Decimal Day - 40 Years Ago Today
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Gokartmozart said:
Remember it well, was 12 at the time.
when shopping with my parents in John Lewis with a poor old dear on the till, took around 10 minutes sorting out the change.
Don't forget the "new" 5 & 10p coins were aleady in circulation from 1968 I think.
I used to love having a 10 bob note when I was younger felt like being a millionaire.
The "silver" coins began to be introduced from 1968. The 10p and the 5p were a straight swap for the two shilling and one shilling piece. The 50p piece replaced the 10 shilling note.when shopping with my parents in John Lewis with a poor old dear on the till, took around 10 minutes sorting out the change.
Don't forget the "new" 5 & 10p coins were aleady in circulation from 1968 I think.
I used to love having a 10 bob note when I was younger felt like being a millionaire.
Funny thing is that my mum, age 80+, accepted decimalisation but nowadays she goes on and on about how metric measurements are "not as simple" as imperial.
She honestly believes that 10,100,1000 for length, weight and volume is more complex than 12,36,1760 for length, 16, 14 and 144 for weight and flu oz, gills,cups, quarts, pints, gallons and barrels for liquid.
Yeah right. Or perhaps you just was not brought up with it.
Andy
PS miles per gallon still is ok compared to litres per 100km
She honestly believes that 10,100,1000 for length, weight and volume is more complex than 12,36,1760 for length, 16, 14 and 144 for weight and flu oz, gills,cups, quarts, pints, gallons and barrels for liquid.
Yeah right. Or perhaps you just was not brought up with it.
Andy
PS miles per gallon still is ok compared to litres per 100km
Eric Mc said:
Exactly. People can cope quite well with odd divisions of units - after all, we did for the best part of 2,000 years.
Dividing everything by ten doesn't make an awful lot of sense in some areas. Imagine if a circle was measured in 100 degrees rather than 360.
Whilst I agree with you on some part, though the circle is because you are used to it, making it a "100" measure would actually make more sense, if you say a 900° turn, you don't immediatly think "that's 2,5 rotations", whilst 250 would easily point that out.Dividing everything by ten doesn't make an awful lot of sense in some areas. Imagine if a circle was measured in 100 degrees rather than 360.
Take a cake, HALF of a cake would be 50, and a quarter would be 25. That would make perfect sense to me, wouldn't it?
Ok, next up: time
ZesPak said:
Whilst I agree with you on some part, though the circle is because you are used to it, making it a "100" measure would actually make more sense, if you say a 900° turn, you don't immediatly think "that's 2,5 rotations", whilst 250 would easily point that out.
Take a cake, HALF of a cake would be 50, and a quarter would be 25. That would make perfect sense to me, wouldn't it?
Ok, next up: time
What are you talking about, why would you cut a cake ?Take a cake, HALF of a cake would be 50, and a quarter would be 25. That would make perfect sense to me, wouldn't it?
Ok, next up: time
I remember the day we all went decimal, well I remember one incident from that day, it was a long time ago after all.
I was an apprectice mechanic with garage and used to meet my mate at lunchtime, we would go to the local baker to buy lunch, which in my case was a pie and a sticky bun, this cost an amount in 'old money' which I had, but I was short of a penny in 'new money'
So no sticky bun that day.
I was an apprectice mechanic with garage and used to meet my mate at lunchtime, we would go to the local baker to buy lunch, which in my case was a pie and a sticky bun, this cost an amount in 'old money' which I had, but I was short of a penny in 'new money'
So no sticky bun that day.
So how would our relationship with the rest of Europe be today if we had stayed with the LSD?
Would we have (for example) metric martyrs or even the UKIP party?
I'm a bit of a mixture, I relate to metric money and temperature (Centigrade)but imperial for weight - St/lbs and distance feet and inches and miles. Gallons and pints rather than litres. Yet I can relate to litres for cubic capacity (for example) and metres for distance in a sort of bilingual way.
Would we have (for example) metric martyrs or even the UKIP party?
I'm a bit of a mixture, I relate to metric money and temperature (Centigrade)but imperial for weight - St/lbs and distance feet and inches and miles. Gallons and pints rather than litres. Yet I can relate to litres for cubic capacity (for example) and metres for distance in a sort of bilingual way.
Corpulent Tosser said:
I remember the day we all went decimal, well I remember one incident from that day, it was a long time ago after all.
I was an apprectice mechanic with garage and used to meet my mate at lunchtime, we would go to the local baker to buy lunch, which in my case was a pie and a sticky bun, this cost an amount in 'old money' which I had, but I was short of a penny in 'new money'
So no sticky bun that day.
That reminds me when I was at school, on occasions we used to treat ourselves to a 9 old pence bun which was about a foot long and filled with cream and jam, come decimal day the bI was an apprectice mechanic with garage and used to meet my mate at lunchtime, we would go to the local baker to buy lunch, which in my case was a pie and a sticky bun, this cost an amount in 'old money' which I had, but I was short of a penny in 'new money'
So no sticky bun that day.
ds upped the price to 5 new pence or a shilling in old stuff. I seem to remember similar happening with Mars bars as well, it was a sad day at our school.Seems I have the edge on Eric with regard to age
A gin & tonic at the King's Head in Chigwell was 2s 10d.
Decimalisation of the currency was not a big problem, however "going metric" whislt I was halfway through college was.
All those memorised constants out the window, I thought it was the end of the world.
Hence remembering the price of booze.
Actually I worked P/T as a barman, not a bad gig, I was usually there anyway
A gin & tonic at the King's Head in Chigwell was 2s 10d.
Decimalisation of the currency was not a big problem, however "going metric" whislt I was halfway through college was.
All those memorised constants out the window, I thought it was the end of the world.
Hence remembering the price of booze.
Actually I worked P/T as a barman, not a bad gig, I was usually there anyway
I remember it well.
My first paper round paid 4/6 for delivering evening papers 5 days a week. I got offered another round at a different newsagent 5/- just for a Sunday and Eddie Waring had every Sunday paper!
Some years later my first pint of Tetleys was 1/10 and there was a lot of complaints when it went up to 1/11 (just under 10p!)
I saw the Stones at Leeds uni for 18/- and I saw Elton John, I think was about 35p in the Riley Smith hall.
After decimalisation my best mate passed his test and he drove his mums Anglia and petrol was about 35p a gallon.
When I gave up smoking a few years later B&H were 37.1/2p for 20.
My first paper round paid 4/6 for delivering evening papers 5 days a week. I got offered another round at a different newsagent 5/- just for a Sunday and Eddie Waring had every Sunday paper!
Some years later my first pint of Tetleys was 1/10 and there was a lot of complaints when it went up to 1/11 (just under 10p!)
I saw the Stones at Leeds uni for 18/- and I saw Elton John, I think was about 35p in the Riley Smith hall.
After decimalisation my best mate passed his test and he drove his mums Anglia and petrol was about 35p a gallon.
When I gave up smoking a few years later B&H were 37.1/2p for 20.
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