The Huskar Social Union wrote:We check every £50 note we get at my work cuz they are soo rare to see, have not found a fake one yet though.
Doesn't surprise me. The counterfeiters moved on when everyone stopped taking them.
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by Fartsniffage » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:25 am
The Huskar Social Union wrote:We check every £50 note we get at my work cuz they are soo rare to see, have not found a fake one yet though.
by The Emerald Legion » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:27 am
Fartsniffage wrote:The Emerald Legion wrote:
What kind of shop can't break a fifty?
Back in the day there were pretty much more fake £50 notes floating around than real ones. Shops stopped taking them because they kept losing money. Things have changed in terms of detecting fakes but the attitude remains. Fifties are viewed with distrust and mostly seen as only being used by criminals and drug dealers so shops still don't like taking them.
A friend of mine visited from the US a couple of years back and changed her money in the US. They gave her 4 £50 notes and she had a heck of a time actually spending them. We finally found a bar in the Village that would take them because the manager was a bit old school and knew the orange square trick for checking that they were real.
by The Huskar Social Union » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:27 am
by Ifreann » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:31 am
The Huskar Social Union wrote:We check every £50 note we get at my work cuz they are soo rare to see, have not found a fake one yet though.
by The Huskar Social Union » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:32 am
by The Blaatschapen » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:34 am
by Fartsniffage » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:35 am
by Ifreann » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:37 am
by Fartsniffage » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:38 am
The Blaatschapen wrote:The Huskar Social Union wrote:No just some people try and give you the old ones which are no longer legal tender.
Had a few last few months at work.
Yeah, I had that last year when visiting London. I had some old 1 pound coins from my trip to Manchester in 2016, and I tried to use them last year. The shopkeeper told me that they are not in use anymore.
Turns out that there is a condom machine at the airport that still accepted them.
Also, donation boxes at the museums. Let them figure it out
by The Huskar Social Union » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:39 am
Fartsniffage wrote:The Blaatschapen wrote:
Yeah, I had that last year when visiting London. I had some old 1 pound coins from my trip to Manchester in 2016, and I tried to use them last year. The shopkeeper told me that they are not in use anymore.
Turns out that there is a condom machine at the airport that still accepted them.
Also, donation boxes at the museums. Let them figure it out
You can just walk into a bank and they'll change them for you.
by The Blaatschapen » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:44 am
Fartsniffage wrote:The Blaatschapen wrote:
Yeah, I had that last year when visiting London. I had some old 1 pound coins from my trip to Manchester in 2016, and I tried to use them last year. The shopkeeper told me that they are not in use anymore.
Turns out that there is a condom machine at the airport that still accepted them.
Also, donation boxes at the museums. Let them figure it out
You can just walk into a bank and they'll change them for you.
by Fartsniffage » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:50 am
by An Alan Smithee Nation » Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:02 am
Souseiseki wrote:it's almost like boris jonhson is some kind of bufoon
by An Alan Smithee Nation » Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:09 am
by Dooom35796821595 » Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:12 am
by Fartsniffage » Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:25 am
Dooom35796821595 wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48938509
Oh look, the SNP are doing so well with their NHS...
And their solution to their incompetence? Find a questionable solution they can’t pass without Westminster, and prepare to blame anyone but themselves.
by Dooom35796821595 » Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:58 am
Fartsniffage wrote:Dooom35796821595 wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48938509
Oh look, the SNP are doing so well with their NHS...
And their solution to their incompetence? Find a questionable solution they can’t pass without Westminster, and prepare to blame anyone but themselves.
That's kinda harsh. If I had to live in Scotland I'd be taking drugs too.
by Souseiseki » Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:59 am
Dooom35796821595 wrote:Oh look, the SNP are doing so well with their NHS...
And their solution to their incompetence? Find a questionable solution
they can’t pass without Westminster
The woman leading the taskforce, Prof Catriona Matheson, told BBC Scotland the evidence for decriminalisation was strong.
Glasgow City Council's plan for users to be able to take their own drugs under the supervision of medical staff at a special facility in the city would also need a change in UK law.
The Home Office has refused permission for Glasgow to set up the so-called "fix rooms", where users could inject heroin or cocaine in a safe and clean environment.
Tory MSP Annie Wells claimed the Scottish government was "pinning their hopes on consumption rooms, because they know it's something the UK government does not agree with".
She added: "They should be focusing their efforts on rehabilitation and abstinence-based recovery, the very services they have cut to the bone.
by Questarian New Yorkshire » Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:07 am
We aren’t as far from laffer diminished returns as it first appears because he didn’t include council tax, which is the equivalent of local tax for the other countries.Ostroeuropa wrote:Found a study saying the optimal tax rate for the UK is a 74% marginal tax rate. The laffer curve has been determined to be pretty much where it was before Conservatives got all excited about the prospect of a Laffer curve.
http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/711.pdf
Also, the international average for studies on the laffer curve indicate it is around 70%.
So you don't need to give Tory economics any credence unless our marginal taxes are 70+%.
by Souseiseki » Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:12 am
by Greater vakolicci haven » Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:15 am
Questarian New Yorkshire wrote:We aren’t as far from laffer diminished returns as it first appears because he didn’t include council tax, which is the equivalent of local tax for the other countries.Ostroeuropa wrote:Found a study saying the optimal tax rate for the UK is a 74% marginal tax rate. The laffer curve has been determined to be pretty much where it was before Conservatives got all excited about the prospect of a Laffer curve.
http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/711.pdf
Also, the international average for studies on the laffer curve indicate it is around 70%.
So you don't need to give Tory economics any credence unless our marginal taxes are 70+%.
Also obviously its a very well put together paper with useful applications butttt: he didn’t include dividend tax or capital gains tax, which doesn’t (or hardly) affect the people who aren’t in the top tax bracket, but strongly affects people who are. It’s probably harder to calculate but receipts from those taxes would (theoretically) decline and or people would consider these taxes as being part of the marginal tax take.
But sure we can increase marginal tax rate. That’s not an argument that we should, or that doing so would have no negative effects on the economy.
by Questarian New Yorkshire » Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:18 am
by Questarian New Yorkshire » Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:18 am
That's nearly all of economics - which doesn't mean its useless.Souseiseki wrote:the laffer curve is a napkin theory that is meaningless in practice because no one can figure out how to actually plot it or whether it even exists outside cartoonish extremes because of economists consistent struggles with empiricism
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