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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 13:05:31 GMT 1
How many here can remember going decimal with money? I wonder if they are thinking of returning to LSD (or are already using it. ) One thing then was that prices were always rounded up! NB I'm not thinking of a certain wonderful Mr Gove here.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 14:03:20 GMT 1
How many here can remember going decimal with money? I wonder if they are thinking of returning to LSD (or are already using it. ) One thing then was that prices were always rounded up! NB I'm not thinking of a certain wonderful Mr Gove here. Britain set out on the road to metrication in 1965 pre Common Market. My secondary education 67 - 71, other than currency, took no account of the imperial system other than in a historical sense. Most people hankering to go back to the good old days are of an age that they'll likely be deid before it happens leaving 2 or three generations left to wonder "WTF?" PS written on moving bus.
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Post by ajm on Sept 20, 2021 14:08:29 GMT 1
How many here can remember going decimal with money? I wonder if they are thinking of returning to LSD (or are already using it. ) One thing then was that prices were always rounded up! NB I'm not thinking of a certain wonderful Mr Gove here. Me!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 16:43:59 GMT 1
How many here can remember going decimal with money? I wonder if they are thinking of returning to LSD (or are already using it. ) One thing then was that prices were always rounded up! NB I'm not thinking of a certain wonderful Mr Gove here. Britain set out on the road to metrication in 1965 pre Common Market. My secondary education 67 - 71, other than currency, took no account of the imperial system other than in a historical sense. Most people hankering to go back to the good old days are of an age that they'll likely be deid before it happens leaving 2 or three generations left to wonder "WTF?" PS written on moving bus. Decimalisation occured in 1971 so you are well aware of LSD methinks. "£ not L during your youth " I'm afraid sarcasm on my part for old systems does not come across well. Sorry.
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Post by FFS on Sept 20, 2021 17:58:10 GMT 1
Britain set out on the road to metrication in 1965 pre Common Market. My secondary education 67 - 71, other than currency, took no account of the imperial system other than in a historical sense. Most people hankering to go back to the good old days are of an age that they'll likely be deid before it happens leaving 2 or three generations left to wonder "WTF?" PS written on moving bus. Decimalisation occured in 1971 so you are well aware of LSD methinks. "£ not L during your youth " I'm afraid sarcasm on my part for old systems does not come across well. Sorry. Grumpyish, read what Ally actually wrote; to help you, I've put it in bold and highlighted it in his quote above.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 18:28:35 GMT 1
FFS - he lived through the period when £sd was the currency. Did he never go into a shop then!
Surely he did not totally have to rely on his schooling to know about £sd.
NB In "63 -"69 I was in secondary school and was well aware of the change.. Certainly in "67 it was big news.
Ally must know!
Such a shame that its become adversarial - I thought that it was semi-humorous.
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Post by FFS on Sept 20, 2021 18:40:56 GMT 1
Of course he knows, he was simply saying that during the time of his secondary education it was only currency that had any imperial relevance for him.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 18:58:38 GMT 1
I was saying that. I tried to rewrite it to make it clear that I was talking about systems of measurement but a bouncing bus and no specs were making it difficult. Hence my closing comment.
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Post by ibis on Sept 20, 2021 18:58:54 GMT 1
Even when metric was forced down our throats businesses such as butchers usually labelled meat as xxx kilos and xxx pounds. Please can someone on here explain why you whinge about England so much? Open your eyes. The metric system was not forced down anyone’s throat, Was there a referendum? If not then it was forced down some it not a big proportion of the populist
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 19:05:23 GMT 1
See your point, but, strictly speaking, the imperial system is only about weights and measures not currency. That is based on even more bizarre roots. My initial comment fell flat - not the first time . Edit - has been clarified. Edit2 - "see your point" was not refering to the immediately previous post, but that of FFS at 6.40.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 19:08:04 GMT 1
A considerable proportion of whom are deid, with the vast majority, including myself, to follow in the next 20 years.
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Post by Dominic Best on Sept 20, 2021 20:36:14 GMT 1
Open your eyes. The metric system was not forced down anyone’s throat, Was there a referendum? If not then it was forced down some it not a big proportion of the populist What a strange use of language.
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Post by FFS on Sept 20, 2021 21:58:47 GMT 1
Was there a referendum? If not then it was forced down some it not a big proportion of the populist What a strange use of language. It's the Spanish influence. Either that, or an inability to read what one's posted and edit it.
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Post by pcpa on Sept 20, 2021 22:03:46 GMT 1
I left school in 1975 and we were taught in imperial weights & measures although there was some introduction to a weird thing called the Metric system that was supposed to happen in the future but would never catch on.
First year of my apprenticeship full time off site at an Industrial Training Centre with hundreds of other apprentices and everything that we made was in imperial units made from imperial bright rolled steel on imperial machines, at day release Technical College it was 100% metric units from day 1 first year ONC.
2nd year in the factory, most products were still made to imperial dimensions as they had been for decades on decades old imperial machines, pipework was metric as were all the site drawing dimensions, it was just the machinery that was still made to imperial dimensions, no different to the cars of the period, metric but still with some UNC/UNF engine parts & ancillaries.
Once in the drawing office it was pretty much all metric as we were designing process plant for Dairys, Brewerys, Chemical plants etc, the new heat exchangers were all metric, the traditional ranges still imperial as were the homogenisers.
My final year and post apprebticeship was in the Jig & Tool Drawing Office where all our drawings were in imperial although the tooling would use Metric fasteners (shoulder screws were still Imperial, cap screws Metric) and was for producing mainly Metric dimensioned parts.
All of my subsequent contract design jobs were in Metric units except for Aircraft work or flight simulators (Boeing Imperial, Airbus Metric) Imperial fasteners are still used by Airbus on some parts.
All my micrometers are Imperial, its no problem for me converting even in my head as I have been doing it all my adult life. When I am doing DIY I will mix both Metric and Imperial measurements if something is closer to a whole inch or larger fraction I will use that, if between then I use mms, if it falls on a centimetre that gets used.
I am surprised that Ally being older than me has no recollection of working in Imperial units, perhaps he had a more progressive education. I would have struggled at work and in further education if I had not been current with Imperial weights & measures.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 22:39:44 GMT 1
"am surprised that Ally being older than me has no recollection of working in Imperial units," I didn't say I had no recollection. On the contrary, avoirdupois, wait until the Brexit loonies get their heads round that wee anomaly, featured on the back cover of every jotter issued while I was at primary school. To this day I still use inches, feet and miles. Yards, pounds and ounces not so much.
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