paranoid android Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Steady! Went to the shop earlier for cigarettes for my girlfriend, and asked for 20 whatever... The woman serving gave me the fags, and said 'There's just 19 in there, mind'. So, I get back, and give the fags to the burd, saying that there's only 19 in the pack, and she say's 'Aye, they only sell packets of 19 now - sometimes, it's only 18!' When did this happen? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Earlier. You said so in your post. Have you got dementia? Arf. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDuffman Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 That's what they used to sell in fag machines when I smoked. It was something like £5 worth which was less than 20. Same with rolling tobacco. You didn't get 25g for your £5 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 That's what they used to sell in fag machines when I smoked. It was something like £5 worth which was less than 20. Same with rolling tobacco. You didn't get 25g for your £5 Aye, I remember that - this was from Tesco's - it's obviously done for the financial benefit of the fag companies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Sometimes in the good old days, when you bought fags out of a vending machine, if there was only 18 or 19 in the pack then the change was sellotaped onto the packet. p.s. when I first started buying ciggies, a pack of 20 regal king size cost me 54 pence! If we wanted to look cool at school, we bought the new on the market Lambert and Butler in the silver packet for 50p. p.p.s. my local chippy/chipper used to sell single ciggies for 3p. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Sometimes in the good old days, when you bought fags out of a vending machine, if there was only 18 or 19 in the pack then the change was sellotaped onto the packet. p.s. when I first started buying ciggies, a pack of 20 regal king size cost me 54 pence! If we wanted to look cool at school, we bought the new on the market Lambert and Butler in the silver packet for 50p. p.p.s. my local chippy/chipper used to sell single ciggies for 3p. Ah, the memories! Can you still buy 'singles'? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Not sure mate, had to stop smoking when the wife's budget got more than mine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars fan Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 They've been doing it for a couple of years. It started with the cheaper brands doing it to lower their prices. My brand - Regal are no less than £9.50 a pack these days ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDuffman Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Remember the change on the fag machine packet. Cool tags for me were the John Player Special (black JPS) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDuffman Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Remember the change on the fag machine packet. Cool fags for me were the John Player Special (black JPS) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 p.s. when I first started buying ciggies, a pack of 20 regal king size cost me 54 pence! If we wanted to look cool at school, we bought the new on the market Lambert and Butler in the silver packet for 50p. Fucking youngsters and their fancy-priced tobacco. BTW Regal was a jakey smoke and Regal king size was for jakeys who robbed their maw's pension book. After I left school a pint of Export was about 23p in the Garrion Hotel in Motherwell and 20 Embassy tipped (not a jakey smoke) was about 25p. Thus you could have 3 pints and 20 cigarettes for £1. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave.j Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 £1 for 10 B&H and a box of matches at the Texaco at the Mearns cross when I started. Probably about 1990 I think. A lad at school used to carry around a 10 deck with one left in it so he didn't need to tap anyone. Fucker used to buy 20 every morning out of Forbhoys newsagents at Harvie shops. Firsts.... seconds.... Last draw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars fan Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Firsts.... seconds.... Last draw. . . .Shit draw. . .Wid. . . That was the old shout in the lavs at Queen Anne High school! It is Fife after all 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFC Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 . . .Shit draw. . .Wid. . . That was the old shout in the lavs at Queen Anne High school! It is Fife after all No wonder when it's £9.50 a pack. When I was a lad it was £1.10 for 10 regal and we used to smoke behind the games hall at Queen Anne. One time a teacher chased us across the field in his car, them were t' days... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Fucking youngsters and their fancy-priced tobacco. BTW Regal was a jakey smoke and Regal king size was for jakeys who robbed their maw's pension book. After I left school a pint of Export was about 23p in the Garrion Hotel in Motherwell and 20 Embassy tipped (not a jakey smoke) was about 25p. Thus you could have 3 pints and 20 cigarettes for £1. Surely all cigarettes are a jakey smoke seeing as smoking is a hideously peasant and tinky past time? Oh and folk smoked behind the music house when I was at Queen Anne. The chip van that parked at the high rises on Pilmuir Street sold individual fags (and a decenr half pizza). I recall that the residents of said flats were fond of chucking eggs whenever any crowds of pupils were gathered below. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I recall that the residents of said flats were fond of chucking eggs whenever any crowds of pupils were gathered below. Tangent, but a lasting school memory is a suicidal guy on the edge of one of those flat balconies with the crowd of school kids shouting "jump jump jump!". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Do the local shops round schools still sell the "schoolboy starter packs"? 1 Regal, 2 matches and a polo mint. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Tangent, but a lasting school memory is a suicidal guy on the edge of one of those flat balconies with the crowd of school kids shouting "jump jump jump!". I wasn't there but mind hearing about it. Nothing will beat the bouncing tyre though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Used to buy a pack of lambert butlers and sell them for 50p at school. Double your money everytime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 (edited) A guy I knew never smoked at all yet ran a successful small breaktime business by distributing fags bought for him by his older brother. Better that than folk smoking bits of ripped out jotter paper with nothing else in it behind a hedge I suppose. Eta: I think he eventually took over the running of his dad's own business actually. Who needs Higher Business Studies at school, eh? I just sold conkers. Well, until my mum sussed out where the sandwich bags were going anyway. Edited October 10, 2014 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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