BS: If vegans don't want £5 notes.......

Subject: RE: BS: If vegans don't want £5 notes.......
From: Senoufou
Date: 07 Dec 16 - 08:24 AM

Hahaha! I don't expect you're ready for that yet.

I don't think I'd enjoy 'child-free' holidays. We like to see the children, and indeed all ages, around us.
One of my friends lives in a 'retirement apartment' and it's terribly depressing visiting her there. Zimmer frames everywhere, and all they talk about is who's died or about to!

Subject: RE: BS: If vegans don't want £5 notes.......
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 Dec 16 - 03:16 PM

I was born the same year as Madonna, Prince, Rik Mayall, and Michael Jackson...

There's only me and Madonna left.. and we're not even 60 yet...



Back on topic of meaty fivers..

I've got one of them in my trouser pocket right now..

folded in quarters..

The little plastic bugger is coiled like a spring taking every opportunity to jump out my pocket..

At a bus stop yesterday, I caught it down in the gutter just as it was making a break for freedom on a passing breeze... 😠

Subject: RE: BS: If vegans don't want £5 notes.......
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 07 Dec 16 - 05:18 PM

Yes the replacement of the 'core' of 'silver' coins with steel was a right pain. Not only are they now attracted by magnets (I have yet to find one which is 'magnetic')but also they no longer stack correctly.
It used to be that after a large church do, or charity collection, you could out-sort all the 10ps, count one pile of a pound's worth, and count the rest by stacking them in matching height piles. Now, depending on which version they are, stacks of 11 of one type are the same height as stacks of ten of the other. You have to count every coin!

Subject: RE: BS: If vegans don't want £5 notes.......
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Dec 16 - 09:28 AM

You have to count every coin!
I have seen coin counting slidy things for a very reasonable cost. But I gues they measur height. So the don't count eh?



I'll get my coat...............

Subject: RE: BS: If vegans don't want £5 notes.......
From: Senoufou
Date: 08 Dec 16 - 09:36 AM

Apparently some geezer has etched a drawing of Jane Austen on only four of the new £5 notes, and if you find one, you may be able to sell it for £20,000. I'd have thought this was an illegal act, defacing the currency. I've checked mine, but no luck so far.
(I could however etch my own picture, of Trump perhaps, or Ed Balls dancing. I doubt anyone would give me £20, never mind £20,000 though.)

Subject: RE: BS: If vegans don't want £5 notes.......
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Dec 16 - 07:25 PM

Tallow is basically animal fat, right? That makes referring to pay-offs and bribes as "greasing palms" quite literally true, doesn't it?