How much pocket money did you get?
I'd got £15 for a day's work in my Dad's shop from the age of about 9 that went up £5 every year on my birthday until I started my GCSEs, but had to pay Mum 20% 'House Keeping'.

I'm not sure if this counts as vulgar money talk, don't think it does.

In my Dad's shop, they had a mezineen floor that was used for stock, the cieling was about 5ft high. He got fined for his advertisment looking for a Dwarf, apparently only theoratical people can/could do that at the time.

When we did the Markets and Trade Shows, i'd get £125 for the weekend, two days, 6am start, sometimes midnight finish.

Best education, that. You quickly learnt that nobody will tell you if you overchange and a penny under and you won't hear the end of it.

*Generic Pocket Money / Dad / Work talk*
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 13:53, 142 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Why did you set aside a whole floor for calling the faithful to prayer?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 13:56, Reply)

*not sure what you mean there*

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:08, Reply)

It's a dreadful pun on your spelling of mezzanine

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:24, Reply)

I have no idea - I've always had a man to deal with my finances.
Alt: I played football at the weekend with our friends' 7yo son for several hours, and didn't once get picked up as a nonce.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 13:58, Reply)

What kind of a shop was it?
I'm guessing it was a dreidel shop
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:00, Reply)

Hockey/skating/skateboarding/etc.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:09, Reply)

I lolled about the Dwarf. I like dwarves, and midgets, good pets, easy to house train.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:06, Reply)

Well, if [well known b3tan shorty] is ever out of work, and you know, time machines and all that, there's a job waiting for them !

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:10, Reply)

Cough...Battered..cough...

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:15, Reply)

I honestly don't remember
I don't think I got a fixed allowance. Just money when I needed.
I had to do housework etc.

He got me a job at the inland revenue when I left school and I was introduced to Flexi-Time. I used that to go shopping and fucked the job off, went back to 6th form.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:07, Reply)

I reckon I did well out of the "But.... I want it noooow" too.
But it was good to learn 'bout money, even though it's an abstract concept to me now.... I just see something and if it won't earn me scorn from people, I buy it.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:13, Reply)

yet you buy loads of apple shit...
got a new 5s yet?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:14, Reply)

I moved to Android (Galaxy S4) as I was due an upgrade, and because I have a 'refresh' contract, I can upgrade the phone itself when I want.
I'm not 100% convinced by android, I've found some stuff to make it look cool though (http://www.homepackbuzz.com/homepack/list & mycolorscreen.com )

There's talk that the #6 will have a big screen, just under the 5" mark, which would get me to go back.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:21, Reply)

i might ditch the iphone and move to something else, I want a tablet as well, but I'm not forking out for a ipad

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:26, Reply)

I think i'm going to stick to iOS for Tablet use.
Sounds stupid, but a 'min' and 'proper' size ones both are really useful in their own ways... so I'm looking to get a new iPad Mini whenever they launch it, there's talk of it being announced in a big event on the 15th, but the Mini might not feature because they can't get the screens, in the price/quanties needed, in the manufacturing chain.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:31, Reply)

"Money puts a roof over your head, food in your belly and keeps you warm.
If you have any leftover after that then more power to you"

I had a very working class upbringing. I remember not always having the latest Nikes and being a complete shit about it.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:15, Reply)

fuck that, 2-3 foriegn holidays a year
nice car,meals out etc...that's the problem with the "working" class, no ambition
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:18, Reply)

Class isn't just money. Actually the whole class thing is bollocks.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:22, Reply)

it's not though is it?
A nice middle class and successful person is a better person than a dole scum scouse prick from Toxteth
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:25, Reply)

Sos I meant the classifications, a scaffolder is a "lower" class than a vicar but prolly earns more.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:36, Reply)

The caste thing, on the other hand....

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:25, Reply)

You can't buy class.

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:27, Reply)

Terrible bullying of Battered

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:27, Reply)

Oh HO!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:28, Reply)

I never quite got how it related to what you have, more like what you do.
Like, the whole point of "the working class", in my books, was a derogative term for those who had to work rather than live souly off family-estates.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:28, Reply)

I got a fiver if I mowed the lawn, now I have my own fivers and never do it. Ha! In your face!

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:10, Reply)

so you got a £1 pay rise then?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:11, Reply)

Plus extras old bean. Plus extras.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:12, Reply)

on DVD boxset?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:13, Reply)

Nah I bought them separate like.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:13, Reply)

like what?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:14, Reply)

Like Battered and his wife.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:16, Reply)

lols^
edit: but delete the second line, it's not needed xx

edit: better
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:17, Reply)

Done.
You know best.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:19, Reply)

i have now clicked

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:25, Reply)

\o/
I'm glad you're back xx
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:27, Reply)

I think I was underpaid as a child.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:11, Reply)

You gave shit gobs jobs

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:12, Reply)

£25 a month
Pretty fair I reckon!
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:14, Reply)

Don't boast mate, it's unbecoming.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:17, Reply)

I didn't get a pocket money rise for 11 years
AND YOU DON'T HEAR ME COMPLAINING!
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:20, Reply)

DID I TELL YOU I GOT A PAY RISE???????

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:21, Reply)

No, I hadn't seen!
Congratulations.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:28, Reply)

Thanks!
I should mention it more but I'm pretty discreet generally.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:31, Reply)

I'd spread that around if I were you
top news! Have you told everyone on here yet? How about YM?

I can tell her later if you want?
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:33, Reply)

Maybe I will let a few select people know. That's it though, I don't want everyone knowing my business.
If you could let my mum know I'd appreciate it, saves me phoning her and hearing the same boring shit about how you motor boated her, and how impressive and virile you are. Yawnsville! Heard it all before.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:36, Reply)

First pocket money I remember was 50p a week, enough for the Dandy and Beano and then some change left over
Then it was a quid, then I got a fiver a week when I was a teenager? I think. I had to take the wheelie bins out for me parents and me neighbours though. CHILD SLAVERY
( Theoban What of it, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:17, Reply)

I can remember getting 25p a week pocket money, but I don't think I had to buy my own Beanos out of that.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:18, Reply)

I remember me first Dandy, I asked me mum if Desperate Dan was 'Mr Dandy', fuckin hell I was a thick kid
YES YES AND THICK ADULT TOO
( Theoban What of it, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:26, Reply)

Japs eye. Nuff said.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:29, Reply)

NO-ONE TOLD ME

( Theoban What of it, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:32, Reply)

*shakes head*

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:34, Reply)

JAPS HAVE BIG BROWN EYES THAT LEAK CONSTANTLY

( Theoban What of it, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:35, Reply)

I dislike the Chinese MOAR

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:37, Reply)

I did well out of all the needles (injections/blood tests etc) I had to have.... they scored me Warhammer.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:26, Reply)

Bah, when I was in 'n' out of hospital as a kid, I got NOWT other than being told off for pulling all me IVs out

( Theoban What of it, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:27, Reply)

what was wrong with you:?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:29, Reply)

asthma
Had a few bad turns when I was little, rushed to hospital etc. Fine now, ain't had an attack in what, 20 years?
( Theoban What of it, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:31, Reply)

It all cleared up when you got too big to send up a chimney?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:39, Reply)

Me parents just let me hair grow and used me as the brush :(

( Theoban What of it, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:40, Reply)

This sounds like the start of a heathwrong's "four Yorkshiremen"

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:29, Reply)

Yeah well when *I* did the four Yorkshireman sketch, we had to do it underground, no lighting, and the only audience we had were a load of dead rats

( Theoban What of it, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:32, Reply)

Textbook

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:33, Reply)

I wouldn't even look at them, let alone touch them or pull them out.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:36, Reply)

I just told them I'M BETTER and yanked them all out
It makes me wince thinking about doing that now
( Theoban What of it, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:41, Reply)

I didn't get any as a kid, I don't think
from when I was 16 I got given £40 a month but I had to buy my own stuff out of it (any clothes etc, any food bar what was on the table at home, all the gear for my sport, that kind of thing)

Seemed reasonable at the time.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:28, Reply)

I never got pocket money as a child
as a teenager, I noticed my friends did. quite a lot, in some spoiled cases. so I whinged. one day dad came home from work.

"fine, let's talk about it. how does £4 an hour sound?"

I was 15. and it was 1993. that was unbelievable wealth. but I smelled a rat. a great big fishy one. sure enough...

"if you want it, you'll work for me at the bank. answering the switchboard, filing etc." I didn't want. but it was that or nothing. so I did it every fucking Saturday and school holiday until I was 18...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:47, Reply)

tl;dr rich spoilt girl gets saturday job for a reasonable wage.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:49, Reply)

but all my friends got pocket money for nothing. it wasn't FAIR.

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:50, Reply)

In 1994 I was earing £3 an hour down the candy floss stall by the ghost train. EVERY SATURDAY AND TUESDAY EVENING
#ghettolyfe
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:53, Reply)

ghost town more like
or is the ghost train your sexless love life?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:54, Reply)

That was 1998

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:54, Reply)

Your jaw must have really ached a lot.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:54, Reply)

Are your terrible jokes a 'meme'? Or are you just a bit brain damaged?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:55, Reply)

All the memes on here are terrible jokes
Haven't you realised that yet?
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:56, Reply)

I have no idea what's really going on.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:00, Reply)

You appear to have it pretty spot on most of the time

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:01, Reply)

Why thank you! It's unlike you to be so ni........waidaminute!
Mean.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:03, Reply)

Except with me, of course
I don't know where you've got this idea from that I am mean.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:08, Reply)

i preferred yurty wooster
change it back
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:09, Reply)

It kept confusing me

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:10, Reply)

*makes druggy hand gesture*

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:11, Reply)

What would that hand gesture actually look like?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:12, Reply)

pinch fingers pretend to smoke or summit

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:16, Reply)

I have got in the habit of reading your replies to me as if they were posted with a genuine sneering cynicism.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:10, Reply)

Well yeah, but I'm lovely really

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:11, Reply)

I don't *actually* think you're mean.
Probably like most folk here you're secretly a decent bloke.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:18, Reply)

Alright, let's not go mad here, eh?
I know you're keen to make new friends and that.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:20, Reply)

My winky feels funny.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:22, Reply)

This is perfectly normal.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:23, Reply)

PHEW!

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:26, Reply)

you are correct

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:16, Reply)

something none of his girlfriends ever said to him in 1998

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:04, Reply)

Ha ha girlfriendS! Plural! AS IF

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:04, Reply)

left hand, right hand

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:08, Reply)

gyppo

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:02, Reply)

It's a static actually.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:04, Reply)

and you would have got away with it ....

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:04, Reply)

if you divide the value of the flat your dad bought you by the hours worked what would that be an hour?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:51, Reply)

that's maths I can't even do
also shush. this is a sad story of child abuse.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:51, Reply)

sometimes I'm too smart for my own good

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:58, Reply)

yep
that's definitely what it is.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:59, Reply)

sometimes I'm so clever I trip over my own IQ

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:03, Reply)

S-M-R-T!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGQpjCztgA
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:04, Reply)

i have no sound at work

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:06, Reply)

Surely you recognise the clip without sound though?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:11, Reply)

I do not

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:13, Reply)

^ not S M R T ^
I mean S M A R
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:14, Reply)

I do love that

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:11, Reply)

it's a pretty simple sum
value of flat when bought - X

number of hours worked in bank - Y

X/Y = hourly rate
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:05, Reply)

More simplification, she *is* a woman.
Well, now anyway.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:06, Reply)

this would explain the hint of a 5 o'clock shadow

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:07, Reply)

I would hazard a guess at more than my recent ANNUAL PAY RISE

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 14:52, Reply)

bored...someone doa new thread

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:13, Reply)

Done

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 15:16, Reply)