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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I've switched to the health lottery.

Costs 20/-......(twenty shillings) a pop.

You mean 20 Bob,.....      just under a Guinea....... 240 pennies......   4 Dollars......  2 10 bob notes........    an old Sovereign........   4 Crowns......  960 Farthings,.....     or 8 Half a Crowns

Er...yes.

I still have an old ten bob note somewhere. Pinkish in colour, I think.

When I were a lad, and of course of legal drinking age (Ahem ) I used to recon 8 pints to the pound  The local brew was Buckleys Bitter.

You must be getting quite long in the tooth.

Five bob a pint (25p) when I sixteen. Four pints to the quid.

Double diamond, 1s 10d (9p) a pint when I was 15. My £1 pocket money got me 9 pints and meat and potato pie and chips on the way home.
My double diamond and pie and chips seldom made it all the way home with me. 

Recycled by a passing mutt while still warm.......yummy.

[05omegav6]

All this talk of goat is making me peckish

[Mister Rog]

I've switched to the health lottery.

Costs 20/-......(twenty shillings) a pop.

You mean 20 Bob,.....      just under a Guinea....... 240 pennies......   4 Dollars......  2 10 bob notes........    an old Sovereign........   4 Crowns......  960 Farthings,.....     or 8 Half a Crowns

Er...yes.

I still have an old ten bob note somewhere. Pinkish in colour, I think.

When I were a lad, and of course of legal drinking age (Ahem ) I used to recon 8 pints to the pound  The local brew was Buckleys Bitter.

You must be getting quite long in the tooth.

Five bob a pint (25p) when I sixteen. Four pints to the quid.

Double diamond, 1s 10d (9p) a pint when I was 15. My £1 pocket money got me 9 pints and meat and potato pie and chips on the way home.
My double diamond and pie and chips seldom made it all the way home with me. 

Surely the groat was still legal tender when you were a nipper.

Just about remember Farthings  ( Farthing the tiny coin. Please remember the "h"  ) and certainly the old Threepenny bit

Moving on . . . . how come we were quite quick to decimalise the currency, slower to go metric on other things like liquid measures and weights, but some things just seem to keep hanging on.

Fuel consumption - MPG. Distances - Miles. Body weight - Stones, and a few others. When are we going to go metric on everything, or is it STEMO that keeps it all alive.

[flyer 0712]

What about the old white paper five pound notes then...arh the good OLD days..

[TD]

I've switched to the health lottery.

Costs 20/-......(twenty shillings) a pop.

Or you could switch to your local Air Ambulance lottery, if they do one. I do the Wiltshire Air Ambulance lottery. It costs them 2.5Million/year to keep the helicopter flying and the only funding they get is from donations. OK so you carnt win big money (1k jackpot/week + £25k super jackpot) but its a worthy cause, imo. 

[Viral_Jim]

Moving on . . . . how come we were quite quick to decimalise the currency, slower to go metric on other things like liquid measures and weights, but some things just seem to keep hanging on.

Tbh, other than beer (pints) and distance (miles) I think it's pretty much gone now in the younger generations. My best friends wife is 27 and she measures her height in meters and weight in kgs. My mate and I (34 and 32 respectively) are a bizarre cross over cohort. I measure myself in feet, obviously use miles but measure everything else in cm/m. Weight for me is lbs and stone, weight of anything else is g/kg.

I suppose it must have made sense at the time, but lot of the imperial stuff makes nil sense to me. Rods poles and perches, chains, fathoms and leagues etc etc.  Being the simpleton I am, I like just dividing or multiplying by 10/100/1000.


Oo, just thought of something else that's hung on to imperial. Livestock. Horses measured in hands, animals sold in guineas.

[Mister Rog]

Moving on . . . . how come we were quite quick to decimalise the currency, slower to go metric on other things like liquid measures and weights, but some things just seem to keep hanging on.

Tbh, other than beer (pints) and distance (miles) I think it's pretty much gone now in the younger generations. My best friends wife is 27 and she measures her height in meters and weight in kgs. My mate and I (34 and 32 respectively) are a bizarre cross over cohort. I measure myself in feet, obviously use miles but measure everything else in cm/m. Weight for me is lbs and stone, weight of anything else is g/kg.

I suppose it must have made sense at the time, but lot of the imperial stuff makes nil sense to me. Rods poles and perches, chains, fathoms and leagues etc etc.  Being the simpleton I am, I like just dividing or multiplying by 10/100/1000.


Oo, just thought of something else that's hung on to imperial. Livestock. Horses measured in hands, animals sold in guineas.

I drive my wife nuts, not with my irresistable charm, looks, and physique, but because I use Kg for my weight and I'm trying to lose some. She has no idea what I'm talking about 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Three hundred 'yards' down the road.

[STEMO]

There are some things you just can't metrificate 

For instance, a cricket pitch, wicket to wicket, is one chain or 22 yards.

There are other things where it doesn't matter. For instance, a fat bastard is a fat bastard in pounds or kilos. 

[05omegav6]

You're all whinging because you haven't won anything yet...

£25,000,000 in your bank account and you'd soon be quiet...

[Viral_Jim]

Oh, and don't get me started on scruples, grains and the like.

I also work in acres. There's another one that's hung on.

[Mr Gav]

There are some things you just can't metrificate 

There are other things where it doesn't matter. For instance, a fat bastard is a fat bastard in pounds or kilos. 

Like that one

You're all whinging because you haven't won anything yet...

£25,000,000 in your bank account and you'd soon be quiet...

Even the raffle is a nice little pick up 

[biggriffin]

All this talk of goat is making me peckish

Kebab's now made with, off cuts from  allegedly lamb, from various sources, make off that what you must

[05omegav6]

All this talk of goat is making me peckish

Kebab's now made with, off cuts from  allegedly lamb, from various sources, make off that what you must

Cat, pork and rabbit, same as forever thence thern

[Tony H]

I've switched to the health lottery.

Costs 20/-......(twenty shillings) a pop.

You mean 20 Bob,.....      just under a Guinea....... 240 pennies......   4 Dollars......  2 10 bob notes........    an old Sovereign........   4 Crowns......  960 Farthings,.....     or 8 Half a Crowns
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You forgot to list florins, threpanny bits, sixpences, halfpennies. Just sayin