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Topic: Pray for us...
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Colonel Klink
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posted December 31, 2001 03:03
I just realized I was the only one here from the "Euro" zone, since England doesn't belong to this zone and that there aren't any non-english europeans here (or maybe some dudes in holland).
Anyway, this is freakingly exciting : tomorrow, o the first of January, while getting up and dealing with a serious hangover we'll have to face a brand new currency and this will be such a mess ! Farewelll to our beloved francs, deutsch marks, chillings or whatever other singular currencies. Now it's the EURO. Now when you buy something you'll have to count up the change for 5 minutes. Queues will be longer, people will be slower, swindles everywhere... A lot of thugs will try to attack the packed up banks, a lot of swindlers will try to rip everybody and their moms off... So yeah, pray for us, this is gonna be a piece of cake ! 
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Colonel Klink
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posted December 31, 2001 10:14
As you can imagine, it's not only a change in the name but also in the value. For instance one Euro is 6.55957 French Francs. We have to divide all prices by this value to get the new price in Euros (at least till we get used to the value in Euros). Kim looks like she likes the Euro cuz one Euro is almost one dollar (so far..., something like US$ 0.9) so all prices change to "american" prices.And, Vandal, for coins and notes, there will be a common side and a side for the country that emits it. So in the long run, there will be Euro notes with a greek or finish or irish side on it in my wallet. Fun. As a reminder (cuz you don't give a shit about this), here are the 12 EUropean Community countries that will switch to Euro :
- Germany
- Austria
- Belgium
- Spain
- Finland
- France
- Greece
- Ireland
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Portugal
UK, Danemark, and Sweden didn't get into the Euro thingy.
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Industrial Revolution has flipped a bitch on Evolution.
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***norm
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posted December 31, 2001 11:11
Man, all of the planning for this Euro switch and it seems that many of the bugs are not worked out. I do not envy you David, afterall, I HATE getting Canadian money. Sure it's pretty with all of the colors, but c'mon now, they are only beer certificates...
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posted December 31, 2001 04:09
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