I saw an interview when they switched to 100 pennies to a pound. People were going on about how the old system was so much easier and made so much sense, and the new decimalized system was weird and didn’t make sense. It sounded exactly like when people say imperial is easy and metric is hard.
I’m out.
I saw an interview when they switched to 100 pennies to a pound. People were going on about how the old system was so much easier and made so much sense, and the new decimalized system was weird and didn’t make sense. It sounded exactly like when people say imperial is easy and metric is hard.
You’re quitting early. That’s not even half the fun of predecimal British currency. There is so much more:
Edit: Well, that didn’t work. Let me see, if I can fix it.
Edit2: or maybe it did? I can see the image in the browser, just not in the app. Here is the link, in case someone else can’t see it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/British_predecimal_currency.svg
SVG is a vector image format that probably isn’t compatible with every Lemmy client. Here’s a rasterized version from a screenshot:
Ah thanks, I always wondered why I can see some images but not others.
My brain hurts.
I got me head stuck in the cubboard!
Sorry sir all I’ve got is 3 groat
The joke about wizard money at the start of Harry Potter makes so much more sense now.
Internet sarcasm should take note.
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I guess simplicity and user friendly weren’t big concerns back then.
I suspect a lot of traditions and dealing with people that never learned to count beyond their fingers