What have you achieved today?

[Blue Maniac]

Agreed. The bloke's so far up his own arse, his height is exactly that from the tip of his arse to the top. He beats Warnock for me.

Billydavies is now in the Hazztionary for ****yness.

My copy still hasn't arrived. I want my £15.99 back.

 

[Hazzman]

Blame the posties or the early Christmas rush when the RRP goes up to £24.99

 

[Matt_B]

Learnt that the UK and the US have different values for 1 billion. Well **** me!

 

[Blue Maniac]

Learnt that the UK and the US have different values for 1 billion. Well **** me!

Not any more. Not really. The British media has used the American billion for several years now.

 

[Macky]

Not any more. Not really. The British media has used the American billion for several years now.

Nothing to do with the media, to be fair. The government, the treasury, the banks, the City etc have all been using 1000 x 1000 000 as a billion for many years

 

[Durham Fox]

The old british billion has been dead for years.

 

[MKFox]

The old british billion has been dead for years.

I know, and as soon as he heard, that londonfox whipped in and took its job...

 

[Matt_B]

Nothing to do with the media, to be fair. The government, the treasury, the banks, the City etc have all been using 1000 x 1000 000 as a billion for many years

The old british billion has been dead for years.

It's the one I learnt though at school and until today have always assumed correct. Just goes to show how little I use the number other than in exagerations.

 

[Macky]

It's the one I learnt though at school and until today have always assumed correct.

So which have you always used? 1000 000 000 or 1000 000 000 000?

 

[MKFox]

i always thought it was a million million
1,000,000,000,000
and the yanks used a thousand million
1,000,000,000

 

[Matt_B]

So which have you always used? 1000 000 000 or 1000 000 000 000?

I've always known it as a thousand million, 1,000,000,000

 

[Blue Maniac]

I've always known it as a thousand million, 1,000,000,000

Which is the American one. British billions were a million million, and this is the one that no longer exists.

 

[beaumontfox]

I got up.

That's my achievement for today so far.
I swore at FB a lot as well as Farmville isn't loading so all my crops I planted overnight will be deaded by the time I get back from work....pfffffffffffffffffttttt!!

I'll never catch up with Boc at this rate.

 

[bocadillo]

I got up.

That's my achievement for today so far.
I swore at FB a lot as well as Farmville isn't loading so all my crops I planted overnight will be deaded by the time I get back from work....pfffffffffffffffffttttt!!

I'll never catch up with Boc at this rate.

It came back about an hour or so ago.

All is safely gathered in.
:icon_bigg

 

[SJN-Fox]

From AskOxford

How many is a billion?

If you are American, it is undoubtedly 1,000,000,000. This amount is known to traditionally minded British people as `a thousand million', and by some more adventurous ones as a 'milliard', though this word has not made as much headway in English as in some other European languages. A trillion is then 1,000,000,000,000, and so on.

If you are British, on the other hand, a billion may be 1,000,000,000,000 (a million million), following the older convention.

If you are neither British nor American, you can take your pick! (Both systems were invented by the French, but are called 'British' and 'American' for convenience.)

Once the business world and the financial press found themselves discussing `thousand millions' so much, the 'American' system simply became more convenient, despite a certain lack of logical tidiness. (A 'British' trillion is the third power of a million, while the 'American' one is the fourth power of a thousand, and the 'American' system continues out of sync with the arithmetic). It also makes the profits sound bigger! The 'American' system is now standard use in British government publications, and is becoming the norm in many other languages.

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/billion?view=uk

 

[Macky]

From AskOxford

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/billion?view=uk

I think it'd probably be best if we just stop using the word 'billion' all together.
In future we should just say "10 to the 9" to avoid any confusion.

 

[tedfoxxx]

10 to the 9 dizzle.

 

[beaumontfox]

It came back about an hour or so ago.

All is safely gathered in.
:icon_bigg

So are mine. Don't know why but none of of mine were deaded, yet they should've been.

 

[Cate Fox]

successfully signed on and off for job seekers allowance in one easy swoop...all nicely backdated to the beginning of the month too :icon_lol:

 

[Motown Fox]

successfully signed on and off for job seekers allowance in one easy swoop...all nicely backdated to the beginning of the month too :icon_lol:

Didnt think you could backdate it as I was told you HAD to phone that frigging number to start it off and then they add on 3 days before your claim officially starts!!:icon_sad: