Imperial vs Metric

[Newportnobby]

I was working Saturdays in the Northampton Co-op when decimalisation first came in and many an old dear told me "I'm not going to bother as it won't catch on anyway".

Apart from a walk down Memory Lane there's really no point to this as we'll all do whatever we're told to do. Resistance is futile and we will be assimilated.

[javlinfaw7]

In the early seventies I was working for the Dept.of National Savings and our wages were linked to the retail price index I can remember during the periods of high inflation getting monthly wage rises

[railsquid]

You don't remember the subtle price increases and the 'rounding up' that happened?

You should have been in Germany after the introduction of the Euro... that DM5 beer in a cafe was suddenly EUR3...

Anyway, when will the 2p coin finally die a well-deserved death? From a weight-to-value perspective it must be some sort of record holder.

[MalcolmInN]

Ah, the Weimar Republic. That's when the 2nd world war really started.

Oooops did I mention The War.

[railsquid]

For you, Malcy, ze var is ower.

[MalcolmInN]

You don't remember the subtle price increases and the 'rounding up' that happened?

that DM5 beer in a cafe was suddenly EUR3...

Ummm, that assumes we all know / remember what the 'official' Mark:Eur was ? !

I remember when (loud groans!) the Eur was worth 60p, then it became 85p and now (when I last botherd) 70p, and may yet go back further south.

Apart from a walk down Memory Lane there's really no point to this as we'll all do whatever we're told to do. Resistance is futile and we will be assimilated.

True, but it gave me something to do whilst I awaited the coal man
And now it is raining

For you, Malcy, ze var is ower.

 

Really, already, why didnt someone tell me 

[EssexN]

Of course there have been all sorts of measurements through time

How many Elephants in a Hammerfore?




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Whats a Hammerfore?



All together now



Banging nails in



David