The Declining Use of Cash in the UK

[Roy]

Wait! I'm having an epiphany 😁

2 pints an hour Mick?

What is minimum wage today?

[Xander]

14 minutes ago, JunkBond said:

I think a pint of bitter was 46p

I used to work at night part time in a pub after my day job , you could buy 3 pints for 48 pence, the owner wouldn't allow anyone near the till, it was like one of those Ronny Barker open all hours tills, it barked every time he opened it. £1 went a long way back then.😉

[JunkBond]

I am talking London prices btw. No doubt a lot cheaper out in the sticks. 🤔

[sixgun]

i remember beer and cider at around 10p in the college bar (subsidised) - it does not seem credible now. This is when you know fiat currency is just pants.

[Roy]

I can't remember that low six but definitely pence not pounds

[sixgun]

3 minutes ago, Roy said:

I can't remember that low six but definitely pence not pounds

This was one of the Cambridge colleges Roy - only the elite pay those rates.

[Roy]

Cambridge? I thought you were better than that.

[sovereignsteve]

12 minutes ago, sixgun said:

i remember beer and cider at around 10p in the college bar (subsidised) - it does not seem credible now. This is when you know fiat currency is just pants.

I clearly remember my 1st visit to the union bar in 1974

bitter at 12p / pint and a packet of fags 25p

[Roy]

Wasn't Cambridge then?

[sovereignsteve]

manchester, wasn't clever enough for cambridge

[sixgun]

2 minutes ago, Roy said:

Cambridge? I thought you were better than that.

i am better than that it took me a second try to get to Oxford a few years later. i remember when i started i thought i would not be able to cope - i could not understand some of the lecturers' - long words and funny posh accents. For quite a while i actually did wish i had gone to Manchester.

[sovereignsteve]

1 minute ago, sixgun said:

For quite a while i actually did wish i had gone to Manchester

yeah, Manchester was a good place to be a student in the 70's😊

[Roy]

They are all equal. I can't understand the mancs so same boat. It's not the qualification, it's what you do with it.

[Roy]

Good music in the 70s. Birmingham for instance

[JunkBond]

I was straight out to work at 17 as an apprentice printer, no more exams for me. 😂

[HighlandTiger]

1 hour ago, Roy said:

Does anyone remember the wage packet?

A small envelope with your wages in (less than £100 then) with a staple through it.

I can remember getting them from my early jobs, and can remember filling them with cash for my employees when I had my own shop and pub. Didn't have a staple though, I was posh, I had sticky flaps on the envelope.  

[HighlandTiger]

29 minutes ago, sixgun said:

i remember beer and cider at around 10p in the college bar (subsidised) - it does not seem credible now. This is when you know fiat currency is just pants.

In the merchant navy, when at sea, we had cans of beer for 25p, and shots were 10p. No duty on alcohol when at sea 

[Roy]

4 minutes ago, JunkBond said:

I was straight out to work at 17 as an apprentice printer, no more exams for me. 😂

My old man was a printer JB.

Good career, did well, sh*tty hours.

[sixgun]

Cricky this has really turned out to be a meeting of the dominoes club in the corner of the pub. 

[Roy]

And on a Saturday too.

[JunkBond]

Done all the shifts Roy. Days, nights, mid shift, Saturdays, Sundays and rounders.

Never gone short... 😉

[Roy]

Same as my old man.

As I said, did well but always working.

I sound like I need a shrink! I don't. 😁

[JunkBond]

We could probably all do with a few hours on the couch Roy! 🤣

[Roy]

🙁 I probably did become my father. I've worked too much.

But I'm like you you now JB, free 😀

[JunkBond]

So you have joined the no idea what day of the week it is club then. 👍