Petrol less than £1 a gallon!!!!!!

Cast_Iron wrote

I am a parent, I have riches beyond counting.

 

Well I didn't. And I got one about 2 years ago (or whenever it was that they
were at the minimum price ... 30 quid?)

There are some people who are just tight you know.

 

*waves*

 

She had an education and can do it in her head as can alot of people of
her generation who learnt maths without the use of a calculator.

 

I'm 47 and I don't remember ever using it......

 

Jim Macura muttered

Think they were pretty much obsolete well before they were phased
out.... But you *could* have used one....

 

Absolutely.

That's what I said.

 

Perhaps you didn't.

 

Are yo a particularly heavy drinker?

 

Don't buy pikey stuff from pikey shops, you silly ****.

 

Unfortunately the laws are made by a pikey government ****.

 

I'm 56 and I remember using one to purchase a single "Chew" (at 4 for
a penny) on my unassisted way home from school. That puts it at about
1956/7.

Thinking back now I wonder what that shop did with that odd farthing.
Sadly, it went out of business (Hope it wasn't me) so I can't ask
them.

DG

 

Its a fool who looks at tax in one area and try to equates it with where its
spent (VAT on bandages and TCP = NHS spending/ VAT on shotguns = defence
budget ) - remember when Harold Wilson lived and you were rushed home if you
were ill (our Total tax take was the same as mainland Europe - around 50% of
GDP) its now around 37% after all the increased taxes that Tory Blair has
introduced and you pray God you are not sick BUT if you are ill you are sent
to France for decent services
The Tories know that people are stupid or selfish and want to buy a new CD
rather than live with good health or decent sKools
French companies move to the UK as we have lower taxes/British companies
complain about the tax on Diesel (one tax) and complain as they are
inefficient - STUPID people do you want to pay low TAXES but pay more for
goods (as we have higher "disposable income") but retire at 65 with less
pensions than the frogs who retire @ 55|) and lets be honest more likely to
live as they get the drugs that British companies discover but the NHS
cannot pay for us poor sods
I have private health and 295K from my parents home But at least I care
about others - DO YOU?

 

Well, I've been known to drink more than a half_pint from time to time


But the point is that I was born in 1956 and would have been only 4
years old in 1960. Not many 4-year-olds went shopping in 1960, and I
guess even fewer 2-year-olds...........

 

Did you ever use a silver thrupenny bit?

 

I did indeed, a few times. They weren't in general circulation then
but if any of the adults in the family came across one they'd give it
to the kids.

DG

 

... or save it to put in the Christmas pudding.

 

What? Does the law state that cheap and nasty products have to be
anything other than cheap and nasty.

You really are a *very* stupid person. Blaming the gov't for you own
stupidity [1] just confirms, for me, that you're the type that thinks the
Daily Mail is a paper for civilised 'grown ups'. Which is about as low,
in the intelligence stakes, as you can get.


[1] not being able to add up, not being able to cope with change, buying
pikey goods and generally smelling of piss.

 

Now, I'm not a regular reader of any particular paper, I do tend to read
what ever is available on the Internet or at my local pub so you could
say my taste in news papers is very catholic (please note small 'c').

The advertising in a paper is a sure fire way of determining what group
the paper is targeted at. The Mail and Mail on Sunday's advertising is
generally aimed at those with a much higher than average disposable
income. ie. Exotic foreign holiday adverts, expensive car adverts and
articles on very expensive houses.

This does appear to conflict with what you have said up there unless:

means you will be far better off than you at a guess

 

The Mail's advertising is not, IMO, high end. Its articles tend to be
aspirational. BTBH, I can only read it in small doses without being
overcome by the overwhelming desire to kill someone.

For a better idea of a newspapers actual audience, rather than its
intended, read the letters' page.