Gripweed posted:

That's from a Terry Pratchett novel.

quote:

£2. 3s. 6d. (two pounds, three shillings and sixpence), spoken, unless there was cause to be punctilious, "two pound(s), three and six". Whether "pound" or "pounds" was used depended upon the speaker, varying with class, region and context.

1/– (one shilling), colloquially "a bob"; the slash sign derives from the older style of a long s for "solidus", which is also one name for the sign itself; the '–' is used in place of '0', meaning "zero pence").[8][9]

11d. (elevenpence)

​1 1⁄2d (a penny halfpenny, three halfpence). As spoken, the lf in halfpenny and halfpence was always silent; they were pronounced "hayp'ny" /ˈheɪpni/[10] and "haypence" /ˈheɪpəns/[10][11] – hence the occasional spellings ha'penny and ha'pence).

3d (three pence), with reference to the above, this became thruppence, commonly referred to as a "threepenny bit".

6d (six pence) known as a "tanner" or half a shilling.

2/– (two shillings, or one florin, colloquially "two-bob bit")

2/6 (two shillings and six pence, usually said as "two and six" or a "half-crown"; the value could also be spoken as "half a crown", but the coin was always a half-crown)

4/3 ("four and threepence", the latter word pronounced "thruppence" /ˈθrʌpəns/, "threppence" /ˈθrɛpəns/ or "throopence", -oo- as in "foot" /ˈθrʊpəns/, or "four-and-three")

5/– (five shillings, one crown, "five bob", a dollar)[12][13]

£1.10s.– (one pound, ten shillings; one pound ten, "thirty bob")

£1/19/​11 3⁄4d. (one pound, nineteen shillings and elevenpence three farthings: a psychological price, one farthing under £2)

£14. 8s. 2d. (fourteen pounds, eight shillings and twopence – pronounced "tuppence" /ˈtʌpəns/ – in columns of figures. Commonly read "fourteen pound(s) eight and two")

MikeCrotch posted:

mycomancy posted:

God dammit this makes me irrationally angry.

MikeCrotch posted:

Trabisnikof posted:

well it is all ratios so it should make you rationally angry

Atrocious Joe posted:

Grover Furr was able to refute Timothy Snyder's book just by checking Snyder's sources. By itself that's extremely funny.

MikeCrotch posted:

Joementum posted:

https://twitter.com/Tom_Myers/status/1362096712089808898

Atrocious Joe posted:

Grover Furr was able to refute Timothy Snyder's book just by checking Snyder's sources. By itself that's extremely funny.

Maya Fey posted:

why did they use "d" to mean "pence"

MikeCrotch posted:

From the Latin, denarii

I'm not making this up

Larry Parrish posted:

Lol. However Stalin really didn't do anything wrong.

Halloween Jack posted:

"Stalin did nothing wrong" is entertaining, but "Beria did nothing wrong" is the four-corner simultaneous four-day time cube rotation brain take.

Crankit posted:

In ww2 the £SD system caused a couple of german spies who had been parachuted into england to get caught as they were unable to make basic purchases.

Think about it, every fascist movement has started in a country with decimal currency.

Joementum posted:

https://twitter.com/Tom_Myers/status/1362096712089808898

AnEdgelord posted:

*Ahem*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley

Zedhe Khoja posted:

Well it makes since in the context of certain interpretations of Khrushchev and de-Stalinization. The argument basically goes that Khrushchev made up a bunch of poo poo about the previous regime to give legitimacy to his own, ergo Beria (whos persecution and execution were a major beat of Khrushchev solidifying his power) was innocent and his trial a sham. This was the official line of quite a few Marxist groups for a time in Furrs formative college years, so its not that unusual a belief to have had at one point.

crepeface posted:

lol that's not as bad as the goon who voted for Kamala for president with some absolutely brain melting justification and then posted about it.

also on the Valentine's ep of Bad Faith:

brie (exasperated after 30 minutes of being deflected): "so, what IS true romance to you?"

virgil: "hmm... you know Japanese kamikaze pilots..?"

Halloween Jack posted:

It must have been wild to be a radical leftist scholar at a time when, like, Eldridge Cleaver was praising the Juche Idea and you had to have a position on all these issues.

MikeCrotch posted:

Owen Hatherley wrote a book on the radical history of London recently and said you would read these accounts of great leftist thinkers around the turn of the century, only to suddenly encounter them saying things like "And that's why we need eugenics to ensure the purity of British people" out of nowhere

Joementum posted:

https://twitter.com/Tom_Myers/status/1362096712089808898

MikeCrotch posted:

Also for reference lots of countries used the £sd system back in the day, often because they were colonies of the UK. The US decimalised 10 years after the country was founded i.e. 190 years before the Brits lol