@tiggy@mastodonapp.uk One of the things that really brought the point home about how nonsensical the 'It's too difficult to switch over!' claim is, was a documentary that I saw on Channel 4 in the 1980s (if memory serves). After all of the fuss beforehand in the usual newspapers about the 'old people' never being able to manage Decimalization, and that famously stupid request to let them die out first, the documentary makers set up a market stall with everything priced in £sd, and challenged people to calculate prices and make change. No-one, young or old, could cope. All of the 'old people' had in fact switched over to decimal currency with the same ease as everyone else, and even by the end of the 1970s it had become a non-issue. @SteveClough@metalhead.club @John_Loader@ohai.social @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot #DecimalCurrency #metric