heinlein
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| posted on 19/8/04 at 02:26 PM |
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Off topic question
Sorry to bother you chaps with a non-car question, but I figured I can't go wrong asking the people on site.
Last night while talking to a friend the subject of currency came up. Does England still use pound sterling or the euro or a mixture of both.
In the posts I read I see the symbol I always thought was for the English pound.
When you're lying in the midst of the Afghan plains and the women come out to cut up the remains; just roll to your rifle and blow out your
brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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phelpsa
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| posted on 19/8/04 at 02:30 PM |
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Pounds £££££££££££££££. Worth a lot more than those measly euros 
Adam
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 19/8/04 at 02:35 PM |
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everything is on topic here!
We are one of the 3 countries in the EU (before recent enlargement) that didnt adopt the euro.
govt want to - but they know the public wouldnt vote for it. It will sneak up on us eventually when people gradually accept it....
atb
steve
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locoboy
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| posted on 19/8/04 at 02:37 PM |
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Pound, £, GBP, Sterling, call it anything you like but not a Euro, and proud of it
Keep the quid!
ATB
Locoboy
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 19/8/04 at 02:46 PM |
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The government seem to be the only people that like the Euro, we English can be very patriotic when it comes to stuff like changing our currency!
Pete
PS If you scroll down the list of forums you'll find one for "anything else", probably a better place for a topic like this. Just
for future reference 
[Edited on 19/8/04 by scoobyis2cool]
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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Alan_Thomas
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| posted on 19/8/04 at 04:04 PM |
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The pound for sure - its like the Dollar but for once bigger!
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Peteff
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| posted on 19/8/04 at 04:12 PM |
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Keep the pound.
Everyone who is in a euro zone has commented how things have got dearer since the changeover. They stuffed us once with decimalisation, everything
goes up 5p at a time now, they may as well do away with 1p and 2p coins.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Hellfire
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| posted on 19/8/04 at 04:26 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan_Thomas
The pound for sure - its like the Dollar but for once bigger!
Having never seen a dollar - is it smaller than a pound coin??? I always thought they were bigger... and it's worth more than a dollar!!!!
[Edited on 19-8-04 by Hellfire]
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phelpsa
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| posted on 19/8/04 at 04:32 PM |
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I thought dollars were in notes?
Adam
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JoelP
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| posted on 19/8/04 at 04:50 PM |
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i could live with euros if i had to, but not foreign control of interest rates, even if they would be lower. Interest rates in the UK are 4.5 i think
now, and rising to control debt and inflation, in the euro zone they are much lower, which in my humble and ill educated opinion would over cook the
economy.
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The Shootist
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 posted on 19/8/04 at 05:59 PM |
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Dollars are Notes and Coins
....but euros are deli sandwiches composed of a roasted lamb/beef mixture, with onions and tomatoes, topped with a creamy cucumber souce....and the
whole mess stuffed into a pita.
This is a Dollar coin.....
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