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Cyclists waste petrol
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 22:04:12 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 02:04:51 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 20:16:19 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 23:23:52 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:51:19 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:20:34 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:50:14 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:24:59 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:03:11 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:19:23 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:49:56 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/29/2018 03:46 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: We have 1,2,5,10,20,50,100,200 pence coins. They're all equally used. Why use two 25 cent coins when you can use a 50? No idea. Almost all the coin trays have 5 buckets but the fifth is most often used to hold paper clips, rubber bands, or other small items. One explanation is the half dollar was the last of the coins to contain silver and when the silver prices went up they were hoarded and fell out of circulation. By the time the composite coins came out people had gotten away from using them. Chicken or egg, but most vending machines and the pay phones didn't take them. The US did have 2 and 3 cent pieces in the 1800's. There was the naive thought that a coin's bullion value should match its face value so there was some jockeying around. The nickel won the popularity contest. The 20 cent piece didn't last long either. That was a political move by the silver miners to have the government buy more silver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech The US has solved that problem. None of the coinage has real worth although you can make sort of a low grade zamak out of pennies. Illegally, of course. Why do you have such complicated terms for your coins? Ours are just called by their value - 20p, 50p, etc. Pity about the sovereign, crown, half crown, groat, shilling, sixpence, quid etc. None of those are used anymore apart form "quid" which is simply a synonym for "pound". There are still slang terms for your decimal coins and notes. Which aren't used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang_...United_Kingdom The only slang term in use for a denomination is "quid". Wrong, as always. Which words do you believe we use commonly? You didn't say commonly. You said arent used. As in I hear them less often than once a year. Then you need to get out more. No, I just live in a civilised area without silly regional accents. In scotland ? Yeah, right. You get strong accents in cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh, and also in the middle of nowhere like the Highlands, but not in the middle. Wrong with that last You only get strong accents where people have low intelligence. BULL****. And you didn't say STRONG originally, you pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist. Strong accent is equal to silly regional. Wrong, as always. What other kind of strong accent could someone have? Your STRONG is a recent side track you pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist. Farming communities, and cities full of council estates. And people like Adam whose a lot smarter than you. Adam the electrician from uk.d-i-y? Yep. He lives in a council estate. You live in a slum. I live in a private house. He does too. and you're shifting the goalposts, again, with your strong. I'm not, Corse you are when you never mentions strong until your nose was rubbed in the stupidity of your original claim. Already covered above, Wrong, as always. stop making the same point twice. Go and **** yourself, again. Stop cutting and pasting. Go and **** yourself, again. the silly regional accents and the daft terminology occur in the same sort of places. Wrong, as always. Properly educated people use normal words and speak clearly. Wrong, as always. Adam doesn't and his education is much better than yours. He's a labourer. You are unemployed. |
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Troll-feeding Senile Ozzietard!
On 10/8/18 11:24 AM, The Peeler wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:10:13 +1100, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot Speed blabbered, again: FLUSH 270 lines of stinking troll **** You are unemployed. You are a stinking incontinent senile troll, Rot! Good that you agree that Mr Macaw is a few chromosomes short of a full human. |
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FLUSH 239 Lines of Stinking Troll ****!
On 10/8/18 11:05 AM, The Peeler wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 08:04:12 +1100, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot Speed blabbered, again: FLUSH ...and much better air in here again! Great that you agree that Jimmy is a green-nostriled, crossed eyed, hairy-livered, goisher kopf, inbred trout-defiler. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:03:18 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 09/30/2018 09:10 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Why do you have such complicated terms for your coins? Ours are just called by their value - 20p, 50p, etc. Said the person with bobs, tanners, quids, sovs, tuppence, nuggets, and beer tokens... Nobody says bob anymore. Tenner is simple, it means ten. Quid is just another word for pound, like buck means dollar. Nobody says sovs or tuppence or nugget or beer token anymore. And I don't think we've had coins made of anything anywhere near the coin's value for a long time. Although they did recently (without announcing it) change the 10p coin to one that was slightly thinner/thicker (I forget which) and a different metal to save money. This played havoc with machines that take them. There is a whole market for 'junk silver' in the US. Those are pre-1965 coins with no particular numismatic value that did have silver in their composition. The theory is if the **** hits the fan they will have exchange value as opposed to the post '65 coins that are intrinsically worthless. I think all coins should be worth themselves in metal. It particularly annoys me as I have a coin counter that sorts the coins and creates a "bank bag" (as in a particular amount - 20 x £1 etc that the bank likes paid in at once) of coins in each tube, simply by the total thickness of the pile. With the new 10ps it gets it wrong each time, so I just grumble at the bank teller when she says I've given her the wrong amount. I can adjust it for the new coins, but a the moment we have some of each. About 10 years ago I sorted coins and put them into coin wrappers. When I took them to the bank I stood their while the teller dumped them out of the wrappers and took the pile to the back room to sort. Ours has a sensitive weighscale, on the end of the row of tellers. The supermarket has a coin sorter that I use when I accumulate a couple of buckets of coins. There is a charge if you want cash back but none if you get a gift card. There are several varieties of gift cards, but I go with Amazon. For that you don't get a physical card, just a code number that adds the balance to your Amazon account. The sorter works quite well and only spits out Canadian coins. Sometimes it will reject a US coin but generally takes it if you run it through again. I just bought my own for £10 on Ebay. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:03:18 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 09:10 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Why do you have such complicated terms for your coins? Ours are just called by their value - 20p, 50p, etc. Said the person with bobs, tanners, quids, sovs, tuppence, nuggets, and beer tokens... Nobody says bob anymore. Tenner is simple, it means ten. Quid is just another word for pound, like buck means dollar. Nobody says sovs or tuppence or nugget or beer token anymore. And I don't think we've had coins made of anything anywhere near the coin's value for a long time. Although they did recently (without announcing it) change the 10p coin to one that was slightly thinner/thicker (I forget which) and a different metal to save money. This played havoc with machines that take them. There is a whole market for 'junk silver' in the US. Those are pre-1965 coins with no particular numismatic value that did have silver in their composition. The theory is if the **** hits the fan they will have exchange value as opposed to the post '65 coins that are intrinsically worthless. I think all coins should be worth themselves in metal. More fool you. No one does it that way anymore, for a reason. And the value of the metal changes a lot over the time of metal coins anyway so it isnt even possible. It particularly annoys me as I have a coin counter that sorts the coins and creates a "bank bag" (as in a particular amount - 20 x £1 etc that the bank likes paid in at once) of coins in each tube, simply by the total thickness of the pile. With the new 10ps it gets it wrong each time, so I just grumble at the bank teller when she says I've given her the wrong amount. I can adjust it for the new coins, but a the moment we have some of each. About 10 years ago I sorted coins and put them into coin wrappers. When I took them to the bank I stood their while the teller dumped them out of the wrappers and took the pile to the back room to sort. Ours has a sensitive weighscale, on the end of the row of tellers. The supermarket has a coin sorter that I use when I accumulate a couple of buckets of coins. There is a charge if you want cash back but none if you get a gift card. There are several varieties of gift cards, but I go with Amazon. For that you don't get a physical card, just a code number that adds the balance to your Amazon account. The sorter works quite well and only spits out Canadian coins. Sometimes it will reject a US coin but generally takes it if you run it through again. I just bought my own for £10 on Ebay. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:42:16 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:03:18 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 09:10 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Why do you have such complicated terms for your coins? Ours are just called by their value - 20p, 50p, etc. Said the person with bobs, tanners, quids, sovs, tuppence, nuggets, and beer tokens... Nobody says bob anymore. Tenner is simple, it means ten. Quid is just another word for pound, like buck means dollar. Nobody says sovs or tuppence or nugget or beer token anymore. And I don't think we've had coins made of anything anywhere near the coin's value for a long time. Although they did recently (without announcing it) change the 10p coin to one that was slightly thinner/thicker (I forget which) and a different metal to save money. This played havoc with machines that take them. There is a whole market for 'junk silver' in the US. Those are pre-1965 coins with no particular numismatic value that did have silver in their composition. The theory is if the **** hits the fan they will have exchange value as opposed to the post '65 coins that are intrinsically worthless. I think all coins should be worth themselves in metal. More fool you. No one does it that way anymore, for a reason. Why do people say "for a reason"? Is it because they don't know what the reason is? If you did you would have simply stated it. And the value of the metal changes a lot over the time of metal coins anyway so it isnt even possible. It's more stable than most things, like the price of oil for example. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:42:16 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:03:18 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 09:10 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Why do you have such complicated terms for your coins? Ours are just called by their value - 20p, 50p, etc. Said the person with bobs, tanners, quids, sovs, tuppence, nuggets, and beer tokens... Nobody says bob anymore. Tenner is simple, it means ten. Quid is just another word for pound, like buck means dollar. Nobody says sovs or tuppence or nugget or beer token anymore. And I don't think we've had coins made of anything anywhere near the coin's value for a long time. Although they did recently (without announcing it) change the 10p coin to one that was slightly thinner/thicker (I forget which) and a different metal to save money. This played havoc with machines that take them. There is a whole market for 'junk silver' in the US. Those are pre-1965 coins with no particular numismatic value that did have silver in their composition. The theory is if the **** hits the fan they will have exchange value as opposed to the post '65 coins that are intrinsically worthless. I think all coins should be worth themselves in metal. More fool you. No one does it that way anymore, for a reason. Why do people say "for a reason"? Because there is a reason for that, stupid. Is it because they don't know what the reason is? Nope. If you did you would have simply stated it. I did. And the value of the metal changes a lot over the time of metal coins anyway so it isnt even possible. It's more stable than most things, BULL****. like the price of oil for example. Irrelevant. It does in fact vary a hell of a lot over the life of metal coins. In spades with something like gold. But also with copper and silver and nickel. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Monday, October 8, 2018 at 6:42:26 PM UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
More fool you. No one does it that way anymore, for a reason. And the value of the metal changes a lot over the time of metal coins anyway so it isnt even possible. That is why 1p and 2p coins became steel in 1992 as the bronze was worth more in melted copper and in face value. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Monday, October 8, 2018 at 6:42:26 PM UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
I think all coins should be worth themselves in metal. More fool you. No one does it that way anymore, for a reason. That is why 1p and 2p coins became steel in 1992 as the bronze they were made of was worth more in melted copper than in face value. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 20:16:06 +0100, wrote:
On Monday, October 8, 2018 at 6:42:26 PM UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote: I think all coins should be worth themselves in metal. More fool you. No one does it that way anymore, for a reason. That is why 1p and 2p coins became steel in 1992 as the bronze they were made of was worth more in melted copper than in face value. the government's problem for allowing inflation. |
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