So what did the French do?

[Wansworth]

A packet of those awful Gauloises was no match for a packet of twenty Weights which if opened out let alone just on its back you could design a complete yacht.Now with internet and nonsmoking it’s impossible to find a fag packet or an envelope to scribble on…..gone of the days of sitting in a cafe happily drawing and explaining some detail to your friends…..more likely the will pull out their phones and produce a to scale drawing !…….but what did the French do for want of a fag packet?

 

[Chiara’s slave]

A packet of those awful Gauloises was no match for a packet of twenty Weights which if opened out let alone just on its back you could design a complete yacht.Now with internet and nonsmoking it’s impossible to find a fag packet or an envelope to scribble on…..gone of the days of sitting in a cafe happily drawing and explaining some detail to your friends…..more likely the will pull out their phones and produce a to scale drawing !…….but what did the French do for want of a fag packet?

Their rot set in some time ago. Napoleon obviously had no fag packet to draw up his battle plan.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

A packet of those awful Gauloises was no match for a packet of twenty Weights which if opened out let alone just on its back you could design a complete yacht.Now with internet and nonsmoking it’s impossible to find a fag packet or an envelope to scribble on…..gone of the days of sitting in a cafe happily drawing and explaining some detail to your friends…..more likely the will pull out their phones and produce a to scale drawing !…….but what did the French do for want of a fag packet?

They were civilised and had paper napkins upon which many things have been drawn and designed.

 

[Poignard]

 

[DanTribe]

A packet of those awful Gauloises was no match for a packet of twenty Weights which if opened out let alone just on its back you could design a complete yacht.Now with internet and nonsmoking it’s impossible to find a fag packet or an envelope to scribble on…..gone of the days of sitting in a cafe happily drawing and explaining some detail to your friends…..more likely the will pull out their phones and produce a to scale drawing !…….but what did the French do for want of a fag packet?

Reminds me of my early days as a trainee building surveyor. The site agent wrote all his level calculations on a Weights packet. He even filed the packets for future record.

 

[Roberto]

A packet of those awful Gauloises

Or 'Gitanes Mais': yellowish corn paper, slightly burn the brim, draw the plan of a secret island with an X in the middle and sell it as an ancient Treasure island map

 

[LittleSister]

. . . and the reason that mechanical and electrical goods are no longer repairable is that no one now has tobacco tins to keep the nuts, bolts and small parts in! They had to invent electronic ignition, too, because of the absence of fag papers for setting points.

 

[capnsensible]

Tupperware. Cadbury roses and heroes tubs. Ice cream tubs. Plenty to keep your R̶u̶b̶b̶i̶s̶h̶ t̶h̶a̶t̶ y̶o̶u̶'l̶l̶ n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ u̶s̶e̶ bits of stuff in.

 

[oldbloke]

A tub of heroes every Christmas, lots of tubs for bits. But.... which one of those 10 identical tubs contains the thing I want?

 

[westhinder]

Tupperware. Cadbury roses and heroes tubs. Ice cream tubs. Plenty to keep your R̶u̶b̶b̶i̶s̶h̶ t̶h̶a̶t̶ y̶o̶u̶'l̶l̶ n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ u̶s̶e̶ bits of stuff in.

Treasure your Tupperware, they are closing all the factories in Europe.

 

[LittleSister]

Treasure your Tupperware, they are closing all the factories in Europe.

They're all collectors' items now?

 

[LittleSister]

A packet of those awful Gauloises was no match for a packet of twenty Weights which if opened out let alone just on its back you could design a complete yacht.Now with internet and nonsmoking it’s impossible to find a fag packet or an envelope to scribble on…..gone of the days of sitting in a cafe happily drawing and explaining some detail to your friends…..more likely the will pull out their phones and produce a to scale drawing !…….but what did the French do for want of a fag packet?

You cheapskate. You mean you don't have a monogrammed notebook and pen matching your silver cigarette case?

 

[Mister E]

So Chinese takeaway do plastic containers.
Now that reminds me I am hungry.

 

[Wansworth]

They're all collectors' items now?

I wonder what old baccs tins go for?

 

[Wansworth]

You cheapskate. You mean you don't have a monogrammed notebook and pen matching your silver cigarette case?

Many a dream was formed on a folded sheet of A4 kept in my pocket to be pulled out to add improvements.Of late internet brings up pictures even videos of my latest dream although there is a moritorium on thinking about boats till fit……..but who knows someone somewhere in Galicia is thinking of selling their 8 meter yacht to my specification

 

[westernman]

I wonder what old baccs tins go for?

Some are in one of my many garages filled with screws, hooks, nuts and various things which are always the wrong size.

 

[veshengro]

I wonder what old baccs tins go for?

2 oz Plain tins I've seen at £3.50 a throw. They appear in 'Preppers' shops sometimes listed as 'Survival tins' to be filled with essential kit ready for Armageddon. If you want an arty one with a picture on the lid it could cost you about £6.

 

[Roberto]

I wonder what old baccs tins go for?

Supposedly healthier, I still have a couple of these, they later became Nestle's Quality Street and had to add all sorts of health warnings.

 

[billskip]

There was a cafe/restaurant in Seaton in Devon decided to use white blank paper table coverings with a pot of 🖍 crayons
For the kids to scribble on...this however tranformed the place into a must go to restaurant and booking was way in advance, some of the (wanna be artists) work was brilliant and ended up with bits of table cover sketches pinned on the walls...Frances Bacon eat your heart out....

 

[Poignard]

2 oz Plain tins I've seen at £3.50 a throw. They appear in 'Preppers' shops sometimes listed as 'Survival tins' to be filled with essential kit ready for Armageddon. If you want an arty one with a picture on the lid it could cost you about £6.

I've got loads of these {as advertised on eBay]



I was going to chucke them out.

For that sort of money they can have what's in them as well!