I remember when ... (Icy Poles were tuppence [2d])

[Kef]

My very first Qantas long haul flight to LHR in 1987, smoking was still permitted on planes and smokers gathered at the back of the plane for a smoke and it was quite a social gathering..

 

[TonyHancock]

Working in "old" money didn't half help with mental arithmetic.

 

[Pushka]

Yes. Smoking on planes. They did ask people to consider other passengers and refrain from smoking cigars.

 

[mhen]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Cobblers were usually 1 cent a piece. freckles more likely 2 per cent.

Bullets were 8 a penny when I was in primary school.
My bus fare to high school was 3d. If I walked instead (about one mile) I could get a threepenny drink after school from the local milk bar.
Threepenny drinks were a glass of soft drink poured from a large bottle. You had to have whatever flavour that was open at the time.

 

[Rox]

Yes. Smoking on planes. They did ask people to consider other passengers and refrain from smoking cigars.

My first o/s flight I was seating in smoking by mistake. You were asked "smoking or non-smoking?" As well as"aisle or window?"
When The seatbelt sign went off, the smoking OK sign went on and the person next to me lit up ( to make it worse it was a French airline, so you can imagine the smell!)
When I pointed out I had asked for non smoking, they moved me something like 5 rows back!
It didn't make much difference.

 

[erkpod]

I remember being 5 and tying a brown onion around my belt, as was the style of the time.

Do you shake your fist at the sky now? LOL

 

[anat0l]

I remember being 5 and tying a brown onion around my belt, as was the style of the time.

Did the nickels (or 5c pieces) have pictures of bumblebees on them?


In case this was a genuine style remark, apologies. If you Google the onion fact, you'll get the reference to a more modern TV series and hence the reply

 

[TheEmu]

I remember being 5 and tying a brown onion around my belt, as was the style of the time.

Say what? Which time?

Either the late 1800s in Transylvania…or a Grampa Simpson reference…

 

[erkpod]

Marge: When you drink lemonade made from that lemon tree, you're drinking Springfield. When you're wearing that Isotopes hat, you're wearing Springfield.

Bart: When you give this lecture, you're boring Springfield.

 

[whatmeworry]

I remember being 5 and tying a brown onion around my belt, as was the style of the time.

Say what? Which time?

Either the late 1800s in Transylvania…or a Grampa Simpson reference…

Definitely a grandpa Simpson reference.
[video=youtube_share;j2C_xUlcv2k]http://youtu.be/j2C_xUlcv2k[/video]

 

[serfty]

Working in "old" money didn't half help with mental arithmetic.

These numbers also gave a little mental exercise:

20, 5280, 1760, 10, 22, 12, 3 ....

 

[Atleastonce]

Bring back the scorched peanut bar, cobbers were the most expensive in a mixed bag for 10cents, they were 1 cent each and most others were 2 for 1 cent. I remember the sunny boy show bag at the Easter show for 20cents, and you would get at least 4 sunny boys plus more in that bag.

 

[TheEmu]

Bring back the scorched peanut bar, cobbers were the most expensive in a mixed bag for 10cents, they were 1 cent each and most others were 2 for 1 cent. I remember the sunny boy show bag at the Easter show for 20cents, and you would get at least 4 sunny boys plus more in that bag.

Scorched Peanut Bar! +1 - bring it back!
The Hard Bar (Phallic Symbols in Advertising) funny rude real TV Commercial - YouTube

 

[anat0l]

These numbers also gave a little mental exercise:

20, 5280, 1760, 10, 22, 12, 3 ....

I'm guessing Imperial units?

3 feet to a yard, 12 inches to a foot, 22 yards in a chain, 1760 yards in a mile, 5280 feet in a mile...

Not sure what the 10 and 20 are; the above is all I know off by heart and guessing.

Thank goodness for the metric system.

 

[erkpod]

Thank goodness for the metric system.

Dear America,


The metric system isn't that hard. But I still like you anyway. You could get rid of the pennies though. They aren't fooling anyone.


See you in January.

Love, Erk.

 

[Austman]

Not sure what the 10 and 20 are; the above is all I know off by heart and guessing.

10 chains in a furlong? 20 furlongs in a mile? I'm off-the-memory guessing...

 

[Flashback]

Dear America,


The metric system isn't that hard. But I still like you anyway. You could get rid of the pennies though. They aren't fooling anyone.


See you in January.

Love, Erk.

Dear UK,

You seem confused. What will it be? Metric or Imperial?

All the best.

Flashback

 

[anat0l]

The metric system isn't that hard. But I still like you anyway. You could get rid of the pennies though. They aren't fooling anyone.

Like metrication, eliminating pennies is an excuse held by some that gives merchants a reason to increase prices unfairly (mainly due to rounding errors that are near the boundaries of significance).

 

[erkpod]

Like metrication, eliminating pennies is an excuse held by some that gives merchants a reason to increase prices unfairly (mainly due to rounding errors that are near the boundaries of significance).

Or they are worried that the People's Republic of Canadia are going to invade with their kph's & cpl?

 

[Pushka]

I remember when heat waves really were heat waves. We seem to have changed the definitions recently.