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1 hour ago, Amentep said:

I'd be curious to know where he got these numbers. I'm not an expert, but numbers I've seen online indicate the Pound (15 shillings is .75 of a pound) was worth about $4.35 in ~1850, which means Cratchit was being paid about  $3.26 a week, or in a 40 hr work week 8 cents an hour or $169.52 a year. He probably was working more than 40hrs in a week though...

Anyhow, that means Cratchit was being paid about $130.40 a week in today's dollars, or about $3.26/hr in a 40 hr work week (or $6,780.80/yr). 

Hm, I was trying to dig up some facts on it, and figuring out where numbers might come from...

In 1816 the UK reformed its currency. The gold sovereign, worth 1 GBP was introduced. It contained 7.322 grams of gold. The Feb 2020 price of 1 gram gold is $50.44 USD, so $369.32. There were 20 shillings in the pre-decimal pound sterling. So 1 shilling is $18.47.

So 15 shillings would have equalled around $277 for the week.   If you want to go by that basis...

 

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    A wild @Azdeus caught on camera.

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    A deadpan "What a maniac" is certainly something I wouldn't usually expect to hear from a news anchor live on TV.

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    1 minute ago, Pidesco said:

    A deadpan "What a maniac" is certainly something I wouldn't usually expect to hear from a news anchor live on TV.

    So that's what she said.

    "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP

    Pfft, overraction, he was still going the right way :p

    As "luck" would have it, that was basically my commute this morning, though not intentionally...

    1 hour ago, Pidesco said:

    A deadpan "What a maniac" is certainly something I wouldn't usually expect to hear from a news anchor live on TV.

    She's just playing hard to get, afterall it's a Swedish mating dance. She want's the D(rift)😄

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    Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

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    losing weight makes you lose the thermal insulation of your body and winter becomes colder

    That's one way to fix global warming.

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    The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder.

     

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    Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born!


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