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Arms over head (AOH): Thread for aesthetics and manipulation pool

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Silent_Water said:
But we Germans like very much to travel other countries as tourists without having to change the money in our pockets.
(Hrm, I almost wrote "invade" instead of "travel", wanting to mention Mallorca (= usually regarded as "our" 17th German "Bundesland")
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I think the general impression is that when Germans go on holiday, the word "invade" is reasonably accurate, especially in Mallorca. :D
 
Silent_Water said:
Trying to learn something at all imaginable places, I would like to ask why there is this "sign" £ or ￡ for the "British Pound" (one horizontal bar in the center), because in hotels at check-ins, you have seen in "pre-€-times" sometimes also this " ₤ " for the Italian Lira (2 horizontal bars in the center) and still today this sign for the Turkish Lira: " ₺ ".
OK, I could understand the similarity of "L" for "Lira", but why " ￡ " for the British Pound? And what exactly does "one Pound Sterling" mean?
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Well ... the term Lira, the abbreviation "lb" for the pound as a unit of weight, and the pound-sign '£' all come from the same original latin phrase 'libra pondo' ... it's just that depending on circumstance sometimes the second part is 'spoken usage' while the first (which is just, scales... as in the astrological sign also still commonly referred to as Libra) shows up in notation ...

... so for general weight you say "two pounds of butter " but write "2 lbs" (not "2p") ... and for currency you say "2 pounds" (of silver, originally) but write £2.

As for 'sterling' ... that refers to the purity level used for the pound of silver (925/100). Of course the value of the currency has long since been detached from the metal value of some weight of silver, but that's where the term "pound sterling" originated ... one pound of silver of 'sterling' purity. In modern terms, the monetary pound was about 350 grams. So a rather large amount of money.
('Peso' of course, is another currency term that just means weight)
 
malins said:
Well ... the term Lira, the abbreviation "lb" for the pound as a unit of weight, and the pound-sign '£' all come from the same original latin phrase 'libra pondo' ... it's just that depending on circumstance sometimes the second part is 'spoken usage' while the first (which is just, scales... as in the astrological sign also still commonly referred to as Libra) shows up in notation ...

... so for general weight you say "two pounds of butter " but write "2 lbs" (not "2p") ... and for currency you say "2 pounds" (of silver, originally) but write £2.

As for 'sterling' ... that refers to the purity level used for the pound of silver (925/100). Of course the value of the currency has long since been detached from the metal value of some weight of silver, but that's where the term "pound sterling" originated ... one pound of silver of 'sterling' purity. In modern terms, the monetary pound was about 350 grams. So a rather large amount of money.
('Peso' of course, is another currency term that just means weight)
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And - raising both hands high, of course, to keep strictly on-topic - the origin of the word 'sterling' is a bit obscure, it turns up first in Norman-French around 1100 as esterlin, it was probably an Anglo-Norman 'coining' for a small penny coin stamped with a star, minted for the Norman kings.
 
I DO apologise for the lack of bum-shots....it seems that traditional A.O.H full frontal pics are considerably way way more popular....
Without further ado,here's normal service being resumed.
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Baracus said:
I DO apologise for the lack of bum-shots....it seems that traditional A.O.H full frontal pics are considerably way way more popular....
Without further ado,here's normal service being resumed.
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Me on the left, trying to cope with pain of the bondage round my wrists by forcing myself up on my toes, but the heat's exhausting ...
(and the effort forces my poor breasts upwards and outwards)
 
Baracus said:
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Me, second from right, feeling weary and stressed from being in that position for so many long hours and wondering whether there’s some way I can get myself out of this mess.
 
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