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Forum: Rest of the World

Apr 26th 2023, 5:26 am

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Back in the Day

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Re: Back in the Day

Having just read through most of this thread, I now need a second G&T. The ideal boat (or jamu?) for a tired brain!

Lots to read, to enjoy, to comment on here. It's a lively thread.

Now for...

Forum: Rest of the World

Mar 17th 2023, 2:03 am

Replies: 310

Back in the Day

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Gordon, in the late '70s I did a year's project work for one of the banks (I won't name it, only say it was the big bank named after the state in which it did the most business) to install the first...

Forum: Rest of the World

Mar 16th 2023, 3:09 pm

Replies: 310

Back in the Day

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Australia was like this in the '70s. A sensible attitude to work, pub lunches on Fridays. in a Sydney bank branch where I did project work in 1978, everybody downed tools at 4.15 PM (the public hours...

Forum: Rest of the World

Mar 15th 2023, 2:18 am

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Back in the Day

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Interesting to note yesterday's news that Bali will be banning tourists driving themselves around on motorcycles. Too many instances of insensitive and even dangerous behavior by (mostly but not...

Forum: Rest of the World

Mar 14th 2023, 1:10 pm

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Back in the Day

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Yes. Now and then I fly to Bali to meet up with friends who are passing thru on their way to or from somewhere else - nobody seems to want to come visit me in Surabaya where I mostly hang out, and I...

Forum: Rest of the World

Feb 20th 2023, 1:09 am

Replies: 310

Back in the Day

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Yes, different cities mean different memories. Many memories!

France first (and maybe foremost in this post as I have so much affinity with that country). I have spent very little time in Paris....

Forum: Rest of the World

Feb 19th 2023, 9:03 am

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Back in the Day

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Morpeth, your old reminisces of France in "La Belle Époque" (as Iprefer to fondly remember the 1960s and 1970s) certainly echo mine. Having lived in cities in at least six different continents over...

Forum: Rest of the World

Feb 18th 2023, 11:23 pm

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Back in the Day

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I lived and worked in France for nine months in 1966. Marseilles was a wonderful place to be in - visits to Paris were frequent, we used to drive north across the country and through Belgium to...

Forum: Rest of the World

Feb 10th 2023, 12:11 am

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Indeed the 1960s and 1970s were several different worlds ago. In trying to recall events in my early (young) life I find it difficult to organize my thoughts into coherent "chapters" even with the...

Forum: Rest of the World

Feb 8th 2023, 11:16 pm

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Back in the Day

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To digress somewhat, as offensive comedians go one has to go far to surpass the late Rodney Dangerfield, who could be so off-putting in his monologues, audiences at his nightclub shows were known to...

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