Transfer Rumours Yann M'Vila

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That 1.25p was worth having when a decent wage was about £2 per week.

Bag of chips 2.5p
The same 2.5p would get you 10 chews.


That 3d would probably equate to about £1.50 now. A few bottles for a kid at that time was serious wealth. <laugh>

I'd take the bag of chips. :p
 
Remember Saturday mornings at lukes lane estate when the pop lorry came round. We used to get a bottle of pop each, I had dandelion n Burdick, my little sis got cream soda, (she got lot more cream than soda when she got older lol) and my brother had sasperella.
Where have all the good times gone eh, happy memories :emoticon-0140-rofl:
 
I remember Villa pop, dandelion and Burdock was my fave- ****ing weird combo name that it is.

Then taking the empties back to the local newsagent for some cash to spend on kets, primarily. Captive market or what.

The meaning of 2 ounces or a quarter was different back then. Kets wasn't an abbreviation of ketamine, either!
 
There was mate. Villa sasp and Sykes ginger beer were the ones.

The Sykes ginger beer was in a stone flagon. I had one (wrapped in a sheet) as a hot water bottle as a nipper.

Villas Sasp was nectar. Only bettered by the chemist on Gateshead high street who used to make his own. Don't know what he put in it mind
 
Metric was the worst thing that ever happened to British mental arithmetic. We didn't need everything with a nought on the end of it to calculate it in our heads. Three pounds of apples was 48 ounces (3x16 =48 and every 8 year-old knew it because every kid was interested in apples). But it didn't stop there - as senior quality inspector with a multi-national before I retired, I had a young trainee who would work out his measurements and then ask me to check them for him. He'd read them out, and if my head didn't match with what his calculator said, he'd re-calculate it. What we are finding now is that lazy minds produce inaccurate fingers. The Japs have it right. In their schools, you're not allowed to use a calculator until you're nine years old. You learn to use your head first, and then incorporate modern technology. I tell you, this country is f*cked. Our future is third world at best. And metric is very largely responsible for it.

It's easier - yes. But that's precisely what's wrong with it. We don't need to think any more - and very rarely do.
 
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