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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 13:53:49 GMT 7
That's what I paid the equivalent of when I bought a 3.5 litre tower of beer tonight. Convert it to your currency - when was the last time beer was that price in your country, and what were you doing>?
Me - 1985. I remember it well because my family had just bought a pub and we had a crash course in profit margins. Number 1 in the charts was this song -
A month after we bought the pub it was Live Aid
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Post by rubl on Nov 11, 2016 14:05:47 GMT 7
On holiday to the South of England and going as far as Land's End in 1974 I paid less than a quid for a pint of bitter, but don't remember how much less.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 14:07:11 GMT 7
On holiday to the South of England and going as far as Land's End in 1974 I paid less than a quid for a pint of bitter, but don't remember how much less. Older than me would remember, but I'd be shocked if it was more than forty pence. |
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Post by smokie36 on Nov 11, 2016 15:52:51 GMT 7
Old feckers.
Cheapest I paid was 50p a pint for a local Dundee pub's home made cider....not a bad drop...late '89 that was.
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Post by MrToad on Nov 11, 2016 20:58:05 GMT 7
Trying to think, but certainly had a pint for a quid in Student Union bar in 1991, and for an hour agt The Roxy nightclub (Plymouth)in 1992 it was free beer.
Seriously though, i can't remember pubs selling for less than a quid twenty, other than with happy hours etc
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Post by rgs2001uk on Nov 11, 2016 21:07:25 GMT 7
68 pence for a pint of what?
Years ago there wasnt half some crap sold in UK pubs.
Thankfully Stella and Kronenborg arrived.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 2:19:17 GMT 7
68 pence for a pint of what? Years ago there wasnt half some crap sold in UK pubs. Thankfully Stella and Kronenborg arrived. Say lager - I think Stella arrived around 83/84? |
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Post by smokie36 on Nov 12, 2016 2:20:33 GMT 7
68 pence for a pint of what? Years ago there wasnt half some crap sold in UK pubs. Thankfully Stella and Kronenborg arrived. Say lager - I think Stella arrived around 83/84? Surely wives were being beaten before that? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 2:24:11 GMT 7
Say lager - I think Stella arrived around 83/84? Surely wives were being beaten before that? In Belgium, yes. |
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Post by smokie36 on Nov 12, 2016 2:29:05 GMT 7
Haha....were there no 5% plus beers in UK pubs before Stella then?
Was it all pints of crappy mild and heavy?
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Post by Mosha on Nov 13, 2016 12:42:37 GMT 7
1985, I swapped areas at work. The boss of the department wanted a chat. At my interview when overtime came up I didn't want to appear greedy, and just said if it's needed I'll do it. So at our chat he confessed to being worried, as his other sparky point blank refused to work it. I said let me put your mind at rest Rod, in my old department I worked 20 weekends last year. He was a bit surprised. " You won't get that much here," I did 30 that year  . |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 12:51:39 GMT 7
Haha....were there no 5% plus beers in UK pubs before Stella then? Was it all pints of crappy mild and heavy? Beer strength was diluted, especially with the move away from real ales to the mass-produced lagers. The old maxim "he's had one over the eight," was a truism.....based upon real ale. Eight pints of lager these days would hardly give you a buzz. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 12:56:02 GMT 7
1985, I swapped areas at work. The boss of the department wanted a chat. At my interview when overtime came up I didn't want to appear greedy, and just said if it's needed I'll do it. So at our chat he confessed to being worried, as his other sparky point blank refused to work it. I said let me put your mind at rest Rod, in my old department I worked 20 weekends last year. He was a bit surprised. " You won't get that much here," I did 30 that year . Do you remember the price of a pint that year where you lived? ................... Talking of overtime, we had works cats in British Steel Ravenscraig that used to hover around the foreman's office on a Friday afternoon looking for weekend work. Some of them were under so much financial stress you could see the fear in their faces. A few of the other guys objected to them getting so much, so the union introduced a roster system where the management had to ask the next guy on the list - a fair way of doing it. But, my god - the fight that caused was unbelievable. That was one of the incidents that opened my eyes to the ( sometimes ) myth of the brotherhood of unionism. |
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Post by Mosha on Nov 13, 2016 13:20:45 GMT 7
1985, I swapped areas at work. The boss of the department wanted a chat. At my interview when overtime came up I didn't want to appear greedy, and just said if it's needed I'll do it. So at our chat he confessed to being worried, as his other sparky point blank refused to work it. I said let me put your mind at rest Rod, in my old department I worked 20 weekends last year. He was a bit surprised. " You won't get that much here," I did 30 that year . Do you remember the price of a pint that year where you lived? ................... Talking of overtime, we had works cats in British Steel Ravenscraig that used to hover around the foreman's office on a Friday afternoon looking for weekend work. Some of them were under so much financial stress you could see the fear in their faces. A few of the other guys objected to them getting so much, so the union introduced a roster system where the management had to ask the next guy on the list - a fair way of doing it. But, my god - the fight that caused was unbelievable. That was one of the incidents that opened my eyes to the ( sometimes ) myth of the brotherhood of unionism. 68 p sounds about right. OT was on a list system inside a dept. If no one wanted it, they'd call around the site but given as it was a chemical site and the outside guys may not be familiar with the hazards, it wasn't the preferred route. I'd done 3 on the trot, and a 4th w/end was due. They didn't want to ask me when the others turned it down. Outside help not available, so I volunteered. Many years later I was doing 12 hour days in a shift pattern with 2 others. One was put on nights for a one month shutdown. Then the other broke his arm playing cricket. 21 x 12 hour days without a rest. No of, I was a bad tempered sod at the end. Boss tried to reprimand me, so I bit his head off too . I learned later that it wasn't legal to have us doing that time with no days off. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 13:26:36 GMT 7
Do you remember the price of a pint that year where you lived? ................... Talking of overtime, we had works cats in British Steel Ravenscraig that used to hover around the foreman's office on a Friday afternoon looking for weekend work. Some of them were under so much financial stress you could see the fear in their faces. A few of the other guys objected to them getting so much, so the union introduced a roster system where the management had to ask the next guy on the list - a fair way of doing it. But, my god - the fight that caused was unbelievable. That was one of the incidents that opened my eyes to the ( sometimes ) myth of the brotherhood of unionism. 68 p sounds about right. OT was on a list system inside a dept. If no one wanted it, they'd call around the site but given as it was a chemical site and the outside guys may not be familiar with the hazards, it wasn't the preferred route. I'd done 3 on the trot, and a 4th w/end was due. They didn't want to ask me when the others turned it down. Outside help not available, so I volunteered. Many years later I was doing 12 hour days in a shift pattern with 2 others. One was put on nights for a one month shutdown. Then the other broke his arm playing cricket. 21 x 12 hour days without a rest. No of, I was a bad tempered sod at the end. Boss tried to reprimand me, so I bit his head off too . I learned later that it wasn't legal to have us doing that time with no days off. Aye it's too much. I helped my Dad out with his vulcanizing company in the summer of '95. Setting aside the travel time and the long hours, the work could be brutal, and in horrific conditions. What used to p**s me off was that I couldn't get clean after ten hours in an open cast coal pit. I would need to go home and stand in the garden showering, showering, and showering again before I could walk into the house - easy another thirty minutes per night. Tempers frayed and stayed frayed. Too much. |
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