Anyone Remember The 1971 Decimalisation Ad....

[ToraToraTora]

"spend your old coppers in sixpenny lots"? Err indoors doesn't. Can anyone track down the actual ad, can't find it on You tube etc, cheers.

[Jackdaw33]

Corby is right, though this was for metrication, rather than decimalisation.

[Georgiesmum]

I remember it well. I was working in the local newsagents shop at the time.
We had a big chart on the wall to help people.

[Bathsheba]

"A litre of water's a pint and three quarters "is as far as I go with that nonsense, although I vaguely remember "something something of jam weighs about a kilogram"

Baths
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[Mamyalynne]

two and a quarter pounds of jam weighs about a kilogram

[Mamyalynne]

http://z13.invisionfree.com/DozensOnline/ar/t311.htm

[Bathsheba]

Aaw, thanks Mamya :)

Baths
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[Mamyalynne]

Welcome x

[Bathsheba]

Great link too! I particularly like this...

"A metre measures 3 foot 3. It's longer than a yard you see"
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[Jackdaw33]

You couldn't make up that tripe today!

[Bertrum]

What still gets me is that they sell fuel by the Ltr and consumption is mpg

[Bathsheba]

I have a permanently dry mouth from my medication, and I buy sugar-free sucky sweets from a young guy in the market, and he talks about "a quarter"
That'll be for us old laydees:)

Baths x x

[Bathsheba]

Don't get me started on curtains, Bertrum

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[Postdog]

I buy burgers that way.

[Jackdaw33]

It is only in the past year that I have had to stop asking for an ounce of tobacco and change to 25 g.

[THECORBYLOON]

When I go to the butcher's I'll ask for three quarters, 340 grammes sounds odd.

[TonyV]

I can remember being taught about forth coming decimilation in 1971

[stuey]

I get some some strange reactions when I tell people that as a young student in England I was taught about L.S.D..

[Postdog]

Anyone remember the nineteen and eleven shops. Bet Baths does....

[TonyV]

Yes Stuey pounds shillings and pence lol

[piggynose]

anybody remember "bob a job?"