Well I still think it's far cooler to use shillings, florins and crowns.
If nothing else it'd make people think before they hand some cash over. 
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Are you suggesting all foreigners are stupid?
Well if they can't count up to 12, or 20, then I would say yes.
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Guess I asked for that
Well, it doesn't take a genius to work it out, does it??
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I have a 1902 silver Edward VII Crown here on my desk. When issued it would have been "worth" 5 shillings...
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CharlieMungus - Member
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?
Ooh, why not eh? What a shame it never really took off. *Salutes the motherland and lol's*
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I remember half pennys.. they were pretty useless weren't they?
Not even good for buying a penny chew with.they conveniently weighed one sixteenth of an ounce though... which was very useful at school..
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Exactly! Thanks
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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?
Surely denier is a silkily imperial measure, you young tosser!
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Actually trampus is right. Stockings are measured on a denier scale.
Ee, speaking of stockings; they're something that seem to have gradually disappeared from our society. I don't think decimalisation can be blamed at all.
I blame Thatcher. It's got to be her fault.
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Yunki:
they conveniently weighed one sixteenth of an ounce though... which was very useful at school..All tens and twenties nowadays.
[Meldrew] Kids today, eh? No sense of history.....[Meldrew].Posted 1 year ago # -
I believe that 'young tosser'* is a relatively modern form of con-descension and wholely not in keeping with imperial measures. Indeed, you may have ambled your way into some form of disambiguation.*
*got any werthers grandad?
*also I really am almost flattered to be called a 'young' tosser. Makes a change.
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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?
well it's your generation that's been running the governments, bank of england, treasury, regulators, banks and investment houses for the past 20/30 years... any more daft generalisations ??
Decimalisation is a good thing, I'm not sure that the previous system being around for a long time is proof that it was an efficient system, it could easily be retained due to stubborness or lack of invention
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So when are we decimalising musical time signatures then Ed?
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Kunstler, you are a **** psychicpathic! How did you know I was mainlining Werthers?
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I never noticed the racism in blackjacks
Isn't racism in the eye of the beholder?
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I was expecting White dog poo, which I think is probably more interesting than this thread! My god this is a dull thread! But I still find myself reading it?
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I never noticed the racism in blackjacks
Isn't racism in the eye of the beholder?
I'm pure.
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@ yunki
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Amos - Member
I was expecting White dog poo, which I think is probably more interesting than this thread! My god this is a dull thread! But I still find myself reading it?
But clearly interesting enough to leave the classifieds and bike sections for, not only to read it but to add your pearls of wisdom.
I feel that something positive has been added to the world and I feel warm inside.Pictures of white dog poo next week.
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your
pearlseggs of wisdom.
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missed a great opportunity for a "show us yer thruppenybits" thread title
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Didn't Noddy have to put threepenny bits in his car to make it go? Or was it Tanners he put in? I'm so old I can't remember!
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