" A Christmas Carol 1951
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Tis the season for reruns of the 1951 movie Cristmas Carol. Love it. Alastair Sim is great. I always get confused with the money denominations. Crown, half a crown, tuppence, penny, farthing, pound and a few I have forgotten. What fun! Bob
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same at a pub in england: when are you GREAT britains gonna be forced to change to metrical beers? as of now its a pt., qt or a gallon - never seen a gl. glass however ------ the future will show: 1/4L, 1/2L and as in MUNICH a Liter or a MASS!! merry xmas fellas
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Not as whacko as you might think, shillings and pence are part of a duo-decimal system of counting to the base 12. Fits in with 60 minutes in an hour for pay rates etc.
School kids today miss-out on not learning different base systems if they still had to use weights measures of pounds and ounces, base 16, or pints in a gallon, base 8, then binary base 2 would be a walk in the park.
School kids today miss-out on not learning different base systems if they still had to use weights measures of pounds and ounces, base 16, or pints in a gallon, base 8, then binary base 2 would be a walk in the park.
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How about "FX's - A Christmas Carol" ???
it was horrible! a "new" adaptation of the classic with all of the world's darkest evil side....from child molestation, pedophile suggestiveness of Scrooge's youth, to having Mrs. Cratchet expect to perform sexual favors for monetary compensation, making a whore out of her??? The ending was short and focused upon Scrooge at the Cratchet homestead making good, but not seeking forgiveness....instead sweeping it all under the carpet as being "in the past" and promising a better "future"
it was disgusting, depressing and very dark..... I thought it a disgrace and a warped sense of all the world's woes wrapping itself around what should be a joyful theme.....
I'd much prefer the 1951 version any day in a sweet innocent and cheerful way!
it was horrible! a "new" adaptation of the classic with all of the world's darkest evil side....from child molestation, pedophile suggestiveness of Scrooge's youth, to having Mrs. Cratchet expect to perform sexual favors for monetary compensation, making a whore out of her??? The ending was short and focused upon Scrooge at the Cratchet homestead making good, but not seeking forgiveness....instead sweeping it all under the carpet as being "in the past" and promising a better "future"
it was disgusting, depressing and very dark..... I thought it a disgrace and a warped sense of all the world's woes wrapping itself around what should be a joyful theme.....
I'd much prefer the 1951 version any day in a sweet innocent and cheerful way!
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So Jim, Were the 3 hours needed for a Christmas Carol metric hours or imperial hours? It only becomes a issue when adding miles per hour to the old yards per fortnight and meters per second.
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Craven wrote:...then binary base 2 would be a walk in the park.
...which the kids don't need to know because of the new money, right?
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we are leaving EU... one of the joys of a 'tremendous' new trade deal with Mr Trump will be a return to pounds, shillings and pence, pounds and ounces, feet and inches, gallons and pints, miles, furlongs and yards.......and goodbye to ridiculous metric system.....
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"meters per second." I think that would be a measure only useable when walking in a large control room such as a power generating plant.
It's French word so it should be spelled the French way: "metres per second."
It's French word so it should be spelled the French way: "metres per second."
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