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Old 26 March 2007, 09:18 AM
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Question What Can £1 Buy These Days?
Strange as it may seem, it buys a LOT more than it did 30 years ago

This is £1:-

http://www.poundland.co.uk/media/a5b...071327169d.jpg

In my day, the Batteries cost more than £1 and they are included with this item!!

What can YOU buy for £1?
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Old 26 March 2007, 09:27 AM
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Old 26 March 2007, 09:30 AM
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Pete,

it means that with the rest of your pocket money you can give us all a treat

Treat

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Old 26 March 2007, 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
Strange as it may seem, it buys a LOT more than it did 30 years ago

This is £1:-

http://www.poundland.co.uk/media/a5b...071327169d.jpg

In my day, the Batteries cost more than £1 and they are included with this item!!

What can YOU buy for £1?
Heh, you'll probably find that changing channels opens next doors garage door and sets off three car alarms

On the other hand, you could get a pack of about 20 AA / AAA batteries for a quid - ideal for the kids toys. They don't last as long as Duracells, so again, ideal for kids toys
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Old 26 March 2007, 11:16 AM
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Over here £1 (or it's equivalent anyway) buys my lunch and my evening meal
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Old 26 March 2007, 11:16 AM
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You can get a really nice ice cream cone with local ice cream down here. I can still remember when you could get one of those for 4d though.

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Old 26 March 2007, 11:19 AM
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£1 buys me about 1/4 gallon of fuel for the car, (or just over a litre).

When I started driving, fuel was 4s/11d a GALLON, (about 25p )

So let's not all get carried away..............

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Old 26 March 2007, 01:09 PM
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I would recommend this:-

http://www.poundland.co.uk/media/7c2...9969423619.jpg

Best Beef I have tasted in decades
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Old 26 March 2007, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Leslie
You can get a really nice ice cream cone with local ice cream down here. I can still remember when you could get one of those for 4d though.

Les
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£1 buys me about 1/4 gallon of fuel for the car, (or just over a litre).

When I started driving, fuel was 4s/11d a GALLON, (about 25p )

So let's not all get carried away..............

Alcazar


Bloody hell, just how old are you guys...
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Old 26 March 2007, 04:06 PM
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Nearly US $2 that's what!
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Originally Posted by Leslie
You can get a really nice ice cream cone with local ice cream down here. I can still remember when you could get one of those for 4d though.

Les
Penny lick..
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Old 26 March 2007, 05:19 PM
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100 x penny chews

DAn
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Originally Posted by billythekid
Penny lick..

You can get them over here too
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Old 26 March 2007, 07:28 PM
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You can get them over here too
LMFAO
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Old 26 March 2007, 08:06 PM
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a pounds worth of anythin you want
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Old 26 March 2007, 10:14 PM
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cant even get a 500ml bottle of coke in london for a pound

sad isnt it
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Old 26 March 2007, 10:16 PM
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Old 26 March 2007, 10:26 PM
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Isn't a Ticket to watch a Home Match at St James .... £1???

If not - IT SHOULD BE!!! Thats THEM pay ME!!!
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Old 26 March 2007, 10:50 PM
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£1 to release a shopping trolley and hey"loads of fun" then sell the trolley for scrap
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Originally Posted by TopBanana
Pikey Pete in manky meat shocker

Wouldnt catch me eatin that £1 for some grey meat in brown gravy, no thanks
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£1 would buy you nearly a gallon of this dodgy polish petrol i got offered the other day by a even dodgyier looking english guy

thing is right, the cheap imported illegal polish **** smell like petrol and then the cheap imported polish petrol smell like ****

i said no anyway...
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Old 27 March 2007, 08:11 AM
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1 Dunky.......... which is a condom for you sheltered thickos who don't understand the slang

Uncle Pete can go ''bare back'' now as he only shoots a bit of spud juice

DJ Vinyl Ritchie.................... if you've had the snip, the above can be used as a water balloon, a fookin' expensive one at that.
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Old 27 March 2007, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by TopBanana
Pikey Pete in manky meat shocker
That's not news, a few years ago he posted a picture of his fridge, full of low grade animal.
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Originally Posted by pslewis
I would recommend this:-

http://www.poundland.co.uk/media/7c2...9969423619.jpg

Best Beef I have tasted in decades
That looks nice, i might go get some for dinner. Hope i don't have to que with pikeys




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Originally Posted by billythekid
Penny lick..
In those days it was even better than that with 240 pennies in the pound.

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