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Campaign 1 Episode 59: The Feywild

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“Author of 25+ best-selling Pride & Prejudice variations”

Yeah, no.

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my dad is going to see family in Ireland and England then going to just hang out in France for a bit so last yesterday before I drove him to the airport he handed me this weird basket I had never seen before full of little jars and bags or random coins, and requested I sort out the pounds and euros so he could take them on his trip. of course he knows exactly how to harness my autism and I happily sorted coins. on top of pounds and euros denominations represented include:

Canadian and US Dollars, highest being like a billion American pennies

some Namibian paper money

Cuban pesos, as well as Cuban convertible pesos which they don't use anymore

lots of Franks

some coins that I think we're from Spain

a few coins from Hong Kong

a surprising amount of currency from Barbados

while I was amassing pounds I happened upon a one shilling coin, my father confirmed no we don't use shillings anymore, and I wondered how long has it been since the UK got rid of shillings?

this simple question led me to the discovery of simultaneously the most wild and the most British thing I've ever heard of:

Decimal Day

what is decimal day? you may be asking yourself if you are a north American millennial like myself

February 15, 1971 the UK and Ireland switched it's currency from pounds, shillings, and pence to just pounds and pence, and switched the currency from the most unhinged imaginable base 12 currency system, to a much more reasonable base 10 system

(this probably had something to do with the UK switching from imperial to metric measurements, but I didn't google that)

in order to understand how unhinged British money was, let's look at some conversions:

12 pence = 1 shilling

20 shillings = 1 pound

240 pence = 1 pound

like.... what? I cannot IMAGINE

also, when they switched they had new pence, as if everything wasn't wild enough enough already. my dad remembers the switch happening. he says counting money was way easier after, but it was something both his grandmother's were very concerned about. he thinks they had a cake.

anyway, shillings remained legal tender until 1990 and were worth five new pence (not old pence, be careful). after 1990 they were removed from circulation. I cannot IMAGINE the hassle of trying to manage that transition as a cashier.

I did find in the Coin Box some coins that said five new pence, and then some that just said five pence, but I didn't think to look at the dates on them though.

and there we have

Decimal Day

#g speaks #england #united kingdom #britain #decimal day #currency #foreign currency #pounds #euros #shillings #history #british history #mine

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the new pornbots’ url game is INSANE. complicit-rotting and warmmourning you would have done numbers if you were real

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the babies of the group

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One of my mountain landscape d20s, in a “stained glass” style. 

I love how the light shines through this one!

Numbers still to be painted - they’ll be white, so a lot more readable than it is currently!

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"Doomed by the narrative" is sexy and all but i think the narrative wanting to save a character who is utterly set on dooming themselves isnt as much of a thing and it's so good as a concept

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Its crazy how jack blacks kid just looks like if jack black had a son

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no language should be mocked other than french

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Say what you will about humans but they really went off with flatbreads

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Branch management team

(via)

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Soda Pop: A highly carbonated soda drink. It can be used to restore 50 HP to a single Pokémon.

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Early morning drama. A Roe deer/rådjur is doing everything she can to protect her newborn fawns against a Red fox/räv. The fawn or fawns are hidden somewhere in the area and the fox was getting too close. This time the roe deer managed to lure the fox away but the fawns are very vulnerable these first few weeks. Värmland, Sweden (May 21, 2023).

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Amazing things happening off the coast of Spain

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by @graceflowershawaii

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the colours of nature