who decided gold had any real value anyway?
go buy all the gold you can
one day someone is going to say its worthless and paper is the rare commodoty these days ;)
"i made you something with origami dear"
"oh how preacious ... glossy 90gsm paper that must have set you back a few bob"
"5 bars of 24 carrat gold, but your worth it my dear"
edit:
and whilst im on about metals with value
why in gods name are we still minting brand new 1p and 2p pieces in the uk when you can still find legal tender coins from the 80's nocking about, im sure it costs more to mint a penny than a penny is worth
ofset of course by the fact that it dont cost £50 to make a £50 note ;)
but coins verses cloth 'paper' money the durability is immence, yet im finding ever so more shiny coins in my change these days
if we stopped minting them we could save the metals for something else
if we stopped giving out penny change and instead had the 1p from your £29.99 game going to charity by default we could have enough dosh per person to wipe out alot of 3rd world debt within a few years
and dont say "well wont shop keepers keep the dosh or artificially raise the price to £30" lets pretend this is a legal requirement like vat
no one will miss a penny, unlike the noticable 17.5% price hike. but as we are shown the inc vat price, we dont really worry as there isnt much about it we can do unless we can reclaim vat as a business.
and smelt down all pennies as they come back into banks
give a grace period where you could pay for things under 50p with sharpnell (or just bank them yourself) an begone with them
go buy all the gold you can
one day someone is going to say its worthless and paper is the rare commodoty these days ;)
"i made you something with origami dear"
"oh how preacious ... glossy 90gsm paper that must have set you back a few bob"
"5 bars of 24 carrat gold, but your worth it my dear"
edit:
and whilst im on about metals with value
why in gods name are we still minting brand new 1p and 2p pieces in the uk when you can still find legal tender coins from the 80's nocking about, im sure it costs more to mint a penny than a penny is worth
ofset of course by the fact that it dont cost £50 to make a £50 note ;)
but coins verses cloth 'paper' money the durability is immence, yet im finding ever so more shiny coins in my change these days
if we stopped minting them we could save the metals for something else
if we stopped giving out penny change and instead had the 1p from your £29.99 game going to charity by default we could have enough dosh per person to wipe out alot of 3rd world debt within a few years
and dont say "well wont shop keepers keep the dosh or artificially raise the price to £30" lets pretend this is a legal requirement like vat
no one will miss a penny, unlike the noticable 17.5% price hike. but as we are shown the inc vat price, we dont really worry as there isnt much about it we can do unless we can reclaim vat as a business.
and smelt down all pennies as they come back into banks
give a grace period where you could pay for things under 50p with sharpnell (or just bank them yourself) an begone with them