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Post by yorkshireman on Jun 20, 2016 9:42:38 GMT
Strange how religious slogans become political ones. Thank you for proving my point so eloquently. You're welcome, I’m just disappointed that you didn’t give it a "like" 
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Post by uncletone on Jun 20, 2016 9:56:37 GMT
Don't even start me on pre-decimal currency. Fortunately, I'm middle-aged enough to have been born a month after sanity officially prevailed there... How can you criticise a monetary system based on binary, quaternary, decimal, duodecimal, vigesimal, quinary and the bastard child of bicentimal and quadragesimal?  (Yes, I did look up some of those...)
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Post by yorkshireman on Jun 20, 2016 9:59:58 GMT
I’ve worked in metric since the early 1970’s yet supplied American customers in pounds (lbs) into the late 1990’s and yards well into the first decade of the 21st century. So much for supposedly being the most advanced nation on earth!
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Post by skippyonspeed on Jun 20, 2016 10:02:12 GMT
Oooo that extra penny  ...  The best way to get your own back was to buy fuel at the coldest part of the day........reason - mass flow meters were very expensive to buy back in the 80's, odds are that the petrol pumps used volumetric flow meters, so by the time you came to use the cold fuel the volume would have increased very slightly due to increased temperature change. This is just a theory, because the fuel is stored in underground tanks the fuel temperature may not change much at all.
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Post by oldgrumpy on Jun 20, 2016 10:02:17 GMT
Don't even start me on pre-decimal currency. Fortunately, I'm middle-aged enough to have been born a month after sanity officially prevailed there... How can you criticise a monetary system based on binary, quaternary, decimal, duodecimal, vigesimal, quinary and the bastard child of bicentimal and quadragesimal? *(Yes, I did look up some of those...) for "full disclosure" ... my eyes were popping out when I read that (still not quite sure how to pronounce one of them).
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Post by skippyonspeed on Jun 20, 2016 10:11:22 GMT
I was thinking more along the lines of the historical rip off, i remember petrol going up a couple of pence/pennies per gallon, *then the change over happened and we got* a couple of pence per litre.  edit * Those of us brought up on LSD (not the drug!) noticed the post change rounding up on EVERYTHING!......that is why we look at decimalisation as "demonisation"
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Post by earthbound on Jun 20, 2016 10:12:09 GMT
I’ve worked in metric since the early 1970’s yet supplied American customers in pounds (lbs) into the late 1990’s and yards well into the first decade of the 21st century. So much for supposedly being the most advanced nation on earth! They do have a nice habit of making you feel good about yourself tho... i was in the new york new york casino playing on a machine and the drinks lady wandered past (drinks are free while playing the machines) and i asked her for a long island iced tea, she promptly asked me for my ID. I was 54..
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Post by skippyonspeed on Jun 20, 2016 10:16:28 GMT
How can you criticise a monetary system based on binary, quaternary, decimal, duodecimal, vigesimal, quinary and the bastard child of bicentimal and quadragesimal? *(Yes, I did look up some of those...) for "full disclosure" ... my eyes were popping out when I read that (still not quite sure how to pronounce one of them). quadragesimal & vigesimal............."ges" is the bit that stands out 
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Post by yorkshireman on Jun 20, 2016 10:19:10 GMT
I’ve worked in metric since the early 1970’s yet supplied American customers in pounds (lbs) into the late 1990’s and yards well into the first decade of the 21st century. So much for supposedly being the most advanced nation on earth! They do have a nice habit of making you feel good about yourself tho... i was in the new york new york casino playing on a machine and the drinks lady wandered past (drinks are free while playing the machines) and i asked her for a long island iced tea, she promptly asked me for my ID. I was 54.. Nah, Yank customer service is overhyped, somewhat like the much vaunted German efficiency, I speak from personal business experience in both cases.
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Post by skippyonspeed on Jun 20, 2016 10:24:38 GMT
I’ve worked in metric since the early 1970’s yet supplied American customers in pounds (lbs) into the late 1990’s and yards well into the first decade of the 21st century. So much for supposedly being the most advanced nation on earth! They do have a nice habit of making you feel good about yourself tho... i was in the new york new york casino playing on a machine and the drinks lady wandered past (drinks are free while playing the machines) and i asked her for a long island iced tea, she promptly asked me for my ID. I was 54.. Beats me I was 30 with a smattering of premature grey hair when everywhere I went in California I was asked for ID......yet you never see it in the films Also they hated me offering cash for stuff, and when a credit card was rammed in a machine they always gave me the used carbon papers
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Post by earthbound on Jun 20, 2016 10:31:36 GMT
They do have a nice habit of making you feel good about yourself tho... i was in the new york new york casino playing on a machine and the drinks lady wandered past (drinks are free while playing the machines) and i asked her for a long island iced tea, she promptly asked me for my ID. I was 54.. Beats me I was 30 with a smattering of premature grey hair when everywhere I went in California I was asked for ID......yet you never see it in the films Also they hated me offering cash for stuff, and when a credit card was rammed in a machine they always gave me the used carbon papers Credit cards, yes, thinking about it, i cannot ever remember using a card machine where i had to input my pin, they still do it the old way, swipe the card down the side of the till and you have to sign the scrap of paper, funny thing is, non of my cards have my name signed on the back, and they never looked. 
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Post by oldgrumpy on Jun 20, 2016 10:39:29 GMT
How can you criticise a monetary system based on binary, quaternary, decimal, duodecimal, vigesimal, quinary and the bastard child of bicentimal and quadragesimal? *(Yes, I did look up some of those...) for "full disclosure" ... my eyes were popping out when I read that (still not quite sure how to pronounce one of them). Come to think of it, I do have a modest old coin collection which includes crowns, half crowns, florins, shillings, (tanners), "thrupenny-bit"* (silver, then "brass"), groats, pennies, farthings .... .... half farthings, third farthings .... and one 1852 quarter of a farthing (I think I recall they were currency in Ceylon/Sri Lanka). I just remember my old GrannyGrumps in Bermondsey send me along to the shops to buy an Oxo cube for a penny farthing, 1¼d. That would have been circa 1952. For the benefit of forum members who are neither old nor grumpy, there were 960 farthings in a £, so there were 3840 quarter farthings in a £. The last use I remember for farthings in the early 1950s was my grannygrumps in Bermondsey sending me down the road to get an Oxo cube for a penny farthing, 1¼d. That would have been c1952. * =Three old pennies, there were 80 of these to a £.
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Post by earthbound on Jun 20, 2016 10:45:28 GMT
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Post by skippyonspeed on Jun 20, 2016 11:01:12 GMT
Sorry to interrupt all this nostalgia, but I just read this
"LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) - Sterling soared 2 percent against the dollar on Monday, putting it on track for its biggest one-day gain for more than seven years, as worries eased that Britain might vote to leave the European Union at a June 23 referendum.
Campaigning for the vote resumed on Sunday after a three-day hiatus following the killing of a pro-EU lawmaker. Three opinion polls at the weekend showed the "Remain" camp gained momentum, but the overall picture was still of an evenly split electorate.
As bookmakers shifted their odds to reflect about a 25-percent chance of a Brexit on Monday, down from about 40 percent on Thursday, the cost of hedging against big price swings in the exchange rate dropped sharply."
And there was me thinking the mooring ropes had already been untied ready for cast off into the Atlantic. Latest out odds are 9/4
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Post by oldgrumpy on Jun 20, 2016 11:05:24 GMT
"Where's the 'thru-penny bit'?"
I've added it to the list. Three old pence, therefore 80 in a £.
There seemed to be a distinction linguistically where I lived (London). A thruppenny bit was the twelve sided nickel brass from 1937. Before that a thruppenny piece was part silver and round.
(Wikipedia) The sum of three pence was pronounced variously THROOP-ence, THREPP-ence or THRUPP-ence, reflecting different pronunciations in the various regions and nations of the United Kingdom. Likewise, the coin was often referred to in conversation as a THROOP-nee, THREPP-nee or THRUPP-nee bit. The ones in bold are what I would say in my childhood.
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