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[norrahe]

Got a call about a gig I've been put forward for, clientco refusing to pay even base market rate and looking to pay at least £100 less than what it should be, pimp asking me to reduce my base rate.

[norrahe]

Of course I said thanks but no!

[FiveTimes]

Of course I said thanks but no!

and rightly so

[zeitghost]

No basking for you anymore Zeity.

<shiver>

I don't know what that means

4d 3/4 - four (old) pence three farthings.

i.e. not a lot.

A bit more than 3 1/2d though. (Thruppence ha'penny 3.5 old pennies).

I'll be talking about half crowns before much longer (12.5p). They were nice coins.

And 6d bits (6 penny bit, 2.5p).

All abolished to make way for VAT and the dreaded EEC.

Fecking Grocer Heath.

[zeitghost]

I don't know what that means

http://www.predecimal.com/images/farthing.jpg

Four of those to an old penny.

They were abolished in 1956 because they weren't worth anything*.

File:1936 George V penny.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One was always looking in one's change for 1933 pennies. Never found any though.

File:Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin).jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ha'penny. Half a penny.


*After 50 odd years of inflation, a farthing corresponds to roughly 1p.

So they should abolish 1p coins to be consistent.

[Bunk]

<shiver>



4d 3/4 - four (old) pence three farthings.

i.e. not a lot.

A bit more than 3 1/2d though. (Thruppence ha'penny 3.5 old pennies).

I'll be talking about half crowns before much longer (12.5p). They were nice coins.

And 6d bits (6 penny bit, 2.5p).

All abolished to make way for VAT and the dreaded EEC.

Fecking Grocer Heath.

I still don't understand. How can a 6 penny bit be 2.5p? Where do shillings fit in?

It's a good thing they sorted this nonsense out before I was born

[Bunk]

*After 50 odd years of inflation, a farthing corresponds to roughly 1p.

So they should abolish 1p coins to be consistent.

In Australia the smallest coins are 5 cents but items are still priced in 1 cent increments so they round them up or down. In theory it should all work out even but I always felt I was getting shafted

[zeitghost]

Feck me, it's worse than I thought.

£1 in 1956 is worth £18.60 today.

[zeitghost]

I still don't understand. How can a 6 penny bit be 2.5p? Where do shillings fit in?

It's a good thing they sorted this nonsense out before I was born

Easy.

12d (old pennies) in a shilling (5p).

20 shillings in £1.

So 20 x 5p = 100p == £1 = 20 x 12d = 240d.

6d (sixpence) = 0.5 of a shilling = 0.5 x 5p = 2.5p.

Simples.

[zeitghost]

In Australia the smallest coins are 5 cents but items are still priced in 1 cent increments so they round them up or down. In theory it should all work out even but I always felt I was getting shafted

Oz took the 10/- note as their new decimal currency, so there were 2 oz dollars to the pound.

I suppose that explains why the 5c coin is now the smallest.