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Seriously, I lament demise of imperial units

What I miss most is that when I first started drinking (11 years after the demise of the farthing), you could go out for the evening with a ten bob note (50p), now it won't even buy you a 1/4 of an imperial pint.

....and now you mention it, my first suit was 9 guineas!

....and my mother told me off for my extravagance....

Yeah... Sadly, nothing to do with "metrification". We are now happy with 3% inflation per year; I remember a short period in early 90's with close to 30% a month!

(I confess, Wikipedia taught me of farthing; my innate knowledge goes only as far as halfpence )