Opinions on the Redesign of British Currency

[Emperor Oli]

You know how serious these yanks are...

They are so funny once they get going in an argument that they're losing. On a site (whose URL i am not at liberty to disclose here), when somebody started a thread called 'America sucks' or some other intellectual title like that.

Halfway through, a yank said they invented electricity (mm lets invent electricity, cars and computers. None of those things were invented/discovered by americans. And then they get all possessive and one said "You have no idea how much I want to blow your little f****** imperialist island to f****** hell you little english f*****..."

Don't get me wrong, I've liked most of the americans who I have met but some of them are beyond belief,

[Sylvester]

Don't get me wrong, I've liked most of the americans who I have met but some of them are beyond belief,

they like their flag a bit too much for my liking...

Far too patriotic...

[Geoff T]

Brits, can you imagine having a 50p note!

But we did! If someone gave you a 10/- note when I was a kid then you were rich. It was worth four half-crowns!

Jumpers for goal-posts...

Geoff

[Sylvester]

Brits, can you imagine having a 50p note!

But we did! If someone gave you a 10/- note when I was a kid then you were rich. It was worth four half-crowns!

Jumpers for goal-posts...

Geoff

didn't one of the british islands issue 50p notes as direct replacements for 10/- notes?

[Emperor Oli]

they like their flag a bit too much for my liking...

Far too patriotic...

I'm all for patriotism but for a person, not a scrap of fabric

If someone gave you a 10/- note when I was a kid then you were rich. It was worth four half-crowns!

My granny got two 10/- note from her parents every week at university. I think thats quite extravagant

[Sylvester]

I'm all for patriotism but for a person, not a scrap of fabric

It's that rub your nose in it patriotism i don't like. It's one thing to love your country, but it's quite another to constantly state your better than everyone else.

I mean take these world disaster films they make, you know the kind, commet is going to hit the earth, it's going to hit New York and it's going to end the world.

Very true it would, but all way through you just keep getting quotes like , 'the American people won't like it', 'the American's', 'God i love America', 'Ain't America wonderful', 'lets save the world' (by that they mean America), and they always want to kiss the President's ass in these films. And there's Stars and Stripes everywhere you look.

Considering they are trying to prevent the end of the world, you'd think other nations might get mentioned and join in on the action, you know team work without the US doing it all themselves, where was United Nations throughout all this?

If you ask me it's as if the rest of the world doesn't exist to them. Now if the commet was going to hit Beijing it wouldn't be the end of the world, because afterall it's not America, they ain't affected thus they ain't bothered.

So i try to avoid all these very Partriotic films they produce, full of their own self importance... cos they make me feel sick.

[Emperor Oli]

So i try to avoid all these very Partriotic films they produce, full of their own self importance... cos they make me feel sick.

Haha, so true. I watched The Patriot last year. What a sack of crap that was. This old guy (Mel Gibson) and his two scrawny (untrained) kids were going around ambushing British convoys of soldiers. And in these battles of three vs. thirty, they always won. I was laughing at the innaccuracy of it all because in reality, they would have been shot to pieces before they'd even primed their weapons. Thirty highly trained British grenadiers against two pre-pubescent children and their politician Father - not rivals at all.

And then we could go off on the "How America won WWII" tangent....

[william]

NOOOO! Where's Oli's old avator?!

[Emperor Oli]

Hehehehe I found this on a x-ray website. The man "fell" onto the revolver and it got stuck in his rectum

[william]

Minging!

[Emperor Oli]

Oh yes, there were allsorts:

Object                             Number Recovered

Glass or ceramic

   Bottle or jar                                  32

   Bottle with attached rope            1

   Glass or cup                                 12

   Light bulb                                      7

   Tube                                 6

Food

   Apple                                1

   Banana                               2

   Carrot                               4

   Cucumber                             3

   Onion                                2

   Parsnip                              1

   Potato                               1

   Salami                               1

   Turnip                               1

   Zucchini                             2

Wooden

   Ax handle                            1

   Stick or broom handle               10

   Miscellaneous or unspecified         3

Kitchen device

   Dull knife                           1

   Ice pick                             1

   Knife sharpener                      1

   Mortar pestle                        2

   Spatula (plastic)                    1

   Spoon                                1

   Tin cup                              1

Miscellaneous tools

   Candle                               1

   Curling Iron    1

   Flashlight                           3

   Iron rod                             1

   Pen                                  2

   Rubber tube                          1

   Screwdriver                          1

   Toothbrush                           1

   Wire spring                          1

Ball

   Baseball                             2

   Tennis ball                          1

   Pool cue ball                        1

Miscellaneous containers

   Baby powder can                      1

   Candle box                           1

   Shampoo Bottle   1

   Snuff box                            1

Miscellaneous

   Bottle cap **                        1

   Cattle horn                          3

   Chain (gold)    1

   Frozen pig's tail                    1

   "Kangaroo tumor" #                   1

   Hair Mousse Cap   1

   Plastic rod                          1

   Stone                                2

   Toothbrush holder                    1

   Toothbrush package                   1

   Whip handle                          2*

Collections (one case of each)

  2 Glass tubes

  72 1/2 Jeweler's saw

  Oil can with potato stopper

  Piece of wood, peanut

  Umbrella handle and enema tubing

  2 Glasses

  Phosphorus match ends (homicide)

  402 Stones

  Toolbox ##

  2 Bars soap

  Beer glass and preserving pot

  Lemon and cold cream jar

  2 Apples

  Spectacles, suitcase key, tobacco pouch, and magazine

total of 14 collections, with approximately 500 objects

I removed the 'offensive' ones

[william]

Not a nice website, definately not!

[Emperor Oli]

Not a nice website, definately not! 

'Twas intriguing to say the least!

[william]

I'm sure it was!

[Chris Perkins]

Now just a minute!

Perhaps we should now pop this film/patriotism/strage things to get stuck in your body subject in the non coin related area.

Someone start a new subject!

[Emperor Oli]

I can't see it going very far after this

[william]

Now just a minute!

Perhaps we should now pop this film/patriotism/strage things to get stuck in your body subject in the non coin related area.

Someone start a new subject!

OK then! What does everyone think about the redesign of British currency, getting back on topic!