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Music on vinyl records, mobile phones the size of house bricks and pornography printed on paper. What hideously out of date stuff do you still use?

Thanks to boozehound for the suggestion

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 12:44)
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The 2 pence piece
is very similar in size, shape and colour to the 1966 half-penny piece. I know this because I got given the latter in my change the other day.

EDIT: I've just spent it. Take that, decimalisation!
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:23, 7 replies)
It's actually pretty cool that 1966 coins are still circulating.

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:26, closed)
If it makes you feel any better
Your 1966 half-penny piece is probably worth significantly more than 2p, perhaps even as much as £1!
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:32, closed)
Bugger.
See my edit.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:43, closed)
On a kind of related note...
I've heard you can take a 50p piece, and if you carefully file it down, it can be mistaken for a 10p!
(I helped save b3ta! snee held his breath since, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:03, closed)
When I was a student
I had heard that two 5p pieces (before the size was reduced) stuck together with superglue would work as a pound coin.

They didn't. The combination was too heavy, apparently. So my mates and I started experimenting by drilling holes in the 2x5p piece.

Unfortunately, we never got it to work, and ruined considerably more than £1 worth of 5p pieces in the process.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 18:13, closed)
1p = 20
I remember as a kid being on a motorbike ride powered by 20p coins.

Or as we quickly discovered 1p coins worked just as well. After an hours riding around the man running the bikes opened one and found all the 1ps we'd used.

We all ran away as he started swearing...
(Wooden meal is. Or is he?, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 19:13, closed)
Heh.
The phoneboxes in Hull used to be unable to tell the difference between a 20p coin and a 1992 1p coin. Yay!
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 20:46, closed)
In much the same way
Gary Lineker football "coins" used to work pretty well in the Tyne & Wear Metro ticket machines for a brief period in the early 90s (if I recall correctly).
(I helped save b3ta! flapdoodle toast FTW!, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 19:40, closed)

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