Sign of the times - funnies * Remember this is a family friendly forum and inappropriate postings will be removed without warning.

[Brian Cooper]

[David Davis]

This is a sign of the times but it's not funny.

 

I can't remember precisely when I bought my Seagull Decathlon, the model's long gone anyway but I've kept the box in order to store balsa sheet in it. There's a label on the box telling me that I paid £99.95 for it.

 

Steve Webb is quoting £232.99 for the same model today. My income has not risen by the same proportion.

 

 

[Peter Miller]

I am just about to order some balsa wood.

I remember when a sheet of 3" wide 1/16"  sheet cost 6 pence.😭

[Brian Cooper]

[Eric Robson]

25 minutes ago, Peter Miller said:

I am just about to order some balsa wood.

I remember when a sheet of 3" wide 1/16"  sheet cost 6 pence.😭

And a small tube of balsa cement 3 pence, Dad's used razor blade free

[kevin b]

1 hour ago, Peter Miller said:

I am just about to order some balsa wood.

I remember when a sheet of 3" wide 1/16"  sheet cost 6 pence.😭

Was that 6p, or 6d ?

🤣

[Peter Miller]

17 minutes ago, kevin b said:

Was that 6p, or 6d ?

🤣

It was 6 denarius

[Geoff S]

2 hours ago, David Davis said:

This is a sign of the times but it's not funny.

 

I can't remember precisely when I bought my Seagull Decathlon, the model's long gone anyway but I've kept the box in order to store balsa sheet in it. There's a label on the box telling me that I paid £99.95 for it.

 

Steve Webb is quoting £232.99 for the same model today. My income has not risen by the same proportion.

 

 

 

A pint of mild in the Coventry Antelope Motorcycle Club clubroom in 1964 was lower than 2/- (10p).  Times change and things get dearer.  I bet the club no longer has a regularly open clubroom but I used it a lot as 24 year old.  The 1965 Mini my wife owned when we got married in 1967 cost about £500 brand new.

[Peter Miller]

2 minutes ago, Geoff S said:

 

A pint of mild in the Coventry Antelope Motorcycle Club clubroom in 1964 was lower than 2/- (10p).  Times change and things get dearer.  I bet the club no longer has a regularly open clubroom but I used it a lot as 24 year old.  The 1965 Mini my wife owned when we got married in 1967 cost about £500 brand new.

I remember a mate on the squadron bought a new mini in 1963 for about the same price.

 

Maybe this thread should be renamed "Sign of the TImes Tragedy!!!

[Martin Harris - Moderator]

Yet in the mid seventies I paid out the best part of a month’s wages for a 6 channel radio with 4 basic servos, no mixing, reversing or ATV etc.  and had to swap servos, batteries and receiver between models due to their cost. 
 

I recall balsa being a major expense in pocket money days - I suspect we’ve all been lulled into a false impression of the halcyon days of yore by 20 years of artificially low costs caused by far east “dumping” and circumvention of various tax rules. 

[cymaz]

I’ve just my own private jet.....the rest of the jacuzzi belongs to my wife....

[Piers Bowlan]

19 hours ago, Geoff S said:

 

A pint of mild in the Coventry Antelope Motorcycle Club clubroom in 1964 was lower than 2/- (10p).  Times change and things get dearer.  I bet the club no longer has a regularly open clubroom but I used it a lot as 24 year old.  The 1965 Mini my wife owned when we got married in 1967 cost about £500 brand new.

£500 for a new mini in 1967 is equivalent to £11,200 today. It was a cheap, basic car with sliding windows, and initially no heater, radio, and a funny plastic cord you pulled to open the door from the inside! They were great, I had three old ones back in the 1970s.

Today a new VW Up starts at £14,000 I believe, yes more expensive but just look at the spec. safety and comfort of modern cars.

Sorry, a bit off topic.

Edited October 18, 2023 by Piers Bowlan

[Brian Cooper]

[Peter Christy]

 

 

[leccyflyer]

I was told that Elton John bought a treadmill for his pet rabbit.

It’s a Little Fit Bunny…..

[extra slim]

I don't want anyone to miss out, Amazon have an offer on at the moment, if you buy all Adam & The Ants sheet music in a bundle, they'll throw in a stand.. and deliver

[Peter Christy]

 

 

[Brian Cooper]

[Brian Cooper]

Edited October 20, 2023 by Brian Cooper

[Peter Miller]

1 hour ago, Brian Cooper said:

Now that is brilliant.It is just that.  I could never understand why they made such an effort to get it back when it was stolen!

[Brian Cooper]

[J D 8]

  And I also ate mud along with worms that came with it.

[Peter Miller]

33 minutes ago, J D 8 said:

  And I also ate mud along with worms that came with it.

When I was three we were at war and mud and worms were rationed

[Eric Robson]

15 minutes ago, Peter Miller said:

When I was three we were at war and mud and worms were rationed

Yes Peter all the mud was at the Somme 😆

[Eric Robson]