For the oldies decimalisation.

[BensGrandad]

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]

Prepare to be similarly ripped off if you ever make the terrible mistake of giving the EU your currency. We were.

 

[Juan Albion]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Chesney Christ 1]

BG - Always wanted to ask this..... Who the f*** is "Ben"?

 

[zefarelly]

whenever we go to France or Belgium it makes absolutely no difference aty all, its just ludicrous scaremongering by nimbys

 

[BensGrandad]

BG - Always wanted to ask this..... Who the f*** is "Ben"?

My grandson who is 10 and has been a season ticket holder for 7 years and everybody who sit near me knows him.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

The only price change I can remember is a packet of Golden Wonder crisps going from 3 1/2d to 2.5p.

 

[Chesney Christ 1]

My grandson who is 10 and has been a season ticket holder for 7 years and everybody who sit near me knows him.

Oh, the Ben.

 

[lost in london]

Prepare to be similarly ripped off if you ever make the terrible mistake of giving the EU your currency. We were.

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]

.....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

 

[withdeanwombat]

Decialisation?in Zummerzet?

What's the point of it all?

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

 

[withdeanwombat]

"m".......mmmmmmm

 

[maffew]

My grandson who is 10 and has been a season ticket holder for 7 years and everybody who sit near me knows him.

season ticket since 3

 

[zefarelly]

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]

A bag of chips were a tanner in the early sixties.

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

 

[zefarelly]

and they'll be a tenner before long

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I've always liked threepenny bits

 

[Cian]

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.

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).