90's bands and nostalgia.... from another thread.

We holidayed in New Zealand in December 2017.
They still have a lot of these old cars driving about. (less rust apparently)
I really thought about buying a few and having them shipped back over here.
 
OMG! I am SO old...
my first car was a Vauxhall Victor, pre-1960 model, mushroom grey with red leather upholstery...my mate had one too, but his had a 3 speed column change whereas mine had 4 on the floor.
I remember my Dad regularly buying £1 worth of 4-star, that was 6 gallons (GALLONS!)...3/4d a gallon...
 
pirate said:
OMG! I am SO old...
my first car was a Vauxhall Victor, pre-1960 model, mushroom grey with red leather upholstery...my mate had one too, but his had a 3 speed column change whereas mine had 4 on the floor.
I remember my Dad regularly buying £1 worth of 4-star, that was 6 gallons (GALLONS!)...3/4d a gallon...
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It feels like the Chinese are back on the forum again.

Because I understand none of that.

As a child I vaguely remember the difference between leaded and unleaded.

But 4 star must be something else.

Shillings and d mean nothing to me.
 
My first jam jar was a Malibu Blue (i bought a spray can of the colour at some point) Fiesta Popular (not Plus!), it had one wing mirror on the drivers side only, it's tape player would chew up cassettes so I bought a cassette to personal CD player adaptor and due to it being before skip protection was introduced - it skipped on anything other than motorway smooth roads, it also had a sub one litre engine and was mostly made of rust.

Cost me £450! Insurance was £350, which I thought at the time was a total rip off considering the £250 voluntary excess for 3rd party only insurance. I don't know how kids even get on the roads these days since insurance companies have got wise to them being named drivers on their parents insurance.
 
rapparee said:
It feels like the Chinese are back on the forum again.

Because I understand none of that.

As a child I vaguely remember the difference between leaded and unleaded.

But 4 star must be something else.

Shillings and d mean nothing to me.
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lesson no.1.....
4 star was leaded. it stopped pre-ignition

no.2....... there were 12 pence in a shilling; 20 shillings to the £. that meant 240 pence to a £., not like this stupid decimal shyte. 10 pence were 2 shillings or a florin. 2.5 shillings was half a crown. coins were made of nickel silver or copper. not mild steel with a few microns of colour on the surface. and a week's pocket money was a tanner (look it up).
 
telectrix said:
lesson no.1.....
4 star was leaded. it stopped pre-ignition

no.2....... there were 12 pence in a shilling; 20 shillings to the £. that meant 240 pence to a £., not like this stupid decimal shyte. 10 pence were 2 shillings or a florin. 2.5 shillings was half a crown. coins were made of nickel silver or copper. not mild steel with a few microns of colour on the surface. and a week's pocket money was a tanner (look it up).
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And you could get 4 jam doughnuts and the Daily Sketch for a shilling
 
and school dinner money was 1/- a day. friday was fish as we had 1 catholic in a class of 36, so me and my mate spent friday,s dinner money on 10 park drive each ( with a penny and a haflenny change)
 
telectrix said:
and school dinner money was 1/- a day. friday was fish as we had 1 catholic in a class of 36, so me and my mate spent friday,s dinner money on 10 park drive each ( with a penny and a haflenny change)
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Fill yer car up with Motion Lotion for 30Bob
 
telectrix said:
lesson no.1.....
4 star was leaded. it stopped pre-ignition

no.2....... there were 12 pence in a shilling; 20 shillings to the £. that meant 240 pence to a £., not like this stupid decimal shyte. 10 pence were 2 shillings or a florin. 2.5 shillings was half a crown. coins were made of nickel silver or copper. not mild steel with a few microns of colour on the surface. and a week's pocket money was a tanner (look it up).
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12 pence in a schilling.

10 pence were 2 Schillings.

I'm hugely confused.
 
You have to state 12 old pennies was a shilling. Decimalisation it was 5 NEW pennies to a shilling hence 10p was two shillings.

I remember the half pence leaving circulation, the introduction of 20p and the years of England not accepting Scottish pound notes after the pound coin came out.
(Still get Scottish notes rejected in some English town)
 
littlespark said:
You have to state 12 old pennies was a shilling. Decimalisation it was 5 NEW pennies to a shilling hence 10p was two shillings.

I remember the half pence leaving circulation, the introduction of 20p and the years of England not accepting Scottish pound notes after the pound coin came out.
(Still get Scottish notes rejected in some English town)
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Frig me.

So was there two classes of pennies in circulation at once?

Old pennies and decimal pennies?

Irish notes are rejected over in the UK as well, even though they are legitimate Sterling currency.

You have Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and Northern Bank (now danske bank)
 
rapparee said:
Frig me.

So was there two classes of pennies in circulation at once?

Old pennies and decimal pennies?

Irish notes are rejected over in the UK as well, even though they are legitimate Sterling currency.

You have Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and Northern Bank (now danske bank)
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If I'm right 240 old pence to the pound and 100 new pence to the pound. Not in circulation as this simultaneously though, revalued under decimalisation.

Not totally sure though, far too young for it to be part of my childhood.
 
littlespark said:
You have to state 12 old pennies was a shilling. Decimalisation it was 5 NEW pennies to a shilling hence 10p was two shillings.

I remember the half pence leaving circulation, the introduction of 20p and the years of England not accepting Scottish pound notes after the pound coin came out.
(Still get Scottish notes rejected in some English town)
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Quite rightly too.
 
rapparee said:
Frig me.

So was there two classes of pennies in circulation at once?

Old pennies and decimal pennies?

Irish notes are rejected over in the UK as well, even though they are legitimate Sterling currency.

You have Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and Northern Bank (now danske bank)
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There was an Irish chap in front of me in the que at the petrol station. He was trying to spend, what I believe to be an Irish £50 note. The chap behind the counter was having none of it. Probably didn’t help that he had a vest on, jumped out a flat bed with ***** drives and patios on the side, motorway maintenance sticker on the back, orange flashing light on the top and had a mullet haircut :confused:
 
Leesparkykent said:
There was an Irish chap in front of me in the que at the petrol station. He was trying to spend, what I believe to be an Irish £50 note. The chap behind the counter was having none of it. Probably didn’t help that he had a vest on, jumped out a flat bed with ***** drives and patios on the side, motorway maintenance sticker on the back, orange flashing light on the top and had a mullet haircut :confused:
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Travellers.

I wouldn't have taken his £50 note either, unless it was scanned under a UV light.
 
the rot started when harold wilson won election. he lost rhodesia for starters.
 
Leesparkykent said:
There was an Irish chap in front of me in the que at the petrol station. He was trying to spend, what I believe to be an Irish £50 note. The chap behind the counter was having none of it. Probably didn’t help that he had a vest on, jumped out a flat bed with ***** drives and patios on the side, motorway maintenance sticker on the back, orange flashing light on the top and had a mullet haircut :confused:
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Thats Tel, isn't it bet he only filled up with £15.02's worth of die sel
 
Wasn’t sure which thread to put this in.... there’s so many on the go about old is good, new is bad, let’s have a moan....
This is my thread, so I’ll put it here.

What language do kids speak nowadays? I mean what exactly is a “meme” and why is it called that? I’m thinking it’s a short version of “memory” but I don’t know.

Floss? For cleaning you teeth?

Fort nite? That’s two weeks. I know that one.

My daughters have been copying a dance off YouTube. I’d link to a video, but they are all rubbish.
The song goes “1273, down to Rockefeller Street.....” and they dance along... for about 4 seconds...

I completely killed their fun one day when I went onto YouTube myself and showed them the Estonian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011.....
 
littlespark said:
Wasn’t sure which thread to put this in.... there’s so many on the go about old is good, new is bad, let’s have a moan....
This is my thread, so I’ll put it here.

What language do kids speak nowadays? I mean what exactly is a “meme” and why is it called that? I’m thinking it’s a short version of “memory” but I don’t know.

Floss? For cleaning you teeth?

Fort nite? That’s two weeks. I know that one.

My daughters have been copying a dance off YouTube. I’d link to a video, but they are all rubbish.
The song goes “1273, down to Rockefeller Street.....” and they dance along... for about 4 seconds...

I completely killed their fun one day when I went onto YouTube myself and showed them the Estonian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011.....
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I blame the parents if they are listening to sh1te like that when my kids where pre teenage I took them to see the Rolling Stones and bands like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers......
 
SWD said:
I blame the parents if they are listening to sh1te like that when my kids where pre teenage I took them to see the Rolling Stones and bands like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers......
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proper dad then.
 

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