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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con 12:15 - Feb 16 with 6859 views2Thomas2Bowles

I was in a foster home at the time.

I remember it well as I use to get 3 Shillings and 6d pocket money.

The conversion was 17 and a half P
But they would only give us 17P said it was too much of a fuffle or some other worded excuse.

I still think I should sue for the great distress inflicted.
I still have nightmares about it.

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 12:26 - Feb 16 with 5312 views2Thomas2Bowles

Also I should sue for Canning in 1972

Fighting, which was defending myself from a bully 2 years older, I did beat the shit out of him.

Nowadays a teacher hitting a child would get me a house.

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 13:06 - Feb 16 with 5209 viewsJuzzie

A lot of highly paid sports people around the world took to their sport (football, boxing, snooker etc) as a result of getting away from an impoverished upbringing.

I should sue my parents for giving me a good childhood but ending up in a desk job.
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 13:15 - Feb 16 with 5191 viewsMrSheen

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 13:06 - Feb 16 by Juzzie

A lot of highly paid sports people around the world took to their sport (football, boxing, snooker etc) as a result of getting away from an impoverished upbringing.

I should sue my parents for giving me a good childhood but ending up in a desk job.


I am thinking of suing for being deprived of the chance to throw old pennies and thruppeny bits at football grounds.
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 13:21 - Feb 16 with 5177 viewsCliveWilsonSaid

Ah yes. The exploitation of decimalisation.

Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile!

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 13:51 - Feb 16 with 5118 views2Thomas2Bowles

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 13:06 - Feb 16 by Juzzie

A lot of highly paid sports people around the world took to their sport (football, boxing, snooker etc) as a result of getting away from an impoverished upbringing.

I should sue my parents for giving me a good childhood but ending up in a desk job.


You can divorce them nowadays, see if you can get a settlement, half their assets and the dog/cat

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 13:55 - Feb 16 with 5106 views2Thomas2Bowles

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 13:21 - Feb 16 by CliveWilsonSaid

Ah yes. The exploitation of decimalisation.

Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile!


And the metric system, that's taken a pound of flash and turned it into 453.592gs
WTF!!!
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 14:09 - Feb 16 with 5095 viewsQPRSteve

I like a good pair of threepenny bits.
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:02 - Feb 16 with 4933 viewsBoston

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 14:09 - Feb 16 by QPRSteve

I like a good pair of threepenny bits.


How I miss farthing, after a few beers and a couple of pies.

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:05 - Feb 16 with 4929 viewsBoston

oh, as for the original post, there was no three shillings and sixpence pocket money in our home. Uphill both ways, donchaknow.

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:19 - Feb 16 with 4915 viewsloftboy

My pocket money leading up to decimalisation was a sixpence!

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:22 - Feb 16 with 4908 views2Thomas2Bowles

It was more like hush hush money and bribery not to run away.

You lost it if your bed was not made with hospital corners, another torture of the young.

The Matron ( Heads wife) was a nasty piece of work.

Alpen munching Mk1 Landrover owners with no kids of their own, I'm sure she hated boys.

30 boys half-p a week = 15p a week they were nicking off us, 3 fecking Shillings!!!

Retired in the Seychelles no doubt!
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:38 - Feb 16 with 4874 viewsPlanetHonneywood

In them days, American rapper 50cent was known as 2shillings.

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:39 - Feb 16 with 4871 views2Thomas2Bowles

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:38 - Feb 16 by PlanetHonneywood

In them days, American rapper 50cent was known as 2shillings.


You mean 2 bob

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:45 - Feb 16 with 4853 viewsjohann28

Mars bars went up from 4d to 5p. Even i aged 8, with minimal maths ability, could figure out this represented an increase of 6d. At this moment, I became disillusioned, cynical and not a little angry. I therefore blame Ted heath for everything bad that happened later, whether it be a bitter divorce or that incident with the Norwich police in 76.
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:56 - Feb 16 with 4829 views2Thomas2Bowles

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:45 - Feb 16 by johann28

Mars bars went up from 4d to 5p. Even i aged 8, with minimal maths ability, could figure out this represented an increase of 6d. At this moment, I became disillusioned, cynical and not a little angry. I therefore blame Ted heath for everything bad that happened later, whether it be a bitter divorce or that incident with the Norwich police in 76.


I'm sure curly wurlys went up from 3d to 3p or 4p double the price.

Don't even mention 4 for a penny!
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 19:42 - Feb 16 with 4765 viewsMrSheen

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:45 - Feb 16 by johann28

Mars bars went up from 4d to 5p. Even i aged 8, with minimal maths ability, could figure out this represented an increase of 6d. At this moment, I became disillusioned, cynical and not a little angry. I therefore blame Ted heath for everything bad that happened later, whether it be a bitter divorce or that incident with the Norwich police in 76.


Cough, cough, an increase of 8d, surely? 240d = 100p, so 12d = 5p.
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 19:42 - Feb 16 with 4760 viewsBoston




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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 20:04 - Feb 16 with 4721 viewsHayesender

As someone born in Jan 71, I've never known any different, but why did they change it?

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 20:34 - Feb 16 with 4692 viewsMrSheen

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 20:04 - Feb 16 by Hayesender

As someone born in Jan 71, I've never known any different, but why did they change it?


20 shillings in a pound, 12 pennies in a shilling. There weren’t calculators then anyway, but pre-decimal calculations were a nightmare. With inflation building up then, things needed to be recalculated more often - eg petrol pumps - and it was a trial.

I worked for an insurance company, and we found the 1969 fund calculation in a huge ledger in a cupboard. They worked it out once a year and it took weeks. Now it’s continuously recalculated.
4,613 times £3 6s 11d
Plus
2,895 times £6 17s 3d
Plus
64,097 times 13s 4d
etc, etc
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 20:55 - Feb 16 with 4646 viewsstowmarketrange

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 18:56 - Feb 16 by 2Thomas2Bowles

I'm sure curly wurlys went up from 3d to 3p or 4p double the price.

Don't even mention 4 for a penny!
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I didn’t think curly wurlys were made in 1971.I thought they were introduced in 1972?
I should’ve googled it before I posted as they were first produced in 1970.I remember when wagon wheels were worth eating though.
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 20:59 - Feb 16 with 4634 views2Thomas2Bowles

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 20:34 - Feb 16 by MrSheen

20 shillings in a pound, 12 pennies in a shilling. There weren’t calculators then anyway, but pre-decimal calculations were a nightmare. With inflation building up then, things needed to be recalculated more often - eg petrol pumps - and it was a trial.

I worked for an insurance company, and we found the 1969 fund calculation in a huge ledger in a cupboard. They worked it out once a year and it took weeks. Now it’s continuously recalculated.
4,613 times £3 6s 11d
Plus
2,895 times £6 17s 3d
Plus
64,097 times 13s 4d
etc, etc
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It worked for over 2000 years as based on Roman money

The history on £sd how and why it changed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A3sd
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 21:02 - Feb 16 with 4627 viewsBoston

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 20:34 - Feb 16 by MrSheen

20 shillings in a pound, 12 pennies in a shilling. There weren’t calculators then anyway, but pre-decimal calculations were a nightmare. With inflation building up then, things needed to be recalculated more often - eg petrol pumps - and it was a trial.

I worked for an insurance company, and we found the 1969 fund calculation in a huge ledger in a cupboard. They worked it out once a year and it took weeks. Now it’s continuously recalculated.
4,613 times £3 6s 11d
Plus
2,895 times £6 17s 3d
Plus
64,097 times 13s 4d
etc, etc
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...and all by abacus.

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con (n/t) on 21:14 - Feb 16 with 4603 viewsThe_Beast1976

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con (n/t) on 21:22 - Feb 16 with 4591 views2Thomas2Bowles

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con (n/t) on 21:14 - Feb 16 by The_Beast1976

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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 21:24 - Feb 16 with 4588 viewsThe_Beast1976

50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con (n/t) on 21:22 - Feb 16 by 2Thomas2Bowles

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I was only joking, but deleted anyway 👍
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