Ex Spur thread

Spurs and liverpool furloughed their staff , Kyle Walker says Hold my beer , he has always been a dumb putz

 

I wish now was the 1980s, so I could see the results of the
legendary "Lindi St Claire" putting in her request to the tax man
for "loss of earnings" subsistence.

 

Or would walker have paid with Luncheon vouchers , Cynthia paine style

 

The Grauniad's published an interview with Will Miller where he talks about Ugo Ehiogu's death
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/05/will-miller-ugo-ehiogu-quit-football-spurs-burton

 

God, that takes me back (to being a schoolkid reading about
the scandal as reported in the tabloids, and laughing whenever
seeing the "LV" sticker in the front window of chip shops etc) .

 

My first job when leaving school ,working in a gents outfitters( only took it so I could get cheap Ben Sherman's and a crombie overcoat) and they offered LV's or an extra £2.00 a week , took the money

 

After I left Uni and was doing my Part II's, I worked for Jaeger for a bit, during the Christmas rush/January sales...again the staff discount came into it and I got LV's too. Must be a gents fashion thing. By then, you could spend them in loads of places (Sainsbury's I think) and they were fairly useful

Now, like Green Shield Stamps, you speak about them around your kids and they're pissing themselves laughing at dad's 'black and white' olden days.

 

You should see the looks I get for buying physical media

I tend to respond by asking if they downloaded P.T. recently...

 

You learn something new every day (I thought LVs were only for food establishments) .


"Now, like Green Shield Stamps, you speak about them around your kids and they're pissing themselves laughing at dad's 'black and white' olden days"

I used to be on stamp licking duty in the early-mid 1970s for my grandparents' albums.

I recall there was a similar kind of blue-coloured voucher card that used to be in
packets of some brands of cigarette (but I cannot think what they were called -
so it could be a figment of my imagination) .

 

My dad's dad collected the cigarette ones and bought something bloody major with them. I forget what. He did smoke 80 a day and it killed him in his early 60's. so it came at the heaviest of costs

 

If I am going mad, at least that recollection cannot be used as the opening proof.


"He did smoke 80 a day and it killed him in his early 60's. so it came at the heaviest of costs"

Similar with my grandfather (died at 69) .
Do not know how many per day he smoked up to the time he quit in the mid 70s
(he died at least 3+ years after that) , but looking back at those vouchers it seems
like some insidious Faustian pact now.

 

A mate of mine used to get them and he found a local pub that took them , wonder when they stopped giving them out

 

Was it embassy cigarettes, my nan smoked them and collected the coupons, my old man said that she smoked so heavy that she didn't have a period but she had a soot fall , years later I cottoned on what it meant

 

Greavsie in hospital, hope it's not Corona.

 

He has been very ill for a long time...the stroke/s he has back in 2015 or 16 really affected him.

 

Embassy definitely used to do them. My dad and his dad used to smoke Embassy ...The old man was always a flash git and smoked these, he used to have them delivered, too...

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...images from a different age.

 

I used to nick a packet of 5 park drive from the news agent where I worked as a paper boy then flog them at school, never could stand smoking but mum dad and brother all smoked like chimneys . Still got the stainless steel ashtray that dad used sitting on my desk , smoking killed the old man but just the sight of it brings back so many memories

 

His agent has said that it's not:
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...agent-tottenham-legend-hospital-a4410376.html

Hopefully he's right and it's only a short stay for him.

 

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