Because historically they were to high to be used much. So many retailers staff were less able to ID fakes. Hence fakes were created.
The. By the mid 2000s as prices got to the point hey were more useful. They were still high enough that card payments became common. So retailers rarely had the till cash to change them.
On the bright side, it's Friday now and my 3 gallons of mead are closer to being ready. Only got 5 bottles left.
Why not do what other countries do and just make the denominations physically larger as the value increases? Now it’s harder to wash and reprint forgeries. Also if you use different color paper for each denomination you have another way to prevent forgeries of the washing and reprinting kind.
It's a daily grind. Reminds me of:
£50 notes were for rich people to do crime with. If you weren't a rich person doing crime, you didn't need them.
Now rich people crime can be done online, they're even less necessary.
Good explanation and just to add, it's probably only slightly more expensive to produce a fake £50 than a fake fiver (materials, effort, etc) but it's worth 10 times as much. It's also the same risk of getting caught but 10 times the result each time
FWIW, it's not about the note being harder for forge, but people are less familiar with handling them because they are so rarely used, therefore people are less likely to pick up on the clues that it's a fake. A point that's largely moot now considering how few people use cash for anything any more.
When I was at Uni and working part time my boss told me it was because the £50 note was easier to forge so they would want us to check it and ideally not accept it. The explanation of which I accepted without question at the time. LOL I didn't give a shit.
But thinking about it more why would a large denomination be any easy or harder to forge than a lower one?
So I don't know actually.
Got my electrics sorted (kinda). I had previously a weird mess of two different sets of circuit breakers, some with unknown Amp fuses, and an eclectic mix of sockets sharing breakers with the lights. Did not trust myself to Youtube it after all (I did indeed heed the warnings of Mr Hitachi) and got an electrician in.
Technical Rant
He installed a new fuseboard, separated the lights from the sockets at the MCB^ref1^ and expanded it 10-slots. I was extremely thrilled, except that I did not see any RCDs^ref2^, and could not see any SPDs^ref3^ either.
Had a slightly miffed conversation with him where he patiently explained that modern circuit breakers come with the RCDs integrated into the fuses called RCBOs^ref4^, but I was right to point out the lack of SPD which should just slot in like a normal fuse into one of the slots.
Also, no Earth wire. Apparently normal for old buildings. The solution is to take the earth wire in the house, and link it to the main neutral wire before the meter, and let the PME^ref5^ take care of the earthing. Anyway, I had to call up my DNO^ref6^ and ask them to install one.
If you have enjoyed this alphabet soup, you now have some inkling of how fun it was for me to learn all this as a non-electrician.
spoiler References
Yep, the person that invents time travel is going to have a long queue of parents...
I've felt this with other peoples kids even. My colleague had a precocious teenager, and by the time I'd gone done another job, and come back, that kid was working at microsoft.
In my other job, a fresh new colleague had a 5 year old kid. When I left that job, that kid was applying for university.
What the actual fuck.
Built some Pax wardrobes over the weekend.
3 of them, on a 3" plinth to level out the floor.
Nothing like powertools and mess to make me feel alive again.
Then 2 days of Teams calls and some spreadsheets... I need the summer to get it's arse into gear so I can use more powertools... and BBQ...
Yep.
About "a month ago" my daughter was toddling around. "Last week" she was at college "Yesterday" she moved into her own place with her boyfriend.
I rarely see my daughter now that she has her own fulltime life.
If I can be future-you to anyone here, make the absolute most of your kids' time. It really REALLY flies by.
Source: Working away from home to earn money for a future that never happened.
that's interesting thanks
I am making the most of it, most days. I always wish there was more time.
He knows what he's doing alright. Also, it sounds like you're really enjoying your time with him, which is sweet^[not that you wouldn't, I just read somewhere that you get three 5-year intervals with your kids before they're adults, and it's extremely brief. So glad to see you "experience-maxxing" (I just coined the phrase) your time]
He's gonna keep getting away with it
Before: "I know! I'll tire the little guy out and getting him into bed later will be a breeze"
Later: "I know! I'll leave him to it, and hobble off for a nap..."
Are they allowed to do that? I thought that sort of thing only triggered if the main landlord died and the kids wanted to move in or something (happened to me...)
It's an open source document preparation system. Essentially a typesetting language that produces good looking pdfs. It's the de facto standard for e.g. scientific publications.
It's not as simple as a "what you see is what you get" editor like Word, but a lot more powerful. It can be relatively simple to get started with by messing with a template on Overleaf.com, but it has quite a learning curve if you want to typeset documents from scratch.
Nice one! What is LaTeX?
That's really kind of you thanks! I'm ok with content and structure it's layout is really hard for me
That's just heartbreaking. You're sure there's no legal recourse?
I planned a big expensive vacation a long time ago that's due to start in a week. I was excited about that until last Friday, when I learned that we're getting kicked out of our apartment in 60 days so that it can be renovated and rented out again for probably double the price. I just want to live in the town that's been my home all my life, but rents for any acceptable place are 2-3k+ a month. Last week sucked.