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  • @garethwilliams4467
    @garethwilliams4467 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    so 9 minutes of a bloke tellng me how he deserves what he can't afford.

  • @summerrr1
    @summerrr1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    He’s off his rocker.

  • @Simpaulme
    @Simpaulme 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    BBC - your audience has spoken - we need a follow-up.

    • @stephfoxwell4620
      @stephfoxwell4620 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      But please put it in the context of man-made climate change

    • @smegmadelhomme8551
      @smegmadelhomme8551 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My guess is he’s bald as a coot

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@stephfoxwell4620 and women's resilience in the face of it.

    • @Venmaylove
      @Venmaylove 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Tony entered Witless Protection and became an SEC compliance officer for Hewlett Packard; and Jill became a famous Norwegian forest cat breeder. Their new life in the states was a refreshing change

    • @andymerrett
      @andymerrett 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Venmaylove Witless Protection LOL I love it.

  • @maidinulster
    @maidinulster 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    No ppl like this will never have enough

  • @markwiles3485
    @markwiles3485 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    These two are pioneers for the many more who live beyond their means these days though not always through their own fault. It would be interesting to have seen how they got on through the 70s to today.

    • @Simpaulme
      @Simpaulme 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I agree - you always want a follow up.. and seldom get it 😞

    • @garethwilliams4467
      @garethwilliams4467 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      how can it not be their fault ? At least she isn't asking who is going to pay for the children they've made.

  • @RolandoRatas
    @RolandoRatas 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Keeping up with the Joneses - a miserable and unfulfilling endeavour - trying to fill an empty void.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't be judgmental.

    • @misspurrr-fect3684
      @misspurrr-fect3684 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ..... Now keeping up with the Kardashian's .

    • @Neverforget71324
      @Neverforget71324 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ...voids are usually empty, so there's that...

  • @deb4908
    @deb4908 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I’ve always appreciated how well my parents managed within their means but now I admire them even more. At the same time when these two were living their extravagant lifestyle and spiralling into debt my parents were supporting 4 children on what I imagine was around half the amount these two were earning (as neither of my parents were professionals). They worked incredibly hard and we never wasted a single penny. My mum worked in the fields picking fruit (and she was able to take me with her). Yes ‘times were tough’ as they say, I knew we were poor compared to other children I went to school with (and I was envious) but we also had wonderful evenings as a family playing games and laughing together. That’s priceless. I’m thankful that because of their sacrifices they were able to enjoy many years of retirement and happiness in Brittany and helped set me and my sisters on a better path.

  • @Pulsonar
    @Pulsonar 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    We bemoan the BBC many times for all sorts of valid reasons, but they’ve always made wonderful documentaries. A snapshot of a bygone age that I remember very clearly as a child is really captivating. Particularly in how strongly a once Great Britain contrasts against social, environment, political and cultural mess of today. Only thing great today is the archive quality of this documentary 😊

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "a once Great Britain" ... in the minds of conservative Brits.

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@ColtraneTaylorHere we go. Party politics. Surprised you haven't mentioned Donald Trump.

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@phillipecook3227 Can the performativity.

    • @squirehaggard4749
      @squirehaggard4749 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ColtraneTaylorThe Conservatives are about to be trounced because so many non “conservative Brits” also don’t think there’s much great about today’s Britain.

    • @I7275-p2d
      @I7275-p2d 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@phillipecook3227 yeah there’s nothing that political parties have done in the last few years that could possibly damage the standard of living of the average person. So why bring ‘party politics’ into it. I like to make whatever reactionary decisions at the ballot box I want. And I should not have to think about any of the consequences.

  • @nicholasm5465
    @nicholasm5465 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    His overspending couldn't deal with that dodgy comb-over

  • @oxouk
    @oxouk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    We don't know how to manage our money but we would like to open our own business. If they were interviewing for a business loan from a bank they would be turned down. BBC Archive is one of the most entertaining and educational channels to watch on YT.

    • @romancenturion3507
      @romancenturion3507 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Also we gamble half our wages

    • @Neverforget71324
      @Neverforget71324 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They'd fit right in with the average US politician.

  • @Harmonyww
    @Harmonyww 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Google turns up the obituary of a Tony Whitfield (1940-2022) who was married to a Jill Whitfield. If it's the same bloke he ended up moving to New Zealand and starting a business.

    • @vintagethrifter2114
      @vintagethrifter2114 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It isn't him. If you keep Googling, you'll find a photo for that obituary. They are too different men.

  • @I7275-p2d
    @I7275-p2d 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    It’s amazing to think he’s quite young but looks like he’s in his early fifties.

    • @kevinwood5005
      @kevinwood5005 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Baldies always look old .It terrifies me.😂

  • @brianmmacu
    @brianmmacu 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I would love an update on those two to see if this cruel,cruel world has given them everything they think they think they should have , or if it continues to " persecute" them
    Heartbreaking....

    • @andypicken7848
      @andypicken7848 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I was thinking that myself.
      My guess is that they got divorced

    • @orangemanGB
      @orangemanGB 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Tony Whitfield and his wife Jill subsequently emigrated to New Zealand. He gave up teaching and became a businessman and died in 2022, aged 81.

  • @celestialteapot309
    @celestialteapot309 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    l was 11 and living in a toilet with an outside house. The swinging sixties didn't reach Lancashire.

  • @noplace82
    @noplace82 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    Adjusted for inflation, they take home about £2600 a month and paid £500 a month for a one bed flat in London.

    • @BigAL0074
      @BigAL0074 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Absolute bargain, rents are stupid.

    • @noplace82
      @noplace82 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @BigAL0074 And that's Earls Court - cheapest one bed studio in that area is 3 times the amount. However, your average teacher in London with a few yrs under their belt would be taking home a lot more than £1300 a month nowadays.

    • @TheStevenWhiting
      @TheStevenWhiting 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Bet that flat, if still there, is no a million pound flat.

    • @alexclark5874
      @alexclark5874 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@TheStevenWhitingno they knocked down all the affordable housing in Earl’s Court to build million pound flats

    • @acefaces
      @acefaces 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not British, but does decimilisation of the pound affect the calculation of inflation from the before times?

  • @kaitlyn__L
    @kaitlyn__L 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    “…and then we could start a business.” Ah yes, and never be in debt again! 😅

    • @googlesucks6029
      @googlesucks6029 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They would make great fantasy fiction writers. Definitely in the wrong professions.

    • @orangemanGB
      @orangemanGB 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He emigrated to New Zealand and became a successful businessman, and died in 2022.

  • @probono3284
    @probono3284 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    I heard that not long after the programme aired Tony won over £100,000 on the football pools.
    He told Jill that he wanted their name in the papers, so everyone would know how rich they were.
    “But Tony, darling, what about all the begging letters?” asked Jill.
    “Oh, don’t worry darling, we’ll still keep on sending them!“

  • @triggerfish999
    @triggerfish999 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Neither of them come across as happy.

    • @FrankJCarver
      @FrankJCarver 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I believe the both of them are suffering from what is known as a 'stiff upper lip.'

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@FrankJCarver What they're suffering from is believing the world owes them a living.

  • @Mtmonaghan
    @Mtmonaghan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Love or hate them, they are authentic

  • @markwiles3485
    @markwiles3485 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    Update: He spent £40 on a wig in 1972.

    • @opencurtin
      @opencurtin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I thought it was a dead cat .lol

    • @oxouk
      @oxouk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      He needed it for that bloody rats nest he calls hair.

    • @dornierdo2172
      @dornierdo2172 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Bring back the comb over!!😮

    • @jameshardy6277
      @jameshardy6277 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      lmao

    • @jameshardy6277
      @jameshardy6277 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      £40 over 8 years at 29% APR. He rolled over the loan many times and is still paying it back to some back street debt collection agency.

  • @JohnDoe-tx8lq
    @JohnDoe-tx8lq 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    He has some really strange logic. And he doesn't seem to understand Banks make money from all interest he pays them on on his loans 2:48

    • @andypicken7848
      @andypicken7848 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      JohnDoe
      Agreed. His attitude is bog basic though its a combination of consumption and victim hood.
      Like you said his attitude to the lender was most bizzare

  • @timhill9189
    @timhill9189 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    For the Brits here, he reminds me of Norman Tebbit.

  • @mriggst
    @mriggst 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Born before their time.

    • @mandrakethemadcoder
      @mandrakethemadcoder 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      There have always been people who think like this. "The world owes me, I'm supposed to have everything."
      With today's quick semination of such idiocy, you just see it much more frequently than you used to.

    • @jameshardy6277
      @jameshardy6277 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      lol

    • @PassiveAgressive319
      @PassiveAgressive319 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No people have always been like this. We just like to look at the past through rose tinted glasses.

  • @Millennial_Manc
    @Millennial_Manc 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Different decade, same problems. People deciding to live beyond their means. Champagne lifestyle and lemonade money.

  • @SirDigbyMinge-or8md
    @SirDigbyMinge-or8md 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    £1 in 1968 is the equivalent of £14.78 today.
    I really must get out more.

  • @jacmar44
    @jacmar44 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A household income of 2k in 1968 per CPI figures is circa 30k in today's money as of time of this comment. So a pair doing 40 hours per week on minimum wage these days would make 40k before tax. Though of course, the cost of housing has gone up a fair bit more than CPI would indicate.

  • @tessaroo222
    @tessaroo222 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Not a lot of logical thought processing going on under that comb over. Hope he wasn’t a maths teacher.

    • @Loupdelou-ly1ve
      @Loupdelou-ly1ve 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🤣🤣

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Economics teacher

    • @tessaroo222
      @tessaroo222 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@unnamedchannel1237 🤣🤣🤣

  • @markwardel6751
    @markwardel6751 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    So interesting to hear how voices have changed since then....no one speaks like that today.

    • @spidyman8853
      @spidyman8853 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      BBC speak

    • @5nowChain5
      @5nowChain5 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Only in Kent and East Sussex.

    • @basicallyno1722
      @basicallyno1722 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He probably fakes his accent. Lots of pretension.

  • @faithlesshound5621
    @faithlesshound5621 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That interview was horrifying, but at the same time illuminating. The whole financial services industry depends on people like them. Their side hustle of writing to rich people to ask for money reminded me that the periodical "Truth" used to publish a "Cautionary List" of undeserving people who were in the habit of sending begging letters. The list included many clergymen and also the late Dr Crippen.

  • @horrortackleharry
    @horrortackleharry 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Interesting that he is a 'schoolteacher' (apparently), but has no qualms about appearing on national TV openly spouting his idiocy. Nowadays he'd be sacked within a week for one dodgy post on social media.

    • @andypicken7848
      @andypicken7848 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      horrortackleharry
      He is certainly not thick but is lacking in common sence

    • @Slarti
      @Slarti 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Exactly, who would want to employ someone as irresponsible as him.

    • @spidyman8853
      @spidyman8853 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@andypicken7848
      Sense not sence

  • @danh9922
    @danh9922 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    £500 in 1968 is the equivalent to £7388.65 according to Bank of England inflation calculator for April 2024

  • @daniellamcgee4251
    @daniellamcgee4251 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The grass isn't always greener.

  • @5nowChain5
    @5nowChain5 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My granny bucked the trend back in the day, She bought her white formica 26" colour TV outright, but she was running a Small hotel in Torquay. The Luxury TV was a business expense to get the tourists in. As the other hotels had blsck and white. Just a Pity she prefferd nylon bed sheets (horrible nights sleep) as easier to boil wash daily.

    • @Ryan-on5on
      @Ryan-on5on 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ran a small hotel in Torquay, eh? Your gran wasn't married to a certain Basil Fawlty, was she?

    • @susandoig4192
      @susandoig4192 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good old granny

  • @Slarti
    @Slarti 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    It's amazing how cheap everything was back then and they still spend above their income.
    What is so interesting is that they don't actually know what they are spending their money on.
    They are so irresponsible - I would not want to employ these sorts of people.
    "We resent people who have money too" - what a messed up character!
    I have kept track of every penny I have spent for the past 17 years using Microsoft Money and I am still surprised at how people don't know what they are spending money on.

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hold on Microsoft Money is still able to be run on a modern computer or have you had the same computer for the last 17 years 😂

    • @graceperry2623
      @graceperry2623 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't remember everything being cheap back then, anything I wanted I had to save up for after I had paid the rent on my bedsitter.

    • @RocketRocket-ce3ke
      @RocketRocket-ce3ke 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You have odd logic. Cheap compared to today, but not compared to incomes back then

  • @TrumptonMayor
    @TrumptonMayor 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Let her speak mate

    • @markb5803
      @markb5803 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Noh not in 1968

  • @mbenn8168
    @mbenn8168 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    To be fair, he is punching a bit with Jill. She seems quite nice and pretty, but he seems very sour and chippy. I reckon that in 1974 Jill found a well-endowed 1970's moustachioed He-Man with chest hair, flowing locks and a big gold medallion, while he was left snivelling in a damp flat heated by one candle, moaning about being poor and jealous, and slurping cold Bovril out of an empty Fray Bentos pie tin.

    • @andymerrett
      @andymerrett 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She was a cutie, love that little wry smile she has the whole time. :)

    • @jaksongpg
      @jaksongpg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fray Bentos : a great player in his day; played alongside Pele as I remember...

  • @andymerrett
    @andymerrett 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing watching two 1968 films back-to-back; this one versus the compulsory purchase orders in Oldham wrecking family homes and businesses. Different worlds.

  • @HappyCodingZX
    @HappyCodingZX 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    I never knew Bobby Charlton and George Best actually lived together in 1968.

    • @andrewtmartin500
      @andrewtmartin500 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😂

    • @cheech7900
      @cheech7900 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The shade is thrown & IT IS GOOD! 🫡👏👏

  • @markb5803
    @markb5803 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    To the comments I thought. Wasn't disappointed. It all makes sense now, it was weird embittered planks like this that taught me in the 1970s.

  • @garypoulton7311
    @garypoulton7311 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Twits, I wonder how it ended up, lucky for them, high inflation was just around the corner, and if they stopped digging the hole, the debt would diminished rapidly

  • @KainedbutAble123
    @KainedbutAble123 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Would love to know what became of the Whitfields. How much is their flat in Kensington worth today!?

    • @BigAL0074
      @BigAL0074 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It was rented but I bet its worth a couple of million.

    • @noplace82
      @noplace82 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Drawn a bit of a blank on this pair. All I can find is that they lived in Earls Court, Tony was 25 when this was filmed, went to Liverpool Uni and taught at a Girl's Comp school in Southwark.

    • @euskryhtbnfvse4i7ehs4hnvf
      @euskryhtbnfvse4i7ehs4hnvf 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@noplace82 and he had one hell of a combover

    • @professormcclaine5738
      @professormcclaine5738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@noplace82Did he have an advanced DBS check... 🤔

  • @julieannu
    @julieannu 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My dad was earning £10 a week with a non working wife and two kids in 1968. Renting a flat in Fulham

  • @opencurtin
    @opencurtin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I wonder what ever happened to them there after ?

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In the poorpa house

    • @5nowChain5
      @5nowChain5 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She probably divorced him for marital abuse.

  • @matthewtrow5698
    @matthewtrow5698 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A 1 room flat in the centre London, £8 a week!
    I think it's more like £500 a week now, if not more.
    Doing some math, in 1968 the average teachers salary was around £1600 PA, in London now, it's around £37000
    That's roughly 23 times more.
    If we take that £8 a week and multiply it by 23, that's £184 pounds.
    It's therefore almost 3 times more expensive to rent in central London now, than it was in 1968.
    And this video shows how people struggled back then - to us looking back, it feels a whole lot better than where we've got to, doesn't it?

    • @misspurrr-fect3684
      @misspurrr-fect3684 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      240 pennies in £1 back then .

    • @williamtoner8674
      @williamtoner8674 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I understand that it seems like it should make a difference but it doesn’t. Currency was decimalised while keeping the value of the pound the same.
      We are indeed three times poorer in this regard (housing)

  • @digeme69
    @digeme69 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The racecourse looks like Ascot. A £10 spend for the day! Would cost well over £100 today just for entry for the pair especially if it was the Royal meeting. A couple of pieces of chicken and chips would cost over £20.

    • @joelehane1
      @joelehane1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      400 actually

    • @digeme69
      @digeme69 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joelehane1 As i said, it will be well over £100 but it depends on which enclosure. One can purchase tickets today for Tuesday in the Windsor Enclosure for £49 each or in the Queen Anne for £90 each.

    • @ramruma6330
      @ramruma6330 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Epsom rather than Ascot I think, and possibly free on the inside (you can see the stands are on the other side of the course). Probably the day before Sir Ivor won the Derby, the week before this episode of Man Alive was shown.

    • @digeme69
      @digeme69 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Possibly right, i thought at first glance it was Ascot, and I've been to both tracks, but I am not going to spend too much time researching it.​@ramruma6330

  • @mia56
    @mia56 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    He is doing all the talking , wonder if they are still married ?? Alive even !!!

    • @andypicken7848
      @andypicken7848 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      mia56
      I doubt they are married

    • @avrilj1191
      @avrilj1191 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Probably somewhere on facebook banging on about the younger generation needing to give up avocado toast

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He was a dick in this . His girl started to talk a little sense then he hushed her and spoke over

  • @5nowChain5
    @5nowChain5 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Minimum Weekly wage was £40 a week upto 1999. Thats a long time for the population to be trapped in poverty.

  • @BoninBrighton
    @BoninBrighton 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I wonder if they are living an affordable retirement? I would guess not…unless they inherited money?

    • @Loupdelou-ly1ve
      @Loupdelou-ly1ve 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Or someone fell for their begging letters...

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They got their $500 and lived off
      That for rest of their life

  • @ramruma6330
    @ramruma6330 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    £20 a week as a teacher. Today he'd be on around £900 a week based on the mid-range of the teachers' pay scale for inner London that goes from £37k to £57k pa.

    • @RobertVTR
      @RobertVTR 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That’s a hell of a lot for a teacher.

  • @Johndoe10007
    @Johndoe10007 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Gambling and drinking and smoking and a quiet 🤫 wife submissive to her husband even if he’s not wise … ahh bring back the good old days 😊

  • @smegmadelhomme8551
    @smegmadelhomme8551 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I’d be more worried about my combover 😂

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If you think this is a combover you never seen my highschool social studies teacher . Combed over one way then combed back again the other way lol

  • @sarahlouise7163
    @sarahlouise7163 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    this guy's a teacher? what a very strange man

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s why the following generation are F’d now because of muppets like this

  • @mrlotusmic
    @mrlotusmic 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Society doesn’t change.

  • @dommidavros2211
    @dommidavros2211 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    £5k a year and he'd be happy?? Bloody Hell he's easily pleased!! 🤔

  • @eduardo0796
    @eduardo0796 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is the kind of people that messed up your future.

  • @vintagethrifter2114
    @vintagethrifter2114 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The fact that neither one of them can say how much they are spending over income says a lot.

  • @joelehane1
    @joelehane1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Made me laugh out loud 3 times

  • @davidlister370
    @davidlister370 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I've never heard such an entitled person! Brilliant!😄

  • @KingKenny.
    @KingKenny. 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Christ he was punching ! She's a stunner !

  • @dornierdo2172
    @dornierdo2172 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    She was a hottie back then.❤

  • @gump5ter01
    @gump5ter01 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    These 2 would have had an only fans and a tik tok channel

  • @olivercuenca4109
    @olivercuenca4109 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "It's difficult to say in pounds, isn't it?" Well how about dollars, yen, marks, francs, roubles?

  • @timhill9189
    @timhill9189 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Odd guy. "You (e.g. J.P. Getty) give us money, and we may make a contribution to humanity."

  • @daffyduk77
    @daffyduk77 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Charlie Clore didn't get where he was by giving it away on the strength of begging letters

  • @tjm3900
    @tjm3900 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    He was a school teacher ! I wonder is he taught Maths ?

  • @mrmeg01
    @mrmeg01 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I wonder where these two are now

    • @Loupdelou-ly1ve
      @Loupdelou-ly1ve 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      At the nursing home - still writing begging letters 😂

    • @tonycoxall7370
      @tonycoxall7370 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Loupdelou-ly1ve Haha! It would be interesting to find out. ( Who knows... maybe they've changed over the years and are embarrassed by how they behaved in the past).

  • @evelynwilson1566
    @evelynwilson1566 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    What????They wrote to total strangers to ask for loans???!!!!😮 I get they complain about benefits scroungers as well. Nae cheek nae chance I suppose😮

    • @RocketRocket-ce3ke
      @RocketRocket-ce3ke 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dont be so harsh on them. Today it is called GoFundMe. They were pioneers.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nothing wrote with asking, you never know how people might reply.

  • @gannet58555
    @gannet58555 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Amazing ...to think people like this now ...mostly cant even add up and talk correctly....not a tat in sight...lovely hearing them speak

    • @paper_gem
      @paper_gem 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Keep in mind, BBC didn't go around looking for weird people.

    • @michaelt8682
      @michaelt8682 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@paper_gem that was literally what they did in order to make this 'weird and wonderful' segment though...

    • @noplace82
      @noplace82 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      His accent is an affectation. You can hear the Northern accent bleeding through at times. Something he no doubt honed whilst at University.

  • @misscoutts6193
    @misscoutts6193 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    His accent is very 'clipped'; he sounds upper class but working class did not go to university back then.

    • @janel342
      @janel342 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @misscoutts
      It was 1968! Not 1568
      (You must be very young!)

  • @fburton8
    @fburton8 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How did they find the Gettys' Burg house address?

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In the phone book. It contained addresses and phone numbers. Everyone was in there, including rich and famous people. Marilyn Monroe's personal phone number was available to everyone in the 1950s when she was famous. You can see how disciplined most people were at that time from the fact that she was happy to have her phone number available to tens of millions of fans without being afraid of being pestered all the time. I can see how a lot of people today would find what I've just written difficult to believe, because people today wouldn't have the same discipline in not pestering their favourite celebrities.

  • @lesliegardner2692
    @lesliegardner2692 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a pair!🙂

  • @borderlands6606
    @borderlands6606 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This was the era of the playboy. Hard to be a high roller and pay interest.

  • @mattbugr4283
    @mattbugr4283 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've been extravagant this year, I've spent £5000 already .....

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder how their lives turned out... ? This would be an excellent documentary follow up, but now they might have passed away..

    • @hypercomms2001
      @hypercomms2001 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Living beyond ones means, just to keep up with a certain upper-class strata of life, is not a formula for a long and happy life.... And being a good wife, she is doing what she can for her husband, but one can imagine that she would like to have a family, and so the family should Focus on what they need not what he needs....

  • @brocktoon8
    @brocktoon8 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    They're like Gen Z: resentful, entitled, self-victimized, and ungrateful even though they have a perfect life.

    • @lordwalker71
      @lordwalker71 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You are delusional

  • @Hurc7495
    @Hurc7495 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Something something kids of today something something not like it used to be.

  • @annwe6
    @annwe6 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    So... there's always been entitled twots about then.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or you could call them ambitious.

    • @annwe6
      @annwe6 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ajs41 I guess so, in a pathological kind of way.

  • @classlessbozo317
    @classlessbozo317 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Bobby Charlton had let himself go…

  • @AndrewWilsonStooshie
    @AndrewWilsonStooshie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    And people think millennials are entitled.

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      👍

    • @andymerrett
      @andymerrett 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lives above his means in a posh area of London and then gets annoyed at his neighbours for having money!

  • @timhill9189
    @timhill9189 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We are as far from this now as they were from 1912.

  • @mav45678
    @mav45678 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Frightening.

  • @LeighRichards27
    @LeighRichards27 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Theyd probably both be tory MPs now 😉

  • @w1lf1ewoo
    @w1lf1ewoo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    A teacher, living for £8 a week , in the centre of London… thats bananas!

    • @WeirdNeville
      @WeirdNeville หลายเดือนก่อน

      About this time, my grandfather earned £8 a week as a mechanic in Cambridge.

  • @5nowChain5
    @5nowChain5 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did he later become Rab C Nesbit ?

  • @hopebgood
    @hopebgood 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    tbh I have no idea what blah blah blah an amount of money meant back in 1968. I'm too young! I just know I've never been in debt just to keep up with the neighbours in some meaningless tit for tat competition. And ffs they actually wrote begging....sorry, "loan" letters to people from "Who's Who"????? 🙄

  • @stephfoxwell4620
    @stephfoxwell4620 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    An excellent metaphor for 14 years of Tory Government

  • @solsol1624
    @solsol1624 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow....

  • @ColinWilson-j9i
    @ColinWilson-j9i 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Dont you realise that the world owes us a living 😂😂😂

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Little bit of Crass there....

  • @felinegroovy
    @felinegroovy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wonder if the man in this video has watched it recently and thought how insufferable and smug he sounded, as though those being fiscally prudent were just suffering from a lack of imagination or some such failing.

  • @garethwilliams4467
    @garethwilliams4467 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pure jealousy .. doesn't see why other people should have more money than him. Nothing changes

  • @vantheman1238
    @vantheman1238 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He’s a middle aged man before his time. Chill out bruv and make Jill a happy woman 😂

  • @76ToneCrome
    @76ToneCrome 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    What a sad pair of...

  • @PassiveAgressive319
    @PassiveAgressive319 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He comes across as thoroughly unpleasant.

  • @jojonesjojo8919
    @jojonesjojo8919 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This geyser is a bit weird.

  • @betagombar9022
    @betagombar9022 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a pair of entitled amorals 🙄 I'd love to know how their lives turned out.

  • @misspurrr-fect3684
    @misspurrr-fect3684 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There were 240 pennies in £1 back then .

  • @gramorris9430
    @gramorris9430 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Living in cloud cuckoo land

  • @naysmith5272
    @naysmith5272 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There was a very sad ending the last time we looked up what happened to someone from BBC Archive Clip.

    • @noplace82
      @noplace82 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      There was a sad ending when a few nasty, small-minded people made baseless claims about the subject in the video. You can't stop those people from commenting, they would make the same comments regardless of whether any additional information was found or not.
      There are already dozens of derogatory comments, most of which are about Tony's hair and there has been no additional information posted, that could ellicit or encourage anything like what was said on the video you're referring to.
      People are curious, it's human nature. Sadly, some people can be mean, which is, again, human nature.

  • @ed9763
    @ed9763 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Very interesting😃. As an Arab I would have advised you to write to an Arabian shaik or emir they would have been more forthcoming. They are much looser with their cash.

    • @Mick_Ts_Chick
      @Mick_Ts_Chick 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hey, thanks for the tip. I might do that when I get hard up for money! 😅

    • @spidyman8853
      @spidyman8853 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Fat chance. They are not as you quoted much looser with their dough. Some one I know wrote to an Arabian Sheikh (years and years ago) and surprise surprise got no reply. Says it all really.

  • @tedwards1604
    @tedwards1604 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He is absolutely delusional, both about their debt and writing begging letters to millionaires. Mentalists.