On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:59:41 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:



"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:29:04 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/26/2018 07:05 AM, Rod Speed wrote:


"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
news On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 04:20:42 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/25/2018 09:25 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
We just changed recently. Annoyingly they also changed one of the
coins, so they're slightly bigger and no longer fit in any machines
until they're all changed over at the shop's expense. Clueless Royal
Mint, they do that every 5 years.

At least you don't have Loonies...

Who?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie

We do in fact have both a gold colored $1 and $2 coins and they work
fine
except for the terminal stupidity that the $1 coin is bigger than the $2
coin.
And the 50c coin is bigger again, but is silver colored and not gold
colored.

And we don't have 1c and 2c coins anymore, the lowest value is 5c.

I misspoke. I was thinking of the toonie..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie

I don't know if it was just an urban legend but there was talk that the
manufacturing process wasn't ironed out for the first runs and the core
would fall out leaving you with a $2 washer.

I liked going to Canada. In the '90s the exchange rate was unfavorable
to the Canadians and they used different colors for their paper money
with bears, penguins, or whatever in the designs. For $100 you got a wad
of multicolored Canadian bills. It was like Monopoly money.

What screwed me up was liters for gasoline. Between the exchange rate
and trying to do liters to gallons in my head I always assumed I was
getting screwed at the pump where the former Imperial gallons seemed
like a bargain.

Our Aldi supermarkets, being a German company, like to make everything
metric, hence they sell litres of milk instead of the pints I get
everywhere else,

Ours are all metric, and that's the law.

Do your lawmakers have nothing more sensible to do?

it makes price comparisons annoyingly difficult. They also do weird ****
like putting the prices above the shelf instead of on it, I'm always
looking at the price for the wrong thing.

They don't do that here.

In every supermarket but Aldi here, the price is on the shelf which the item is sitting on. In Aldi however, it's on the shelf above, or for the top shelf, way above it on a vertical bit.

They do however have a nice tactic of speeding things up by letting you
just put one of everything on the conveyor belt, then telling them how
many you have left in the trolley. Sometimes I guess you might feel the
need to er.... tell them the wrong number :-)

Ours counts them even when you tell them.

Try filling your trolley to the brim, they can't see them all then :-)

Our old silver dollars were large. The latest attempts to float out a
dollar coin have been barely distinguishable from a quarter (25 cent
piece). They never have taken off.

You currently have no dollar coin?!

Yes they do. But for some reason most don't use it presumably because
they didn't crap all the paper $1 notes when they introduced it. Its now
not even minted for general currency use, just for collectors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar...(United_States)

$1 US is worth even less than £1. Our £1 notes fell to bits through overuse, I dread to think what theirs look like.