[Closed] Remember these?

Ayup.

How dull is decimalised currency. No imagination at all. All in tens, BORING!

I thought this was going to be about spokey-dokeys. 🙁

Oh! I've still got one of the original spanners for those!!

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

V

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.

I remember being confused as to why there were people on the telly buying new pens.................

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. 😀

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?

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

There is a pub in Bethesda, North Wales that still sells beer in pounds shillings and pence. Confuses the hell out of you youngsters 😀

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?

Thruppeny bits.........nice

😉

I remember half pennys.. they were pretty useless weren't they?
Not even good for buying a penny chew with.

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!)

@ racefaceec90. I think you'll find Brian May uses two of them together! 😆

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.

ooh, ok, tell me how

No.

Thought this was gonna be about the Hair Bear Bunch 😳

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Yup, but I'm old 😆 and proud!

I don't get the Clive Stafford Smith connection... 😕

oh

If you do, you must be at least in your 40s,

T'was a stupid confuddling system anyway.

darn sight simpler and less confuddling.

brian may could use one of them when playing guitar

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.

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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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[i]Maybe, but a darn sight simpler and less confuddling. [/i]

Only for stupid people.

And foreigners. What about international trade?

Are you suggesting all foreigners are stupid? There's rules about that you know.

I was expecting hairless balls.

No, although I did find one daft enough to marry me. 😉 But the rest of the world is decimal, so...

I remember D Day too - my Mum bought me a first day issue set of decimal coins . . . I spent them 😳

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?

my Mum bought me a first day issue set of decimal coins . . . I spent them

Let me guess on what you spent them.... 😉

Guess I asked for that 😆

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?

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. 😉

Are you suggesting all foreigners are stupid?

Well if they can't count up to 12, or 20, then I would say yes.

Guess I asked for that

Well, it doesn't take a genius to work it out, does it?? 😀

I have a 1902 silver Edward VII Crown here on my desk. When issued it would have been "worth" 5 shillings...

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?

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time ]Ooh, why not eh? What a shame it never really took off. [/url] *Salutes the motherland and lol's*

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..

Exactly! Thanks

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! 🙂

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.

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].

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.

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

So when are we decimalising musical time signatures then Ed?

Kunstler, you are a ****in psychicpathic! How did you know I was mainlining Werthers? 🙂

I never noticed the racism in blackjacks

Isn't racism in the eye of the beholder?

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?

I never noticed the racism in blackjacks

Isn't racism in the eye of the beholder?

I'm pure. 8)

@ yunki

😉

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.

your [s]pearls[/s] [b]eggs[/b] of wisdom.

😛

missed a great opportunity for a "show us yer thruppenybits" thread title

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!