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I use(d) it a lot. Specifically for pound coins, rather than the value of £1.

e.g. you would ask, "Can you swap us 5 nuggets for a Lady?" If you wanted to go and get something from a vending machine, but only had notes.

Even more so than other terms, I think this is being lost to cashlessness.


£5 and its multiples: Lady, Ayrton, Commodore, Score, Pony.

Sadly, I think these are dying out due to the move towards a cashless society.

The most common use for any of these (for me) was to ask someone to lend me a bit of cash when I'd left my wallet at home.


Translation - more rhyming slang, although not necessarily 'cockney' Lady Godiva - 'fiver' (£5) Ayton Senna - 'tenner' (£10) - obviously a more modern idiom.

I have not come accross a Commodore before so am going to guess because of where it sits in the list as £15

Score - £20 (as in three-score-years-and-10 and all that) Pony - £25 - some latin root in there - that is an old one.

I don't think they are dying out, in that paying a pony is still £25 with cash or with a card.


Commodore - Once, twice, three times a lady...


As in "Lend me a tenor"?


> the infrastructure remains nationalised,

Slight correction. Renationalised, rather than remains nationalised.

The infrastructure was renationalised, because Railtrack preferred handing out dividends over maintaining tracks, eventually leading to a derailment that killed 4 people and injured 70, and led to trains being restricted to 20MPH across the country for months afterwards, because they had no idea how fucked any of the rest of the rails were.


"Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community"


As a citizen of a country that has free-at-the-point-of-use healthcare, all this talk of billing codes etc... just sounds like another expensive and complex system to try and alleviate the current expensive and complex system.


There has been a reasonably priced way since 1977. It currently costs £5.50


According to citymapper crossrail shaves off a whole 7 minutes from my journey while costing £7 more. I'll probably keep taking the piccadilly unless I'm like, desperate for aircon or really late or something.


Trying to get anything larger than carry on luggage into a Piccadilly line carriage is a bit of a squeeze though.


Cheap divorce?

The sky is green!


> You get what you pay for I think. $40 bookshelves? Not making it through a move

I'm sitting next to a Billy that's nearly 2 decades and 4 moves old.


> on official assignment from higher management.

Unless your line manager authorised the secondment (in which case, why PIP?), it wasn't on official assignment, it was just a personal request from someone who happened to be in a higher management position.


Telling the VP to get stuffed, you're only going to do what comes through the proper chain of command, is just going to get you fired immediately rather than PIPed.

Not saying there wasn't a way through this that could have led to a positive outcome, but the key takeaway isn't "do the dirty work", it's "make sure what you're doing has an impact, and has visibility from the people in charge of personnel decisions affecting you". Less work but greater visibility > more work and worse visibility. Part of your job is ensuring visibility or you will get shafted.


I dont want to argue about this specific case.

But if direct manager promises pay increase or promotion, it is not binding or "official" as well.


Am I reading this right? You worked double time for months, and in that time you neglected your own job, without it being authorised by your line manager?

All so that a manager in a different department wouldn't look bad for losing an entire team in one go?

That's the lesson. Don't do that. Pick up extra work if you want to, but always do your own job first.


I don’t read it the same way; I read that he got reassigned, as he was “dead weight” to his manager.

Still bad, but probably means that all this was inevitable, and his manager already made up their mind before the project even started.


If you are reassigned, you are not dead weight to your original division, because you aren't working for them, you are on the books of the other division.

Also if you are reassigned, you don't have your original projects to get behind on, they are someone else's problem now.

Similarly, if reassigned, and you do the work of the new assignment there's no grounds for a PIP, and even if there were, your original manager wouldn't be the one putting you on it.


The story where emails could only be sent a certain distance is fun. I haven't read that one in a while.


https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles for those who have not read it - it is brilliant and solving the bug involves understanding the speed of light!


It's on "Did you win the Putnam?" or "xkcd 927" level and does not really need a link on HN at this point.


Now I need to look up "Did you win the Putnam?". It's my lucky day to learn about this.



https://xkcd.com/1053/

I can assure you there are plenty of readers here who have not heard of it. I shared the link at work recently and was interested that not a single person knew of it (they are fairly young though).


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You just come off so fucking cool.


The irony of referencing September with one's own obnoxious overconfidence that everyone memorizes the same XKCD jokes as you.


Similarly: open office cannot print on Tuesdays.

https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/print_on_tuesday.html

(Date embedded in printjob and parsed by the wrong filter)


There's a whole load of stories like these linked from https://dbrgn.ch/stories-from-the-internet.html . I'd definitely recommend them.


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