True Truths 6

There's inflation for you.
Literally in his (Phritz') case.

Will having everybody in the Euro zone reduce variations in price between EU nations for exactly the same goods? Thought not.

Sov godt

What do you call an insect paying rent? A Tenant! Fredrik

... and a cheeky one one inside a shoe ?

In-sole-ant

Brilli-ant! Oh God, what the hell are we on! Fred

An Australian, a Kiwi and South African are in a bar one night having a beer. All of a sudden the South African drinks his beer, throws his glass in the air, pulls out a gun and shoots the glass to pieces." In Seth Efrika our glasses are so cheap that we don't need to drink from the same one twice," he says. The Kiwi, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the glass to pieces. "Wull mate,in Niw Zulland we have so much sand to make the glasses that we don't need to drink
out the same glass either," he says. The Australian, cool as a Koala, picks up his beer and drinks it, throws his glass in the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the South African and Kiwi. He turns to the astonished barman and says," In Austraalia we have so many bloody
South Africans and Kiwis that we don't need to drink with the same ones twice."


Could a modern ant possibly once have actually been Charles Darwin?

An ant I knew lost everything, we called him insolv-ant

P.S. Nime me old whingein clispy beer-can scrammer! in the street next to mine, there are supermarkets at both ends (two of which are the same firm) one catering for a slightly posher clientel, and then there was my lot. This street is about 800m long, and the prices in each establishment vary quite considerably, as do those in Copenhagen to Lowland, and London to Birmingham, innit John

N.B. I was on a winter break in the Spanish mountains a couple of years back (North of Tarragona & totally tourist free) where a friend had brought a rather lovely old house in the main square right next to the Ebre. Those two being Tokyo based (one Japanese) were absolutely delighted by the prices there naturally, but so was I to use my �uros with confidence, and buy the same things that I'd get here for considerably less, and of course without all the exchange bullshit that I never wish to encounter again. I wonder if anybody on here has tries to cash a sterling cheque (or T cheque) in the States recently? they just look at you as if you're crazy, innit

I wasn't referring to small everyday purchases subject to loss leaders and intense competition between international chains owned by a few.

I was actually referring to the stuff you can't afford.

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Originally posted by Nime:
I wasn't referring to small everyday purchases subject to loss leaders and intense competition between international chains owned by a few.

I was actually referring to the stuff you can't afford.

You mean like why British goods are far cheaper here than in the UK (even under the old DM's) BMW's & VW'S for instance (don't mention fags & Booze), etc, as well as electrical goods (HI Fi naturally included), and the supermarkets to which I refer are small, and not international chains (just small franchises competeing with one another in the same street locally), though I'll be looking forward to Berlin one day having Spanish or Portugese prices, innit

The €uro in my opinion is an excellent concept, and will soon overtake (or be on par with) the Yankee Dollar (Taler) on the world markets, the Yen taking back seat, the Chinese will also deal in the €uro I feel , and when that happens, the Dollar can also be confined to the States, as sterling is to UK today. I wonder how much of that 'stolen' N-Irish money has been washed/recovered, given that N.Ireland is the only bloody place where one can spend it anyway? Of course the Romans had a Europe wide currency long long ago that worked pretty well too, dinnit, so nothing new there then

Danish beer.can costs a fortune here though, and is full of water:

N.B. Greenspans successor seems an interesting chap, shame his name rhymes with banker though !

Nime, me old mink lover, as an afterthought, like yourself, I've often made my thoughts clear regarding unfair-playing fields & monopolisation of markets (Global or otherwise), in great contrast to Our Mick's priveleged blinkered perspective, so I see no reason to repeat them at this juncture. I do question your reasoning towards the eventual and inevitable full implimnetation of the €uro though, as surely this will make the unfairness of the present corruption even more transparent & visible, and the currency unit itself is not to blame in any way. In this town alone, many Germans & Poles are now working together daily (30 miles away) in suscessful business (Germany being the Worlds largest exporter of goods I may add 'again')(Much of it to China & Hi tech stuff to-boot), this would not have been possible under the old two currency system. I carried out my first personal bank tranactions in €uros two years (on paper) before the actual money landed in our hands, you folk talk, talk, we folk do (even though I am unemployed at present) breakfast time methinks

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Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:

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Originally posted by Matthew T:
Blind faith in 'god'

or

Blind faith in science

take your pick, science asks as many questions as it answers.

Matthew

You cannot compare religion and science in this way. A scientist will accept a theory until a better one comes along. This doesn't happen in religion. A person who doesn't do this, who has 'blind faith' is not a scientist. Scientists sometimes argue their case vigerously, but (should) eventually accept better evidence.

I hear this kind of comparison a lot. Do you have a scientific background Matthew?

Regards

Stephen

Perhaps you should change your surrounding company to that which is more condusive to your own way of thinking?

Manipultaing results & figures for government grants! Preposterous accusation, innit

It is fascinating how successfully the New (Eastern) Europeans (Poles in particular) are migrating rapidly westwards in huge numbers. There are hundreds of thousands in Ireland (they even have their own pub!) and many in the UK. But France has only 1300!

Denmark has increasing problems with "foreign workers" undercutting high fixed wage levels. (and the high taxes which support the massive social security system) The Danish unions are fighting for the status quo in the courts. The New Europeans come here on Danish union terms or they don't come at all! Or so they hope.
Something is probably going to break the present comfy system and it will hurt. (a lot!)

What with the 'Scientist as Kings's' thread seemingly taking the middle ground on the run up to Christmas again, and to cater for all of the 'Scientifically trained' folk on this forum, I sat back and wondered, innit!

The stoic 59% of elligible UK voters who could actually be 'bothered' at the last erection and who got Our Tony back in for a turd time, must be wondering too, sitting back whils't he's 'Selling England By The Pound' and the Tories are amusingly and silently standing by in waiting to retain their throne as the true Kings of Greed.Mongery

Brain 'Turkey Twizzler, chips, chocky, crisps, and coca cola', Cos there ain't as dammit! no Salad in that there surgery, No Sireee

Low paid British & Irish workers have been coming to Germany/Europe for Decades and undercutting the locals, Berlin enjoys some 40 odd Irish pubs, some of which have been here since the late seventies. If we use the Commonwealth/Empire agrgument and include the hundreds of thousands of West Indians etc who came to the UK to do unsavoury work, or the Turks 'Guest Workers' to this place 40 years back, I think the modern!!! argument is somewhat 'morally weak, innit

I notice with interest that since the forming of the new Iraqi government, and the new leaders insistence that he's totally anti-Capital Punishment, just last month, 3 death warrants were signed by his deputy, non of which were either contested by Britain or the US?


Did you know that ex President Hussain (Saddam to his friends) has not had one minutes private discusssion with his lawyer(s) to-date, as required by international (and Iraqi) law, so it's hardly surprising then that it's rapidly becoming a kangaroo court in many 'legal' peoples eyes, issit



Wow! Don't Scientists & Engineeers/Students get long tea breaks these days!!!

Nime, me old pastry, just a reminder that both yourself and I are foreigners (I don't know if you hold Danish Nationality?) irrespective of how integrated and how long we've lived outside of the UK (Maybe you are actually a Dane?), please don't cite the EU argument to me John (it's weak in this context I feel)

Did I express myself badly? I am a European. The sooner we drop nationality as a concept the better IMHO. One's place of birth is not exactly under one's own control and is therefore an accident of fate. The present problem (amongst others) is the lack of a common European language. I'd prefer english and find it is usually the fallback language in everyday life.

So you don't want to answer the question me old cruncher (and why indeed should you?), but it still doesn't alter the fact that even though I often write European/London born on official paperwork much to their annoyance, (and as in the UK, if they desire other wording, unless I comply, I don't get what I want, simple innit) as Our Mick would no doubt whole-heartedly agree
(especially in Spain, not forgetting the back-handers naturally) we are life-long foreigners.

As I said afore old chip, if Germany or Denmark decide they want rid of us for whatever reason
(mainly serious-crime or terrorist related) and as we are not Nationals? (please don't think the EU is relevant, because it isn't) they will have absolutely no problem in doing so, and don't kid yourself otherwise


I am a Berliner, and a Londoner, and European too, but not German, and never can be, neither can my first generation of kids for that matter.

P.S. Is it true that freshly out of school lawyers will consider anything criminal?

N.B. I don't have a problem with a common European language, and I'm surrounded daily by at least 35+ different nationalities as is any Londoner or Parisian too


Denmark has had the least slaps on the wrist for EU law/Rule breaking than any other country, including the new ones! I wonder when the US, Russia, China, India, etc, will have common languages just within their own borders for starters?

I wonder if the very first couple of ants in the world had belly buttons?

Didn't Mr Galloway do well! Again?

In the real world of 'teaching': Irrespective of their capacity, I reckon it will always be argued that science(ID) and religion must be both given an equal crack of the whip !!!


Mind You ! You know me, I ain't sayin Nuffin further on the matter

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Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
I wonder if the very first couple of ants in the world had belly buttons?

I wonder if Ants have ever had belly buttons?

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Originally posted by TheRedHerring:

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Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
I wonder if the very first couple of ants in the world had belly buttons?

I wonder if Ants have ever had belly buttons?

A very good observation indeed John

Sir Wobbly-Bottom-Thorax-Smythe OVD:

One's degree of foreign-nimity seems to be a constantly changing variable subject to personal whim where other-ranks officialdom is concerned. One can be turned back at the airport within Europe for having a passport within a fortnight of expiry! Endless Greek holidays in total limbo!

Try flashing a well-worn Welsh language driving license next time you resent an intrusion into your privacy.

I always have the fallback of the danish national insurance card handy of course. Which always brings an instant broad smile of one-ness with one's fellow Europeanus rundititass. (Even when one's passport carries an image of a decidedly iffy immigrant from darkest Transylvania)

It's funny how they remember you from year to year when you carry totally indecipherable IDs. But one feels so alien sometimes.

With respect Nime, and as I've said on many previous occassions on here, one doesn't nessesarily require a passport to travel within European country's. This expirey business I've only ever heard from Brits, and your Danish Insurance card doesn't make you Danish, you could be an African for all I know? as my German D-licence, Ins-cards, etc, etc, do not me German make. You can make every argument in the book with your comments (I've heard them all before many many times), until they bore me to tears, you're either a Danish National or your not a Danish National, there's no in-betweens

I wonder if Our Andy will er, soon have a tea break to tell us that an officer using his/her er, blue light & speeding in a non-emergency situation, will be very likely diciplined internally (if caught), though although breaking a grey law (like their non-compulsory wearing of seatbelts on duty) unless they actually cause an accident, wont be taken further, so long as the officer(s) involved are in with the lads & Mum's the word, innit


P.S. When Spike Milligan was fighting for King & Country in the African desert, I wonder if he ever considered that he'd be repaid in the future by not allowing him British Citizenship (Born in India) even though he was a good buddy of Charlie Boy? Fortunately the Irish saved the day with their more sensible laws and traditions concerning such things. I wonder if Sir Clifford got his OK? and was Our Freddy straight in there? (Being born in Zanzibar), makes yer wonder really dunnit!


N.B. I wonder what ipod headphones Ted Heath used to use whils't out Moaning Cloodin it?

Was the first ant called Adam?

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Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:

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Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein

And, I'd rather be lame than blind.



Stephen

Yeah! That Purple Classic wouldn't sound quite the same now would it?

"See the Lame Man shootin up the World***Bullets fly*** "

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Originally posted by Roy T:
Was the first ant called Adam?

Mada possibly !


Retracting Beckham's red Card is an absolute disgrace: