2026-02-13 22:33 UTC
@jlargentaye @tilton One of the maniacal pitches of the pro-Brexit campaign was "we must protect our traditional currency from this vile dastardly scheme to replace it with the Euro!"
Dude, the "traditional" British currency is only 29 years older than the Euro at this point.
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@rstein@social.tchncs.de 2026-02-13 23:38
@cstross @jlargentaye @tilton The first thing learning English that gave me a culture shock was to find out that 2 shirts each 1 pound 10 pence were not 2.20 but 2 pound 1 shilling and 8 pence. Ok, 12 pence to a shilling and 12 shilling to a pound, like on the clock? No, 20 shilling to a pound, of course...
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@JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social 2026-02-14 02:51
@cstross @jlargentaye @tilton 250 years is older than most nations, if you go by the age of their current governments. Russia today isn’t the same country is was 40 years ago, never mind 250. Or any country on the losing side of the world wars, or those that have had revolutions in the past century. etc.
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@radarskiy@mastodon.social 2026-02-17 15:42
@cstross @jlargentaye @tilton Brb, repricing everything in my store to decimal guineas.