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Post by Humph on Nov 26, 2020 18:17:11 GMT
Might have been The Ship at Wandsworth bridge. Still not abs sure though. Never got, or left there entirely sober y'see...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2020 8:24:39 GMT
Oof, south of the river. Brave.
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Post by Humph on Nov 27, 2020 8:34:43 GMT
I've always been an inclusive sort you know. Man of the people and so on.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2020 8:35:06 GMT
In that get up you described?
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Post by Humph on Nov 27, 2020 8:37:04 GMT
Not always, jeans, no socks and boat shoes on a Sunday.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2020 8:37:52 GMT
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 27, 2020 8:47:51 GMT
That "no socks" thing must have pumped the income up a bit, even South of the River.......  |
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Post by Humph on Nov 27, 2020 9:35:53 GMT
Heh heh !
Have to say, embarrassing though it is, that my income to cost of living ratio was at the healthiest level it has ever been in the '80s. I know it was a crap time for many, but if you were lucky enough to be in the right place/job back then it was very different. We weren't proper "yuppies" by a long stretch, we worked for businesses not banks, but even so, it did rather feel like the world was your lobster.
Ultimately, the main social objective of young men is usually to attract the attention of young women. If we'd gone to a proper sloaney or yuppie pub, we'd have stood no chance among all the Ruperts and Henrys. But, by drifting ever so slightly off grid, well, it just sort of worked in our favour. Or so we imagined I suppose.
Glad I did it, but don't miss it. Didn't feel very real or useful.
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Post by dixinormus on Nov 27, 2020 10:11:33 GMT
IIRC the economy boomed from about 1985 to 1990? Yuppies or not, a lot of people probably felt like they were doing well in that period. New car sales in the UK breached the 2 million mark for the first time ever, in 1989!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2020 10:18:11 GMT
Yeah and it crashed again in the early 90s, just as I graduated from University with a pointless degree. Hey ho.
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Post by Humph on Nov 27, 2020 10:32:05 GMT
Aye, and that happened very shortly after I'd paid top dollar for a flat in Bath.
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 27, 2020 11:19:40 GMT
But if you'd kept it; it would be worth ten times now!
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Post by Humph on Nov 27, 2020 11:40:18 GMT
I know, I do know, oh how I know...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2020 12:56:28 GMT
Probably how you ended up in footwear Humph, all those subliminal messages coming out of tube stations and people saying 'bigger shoe'
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Post by dixinormus on Nov 27, 2020 23:10:19 GMT
Pretty much anything that we’d have kept from the 80s is probably worth a lot now. Except Fiats of course.
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