share houses or moving every few months) and I can only think of one or two that have a landline.

 

[Shell]

I have a landline.

 

[Shell]

How this... my parents even had a dial tone phone up until the mid nineties IIRC...

 

[Scotland]

You're not my friend.

 

[Shell]

 

[Scotland]

We had a rotary dial phone, too.

At no stage did we ever have a cordless home phone.

 

[Shell]

We had a cordless phone once but it was shit. Kept dropping out, flat battery, etc.

 

[Scotland]

We got one of the white Telstra phones with the grey buttons (no screen or anything) in the 2000s IIRC.

It was a bit like buying a CD player today.

 

[Quivorir]

I have a landline only because I needed it for internet. I don't know our number though.

 

[Shell]

Ugh, all this phone talk just reminds me I need to get a new phone plan soon. Am with Crazy john's, at the end of September they are no longer honouring contracts.

Applies to this thread i guess: "Crazy John's".

 

[Scotland]

I got a naked DSL connection so I technically use the landline, I just don't have a phone.

iinet: Do you have a landline?
Me: Yes
iinet: Do you have a phone?
Me: No
iinet: What is your number?
Me: How the **** would I know, I don't have a phone!

I'm not surprised Crazy John's and others have disappeared. At my local big shopping centre there used to be phone shops in double figures. When there are only a handful of phone brands and even less phone networks it was never sustainable.

 

[Shell]

They were cheap.

Internet + a Samsung smart phone for $29 a month. Afraid I'm not going to be able to get that anywhere else..

 

[Nostradumbass]

The only reason I have a landline is because my Mrs calls her folks in England. I'd get rid off it tomorrow if I could, I'm sick of idiots ringing me trying to sell stuff.

 

[The_Reaper]

The only reason I have a landline is because my Mrs calls her folks in England. I'd get rid off it tomorrow if I could, I'm sick of idiots ringing me trying to sell stuff.

It's fun baiting Indian telemarketers about Tendulkar.

 

[JUBJUB]

I have a landline only because I needed it for internet. I don't know our number though.

Mrs won't tell you so you don't bug her if you're out and she's home ?

 

[Tyler Durden007]

I showed my kids a picture of a rotary dial telephone... they said... what's that?

Miss the baked potato cart at Princes Park, Sunny Boy/Glug/Razz/Zap original ice blocks (every 10th one had the "get a free one" written on the inside of the wrapper)

The cyprus tree at the north end of Kardinia Park where kids fell out regularly through overcrowding watching the game and breaking their arms

And for those old enough, the Corio Cinemas in Geelong that had feet warmers. The cinema had a boiler in the basement that had hot water pumped through pipes with two rectangular plates in front of every seat where you could take your shoes off and warm your feet. True story

 

[JUBJUB]

I showed my kids a picture of a rotary dial telephone... they said... what's that?

Funny you say that as with mine & your avatars being Breaking Bad related there's a funny phone thing during the series.Often you see them use a phone at a telephone box.Vince Gilligan deliberately did that as he said in a few years people will watch it and ask their parents "What are those ?"

 

[Kram]

At no stage did we ever have a cordless home phone.

The old ones in the 90s you used to be able to pick up the signal on a regular FM radio