Reminiscing....
Some of us here will remember the the good old days when you went to town on a Saturday afternoon with £2 spending money in your pocket and you could spend all day mooching around, buy your dinner and come back with all sorts of crap you'd bought. Plastic earings, notebooks with pop stars on them, badges and comics. Teenage detritus covered your bedroom floor as you inspected each purchase like it was a complete bargain and you couldn't live without it.

God, I miss those days. Teenagers nowadays won't even think about going shopping for the day unless they've got £50 in their pocket.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 16:05, 20 replies)

I miss them too....
none of this 90 quid trainers nonsense either!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 16:10, closed)

Teenagers nowadays!
Why, they don't know how good they have it! Back in my day we loved going to school! We'd walk five miles through the snow to get there with nothing to warm our hands but a baked potato- and that was our lunch. Then we'd walk the five miles back through the snow to go shovel sidewalks and driveways with a broken chunk of plywood to help out our elderly neighbors and do our own laundry and go to bed at 7:00 like we were supposed to do! We didn't have newfangled things like TVs in our day- we read from the Bible and praised Jesus while we did! Teenagers nowadays are spoiled little whiners who need a good stropping with the belt!

Seriously, though- consider for a moment the difference in prices from the 70s compared to today. That £50 doesn't buy anywhere near the amount of stuff it would have then. By 1970s prices, I should be considered to be comfortably well off, instead of struggling to make my mortgage payment and driving a battered old VW diesel. So the £2 you spent on dinner and comics and earrings would today maybe buy you a comic and a candy bar and no more.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 16:19, closed)

Do I really need to repost...
...this?
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 16:31, closed)

its a tough world alright
£2 is about 16 text messages. or maybe 2 condoms. Or a low quality E.

can just about get pissed on it though. if you are a lightweight whom can drink white lightning.

i worked in a chipshop and earnt riches beyond the dreams of avarice (£30 per week) and that was a big saturday night, a miserly monday night at the working mans club and not a lot else .

One of the students at Uni here was overheard talking to her mate that she " needed a job that paid 25k as thats what daddy pays me to to this course" - and she is relatively normal on the media course.

I would rather go back to those glory days again too.....

amazingly an 1/8 hash has been pretty much £10-£12 since 1961. (i am reliably informed by someone whose hobby is killing memory cells.)
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 16:38, closed)

Actually
I'd really rather not go back to the 70s. I don't like polyester, I don't look good with long sideburns, and prefer not to live in a world decorated in "earth tones".

Not to mention that I really loathe the Bee Gees...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 16:47, closed)

I used to do TWO paper rounds
...for the princely sum of £5/week. I spent the lot on sweets and Lego.
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 16:52, closed)

70's are great if..
.. you are colourblind (check), like sideburns (check) and to have Barry Gibb as the best other barry in history to have as a current role model. Can you think of any other Barry's worth emulating?
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 17:06, closed)

Only one.
Dave Barry.

I mean, come on- what guy wouldn't want to get paid to start a charcoal grill with LOX and watch it turn into a glowing heap of molten metal in 1.3 seconds?
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 17:09, closed)

Barry Chuckle
A role model worthy of the title.
( Kroney, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 17:32, closed)

Importantly
My decades in order of preference are probably

90s
70s
00s
80s

90s where particularly good - Tories implode, mainstream music and films get better, 80's fashion and hair disappear...and more importantly I'm finally getting a reasonable amount of wages and sex.

There's still time for the 00s to move up to the number two position mind, if Thatcher hurries up and kicks the bucket.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 17:44, closed)

Barry George
Although it may be somewhat difficult...
(trashbat, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 17:45, closed)

Plus!
Everything was bigger in the 70's. Chocolate bars, bags of crisps, money itself was bigger.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 17:51, closed)

BGB
Wagon Wheels were much, much bigger in the 70's.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 18:44, closed)

wagon wheels!
i used to love them when i was a kid in the late 70's and then we moved to france, and you can't get them over here, so a few years back i was in bristol and bought some wagon wheels... and they were awful.
did they change the receipe or summat?
you can't get shreddies over here either, and i LOVE shreddies!
(Alaning, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 18:58, closed)

Okay, you're all wrong
BARRY SCOTT!!!
(Belgaer is, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 18:59, closed)

1980s
I used to go into town with a pound. I'd buy a single, walk up and down the High Street with my mates, go and put on Miners make up in Boots, and ogle the lads who were doing the same as us...including trying on the make up....

Ahh...New Romantics...
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 20:00, closed)

OMG!
I remember Miners make-up. The lads I ogled were punks though. A bit earlier than you.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 21:22, closed)

oh, yeah...
Barry White.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 21:41, closed)

Newt from Hollyoaks...
...is called Barry. And he lives with Steph. Who wouldn't want to be him!?
(SlamDunc loves orange soda..., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 22:37, closed)

i beg to differ
£50 gets you 50 items from a pound shop
ie: "Billy Lal's Bargain Centre" in my area
(Joe Guevara is well known for stealing your biscuits, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 10:03, closed)