02-11-13, 11:50 PM (This post was last modified: 02-11-13, 11:52 PM by nick crisp.)
That's the way the cookie crumbles.... :\
I was dismayed to find this morning there had been a fight in my biscuit tin. The Bandit hit the Penguin over the head with a Club, tied it to a Wagon Wheel with a Blue Ribbon and made a Breakaway in a Taxi.
03-11-13, 07:45 AM (This post was last modified: 03-11-13, 08:53 AM by CRH.)
(02-11-13, 11:50 PM)nick crisp link Wrote: That's the way the cookie crumbles.... :\
I was dismayed to find this morning there had been a fight in my biscuit tin. The Bandit hit the Penguin over the head with a Club, tied it to a Wagon Wheel with a Blue Ribbon and made a Breakaway in a Taxi.
(03-11-13, 02:52 AM)Grahamm link Wrote: [quote author=69oldskool link=topic=10555.msg110952#msg110952 date=1383413670]
Anyone care to comment?
...nick?..you can be a right ..yo yo" at times?.... :lol
Asda used to do a £1 Toad in the Hole that had 8 sausages in it. They now do a £1 Toad in the Hole with 6 Sausages...
[/quote].... well? obviously 2 of the little fkrs hopped out the hole? :rolleyes ..should have gon to customer services, and toad"" them about it!!!
I toured Romania this year, where they sell a lot of stuff by weight, in kg. I was in a small rural shop where they sold various biscuits loosely, not in packets. When I asked for 4 of those and 4 of those, by 4 she thought I meant 1/4 kg :lol
(03-11-13, 12:06 PM)Phil link Wrote: I toured Romania this year, where they sell a lot of stuff by weight, in kg. I was in a small rural shop where they sold various biscuits loosely, not in packets. When I asked for 4 of those and 4 of those, by 4 she thought I meant 1/4 kg :lol
the same with the size of chocolate bars! I remember mars bars been at least a 1/3 bigger than they are now! and they were wrapped in paper not plastic!
4 black jack or fruit salads for 1p
other day kids found an old threpenny bit so i then tried to explain bout proper money £ s d!!! even my mrs looked at me blank!
Those were the days-BIG Mars Bars for 3d (old money) circa 1955!
even my local Poundland has downsized-everything now 95p thanks to competitor down the road!
Cant seem to reduce my energy bills though-waiting for British Gas to downsize their Therm or whatever they call it.
Only upside of less biscuits is less weight for bike to haul so better mpg! :lol
(06-11-13, 04:57 PM)Robbie8666 link Wrote: the same with the size of chocolate bars! I remember mars bars been at least a 1/3 bigger than they are now! and they were wrapped in paper not plastic!
4 black jack or fruit salads for 1p
other day kids found an old threpenny bit so i then tried to explain bout proper money £ s d!!! even my mrs looked at me blank!
Don't get me started! I've still not gotten over the great decimalisation rip off! :'(
For those too young to remember that traumatic period in our history, a shilling used to consist of 12 'old' pennies and there were 20 of them to the pound. When they decimalised the currency a shilling was in effect 5 new pence and an old penny was made the equivalent of 1/2 a new penny.
So overnight we went from a shilling getting you 12 penny sweets to 5ponly getting you 10!! :eek
Did I get a pocket money increase to adjust for this sudden & drastic devaluation of my sweet purchasing 5 bob? No I bloody didn't! >:
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