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New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:36 pm
by Sandy
In keeping with the old £50 it's going to be a scientist.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46343965Bookmakers William Hill have Stephen Hawking as the current favourite, with odds of 7/4, followed by Nobel-prize winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin 4/1.
Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Alexander Fleming and electromagnetic pioneer Michael Faraday have odds of 5/1 and Rosalind Franklin, who made important contributions to the understanding of DNA, is at 6/1.
Personally I don't think it should be Hawking. Out of the people on the list of best odds I think it should be either Hodgkin or Franklin as their work saved the most lives.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:39 pm
by OrangeRKN
All of them, like an album cover
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:42 pm
by Blue Eyes
"Jimmy Savile to own the libs."
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:44 pm
by Peter Crisp
Is this some kind of joke?
Surely the only person under consideration should be Peter Molyneux.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:45 pm
by Dual
Don't know any of them
Should be Nigel Farage for winning back our freedom
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:49 pm
by Peter Crisp
Dual wrote:Don't know any of them
Should be Nigel Farage for winning back our freedom
Who gives a gooseberry fool about freedom when we have Theme Park and Syndicate to play while we're all under the evil Euro bureaucrat dictatorship?
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:50 pm
by Sandy
Dual wrote:Don't know any of them
Should be Nigel Farage for winning back our freedom
Tommy 'Yaxley-Lennon' Robinson for his martyrdom.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:51 pm
by Lagamorph
Peter Crisp wrote:Dual wrote:Don't know any of them
Should be Nigel Farage for winning back our freedom
Who gives a gooseberry fool about freedom when we have Theme Park and Syndicate to play while we're all under the evil Euro bureaucrat dictatorship?
Except in Northern Ireland where there won't be any electricity.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:51 pm
by Moggy
I think Hawking is too recent.
I’d go with Turing.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:52 pm
by Peter Crisp
Lagamorph wrote:Peter Crisp wrote:Dual wrote:Don't know any of them
Should be Nigel Farage for winning back our freedom
Who gives a gooseberry fool about freedom when we have Theme Park and Syndicate to play while we're all under the evil Euro bureaucrat dictatorship?
Except in Northern Ireland where there won't be any electricity.
They can play the board game version
.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:12 pm
by Drumstick
It'll probably be Turing as that will cater to certain folks due to WW2.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:19 pm
by Preezy
I voted for Hawking, but I'd be happy with Turing as well.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:36 pm
by Lagamorph
Drumstick wrote:It'll probably be Turing as that will cater to certain folks due to WW2.
Those same folks would probably complain about how it's PC gone mad to put a gay man on the £50 note.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:41 pm
by Green Gecko
Turing because computers and diversity (he was gay) and it will be a man.
Because my history is poor and I grew up in patriachy can someone tell me about the women please.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:44 pm
by Squinty
Blue Eyes wrote:"Jimmy Savile to own the libs."
Harold Shipman for the very same reasons.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:48 pm
by Frank
Isn't Rosalind Franklin one of the scientists who discovered DNA (there was a theatre show all about her a couple of years ago)? No idea about the rest of them though
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:06 pm
by KK
Stephen "God doesn't exist" Hawking would annoy the Christians.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:19 pm
by Ironhide
I'd like it to be Hawking but wouldn't object to Turing getting the honour.
It'd also be quite apt given the current drive for equality.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:21 pm
by Moggy
Green Gecko wrote:Turing because computers and diversity (he was gay) and it will be a man.
Because my history is poor and I grew up in patriachy can someone tell me about the women please.
Ada Lovelace was the star of the 70s classic “Deep Throat”.
Re: New £50 Nominations
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:25 pm
by Lagamorph
Moggy wrote:Green Gecko wrote:Turing because computers and diversity (he was gay) and it will be a man.
Because my history is poor and I grew up in patriachy can someone tell me about the women please.
Ada Lovelace was the star of the 70s classic “Deep Throat”.
I always get her confused with Amy Adams and Anna Kendrick.