Putting fuel in cars is rubbish.
When I was 17, a tank of petrol was £11.80
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:01, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

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I used to help my sister with her paper-round when I was 7 or so, and my reward was to be bought a chocolate bar at the garage on the way home. I distinctly remember petrol being 70p a litre.
(berk, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:08, Reply)

when i passed my test back in the dark ages
or the 1990's as we called it then, most garages were about 55p. there was one in poynton that was 49p. unbelievable, it's not THAT long ago!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:10, Reply)

It wouldn't be so bad, but trains aren't exactly value for money.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:12, Reply)

A car is always going to be more convenient than public transport
therefore public transport should always be cheaper. It isn't. This pisses me off.
(berk, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:17, Reply)

Blame the fact it was sold off.
Part of that though, was the genius/evil of Thatcher, she somehow, convinced the public to buy the assets they already owned.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:21, Reply)

When you were 7?
That was over 15 years ago. Petrol was much cheaper than 70p a litre 15 years ago. When I learnt to drive in 2002 it was 69p a litre.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:10, Reply)

Was it bollocks
that was the same year I learnt to drive. 80-90p possibly, but not 69p.
(berk, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:15, Reply)

Sixty nine lols.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:18, Reply)

Suck it up Berk
www.speedlimit.org.uk/petrolprices.html

Suck it up.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:21, Reply)

you can try
but she wouldn't suck you up with someone else's, al!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:24, Reply)

Where I lived at least
it didn't go back down that much after the fuel protests, and that was in 2000. I'm telling you, when I learnt to drive it was about 80p a litre. I remember the first time I filled up my moped in July 2001 it was 73p I think.
(berk, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:25, Reply)

You can "tell me" all you like
but the evidence is clear berk.

Don't make me photoshop you, It's too late at night.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:26, Reply)

don't make me strikethrough you either
it is also too late at night
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:27, Reply)

Strikethroughs
are nothing like as funny as my brilliant photoshops.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:30, Reply)

brilliant photoshops cock.


See?
(Bazongaloid, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:32, Reply)

since when did the requirement to be funny
actually apply to anything on here?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:33, Reply)

Yeah, but you said I looked like Zooey Deschanel the other day
frankly after that I don't really give a toss what you 'shop on to my face cos it'll still be pretty, unlike your beardy chops.
(berk, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:34, Reply)

You did manage to shop your own nose off on FB the other day, I noticed.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:35, Reply)

It was just the colour balance and flash on my phone playing silly buggers.
I still like that photo though, I look like I have lasers for eyes!
(berk, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:37, Reply)

Yeah, yeah.
You were trying on your Voldemort dressing up costume, don't deny it.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:38, Reply)

That involves a black cape of some sort
I was clearly wearing a red tshirt.
(berk, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:39, Reply)

Wait, you're colourblind?
I'm sorry, I didn't realise.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:42, Reply)

This is just making me even more angry than I already am.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:26, Reply)

Think about boobies Davros
Think about lovely soft boobies.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:29, Reply)

It's no good.
It's just making me want to fill in potholes, Al. AND I WILL NEVER BECOME CAMERON'S PUPPET!!!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:30, Reply)

Were we not throwing bombs at an oil producing country at the time?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:37, Reply)

Dropping them, possibly
or firing them. Throwing them...not so much. Trebuchets are so 14th century, and I can't imagine a load of army chaps capering up to the borderline and giving it their best overarm welly.
(berk, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:41, Reply)

You clearly don't watch Scrapheap Challenge!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:43, Reply)

In 2000
There was a 50% increase.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:31, Reply)

*Splits shirt and turns green*

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:33, Reply)

I remember diesel being 49p a litre.
It used to cost me around £15 a week to fill my old 106 up, for which I got 500 miles to the tank.

Fucking robbing government cunts.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:11, Reply)

now now dg
they spend it all on brilliant things, that's why the motorways and roads and public transport run so so smoothly.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:13, Reply)

Yeah, right...
And, of course, all the resurfacing and maintenance will be carried out by troops of happy volunteers, bearing veritable hardons at the thought of contributing to the Big Society. Pot holes will no longer be repaired using tarmac, but the emulsified ejaculate of a thousand eager navvies, all desperate to do their bit for good old Blighty.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:17, Reply)

^ This.
In a few years time it'll be cheaper to get a piggy-back from Andy Carrol than it'll be to drive anywhere.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:14, Reply)

Do you know,
only a few years ago weekends would be spent doing a 50 mile round trip to the middle of nowhere, in order to give the dog a good long walk and take in the fresh air.

Now it's like "we'll have to go somewhere nearby because otherwise it'll blow the petrol budget for this month".

Utter. Fucking. Bastards.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:23, Reply)

I've got visions of you attaching the dogs lead to the bumper of your car and making the poor fucker jog for 50 miles.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:26, Reply)

You know what you do with a dog with no legs?
You name it Cigarette and take it for a drag...

/coat
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:44, Reply)

Don't start. I'll get asked to leave the Internet.
My dog has no nose.

How does he smell?........
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:45, Reply)

Fucking awful.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:46, Reply)

LEAVE THE....
Who am I kidding?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:47, Reply)

See other thread...

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:48, Reply)

I did, after posting that.
Are we related?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:50, Reply)

The first time I ever filled a car with petrol
I was astounded as it cost £150, back in 1993. To fill up a mini.

Imagine my dismay when I returned to the car after paying, only to have all the petrol spill out on the forecourt when I opened the doors.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:14, Reply)

heh

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:19, Reply)

I got change from £20 the first time I filled up my mini
less than a decade ago. Hmph.
(berk, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:35, Reply)

It's a fucking disgrace.
My 1 litre 107 costs about £43 to fill up. When I bought it a year ago it cost about £36. This time next year, I'm probably looking at £50.

And the price of butter's gone up, and some darkies have just moved in next door.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 23:41, Reply)