A thank you to Brexiteers.

[Bahnhof Strasse]

A load of straw is 11 hundredweight 2 quarters 8lb. That's quite a bit of straw to clutch, mind.

Forgotten British and Irish units

Magna Carta, signed on 15 June 1215, said, “Let there be one measure …”. This week, we illustrate the consequences of ignoring this principle by looking at some old measurement un…

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Is it the same as a load of bollocks?

 

[Chilli.s]

Doing percentages with all that old money and weights must be a bit of a work up

 

[PR1Berske]

Doing percentages with all that old money and weights must be a bit of a work up

12 old pence in a shilling
20 shillings in a pound

So that's base 12, base 20, and base 10, just from the money.

 

[two sheds]

ah but 12's divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 - much superior to 10 which is only divisible by 2 and 5

so how do you divide a decimal price exactly if you buy a pizza between three, four or six people eh? eh? it can't be done

 

[PR1Berske]

ah but 12's divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 - much superior to 10 which is only divisible by 2 and 5

so how do you divide a decimal price exactly if you buy a pizza between three, four or six people eh? eh? it can't be done

If anyone you know kicks up a fuss because they can't divide £12.99 between three of you, get new friends.

 

[Badgers]

Might be useful quimcunx

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[two sheds]

If anyone you know kicks up a fuss because they can't divide £12.99 between three of you, get new friends.

Yeh but what if it costs £13.00? Your smug examples won't work then to eliminate the unfairness for 3, 4 or 6 people. But with £13/0/0 everyone will be laughing, right up to 120 people.

 

[keybored]

so how do you divide a decimal price exactly if you buy a pizza between three, four or six people eh? eh? it can't be done

Just drive up inflation till pizzas and everything else cost 12 times as much.

 

[two sheds]

Fucking Brexit again

 

[Pickman's model]

ah but 12's divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 - much superior to 10 which is only divisible by 2 and 5

so how do you divide a decimal price exactly if you buy a pizza between three, four or six people eh? eh? it can't be done

You stop being so damn precious about a few pennies

 

[two sheds]

yeh easy for you to say

 

[bluescreen]

You stop being so damn precious about a few pennies

Back in the 1970s my brother worked in a shop where things had odd prices because VAT had just gone up. A woman, a posh type, came to the counter with a fancy mug priced at £2.01. She didn't have the odd penny and said to him, 'Oh, it's only a penny, it doesn't amount to anything.' He spotted the coins she had and said 'You're right madam, it doesn't amount to anything so that will be £2.02.'

 

[brogdale]

We may not have a good war.

 

[philosophical]

I grew up and was schooled before metrication everywhere.
It was a question of number bases.
Ten is regarded as good because most of us have ten digits to count on.
However, especially with getting yer money right being a motivator, the imperial system led to larger numbers of people with arithmetical mental agility.
It seems that these days if you pay a pound for something costing 77 pence the change gets worked out by a machine, most people I knew growing up could do that and more in their head.
We could subtract £5 13s 7d from £9 10s 6d quite quickly in our heads, mental arithmetic was a thing. £3 16s 11d is the answer.
We would jump around number bases with tens, and threes using yards for example, feet and inches, eight pints to a gallon and ounces pounds and stones. Even now height is commonly described in feet and inches.
I suppose my point is that the commonplace use of different number bases was used and accepted.
In which sport might 10.4 plus 6.5 equal 17.3?

 

[Badgers]

Britons living in EU can’t keep pre-Brexit rights, European court advised | Brexit | The Guardian

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[Badgers]

Sinless upLaNdS

 

[Badgers]

 

[philosophical]

Evidence gathering?
How does that get paid for?
There is no evidence to gather, the voters voted that the UK leaves the EU and that hasn’t happened.
Whatever is called ‘Brexit’ so far, is not what was voted for.
People who voted leave voted to crash the Belfast/Good Friday agreement.

 

[two sheds]

Brexiteer Tory MP says new paperwork for trading with EU is ‘monstrous’

Desmond Swayne calls for border to be made digital and ‘seamless’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Louis MacNeice]

12 old pence in a shilling
20 shillings in a pound

So that's base 12, base 20, and base 10, just from the money.

Don't forget 16 ounces to the pound, 14 pounds to the stone, 8 stones to the hundredweight and 20 hundredweight to the ton. We can move onto fluid and distance measures in a bit.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[teqniq]

There is some weird shit going on here:

 

[teqniq]

Hahahaha looks to have been hacked:

 

[brogdale]

Hahahaha looks to have been hacked:

Lot's of vermin going back and deleting their LML retweets...

Politwoops

 

[teqniq]

Lot's of vermin going back and deleting their LML retweets...

Politwoops

The Leave means leave account owner deleted all of the previous tweets which means anyone retweeting will have lost those retweets too.

 

[2hats]

Totally unrelated?

 

[Artaxerxes]

Totally unrelated?

The lawyers do what the government lets them do so this shifting the blame onto them is pathetic.

 

[Duncan2]

Thread won't be the same without Badgers

 

[Artaxerxes]

Thread won't be the same without Badgers

Who else will post random twitter links and like my posts?

He'll be missed.

 

[brogdale]

Thread won't be the same without Badgers

Have I missed something?

 

[Ax^]

Have I missed something?

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