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Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-19T02:29:57+00:00

You beat me to the co-op stamps. My mother used to have me thinking that sticking the co-op and green shield stamps was better than getting football album stickers.

Statistics: Posted by Curmudgeon — Wed Oct 19, 2016 2:29 am

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-19T01:46:53+00:00

I remember Brook Bond stamps very well, having stuck many to cards.

Also well remember a Co-op divy of 2/6p in the pound.

Plus war time rations we couldn't afford to buy.

Statistics: Posted by Toper — Wed Oct 19, 2016 1:46 am

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-18T23:03:50+00:00

gaza the instructor wrote:
As you say the bar is moving. I therefore
may never reach retirement age.

(I was going to quote in black for effect and a change,but realised the visual waste)

I fully expect to never "retire", and only hope that I will die in harness still doing a paid job that I enjoy.
Or on a slightly brighter note, maybe being pulled over the side of my wee sailboat mid-ocean by the biggest Tuna I have ever hooked.

Robert.

Statistics: Posted by Easydrinker — Tue Oct 18, 2016 11:03 pm

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-18T19:43:53+00:00

As my old mate Rigsbee (who is well retired)
says. "There are only two things guaranteed in
life, Death and Taxes."
Spoken like a true Yorkshire man

Statistics: Posted by gaza the instructor — Tue Oct 18, 2016 7:43 pm

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-18T06:45:43+00:00

I do recall green shield stamps very well and am "economically inactive" in late forties.

My strange "time warp" is that my Dad and a guy called Alex Higgins used to scrounge or steal bottles and jars for a snooker club that was genuinely known as the jampot club as you could pay with them and now I grab every jar I can find to store heads.

Statistics: Posted by Curmudgeon — Tue Oct 18, 2016 6:45 am

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-18T06:29:43+00:00

As you say the bar is moving. I therefore
may never reach retirement age.

Statistics: Posted by gaza the instructor — Tue Oct 18, 2016 6:29 am

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-17T21:29:25+00:00

gaza the instructor wrote:
Whats it like this retirement milarkie ?
Still got 12 Years hard labour to do yet

You are aware that the bar is constantly raised for a state pension?
It may be 12 years today...

Robert.

Statistics: Posted by Easydrinker — Mon Oct 17, 2016 9:29 pm

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-17T18:44:29+00:00

Mash wrote:
Greenshield stamps anyone ?

Remember when you drove into a petrol station, over a bell cable and some spotty little oik came out to fill your tank while another might have asked if you wanted your oil or tyre pressures checked?

That was my first part-time job at age 14, when we had just gone decimal and 4-star was 36 pence a gallon!

If anybody didn't want their green shield stamps they got shared out at the end of the shift between the cashier and us spotty little oiks. Talk about perks.

Statistics: Posted by GrunthosTheFlatulent — Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:44 pm

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-17T16:09:30+00:00

You are a bad influence gardge. I don't know about retired, but the amount of time I've spent on this forum today I am likely to be fired

Statistics: Posted by Mash — Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:09 pm

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-17T13:32:57+00:00

gaza the instructor wrote:
Whats it like this retirement milarkie ?
Still got 12 Years hard labour to do yet

When I stopped working at 46 I thought... "how did I manage to do all the things I did and work as well?" since then I still have more projects to finish than I started with...

gadge

Statistics: Posted by inspector gadget — Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:32 pm

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-17T13:30:41+00:00

Icefever wrote:
@ Gadget....Jeez, that makes you 85 dude...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h29OpLm_D3w

age is all in the mind Ice...

I might not be that old, I may have retired early, I might have had a windfall, Its possible i could have just dropped out...

"There are three things you should know about the wise old woman Blackadder"

gadge

Statistics: Posted by inspector gadget — Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:30 pm

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-17T13:28:39+00:00

Whats it like this retirement milarkie ?
Still got 12 Years hard labour to do yet

Statistics: Posted by gaza the instructor — Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:28 pm

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-17T13:28:39+00:00

Whats it like this retirement milarkie ?
Still got 12 Years hard labour to do yet

Statistics: Posted by gaza the instructor — Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:28 pm

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-17T12:26:13+00:00

@ Gadget....Jeez, that makes you 85 dude...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h29OpLm_D3w

Statistics: Posted by Icefever — Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:26 pm

Re: Brook Bond.

2016-10-17T12:06:13+00:00

Kensitas cigarette coupons... collect 3,000,000 pay for the funeral...

And yes Ice, have been retired for 20 years so cracking on a bit now...

Statistics: Posted by inspector gadget — Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:06 pm