Post by @kibcol1049@mstdn.social

2026-10-01 11:42 UTC

@John_Loader@ohai.social @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @SteveClough@metalhead.club @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot I still have nightmares about a Saturday job I had as a teen. Helping on a milk delivery round, (Saturday was pay day). It was a bit tricky working out the different milk prices, (silver, gold tops etc) and who had extra pints etc. Until all hell broke loose on Decimal Day. The older customers didn't understand it despite massive publicity. Many would only pay in LSD, so owed money and accused me of cheating them.

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@BashStKid@mastodon.online 2026-10-01 11:52

@kibcol1049@mstdn.social @John_Loader@ohai.social @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @SteveClough@metalhead.club @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot There was a famous vox pop comment at the time, “decimalisation is ok, but they should have waited until all the old people were dead, they’re very confused”

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@alexf24@mstdn.social 2026-10-01 11:55

@kibcol1049@mstdn.social @John_Loader@ohai.social @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @SteveClough@metalhead.club @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot For a non-Brit: What is LSD? (I assume they were not paying in acid) [Update}: Nevermind I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A3sd in Wikipedia

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@losttourist@social.chatty.monster 2026-10-02 08:53

@kibcol1049@mstdn.social @John_Loader@ohai.social @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @SteveClough@metalhead.club @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot I was just a couple of years old on Decimal Day so had no concept of money. But the Royal Mint deliberately chose to make the new 5p and 10p coins the same size and weight as the old 1 shilling and 2 shilling coins, so growing up I'd look at my pocket money and find coins with dates from way back earlier in the 20th century. In theory even Victorian coins were still usable, although very few of those actually still circulated. Those old 1 or 2 bob bits remained valid until a major rehaul of all coinage happened in (iirc) the mid-to-late 1980s.

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@losttourist@social.chatty.monster 2026-10-02 08:56

@MASTheIperODON@social.vivaldi.net @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @John_Loader@ohai.social @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @SteveClough@metalhead.club @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot I'm sure everyone in this thread knows this but ... DO NOT FOLLOW THE LINK FROM THAT "Mastodon Helper Bot" It is trying to steal your account credentials. Block and report.

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