Belief as identity
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It was probably 1971 and me and my contemporaries were 9 or 10.
I said: "I don't believe in decimalisation1" and they all objected by saying that decimalisation was actually happening.
Two things about this are funny. One is that I was trying to be the copied and pasted version of my parents that they wanted. They were quite conservative in their fondness …
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