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BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
What was your memory of the biggest rip offs when this happened mine is.

Fri Feb 11th 1971 in a cafe

cup of tea 5d
Cheese Roll 7d
Total 1s )


Mon 14th Feb 1971

Cup of Tea 5p
Cheese Roll 7p
Total 12p (2s 4d)

over double.

Chips 3d

Chips 3p
 
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Juan Albion

Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
Don't remember it that way at all. Somethings got slighty rounded up, others slightly down. Anything in the sweetshop I frequented that had been 3d became 1p - and that was a bargain! Certainly no straight d to p conversions.
 


Yorkie

Sussex born and bred
Jul 5, 2003
32,367
dahn sarf
Juan Albion said:
Don't remember it that way at all. Somethings got slighty rounded up, others slightly down. Anything in the sweetshop I frequented that had been 3d became 1p - and that was a bargain! Certainly no straight d to p conversions.

The same. There would have been rioting if prices had double within a week
It happened gradually over the next few years so it was still a rip off and contributed greatly to the inflation crisis that happened later in the 70's. People demanded higher wages to cope with the cost of living which rose dramatically (which wasn't helped by the oil crisis in 74)
 


BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
At the time I sold a bottle of Guinness in my pub near Kings Cross on the Sunday for 1s10 1/2d when the area manager brought in the converted price list it showed as 12p = about 2s4d.

This was the start of Sandwiches shooting up in price to the exhorbitant price that pubs etc charge now. I know I am as much a culprit as any other publican.
 






zefarelly

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NSC Patron
Jul 7, 2003
23,363
Sussex, by the sea
whenever we go to France or Belgium it makes absolutely no difference aty all, its just ludicrous scaremongering by nimbys
 










lost in london

Well-known member
Dec 10, 2003
1,869
London
MYOB said:
Prepare to be similarly ripped off if you ever make the terrible mistake of giving the EU your currency. We were. :nono:

The Irish can hardly complain about the EU, you can't move in Ireland for seeing boards saying that this pond, or that bus lane was funded by cash from Brussels.
 




Hunting 784561

New member
Jul 8, 2003
3,651
:bla:.....I remember when they went from Groats to Florins...what a rip off....a pint of mead doubled in price...you couldnt make it up :bla:
 


withdeanwombat

Well-known member
Feb 17, 2005
8,760
Somersetshire
Decialisation?in Zummerzet?

What's the point of it all?

Zyder still 3d a pint!Or is that how you see things after it??
 








zefarelly

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NSC Patron
Jul 7, 2003
23,363
Sussex, by the sea
Ireland has cleaned up from the EU, theres loads of work and money out there . . .how long it lasts I don't know, but if you where a contractor you could make a killing following the EU bandwagon for ten years or so I reckon.

next stop Turkey and ROmania !
 


perseus

Broad Blue & White stripe
Jul 5, 2003
23,467
Sūþseaxna
A bag of chips were a tanner in the early sixties.


BensGrandad said:
What was your memory of the biggest rip offs when this happened mine is.

Fri Feb 11th 1971 in a cafe

cup of tea 5d
Cheese Roll 7d
Total 1s )


Mon 14th Feb 1971

Cup of Tea 5p
Cheese Roll 7p
Total 12p (2s 4d)

over double.

Chips 3d

Chips 3p
 








Cian

Well-known member
Jul 16, 2003
14,262
Dublin, Ireland
lost in london said:
The Irish can hardly complain about the EU, you can't move in Ireland for seeing boards saying that this pond, or that bus lane was funded by cash from Brussels.

Thats the NDP - only partially EU funded, majority came from our exchequer. If the UK did a ten year structual plan under the same auspices, it'd be the same level of EU funding.

zefarelly said:
Ireland has cleaned up from the EU, theres loads of work and money out there . . .

Mostly off our own work. The other countries that joined the EU poor - Greece and Portugal - are still poor. The ten new accession states are still poor

The EU like to tout Ireland as an example of what can happen when you join the EU. We're not. We're an example of what can happen when you have a good industrial development authority and a liberal taxation system, nothing more. We're a net contributor to the EU, and we don't get rebates (unlike the UK).
 


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