SultanOfSwing

It must have been so good a concert that he went unnoticed ...

They probably can't bloody afford it. £3.50+ a pint, in bloody Belfast ... ? Even a pint of Fosters in 'Spoons was £2.70

When I was at uni, the going rate in most non-poncy pubs was £1.85.

Yorkieabroad

We were about 50p in a regular pub outside the Union....

SultanOfSwing

I remember pound-a-pint days in my union, that was the best they did. I don't think I was ever in a situation where I paid less than a pound for a pint, sadly.

I still can't get over the fact that it was £3.20 for a pint of Harp in my old local. That just seemed wrong to me.

Nutek

I THINK we used to pay about 60p for a flagon of Strongbow / Autumn Gold / Woodpecker.

Yorkieabroad

I think I have a few years on you.....

I can remember massive culture shock when I graduated and my first job was in London with London prices in the pubs.............

Yorkieabroad

A flagon? a flagon? Who were you drinking with - Long John Silver and his band of baudy bucanneers....?

Sally Redux

I can't really remember but 60p sounds about right for pints when I was a student.

SultanOfSwing

I was at uni from 1997-2001, for reference. Around then, a £1.65 pint was easy enough to find. Plus, 20 B&H were less than £3.00.

Sally Redux

5 years? I thought you packed it in early?

Nutek

Used to be the standard (glass) bottle size back then. None of this poncey pints or Millidrips or whatever it is now.

Yorkieabroad

You're seeing the effect of a couple of decades of inflation then........

Yorkieabroad

So you'd belly up to the bar and order a flagon? I've seriously never heard anyone do that outside of the movies......!

Nutek

Pints in the bar... Flagon was the take away bottle size from the offie... I think it was 2 pints.

The bar was a risky proposition (we were about 12 years old).

SultanOfSwing

Two courses; two years each. 1997-1999 was the Physics/astronomy course, my first choice. Made it to second year and scored really badly in my exams due to a not entirely unrelated alcohol problem.

I moved over to a Chemistry course in 1999, because modules I'd already done in my first year of the physics course also counted towards straight chemistry so I did one module in 1999, then moved on to second year in 2000-01 but I started to run out of money. I probably could have passed that year and moved on to my final year but being broke was ****ing depressing, so I dropped out and moved on to the silly service instead.

SultanOfSwing

It makes me sad. Ironically, it makes me want a drink