welshbairn Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 17p for my first pint, when you could get a 10 pack of Players Number 10 for 8p. They were the size of match sticks. Biggest disappointment is that people are still persecuting and murdering each other over religion, the erosion of workers rights, the office boys taking over the Labour Party, and that Falkirk haven't played Real Madrid in the Bernabeu yet. The revolution in computing, communication and entertainment has been pretty amazing, and the fact that people are wary of being openly racist or homophobic in public now is a big advance. There might be a bit of a wait for the post scarcity society described in Ian M Bank's Culture, but we're definitely living in a sci fi vision/nightmare worthy of Philip K Dick when we're sending drones around the world blowing up people, controlled from comfy offices in the home counties and Virginia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForzaDundee Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 We’ve overachieved in certain areas like information technology where even the most optimistic predictions are probably behind the curve of where we’ve reached, but in other areas like space exploration we’ve barely troubled the scorer. It’s almost as if the human race has collectively decided that we’ll never do anything as cool as the original series of Star Trek, so why bother? The super rich are too rich and greedy for big scale projects to get funding now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 I used to hate it back in the day whey some old git/grandparent would say they bought their first pint for a lead groat because it didn't translate to current value but I can't believe how much it costs to drink in the boozer now, thats defInitely gone up in real terms. IT wise, the 'future' is fecking great, I live in a nice toasty hoose with loads of space and now that we've signed Caniggia look out SPL ! First pint was 72p I think. I should probably edit this post for punctuation but I'll leave it as it is, its a bit confusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 First pint I bought was 67p I never envisioned the internet, mobile phones, instant contact at all times, any of this stuff we have now. FFS the ZX was the future! I'm delighted that technology has raced way ahead of me, makes for a better world (?) but I do feel like a dinosaur at times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I'm too young for this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 ^^ f**k off then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 How can everyone here remember the exact price of their first pint? Did you all get 'Welcome to Manhood' certificates off the barmen or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'm Brian Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 How can everyone here remember the exact price of their first pint? Did you all get 'Welcome to Manhood' certificates off the barmen or something? My pub must have been extra special. As well as my certificate, I got a blowjob off the barmaid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 How can everyone here remember the exact price of their first pint? Did you all get 'Welcome to Manhood' certificates off the barmen or something? Probably because we were all underage and bricking it. I remember the first time I bought a pint better than the first time I had sex, although to be fair that's probably because drinking the pint lasted a lot longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I'm kinda disappointed that all the scaremongering and various moral panics basically came to f**k all. I was hoping there'd be armageddon by now. The Soviet Union, giant hogweed, video nasties, acid house, the millennium bug, swine flu, illegal immigrants etc were all mooted as the final nail in the coffin of society. But civilisation is still going strong. Keep the faith. The new ones are rising population causing food crisis and leading to war, pandemics killing everyone, possibly due to antibiotics being ineffective, gas/oil supply shortages causing us all to freeze in our homes and possibly starting the odd war or two. See! Plenty to shite yourself at. More to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 How can everyone here remember the exact price of their first pint? Did you all get 'Welcome to Manhood' certificates off the barmen or something? I remember the first time I paid a pound a pint, I mind the pub and that it was a weekday afternoon, I was mortified. I started going to the pub regularly when I was 17 (1985) and it was roughly 70p. I've got it in my head that my local was 72p but I can't remember how much my first pint was. Shit like that seemed to be important for some reason though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 Probably because we were all underage and bricking it. I remember the first time I bought a pint better than the first time I had sex, although to be fair that's probably because drinking the pint lasted a lot longer. I never bought with the thrill of being underage. I was however lucky enough to be 18 with ID whilst still at school. Turns out landlords (and your underage classmates also there) aren't too keen on folk drinking in their school uniform though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I never imagined that smart phone screens would be this fragile. Get it sorted, Boffins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Advance of technology is amazing. ( I did imagine a no-moving-parts music player when I was a teenager. I had no idea how it would work but I'm still claiming the invention of the MP3 player ) Retreat of social equality is saddening.. As already said, too much wealth/power in the hands of fewer and fewer people. Fkn short sighted greedy people at that. Personally I have a very comfortable existence but I'm not happy about how "the future" has turned out in general. Mainly due to socio-political regress. And religion. I really thought that would have diminished. Fool that I am. Can't remember exact price of first pint but did pay 1/9d for a pint of mild (yuck) near Victoria bus station, the London, circa 1969. (A quick bit of googling would seem to show the average price of a pint now to be about the same now as 40 years ago, pro-rata.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Keep the faith. The new ones are rising population causing food crisis and leading to war, pandemics killing everyone, possibly due to antibiotics being ineffective, gas/oil supply shortages causing us all to freeze in our homes and possibly starting the odd war or two. See! Plenty to shite yourself at. More to follow. Ebola........................be afraid,be very afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broon-loon Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I heard recently that the price of a pint when I bought booze (legally) was19p,TBH l thought it was dearer than that.. Anyway, I do recall 3 pints for a pound unless you went to 'the Disco' where the robbin bassas charged a mega 40p.. Back to technology though and my earlier post about the 'works car'. So much of the technology used is 'gimmic factor' and hasn't really changed the fact that it still burns fossil fuel and only returns around 25-30% thermal efficiency. There aren't many people or business that would thrive on those statistics.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 Must have been a goodyear. 'My Granny the Escort' which I saw last night comes to mind. However, at least they could take their teeth out for it I suppose. Novelty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 'My Granny the Escort' which I saw last night comes to mind. However, at least they could take their teeth out for it I suppose. Novelty. You would have thought that they could have come up with virtual shagging machines or the like now that we're in the future. There's a market for it right enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 You would have thought that they could have come up with virtual shagging machines or the like now that we're in the future. There's a market for it right enough. Tbf, the Hoover's been around for a good while and Mr Dyson is always creating new vacuum models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Tbf, the Hoover's been around for a good while and Mr Dyson is always creating new vacuum models. This is absolutely true, not 'heard' from some guy in the boozer. A few years ago a mate of mine ended up in a 'situation'. He was living in a cabin in Faslane and after a night of heavy drinking went back to his cabin and spied a 'Henry the hoover' sat there all slutty like. He decied to become 'intimate' with Henry but feel asleep halfway through, Henry started smoking and set off the fire alarm. My mate was awoken by the MOD fire brigade breaking in his cabin door still with Henry hanging off him. He was billed for a new door and was infamous for a while. We need something better than that ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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