Turing To Be On £50 Pound Note

[ChillDoubt]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48962557

Fantastic news, he was my first choice when the nominations were first announced.

[spathiphyllum]

£50 notes always smell like crayon and ironically the colour rubs of them if you rub them on paper. Apparently if it doesn't, it's a fake.

[dannyk13]

Spath, the colour rubs off on all non-plastic notes when they are relatively new.

[bobbs202]

Won't be trying it Spath, it's for a birthday present

[ludwig]

Good choice

[jno]

all too often I get £50 notes from cash machines. They're not easy to spend.

A gay man on the banknotes and a black female 007. What is the country coming to?

[Cloverjo]

I was held in a shop to be questioned by the police because my £50 didn’t rub off onto paper.

They just cursorily checked the note, tutted and let me go. No apology from the shop staff.

Anyway, Turing is a good choice.

[dannyk13]

jno//A gay man on the banknotes and a black female 007. What is the country coming to?//
You have a reason why they should not be there?

[jno]

I had my tongue in my cheek a little bit, dannyk. But obviously, Sean Connery should be the first choice in both cases.

[retrocop]

//Pity hardly anyone takes them.//
Probably because the market was flooded with fake £50s some years back and people did not trust them.
I would sooner have 5x£10s than one £50. Same with Euros.
Shopkeepers etc always seem to give you a pained expression like they have a mackerel stuffed up their arris when I have ever tendered them for payment.

[Mamyalynne]

Has Sean volunteered for surgery?

[THECORBYLOON]

"all too often I get £50 notes from cash machines. They're not easy to spend." Where are they? I've never had a £50 note from a cash dispenser.

[retrocop]

//Has Sean volunteered for surgery?//

His Age is certainly wearying him

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/856020/Sir-Sean-Connery-2017-fragile-clutches-caregivers-arm-NYC-James-Bond

[retrocop]

//Where are they? I've never had a £50 note from a cash dispenser.//

Me never. Always 20s and 10s. They stopped dispensing £5 notes around here years ago. In fact there was a shortage of them in circulation for a while.

[Mamyalynne]

He does look frail.

[jno]

TCL, suburban north London; it happens about one time in five. It may for all I know be a quirk of the NatWest one I use - I have no idea who makes these choices.

[jno]

I don't know, Mamya, he did dress up as a Japanese peasant in You Only Live Twice but I wasn't entirely convinced by the result.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah dear sweet liberal AOG has said he wont touch one ( Alan Turing geddit ?)
and was going to start calling a 50 knicker note - a spinky

(I havent got the spellin' right have I ?)
like a monkey which is 500 knicker right? but smaller

[vulcan42]

Alan Turing was my first choice, I only wish they had put Tommy Flowers on it as well, working together they must have saved thousands of lives.

[Zacs-Master]

Excellent news.

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // Shame he was treated so badly when he was alive. //

This was debated at length and I may be re-opening that debate but my view is -

Turing was not 'badly treated', he was prosecuted under the law as it stood at the time.

With the benefit of hindsight and changed attitudes, we are aware that the accusation, and the law he broke was draconian, and he should not have been prosecuted.

But you can't re-write history - Turing was a convicted criminal and the law and society does not, and should not, especially with hindsight which solves everything, provide credit in the crime bank for doing good work and saving lives.

If it did, Jimmy Savile would be being beatified as I type.