Currency anxiety.
Currency anxiety.
Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
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Arising_uk
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Re: Currency anxiety.
No, decimalization is here to stay with respect to the currency.
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Hobbes' Choice
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Re: Currency anxiety.
We were already decimalised before we joined the EEC.Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
Anyway what could be more easy than 10 Florins = 1 Pound = 4 crowns = 20 shillings = 240 pennies = 560 farthings?
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vegetariantaxidermy
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Re: Currency anxiety.
How do you break up a pound now?Hobbes' Choice wrote:We were already decimalised before we joined the EEC.Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
Anyway what could be more easy than 10 Florins = 1 Pound = 4 crowns = 20 shillings = 240 pennies = 560 farthings?
Re: Currency anxiety.
1 have to admit I do miss the farthings.Hobbes' Choice wrote:
Anyway what could be more easy than 10 Florins = 1 Pound = 4 crowns = 20 shillings = 240 pennies = 560 farthings?
Re: Currency anxiety.
With the price of things these days the situation rarely arises.vegetariantaxidermy wrote: How do you break up a pound now?
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Philosophy Explorer
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Re: Currency anxiety.
By breaking it down into ounces.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:How do you break up a pound now?Hobbes' Choice wrote:We were already decimalised before we joined the EEC.Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
Anyway what could be more easy than 10 Florins = 1 Pound = 4 crowns = 20 shillings = 240 pennies = 560 farthings?
PhilX
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vegetariantaxidermy
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Re: Currency anxiety.
Yes. Well google made the same mistake so don't feel bad.Philosophy Explorer wrote:By breaking it down into ounces.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:How do you break up a pound now?Hobbes' Choice wrote:
We were already decimalised before we joined the EEC.
Anyway what could be more easy than 10 Florins = 1 Pound = 4 crowns = 20 shillings = 240 pennies = 560 farthings?
PhilX
Re: Currency anxiety.
I'm hoping they'll introduce a new system based on Groats and Doubloons. 24.5 Groats to the Doubloon, except on Tuesdays.
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vegetariantaxidermy
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Re: Currency anxiety.
RickLewis wrote:I'm hoping they'll introduce a new system based on Groats and Doubloons. 24.5 Groats to the Doubloon, except on Tuesdays.
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bobevenson
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Re: Currency anxiety.
That goes without saying.Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
Re: Currency anxiety.
You didn't need to repeat his brain couldn't handle it, we all knew that.bobevenson wrote:That goes without saying.Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
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Philosophy Explorer
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Re: Currency anxiety.
Why don't you go along with it?bobevenson wrote:That goes without saying.Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
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I go along with everything, that's why they call me Mr. Congenial.Philosophy Explorer wrote:Why don't you go along with it?bobevenson wrote:That goes without saying.Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.