Really? The End is Nigh..

[Xander]

6 minutes ago, Roy said:

When £1 was all you needed

True. Until I got married that is.😊

[Roy]

True.

Then you needed two £1 notes? 🤣

[MickD]

I got one shortly after I came back from Germany.  Didn't hang on to it for long.

[richatthecroft]

6 minutes ago, Roy said:

UK Pint and fag index:

1980:

 2018:

1980: John Smiths/Tetleys or Webster’s at 47p (you could drink Sam Smiths for 36p)

2018: Good pint of Craft Ale £3 in my neck of the woods. 

[Roy]

I'd say £3 pint is cheap.

Aren't 10 fags about £4 now?

Websters....a nice pint I remember.

[MickD]

7 minutes ago, Roy said:

When driving was fun.

That would have been a nice, if long, drive back to Scotland?

First time I really drove in UK was Bruggen to Zeebrugge (or Ostend), to Dover, to Lanarkshire.  Never done a UK roundabout before, two young kids in the back and bad weather, about 12 hrs just on UK side.  Wouldn't even consider doing it now.

[richatthecroft]

1 minute ago, Roy said:

I'd say £3 pint is cheap.

Aren't 10 fags about £4 now?

Yes, and good ale too, Helmsley Brewery.

Roy, you can’t even buy 10 fags anymore!

I remember when a 20 pack got over a £1 and Rothmans and a few others started selling 14’s! Kept the children happy! 

[Roy]

I said I'd stop driving at £2 a gallon 🙁

So how much are 20 fags now?

[Xander]

5 minutes ago, Roy said:

I'd say £3 pint is cheap.

Aren't 10 fags about £4 now?

You don't even get the Embassy coupons anymore. 10 thousand fags and two permanently damaged lungs were all you needed to get a new duvet cover.

[Jimmock]

Remember sitting with my dad counting up all his kensitas club coupons, then twice a year would head to glasgow,to swap them for a set of pots,or something. Also remember ice-cream van at school gates,where you could buy a single fag. 😂

[Roy]

2 minutes ago, Jimmock said:

Remember sitting with my dad counting up all his kensitas club coupons, then twice a year would head to glasgow,to swap them for a set of pots,or something. Also remember ice-cream van at school gates,where you could buy a single fag. 😂

Yep. Same thought.

[richatthecroft]

3 minutes ago, Xander said:

You don't even get the Embassy coupons anymore. 10 thousand fags and two permanently damaged lungs were all you needed to get a new duvet cover.

My old man owned a city centre newsagents in the 70’s into the 80’s, he used to swap the coupons with his customers in exchange as part payment to pay their burgeoning paper bills...I remember him counting them out every week and after about a year he’d buy the star attraction out of the Embassy Catalogue with the proceeds...He once got a full camping set Frame tent cooker etc etc.  

I never understood him getting the water skis though...

 

[Roy]

You have lakes? 

[MickD]

5 minutes ago, Jimmock said:

Remember sitting with my dad counting up all his kensitas club coupons, then twice a year would head to glasgow,to swap them for a set of pots,or something. Also remember ice-cream van at school gates,where you could buy a single fag. 😂

Hotel I worked in had a fag machine, fruit machine and staff bar in the basement. Started working there at 14, no wonder I'm skint.

[Xander]

2 minutes ago, richatthecroft said:

I never understood him getting the water skis though...

His name Wasn't Eddie by any chance?

[richatthecroft]

7 minutes ago, Jimmock said:

Also remember ice-cream van at school gates,where you could buy a single fag. 😂

Ashamedly these days, my old man used to sell a fag, a match and a mint...3p and the target audience was...

Not sure he would have stayed in business these days! 

[Xander]

1 minute ago, MickD said:

Hotel I worked in had a fag machine, fruit machine and staff bar in the basement. Started working there at 14, no wonder I'm skint.

Lucky your still alive.😄

[richatthecroft]

3 minutes ago, Roy said:

You have lakes? 

We lived in Leeds and he couldn’t swim! 

[richatthecroft]

Apologies to all those who can’t remember Green Shield Stamps, normal PM talk will resume shortly...

[MickD]

5 minutes ago, Xander said:

Lucky your still alive.😄

I had to make a few adjustments in my twenties, then again in my thirties/forties (minor relapse).  Don't smoke or gamble now but take away the beer?  May as well just shoot me.

[richatthecroft]

2 minutes ago, MickD said:

Don't smoke or gamble now but take away the beer?

Well done Mick...I’m back on the fags enthusiastically after my shares tanked in Summer...any excuse will do for an addict...

[Roy]

6 minutes ago, richatthecroft said:

Apologies to all those who can’t remember Green Shield Stamps, normal PM talk will resume shortly...

My mother told me if I filled a book I'd get a sister.

She was born in '72 

[Roy]

2 minutes ago, richatthecroft said:

Well done Mick...I’m back on the fags enthusiastically after my shares tanked in Summer...any excuse will do for an addict...

Please stop. I like you.

[richatthecroft]

Just now, Roy said:

Please stop. I like you.

Should do, no good stacking short term! 

I had such a long time smoke free...Nicotine is such a cruel drug

[caloundracats]

I've had a good laugh at all these comments - keep 'em coming, - just love the banter😁

Hearing aid beige - a new one for me, still a horrible colour.