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Ayup.
How dull is decimalised currency. No imagination at all. All in tens, BORING!
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I thought this was going to be about spokey-dokeys.
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Oh! I've still got one of the original spanners for those!!
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Before my time. I'm post decimalisation, me.
T'was a stupid confuddling system anyway. Bit like most Imperial measurements, weight in particular. i mean, 16oz to the lb, 14 lb to the stone, etc. Silly. Not even a consistency of numbers.
Inch, foot, yard, furlong
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Milimetre, centimetre, metre, kilometre. Much easier to work out when it's in blocks of 10, 100, 1000 etc.
How dull is decimalised currency. No imagination at all. All in tens, BORING!
Maybe, but a darn sight simpler and less confuddling.
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I remember being confused as to why there were people on the telly buying new pens.................
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i have got some of those (have a cup full of old coins,foreign coins)i think brian may could use one of them when playing guitar.
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What about the 24 hours a day, 60 secs ina min, 60 mins in an hour, 7 days a week varying days in a month, 12 months in a year. Want to put them all in in 10s Elfin?
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yep i have one of those somewhere... i remember using the coin last when i was about 6 year old ? i have a good memory (sometimes)... around 1972. then the curency changed
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There is a pub in Bethesda, North Wales that still sells beer in pounds shillings and pence. Confuses the hell out of you youngsters
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T'was a stupid confuddling system anyway.
I'm caught between the two. I can just remember old money and was brought up on decimal.
It's a nightmare trying to teach and explain the weights and measures to students and we have a good laugh at the money... But 40 years?Posted 1 year ago # -
Thruppeny bits.........nice
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I remember half pennys.. they were pretty useless weren't they?
Not even good for buying a penny chew with.Posted 1 year ago # -
R4 comented that the old system can be traced back as far as the babylonian counting system so probably not that stupid.... oh and it'll be 40 years old on the 15th (month younger than me!)
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@ racefaceec90. I think you'll find Brian May uses two of them together!
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What about the 24 hours a day, 60 secs ina min, 60 mins in an hour, 7 days a week varying days in a month, 12 months in a year. Want to put them all in in 10s Elfin?
Yes.
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ooh, ok, tell me how
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No.
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Thought this was gonna be about the Hair Bear Bunch
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Elfin =
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Yup, but I'm old
and proud!
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I don't get the Clive Stafford Smith connection...
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oh
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If you do, you must be at least in your 40s,
in my 50's so yes and remember "d-day"
IMO
T'was a stupid confuddling system anyway.
Only[/quote] for a generation getting ready to forget the value of money. Stop thinking about it, it's easier to spend. That's worked out well hasn't it?darn sight simpler and less confuddling.
which is good for simpletons, but being able to and being encouraged to think is not bad for the rest of usbrian may could use one of them when playing guitar
when taking time off from astrophyisiting dr may uses silver sixpences worth twice the op imagePosted 1 year ago # -
I remember half pennys.. they were pretty useless weren't they?
Not even good for buying a penny chew with.But you could buy two Blackjacks chews.......which were 4 for a penny.
Unfortunately decimalisation was rapidly followed by political correctness. Which meant that not only did Blackjacks become vastly more expensive, but they also removed the golliwog off the wrappers - rendering them no longer a fun sweet.
Boring and expensive :
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Maybe, but a darn sight simpler and less confuddling.
Only for stupid people.
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And foreigners. What about international trade?
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Are you suggesting all foreigners are stupid? There's rules about that you know.
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I was expecting hairless balls.
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No, although I did find one daft enough to marry me.
But the rest of the world is decimal, so...
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I remember D Day too - my Mum bought me a first day issue set of decimal coins . . . I spent them
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I resisted the urge to cash in my coin jar at the time, so have coins dating back to the Victorian era. Dare I value them, or should i leave them in the cupboard for me grandkids?
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my Mum bought me a first day issue set of decimal coins . . . I spent them
Let me guess on what you spent them....
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Guess I asked for that
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Ah yes, nod and smile at the old folk indulging nostalgia. I've always had trouble counting in anything other than binary. On or off, it's so clean. I never noticed the racism in blackjacks - am I a liberal or a denier?
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