brake facts...

[alga]

Originally Posted by flyerncle

Decimalisation and metrication was forced upon us by Europe,does not mean we have to like it.

Pratchett & Gaiman said it best:

NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Witchfinder Army if you know the original British monetary system:

Two farthings = One Ha'penny. Two ha'pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). One Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea.

The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated.

[robo]

Originally Posted by alga

Pratchett & Gaiman said it best:

I think the litas takes a bit more understanding with its chequered history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_litas

Bob

[ayjay]

I think we are really lucky in this country

Elsewhere in the world children have to learn a foreign language from a very early age

[robo]

Weird that everyone thinks that our 12 pennys to the shilling and 240 pennys to the pound was odd. Makes you wonder why if it was that bad we have not ended up with 10/20 hours a day . No one in the uk at the time had any problems at all working the uk currency in the same way no one has trouble with the 12/24 hour clock Also weird that formula 1 cars are still littered with unf/unc threads. As said before it will be many many years if ever before imperial measurements disappear.

Bob

[flyerncle]

Dont forget we used to own/manage most corners of the planet before we returned it to the rightfull owners .

[flyerncle]

And for all you unfortunates that remember,every thing doubled in cost,who in their right mind would pay "10 bob" for a Mars Bar.

4 Fruit Salad or Black Jacks for 1 old penny,what has the world come to.

[alga]

Objectively, the benefit of the 12-base system is that everything is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6. On the other hand, we memorise 10-base multiplication table in the primary school, 12-base one would be larger almost by half.

That said, time and calendar is the weirdest measuring system of all, even before you take leap seconds, timezones and and daylight savings into account.

[robo]

Originally Posted by flyerncle

And for all you unfortunates that remember,every thing doubled in cost,who in their right mind would pay "10 bob" for a Mars Bar.

4 Fruit Salad or Black Jacks for 1 old penny,what has the world come to.

How right that is A few years ago we were in a chip shop and the guy handed my mate a bag of chips and said that will be 75p, my mate took a step back and shouted you robbing B@stards how can a bag of chips be 17 and sixpence .

Alga stop sleeping on top of an encyclopedia you are soaking to much of this stuff in

Bob

[flyerncle]

Not guilty,blame Gregorian or some geezer for the calender biz.

[jps]

Sorry to try and drag us back OT but...

Originally Posted by jps

Would something like this be a perfect buy for a Roadster brake installation?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-16-BRAKE...-/250851152507