United Thread - 2021/22

[oakiecokie]

Oakie, I'm not that old, really.. ha!

Just aged considerably watching City through the 80's and 90's..

Still got all my own hair and teeth ..!

The unfortunate thing is Bill, I do remember them. Mind, I`ve still got me own hair and gnashers. ;)

 

[RadcliffeRick]

How big were the old pennies.. size of a wagon wheel you can get today..

No wonder all the blokes wore braces, 10 pennies, 2 threepenny bits, a sixpence and a half a crown in your pocket and your pants would be round your ankles..!

Ladies of the evening were a lot cheaper in those days

 

[Grassland Blue]

I was 6 and a bit ( threepenny?) Remember every older person moaning about the size of the new coins! Just remember the half penny being well smart! ( though you could buy fuck all with it! )

Was the farthing still used back then?

 

[Cotontoquinn]

Old bloody coins…..you didn’t need LSD to get out of your mind back then.

 

[Jim Tolmie's Underpants]

I worked on a bank till on Decimalisation Day.

I was an accountant from the age of 22 until I turned 30. I was sacked for no apparent reason.

What a total waste of 14 years.

 

[Cotontoquinn]

I was an accountant from the age of 22 until I turned 30. I was sacked for no apparent reason.

What a total waste of 14 years.

Comedy Gold….What subject did you teach? I’m guessing Physics.

 

[Bluekiwi]

I was 6 and a bit ( threepenny?) Remember every older person moaning about the size of the new coins! Just remember the half penny being well smart! ( though you could buy fuck all with it! )

I used to get "scratchings" from the chippie for the half-penny. For the youngsters - they were the bits of batter that had fallen off the fish in our local chippie in Gorse Hill. No, we didn't support the rags even though we could see their ground from the local playing fields.

 

[mexico1970]

I was 6 and a bit ( threepenny?) Remember every older person moaning about the size of the new coins! Just remember the half penny being well smart! ( though you could buy fuck all with it! )

I still call the 50p piece a ten bob bit ;)

 

[roman totale]

Old bloody coins…..you didn’t need LSD to get out of your mind back then.

Like the old Ted Chippington joke;

Walking down the road the other day and a bloke came up to me and said “Hey man, got any LSD?” I said, “Pounds, shillings and pence? Haven’t you heard? We’re all decimal nowadays”.

 

[malg]

Where the fuck has the Rag thread gone....?