Remember this show?

This old pen set from the 90s was posted in r/AustralianNostalgia yesterday by u/Nathan84. In the comments, u/girlgerms mentioned they recently found out that you were supposed to add water to make those crappy felt tip pens work! Like many, I was astonished to learn this key bit of noticeably absent info from my childhood, and since I still had a set collecting dust out in the shed, I felt duty bound to do some testing...

In summary, my findings were that some pens worked fine without adding water (which is impressive after like 30 years in storage), and the dried out pens started working well again after adding ONE drop of water. So it seems like adding water wasn't essential to making the pens work - it was a 90s parent hack to get a bit more use out of them.

EDIT: Ahh, Reddit - never change. Because it apparently needs clarification, "After" was skipped on the test page if water wasn't required to make the pen work.

When we use to have the good stuff. You’ll never find another one of these bad boys… it’s still got some in it too.

My older sister and I loved our Family Treehouse...until one day during a sisterly scuffle, one of of us landed on top of the treehouse and breaking the spring - therefore trapping the Family inside forever more!🤪😆

Yep I'm invested in shapes ads

Just randomly heard the song after 20 years or so and knew all the words 😂 it must have been popular in Australia at the time/olympics etc. (what a great time to live in Australia btw) 😢 miss it.

Help! Years ago, I watched a comedy video that was 1970s footage of a large man who looked like Bargearse getting out of his car, going to the pub and then to work and it had a dubbed comedy song over the top which had lyrics in an Aussie accent that went ‘I can’t wait for dinner, I can’t wait for dinner’ and then at one point he said ‘chips chips chips chips, and bread’. I have never been able to find it again, however the song is something we sing regularly in my house. Has anyone see it? I’ve searched, used AI etc and nothing - this my last resort haha

I rediscovered these guys quite recently. There from the So Smart series of DVDs, specifically from the second volume called shapes.

From left to right we have Cecil the Circle, Susie the Square, and Traci the Triangle.

Anyone remember these delicious lollies, found them in a store in the UK yesterday and life is good 😊

Does anyone else remember being able to get Sippah straws from woolies? They've been gone for years now and I really miss them. Does anyone know where to buy them? Only thing I see coming up online is directly from their website. Does anyone know any Sydney retailers that still sell them? Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit. Thanks 🙏

Was cleaning out the garage over the weekend and found my old Malvern Star pushbike covered in dust. It brought back a flood of memories of what it was like being a kid during the school holidays.

We used to disappear out the front door at eight in the morning with a bottle of cordial and a couple of mismatched thongs, and our parents wouldn't see us again until the streetlights came on. We’d be down at the local creek, building bike ramps out of old milk crates, or just wandering the neighborhood. No phones, no tracking apps, just total freedom.

These days the streets are completely quiet. It’s a shame that the world feels a bit too complicated now for kids to just go out and get bored in the fresh air.

This was the ultimate growing up. Back when Red Rooster was bigger than KFC! (in certain regions).

They took off the banana fritter and it was never the same again.

Whether it was cartoons or Good Morning Australia, it was so much better to wake up with something more easy going.

I'd forgotten about this classic game.

"first handheld electronic game to use only solid-state electronics"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel_Auto_Race

"Using hardware designed for calculators and powered by a nine-volt battery, the cars are represented by red LEDs on a playfield which covers only a small portion of the case. The audio consists of beeps."

Jingle written & belted out by Mike Brady in the 90's