How many people had a spare 20 punts? Wouldn’t that have been almost a weeks wages?
There was 1 englishman there drinking his bottle of carlsberg and a true sod buster with his pint of harp
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That one small gin was Maurine, who never sat with the group but who began to give out when everyone started putting on their coats that she never got a drink.
Sweet Martini? Historical notions.
/s
Rough math in my head, this would be be around €650 in a pub today. A little less than the average weekly wage for a full-time worker.
Gawd, Babycham. The stuff responsible for many a regretted snogging session back then.
Un. Fucking. Real. – 42 pints of Guinness for £7.98 (798pence) -that’s about €10.45 or €0.25 per pint. A pint is now about €4.90 or almost 2000% more. Meantime, inflation has been about 850%. Who’s being robbed? Certainly not the brewers or publicans.
That would cost 500 euro in the local pub now.
I mean, that was still quite a bit of money. i’d kill for those prices to come back.
The tab paid four days later or am I missing something?
I’d say the Englishman was on the Babycham
8 euro for 42 pints and a mortgage for 30k on a 4 bedroom house. Those were
the days
Wow! lucky to get 3 pints for that price now
My dad wrote exactly like this. He passed this year. I really miss him and this was a feels moment reading this.
The thing that strikes me the most is the price of cidona was one third the price of a pint. And the price of a bottle of carlsberg was well less than a pint of harp – maybe it was only a half pint though, which would explain it.
Babycham had it’s moment in the 70s, it was very heavily and cleverly advertised at female drinkers IIRC. There was feck all choice back then (Even in the 80s when I started my drinking career lager was relatively new).
16 cents for a Carlsberg! Robbery.
OK I had to do the math on this. Sources below.
Average industrial wage was £21.08 in 1971 (original currency). That drinks bill costs someone a week’s wages.
Price of a pint of Guinness was £7.98/42=£0.19. That is 0.901% of the average industrial wage at the time. Taking a CSO figure of €871.62 for average weekly earnings in Q2 2022 then the equivalent price of a pint today would be 0.901% of €871.62=€7.85 per pint.
Edit: Just be thankful that decimalisation came in in 1971 and I didn’t have to deal with pounds shillings and pence.
Someone who goes out to the pub more often than me feel free to offer edits but basing it on previously working in pubs here’s my estimate for an average pub for this order today:
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How many people had a spare 20 punts? Wouldn’t that have been almost a weeks wages?
There was 1 englishman there drinking his bottle of carlsberg and a true sod buster with his pint of harp
[deleted]
That one small gin was Maurine, who never sat with the group but who began to give out when everyone started putting on their coats that she never got a drink.
Sweet Martini? Historical notions.
/s
Rough math in my head, this would be be around €650 in a pub today. A little less than the average weekly wage for a full-time worker.
Gawd, Babycham. The stuff responsible for many a regretted snogging session back then.
Un. Fucking. Real. – 42 pints of Guinness for £7.98 (798pence) -that’s about €10.45 or €0.25 per pint. A pint is now about €4.90 or almost 2000% more. Meantime, inflation has been about 850%. Who’s being robbed? Certainly not the brewers or publicans.
That would cost 500 euro in the local pub now.
I mean, that was still quite a bit of money. i’d kill for those prices to come back.
The tab paid four days later or am I missing something?
I’d say the Englishman was on the Babycham
8 euro for 42 pints and a mortgage for 30k on a 4 bedroom house. Those were
the days
Wow! lucky to get 3 pints for that price now
My dad wrote exactly like this. He passed this year. I really miss him and this was a feels moment reading this.
The thing that strikes me the most is the price of cidona was one third the price of a pint. And the price of a bottle of carlsberg was well less than a pint of harp – maybe it was only a half pint though, which would explain it.
Babycham had it’s moment in the 70s, it was very heavily and cleverly advertised at female drinkers IIRC. There was feck all choice back then (Even in the 80s when I started my drinking career lager was relatively new).
16 cents for a Carlsberg! Robbery.
OK I had to do the math on this. Sources below.
Average industrial wage was £21.08 in 1971 (original currency). That drinks bill costs someone a week’s wages.
Price of a pint of Guinness was £7.98/42=£0.19. That is 0.901% of the average industrial wage at the time. Taking a CSO figure of €871.62 for average weekly earnings in Q2 2022 then the equivalent price of a pint today would be 0.901% of €871.62=€7.85 per pint.
Edit: Just be thankful that decimalisation came in in 1971 and I didn’t have to deal with pounds shillings and pence.
Sources:
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-hes/hes2015/aiw/
https://www.cso.ie/en/statistics/earnings/earningsandlabourcosts/
Someone who goes out to the pub more often than me feel free to offer edits but basing it on previously working in pubs here’s my estimate for an average pub for this order today:
Quantity | Item | Price | Total
—|—|—-|—-
3| Cidona| €2.80 | €8.40
42| Guinness| €5.90 | €247.80
25| Smithwicks| €5.90| €147.50
1| Harp| €6.10| €6.10
8| Whiskey| €6| €48
2| Orange| €2.80| €5.60
1| Martini| €6| €6
2| Stout bottle | €5.50 | €11
1| Carlsberg| €6.10 | €6.10
6| Vodka| €6 | €36
2| Glass Stout| €3.50| €7
2| Babycham| €5.50 | €11
2| Bacardi and Coke | €8| €16
5| Brandy| €6 | €30
7| Minerals | €2.80 | €19.60
1| Gin| €6 | €6
-| -| **Total**| €612.10
OK, who calls pounds “punts”? There are only three situations in which you would use “punt”:
1. Á labhairt as Gaeilge
2. When discussing the exchange rate of our pound versus the UK pound
3. When pretending to be Irish by speaking the lingo
Baby Sham
good times are over. own nothing and be happy.
That hangover lasted a few days I’d say. Paid 4 days later.