1976...£3.50 ($6) per day. What a line up.

Agreed. It was still socially acceptable for me to crap in my pants.

Beepster
Agreed. It was still socially acceptable for me to crap in my pants.

 I was 16 then. In a few years time it'll be acceptable for me again.

I've never been much for social conventions anyway.
 
*flurp*
 
:-D

Also known as the formative years. I was 19 and the world was nothing but possibilities.

I was a teen in the 90's and hit "adulthood" slightly before the 00's. The world went mad very quickly after that.
 
The 90's were kind of dorky and naive but I miss them.

£3.50 was about a week's wages back then though, so that would be the equivalent of about £1000 now and don't forget that you'd need to get some fish and chips afterwards and have enough left for the bus ride home.

paulo
£3.50 was about a week's wages back then though, so that would be the equivalent of about £1000 now and don't forget that you'd need to get some fish and chips afterwards and have enough left for the bus ride home.

 
My first weekly wage packet in 1979 was about £80. Riches beyond my wildest dreams..3 pints of scrumpy at 27p a go, and I was hammered for less than a quid.

I had already started programming and playing guitar.
(I'm such a geek!)

jamesg1213

paulo
£3.50 was about a week's wages back then though, so that would be the equivalent of about £1000 now and don't forget that you'd need to get some fish and chips afterwards and have enough left for the bus ride home.

 
My first weekly wage packet in 1979 was about £80. Riches beyond my wildest dreams..3 pints of scrumpy at 27p a go, and I was hammered for less than a quid.

£80 ??? What was your first job...The Queen ?
 
Mine was quite a few years after that and way less than that by the time the taxman had dipped his fingers in. In fact, from my actual first wage packet I got precisely nothing as my car had broken down a few days before and the repair bill which I paid on the way home when I collected it left me with £10. Arriving home, I was then informed by my mum that now that I was working it was time to start paying my way and so starting now I would have to pay £10 a week towards my keep.
 
D'oh !