98 octane Gull petrol?

[scumdog]

Cheers alll

Get it wrong and you'll need to rearrange your sig....

[Bald Eagle]

Pffft!! Younguns...
*some* of us remember when (proper) petrol was 45 cents a gallon. Or earlier still....

like running my first bike for week between school and home and part time job on 2 shillings and six pence. hands up who knows what a six pence is.

[scumdog]

like running my first bike for week between school and home and part time job on 2 shillings and six pence. hands up who knows what a six pence is.

Half the price of a GOOD fish and chip meal?

And petrol was 36 cents a gallon when I first started driving. (Less than 9 cents a liter for newbies)

[MSTRS:Me]

like running my first bike for week between school and home and part time job on 2 shillings and six pence. hands up who knows what a six pence is.

Half a shilling. Which was half a florin. Which was a tenth of a pound...

[scumdog]

Half a shilling. Which was half a florin. Which was a tenth of a pound...

And 5 of them made half-a-crown.

[MSTRS:Me]

And 5 of them made half-a-crown.

5 shillings did, yes...
It was a fortunate lad who had one of those. And didn't they go such a long way?

[scumdog]

5 shillings did, yes...
It was a fortunate lad who had one of those. And didn't they go such a long way?

No, five sixpennies make a half-crown (or ten thrupennies - or 120 farthings - or 60 ha'pennies...)

[MSTRS:Me]

Doh! You are right. Twas the crown I was thinking (50c)...

[slofox]

Half the price of a GOOD fish and chip meal?

And petrol was 36 cents a gallon when I first started driving. (Less than 9 cents a liter for newbies)

Scummy, mate, if you're talking CENTS and LITRES, you are a young whippersnapper...

[steve_t]

Has this turned into a who's the oldest thread?

[scumdog]

Scummy, mate, if you're talking CENTS and LITRES, you are a young whippersnapper...

Easy, just trying to help young'uns, took me ten minutes to convert the figures from gallons etc....

[slofox]

Easy, just trying to help young'uns, took me ten minutes to convert the figures from gallons etc....

Ten minutes, huh? Man...you FAST!!

[Edbear]

I accept there are members here older than I am... Even though I can remember the excitement of getting a rare ha'penny to spend at the local store, and feeding out hay from a Draft-horse drawn sled and my older sister sticking a pitchfork through her gumbooot. The telephone was on a party-line and had a crank handle, and we made our own butter and ice-cream in the churn. When I had my tonsils out it was done by the local Doc and I was put under with the old Ether mask.

What is scaring me is that I am now interacting with people born in the 90's and trying to comprehend that 1990 was 20 years ago!

[scumdog]

I accept there are members here older than I am... Even though I can remember the excitement of getting a rare ha'penny to spend at the local store, and feeding out hay from a Draft-horse drawn sled and my older sister sticking a pitchfork through her gumbooot. The telephone was on a party-line and had a crank handle, and we made our own butter and ice-cream in the churn. When I had my tonsils out it was done by the local Doc and I was put under with the old Ether mask.

What is scaring me is that I am now interacting with people born in the 90's and trying to comprehend that 1990 was 20 years ago!

I know what you're speaking about....sadly!