Quote from: CAMRAMan on 11 January, 2020, 12:34:39 pmOh, and enter the 21st century and start accepting card payments. Nobody uses cheques these days for such things. Unless you're called Rees-Mogg, of course.Is your dentist's fee in guineas?
Oh, and enter the 21st century and start accepting card payments. Nobody uses cheques these days for such things. Unless you're called Rees-Mogg, of course.
That's a useful reminder of just how far in the past the 70s actually are.
Kim, you are very bad!
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 11 January, 2020, 08:43:00 pmThat's a useful reminder of just how far in the past the 70s actually are.As is Young People using "the 90s" to perform the same syntactic function as I'd use "the 70s" (roughly approximating as "time shortly before I was born when technology was primitive and people seemed to spend most of their time smoking and being shockingly racist/sexist/homophobic")
... and how OLD I am! I'm still deluded about being ''young' but legally became an adult in the '70swhich started 50 years ago.WHAT?!?!
It'll be the 50th anniversary of currency decimalisation next year! I do recall the build up to it, which does date me...
Why do I keep reading 'currency decriminalisation'?
Full decimalisation was 15 February 1971, only known as D-Day for a short time.
Quote from: Basil on 12 January, 2020, 03:43:56 pmWhy do I keep reading 'currency decriminalisation'?That stash of fifties under the sofa...
The dalasi is the currency of the Gambia that was adopted in 1971. It is subdivided into 100 bututs. It replaced the Gambian pound at a rate of 1 pound = 5 dalasis, i.e. 1 dalasi = 0.2 pound = 4 shillings.The name derives from dala, a nickname of the 5 French West African franc note, which in turn derived from "dollar"[1], while butut is from Wolof butuut, "small thing".[2]
You didn't notice that on the "old pence" used in shops it said "new pence"?
In thinking "shouldn't you have been noticing old/new Gambian <whatever>"
By 1982 the coins were no longer new so the word was dropped, and the 2p design changed from ‘New Pence’ to ‘Two Pence’.
Quote from: hellymedic on 12 January, 2020, 03:40:49 pmFull decimalisation was 15 February 1971, only known as D-Day for a short time.I remember the ads on the telly that instructed the elderly to "give more, get change", a great recipe for getting rooked.