Comments on: In which I vent my bile, part 1

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:54:20 +0000

First you win my iPod, then you get your Scottish Â£5 notes accepted.

I officially hate you.

By: Matt Hoy

Matt Hoy — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:45:15 +0000

Never had one refused.

By: Oli

Oli — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:49:27 +0000

My mother went to the bank to change some Stirling into Euros before she went on holiday in Belgium. The cashier said that they’d have to order some, but they’d be ready tomorrow.
My mum’s exasperated response was to state, “I thought the single currency was meant to alleviate all this hassle”.

I’m all for keeping the pound. It’s the strongest (and oldest) currency in the world. And long may it continue!

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Queen!

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:58:48 +0000

I’m about 100 miles from the Canadian border. Here in Idaho, we LOVE LOVE LOVE Canadians coming down here to spend their money on our fancy widgets and hoozits at Wal-Mart.

But they darn well better leave their Canadian monopoly money at the border! We don’t want none of that funny money around here.

Actually, I enjoy slipping a Canadian quarter into a pop machine every now and then. You can still find some that are foolish enough to accept them.

By: better brother

better brother — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:20:25 +0000

To be fair the Scottish Â£5 note looks like it HAS been printed on a xerox. Every time I go to Norther Ireland, I have to spend all my Irish Â£5 on chocolate at the airport before I come back to avoid a trip to the bank.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:44:22 +0000

Americanmum – Good grief woman, I’m not touching that one with a ten foot barge pole.

think of the outrage that would occure by asking the American public to change the dollar to the Mexican Peso. Now multiply that by thousands of years of wars and antagonism. Add in a crumbled Empire’s feelings of growing irrelivance on the world stage. And then you have many British people’s attitude towards switching to the Euro (although not mine).

By: Kristina

Kristina — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:35:18 +0000

So…silly American question…why not just change to the Euro?

By: Oli

Oli — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:14:29 +0000

And vice versa!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:11:51 +0000

Oh, and another thing I learned from the drunken Scots…English shopkeepers not accepting Scottish pounds is just another reflection of the overall English bigotry toward the Scots and their fear of the mighty Scottish race. Or something like that.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:09:32 +0000

Aah, I remember this problem from my time spent, a million years ago (or maybe just 11 years ago), living in Scotland. I earned my money in cash, including a lot of Scottish banknotes. At the end of my Scottish bartending gig I moved on to London, where many shopkeepers did not want to take my money. From what drunken Scots informed me, most non-Scottish shopkeepers don’t want to take Scottish pounds because it somehow makes more work for them. It’s usually just a bluff, like, “I will tell this person that we don’t accept their currency to force out the British pounds.” If you push the issue, though, they will take it. I used to have to argue with people all of the time, but they always took the money when I said, “Okay then, I guess I will go spend this money somewhere else…” I always just thought they were trying to push me around because I was American.