The Kintyre Forum

If there is a New World Order

If there is a One World Bank

If there is a drive towards a World currency

I DEMAND One World Prices !!!

I'm sick of living in a shitty rip-off country !!!

Get the Euro in ASAP

maxmix

£3.73 wrote:
I'm sick of living in a shitty rip-off country !!!

EMIGRATE I hear Zimbabwe is nice this time of year

Bill,

If you're quite happy being ripped off, then what can I say ?

I'm not !

lets not be forgetting North Korea or Nigeria .True destinations with already mentioned Zimbabwe for the discerning equalitarians .

Since you're failing miserably to wind me up, let me ask you both a sensible question.

If an item manufactured in lets say, the Far East, sells in (again for talking sake) the US for $250.
Why does the exact same same item cost £500 here ?

I can remember the good old days when they just converted $ to £
(at least then we were only paying twice as much !)

* clue * don't hit me with crap about exchange rates, because this was happenin when Sterling was dominant

WORLD BANK ... WORLD CURRENCY ... WORLD PRICE

I am a consumer ... I am always right

I can remember when i was about seven years old and going to the local RS McColl (sweetshop, newsagents) and for one shilling buying 12 penny carmels. Several days later in came decimilisation. For my shilling which was now five pence i got 5 carmels. How unfair was that? I've been mentally scarred ever since!

and without wishing to de-rail my own thread ...

since VAT went down to 15% ... did the prices drop ?

DID THEY ?

who's pocketing that 2.5% ?

* clue * Not bloody me !!!

Aye see when a wiz a boy ,you went into the chippie for threepence worth o chips and you got about a half a stone of totties.

blueboyno1 wrote:Aye see when a wiz a boy ,you went into the chippie for threepence worth o chips and you got about a half a stone of totties.

So you must have been quite well off if you had 3d to spend on chips.

bill wrote:

blueboyno1 wrote:Aye see when a wiz a boy ,you went into the chippie for threepence worth o chips and you got about a half a stone of totties.

So you must have been quite well off if you had 3d to spend on chips.

Aye but that was between eight of us.

since there's always conjecture about how the forum could be improved ...
let me suggest moving all the nostalgia to a nostalgia section ... called AUCHINLEE ANECDOTES
or The Lorne Campbell Court
(not that I don't like nostalgia ... I'm a fully paid up member of the rose tinted spectacles club)

... but seriously ... how many times has a thread that has relevance to the present been hijacked by .... oh when I was a lad ... well, forgive fkn me for mentioning anything that's happened since the 1860's !!!

there are many things happening in the world TODAY, RIGHT NOW.

maybe I'm wrong. maybe I should be saying to myself, f**k it, who cares, it was better yesterday ...

"if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem ... so get out of the new road if you can't lend a hand ... cause the times they have changed"

Chill out £3.73, I'm with you all the way, as always, I totally agree with you, and even though I;m drunk as a skunk on a SaTURDAT night, I'm totally there ib spirit with you, son. Cheers!

Ah! Glundies chips. Wasn't the world a better place back in the day.