Arianax Posted October 7, 2004 Report Posted October 7, 2004 To add some variety i thought I'd start a non-presidential election thread. Anyone see the new EU map of europe. missing anything ? PS. i havent changed the pic.
Arianax Posted October 8, 2004 Author Report Posted October 8, 2004 The new EU map published has no wales. Britain just stops where it should be, just found it quite funny
Yupa Posted October 8, 2004 Report Posted October 8, 2004 well, that little image you have is interesting stupidity, but the official EU map does include Wales
Paine Posted October 8, 2004 Report Posted October 8, 2004 yeah, but that picture missing wales is on the cover of a book they published, costing I think it was somthng like 35 euros/copy.
Aileron Posted October 10, 2004 Report Posted October 10, 2004 Wait who would spend 35 Euros on a book that stupid? Ow wait, 35 EUROS. I guess you get what you pay for.
DaKillaRoach Posted October 19, 2004 Report Posted October 19, 2004 Aileron, that made me snort ^_^ Yeah i'm from Wales, that hurt me Then the conservative leader had a big break out about it because he was born in south Wales He already hates the EU so it didn't make him happier. The strangest thing was that the EU comment was that "It was a technical mistake upon our part through the use of our computers"... So in otherwords they photoshopped it out or thats a bloody good technical error!! Its the complete English border, no problems.
Dav Posted October 20, 2004 Report Posted October 20, 2004 id love to know how they missed wales, although i dont think sheep can join the EU...
Aileron Posted October 20, 2004 Report Posted October 20, 2004 Oh I get it now, the Euro is like that play money they hand out at theme parks. Wales is the first craft shop that puts a sign up saying "We don't accept Europark money".
Paine Posted October 20, 2004 Report Posted October 20, 2004 id love to know how they missed wales, although i dont think sheep can join the EU...<{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think they were trying to give the UK a "slimmer figure", its nice to get rid of the beerbelly... however, it still seems to have quite a large !@#$%^&*...
Arianax Posted October 20, 2004 Author Report Posted October 20, 2004 The whole of Britain doesnt use Euroness, anyway, whats your problem with the Euro? its a reasonable Idea.
Paine Posted October 20, 2004 Report Posted October 20, 2004 ...it'll take too much effort to change...
MasterDrake Posted October 20, 2004 Report Posted October 20, 2004 Well lets see if you had money that was worth 4 times the amount would you really want to switch, the correct answer is no
MonteZuma Posted October 21, 2004 Report Posted October 21, 2004 id love to know how they missed wales, although i dont think sheep can join the EU...<{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think they were trying to give the UK a "slimmer figure", its nice to get rid of the beerbelly... however, it still seems to have quite a large !@#$%^&*...<{POST_SNAPBACK}>..and a very big penis.
MonteZuma Posted October 21, 2004 Report Posted October 21, 2004 Euros are elite. I used to think that the UK was correct to hold on to its pounds, but now I disagree. The US and Canada and Australia and New Zealand would be better off with a common currency too.
Aileron Posted October 21, 2004 Report Posted October 21, 2004 um, no...it leads to all sorts of problems. Truly sovereign nations are incapable of making common currency.
MonteZuma Posted October 21, 2004 Report Posted October 21, 2004 um, no...it leads to all sorts of problems. Truly sovereign nations are incapable of making common currency.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Why?
Aileron Posted October 21, 2004 Report Posted October 21, 2004 Well, all money needs to be backed. By whose standards should this be done? Should it be gold only, or should it be based on something obcure like stock? If the latter, what would happen in the event of a localised recession? Where would the gold be stored and can the one storing it be trusted? How would priting be done? If the rich nations used primative presses, there would be counterfeits all over the place, but if the printing presses were advanced, then poor nations couldn't afford to print money. and those are the EASY problems by any measure.
MonteZuma Posted October 21, 2004 Report Posted October 21, 2004 Well, all money needs to be backed. Money need not be backed by anything more than a promise. US currency is backed by nothing but a promise enshrined in law. By whose standards should this be done? Should it be gold only, or should it be based on something obcure like stock? If the latter, what would happen in the event of a localised recession? Localised recessions (at least insofar as they affect the currency) won't happen because the currency is backed by promises from several countries rather than just 1. Where would the gold be stored and can the one storing it be trusted?This is irrelevant. In fact there isn't enough gold in existance to back all of the currency in existance. The gold standard is outdated and irrelevant. How would priting be done? If the rich nations used primative presses, there would be counterfeits all over the place, but if the printing presses were advanced, then poor nations couldn't afford to print money.Guess what. The EU has already solved all of these problems! The fact is, the Euro is working in Europe.
Aileron Posted October 21, 2004 Report Posted October 21, 2004 yeah, but European nations are now only half-sovereign, have about the same level of economy, have few geological barriers between them, don't have to worry about gold storage (they all stored it in Switzerland before), and actually had benefits from doing this, and many other things. Most off, they had actual need. European countries are small and contain many borders, citizens could easily cross national borders daily. How would the US benefit? We have two countries bordering us, and a ton of terrirtory. Under what cir!@#$%^&*stances would a person living in Kansas need a universal currency so bad that we should tear the whole worldwide currency system apart and start anew. Atleast Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, China, Argentina, Brazil, and every island nation is in the same boat. The citizens in these countries don't travel to other nations routinely. As a matter of fact, travelling to other countries routenly is something unique to Europe. Put it this way...If its not broke, don't fix it. Our current currency system is running fine.
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