One Point…
Went off to the Ra!n bar quiz again, it’s quite an enjoyable one, and came third. We lost to our other group of friends (other as in not in our team) by one point again!
We almost took home the £90 spot prize for the bonus questions, but failed on the “First Decimal Coin” question… D’oh!
Apart from that I’ve been playing poker - I was particularly impressed with one move I made last night that involved representing a weak hand when I thought the other guy had a strong one but hadn’t hit anything on the flop (unfortunately it was whilst looking over the shoulder for Rosy’s game, rather than one of my own (I refuse to play drunk!)) - I’m $10 up, and will report stats at a later date.
Been getting lots of work done but getting nowhere on my current problem. Sometimes maths can be like that.
That’s all folks!
Tarra!
Apparently it was the 50p coin, which I have just found out is only legal tender to a value of £10
Comment by Ed — January 13, 2006 @ 4:24 pm
I don;t even understand that comment (which is not surprising considering I can’t even use percentages). Does that mean that £10.50 in 50ps is completely illegal and you will be shot?
Comment by Linden — January 16, 2006 @ 12:09 am
You can buy 1050 penny sweets in a shop with just 50p pieces. You can’t pay your phone bill with them though (even if you haven’t spent them already on said sweets); i.e. it can’t be used to pay off a debt. I think.
You can also be shot. But hopefully you won’t be.
Comment by Ed — January 16, 2006 @ 2:46 pm
the “Being Shot” thing, whilst being technically true, it would be illegal for the shooter wouldn’t it?
I think the legal tender thing means that if someone refuses to let you pay £10.50 for something with 21 50p’s then you have no legal recourse to force them to take it, the 50p’s that is.
Whether or not they then shoot you is really by the by.
Comment by hoose — January 16, 2006 @ 2:51 pm
I imagine certain “technicalities” may come into play regarding the weapon, time of day and venue, but on the whole I’d assume the shooting would be illegal.
Legal tender, according to Wikipedia, or forced tender is payment that cannot be refused in settlement of a debt denominated in the same currency by virtue of law.
Paying for goods is different from settling a debt though, isn’t it?
Comment by Ed — January 16, 2006 @ 4:59 pm
I imagine certain “technicalities” may come into play regarding the weapon, time of day and venue, but on the whole I’d assume the shooting would be illegal.
Legal tender, according to Wikipedia, or forced tender is payment that cannot be refused in settlement of a debt denominated in the same currency by virtue of law.
Paying for goods is different from settling a debt though, isn’t it?
Comment by Ed — January 16, 2006 @ 5:02 pm
Can you pay the shooter in 50 pence pieces?
Comment by Linden — January 16, 2006 @ 5:04 pm
It probably depends on how much he’s charging and if you’re planning on paying before or after the shooting.
In my experience people who shoot people are not to be trifled with and so should definitely be paid and probably in denominations convenient for them.
Comment by Ed — January 16, 2006 @ 7:06 pm
a cheque should suffice…
Comment by hoose — January 16, 2006 @ 8:36 pm
This conversation is funny!!
My favourite bit is “by the by”.
I don’t have many 50 pences. How much is legal for 20 pences? Or 10 pences?
Comment by Alsion OBH QDB — January 17, 2006 @ 12:08 am
Pete - are you crazy? Why on earth would a shooter accept a cheque?
Alsion - 20p, like 50p, is only legal tender up to £10; 10p to a value of £5. Whilest I’m at it 5p is the same as 10p (only in terms of legal tender, not value or size or anything silly like that) and 1p and 2p legal tender to only 20p.
I have wondered if this has any correlation to the money bags banks give you to pay change in with… I immediately regretted it and am going to pretend that even I am not so sad as to consider such things
Comment by Ed — January 17, 2006 @ 9:47 am
I should probably not mention that that immediately occurred to me then ….
I’m pretty sure the copper bags are £1 though…
Comment by hoose — January 17, 2006 @ 2:30 pm
After thinking about this a little (just a little mind), I’ve got the niggling suspicion that weight comes into the quantity of coins in each bag… it’s not possible that a full bag of 2p pieces weighs the same as a full bag of 50p coins, is it?
(I know it’s possible; I probably mean “Is it the case?”)
Comment by Ed — January 17, 2006 @ 6:55 pm
well a 50p weighs 8.00 grams, and a 2p weighs 7.13 grams; you can put 20 50p’s into a bank bag = 160grams, and 50 2p’s in a bank bag = 356.5grams, quite some difference.
I in no way googled that.
Wait! that means I must have known it anyway! OK, I *did* google it. And I have lots of bank bags from when I last put a load of change into the bank.
Comment by hoose — January 18, 2006 @ 12:11 am