250BOB Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Why don't we ask to get these back full time after Brexit...??? Once that's done, we will then go for £.s.d Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Davis Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 I don't want £sd back, I hated it as a child and believe it would be a regressive step. I am also quite happy with kilos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2017 Twelve pound and ten shillings doesn't have the same ring to it as 250BOB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Twelve pound and ten shillings doesn't have the same ring to it as 250BOB Leave Robert out of this. LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 I don't want £sd back, I hated it as a child and believe it would be a regressive step. I am also quite happy with kilos Not to worry, there will be an app for all those who grew up in the mental arithmetic void occasioned by switching to that easy continental method. Then we will all once again happily drive the extra furlong three chains for the fuel that's threefarthing per gallon cheaper; in our Morris Minors which in winter will be at a balmy 50F, so much warmer sounding than that miserable 10C the continentals will insist on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyA Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Would we then go to 5/32 inch to 1 foot (approximately)? Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 The temperature display on the clock in my office switched itself from Centigrade to Fahrenheit recently. I've no idea how or why, but the clock is radio controlled, so maybe whoever runs the transmitter is an ardent Bexiter. Or maybe I just knocked it over, and pressed a button by accident, and I can't work out which one to press to change it back! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire2865 Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Why not just convert everything to Rankine. Ah its a mild 510°R day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2017 We probably get ripped off again if we changed back to £:s:d, but I like the idea. Just think of all those youngsters will have to start learning their twelve times table etc.some of them can't even work out how much change they should get from a quid in decimal, let alone real money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Yes!!! And, then we could start ducking witches, and burning heretics, and all that sort of stuff, to do "the full medieval"! K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2017 I'm a remainer, sticking with the easy option of x10,x100,x1000 suits me just fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Can we include the calendar? I find the current system rather too complicated. I like the Japanese idea of starting again at year 1 when the Emperor dies.. Or the Jewish version where you start at the beginning. I also think that the idea of all birthdays being on Jan 1st as they do with race horses has some merit. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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