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offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-04-30 21:20 [#00201503]
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I'd phoned the pizzaria for a schoarma-dish (I don't know
if this the right translation),....so after an half hour of
waiting,..this dude delivered my food and I payed him.

He mumbled the price,.I understood 18.50 which used to be
the price in Guilders (old Dutch Valuta),...so I payed him
18.50

EURO's that is!!!!

Dumb basterd grinned and just took off,...after finishing my
meal I discovered my dumb ass fault.

I'm still not used with the euro,..and still calculate
everything I buy backwards to guilders.

Any of U europeans had similar incidents like me?


 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-04-30 21:23 [#00201506]
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EURO is a GAY Currency ! i never did identify the coins in
my Wallet, EURO can arse you damn....


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-04-30 21:23 [#00201507]
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£12 ain't bad here..............


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-04-30 21:24 [#00201508]
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and I personally found euro's really useful a few months
back when I went through france, belgium, germany austria
and italy..


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-04-30 21:29 [#00201511]
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They need to ban the 1 cent and 2 cent coins, that's the
only thing that irritates me about the Euro.


 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-04-30 21:36 [#00201515]
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the sense of euros is that you'll able to pay equal much for
the product in different countries like in your country. but
trust me, it's wrong actually...


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-04-30 21:40 [#00201519]
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yeah,.I hate those bitch-ass 1 and 2 euro cents to,..



 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-04-30 22:00 [#00201533]
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i don't think i'll ever stop calculating the equivalent in
guilders....

i don't think prices are equal in different countries now,
it's easier to compare prices throughout europe.


 

offline uzim on 2002-04-30 22:37 [#00201563]
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it may be annoying sometimes, but it was necessary imo...
:)

i'm not used to evaluate expensive prices in €... smaller
sums are easier...


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-04-30 22:40 [#00201567]
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so we can compete more easily against the U S of A!


 

offline eXXailon from purgatory on 2002-04-30 22:50 [#00201574]
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after the introduction of the euro, I believe my expenses
have grown 1,5 times the amount of what it used to be in
guilders. pretty shitty if you ask me


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-04-30 23:28 [#00201630]
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Why can't we just get rid of money and exchange fuckfaces
instead?


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-01 08:54 [#00202255]
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Some more Europeans in the house today?


 

offline Tropa from Helsinki (Finland) on 2002-05-01 09:14 [#00202274]
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Here in Finland 1 and 2 cent coins are actually not in use.
I have never even seen either of 'em.

So here people are bitching about prices being rounded to
the nearest 5c. I'm cool with it tho.


 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-05-01 09:38 [#00202280]
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heh it's like the EU Dollar, but countries like france don't
trust if you buy something with spanish euro's, some shops
DON't accept euro from other countries bcuz it could be a
falsification, suckers...


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-01 09:58 [#00202290]
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Yeah,..the French are stubborn people,..they won's speak
English,..they think they rule Europe,...
(generalistically speaking)

I like their woman though,..


 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-05-01 10:00 [#00202291]
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sooo TRUE plug, they're fuckers, if they come to
switzerland, you MUST speak french, if you travel to France,
you MUST speak french. sure it's a beautiful language, but
horrible to learn, showers..


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-01 10:10 [#00202294]
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They're (=French government) are so afraid about losing
French culture,.and afraid of American influence on French
youth,.that they have special laws that forbid broadcasting
to much english songs on Radio & TV.

i don't know the precise ratio,..but it's something like for
every 1 english spoken song ,there should be 4 French
songs.

Crazy If U think about it.


 

offline eXXailon from purgatory on 2002-05-01 11:00 [#00202333]
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just remember that you are offending French ppl here,
plugexpert and map


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-01 13:12 [#00202445]
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sorry:-(


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2002-05-01 13:15 [#00202446]
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Canada has a similar law. 50% of all songs played on radio
and musictvstations have to be canadian content.


 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-05-01 13:16 [#00202450]
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eXXa, i'm half french, half german, and born in
switzerland... so i don't wanna put all french ppl's in one
bag...


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-01 13:19 [#00202454]
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Thats stupid isn't it?

I think the more Englisch you hear when you're young the
better,...
For me it started with "funfactory" broadcasted by
sky,...series like Heman & Transformers,..no subtitling no
overdub.

ahh,.the good ol'days



 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-01 13:24 [#00202458]
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ha! yeah me too! i was too young to understand anything, and
so was my older brother, but we pretended to understand and
we would just laugh at a point where we thought they said
something funny :)

ah yes, transformers, dr. gadget, bananaman... good times,
good times


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-01 13:33 [#00202460]
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Hip Hop has also been a major influence in my (little)
knowledge of the Englisch slanguage.

My rotten grammar comes from the infamous legends like Eazy
E (NWA) & Bushwick Bill (Ghetto boys),...at 1 time I knew
all the lyrics (read: I could recite the sentences without
exact understanding of the content),..the kick-s attitude
attracted me,..+ all the 'fucks''bitches' 'nigga's' 'ho's
etc etc,.

Only now as I've matured (a little bit) ,.I understand some
of the deeper / hidden messages in some hip Hop tunes. Or
read between the lines better.




 

offline Fernz from A Scottish Wanker (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-01 14:20 [#00202486]
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I dont see the point in that fucking Euro. The old currency
is what we grew up with!


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-01 14:42 [#00202495]
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the point is : stable market place / stronger economic
position,...to form a counterweight against the US economy.

The Euro must compete with the dollar.
Smaller transaction cost in Europe,..more trading,.......

lets say just another trick to make the rich richer and the
poor poorer


 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2002-05-01 15:45 [#00202530]
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I was visiting my grandma in Finland this winter, when the
euro was introduced. It wasn't too much hassle, but the
coins suck.

-P


 

offline uzim on 2002-05-01 16:08 [#00202543]
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i'm french too, but i'm not offended, i agree with you about
stubbornness, pretentiousness...

the french government even made a law almost preventing
people from speaking english once (fortunately, it wasn't
applied!)... and they have ridiculous "french equivalents"
for CD-rom, shareware, freeware, etc... and lots of stuff
like that... besides we have to choose between a thief and a
fascist for the elections now... -_-


 

offline shortcircuit from Red Ends (Germany) on 2002-05-01 16:16 [#00202549]
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So I better don't tell you guys that Germany was the only
country that insisted on the 1 and 2 cent coins....


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-01 18:25 [#00202707]
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AAAhhh,.ze djermans!

why the hell would they need 1 or 2 cents? I actually
expected this to be insisted from Italy,...



 

offline Inverted Whale from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2002-05-01 19:48 [#00202756]
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They decided not to brand the currency with country of
origin in order to stop this sort of thing. Maybe they
should have done the coins as well. Do you mean that
shopkeepers are actually looking at the Euro coins and
refusing them? That's pretty lame.


 

offline shortcircuit from Red Ends (Germany) on 2002-05-01 19:57 [#00202764]
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I don't need 1 and 2 cent coins. I don't know whether it was
the german industry oder the german government but one of
them decided that it is better to keep up with stupid prices
like 1.99 instead of 2.00 and that's why they need 1 and 2
cent coins


 

offline Inverted Whale from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2002-05-01 20:01 [#00202768]
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There is a bill to get rid of the 1 cent coin in the USA,
not surprisingly the zinc lobby is against it (the 1 cent
coin is made primarily of zinc) and the copper lobby is for
it (the 5 cent coin is made primarily of copper).

The funniest thing is that making the coin is actually
profitable - it is made for .85 cents and sold for 1 cent...


 

offline shortcircuit from Red Ends (Germany) on 2002-05-01 20:07 [#00202779]
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interesting fact ... i haven't thought about it, but i
believe i heard that the material our old german 1 Pfennig
coins (made of copper) was more worth than 1 Pfennig.


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-01 21:36 [#00202821]
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old german coins are evil


 

offline StueF from St. Louis, Mo (United States) on 2002-06-22 22:38 [#00280706]
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a message to all germans pissed off about the euro.....

Eurostreik

Wie Du sicher schon am eigenen Geldbeutel gemerkt hast, ist
seit der Euro-Einführung alles teurer geworden:

- Konnte man füher seiner kleinen Schwester noch eine
Freude machen, indem man ihr eine Kugel Eis kaufte, zahlt
man jetzt

bis zu 1 Euro!

- Deutlich zu spüren ist die Preissteigerung auch bei den
Benzinpreisen!!

- Während früher 20 DM für einen gemütlichen
Kneipenabend genügten, ist man jetzt schnell 20 Euro
los.


Man hat das Gefühl, dass das DM-Zeichen einfach durch das
Euro-Zeichen ersetzt wurde. Damit ist jetzt Schluss! Wir
rufen zum

Konsumstreik auf!

AM 1. JULI 2002

soll ein Zeichen gesetzt werden, bei dem alle mitmachen
können und sollen -auch Du ! Es dürfte für den
einzelnen kein

Problem sein, einen Tag kein Geld auszugeben (keine
Lebensmittel einkaufen, nicht tanken, keine
Kneipen-/Cafébesuche). Das

zeigt vielleicht keine Wirkung, wenn es nur einer macht,
aber wenn alle mitmachen, trägt jeder Konsumstreikende dazu
bei,

dass den Verantwortlichen die Augen geöffnet werden.

Stell Dir vor, ganz Deutschland kauft einen Tag lang
NICHTS ein! Wenn wiruns überlegen, dass jeder von
uns im

Durchschnitt nur 5 Euro ausgibt wären das bei 80 Millionen
Menschen in Deutschland schon 400 Millionen Euro! Das
sollte ein

deutliches Zeichen sein !

Hilf mit, die Aktion zu verbreiten. Sende diese Mail an
alle, die Du kennst und sag denen Bescheid, die keine E-Mail
haben.

Nicht vergessen: AM 1. JULI um 0:00 Uhr ist STICHTAG! ES
BETRIFFT ALLE
-
A U C H D I C H !!!!



 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-06-22 23:10 [#00280739]
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this is a prehistorik thread!

Why?


 

offline Sepix from Major City (Austria) on 2002-06-22 23:24 [#00280769]
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the euro is just a fucked up thing wich makes multi concerns
earn MORE and makes us small people even MORE poor !
FUCK THE € ! ! !


 


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