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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 4942 views
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 4928 views
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
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 4580 views
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.
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 4511 views
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 4397 views
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!
[Post edited 16 Feb 2021 18:58]
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.
[Post edited 16 Feb 2021 20:59]
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50 years ago, The Great Decimal Con on 20:59 - Feb 16 with 4385 views
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
[Post edited 16 Feb 2021 20:53]
It worked for over 2000 years as based on Roman money
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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