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Jaeluni Asjil posted:As someone old enough to remember pre-decimal money, I remember the occasional two shilling pieces (and/or possibly half crowns) with King George on when I was a kid. If it still works the same post-Liz, the money is still legal tender and is gradually withdrawn from circulation.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Post-Liz, the UK will partially reverse decimalization and make a pound Elizabeth worth six pounds Charles. Wages will be paid in pounds Charles, but will not be adjusted for the exchange rate. Groats, surely?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Groats, surely? Galleons and knuts, I believe.
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Thinking about it I'm surprised there's never been a 'stuff the euro' style campaign to undo decimalisation. Things cost less in the 50s so if we go back to 50s money the economy will be fixed
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Shortly after the queens death the currency will be renamed to kilogram. The nukes will be launched shortly after. Hail Satan
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the sex ghost posted:Thinking about it I'm surprised there's never been a 'stuff the euro' style campaign to undo decimalisation. Things cost less in the 50s so if we go back to 50s money the economy will be fixed This was actually in the BNP election manifesto in 2010(?) or so. Their entire promises were basically to reset the country back to 1950. Not that any of their supporters could actually read it. edit: I think they also wanted to remove the metric system, clearly influenced by Grandpa Simpson. Giedroyc has issued a correction as of 18:11 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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This is why I only accept payment in Bison Dollars
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the sex ghost posted:Thinking about it I'm surprised there's never been a 'stuff the euro' style campaign to undo decimalisation. Things cost less in the 50s so if we go back to 50s money the economy will be fixed I’m 90% sure polling’s shown old fucks want that back almost as much as they want hanging
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Ghost Leviathan posted:This is why I only accept payment in Bison Dollars I didn't remember the rationale for setting the exchange rate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shxiy7l5b_4 Sounds more credible than bitcoins, at least
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ro5s posted:I’m 90% sure polling’s shown old fucks want that back almost as much as they want hanging It's not nearly as popular but still a good 10% of Brexiters want to bring back pre-decimsl currency There was a good WDTATW episode on the "weights and measures" campaigners who wanted to get rid of the barmy Brussels bureaucrats not letting them sell in lbs and ozs, which was essentially a dry run for the whole Leave campaign
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Y'all talking about ha'penny tu'penny and so forth?
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MikeCrotch posted:It's not nearly as popular but still a good 10% of Brexiters want to bring back pre-decimsl currency It's idiocy. UK went decimal when I was about 9 (IIRC 10p and 5p pieces were brought in ahead of actual decimalization - with 5p being worth a shilling and 10p worth two shillings). I'm almost 61 now. At primary (60s) we still did imperial measurements: stones, lbs, oz, cwt, leagues even. By the time I got to secondary school (70s), we were taught in metric, because UK was supposed to go fully decimal (and SI) in 1975. They should have done it in a big bang. When they bought in the seven-sided 50p piece, they were forever interviewing old ladies on the BBC complaining about how they would muddle up the seven-sided 50p with a 10p. The fact they had been using the half crown, only marginally bigger than the two shilling piece, both round, for the whole of their lives and didn't have a problem with that seemed to pass them by.
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Failing to go full metric loving sucked. All through school I got taught metric and then someone asks how tall you are and doesn't know what 185cm means. loving stupid country unable to break out of the past.
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forkboy84 posted:Failing to go full metric loving sucked. All through school I got taught metric and then someone asks how tall you are and doesn't know what 185cm means.
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yeah. you are supposed to use decimeters
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MikeCrotch posted:It's not nearly as popular but still a good 10% of Brexiters want to bring back pre-decimsl currency Just go the whole hog.
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MikeCrotch posted:It's not nearly as popular but still a good 10% of Brexiters want to bring back pre-decimsl currency M. Smith: «Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your United Kingdom. I say your United Kingdom because as soon as you started using metric, it really became our United Kingdom, which is, of course, what this is all about»
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THS posted:yeah. you are supposed to use decimeters No you just say one eighty-five without specifying units, they're implicit, everyone knows what they are.
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spankmeister posted:No you just say one eighty-five without specifying units, they're implicit, everyone knows what they are. Well as long as it's clear what the item you're measuring is
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my car gets forty rods to the hogshead
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and that's the way I likes it !!! 
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I’m sorry your King Phillip died, English goons. it’s really sad for you
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euphronius posted:I’m sorry your King Phillip died, English goons. it’s really sad for you I liked that "fighting on the beaches" speech of his.
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i could imagine the designers of the matrix just scratching their heads in disbelief when they got to making the u.k. bit of the program
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I hope your next King is actually English
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euphronius posted:I hope your next King is actually English well we’d need a time machine for that
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Raskolnikov38 posted:well we’d need a time machine for that are there no English people around who could be King ??
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well if you just want to crown some random bloke off the street without the consecrated blood of a divine right ruler in him
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forkboy84 posted:Failing to go full metric loving sucked. All through school I got taught metric and then someone asks how tall you are and doesn't know what 185cm means. nice height humblebrag
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Raskolnikov38 posted:well if you just want to crown some random bloke off the street without the consecrated blood of a divine right ruler in him look if red-faced loon harry redknapp can pull some abusive chancer out the stand and stick him on for west ham as a joke only to have him somehow score a goal then any geezer can take a punt at being the royal leader I reckon
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spankmeister posted:No you just say one eighty-five without specifying units, they're implicit, everyone knows what they are. tbf decimeters would probably be better
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Jel Shaker posted:i could imagine the designers of the matrix just scratching their heads in disbelief when they got to making the u.k. bit of the program They forgot to turn the FEUDALISM flag to 0 when they did a government switch and none of the original coders are around to fix it
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Raskolnikov38 posted:well if you just want to crown some random bloke off the street without the consecrated blood of a divine right ruler in him my partner's favourite drunken rant is that we should keep the monarchy, but make it the prize for britain's got talent.
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euphronius posted:I’m sorry your King Phillip died, English goons. it’s really sad for you commiserations on your living king robinette
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Continuity RCP posted:commiserations on your living king robinette Actually Royal Assent in the US works a bit differently:  I make hideous memes
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spankmeister posted:No you just say one eighty-five without specifying units, they're implicit, everyone knows what they are. Spangly A posted:my partner's favourite drunken rant is that we should keep the monarchy, but make it the prize for britain's got talent. Raskolnikov38 posted:well if you just want to crown some random bloke off the street without the consecrated blood of a divine right ruler in him mrmcd posted:Actually Royal Assent in the US works a bit differently:
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kecske posted:my car gets forty rods to the hogshead something that we don't really notice as much due to the rise of easily available calculators is that many customary units are far easier to divide due to more common factors. base 10 is kinda poo poo when it comes to equal divisions.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:
Quite sure, given that recent poll
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