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On 09/29/2018 12:53 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
It's a PLANT. A naturally occurring plant. So is jimponweed. Want some? |
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On 09/29/2018 12:54 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:40:05 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:59:41 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news 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. I forgot something else annoying they do. Every other supermarket sells 10kg bags of cat litter. Yet Aldi sells 8 litre bags. LITRES? For a powder? You gotta be kidding me. Yeah, that is weird, but likely due to the rather odd way they source stuff like that, presumably the cheapest supplier they can find who happens to do it that weirdly. Since it works out more expensive than Asda (they're slightly lighter but the same price), they're not doing very well at sourcing the cheapest. The dishwasher pellets are made in Luxembourg of all places. God knows why its cheapest to move it all the way from there. I could understand the UK ones coming from there, but shipping those all the way to Australia?! Why ship lamb here all the way from Australia or New Zealand? There's a bunch of sheep just down the road. In 'Small is Beautiful' iirc, Schumacher was upset when he saw two lorries full of biscuits pass each other in opposite directions. I can't recall the two British cities but I remember them as being about 100 miles apart. We do that on a grand scale in the US. I've taken a load of carpets 2400 miles across the country only to load more carpets to take back to where I came from. They all looked like carpets to me but I was getting paid by the mile. |
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:42:46 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:08:22 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:22:16 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:17:02 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "rbowman" wrote in message ... On 09/27/2018 06:24 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: I listened to a few alternatives before I posted the original. I hated them all. Too strong an American accent and just didn't sound right. You're probably not ready for the guy who wrote the song then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMuQTN7Xo4w Not bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F15thKUEECQ That's the PHucker's theme song. What have you got against cannabis? Nothing, but it likely gives you lung cancer like tobacco does. Cant be good for your lungs to breath any burning stuff in deliberately. It's been proven to CURE cancer. BULL****. It's been proven to be much better for you than alcohol. BULL****. https://www.green-flower.com/article...ts-of-cannabis Just because some fool claims something... You wont be able to cite even a single peer reviewed medical journal that produced any proper double blind trial that proves anything like that. No, because that **** is censored by the government. Even sillier than you usually manage, and that's saying something. It's a PLANT. A naturally occurring plant. Doesn't mean that it cures cancer, stupid. |
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:40:05 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:59:41 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news 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. I forgot something else annoying they do. Every other supermarket sells 10kg bags of cat litter. Yet Aldi sells 8 litre bags. LITRES? For a powder? You gotta be kidding me. Yeah, that is weird, but likely due to the rather odd way they source stuff like that, presumably the cheapest supplier they can find who happens to do it that weirdly. Since it works out more expensive than Asda (they're slightly lighter but the same price), Don't believe that. they're not doing very well at sourcing the cheapest. The dishwasher pellets are made in Luxembourg of all places. God knows why its cheapest to move it all the way from there. I could understand the UK ones coming from there, but shipping those all the way to Australia?! Yeah, that's what I meant. And its considerably cheaper than all the alternatives when you buy the large boxes when they are special buys. |
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 22:10:32 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 09/29/2018 12:54 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:40:05 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:59:41 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news 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. I forgot something else annoying they do. Every other supermarket sells 10kg bags of cat litter. Yet Aldi sells 8 litre bags. LITRES? For a powder? You gotta be kidding me. Yeah, that is weird, but likely due to the rather odd way they source stuff like that, presumably the cheapest supplier they can find who happens to do it that weirdly. Since it works out more expensive than Asda (they're slightly lighter but the same price), they're not doing very well at sourcing the cheapest. The dishwasher pellets are made in Luxembourg of all places. God knows why its cheapest to move it all the way from there. I could understand the UK ones coming from there, but shipping those all the way to Australia?! Why ship lamb here all the way from Australia or New Zealand? There's a bunch of sheep just down the road. In 'Small is Beautiful' iirc, Schumacher was upset when he saw two lorries full of biscuits pass each other in opposite directions. I can't recall the two British cities but I remember them as being about 100 miles apart. We do that on a grand scale in the US. I've taken a load of carpets 2400 miles across the country only to load more carpets to take back to where I came from. They all looked like carpets to me but I was getting paid by the mile. Cost to the customer should dictate ones further away will be less likely to be bought, so I guess they were different carpets. |
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 22:03:58 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 09/29/2018 12:53 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: It's a PLANT. A naturally occurring plant. So is jimponweed. Want some? The point is illegalising a naturally occurring thing is insane. |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:24:35 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 09/26/2018 12:47 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: You currently have no dollar coin?! Effectively, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar...(United_States) I probably have one around here someplace. I thought I'd found it but it turned out to be a token for the carousel. We also have a two dollar bill. I've got one that I'm using as a bookmark. They never took off either. We do not have a three dollar bill, leading to the expression 'as queer as a three dollar bill'. There is a 50 cent coin, again rarely seen. It's redundant since you can make any sum with 1, 5, 10, and 25. 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? |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:09:15 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 09/26/2018 10:55 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: I've seen places for rent at twice the cost of my mortgage, and the house is half the size. That's a fourfold difference. And I've seen the counter-example. Maybe different in another country. In the UK landlords have so many ****ing hoops to jump through for electrical and fire safety, it costs them a fortune to rent out, plus of course half the tenants wreck the joint and run off. Finally, if you live in an RV you get to keep it. And modify it. Lot rent is quite a bit less than rental properties. I take it RV means campervan? Those depreciate way faster than houses. If you don't plan on selling it who cares? Besides, as you argued for automobiles, buy them used after they depreciate. Still a lot of repairs to do, like rust, and the engine of course. Living in a tent isn't bad. I lived in my pickup for much of 1988 and 1989. Technically I suppose I was homeless but it was my choice. Home was anyplace in the US where I parked it. I need space for belongings. When I left NH if it didn't fit in the pickup I didn't need it. Right now I've been stationary too long and the **** is accumulating. MP3s and Kindles are great inventions; electrons take up a lot less room than books, tapes, and CDs. Almost every time I've thrown something away I've wanted it 6 months later. |
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 22:45:11 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:59:41 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news 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? They do them all. What? I asked why your lawmakers don't do more sensible things, other than making everything metric, which nobody gives a **** about. 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. Like I said, Aldi does it the same way all the other supermarkets do it here. 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 :-) I did that at one time, they required them to all be on the belt so they could count them. They did that to me a few times, then stopped again, it was slowing down the queue. It seems they'd rather take the risk of some cheats than have everyone take longer to get through the checkout and employ more staff. 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. That comes down to how soon they pulp them, not how much use they get. But they can only pulp them when they are handed in to a bank. Commercial operations do that all the time. Do you seriously believe that they stuff the money they take under the mattress ? |
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:04:31 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "rbowman" wrote in message ... On 09/26/2018 09:02 PM, Rod Speed wrote: One of the chain self checkouts used to just dispense $20s here and I used that for that reason instead of an ATM but they have changed those now and they don't let you specify what you want, it works that out for you so you can still get $20s by specifying you want $40, but you get $50s if you say you want $50 or $100 etc. That chain has now closed their store in my town now so I have to use the other self checkouts. I'll have to pay more attention the next time. I think you can specify a number but the selection menu is in $20 increments. The max on the menu is $200, or sometimes $100 at the smaller kiosks in markets. I've got the feeling if you said you wanted $57 the machine would make impolite remarks. Maybe not, since the self service checkouts can make change with smaller bills. I never thought about it. I just grab $200 and go. Yeah, I'm about to try them all now because I have always preferred to have $20 notes for the garage/yard sales. $50s can be a real hassle, particularly given that we show up at the garage/yard sales before anyone else and hardly any ensure that they have lots of change. I prefer to use the self checkouts rather than ATMs just because you don't normally have to queue for the self checkouts and there is no chance of a skimmer on the self checkout. You must have a lot of criminals over there. Most of those skimming ATMs are tourists. |
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