I met Tania around that time. She was hilarious. Especially the characters she invented for an advertising campaign. I went to the ABC and they told me where her office was just across from Elsternwick station. She was very nice and we talked about me possibly working for her but I ended up hot-tailing it to Sydney for a year and the rest is history.
If you want to completely trip-up your grand children, don't ask them what they "want" for Christmas. Ask them what they're going to GIVE for Christmas. It opens up a whole new discussion on the "real" meaning of Christmas and battles the constant, focused insistence of marketing companies who only want to use Christmas and the Holiday Season to "sell" us something and increase the own bottom lines.
All I wanted for Christmas 1988, was for my 1st baby boy to be born from my pregnant Christmas belly. And he was. But not until 1989. And he's 31 yrs. old now. But Christmas 1988 seems like 5 minutes ago, to me! : )
Couldn't imagine for the life of me sitting on stranger's laps and kissing them and filming it for national television in 2023. Crazy watching this now 😂
if you're not Australian watching this, then the guy at 3:05 with the 'P' logo on his shirt works for our postal service, there's only 2 poles so he had a 50/50 chance of getting it right. 🎅 ❄ 🎄 ✉ 📬 🔝
Wait a minute?! This isn't 1988 but maybe December 1989 before the infamous 1990 The Met Tram Strike?! However I don't see a massive influx of trams (mostly Z - classes, afew A/B classes and the old scrubber car)?! Still 1980's Bourke Street here, I can still feel it's vibe unlike now. It was so warm, vibrant and alive back then and what I wouldn't give to go back there now against this 2021 hell. Cheers to ABC for this via happier times sigh...
It may return again in a new format, nothing lasts forever...Not even societies attitudes, right now in this era we maybe under a great reset that's happening around the world...It'll pass.
Oh, by the way, before I go, ABC - How do you plan to cover the fact that Bernie Sanders is now in 2nd place? I mean, that's a little more news worthy than what Australian People asked for back in 1988 - isn't it?
Bourke street mall is an absolute deadtech "grey zone" now, you'll never get that kind of warm, openness atmosphere again now. The sun always seemed to radiate in the mall back in that time, sometimes it got alittle too bright and those orange paver seats got alittle too hot to sit on. The place is absolute a dump now after 33 years. Commie, woke, lefty cesspool of an area now. The sun will never shine on the mall like it did in the 80's ever again!
The young people in this clip could be the viewers parents aha
Only saw this today it's my dad at 3.10
Matt Duncan no way this is so cool
Grandparents now
0:10 - u can see in his eyes how uncomfortable he is, lmao.
That boy right there sending all these letters to the south pole 😂
That’s not Santa that’s Satan 😂
god that last guy was hilarious, "if i told you, santa would think i betrayed him"......lol im dead
“I haven’t yet formulated a request” lol!
Wow simpler times
The real question is why do they call candy canes “boiled lollies”? Lol
Are you serious?? Because theyre... boiled. thats how theyre made
Because, in 1988, we didn’t just apishly copy the Americans in everything.
Boiled lollies were small and came in a Jar, the Candy Cane thing over here wasn't really a thing back then.
@@andrewszombie it's just so unspecific
I met Tania around that time. She was hilarious. Especially the characters she invented for an advertising campaign. I went to the ABC and they told me where her office was just across from Elsternwick station. She was very nice and we talked about me possibly working for her but I ended up hot-tailing it to Sydney for a year and the rest is history.
If you want to completely trip-up your grand children, don't ask them what they "want" for Christmas. Ask them what they're going to GIVE for Christmas. It opens up a whole new discussion on the "real" meaning of Christmas and battles the constant, focused insistence of marketing companies who only want to use Christmas and the Holiday Season to "sell" us something and increase the own bottom lines.
All I wanted for Christmas 1988, was for my 1st baby boy to be born from my pregnant Christmas belly. And he was. But not until 1989. And he's 31 yrs. old now. But Christmas 1988 seems like 5 minutes ago, to me! : )
No ones gonna y’all about how that man just kissed sis
I was more surprised by the fact that she didn't care!
Yeahhhh I went 😬😬😬
@@miketeabag6501 it was harmless. Remember those times?
@@flipspearing really wasnt tho
I love her 🙂
She can certainly pick me up.
The mullets!!
Couldn't imagine for the life of me sitting on stranger's laps and kissing them and filming it for national television in 2023. Crazy watching this now 😂
nah, bloke who kissed her was a weirdo then and now
Am I the only one who thought that was Shawn Mendes for a little while?
She violated everyone ahha
if you're not Australian watching this, then the guy at 3:05 with the 'P' logo on his shirt works for our postal service, there's only 2 poles so he had a 50/50 chance of getting it right. 🎅 ❄ 🎄 ✉ 📬 🔝
Probably was a office worker or A retail clerk.
2:01 “what’s his address” he got her there 😂😂
I thought he was gonna say “what’s your address?” 😂
2:09 that was sweet of him!
Classic aussie. Times long gone.
What do you like most about christmas
Santa's beard
aha
Took 20 years but the Mullet came back to the streets of Melbourne. The guy at 3:05 has drug dealer vibes.
Rip to the first dude 🤣
She gives me Emilia Clarke vibes for the first half of the video
Back when Australia was Australia
Wait a minute?! This isn't 1988 but maybe December 1989 before the infamous 1990 The Met Tram Strike?! However I don't see a massive influx of trams (mostly Z - classes, afew A/B classes and the old scrubber car)?! Still 1980's Bourke Street here, I can still feel it's vibe unlike now. It was so warm, vibrant and alive back then and what I wouldn't give to go back there now against this 2021 hell. Cheers to ABC for this via happier times sigh...
Is that Burke Street mall?
Drunk crossdressing santa
Way better times, is this Sydney or Melbourne, I’m sure it’s Sydney
I had a mullet then playing in a band the GO GO Gators heaps of gigs back then.
Current day, I would say that news reporter has a 'MeToo' case to deal with. I miss the good old days.
Ah yes, the “good old days” when people were more oppressed and mistreated
She seems quite happy. It was just a peck on the cheek. Nowadays the guy would lose his career and livelihood for some innocent flirtation...
It may return again in a new format, nothing lasts forever...Not even societies attitudes, right now in this era we maybe under a great reset that's happening around the world...It'll pass.
Gold!
It was great until the kiss, then it got great again
gimmie some of those bad bois
why does she look like robert irwin wearing a santa claus costume
her whole appearance is so 2020
So. Many. Mullets
The present is so shit compared to those days....
She didn't ask any women. Not one.
She literally asks two women..
PRE PONZI SCHEME AUSTRALIA.
have you been good this year?
**no**
why is everyone attractive in this video
Oh, by the way, before I go, ABC - How do you plan to cover the fact that Bernie Sanders is now in 2nd place? I mean, that's a little more news worthy than what Australian People asked for back in 1988 - isn't it?
Not really interesting at all. Most Aussies have MUCH better things to think about than cringe-worthy American politics.
Most of these people are dead by now.
@Lars Magnus Samuelsson Svenssonsenn Magnussvensamuelsson Thor
Thank you. 😀
Most would be between 40 or 50 so yes mostly all dead I guess😱
@Warren552011
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you died in 1996.
Google it.
@Warren552011 Who summoned you from dead demon?!?
@Warren552011 What?
When Australia was still White.
Is it not?
Still? It wasn’t to start with. And it never was fully white nor ever will be, thank God.
@@kipras4699 ...
When Melbourne was good.
Shaun Moller before ‘cultural enrichment’
When there were Aussies in Australia
Still good you muppet
Bourke street mall is an absolute deadtech "grey zone" now, you'll never get that kind of warm, openness atmosphere again now. The sun always seemed to radiate in the mall back in that time, sometimes it got alittle too bright and those orange paver seats got alittle too hot to sit on. The place is absolute a dump now after 33 years. Commie, woke, lefty cesspool of an area now. The sun will never shine on the mall like it did in the 80's ever again!
Back when mullets was the norm