Kg v pound

[JNugent]

Of course it failed.

If it hadn't, they'd still be using it.

[Tim Streater]

No one else was using it, and it didn't stick after they were kicked out.

[JNugent]

Some misunderstanding here...

I wasn't recommending a metric calendar. Just pointing out that one once existed and was enforced by a fairly ruthless regime.

[bert]

The bus operator is paid by the local council for every pensioner passenger they carry. In our case it is the average adult fare.

[bert]

It's an indirect way of subsiding public transport otherwise many services would collapse.

[Tim Streater]

OK, fairy nuff. I was merely saying that there's nothing magic about the metric system except that it's what almost everyone uses. Likewise our existing calendar system. Thus, there's no point in changing the latter. That it's not "decimal" is interesting but irrelevant.

[Max Demian]

They don't know how far you go as you just tap the card on entry. What is the "average adult fare" anyway?

You used not to do that; you just showed the driver the card. I don't recall that he registered how many people with bus passes used his bus; if he did, it would be easy to cheat.

[Tim+]

I always get asked for my destination before I get my ticket.

Tim

[Max Demian]

You mean every 29.5 days?

State pensions are paid at 4 weekly intervals. Presumably it used to be fortnightly or weekly.

[Max Demian]

No, 4-weekly. A lunar month is 29.5 days (roughly).

[Max Demian]

Where is that? I don't get a ticket. Just tap my bus pass and the machine says it's OK.

[charles]

Many councils provide machine readable cards for this purpose. Mine does not.

[JNugent]

Weekly (as with most benefits).

For weekly payments, an order book is required (cashed at the Post Office, if they still do that).

Same for Child Benefit, though ISTR that the alternative for that was calendar monthly into the bank.

[JNugent]

So that ISP bills its customers every 29.5 days (roughly)?

Really?

[Tim+]

Scotland, Strathclyde region.

Tim

[The Natural Philosopher]

The £ is simply a way of indicating tat its currency rather than a lb of silver.

British currency had already abandoned the groat, the crown, the guinea and the half crown - to name but a few - in favour of the pound the shilling - which is a dutch/german term, meaning 'a sliver of' - so a shilling was a 20th of a pound of silver, and the penny, another old english and or Germanic word which meant 'small coin'

It is represented by the symbol d, for the Roman 'denarius'.

Hence £sd.

[The Natural Philosopher]

The £ is simply a way of indicating tat its currency rather than a lb of silver.

British currency had already abandoned the groat, the crown, the guinea and the half crown - to name but a few - in favour of the pound the shilling - which is a dutch/german term, meaning 'a sliver of' - so a shilling was a 20th of a pound of silver, and the penny, another old english and or Germanic word which meant 'small coin'

It is represented by the symbol d, for the Roman 'denarius'.

Hence £sd.

[The Natural Philosopher]

The rules of the road apply.

It would no doubt obey existing traffic signals and legal priorities

[SH]

and the units is confusing too.

everyone knows pounds is in £ not L and pence is in p not d....

[S Viemeister]

As do I.