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[waspy]

When i was a kid my Mum would send me to the shop with fifty pence in my pocket. I could get a Wham Bar, a bag of pick n mix, a comic book, cans of fizzy pop, a bag of crisps & a gob stopper. I'd come home with loads of change. You can't do that these days..................






rather CCTV

[mantagte]

very good

[bob.dent]

When i was a kid my Mum would send me to the shop with fifty pence in my pocket. I could get a Wham Bar, a bag of pick n mix, a comic book, cans of fizzy pop, a bag of crisps & a gob stopper. I'd come home with loads of change. You can't do that these days..................






rather CCTV

Bloody hell I must be getting old, I used to get threepence and still get some nice treats.

[jerry]

When i was a kid my Mum would send me to the shop with fifty pence in my pocket. I could get a Wham Bar, a bag of pick n mix, a comic book, cans of fizzy pop, a bag of crisps & a gob stopper. I'd come home with loads of change. You can't do that these days..................

Dont you remember the old lsd then
Bloody hell, must be older than I thought!




rather CCTV

[unlucky mark mv6]

When i was a kid my Mum would send me to the shop with fifty pence in my pocket. I could get a Wham Bar, a bag of pick n mix, a comic book, cans of fizzy pop, a bag of crisps & a gob stopper. I'd come home with loads of change. You can't do that these days..................






rather CCTV

You cant go and drain the main vain for fifty pence today.

[Dishevelled Den]

Bloody hell I must be getting old, I used to get threepence and still get some nice treats.

You must still be young and vibrant Bob, in my case it was a 3d bit and a tanner if you were flush.

A bob (or single shilling - generally used for the gas meter) was very much getting into the territory of being well capitalised whilst 2 bob ensured a faithful following of acquaintances.

A half-crown, 2/6d meant that you could dispense with those capricious acquaintances and wallow in self-satisfied financial luxury.

A 10 shilling note, half a nicker or 10 bob was a very rare and mostly fleeting experience whilst the £1 note or quid was the stuff of dreams.

Happy days?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Bloody hell I must be getting old, I used to get threepence and still get some nice treats.

You must still be young and vibrant Bob, in my case it was a 3d bit and a tanner if you were flush.

A bob (or single shilling - generally used for the gas meter) was very much getting into the territory of being well capitalised whilst 2 bob ensured a faithful following of acquaintances.

A half-crown, 2/6d meant that you could dispense with those capricious acquaintances and wallow in self-satisfied financial luxury.

A 10 shilling note, half a nicker or 10 bob was a very rare and mostly fleeting experience whilst the £1 note or quid was the stuff of dreams.

Happy days?

................were you paid in groats ......when you first started work Zulu?....

[Dishevelled Den]

Bloody hell I must be getting old, I used to get threepence and still get some nice treats.

You must still be young and vibrant Bob, in my case it was a 3d bit and a tanner if you were flush.

A bob (or single shilling - generally used for the gas meter) was very much getting into the territory of being well capitalised whilst 2 bob ensured a faithful following of acquaintances.

A half-crown, 2/6d meant that you could dispense with those capricious acquaintances and wallow in self-satisfied financial luxury.

A 10 shilling note, half a nicker or 10 bob was a very rare and mostly fleeting experience whilst the £1 note or quid was the stuff of dreams.

Happy days?

................were you paid in groats ......when you first started work Zulu?....

Groats? - pah! They were for the favoured few

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It is strange ......how people remember insignificant events......I remember my first wage packet very well.
The year was 1976......I was paid £20 ....... my take home pay was £16.84p....of which £4 went to my Mum(the old girl as she was known then)......leaving me the princely sum of £12.84.....to piss up the wall each week.
......and Oh yes......I also lost my cherry in 1976.. ......and it was a fantastic warm summer too. .....as you say Zulu...Happy days..

[Dishevelled Den]

It is strange ......how people remember insignificant events......I remember my first wage packet very well.
The year was 1976......I was paid £20 ....... my take home pay was £16.84p....of which £4 went to my Mum(the old girl as she was known then)......leaving me the princely sum of £12.84.....to piss up the wall each week.
......and Oh yes......I also lost my cherry in 1976.. ......and it was a fantastic warm summer too. .....as you say Zulu...Happy days..

Damn you Opti you've got me going over old ground again.

My first biblical knowledge of a female was 4 years prior to yours.  A wonderful, warm-hearted and generous - in the non financial sense - woman she was.

 A forensic scientist by calling she guided me through this untraversed territory with great expertise and care for a few heavenly months.

My place in nirvana was lost however when her husband who had been doing a post-grad course in some esoteric subject in a well known, if remote, university returned to domestic civilisation.

I can still see her face, hear the soft modulation of her voice and feel the urgency of her breath on my face.

Now those were happy days.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It is strange ......how people remember insignificant events......I remember my first wage packet very well.
The year was 1976......I was paid £20 ....... my take home pay was £16.84p....of which £4 went to my Mum(the old girl as she was known then)......leaving me the princely sum of £12.84.....to piss up the wall each week.
......and Oh yes......I also lost my cherry in 1976.. ......and it was a fantastic warm summer too. .....as you say Zulu...Happy days..

Damn you Opti you've got me going over old ground again.

My first biblical knowledge of a female was 4 years prior to yours.  A wonderful, warm-hearted and generous - in the non financial sense - woman she was.

 A forensic scientist by calling she guided me through this untraversed territory with great expertise and care for a few heavenly months.

My place in nirvana was lost however when her husband who had been doing a post-grad course in some esoteric subject in a well known, if remote, university returned to domestic civilisation.

I can still see her face, hear the soft modulation of her voice and feel the urgency of her breath on my face.

Now those were happy days.

.........would that be when you were only twelve years old .........or in 1972 Zulu...

[Dishevelled Den]

It is strange ......how people remember insignificant events......I remember my first wage packet very well.
The year was 1976......I was paid £20 ....... my take home pay was £16.84p....of which £4 went to my Mum(the old girl as she was known then)......leaving me the princely sum of £12.84.....to piss up the wall each week.
......and Oh yes......I also lost my cherry in 1976.. ......and it was a fantastic warm summer too. .....as you say Zulu...Happy days..

Damn you Opti you've got me going over old ground again.

My first biblical knowledge of a female was 4 years prior to yours.  A wonderful, warm-hearted and generous - in the non financial sense - woman she was.

 A forensic scientist by calling she guided me through this untraversed territory with great expertise and care for a few heavenly months.

My place in nirvana was lost however when her husband who had been doing a post-grad course in some esoteric subject in a well known, if remote, university returned to domestic civilisation.

I can still see her face, hear the soft modulation of her voice and feel the urgency of her breath on my face.

Now those were happy days.

.........would that be when you were only twelve years old .........or in 1972 Zulu...

  1972, I had a late calling to the scriptures 

[Richie London]

we was so poor i used to go shopping in a wheelbarrow. 

[Tony H]

Rickets, typhoid, dissentry,polio, getting all your hair cut off then having your head painted purple, ringworm, tin baths in front of the fire ( with warm water if you were priviledged) food shortages, ah yes them were the days

[MickAP]

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo