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there are a lot of people here who live in the "euro" area. how do you feel about your new money? have the prices gone higher when going to euro? this is what happened here. of course it is nice not to have to exhange money when going somewhere but is there something else that is good about it? |
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It should help standardise prices across europe. Good for the brits (if we adopt it) but probably bad for most countries. It's also a very unstable currency meaning you can make (or lose) a lot of money buying/selling euros. |
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euros suck. global economy is shit. more for the rich, less for the poor. prices up n up n up. social benefits down n down. requirements to get in the euro train include several socioeconomical problems. |
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fight globalization in all ways! |
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well, the prices in finland are 2x higher than in for example spain, so thats for the standardising.. :) |
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prices mean nothing if not taken side by side with salaries, social benefits, state economy, external debt... |
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I haven't even seen a Euro! I'm happy with nuggets (pound coins) they are perfect beer tokens. Also I lav the queen, aint she got a laverly smile eh?, cockles and muscles, pealy queens, doin the laaambeth walk, Oi! Have a banana! Arrlwoit M'Darlin! |
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Bit of a quill and ink ere eh mate? ow's the trouble and strife, still getting arms and list every night? |
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so there go the only "benefits" of the euro.. |
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as nice and exciting getting a new currency might be, I also have to say that the euro sucks. some products have gone 30 - 100 % more expensive here, espeically food. and somehow it feels almost the same now when you get 50 euros like it was when you got 50 marks! with the difference that 1 euro = 2 dm.... :-/ |
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A $LAV€ is a $LAV€ |
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1 euro = 5,9 fim how come the food can be so expensive everywhere.. it's almost always over 30 euros when we go to the grocery store.. |
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at least we r the ppl who can buy food |
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agreed! euros suck. And fuck the government for saying we only "imagine" that the prices have gone higher since january 1st. Everything is waaay more expensive now. |
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how long time did you have two currencies at the same time? |
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some months |
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they avoided that in germany. the bundesbank changed in one day! |
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i think for about 2 weeks... not sure anymore. Anyway... back then when everything was double-priced, all the prices in EURO's were numbers like 1,47 or 33,52 But shortly after the guilders dissapeared entirely, everything has been rounded off nicely... the prices above are now probably 2 euro and 35 euro.... none of those "weird" rough prices anymore |
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and for a more practical matter: why all those little coins? who needs 1 cent coins or even 2 cents coins? i want my guilder back }:| |
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there was this old lady in a street corner telling everyone that euros are one of the signs of ending in the book of revelations i really did not know what to think of that |
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huh? 1 cent coins? 2 cent coins? |
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it doesn't bother me, except for stupid prices with 2 decimals (21,49 € for example)... i hate having lots of cents, they're stupid. |
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yeah we have those - i believe finland didn't want them. they were right |
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5 cents is the smallest coin in finland |
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me too!!!! i miss guilders so much! And those coins are driving me crazy! There are too much, and it's too hard to tell them apart I'll probably never get used to it either... when i'm 80 years old, i'll still be calculating everything into guilders in my head |
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the upside is, if you ever find a 1 cent or 2 cent coin from finland, it's going to be worth lots of money |
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so everywhere, people hate the euro? NICE ONE, EU |
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i wish i lived in finland ;-) |
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not just hating the euro. hating all of the EU. |
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yeah i heard stories about people that immigrated to canada decades earlier who still calculated the prices there back to guilders... |
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i wished i lived in the netherlands. even there is 1 cent coins :) |
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everyone keeps saying that, can't see why :)... i'd rather live in england, but it seems the majority of the english themselves don't even want to live there. |
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I wish I lived in Irak |
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the grass is always greener on the other side they say... :) |
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i'm lucky that i don't have to buy with euros (c; |
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we can wait to become a part of EU hehe i hope something goes wrong and we'r not accepted |
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lets all move to switzerland |
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LOL, yeah that's me for sure :-p I always have to remind myself that not everything is on sale, and i have to translate those low prices into guilders (and it sucks, because i'm terrible at calculating :-p Usually i'll just "roughly" double the prices... and then later when i'm home and check with the calculator... i discover i spent much more money than i thought :-S |
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u won't like switzerland neetta, the peoples are so bad here.... don't ask me why... switzerland just has nice mountains, but that's all, maybe some nice culture city's but not more... |
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ah the good 'ole green english pastures :) |
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i quite like switzerland its quite expensive tho i really like geneva |
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that avatar makes me dizzy.... ... i like it :-) |
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thnx. mc escher inspired the creator of it |
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that's interesting! I wonder if escher would have done similar things... if animation would have existed in his days. I saw an item on the news recently, where some guys finished an unifinished drawing of him using a computer... it looked great! Escher would have loved computers i'm sure :-D |
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yeah! apparently escher had distorted a picture according to the mathematics used to calculate prime numbers, without knowing it! if you want, i have the animation these people made of the picture, it just keeps zooming in forever and it's the same picture over and over again. endless, much like my avatar |
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I actually kinda like the Euro... The smaller coins are a bit clumsy, but it's just so damn easy when I go off to France or The Netherlands now. I haven't noticed anything about higher prices than before, really. |
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i think they showed that animation on the news aswell :-) it was really cool... and i still don't understand quite how it works... too complicated... how can it be just one picture if they can zoom in on it endlessly? It's crazy! If it is also a simple gif-animation like your avatar, i'd love to have it... otherwise this crappy computer i'm working from won't be able to show it i guess :-( |
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i always thought it was kinda fun to have the strange currency when i went abroad... it gave you a kind of holiday-feeling :-p |
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well it's an avi. search for it in google, i think it's on the third results page. look for the leiden university team link. they explain everything there. otherwise soulseek it off me :) |
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Fuck the euro and fuck the government. Don't be brainwashed by spin and fuck the media one or two times too. |
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