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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2011-11-03 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 3-11-2011

[identity profile] skington.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
The really hilarious part of the Daily Mail's rant about decimalisation, is that the old currency system of pounds shillings and pence was also borrowed from the French. L/s/d? Stands for "livres/sous/deniers" - and that's the reason why the pound symbol is a stylised L.

[identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, they seem unable to count the sides on a 50p, claiming it to be hexagonal.

[identity profile] danieldwilliam.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of the comments below the article are very, very funny.

[identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
My favourite part is the digression in the middle about how using non-stupid currency is just like abolishing HANGING and just means everything's gone to crap.