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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] And, of course, no-one under the age of 40 who isn't from some inbred northern town ever uses words like that anyway. Well, except "quid". But you say "buck". And at least you can work out how much our coins our by looking at them. So there. Tim is partly right though. It wasn't just the number of pennies in a pound, but the hapennies, half a crowns, and other gibberish that went with it. People hate change. Even when it is basically good for them. Different countries resist to varying degrees. When they started using centigrade (along with farenheit) for weather reports, everyone complained. And then, a year later, they complained a bit less. And then a bit less. And now, most people who are under 40 who don't live in an inbred northern town understand centigrade perfectly fine. They have more trouble with meters and whatnot because they are not exposed to it on a regular basis. Same thing with pound coins. Everyone complained, but they took the pound note out of circulation, people got used to it, and now prefer that pounds are coins rather than notes. In America, they'd argue about their constitutional right to having dollar bills and temperature in farenheit. And that's why we have more widescreen TVs than you. Yes. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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