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Yep we had the strap....was phased out while I was in primary school (elementry/middle school ... we just have 3 types of school here... primary (prep to grade 6), secondary (yr 7 to 12... usually called highschool or college) or in some areas we have P-12 which is all the grades in 1 school.

Dot-matrix printers.... as annoying as it was at the time I kinda miss having to tear those holey strip's from the edges of the printer paper....I mean it was someone how a little bit satisfying.

Mix tapes.....listening to the radio waiting for 'that' song to come on and trying to start recording just in time....and getting that fricking overlap that was vitually impossible to ignore....I mean to this day my brain things the words "Moomoo town, moomootown, all bound for moo moo town" should immediately follow the last line of Bohemian Rhapsody....lol.

Typing class....the only subject I ever failed....Along comes the internet...touch typing wonder suddenly surfaces. Well I spose technically I failed woodwork, but 2 classes and 11 stitches later can you really blame Mr Hills....he passed me on the condition i never entered his workshop again..he would say I showed up...I'd leave project designs in his pigeon hole and the completed work would appear on my homeroom desk....he even had my music lessons rescheduled to be when woodwork class was...lol.

Let me get this ball rolling.... Do you remember Spirit Printers/Copiers or more so the papers that came out of them? I dunno maybe it's something my minds made up but I remember in primary school (80's, australia) getting worksheets that were printed in a blur or purple ink that smelled yummy like alcohol or maybe like metho, but they defo smelled AND if you had print room duty when you would puck them up they would be warm. You'd hug them to your chest and sniff them all the way back to class. They disappeared around grade 2 or 3 for me and we got black and white photocopied paper....but oh the spirit printed sheets were awesome. Do you remember those? Was it just an Aussie thing? Or did my brain just make this shit up?

Here's a fun little thread to fact check obscure memories, reminisce about forgotten products or practices or confirm just how old we are getting.....

Miss 16 has been tech support for her parents and grandparents since she was 5.... I think her record was an hour explaining over the phone how to turn of hands free...that was a fun convo to overhear, I dunno how she keeps her patience.

2. Rub onto your hands to Grease them up so when you are rolling rum balls so they don't stick to your hands.

Incase any of you mob are wondering the drummer is wearing a Bombers (Essendon, the Dons) footy jumper...that's Aussie Rules Footy.... I'm not a fan, the bombers beat my boys, the Saints, last night.

6. Wrap around ya head after you put hair dye in it so the colour chemicals can do their thing better.

Yeah nah we have egg in a hole here too but we call them toad in a hole or even just toadies (but since I met Doreen we've been saying egg toasties).....I was just marvelling that anyone would have left overs to use glad wrap on....besides left over fried egg ain't much chop....lol Oops... 4. Wrap around your rolling pin so the dough your rolling doesn't stick.

What are these leftovers you speak off? 2. To cover the dunny bowl to prank others.

9. Play the egg tossing game to practice soft hands.

7. Poke holes in each end, blow all the goo out then carve pretty pictures into them to make decorates...looks grouse on emu eggs.

4. Mix the yolks with colour pigment to make tempera paint.

Oodie...over sized hoodie going almost to your knees made from a chenille blanket and lined with Sherpa fleece...so basically a giant hoodieade outa a doona. Tens machine... infratense machine...little sticky pads you stick on your body connected to a machine that sends buzzy electricity through your muscles. Supposedly it's like a massage and heals/relaxes your body but I suspect it just makes you twitch and look odd. I was glad my team didn't make finals to win a medal because I was so broken I had no more games left in me.

The Thunder box is usually reserved for an outside dunny, often in a tin shed. There is also the shitter, the pisser, the crapper, the Pot, the lav, the office and then if you wanna go all fancy pants and lardy-dah like you have... The powder room, the lavatory, the facilities or the amenities.

6. Always take the time to say goodbye, you never know when it's the last chance you'll get.

Oright I got ya covered... I tend to call it the dunny like most of me compatriots but I've also heard it referred to as the loo, the bogs, the thunderbox, the pollies swimming pool (pollies are politicians)...any of those tickle ya fancy?

2. Make a pav. PAVLOVA - Lovely Aussie dessert the kiwi's try to say they invented...it can be dressed with fruit or peppermint crisp.

Day 3 of State Softball Masters Championships.... sitting in my oodie with 2 different tens machines on different body parts glad we didn't make a meddle game.

10. Clean your cleats after a game. Hmm.... 10 things to do with an egg....

5... create a hair effect when doing a painting.

2. Don't smoke (I can cross 4 of those bucket list items off my list)