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What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 8:47pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
This was our Netflix back in the days... 167 Likes 17 Shares
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Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by uboma(m): 8:49pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
The good old days, I still miss em... 65 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Fahdiga(m): 8:51pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
The good old days. not now that vagina people are talking to men anyhow 148 Likes 9 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Khalesie: 8:59pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
Ishilove:I luv u ishi 10 Likes |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 9:24pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
ekesoft:This so rude. How is it by the way? You comment on the Op of a thread and still say "that's by the way" and redirect readers to another thread? Please don't be unfortunate. 32 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 9:24pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
Khalesie:Thanks dear. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by ACRI: 9:27pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
Sweet memories I love the passport of mallam ilia An African night entertainment Once upon a village too And these ones(foreign) The black arrow Lorna Doone 17 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by ekesoft(m): 9:34pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
Ishilove: so sowie , wasn't my intention to get on your nerves ... 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by naptu2: 9:50pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
naptu2: 133 Likes 22 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by joseph1832(m): 11:36pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
Men what happened? Such memories... ![]() 1 Like |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 11:59pm On Jan 03, 2021 |
naptu2:This was when dinosaurs walked the earth. 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 12:03am On Jan 04, 2021 |
joseph1832:What happened? Technological advancement happened, that's what. 2 Likes |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by joseph1832(m): 12:07am On Jan 04, 2021 |
Ishilove:at what cost, at what cost ishi? |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by nihilistjnr: 12:11am On Jan 04, 2021 |
Ishilove: Damn...I used to look forward to the reading list ahead of each school year. I would finish all the literature books in the summer before 1st term resumption. You're missing a couple of the top including 'Thr bottled Leopard', 'Thr trials of brother Jero', and 'Cry the beloved country' Obviously all the chinua achebe and Cyprian ekwensi books as well. 39 Likes 6 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 12:15am On Jan 04, 2021 |
nihilistjnr:I don't have a meme generator else I would have added the ones you mentioned. I read Bottled Leopard so many times the book eventually fell apart in my hands ![]() 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 12:16am On Jan 04, 2021 |
joseph1832:At the cost of the simple pleasures of life, honey. 3 Likes |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by nihilistjnr: 12:18am On Jan 04, 2021 |
Ishilove: I think there might have been an issue with quality of the binding of that book, cos the spine of mine split too. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by nihilistjnr: 12:21am On Jan 04, 2021 |
Ishilove: I don't think life changed like that to be honest. Naptu's description of life in the 70s and 80s is pretty consistent with my childhood experiences in the 90s, except my neighborhood wasn't as nice or diverse 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by GAZZUZZ(m): 3:26am On Jan 04, 2021 |
Ishilove: 2021, still so violent ![]() 16 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by olufeyikemi90789: 6:23am On Jan 04, 2021 |
This was our Netflix back in the days... 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by stuff46(m): 6:47am On Jan 04, 2021 |
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Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by budaatum: 3:37pm On Jan 04, 2021 |
nihilistjnr:Naptu's description of life in the 70s and 80s is very not pretty consistent with the childhood of many. And no, nihili, I am not accusing you in any way of saying it was because, you didn't. In the 70s I had to lug 3 buckets of water up to the third floor where we lived and when the transformer in front of the house blew up, which was just about every 6 months, we'd have no light for 3. The only electronics in the house till Festac 77 was the huge Blaupunkt ma insisted in bringing home from UK and the fridge. Imagine the bliss of world radios when we did have light. Thankfully, candles, lanterns and a torchlight when batteries could be afforded, were good for reading. In the early 80s we moved to a ground floor but water moved like half a kilometre away and electric was like on a never never. Thankfully, the house behind ours was better pass we the neighbours and I just stuck my book out the window all night and read with the neighbours noisy light which worked for most books but not for studying Maths. By the mid 80s, childhood? Telly? Not if you want chop you wouldn't, though like Naptu, midnight telly turned down low so as not to get caught, was fun when there was light. But after running along buses all day selling canned coke and eggs you might imagine how night was for sleep alone. These books saved my life Ishi! I'd have been ignorant and dead otherwise. Some can be downloaded here 30 Likes 4 Shares
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Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Royver(m): 5:06pm On Jan 04, 2021 |
How you guys remember all these stuff I don't know! I had flashbacks reading through this thread. Almost brought tears to my eyes ![]() 26 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by AgainstIslam(f): 5:52pm On Jan 04, 2021 |
ACRI:If you haven't read The African Child too, please do. 4 Likes |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by emitope: 9:54pm On Jan 04, 2021 |
This brought back some rich memories to me. I'm just smiling sheepishly here. 7 Likes |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by illicit(m): 2:54pm On Jan 06, 2021 |
I used to have a library.... 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Veecruz: 10:54am On Jan 07, 2021 |
naptu2: Bros, you've said everything yet thank God you have not! So I can add Nintendo's Super Mario, Duck Hunt, Contra and hand held games like Tetris, Car race, Bike Race, Swamp Thing, Spider Man and Super Man before Game Boy came out with more games and Colour video games and Game Gear. Then in that Terminator Game Console having 150 games in one, my favourite was "Battle Tank". I saw my Video Mart Card some years back and I could not wait to be 18 so that I could go to that "Adult Section" Men, Life was plenty and sweet! 14 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Nobody: 9:35pm On Jan 09, 2021 |
They feed my generation with feminist crap like PURPLE HIBISCUS and AMERICANAH ... 30 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Nobody: 10:45pm On Jan 09, 2021 |
I'm still an avid reader at my leisure. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Mide3367: 11:54pm On Jan 09, 2021 |
How time flies 1 Like |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by kingreign(m): 7:37am On Jan 10, 2021 |
Royver: What happened, you stopped writing. Ive always lookup forward to reading your write-ups on imaginary and strange things in a tale. 4 Likes |
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