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"ZBicyclist" wrote:

Jens Müller wrote:
ZBicyclist schrieb:
Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
My goodness, do you go into a restaraunt and complain that they
shouldn't be charging $6 for a salad that has .50 worth of
vegetables or whatever in it? How is that different?

One hopes the waitress is more attractive than Robert Lickton.


Another example is medicine.

Patient: "Doc, it hurts when I do this."

Doctor: "Don't do that."

That will cost you upwards of $50.

No, only 10 ¤. Maybe it costs social security the equivalent of
$50, but I doubt it.

At the rate the dollar is going, it may not be long before 10 ¤. IS
$50.

When the Euro was first introduced, it was worth about 80 US cents.
Now it's worth $1.60

When I was in France the first time (2002), the Euro was worth US$0.98
to US$1.01. This made it just incredibly convenient to understand
prices in terms I was familiar with. When I went in 2003, I think the
Euro was worth about US$1.20 or so, which still wasn't bad to calculate
but was disadvantageous as a tourist. Now I basically can't afford to
go back to Europe for a cycling vacation as my costs would be so much
higher.