Lurkst Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 4 hours ago, Jacksgranda said: I never thought anybody ever saved up enough coupons to buy any of that stuff. "Many people won't remember them now, but you used to be able to get gifts by collecting cigarette coupons and Charlie Burchill got his first guitar because his mum collected all the Embassy coupons" If you're a Simple Minds fan you can be thankful, if not maybe less so... https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Keeping+it+Simple%3B+Simple+Minds+are+alive+and+kicking+with+a+new...-a0470756841 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 I'm so old I can remember when a pint of McEwen's Export was 23p and a pack of 20 Embassy tipped was 25p. Thus three pints and a packet of fags with change for £1...Me too, I can remember going into town on a Friday night with a fiver in my back bin. 10 Regal Filter, 6 or 7 bottles of Mackeson, a poke of chips and the bus fare home, with enough change for a paper and the sports pages on the Saturday morning.[emoji6] Happy Days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 20 hours ago, Lurkst said: "Many people won't remember them now, but you used to be able to get gifts by collecting cigarette coupons and Charlie Burchill got his first guitar because his mum collected all the Embassy coupons" If you're a Simple Minds fan you can be thankful, if not maybe less so... https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Keeping+it+Simple%3B+Simple+Minds+are+alive+and+kicking+with+a+new...-a0470756841 Did he learn the tabs? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 This is now a possibility, not that I think it would work particularly well. We should be looking at legalising and educating not banning stuff because it's "easy". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 That will be interesting for the guys a year behind the curve. "10 Embassy Regal please" "Show me your ID" "Ah f**k" One year later: "10 Embassy Regal please" "Show me your ID" ad infinitum 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Some old school newsagenting off Cathcart Rd last night 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 7 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: That will be interesting for the guys a year behind the curve. "10 Embassy Regal please" "Show me your ID" "Ah f**k" One year later: "10 Embassy Regal please" "Show me your ID" ad infinitum Really showing your age here 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 8 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: That will be interesting for the guys a year behind the curve. "10 Embassy Regal please" "Show me your ID" "Ah f**k" One year later: "10 Embassy Regal please" "Show me your ID" ad infinitum Don't worry, they'll go back to selling singles with 3 matches. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oystercatcher Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 It's 1979, I'm at the local shop asking for 20 club king size for my dad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 2 hours ago, welshbairn said: Don't worry, they'll go back to selling singles with 3 matches. Back in the 70’s, My local chippy used to sell singles for 3p. Only problem was, they were a brand called Corsair. They were the same length but only about half the thickness of a standard Regal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Stupid concept but it will be funny to see. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 13 hours ago, welshbairn said: Don't worry, they'll go back to selling singles with 3 matches. They still do where I am - free shot of the lighter included. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 On 11/12/2021 at 09:20, Day of the Lords said: This brings back memories of Regal's focus points. About 50,000 fags to get a shite Bush HiFi The potheads choice- tabs with roach included. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 It would be pretty funny to have 63 year olds able to buy cigarettes but 62 year olds prohibited, a few years down the line. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 8 minutes ago, ICTChris said: It would be pretty funny to have 63 year olds able to buy cigarettes but 62 year olds prohibited, a few years down the line. They'll just get some older boys to go in the shop for them. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 1 hour ago, coprolite said: They'll just get some older boys to go in the shop for them. I said this to a boy I work with this morning. It'll never arrive for me but would be fucking brilliant watching three 64 year old boys begging a 75 year old to go get them 15 fags. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 I said this to a boy I work with this morning. It'll never arrive for me but would be fucking brilliant watching three 64 year old boys begging a 75 year old to go get them 15 fags.By that time there will be a cooling off period between ordering them and collecting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Really not a fan of banning things because they are unhealthy. If it starts with tobacco, how quickly before they turn their attention to alcohol, and/or anything else that a few people at the top of a nanny state deem unsavoury? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Really not a fan of banning things because they are unhealthy. If it starts with tobaccoIt certainly won't start with tobacco, there are plenty of unhealthy things banned already. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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