Thehooperman
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Police tape around the old Millets...
Is there a forensic tent inside?
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Police tape around the old Millets...
12 1/2 p then? The carer recons he's worth more than a cheep seat in the cinema, which he says 2 & 9....i wouldn't know, not being that old.....Half a crown, gets get you down,
12½ p, filled with glee.
One eighth of a pound.
Police tape around the old Millets...
I found a load of it in my front garden once, in a bundle - I went out to put what I thought was a discarded plastic bag in the blue bin (when you still could).Amazingly you can buy the (blue) uk police barrier tape from amazon (£6/12 metres). A practical joker can create a lot of fun / mayhem with a roll (so I’m told!)
OK, what is 2 & 6 in real money?
Half a crown
Imperial measurements are still here, not needing to be reintroduced. It is a total mess, as we have come to expect things to be..That’s the reason why imperial, whether monetary or measurements, should never be re-introduced. Imperial makes no sense at all.
Good grief man, be reasonable! You'll be wanting us to drive on the left next.Imperial measurements are still here, not needing to be reintroduced. It is a total mess, as we have come to expect things to be..
I look forward to Rees-Mogg replacing Johnson and bringing it all back - the chaos would be marvellous.
"We drink pints and drive miles, we should never have joined!"
"How many feet in a mile?"
"Oh, I dunno - about a thousand..?"
Imperial, £sd, etc., all worked OK, whilst there was little contact with the outside world and ordinary people didn't have to also run a metric system at the same time.
It should have been abandoned, fully, in the 1960s, when people had a bit more faith in going forwards, rather than harking back to a fictitious past.
That could also have gone in the 60s, without the hassle it would cause now - as the Swedes did.Good grief man, be reasonable! You'll be wanting us to drive on the left next.
I went to Cyprus in August '68, where the pound was already metricated. Still being in the Sterling Area then, the pound was the same, but it was divided into a thousands mils. The smallest value coin you normally saw was the 5 mil piece, normally called a piastre, for historical reasons, and equivalent to the UK half new penny. There was, however a 1 mil coin, which you generally only ever got in change for an electricity bill paid in cash. If you got ever one, it was impossible to spend it - you might wait until you got four more and found somebody prepared to take them as a 'piastre' equivalent.They even screwed up when they introduced metric currency. Out of some dark mind came the 'half P.' So you could end up with a price something like £15.25½ ... (which would technically be £15.255)
The banks immediately zapped it saying as far as they were concerned there was no such coin. Computer programmers ignored it and eventually it was kicked into touch.