You might be an Australian child of the 70s/80s if...
        You remember Hector the Road Safety Cat sing: "look to the right, look
        to the left, and look to the right again; then if the road is clear of
        traffic; walk straight across the road, DONT RUN!, walk straight across
        the road"
        You remember the Ma-na-ma-na song - done by the MUPPETS.
        20c worth of mixed lollies could last you hours...and 50c, well only
        older kids could afford that much. Icypoles were 5c and paddle pops were
        20 c.
        Sunnyboys and poppers were your stable school diet.
        You decided against rushing out and buying a CD player because you
        objected to the fact that you were being forced to change your
        collection.
        Picture this ... after your nightly bath, in dressing gown, ugg boots or
        moccasins, bean bag, Milo, dumadumadumaduma-COUNTDOWN!!
        Summers were long and hot.
        Coke adds life!
        Fanta tasted like fanta should.
        There was Tang and Tab.
        Hey Hey Hey, it's Fat Albert time.
        You wondered how the Coke girls and boys got inside that big clear beach
        ball.
        You remember the advent of AIDS, Ecstasy etc etc.
        You remember spending the whole day at the beach with no sunblock at all
        ................ whats more, you didn't get burnt - much.
        You wore a leather band around your wrist and believed that any boy/girl
        that broke it, you had to sleep with them.
        Basketball was only played by Americans.
        Dunlop Volleys were a viable option.
        Sneakers in general were sneakers and not more advanced than your
        fridge.
        Doctor Who scared you silly.
        You remember the FIRST space invaders (someone in your street had an
        Atari right?).
        You queued up to see The Village People Movie.
        You saw Grease and ET at the movies.
        You went to a Drive-in with your parents...in your pyjamas.
        You had a $50 walkman that had FAT headphones and chewed tapes after the
        first three days.
        You had a Commodore-64 that took hour to load each game.
        Microbees were advanced.
        Floppy disks were ACTUALLY floppy.
        You actually went through at least one pair of thongs/flip-flops a year because you
        wore them so much.
        You remember when the first people in your street got a video machine,
        it was top loading and there was no such thing as a remote control.
        Beta vs. VHS wars.
        You remember a few years later they developed a remote control - but it
        was attached by a cord to the video that was always too short to operate
        it from the lounge anyway.
        Tommy Lee was known to you only for his musical abilities, not the ones
        shown in the video with Pammy Lee.
        I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the jukebox baby...
        It's the final countdown da na na na ...
        I wear my sun glasses at night...
        You were at school on Ash Wednesday 1983.
        You remember real water restrictions.
        You desperately desperately wanted one of those cool six wheeled buggies
        that the Banana Splits drove.
        Stubbing your toe whilst running across the road in summer barefoot,
        trying not to burn your feet raw was an annual experience.
        You remember those plastic "Peters" icecream signs glowing at the top of
        the milkbar.
        You watched Hey Hey It's Saturday..... before breakfast!
        You remember the fuss over the swearing in ET...did you hear the one
        about the father who dragged his kid screaming out of ET because of
        the "Penis breath" remark??
        High schools were high schools and Techs were techs...none of this
        Secondary College rubbish.
        Tab, so right for beautiful people.
        You remember Azaria Chamberlain.
        You used to go to VFL matches to see the South Melbourne Swans.
        Leopard footprints on the soles of your schoolshoes were ace!
        You saw Star Wars in the cinema (the first time).
        You remember buying Wham! on LP.
        Matchbox cars or Barbies were essential to your development.
        You had cardboard dolls (or your sisters did) that came with books of
        paper clothes that you tore out and stuck on the doll.
        The kid with the pool was your best friend...until someone got an
        INGROUND pool. wow!
        The only place you could get a pizza was Pizza Hut - and it was
        expensive !!!
        You put chip packets in the oven to make shrinkies.
        An essential part of your packed lunch in highschool was a Prima, unless
        you bought a frozen Sunny Boy.
        You played dress-ups in your parents funky clothes that you would kill
        to get your hands on now.
        You had a terry toweling hat that had yellow plastic sunglasses built
        into the brim that came down over your face.
        You weren't wearing flannelette because it was cool.
        You didnt want the hairdresser to cut above your ears until late high
        school.
        Fags were called fags and nobody batted an eyelid when 8 year olds
        walked down the street with a lolly/candy cigarette hanging out their mouth.
        You got tough summer feet every summer without trying.
        You remember when electric typewriters came in.
        You werent old enough to go to Alien.
        I was made for loving you baby....
        You can't stop the music...
        Video killed the radio star....
        Hey mickey what a pity you don't understand...
        I come from a land down under...

        Any of this ring a bell??

Video Killed the Radio Star wasn't an 80's song.  There was a New Wave version of it by Bruce Woolley which in some countries was a hit in 1980, but not all countries got it

the list includes the late 1970s

        You might be an Australian child of the 70s/80s if...
        You remember Hector the Road Safety Cat sing: "look to the right, look
        to the left, and look to the right again; then if the road is clear of
        traffic; walk straight across the road, DONT RUN!, walk straight across
        the road"
        You remember the Ma-na-ma-na song - done by the MUPPETS.
        20c worth of mixed lollies could last you hours...and 50c, well only
        older kids could afford that much. Icypoles were 5c and paddle pops were
        20 c.
        Sunnyboys and poppers were your stable school diet.
        You decided against rushing out and buying a CD player because you
        objected to the fact that you were being forced to change your
        collection.
        Picture this ... after your nightly bath, in dressing gown, ugg boots or
        moccasins, bean bag, Milo, dumadumadumaduma-COUNTDOWN!!
        Summers were long and hot.
        Coke adds life!
        Fanta tasted like fanta should.
        There was Tang and Tab.
        Hey Hey Hey, it's Fat Albert time.
        You wondered how the Coke girls and boys got inside that big clear beach
        ball.
        You remember the advent of AIDS, Ecstasy etc etc.
        You remember spending the whole day at the beach with no sunblock at all
        ................ whats more, you didn't get burnt - much.
        You wore a leather band around your wrist and believed that any boy/girl
        that broke it, you had to sleep with them.
        Basketball was only played by Americans.
        Dunlop Volleys were a viable option.
        Sneakers in general were sneakers and not more advanced than your
        fridge.
        Doctor Who scared you silly.
        You remember the FIRST space invaders (someone in your street had an
        Atari right?).
        You queued up to see The Village People Movie.
        You saw Grease and ET at the movies.
        You went to a Drive-in with your parents...in your pyjamas.
        You had a $50 walkman that had FAT headphones and chewed tapes after the
        first three days.
        You had a Commodore-64 that took hour to load each game.
        Microbees were advanced.
        Floppy disks were ACTUALLY floppy.
        You actually went through at least one pair of thongs/flip-flops a year because you
        wore them so much.
        You remember when the first people in your street got a video machine,
        it was top loading and there was no such thing as a remote control.
        Beta vs. VHS wars.
        You remember a few years later they developed a remote control - but it
        was attached by a cord to the video that was always too short to operate
        it from the lounge anyway.
        Tommy Lee was known to you only for his musical abilities, not the ones
        shown in the video with Pammy Lee.
        I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the jukebox baby...
        It's the final countdown da na na na ...
        I wear my sun glasses at night...
        You were at school on Ash Wednesday 1983.
        You remember real water restrictions.
        You desperately desperately wanted one of those cool six wheeled buggies
        that the Banana Splits drove.
        Stubbing your toe whilst running across the road in summer barefoot,
        trying not to burn your feet raw was an annual experience.
        You remember those plastic "Peters" icecream signs glowing at the top of
        the milkbar.
        You watched Hey Hey It's Saturday..... before breakfast!
        You remember the fuss over the swearing in ET...did you hear the one
        about the father who dragged his kid screaming out of ET because of
        the "Penis breath" remark??
        High schools were high schools and Techs were techs...none of this
        Secondary College rubbish.
        Tab, so right for beautiful people.
        You remember Azaria Chamberlain.
        You used to go to VFL matches to see the South Melbourne Swans.
        Leopard footprints on the soles of your schoolshoes were ace!
        You saw Star Wars in the cinema (the first time).
        You remember buying Wham! on LP.
        Matchbox cars or Barbies were essential to your development.
        You had cardboard dolls (or your sisters did) that came with books of
        paper clothes that you tore out and stuck on the doll.
        The kid with the pool was your best friend...until someone got an
        INGROUND pool. wow!
        The only place you could get a pizza was Pizza Hut - and it was
        expensive !!!
        You put chip packets in the oven to make shrinkies.
        An essential part of your packed lunch in highschool was a Prima, unless
        you bought a frozen Sunny Boy.
        You played dress-ups in your parents funky clothes that you would kill
        to get your hands on now.
        You had a terry toweling hat that had yellow plastic sunglasses built
        into the brim that came down over your face.
        You weren't wearing flannelette because it was cool.
        You didnt want the hairdresser to cut above your ears until late high
        school.
        Fags were called fags and nobody batted an eyelid when 8 year olds
        walked down the street with a lolly/candy cigarette hanging out their mouth.
        You got tough summer feet every summer without trying.
        You remember when electric typewriters came in.
        You werent old enough to go to Alien.
        I was made for loving you baby....
        You can't stop the music...
        Video killed the radio star....
        Hey mickey what a pity you don't understand...
        I come from a land down under...

        Any of this ring a bell??

Awesome another aussie on here.
I remember all of those things, at least i do now since you jogged my memory with some of the stuff i did forget.
How could i forget Hector the cat.
They still sell Fags made by the same company, but now they are called Fads instead & they aren't red at one end anymore, they are just all white sticks now.
Hey do you remember the Snack Attack commercial with the kids on the BMX bikes with Tuff wheels, BMX Bandits style. Snack Attack was a yogurt style desert like yogo. That commercial is my fondest memory of TV comercials in the 80s aswell as the Doritos or CCs ad with the guy with the electric guitar walking down the street & when a woman with great legs walks passed he lets out a waaaah waaaaow on his guitar.
Oh & how could i forget The Henderson Kids.
Rememember Key Cars they were like a Matchbox Car with a key that you'd  place in a hole in the back of the car & when you squeezed the key the car would shoot off at high speed.
Or how about The Incredible Hulk on the front of Kellogs Corn Flakes boxes around the time of the 1982 Hulk cartoon.
He-man chocolates with fake Masters Of The Universe character tatoos on the under side of the wrapper which we would buy at "Food Plus". Green Gremlin slurpies at 7/11.
Man i could just go on forever here.

  You might be an Australian child of the 70s/80s if...
        You remember Hector the Road Safety Cat sing: "look to the right, look
        to the left, and look to the right again; then if the road is clear of
        traffic; walk straight across the road, DONT RUN!, walk straight across
        the road"

See I never had a TV till 1984 so I have no memory of Hector. But I learned to cross roads without him !!

        20c worth of mixed lollies could last you hours...and 50c, well only
        older kids could afford that much. Icypoles were 5c and paddle pops were
        20 c.

20cents worth of Musk Sticks on a hot summers day - sighhhhhhhhhhhh

        You wondered how the Coke girls and boys got inside that big clear beach
        ball.

And decades later I dated one of the guys and he told me how they got in there ! They were all army recruits.

      You remember spending the whole day at the beach with no sunblock at all
        ................ whats more, you didn't get burnt - much.

And I paid for it - having skin cancers removed by the time I was 19 in the late 80s.

      Sneakers in general were sneakers and not more advanced than your
        fridge.

Still laughing at this one !!
     
      You queued up to see The Village People Movie.
        You saw Grease and ET at the movies.
        You went to a Drive-in with your parents...in your pyjamas.

I never queued - we owned the Drive-in so I saw all those movies and many many more for free and on multiple occasions.

        You remember when the first people in your street got a video machine,
        it was top loading and there was no such thing as a remote control.
        Beta vs. VHS wars.
        You remember a few years later they developed a remote control - but it
        was attached by a cord to the video that was always too short to operate
        it from the lounge anyway.

Yep my boyfriend had the first top loader in the neighborhood. I still have my 1984 Beta vcr and all my tapes. And yes it comes with a corded remote !!!!!


        You were at school on Ash Wednesday 1983.

I was at a party when a guy there got a phone call to say his girlfriend and her parents had died in the fires. :(


        You remember real water restrictions.

Ahhh yes - when water was actually seriously banned. Not just reduced for 4 wheel drive owners to still wash their cars on drives. In the 70s - half of Perth replaced their gardens with concrete.
       
      You remember the fuss over the swearing in ET...did you hear the one
        about the father who dragged his kid screaming out of ET because of
        the "Penis breath" remark??

I never understood the fuss actually - had no one heard the word prior to then ??

        You remember Azaria Chamberlain.

The dingo was innocent !

      You saw Star Wars in the cinema (the first time).
Nup - at the Drive-in - 8 times in a row !!

        The only place you could get a pizza was Pizza Hut - and it was
        expensive !!!

And you use to dress up to go there !!!!

        You put chip packets in the oven to make shrinkies.

Ahh yes Twistie earings !! an essential.

        You werent old enough to go to Alien.

I wasnt old enough to see tonnes - but owning the Drive-in meant tha I saw them all anyway. Every 12 year old girl should start her knowledge on men with Richard Gere's Breathless !!!! ;)
     

Thanks for the memories. I read them while sucking a $2 musk stick !!!!!!!!!!!!

Aussie Aussie Aussie! OI OI OI!
Funny, I always thought musk sticks tasted like soap.
Good to see you back here, BMG! :)