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    Ivan, Des you both make valid points about society today.
    The young now want to start at the top, only grave diggers do that.

    But a very interesting bit in the news today.
    Our ACC, has accused many retailers and companies of encouraging inflation by their actions.
    Profiteering by increasing prices beyond the norm.
    Mainly main think to make up for lost profit during the Pandemic.

    Case in question, QUANTAS just announced a half year profit of $1 billion.
    This time last year a loss of some $3Billion.
    But passengers interviewed at the airport said no wonder the turn around, prices are now twice what they were before the Pandemic.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rodney Mills View Post
    Ivan #14

    Could you Imagin in your wildest dreams; when you were a Boy Seaman, you would live long enough to work for a whole month; seven days a week, no overtime pay, to buy a pint of ale? Unbelievable!

    Cheers, Rodney
    Yes times have changed as have the numbers. Out of that £6 per month I left my mother £2 10s 00d as an allotment, some went to pay NHI (yep even on£6pm) some went into a fund to repay The Missions to Seamen to repay a loan they had given me to buy all the necessary uniforms dictated by the company, took me 6 years to pay off that loan, some of the uniform items I only had chance to wear once, I didn't come from a rich family and even when finishing my time and reaching the dizzy heights of 3/m the wages were a laugh, but it was a vocation rather than a vacation, the rest I frittered on wine women and song in Cuba and South America, money well spent I may add. And as mentioned by another correspondent I never had to visit Dr Ross in Liverpool, and I did get a discount because of my blond hair, blue eyes nugget brown tan and looking about 11/12 years old, which is why a lot of the girls probably breast fed me. Happy days

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ivan Cloherty View Post
    Yes times have changed as have the numbers. Out of that £6 per month I left my mother £2 10s 00d as an allotment, some went to pay NHI (yep even on£6pm) some went into a fund to repay The Missions to Seamen to repay a loan they had given me to buy all the necessary uniforms dictated by the company, took me 6 years to pay off that loan, some of the uniform items I only had chance to wear once, I didn't come from a rich family and even when finishing my time and reaching the dizzy heights of 3/m the wages were a laugh, but it was a vocation rather than a vacation, the rest I frittered on wine women and song in Cuba and South America, money well spent I may add. And as mentioned by another correspondent I never had to visit Dr Ross in Liverpool, and I did get a discount because of my blond hair, blue eyes nugget brown tan and looking about 11/12 years old, which is why a lot of the girls probably breast fed me. Happy days
    so you could have claimed to be a cherry boy umpteen times over then?

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    Most of us have lovely memories of being down that coast Ivan, mind you, my rigging was in much better nick in those days, and the energy to go with it, now all mostly gone .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Taylor View Post
    so you could have claimed to be a cherry boy umpteen times over then?
    Yer right on there Tony boy, I could have opened a market stall with all the cherries I sold over three and a half years!

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    There we all were fit and ready for action with all those sleek beautiful ladies looking for our services, and our money I may add.
    Now look back at photos of that era and wonder, now was that Mary in Los Angles or Mary in Las Palmas.
    The mind does play tricks on us as we mature.

    Now the mind may be willing but the flesh is weak.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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    i just say i'm a lesbian i love women?? a mate said to me years ago do you ever talk to your wife after sex. only if she ring me up i said? jp

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    A friend sent me a video clip last night on what's app but I cannot get it on here.

    But the jist of it is!!!

    A husband comes home from the doctors holding a letter, his wife says, What did the doctor say. He has prescribed that I have DAILYSEX
    His wife takes a look, that says DYSLEXIA:rolleyes :

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