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Post by minge tightly on Jan 20, 2009 16:41:16 GMT
£100 buys you 108 euro, which in turn gets you 1,172 Kronor
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Post by yord on Jan 20, 2009 16:41:32 GMT
at tomorrows rate
£100 buys you 15 tins of beans and a small cut loaf
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Post by minge tightly on Jan 20, 2009 16:42:34 GMT
Hehe maybe, best to stock up on the offers
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Post by yord on Jan 20, 2009 16:43:07 GMT
no maybe
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Post by feral on Jan 20, 2009 16:43:25 GMT
At current exchange rates... £100 buys you 1,173 Kronor 100 euro buys you 1,086 Kronor You're liable to confuse VHW with that un. |
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 20, 2009 16:50:14 GMT
So I'm a krona better off if I stick with the pound?
You have no idea how much I want to throw all this to the dogs and run away to join a circus. Or become a barmaid.
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Post by yord on Jan 20, 2009 16:51:40 GMT
I do lol
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Post by minge tightly on Jan 20, 2009 16:53:25 GMT
At the present moment you are Vike yes, although the suspicion is that the pound will start to tank. It has already lost a good 25% of it's value since its peak last year but then again, it was strongly over-valued at the time (As was the entire UK economy) so it may not be utterly worthless and of course, the euro may also lose value.
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Post by feral on Jan 20, 2009 16:55:21 GMT
So I'm a krona better off if I stick with the pound? You have no idea how much I want to throw all this to the dogs and run away to join a circus. Or become a barmaid. No you're not a kronor better off .Not if you also take into account the numbers behind the decimal points which I dont think Minge did .Its exactly the same .The point is however that it aint going to stay exactly the same .Tomorrow you'll be getting even less kronor for a quid.What you should be doing is asking to get paid in euro .A euro rate .Not asking to be paid in sterling that gets converted into kronor or euro . Barmaiding is a good idea however . |
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Post by policecar on Jan 20, 2009 17:06:49 GMT
Vox has destroyed my thread with her child-like understanding of the fluctuating currency markets  |
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Post by yord on Jan 20, 2009 17:14:11 GMT
so it may not be utterly worthless and of course, the euro may also lose value.
Can you tell me one thing thats proping up the pound Minge. The euro will undoubtably take a hit , the pound however will be desimated
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Post by feral on Jan 20, 2009 17:15:48 GMT
Vox has destroyed my thread with her child-like understanding of the fluctuating currency markets I keep wondering what someone who has so little idea of currencies and finance is doing being self employed |
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 20, 2009 17:19:43 GMT
Wishing she wasn't, mostly.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2009 17:21:44 GMT
Thing about the euro is that most of the countries involved still have some sort of self-sufficient manufacturing base. GB has zilch, bar meat and wood products. The rot set in back in the Sixties when the unions played up and refused to modernise, then Thatcher finished it off by effectively asset-stripping the country which set it on a service based boom and bust course supported by all subsequent governments who couldn't see the wood for the trees. Now we're all seeing the results.
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Post by feral on Jan 20, 2009 17:23:03 GMT
Wishing she wasn't, mostly. LMAO .A feeling I can very much empathise with .Cept at the moment I'm glad I am self employed and not reliant on someone else running the finances of a firm to keep me in a job |
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 20, 2009 17:25:32 GMT
Hmm well I am both self-employed, with all the horrendous unfathomable paperwork and hassle that involves, and reliant on other running a company properly to keep me in a job.
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Post by feral on Jan 20, 2009 17:26:15 GMT
Another thing about the euro ,ootlg is that its a number of countries .Some see that as a disadvantage cos they see the stronger being pulled down by the weaker but it works both ways .
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Post by yord on Jan 20, 2009 17:26:39 GMT
Its not right blaming any government . Theyve both enabled a lot of people to get a load of wealth when there wasnt the employment to keep the country going and the reasons there wasnt the employment was because the population demanded too much
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Post by feral on Jan 20, 2009 17:27:25 GMT
Hmm well I am both self-employed, with all the horrendous unfathomable paperwork and hassle that involves, and reliant on other running a company properly to keep me in a job. Yes well ,with hindsight you can now see that it isnt at all clever to put all your eggs in one basket |
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 20, 2009 17:29:14 GMT
I could see that with foresight, I just had no choice. In fairness, I was given a three month see how it goes trial and that was nearly three years ago, so the last two and a half years have been a bonus. If it goes bosoms up tomorrow I can't really complain.
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