There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025
We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn
Pre-decimal was made easy work for odds at the bookies because there were eight half-crowns to the pound, twelve shillings to the pound, two ten-shillings to the pound meant that any odds using 8, 12, 4 or 6 were instantaneous, you just thought of the relevant coin(s).
Then there's the nine bob note! (I'll let someone else explain that)
There you go DD, one from the bookies
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Pre-decimal was made easy work for odds at the bookies because there were eight half-crowns to the pound, twelve shillings to the pound, two ten-shillings to the pound meant that any odds using 8, 12, 4 or 6 were instantaneous, you just thought of the relevant coin(s).
Then there's the nine bob note! (I'll let someone else explain that)
Sorry,DD; twenty shillings to the pound, twelve pence to the shilling.
yep, sorry, thought it wasn't adding up, had 144 pence to the pound in my head instead of 240. What was relevant about 144, was it weights?
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There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025
We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn
With regard to weights: everyone thinks that "text speak" such as 'cu' or '2L8' is a modern thing, but we've been using it for centuries. 112 pounds = 1 hundredweight. Hundredweight was always abbreviated to 'cwt', because 'c' is the Roman numeral for 100. So, a 'c weight'
the big difference betwee those of us that went to school in 1940s and 50s we had teachers and disapline, so we left school with the ability to read, write and add up without the help of mechanicle or electricle devises. not like the school children of later years and now who can quote there politicle correct rights and sweet fanny adams else
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well im still feet and inches myself and yes jamie im one of the old ones but oscar wilde was right youth is wasted on youth but enjoy yours and then look forward to being a grumpy old man, i sure enjoy being a grumpy old woman one of ages perks lol
