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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2013 13:44:24 GMT
I remember when train toilets flushed directly on to the tracks.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 4, 2013 15:01:54 GMT
So do I Kerouac! And as a young girl of 7 or 8yrs old I distinctly remember seeing the dirty blackened stones that lay between the rails and being quite afraid. We were also told not to use the toilets whilst the train was in the station..... were they re joking?You know when a child has to go they have to GO!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2013 15:13:22 GMT
The only dildo I ever saw in my life was on the train tracks. Something to wonder about forever.
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Post by htmb on Jul 4, 2013 15:38:03 GMT
Bixa, you made me laugh so much over the last one I almost fell off the chair.
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Post by mossie on Jul 4, 2013 17:50:09 GMT
I hope it wasn't coloured brown.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2013 22:16:01 GMT
EEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2013 19:06:13 GMT
I remember when hwinpp was an immensely lively and friendly member here.
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Post by bjd on Jul 31, 2013 7:46:36 GMT
Yes -- I thought of him yesterday too when I read about the elections in Cambodia.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2013 10:02:47 GMT
I remember when some people actually bought fake mobile phones to try to look important, when they couldn't afford the real thing.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 31, 2013 11:47:55 GMT
Ha Ha! Not only that.....they enacted fake conversations when a real cellphone could not get signal! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2013 19:17:35 GMT
I recently saw a movie during which there was a scene where the TV played the National Anthem at the end of the broadcasting day.
I had totally forgotten about this until I saw this particular scene.
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Post by htmb on Jul 31, 2013 19:20:00 GMT
Oh, I had forgotten about that, too!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2013 19:42:15 GMT
I can still find test patterns on my TV screen if I hunt around the stations in Morocco or Tunisia around 5 a.m. Believe me, I don't do that often.
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Post by htmb on Jul 31, 2013 19:46:35 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 1, 2013 13:46:25 GMT
How well I remember the "Last Orders Hurdles" at the end of an evening's cinema in the UK, with one lot of people desperate to get to the pub before they closed (often 10.30pm in those days), trying to get past some stout patriot at the end of the row standing to attention while they played the National Anthem, and a clip of the Queen looking very dashing, sitting sidesaddle in her Trooping the Colour outfit, rippled over the closing curtains.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2013 14:14:00 GMT
I had to stand up along with everybody in the cinema in Bangkok when they played the national anthem before showing Titanic.
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Post by bjd on Aug 1, 2013 15:27:32 GMT
Now that you remind me of it, they used to play God Save the Queen after the last movie showing in Toronto. No picture of her though. Some people stood and glared at those who didn't. I don't remember if or when it was replaced by O Canada or simply stopped.
I just looked on the net but couldn't find the information.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2013 16:46:14 GMT
When I was little, one of the movie theatres near our town played a little film of the Star Spangled Banner before the movie. But at that time, the name of the place was the American Legion Theatre, and I suppose that they owned it. I think it was spliced right on to this sort of film.
When it became The Sand a number of years later, the forced patriotism was dropped.
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Post by htmb on Aug 9, 2013 21:35:23 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2013 4:04:58 GMT
I can remember the Star Spangled Banner being played before the feature in US Air Force base theaters & everyone standing for it, but don't remember it in civilian movie houses.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 4:35:53 GMT
I remember when the toilet in a hotel room had a ridiculous paper band around the seat that said something lke "sanitized especially for you."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 20:11:28 GMT
Does any North American remember "Magic Fingers" in motel rooms? It would vibrate the bed for 10 minutes for 25 cents. We kids would love it and demand it while the adults would look embarrassed.
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Post by htmb on Aug 10, 2013 20:34:41 GMT
No, we didn't have THAT kind of motels in Florida.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 21:15:32 GMT
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Post by htmb on Aug 10, 2013 21:39:16 GMT
No, I'm joking. I can remember my parents keeping a whole roll of coins available to keep my hyperactive brother entertained. I don't remember any embarrassed smirks, but then I would not have picked up on those signals.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2013 1:43:50 GMT
I remember the imaginary Y2K bug and how people at the office got assigned to the "emergency team" for the night of December 31, 1999.
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Post by mich64 on Aug 30, 2013 1:51:33 GMT
I clearly remember the Y2K scare as well Kerouac as I was charged to install a diskette into every hard drive in our facility and perform a self test and then place a yellow sticker on every unit that passed and a red one that did not. When I returned to the office after the 1st, every hard drive, yellow sticker or not, worked.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2013 1:56:58 GMT
I remember diskettes.  I even remember floppy disks.  |
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Post by mich64 on Aug 30, 2013 2:10:06 GMT
How about mag cards? They were quickly outdated but I used to store form letters on them where I could leave spots blank to fill information in by hand. Also made one that operated as our company letterhead, my boss was so pleased that he did not have to order from the printer any longer!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2013 5:55:25 GMT
Nope, I guess I must be much younger than you! ;D
Actually, I worked for such a conservative company that we were about the last people in the industry to even get computers, so we missed most of the early versions.
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