What can you get for a £1 these days?

[KiOgon]

Edited October 9, 2011 by KiOgon

[rOB]

Ha!

Erm. I bought a bag of chewits for £1 the other day. I was pleased with that but now it seems a bit rubbish.

[yorick]

Two plectrums, or a bag of crisps from a motorway services. Robbing g!ts..........

[discreet]

+1 A bottle of water at a motorway service station, thus making water more expensive than petrol:
[url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/5250212/Motorway-service-stations-charge-four-times-supermarket-price-for-water.html"]http://www.telegraph...-for-water.html[/url]

Edited October 9, 2011 by discreet

[ahpook]

i read that as 'tube bulb action hall"

i'd pay a pound to see some tube bulb action

[discreet]

Hurr, too right! Someone start a Tube Bulb thread, immediately.
I've got an Action Hall we could use.

[leschirons]

Cheryl Cole's latest CD?

[icastle]

About 4 penny chews...

[EdwardHimself]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1318154917' post='1398529']+1 A bottle of water at a motorway service station, thus making water more expensive than petrol: [url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/5250212/Motorway-service-stations-charge-four-times-supermarket-price-for-water.html"]http://www.telegraph...-for-water.html[/url][/quote]

The question is, why have they used an American picture of a "gas" station?

[Oopsdabassist]

Anything in Poundland?

[KiOgon]

Amazing - what a gig for a quid - I was 16 in 1967 Remember it well? No TBH can't remember much about it at all probably best that way.

[icastle]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1318154917' post='1398529']
+1 A bottle of water at a motorway service station, thus making water more expensive than petrol:
[url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/5250212/Motorway-service-stations-charge-four-times-supermarket-price-for-water.html"]http://www.telegraph...-for-water.html[/url]
[/quote]

I point blank refuse to buy bottled water - it's an ecologically unsound waste of money that has been artificially elevated to a 'must have' accessory with a massively inflated price.

[discreet]

[quote name='EdwardHimself' timestamp='1318155720' post='1398540']
The question is, why have they used an American picture of a 'gas' station?
[/quote]
I don't know. Maybe it's an indication of what prices will be next week.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1318158063' post='1398571']
I point blank refuse to buy bottled water
[/quote]
+1 Especially when you're already paying for what comes out of the tap.

[discreet]

That's inflation for you.

[EdwardHimself]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1318158298' post='1398572'] I don't know. Maybe it's an indication of what prices will be next week. [/quote]

If fuel is going to be $2.279/U.S. Gallon (3.78 L) then bring on next week I say!

Edited October 9, 2011 by EdwardHimself

[steve-bbb]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1318158351' post='1398573']


We went into our local poundshop the other day.


They are now selling things at £1.50
[/quote]
is that like [i][font=georgia,serif]'Poundshops Finest'[/font][/i] range ?

[EssentialTension]

I bet that poster is going for a lot more than a pound these days.

[discreet]

[quote name='EdwardHimself' timestamp='1318158781' post='1398579']
If fuel is going to be $2.279/U.S. Gallon (3.78 L) then bring on next week I say!
[/quote]
Pedant. Obviously I should have said maybe it's an indication of what prices will be next week [i]here[/i], and in [i]GBP.[/i]

Edited October 9, 2011 by discreet

[discreet]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1318159463' post='1398585']
I bet that poster is going for a lot more than a pound these days.
[/quote]
What, the OP? I certainly can't afford him.

[EdwardHimself]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1318159587' post='1398588'] Pedant. Obviously I should have said maybe it's an indication of what prices will be next week [i]here[/i], and in [i]GBP.[/i][/quote]

And per litre as well.

[discreet]

D'oh!

[KiOgon]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1318159626' post='1398589']
What, the OP? I certainly can't afford him.
[/quote]
Ooooh - you'd be surprised duckie

Edit: What a post to make my landmark 1000th!

Cheerz, John

Edited October 9, 2011 by KiOgon

[discreet]

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1318161380' post='1398611']
Ooooh - you'd be surprised duckie
Edit: What a post to make my landmark 1000th!
[/quote]
Congratulations!
And look - I'm coming up behind you fast!


Edit for further innuendo.

Edited October 9, 2011 by discreet

[Slipperydick]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1318158384' post='1398574']
That's inflation for you.
[/quote]

In my local Gas Station, you have to put 50p in the machine to blow up your tyres, then it runs out after about 2 minutes, so you put in another 50p.

THATS inflation for you......Sorry

[Ou7shined]

Speaking of 50p.
Just the other day, I was regaling some incredulous younger band mates with boring tales about how when we were kids (early-mid 70's) me and my brother were given 50p on a Saturday morning and we'd head off into the city centre on our own... this in itself would be a no-no for 6 and 7 year olds these days. We'd meet up with some mates at the Saturday Cinema Club (special deal for kids*) where we'd spend a few riotous hours watching a handful of cartoons, some ancient black and white stuff like the 3 Stooges and a main feature (a Disney movie or something). Then en masse we'd all go next door to the swimming pool and spend a further few of hours in there, buy a sausage roll, a bag of crisps and a drink on our way out, then we'd catch the bus home stopping off at the corner shop for a bag of sweets (back then Black Jacks (with their very un-PC wrappers) were 1/4p each... I think you used to get 8 aniseed balls for a penny) and still have change for a box of matches so we could go and burn sh*t round the back of old Mr Hunter's garage.


* incidentally my dad used to go to the same cinema on a Saturday morning when he was a kid too.... only the entry fee back then was an empty jam jar.