Decimalisation

[Gabriel]

We should have done what the Aussies did, and introduce decimal measurements and dropped all imperial units on a specific date, like we did the currency.

There’s certainly neither logic nor consistency in anything I do. I know my imperial height but my metric weight.

 

[mancityvstoke]

It doubled my workload too as I still measure everything in both MM and Inches

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I don't see the point.

 

[west didsblue]

Fifty years ago today, the UK's currency finally arrived in the 20th Century, when we changed over from Pounds, Shillings and Pence to a much simpler decimal system.

At 58, I reckon I am in the youngest age bracket that can remember the changeover.

For those, who don’t recall the time, we had weeks of a series of five-minute public information films to inform us of how the new currency would work.

The clips were introduced by this little ditty from The Scaffold, a group that included Mike McGear, Sir Paul McCartney's brother:

"One pound is 100 new pennies, one hundred new pence to the pound"
I remember that to music.

I remember chips going up from 6d (2.5p) to 3p.
Can't remember much else about it.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Anyone who cannot see the benefit of this should try dividing £11/13/6 by £3/5/4

 

[roman totale]

I was walking down the street the other day and this chap said to me: "D'you want some LSD?" I said: "No thanks mate, we've gone decimalised now. Pounds, shillings, pence - no use to me any more”.

Ted Chippington c.1982

 

[Ban-jani]

This thread should out some FOCs

 

[mexico1970]

I still call 50 pence pieces ten bob bits.

 

[Chippy_boy]

I still call 50 pence pieces ten bob bits.

When do you get your telegram from the queen?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

I measure in the house in metres and centimetres, weigh food in Grammes but weigh myself in stones and pounds. I use mph in my car and road distances in miles.