One for those over a certain age

[Dog Star]

AMG Merc said:

A mate from the Old Kent Road had an RX7 with wkER as its number plate - eventually they got it so we stopped usng it as a welcome

A mate of mine lived in Alabama and had a pick up truck with bkS as its number plate (or was it an X? I have a pic somewhere).

[AMG Merc]

Dog Star said:

AMG Merc said:

A mate from the Old Kent Road had an RX7 with wkER as its number plate - eventually they got it so we stopped usng it as a welcome

A mate of mine lived in Alabama and had a pick up truck with bkS as its number plate (or was it an X? I have a pic somewhere).

Those were the days, eh!

[AMG Merc]

Check out the unbielivable prices! My earliest visit to a Wimpy was before this menu was printed and it was even cheaper then. It was in Queesnway, Bayswater in the mid 60s. I recall a plain burger being 1/9 Damn tasty too.

[Laurel Green]

Here's another-->

[Gunk]

AMG Merc said:

Check out the unbielivable prices! My earliest visit to a Wimpy was before this menu was printed and it was even cheaper then. It was in Queesnway, Bayswater in the mid 60s. I recall a plain burger being 1/9 Damn tasty too.

That used to be a Friday evening treat after school, back in the mid 1970’s my Dad used to take us three boys to the Wimpy Bar, Abington Street in Northampton.

Edited by Gunk on Wednesday 31st January 18:04

[FiF]

AMG Merc said:

Check out the unbielivable prices! My earliest visit to a Wimpy was before this menu was printed and it was even cheaper then. It was in Queesnway, Bayswater in the mid 60s. I recall a plain burger being 1/9 Damn tasty too.

Yeah but, no but, if you consider the average weekly wage in 1973, say, vs the ons declared median weekly wage today, and factor up that 36p the same ratio, you end up with £4.95.

Soon sound like Uncle Sid, reminiscing about going out on an evening, having a pint, a cigarette, a fish and chip supper and still had tuppence change from a bob.

For the millenials, a bob = a pre decimal shilling = 5 pence in today's money.

[davhill]

FiF said:

Yeah but, no but, if you consider the average weekly wage in 1973, say, vs the ons declared median weekly wage today, and factor up that 36p the same ratio, you end up with £4.95.

Soon sound like Uncle Sid, reminiscing about going out on an evening, having a pint, a cigarette, a fish and chip supper and still had tuppence change from a bob.

For the millenials, a bob = a pre decimal shilling = 5 pence in today's money.

Anyone remember this, to the tune of 'Rule Brittania?
" Oh two tanners, two tanners make a bob.
King George never, never, never shaves his nob."

Tanner = sixpence = 2 1/2 pence
Nob = head.

[Blib]

AMG Merc said:

Check out the unbielivable prices! My earliest visit to a Wimpy was before this menu was printed and it was even cheaper then. It was in Queesnway, Bayswater in the mid 60s. I recall a plain burger being 1/9 Damn tasty too.

WIMPY! I know of only one still open within striking distance of me. It's in Borehamwood. A couple of weeks back, I had business there.

I also had double wimpy and chips!

Divine!

[Halmyre]

AMG Merc said:

Check out the unbielivable prices! My earliest visit to a Wimpy was before this menu was printed and it was even cheaper then. It was in Queesnway, Bayswater in the mid 60s. I recall a plain burger being 1/9 Damn tasty too.

Bender the Meaty Frankfurter! Ooh matron.

[loafer123]

I was listening to Today this morning and they were interviewing snowboarders.

One of them said the immortal words...

“It’s been a sport a long time. It started in the late 1900’s.”

I feel old now!

[Tyre Tread]

loafer123 said:

I was listening to Today this morning and they were interviewing snowboarders.

One of them said the immortal words...

“It’s been a sport a long time. It started in the late 1900’s.”

I feel old now!

Thank goodness it wasn't just me.
At first I thought she meant around 1909 and then it dawned on me that for many youngsters the 1900s must seem like a lifetime ago.

[RBH58]

When you were born in the mid-1900s, it’s a bit sobering.

[silverthorn2151]

Apologies if this has been posted already.

I realise now that much of my interest in 'stuff' started with programmes like How.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_(TV_series)

they made 17 series!

[Roofless Toothless]

RBH58 said:

When you were born in the mid-1900s, it’s a bit sobering.

My boys delight in pointing out to me that not only was I born in the nineteen hundreds, but at 1949, the first half of the nineteen hundreds.

[glenrobbo]

Roofless Toothless said:

My boys delight in pointing out to me that not only was I born in the nineteen hundreds, but at 1949, the first half of the nineteen hundreds.

Ditto: 1948 for me. I'd do a high-five with you, but I doubt either of us could reach up that far!


ETA. I have now exceeded the national speed limit and I'm accelerating downhill fast!
They'll never catch me now! Hahaha!

Edited by glenrobbo on Saturday 10th February 11:51

[zb]

[nicanary]

zb said:

Show that to a young person and explain what trainers were designed for. Cue baffled face.

[glenrobbo]

nicanary said:

Show that to a young person and explain what trainers were designed for. Cue baffled face.

Show that to Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney or Nat Lofthouse and they would be equally bamboozled!

Back in my yoof, they never had designer trainers or fancy boots: just "boots".

[Laurel Green]

glenrobbo said:

Show that to Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney or Nat Lofthouse and they would be equally bamboozled!

Back in my yoof, they never had designer trainers or fancy boots: just "boots".

...plus a tin of dubbin.

[Gunk]

There is a whole new generation that don’t even realise that trainers are actually for sport!