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2016/08/08 12:41:44
Beepster
PS: That's actually about right for my "MUST WEAR CLOTHES!!!" comfort zone.
 
Clothes actually cause me phyiscal pain/discomfort. Undies (or REALLY comfy shorts) and a loose T with the arms cut off are tolerable during the day. At night... in bed? Well let's just say don't knock on my door after 10pm unless you are partial to swinging Richards (or mayhaps even saluting Richards).
 
And yes... that's right. When you correspond with El Beepo he's usually in his gitch.
 
Happy dreams, folks.
 
;-)
 
2016/08/08 12:42:47
Beepster
bapu
Beepster
bapu
My Farenheit comfort zone is 71.9 to 72.1
 
Anything above or below that range is more than I can handle




And you live in Cali?
 
/notsure if TO is NorCal though
//googles is too hard


So Cal.
 
40 miles west of Downtown Los Angeles
 




Well... at least it's a "dry" heat from what I've heard.
 
/old guy cliche
2016/08/08 12:46:45
jamesg1213
sharke
bitflipper
BTW, I was living in England when the currency switched to base10. Some of you are old enough to remember the chaos that followed when retailers capitalized on the confusion to raise prices on everything. 
 



After all this time though, you still have older people who think partially in the old money. My dad will sometimes say "It was good value, only 12 bob," bob being the slang for a shilling. 
 
 




It's 50p to put air in your tyres around here. Half a quid. That was 10 bob...I could buy a box of Britain's soldiers for 10 bob...
2016/08/08 12:51:17
sharke
I remember when a bottle of Brown Ale was 99p 
2016/08/08 13:38:42
craigb
Glyn Barnes
That was wild. I was at college but helping on a milk round at weekends and holidays. One eldery customer disputed her bill and made me add it up time and time again without telling me what she thought was the problem. Eventually I discovered she had converted back to LSD added it up and converted the total to decimal, as I result she was convinced she should pay a half penny more than I was asking for. Once I had explaind this to her I had to explain to many customers why their delivery was late.

 
You delivered milk to elderly ladies who did acid??? 
2016/08/08 13:43:02
SteveStrummerUK
ston
 
 
Also, now that we're apparently leaving the EU, can France's 'Golden Delicious' apples please be correctly renamed to, 'Pale Tasteless'.  Thank you.




Amen to than
2016/08/08 13:51:30
SteveStrummerUK
jamesg1213
sharke
bitflipper
BTW, I was living in England when the currency switched to base10. Some of you are old enough to remember the chaos that followed when retailers capitalized on the confusion to raise prices on everything. 
 



After all this time though, you still have older people who think partially in the old money. My dad will sometimes say "It was good value, only 12 bob," bob being the slang for a shilling. 
 
 




It's 50p to put air in your tyres around here. Half a quid. That was 10 bob...I could buy a box of Britain's soldiers for 10 bob...




Absolutely, if you got a ten bob note in a birthday or Christmas card you were minted
 
I suppose in our own way, we were sort of working in decimal currency even when it was still £sd. Two bob, five bob & ten bob were always 'round number' amounts (equivalent, to those unfamiliar with our pre-decimal currency to 0.1, 0.25 and 0.5 of a quid).
2016/08/08 13:54:30
jamesg1213
sharke
I remember when a bottle of Brown Ale was 99p 




First time I got drunk was on 3 pints of (proper, with bits in) scrumpy, at 27p a pint. Hammered for 81 pence.
2016/08/08 13:55:02
craigb
Being a computer geek, I've always found it humorous (that's humourous for you in the UK) that a U.S. quarter (25 cents) was called two-bits when two bits from a programming perspective is one quarter of a byte.  Of course, when I began calling a 50 cent piece a nibble, I was only amusing myself as usual... 
2016/08/08 14:18:56
jamesg1213
50 Cent used to be one half of Dollar.
 
Of course, he's changed his image somewhat since then.
 

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