[jambutty]

Originally Posted by magpie

one way to give up is to try rolling your own.... 100 papers later and visits to you tube I still can not get the hang of it.

You should have joined the navy magpie. You would have learned how to roll a fag with your hands that was almost as good as a tailor made one.

When I joined in ’54 every sailor was allowed to buy 300 fags or three quarters of a pound of rolling or pipe tobacco for seven shilling and six pence per month. To put that into context in those days a 20 pack of Players cost 3 shillings and six pence. So rolling your own became an art form, a never forgotten art form.

In those days the tobacco was much drier than it is today and a few drops of navy rum helped to keep it moist and just right for rolling and smoking. None drinkers used a piece of raw potato.