The "post something that made you smile" thread

was trying to explain to a twenty something today that these were in every pub and club - they refused to believe it especially that the payment was ket the same and if costs/taxes went up you just got fewer cigs in a packet

 
was trying to explain to a twenty something today that these were in every pub and club - they refused to believe it especially that the payment was ket the same and if costs/taxes went up you just got fewer cigs in a packet


Not sure why a ciggie machine would make anyone smile, they were more expensive than a pack from a shop.....and you only got 17!!!
 
as a FOC and non smoker i could never get that you got differing amounts of ciggies for different price-but do remember going on holiday to grandparents in Bridlington most summers when young and the newsagents that shut 6pm on the dot had a ciggie machine outside
 
Not sure why a ciggie machine would make anyone smile, they were more expensive than a pack from a shop.....and you only got 17!!!
But shops used to close at 5pm. Don't forget the Off Licence used to be part of a pub. Until mid 1960's there were no shops acting as off licences and usualky they weren't near a pub. So if you ran out of ciggies you had to use a machine.
 
as a FOC and non smoker i could never get that you got differing amounts of ciggies for different price-but do remember going on holiday to grandparents in Bridlington most summers when young and the newsagents that shut 6pm on the dot had a ciggie machine outside
3 of us aged about 12 used to put 5p each and cycle into town to get 10 number 6 from the chrome plated (!) mini cigarette machine outside the old fashioned tobacconist’s. Imagine, 3 young lads and 10 fags!!
 
But shops used to close at 5pm. Don't forget the Off Licence used to be part of a pub. Until mid 1960's there were no shops acting as off licences and usualky they weren't near a pub. So if you ran out of ciggies you had to use a machine.
I wasn't born in the 60's....just remember the machines in pubs/clubs in the 80's, feel a bit younger now! ;)
 
Seeing a vid of my 6 moth old granddaughter eating Papaya for the first time.

(They are in Brazil at the moment)
 
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