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Message 1503927 - Posted: 14 Apr 2014, 9:45:11 UTC - in response to Message 1503915.  

Something like this would really throw modern kids a curve... :-)

What's lurking inside BoE's vaults?

Hint for Pounds(£) Shillings[s) & Pence[d), there were 240 pennies to the pound, 12 pennies to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound for those curious enough to attempt the math.

One of those questions was "Trace the course of the following rivers, Loire, Mississippi, Rhine, Seine and Vistula."
Now i'm a great believer in knowledge for its own sake, but what use is the above to a bank teller?


Probably none - other than moneylaundering perhaps - you know... should they manage to climb the promotion ladder :)
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Message 1503928 - Posted: 14 Apr 2014, 9:49:33 UTC
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Or to give them several escape suggestions if they rob the place.

By the way, the answer to arithmetic question 2 is £667,990 14s 9d, took me a couple of minutes with a pen and paper, but not that hard in itself.

Question 3 (divide £739 11s 11d by 556) took me a little longer, but it's £1 6s 7d, remainder 11s 5d.
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Message 1503953 - Posted: 14 Apr 2014, 11:56:43 UTC - in response to Message 1503928.  

Or to give them several escape suggestions if they rob the place.

By the way, the answer to arithmetic question 2 is £667,990 14s 9d, took me a couple of minutes with a pen and paper, but not that hard in itself.

Question 3 (divide £739 11s 11d by 556) took me a little longer, but it's £1 6s 7d, remainder 11s 5d.


Skimming a couple of pennies?
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

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Message 1503956 - Posted: 14 Apr 2014, 12:16:41 UTC - in response to Message 1503953.  

Or to give them several escape suggestions if they rob the place.

By the way, the answer to arithmetic question 2 is £667,990 14s 9d, took me a couple of minutes with a pen and paper, but not that hard in itself.

Question 3 (divide £739 11s 11d by 556) took me a little longer, but it's £1 6s 7d, remainder 11s 5d.


Skimming a couple of pennies?

No, i'm an honest teller! :)

If the 11s 5d should go missing though...
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Message 1503966 - Posted: 14 Apr 2014, 13:12:57 UTC - in response to Message 1503956.  

Or to give them several escape suggestions if they rob the place.

By the way, the answer to arithmetic question 2 is £667,990 14s 9d, took me a couple of minutes with a pen and paper, but not that hard in itself.

Question 3 (divide £739 11s 11d by 556) took me a little longer, but it's £1 6s 7d, remainder 11s 5d.


Skimming a couple of pennies?

No, i'm an honest teller! :)

If the 11s 5d should go missing though...


There'd still be a couple of ds lying around. By my math the remainder for Q3 is 11s and 7d.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

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Message 1503969 - Posted: 14 Apr 2014, 13:23:13 UTC - in response to Message 1503966.  

That's what I made it...

739x240=177,360 + 143 (11s 11d) = 177,503 /556 = 319.25

240 = £1 leaving 79.25 /12 = 6.60 [the .60 = 7.2d)

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£1 6s 7d
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Message 1503976 - Posted: 14 Apr 2014, 14:13:08 UTC

Wouldn't they have worked down to farthings (¼d)
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Message 1503981 - Posted: 14 Apr 2014, 14:24:14 UTC - in response to Message 1503976.  
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Wouldn't they have worked down to farthings (¼d)


LOL. was just checking on that...

farthings ceased to be legal tender on December 31st 1960.

So the correct total would be £1 6s 7.25d as it was from 1903.
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Message 1503983 - Posted: 14 Apr 2014, 14:25:46 UTC - in response to Message 1503976.  

Wouldn't they have worked down to farthings (¼d)


Ahh, well if they did that then yes, £1 6s 7¼d. On the other hand if only whole pennies, then 556 farthings (the remainder) is 139d or 11s and 7d.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

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Message 1504352 - Posted: 15 Apr 2014, 11:22:23 UTC

There is a lot to be said for decimalisation!
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Message 1506897 - Posted: 21 Apr 2014, 12:45:41 UTC
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Isn't modern society & education grand!

Online insults

What I find disgusting is...

"Where teachers did report such attacks, the survey claimed head teachers took no action in 40% of cases where the insults were from pupils and in 55% of cases where they were believed to be from parents."

In that case, why the need for head teachers? They don't seem to be serving any useful purpose!

Edit:

What hours do teachers really work?

"The biggest cause of unnecessary paperwork, the teachers reported, was preparing for an Ofsted inspection. Head teachers also identified changing government policies and guidelines as generating "unnecessary" bureaucracy."
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Message 1509515 - Posted: 28 Apr 2014, 15:05:23 UTC

What a society, run down so called "feckless" fathers...

...what about a "feckless" system?

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Message 1509521 - Posted: 28 Apr 2014, 15:31:42 UTC - in response to Message 1509515.  

What a society, run down so called "feckless" fathers...

...what about a "feckless" system?

Poker player wins court battle


Wow. Court of appeal judges too!

A professional poker player who "declines to support his children" has won a legal fight after arguing that his winnings are not "earnings from gainful employment".


Odd... a father receiving unemployment benefits has to contribute.
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Message 1509685 - Posted: 28 Apr 2014, 23:11:27 UTC - in response to Message 1509521.  

Odd... a father receiving unemployment benefits has to contribute.

That is because he receives a known amount on a known day so the court knows how much he can pay. A poker player never knows how much she may win or lose on a given day. So the court reasoned they could not order child support under the current law as it is written. Easy fix change the law.
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Message 1509728 - Posted: 29 Apr 2014, 2:05:00 UTC - in response to Message 1509685.  

Odd... a father receiving unemployment benefits has to contribute.

That is because he receives a known amount on a known day so the court knows how much he can pay. A poker player never knows how much she may win or lose on a given day. So the court reasoned they could not order child support under the current law as it is written. Easy fix change the law.


Oh absolutely (hi Batterup :)) it's the term that was used as grounds ie: that his income was not "earnings from gainful employment" which to me suggests a legal precedent has been set for any unemployed father (currently paying around 11% of their £45 a week benefit) to not have to pay anything at all either.
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Message 1510845 - Posted: 1 May 2014, 18:15:08 UTC
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We've had "Police Commissioners, Drug Tsars" and now...

"School Standards" Tsars

Political appointees I bet!

Oh dear...

Huh? yah, wat? grunt
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Message 1510850 - Posted: 1 May 2014, 18:30:59 UTC - in response to Message 1509728.  

Oh absolutely (hi Batterup :)) it's the term that was used as grounds ie: that his income was not "earnings from gainful employment" which to me suggests a legal precedent has been set for any unemployed father (currently paying around 11% of their £45 a week benefit) to not have to pay anything at all either.

You are reading "earnings from gainful employment" to broadly; with your reading all pensioners, annuitants and trust fund babies would also be exempt. The court read it more narrowly as to be a know income over a known time. If a trust fund baby wants a broader definition she will have to go to court.
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Message 1512168 - Posted: 4 May 2014, 13:03:00 UTC

It's fun being a teenager today...

No morals whatsoever

...ain't the Internet grand!
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Message 1512814 - Posted: 6 May 2014, 11:54:07 UTC - in response to Message 1512168.  

It's fun being a teenager today...

No morals whatsoever

...ain't the Internet grand!

How hard can that be to trace?

Idea 1, I'm assuming Tumblr logs IP addresses of whoever posts to it, they can be traced via the ISPs to the user, then the police go and knock on the door.
(I'm assuming these people aren't clever enough to post via anonymous proxies or some form of IP mask like TOR.)

Idea 2, if the photos were taken with a camera phone, they often log the GPS coordinates into the picture file (mine does by default, though i've disabled it), if so, they'll be even easier to trace.
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Message 1512878 - Posted: 6 May 2014, 15:38:31 UTC - in response to Message 1512814.  


How hard can that be to trace?
There is a disclaimer that what they post is a work of fiction and much of it most likely is.

I stole these when I visited the Queen.

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