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Thread: OT: salute to the chip butty
Almagill
Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:45 am
#144
Aerec_Krouse wrote:
2 bob for a fish supper???? Blimey, you must live somewhere posh, my dad delights in telling me he could get fish and chips and mushy peas and still have change from sixpence, in fact if he spent more than a shilling for beer AND the fish & chips he considered it an expensive evening out
ROFL, I'm not as old as your dad then.
Calculus_Entropy
Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:48 am
#145
Almagill wrote:
18/- for chips? Eighteen bob? When I grew up there was a chain of tailors called "Thirty Bob Suits" where you could get a two piece suit for just 30 shillings. (That's £1.50 in decimal...). My first job paid seventeen and ten for a 42 hour week, with time and a half for Saturday afternoons.
You could get a stone of tatties for a couple of bob. I think a bag of chips was about a tanner and a fish supper was a couple of shillings.
Mind you, for a half a guinea you could get a slap up meal for two, with tea!
You try telling that to youngsters these days and they just look at you and go "whatever..."
I am speechless. This is whatI just heard you say Ken (this is all in fun, you know):
kadg sdfgsdjfgh sdjfgh sd;jf bob hg;sdgh sdkfjg s;dkjfhg sjdhfg s;dkfjgh sdf;gjhwoeht sdkfj hwerg sdjg
a;sklha;slkjh la chips askjasfj kasjd lasfj aspijf aksjf ais bob alskj asf kaslf as;dfl kasf asf.
Temujin23
Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:18 pm
#146
You're all whack poseurs. When my grandpa was a kid, two ducats, a drachma, and some wampum bought enough chips to feed the family for a whole year.
And nickels had pictures of bees on them. 'Gimme five bees for a quarter,' you'd say.
al-djinn'i
Master Ranger/Master Rifleman
sanca
Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:51 pm
#147
Well I know the Drachma is/was Greek currency.. as for the rest.. you've lost me.
Sondhi
Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:05 pm
#148
JascoSmlee wrote:
...andall this was fields!
Almagill wrote:
18/- for chips? Eighteen bob? When I grew up...(old person waffle)
lol 
bloody h€llfire... are all you master rangers out their either from across the pond or pre-decimalisation . next you'll be measuring distances in chains and talking about quarts and gills and stuff... /shiver
I for one wasn't even born in 1971 (or whenever it was) and only just remember playing around with ½ p's when i was a mere ankle biting wook pup. Litre's / gallons i can just about cope with... miles / yards / feet and inches -> millimetres / centimetres / metres etc fine no problemo... stones / pounds -> grammes and kilogrammes easy peasy lemon squesy... but old money....
/bah
Vorpaks
Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:27 am
#149
I got slap up tatties and guinea pigs out of it if that helps.
Edit: and I feel forced to add that slapping guinea pigs is just wrong Ken, you should be ashamed.
Edit: and I feel forced to add that slapping guinea pigs is just wrong Ken, you should be ashamed.
Message Edited by Vorpaks on 02-11-2005 03:29 PM
Owen-Lars
Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:45 am
#150
lol Ken, cant believe you said shilling 
Didnt we have those before dabloons?
Phenix1050
Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:34 pm
#151
You want a shilling?
How about Curt Schilling, one of the best pitchers in baseball today, and one tough sumbitch.
Owen-Lars
Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:21 pm
#152
Shilling is just one of the funniest words ever. Also blamonge and poperdom.
Almagill
Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:37 pm
#153
Owen-Lars wrote:lol Ken, cant believe you said shillingDidnt we have those before dabloons?
ROFL. We still had predecimal currency when I was 'little' and I had to learn that there were:
ha'pennies - 1/2d
pennies or tanners - 1d
thruppeny bits - 3d
sixpences or half a bob - 6d
shillings, bobs - 1/-
two shilling coins called florins - 2/-
half crowns (or a half dollar) 2/6
12 pennies made a shilling, 20 shillings made a pound Sterling, a guinea was 21 shillings.
The only L.S.D we ever saw was the money in mithers purse. (Pounds, shillings and pence, or Libra, Sestertii, Dinarii )
Don't even get me started on the weights and measures we used. When I started work as a butcher I had to be able to count in oz's, lbs, stones and cwts. In my head. Without using fingers to tally up on....
(and yeah Calc and Paks, all in good fun... just wait... I'll get you yet
)
Almagill
Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:42 pm
#154
Oh aye, and for a predecimal digital calculator...
old your right hand out, place the tip of your thumb on the first 'pad' of your first finger, count 1, move to the next, 2
the next, 3
etc...
Here, there's 12 of them! A dozen.
Now, on your other hand, keep track of your dozens.
12 * 12 = 144.
And you thought cans of soup and tins of beer were packed in multiples of 12 just because it made a handy sized box...
Merchants would keep a tally of items coming into their warehouse this way. Had the advantage that they could break off from overseeing a delivery, keep their thumb in place and not lose count of whats already come in.
old your right hand out, place the tip of your thumb on the first 'pad' of your first finger, count 1, move to the next, 2
the next, 3
etc...
Here, there's 12 of them! A dozen.
Now, on your other hand, keep track of your dozens.
12 * 12 = 144.
And you thought cans of soup and tins of beer were packed in multiples of 12 just because it made a handy sized box...
Merchants would keep a tally of items coming into their warehouse this way. Had the advantage that they could break off from overseeing a delivery, keep their thumb in place and not lose count of whats already come in.
Temujin23
Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:54 am
#156
Phenix1050 wrote:
I demand this go in the Ranger insanity thread!!
Wait and see if it passes the necro test first. In the meantime, though, don't you think there should be a ranger hat?
And before you ask, yes, it was my intent to warp the very fabric of reality by tying this thread to that one. Ranger for Life!
al-djinn'i