50 years today

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Tyres are measured with the diameter in inches and the rest in metric??

Motorcycle chains are still measured using fractions of inches although pins and rollers seem to be metric.
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coppinpr wrote:a guinea is £1-1 shilling (21 shillings) not £1.10 shillings (30 shillings
Typo Paul, out of practice writing £ s d after 50 years !!
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brigham wrote:I don't know how we survived as a nation
Because we are 'British' ........ I always refer to my-self as 'English'
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British by birth, English by the Grace of God...
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British by birth English because thats the same as God
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I do love this jingoism /\UK/\ I know its the union flag but could not find a St George emoji - any got one !!THUMBSX2!!
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Ok found one !!YIPPEE!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Going back to decimalisation, I had stopped playing the slots by that time (starting new job got in the way :( ) so was only used to the old penny machines. What happened with the changeover? Did the operators immediately convert their machines to take new pence in which case any punters putting the same number of new pennies in as they did old ones, (old habits die hard) would be automatically spending £2.40 for every £1 they spent before !PUZZLED! Great little earner for the operators :D
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That's what most of the ones I frequented did.
It was an obvious swizz. The grown-ups still only gave you a shilling, but overnight you only got five goes, instead of twelve.
It effectively devalued the pound by almost two-thirds.
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Not sure about the amusement industry Brian, but at the time I had a part-time job in a grocery shop (if you have seen Open All Hours then this corner shop could easily have been the basis for the programme!) and it was a nightmare converting/changing prices of products into decimal equivalent. I well remember giving change to an elderly lady who lived close by the shop, and when she received the new coinage she outright refused to accept it and demanded 'proper money' as she said !!

The old folk especially, must have been so confused by it all :burp:
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As I remember it its wasn't quite like that, the changeover period was already running so operators were getting rid of machines, buying new ones, and converting others in readiness. putting in the same number of coins as the old machines was not an issue because everyone thought of the new money as just that "new money" 1 np had nothing to do with 1d in everyone's mind other than being twice the value, plus 1d games became 1np games,6d games were still using 6d coins as were 1/- games. there was confusion of course but much less than expected.

I remember buying my wife a hand made handbag in Venice shortly after they went to the euro, the little old lady (wife of the bagmaker) who worked at the counter could not get her head around the fact that her husband's bags, which she had been selling for several million lire were now only a couple of hundred euro, she was all but in tears over it! !PUZZLED!
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arrgee wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:13 pm I do love this jingoism
Overly polite, tea drinking, ironic, self-deprecating and dentally challenged, I'm happy with, but can we skip the God complex?
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It effectively devalued the pound by almost two-thirds.
no, it did not! it might have devalued the number of games you got for £1 but thats all because the payouts were also in np, when you gave the "Lenny" (the man with the chain of keys around his neck) £1 he gave 100 coins instead of 240 (if you were lucky enough to have a £). As far as an amusement arcade went it would only devalue the £ if the payouts had been in 1d coins ,now that would have been a nice operator trick, put in 1np get a one cherry win and get paid 2d a net loss of half a old penny :lol:
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skip the God complex?
ok,but she wont like it :cool:
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