Who remembers (and misses) the old money?

roman totale said:
Any excuse to post my favourite Ted Chippington joke;

I was walking down the street the other day and this bloke came up to me and said ‘Hey, Ted, got any LSD man?’ I said, ‘Pounds, shillings and pence? Haven’t you heard? We’ve gone decimal nowadays’
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L = Librae

S = Solidus

D = Denarii

pounds, shillings and pence

This old system of currency, known as pounds, shillings and pence or lsd, dated back to Roman times when a pound of silver was divided into 240 pence, or denarius, which is where the 'd' in 'lsd' comes from. (lsd: librum, solidus, denarius).

We could actually weigh money instead of count it, this slippery cash we have now is vastly inferior :)
 
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Barcon said:
I'd only just learned all this money malarkey and they changed it to decimal.
I almost kicked my abacus across the room and shit in my inkwell.
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I remember my English teacher filling up our ink wells, we were only allowed to use a piece of dowel but we could choose our writing tips, I tell people over here about it and they think I’m full of shit.
I am full of shit however not on this
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
The advantage of the old system and 240 pennies to a pound was that you could split a bill 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 ways, whereas it's only 2, 4, 5 & 10 with decimal coinage.
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So just 3, 6, 8 and 12 missing?
Then again, to split 8 ways means splitting 4 ways and then half that. So 8 not a problem.
If you want to split a pound to 3 ways then ask yourself if you really care about the odd penny.
And in the old days did you lose sleep splitting a 19/11 bill 3 ways.

I learned old money and all the imperial measures but decimal much easier.
Don't forget the US still uses imperial measures (the only ones?) and that's enough reason to be metric.
 
Lavinda Past said:
I don’t like this new money. It doesn't look, sound, or feel real.

When you had half a crown in your pocket, you knew you had proper money, and there was something reassuring about the ten bob note.
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When you want a half crown to feel like proper money, join the queue for a quid per day pension.
Inflation is not your friend.
Equivalent now is probably a tenner.
 
Ashton Moss Messi said:
Don't forget the US still uses imperial measures (the only ones?) and that's enough reason to be metric.
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We give our weight in imperial
We give our height in imperial
We still converse in miles and not kilometers

It never really left us even though they tried to erase it from the way we think or do business.
 
Seem to remember an LP was 32/6
mexico1970 said:
We give our weight in imperial
We give our height in imperial
We still converse in miles and not kilometers

It never really left us even though they tried to erase it from the way we think or do business.
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Do you still buy pints of beer ?
 
And here I was thinking the answer was going to be “because it was actually worth something!”

“As bent as a nine bob note!” was an old saying I remember hearing a time or two!!

And, my gran used to use the phrase
“_____ isn’t worth tuppence ha’penny!”

Used to visit my old, old grandparents on my Dad’s side every Sunday and they’d both slip us a sixpence for pocket money and they would both say, “Don’t tell your Grandpa/ma, she’ll think I’m made of money!”

You could walk around like a king on Monday with two sixpence in your pocket! Sadly, you’d be light a penny, possibly two, before you got home from school! Wasn’t sure whether it would be Bazooka Joe, strawberry sherbets, traffic lights, candy shrimps, or maybe wine gums, but, regardless of the choice, there wouldn’t be a shilling in my pocket by the time I got home for tea on Monday!

Ah, the good old days!
 
mexico1970 said:
We give our weight in imperial
We give our height in imperial
We still converse in miles and not kilometers

It never really left us even though they tried to erase it from the way we think or do business.
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Not sure who the ‘they’ is but metric is far more sensible and practical than imperial.

You say ‘we’ to those three things but that’s far from correct. I’d say most people I know weigh themselves in kilos. Height and miles for travelling I’ll grant you are fairly ubiquitous, but not universal. Plus there are many things that are overwhelmingly metric. Weight of goods in shops and temperature both spring to mind.

It’s actually a fairly nuanced picture, so to say it never really left us has to be, in part at least, incorrect.
 
My grandma used to come to our house every Tuesday. She always left me a threepenny bit as well as a white sweet from in the bottom of her purse where she kept her park drive dockers. I later found out that the white sweet was a milk of magnesia tablet. It tasted shit but I still ate it. We were hungry back in the days of the old money.
 
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