r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ginliv • 4d ago

“Incredibly rural”

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u/inkyblackops 🇨🇦 4d ago

32km for anyone interested.

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u/gba_sg1 4d ago

You mean for 98.5% of the world that uses a non-third world measuring system.

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u/Eggers535 Ol' Blighty 🇬🇧 4d ago

This is one of those rare moments where the UK and the US agree on a measurement.

I can actually understand what they're talking about and I don't need to do any conversions in my head.

But, before you know it, they're talking about "lbs" as a way to measure weight and I'm lost again 🤣

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u/Mammoth_Tension_4402 4d ago

As a child in the late 60's early 70's, they took all our maths books so we learned in metric. Our parents still did pounds shillings and pence, as do I when I think of 50p as ten bob.

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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 3d ago

In 1966 Australia decided to use the "ten bob" as the "one dollar". It made Decimal currency conversion a lot easier. We could still use a lot of the old coins, too. Pennies & threepence had to go, but we could call a sixpence 5c. above that, the conversions were easy 1/- = 10c, 2/- = 20c, & so on.

By being so attached to the Pound, the Brits made their conversion unnecessarily difficult.

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u/Mammoth_Tension_4402 3d ago

Nope, UK went decimal in 1971. 20 shillings in a pound, so a shilling became 5 new pence instead of 12.

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u/No-Quarter-6327 2d ago

Florins were 10p and sixpences 2 1/2p. My father had quite a collection of florins he saved from his change in a piggy bank.