IIRC, just after decimalisation, 2nd class was 2p, 1st class was 3p - which is already 50% more. The % difference has increased over the year, but not by as much as you might think.
IIRC, just after decimalisation, 2nd class was 2p, 1st class was 3p - which is already 50% more. The % difference has increased over the year, but not by as much as you might think.
IIRC, just after decimalisation, 2nd class was 2p, 1st class was 3p - which is already 50% more. The % difference has increased over the year, but not by as much as you might think.
Years ago when I was a whippersnapper working in a finance department introducing newfangled "spreadsheets" (VisiCalc I think) on space age "personal computers", the head of finance was an old school guy who was still bitter that his party-trick skill of calculating percentages in his head of amounts in £sd had been made redundant by decimalisation.
When I was introduced to him he asked "have you brought your soldering iron?". To him no technical person could exist without a soldering iron.
As things turned out I did have a soldering iron as we were forever having to make up RS232 cables with certain pins connected, for reasons I never quite understood, but it made things work.
I saw a woman getting hit in the groin at a judo competition. She fell down on the ground like a man would. This was back in the 1980s so she probably wasn't.
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