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Post by Zed. on Feb 15, 2021 12:58:22 GMT
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Post by dadbif on Feb 15, 2021 13:21:56 GMT
The first D day was a triumph, the second a con.
Overnight, minimum London tube fares went from sixpence (2.5p) to a shilling (5p).
Perhaps it an age thing, I first paid 5 shillings, 25p a gallon. Happy days.
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Post by Zed. on Feb 15, 2021 14:10:00 GMT
I first paid 5 shillings, 25p a gallon. when Saddam toured Kuwait ~31 years ago the petrol price hit £2 a gallon, the day I bought a Holbay Hunter stuffed with profit innit, suppose its not like it grows on trees Rich.
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Post by howardb66 on Feb 15, 2021 16:43:25 GMT
10 months ago it was cheaper to leave oil in the ground than extract it. The price of jet fuel fell massively but this wasn’t reflected in ticket prices, it’s still 13% less than this time last year.
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Post by dickie on Feb 15, 2021 17:21:40 GMT
I did well on buying toy cars while the dual currency was allowed. I got away with paying in the wrong coinage a couple of times. There was a change over period when price labels had old pence and new pence on them. ( I might even still have the Matchbox Whizzwheels in a suitcase in the loft )
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Post by lowender on Feb 15, 2021 19:26:20 GMT
My aunty used to give me a postal order for half a crown every birthday. Petrol less than five bob a gallon with double green shield stamps. Posh things were priced in guineas. And then everything became more expensive overnight, and all the money sums I'd learned at school were suddenly useless. I still think in feet and inches, gallons and miles.
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Post by Zed. on Feb 15, 2021 19:54:41 GMT
I still think in feet and inches, gallons and miles. Same here but I was born in the metric / decimal era... all of the machines in the workshop where I was Apprentace were 'proper' English so I work in inches etc. & convert everything... a tape measure is a 'Box of Inches' Rich.
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Post by dickie on Feb 15, 2021 20:53:11 GMT
Being Numerically challenged I still like the idea of imperial fractions which confuse the hell out of the drawing office snowflakes. Take One Inch half it then half that etc etc 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 They look at me blankly when I tell then something is about 28 Thou out.( The proper engineers understand ) I had no problems when I worked in the Caribbean for a few years ! back to English Measurements. My old car is all BSF and Whitworth plus a few oddball threads !! Nautical Miles are another good one which can not be Metricated as it is One Minute of Latitude.
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Post by gbuk on Feb 15, 2021 21:34:57 GMT
I've been metric for years but still convert back to feet if I'm visualising a span or a room size. It's odd that sawn timber seems to be referred to in metric for the lengths but still inches for the section size, especially since they reduced from 50mm wide to 47mm or 44mm. 2" is much easier:) I've probably still got the old conversion scale rules around from when we had to convert old imperial drawn plans from 1/48 & 1/96 scale.
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Post by dadbif on Feb 15, 2021 22:23:56 GMT
I’m still in thousandth of an inch or tenths of a thou, millimetres flummox me.
Still have all my micrometers, callipers and DTI’s...
Can we not revert to proper measurements now we are out of the eu? (I know the answer...)
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Post by martiny on Feb 16, 2021 12:16:41 GMT
I remember in The Beano that week the Bash Street kids were in uproar because their pocket money had gone from 2 shillings to just ten pence. Teacher tried to explain that was the same thing but it got pretty ugly.
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