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50 years of the NHS? What's this 1998?

I hope the people who worked that out aren't working in the labs. I don't when them measuring out my dose. 60grams? Nah, fifty fits better.



Look it up in Wikipedia - it was 1998, so this post is - um - only nine years late.
Unless they're using Northern Ireland to test a design for the 60th anniversary, or something?
Never mind. The Chinese-German cuisine joke makes up for this.



The original 50p with all that metric money nonsense was pretty bad.



Is that not, right there, the history of Twentieth-Century Britain?

The Iranians certainly seem to think so.



Well, the point of my post wasn't really that the coin had only just been issued; it was that I happened to be looking at one of the coins and the thought suddenly ocurred to me. I thought it'd make a fairly good blog post: over-the-top extrapolation from inconsequential trivia. I didn't think it was breaking news or something.


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