The Euro

The Euro becomes legal tender from midnight tonight. Is anyone here in a Eurozone country and what's the mood like? I'm in the UK, so not joining (yet?), but it's still very interesting.

we're not getting the euro, luckily.

The mood..? Well, it's on the radio all day here. Sounds like a lot of propaganda to me. And tonight there's a couple of hours of television on the launch of the Euro.

Me personnally? I hate it. They're stealing our national currency which has lasted almost 700 years!!! And for what? Just to enrich banks and big corporations. It doesn't benefit us at all.

How was is decided that Holland would enter the Euro?

Was it a government decision or was their a national poll?

yeah! How dare they! We make our currency for more then 170 years 🙂

And I don't know about Holland, but here it was just decided by the governement

So overthrow the government....

ha! In Belgium, when you walk on the street and you scream:
"viva la republique!" (long life the republic) you get arrested and you can stay a month in jail...
Overthrow the governement? Wow, that would mean the Death Sentence then...

ouch.......one day there will prob be a world currency....scary thought. What would all the money changers do for a living????

change the currency?

There are still a lot of currencies used today........some day it will porb all be moved to one....like Europe has moved to the Euro...

that will never happen!

In another 50 years there wont be paper currency, we'll have chips implanted into our heads or hands and any financial transactions will be automaticaly deducted without ever touching money, checks or credit cards. I hope my chip doesn't clash with my hair 😎

I'm with queeq, I hate it!! They are taking a vital part of a civilization and trying to form one large country, I won't let it happen. It's really ridiculous.

Originally posted by Texas
In another 50 years there wont be paper currency, we'll have chips implanted into our heads or hands and any financial transactions will be automaticaly deducted without ever touching money, checks or credit cards.

In 1978 people were positive we'd be living on Alpha Centauri by 1999. Where are we now? Same durn country. We're to the point that it's no longer invention but simply improving that needs to be done.

Yeah, but what are you going to do about it when you are along?

I don't understand...what do you mean "when I am along"

😄 that is Yerssot for you UBH our Belgian friend often talk in "riddles" he get around to explain his thing just be patient with him 🙂

Along a strange one in to be yesterday? 😂 😉

Ya'll lost me at Alpha Centauri...

Well that was lucky.