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So, has anyone had any exceptionally exciting things or life changing events happen lately? I'm finally back to feeling well.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
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Sole purpose of this thread: to disprove my already posted view to Ponderable (in the "jimslyp forum killing champion" thread) that, "... the cause of this forum's gradual decline is disinterest in conversation". If you will commit to helping 'our conversation' achieve one hundred plus (100+) posts by August 31, ...[text shortened]... exciting things or life changing events happen lately? I'm finally back to feeling well.[/b]

Originally posted by Ponderable

ok, there sholdn't be any problem to reach the 100 hundred. Did you ever wonder why we are so obsessed with "round" numbers?

Round numbers are friendly and easier to remember and reckon with.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Round numbers are friendly and easier to remember and reckon with.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Round numbers are friendly and easier to remember and reckon with.

Needed to be specific to show lack of value.

Round numbers are mostly easier to say, seventy-nine has 4 syllables, eighty has 2. Three hundred and four has two syllables more than three hundred.

Exact numbers always offer encouragement to others to question your source and accuracy, because they sound real. Round numbers sound as if they were pulled from the air and are unlikely to be questioned in the same way.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
I'm finally back to feeling well.

Originally posted by Kewpie
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Originally posted by Kewpie

Needed to be specific to show lack of value.

Originally posted by Kewpie
Round numbers are mostly easier to say, seventy-nine has 4 syllables, eighty has 2. Three hundred and four has two syllables more than three hundred.

Exact numbers always offer encouragement to others to question your source and accuracy, because they sound real. Round numbers sound as if they were pulled from the air and are unlikely to be questioned in the same way.

Drapers' prices (they're the "just-under" ones) have always intrigued me because they show that my thought processes must be different from the norm. I see $5.99, I read $6, then I'm further along the aisle and decide I want it, but remember what I thought $6 and what I read =99 so I now think $7 and don't go back. Yet if I'd seen $6 I would now think $6. Daft.

I thought this habit would disappear along with halfpennies in 1966 but it seems the marketers and I have different ideas. I will say that almost nobody does it now outside the supermarkets, and they don't care what the cents digits are. I don't get a string of .99s on my register tapes.