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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 6, 2023 19:22:31 GMT
Jeez, 60 a day. I got through 20 a day for 20 years, then I saw the light thank god, and that's not just for health reasons. I believe a pack of fags costs more than a tenner today, mad. I’d need a lottery win to smoke now. Quite. My (Step) grandad smoked 60 Senior Service a day for... I dunno 50 or 60 years. I can see him now, sitting in his chair next to the table covered with a chenille table cloth. On the table there was always one or two 20 packs of Senior Service, an ash tray and a box of Swan Vesta matches. Incredibly he died aged 84. |
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Post by jonksy on Apr 6, 2023 19:54:16 GMT
Showing your age,woodbines lol. When I smoked, I was a Players No6 man.  When I was an apprentice the bricky I worked with always had a pack of 20 woodbines on each end of the wall and when he reached the end he would light up a new fag with the end of the one he was smocking. He spent a bloody fortune on fags but one match would last him all day....LOL... |
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Post by wapentake on Apr 6, 2023 19:57:23 GMT
I’d need a lottery win to smoke now. Quite. My (Step) grandad smoked 60 Senior Service a day for... I dunno 50 or 60 years. I can see him now, sitting in his chair next to the table covered with a chenille table cloth. On the table there was always one or two 20 packs of Senior Service, an ash tray and a box of Swan Vesta matches. Incredibly he died aged 84. Thing is as a kid practically everyone smoked,my whole family did and even at the doctors surgery he had an ashtray on his desk. People appearing on tv smoked the adverts too the cinema on film and in reality and starting work top deck of the bus was a fog just how it was. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 6, 2023 19:58:53 GMT
When I smoked, I was a Players No6 man. When I was an apprentice the bricky I worked with always had a pack of 20 woodbines on each end of the wall and when he reached the end he would light up a new fag with the end of the one he was smocking. He spent a bloody fortune on fags but one match would last him all day....LOL... LOL, very good. |
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Post by Dan Dare on Apr 6, 2023 21:11:54 GMT
Dan, thanks to the removal of borders travelling around Europe today is indeed easy for everyone, including criminals, terrorists, people traffickers and illegals. Strangely enough people who live and work in the EU aren't nearly as exercised about that as people who don't.
There seems to be a general sense that the benefits deriving from freedom of movement massively outweigh the downsides.
Freedom of movement is of course a different matter to freedom of residence and settlement which I think is where it all went wrong as far as the UK is concerned.
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 6, 2023 21:33:41 GMT
Dan, thanks to the removal of borders travelling around Europe today is indeed easy for everyone, including criminals, terrorists, people traffickers and illegals. Strangely enough people who live and work in the EU aren't nearly as exercised about that as people who don't.
There seems to be a general sense that the benefits deriving from freedom of movement massively outweigh the downsides.
Freedom of movement is of course a different matter to freedom of residence and settlement which I think is where it all went wrong as far as the UK is concerned.
Freedom of movement did not benefit people in EU states who who had lived there for generations, in other words the vast majority who go to work, then go home. It's ridiculous to suggest that open borders were a benefit to the population. Clearly open borders are a huge benefit to illegals and criminals. Are you aware the Italian Mafia moved their operations to Germany as did Romanian and Albanian criminals. Concerns of local people were ignored, hushed up, not reported, and I'm fairly sure you are aware of that. |
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