You could tell your teachers to get stuffed and you got the slipper for it, or when a pint was £1,24, or when you could get on a bus for half fare but still get away with being 18 in a pub, or mabey the days where you could go to your local working mans club and watch your dad get pie eye'd and punch some other chap in the chops.
Do you,,, cause I'm having a bit of trouble myself..............x.
2007-07-26 11:42:03 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
I remember when prescriptions cost 20p, so were crisps. And my dad kept saying "Blimey - it'll be a £1 a pint if it keeps going up like this!!" (It was 80p at the time - bit different from the £2.60 we pay now!!)
Mind you, I remember being a young girl and my mum would give me threepenny bits and sixpences to get sweets and you could get 4 mo-jos for an old penny! You could also get Mars bars for 4 old pennies - 4D!! How times have changed!
2007-07-26 22:49:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first pint I ever bought with the pocket money ny Dad gave me was 39p and it was a pint of McEwans Export. I was 13 and myself and two mates went to this pub, I bought the first round they bought the next two, we were all pi5hed and walked the 5 miles home, after stealing the glasses. I couldn't get half fare from the age of 12
Crisps were 2p and a Mars 2 1/2 p.
Don't start me on remember the good old days when I am now paying £2.80 for a pint of Guinness in a pub that shouldn't be allowed a cellar, and it's because it's the closest to my lazy ar5ed mate's house.
Anyway, yes I do
2007-07-27 07:08:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I lived in America, and I can remember when soda pop was a nickel and the empty bottle gave you 2c. Candy bars were 3 cents, a pack of cigarettes were 18 cents, a gallon of gas was 25 cents, a lead pencil was a nickel, and a ball point pen was a dime. An empty beer bottle was worth 5 cents. Aaaaahhh, the good old days...
2007-07-27 01:41:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
£1.24 a pint, My first pint was 1shilling and 9 pence. That's 8p in decimal, Your good old days a bit recent for me. Saturday night 12 pints pack of 20 cigarettes and the bus home fish supper at the chippie and change from £2. Was earning £42 pounds a week try earning 21X the value of what I got on a Saturday night to see what you would have to earn to keep up with the good old days
£867. Just checked
2007-07-26 18:49:02 · answer #4 · answered by john m 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yeah I remember going out round town when I was 17, like you said getting on bus cheap but getting in pubs spending all night out round town and going for a pizza or burger after and still having change from a tenner , I'm not that old!! shows how things have changed.
2007-07-26 18:54:54 · answer #5 · answered by Minnie M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ah yes, and when the Special Patrol Group routinely pulled in non-white people and beat the stuffing out of them, and when any Irishman with a beard and sunglasses could expect to be detained for hours when passing through UK Customs, and when Thatcher was destroying whole industries, and when you could only contact people by ringing their houses in the hope that they were in, and when you could only get information from under-funded local libraries, and when computers were incredibly expensive and slow and clunky and only good for playing crap games on...great days indeed...
2007-07-26 19:20:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My first wage as an apprentice was £29 pw!
I was rich! I used to pay for the petrol for a friend's car (I was too young to drive) and I could ensure we could all travel all weekend for £1
I was too young to drive but looked old enough to drink - and to buy the drinks - a round for 6 of us (mostly drinking pints was just over a £1!!
Damn I feel old now!
2007-07-26 18:53:37 · answer #7 · answered by Hedge Witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i do! dinner money got you 10 fags AND some chips for lunch! you could smoke on a bus, plane, train and in a pub!!!!!! you could talk back to parents, but, then get a smack for it leaving a mark and not be arrested. bank charges were £25 not £150 for being over your overdraft. hanging around (dossing) on the street with mates( in the bus shelter) and not intimidating anyone as we were afraid they'd tell our parents. your mum saying "yes I'm going to tell your father" putting the fear of god in you!!!!! the list is endless, and I'm only in my late thirties. political correctness has gone too far.
2007-07-26 19:13:04 · answer #8 · answered by mole 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I showed my age the other day when I said I could remember gas being 79 cents a gallon. (Now around $4). And my husband remembers a candy bar being 10 cents. And we're not THAT old!
2007-07-26 18:50:17 · answer #9 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can remember getting pints of "heavy" for 78p and 20 B&H cost just over a pound.
Jeez I feel old
2007-07-26 18:58:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋