The Daily Mash - New pound coin provokes tiresome pensioner nostalgia!

Your sense of humour has to 'bend' a certain way for The Daily Mash to amuse you, and it seems mine does.  It's often scathing, never politically correct, and frequently downright bitchy.  But it never fails to strike a chord, and an article today about the proposed new £1 coin is no exception.

It made me smile, and I'm afraid I also succumbed to the nostalgia, mostly centered around Sherbert Dabs but that's another story.

Let's see if it does the same for you.

New pound coin provokes tiresome pensioner nostalgia

19-03-14

THE ‘thrupenny bit’-influenced £1 coin has left pensioners unable to shut up about how cheap everything used to be.

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The new coin looks like a 3d piece from wartime, which pensioners say would get you tickets for a George Formby film, a ‘great big’ bag of Little Imps and your tram fare home.

89-year-old Mary Fisher said: “One thrupenny bit bought you a week’s worth of tripe, a family tin of snuff and a two-picture double bill at the Palladium.

“It was always two pictures back then, and they had a man playing the piano during the interlude when they came round with the ice creams. They had one sort of lovely British ice cream, none of this foreign Solero rubbish. “Of course the Palladium’s a Lidl these days. Oh no that’s the Empire. The Lidl was a butcher’s, or something else. “Anyway everything’s ruined now.”

25-year-old Tom Logan said: “Since my nan set eyes on this coin she’s been unable to shut up.
“I’ve tried explaining how ‘thrupence’ wasn’t the paltry sum she remembers because grandad only earned a shilling a week for 90 hours of shovelling coal into a furnace.

“Luckily she’s already in a home, so we can avoid her simply by not going there.”