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MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

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When I think of the difference between prices of things such as ciggies, petrol etc. between points where I recall the price 'then' and the prices as they are now is just how much time has passed.

For example I find myself raging that petrol is now something over £1.20 a litre now and for some reason it sticks in my mind that, somewhere around '94 or '95 people were going ballistic because petrol had shot up to about 33p a litre! Then I realise that that was 27 or 28 years ago! What is more remarkable really is that some things are so very cheap now compared to what they were then. I recently bought a pretty decent leather jacket with armour for ninety quid where I bought a similar jacket around twenty six years ago and it cost somewhere around two hundred quid. Obviously if clothing manufacturing had followed the same trend as ciggies and fuel a basic armoured leather should now cost something just shy of a thousand quid.
 
DD67

DD67

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MartytheMartian said:
When I think of the difference between prices of things such as ciggies, petrol etc. between points where I recall the price 'then' and the prices as they are now is just how much time has passed.

For example I find myself raging that petrol is now something over £1.20 a litre now and for some reason it sticks in my mind that, somewhere around '94 or '95 people were going ballistic because petrol had shot up to about 33p a litre! Then I realise that that was 27 or 28 years ago! What is more remarkable really is that some things are so very cheap now compared to what they were then. I recently bought a pretty decent leather jacket with armour for ninety quid where I bought a similar jacket around twenty six years ago and it cost somewhere around two hundred quid. Obviously if clothing manufacturing had followed the same trend as ciggies and fuel a basic armoured leather should now cost something just shy of a thousand quid.
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I watched a documentary last week called Thatcher V's The Miners.
It mentioned what an average miner earned at the time. They were on very good money for manual workers.
Then later in the show there was a telly in the window of an electrical shop.
It was broadly speaking 6 weeks wages for one of those well paid miners.
Nowadays a far superior & much bigger telly would be the equivalent of less than 50% of the price.
 
MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

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Yep some things have gotten more expensive but a hell of a lot of stuff is a lot cheaper now. Clothes, electronics, musical instruments can be had now for prices that are lower in straight pound for pound terms despite all the years that have passed. My first electric guitar in 1984 or thereabouts was £159 new if I recall correctly and was a piece of crap. Now you can buy a pretty damn good guitar, made in China of course, for less than a hundred quid!

I must admit that I have a different view of the Miner's strike now than I had as a sprog when it was going on. Seems to me now that the reality was that the mines had simply had their day. Over the years since then I have known a few old guys who worked in the mines who would regularly curse Thatcher for the closure of the mines and yet they are suffering terribly with lung problems because of the mines and, when you ask them, they all say they would never have let their kids go down the mines.
 
Sarky B’stard

Sarky B’stard

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And the Big Lie is that Thatcher closed the mines. Economics closed the mines. You could import coal much more cheaply than dig it out from under our own feet. Thatcher simply recognised that you can’t tax success to death to subsidise loss makers.
Sturgeon is full of bile but fundamentally clueless about economic reality. Steel making was the same. You can argue about maintaining core skills as a strategic fall back but you can’t put the country in hock to any special interest group that insists it can defy gravity while others pay. We should have let a few banks fail……starting with Northern Rock and RBS. Protect the depositors but have the investors lose their shirts…..like the miners Scargill deceived.
 
BAD LUCK DUCK

BAD LUCK DUCK

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BB3Lions said:
Tomorrow I'm meeting up with the lads I joined the Army with some 33 years ago - two Inhabrnt seen for 30+ years. Luckily the pubs close at 2300 lol
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Have a beer for me @BB3Lions
I don't have many mates as I find most people to be cnuts...
The few mates I got are all ex mil and the best people you could ever wish for as mates..I actually love them dopey bunch of piss head piss taking bastards in a non gay way...Have a good day mate...🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
 
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