I still use my brain
to convert 'new money' back into 'old money' then moan about how much a loaf of bread costs.
£1.3s.0d or 23 shillings!

Or Tesco Beef Boneless Rolled Rib Roast Joint Medium (Approx 1.8Kg)
£17.96 - £17.19s.4d ffs!
(pastcaring trembling in a corner....., Mon 8 Nov 2010, 11:06, 16 replies)

You must be proper old

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 11:09, closed)

Wait wait wait
That's equating a shilling to five pence, but I thought pre-decimal shillings were twelve pence

Now I'm well confused
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 11:19, closed)

20 shillings to the pound
12 pennies to the shilling.

1 shilling is 5 new pence
( le brian, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 11:49, closed)

so when converting new prices to old prices you use the new rules rather than the old ones?
no wonder Britian resisted decimalisation for so long
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 12:21, closed)

Yeah, but really
it's just £18. Which is the same regardless....

(not criticising, though, I still call 50p "ten bob"....)
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 12:04, closed)

^
I still call 25p half a crown.
( Ramsay Tupper, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 12:37, closed)

I still call bananas "Yellow fatty beans"

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 12:48, closed)

I still call the radio the radio.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 13:01, closed)

I call a spade a spade

(pastcaring trembling in a corner....., Mon 8 Nov 2010, 13:19, closed)

Racist.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 13:34, closed)

'I always call him that.'

(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 19:56, closed)

I call a bike a pushbike
and a stereo a record player. Even though I haven't owned any records since 1995.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 15:20, closed)

But you're wrong
12.5p was half a crown, it was 2 shillings and sixpence. 25p is a crown. So there.
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 22:00, closed)

IT
Friend of mine was a project manager at $(massive_uk_high_street_bank) when they converted their core mainframe systems from that old gaffer money you're confusing us all with to decimal currency. In 1998.
( Scrumper, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 19:26, closed)

I'm always quite surprised
by the fact that my colleagues are always amazed at my ability to do mental arithmetic. granted, working behind a bar for a few years means you get a lot of practice but still...
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 19:55, closed)

ITYM
£17 19s tuppence ha'penny. Give or take half a farthing.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 10:21, closed)