The New money you know Lol I can't believe i actually found this after searching an hour. excited, Fox base Alpha was one of my favorite albums & still in 2022 in my top 10 & I loved the Wilson mix
Was it easier to do a 'dual' system of LSD and decimalization or confusing? We in the U.S. have no room to talk; although science and business is metric, the general public is still Imperial. I think metric would be easier, but you can't change alone.
I was born in '77, so I didn't have to worry about it. I laugh when I saw the price of things like for example the DWW (which was the DWM when it was weekly) for something like 50p and people bought only one copy, I would have got two. 😕
If they say "one pound fifteen each" then that is the price. Maybe £2.53 with the service (though I haven't seen hotel service charges for years). £3.00 is more than generous. Admittedly nowadays the room would probably be £115...
The guy only given 1p in change WAS shafted. The rounding was done legitimately, but against him, so he indeed had to pay an extra 1.6d. Now of course the hotel would be much more likely to be £115, not £1.15 or £1.75 or £3.85!
Being born in 1970, the changeover was not an issue for me. I have always known decimalisation and remember the halfpenny, which became defunct when I was fourteen!
3:19 if you came from Saint Etienne!
Thank you 👌🏻 I've been searching 30 years for this. Wilson
The New money you know Lol I can't believe i actually found this after searching an hour. excited, Fox base Alpha was one of my favorite albums & still in 2022 in my top 10 & I loved the Wilson mix
and 0:35 for those too 😉
Have been searching this out for ever - so good to have found it!
"Are you going potty or am I?"
Shops at the time of decimalisation offering new money or LSD. That amused me
Was it easier to do a 'dual' system of LSD and decimalization or confusing? We in the U.S. have no room to talk; although science and business is metric, the general public is still Imperial. I think metric would be easier, but you can't change alone.
Come On Auntie, We'll Miss the Bus!
I was born in '77, so I didn't have to worry about it. I laugh when I saw the price of things like for example the DWW (which was the DWM when it was weekly) for something like 50p and people bought only one copy, I would have got two. 😕
Great historical interest!
Yes - I thought so. Never seen another.
There probably were shops who took advantage of customers' ignorance about it, and ripped them off.
That hotel would’ve got £2:30 from me and sod all else!
If they say "one pound fifteen each" then that is the price. Maybe £2.53 with the service (though I haven't seen hotel service charges for years). £3.00 is more than generous.
Admittedly nowadays the room would probably be £115...
The guy only given 1p in change WAS shafted. The rounding was done legitimately, but against him, so he indeed had to pay an extra 1.6d.
Now of course the hotel would be much more likely to be £115, not £1.15 or £1.75 or £3.85!
11p for a pint of beer. Curry and rice 9p please take me back to 1971
Salaries where probably a farthing a day at the time
@@Javeec In 1970, the average weekly wage was around £32
If you went back in time to 1971, I would have been eight months old at decimalisation. Too young to understand or remember that period.
Saint Etienne.
Me too!
Being born in 1970, the changeover was not an issue for me. I have always known decimalisation and remember the halfpenny, which became defunct when I was fourteen!
Boy, those people on this record sound very belligerent, don't they! £ 💷 😆