They make it hard to like them....

lost in cork

Pulled into a local village shop today had a browse around ,picked up some goods and headed for the till,ahead of me was a couple of English tourists explaining to her that they were from Lincolnshire ,the girl at the till asked for 9.49 euros the English guy then says "ok no prob its only Mickey Mouse money anyway, i thought have a care English guy were a country in recession here and that money you refer to as Mickey Mouse is a valuable commodity in my house ,and also that Mickey Mouse money is used as currency in one the most powerful economies in europe,so to cut to the chase arent the English hard to appreciate? or am i wrong?

WoollyRedHat

lost in cork wrote: »

Pulled into a local village shop today had a browse around ,picked up some goods and headed for the till,ahead of me was a couple of English tourists explaining to her that they were from Lincolnshire ,the girl at the till asked for 9.49 euros the English guy then says "ok no prob its only Mickey Mouse money anyway, i thought have a care English guy were a country in recession here and that money you refer to as Mickey Mouse is a valuable commodity in my house ,and also that Mickey Mouse money is used as currency in one the most powerful economies in europe,so to cut to the chase arent the English hard to appreciate? or am i wrong?

Nah that's only people from Lincolnshire, bastards the whole lot of them... don't mind them

Doom

They're spending money here...no problem.

DonkeyStyle \o/

lost in cork wrote: »

Mickey Mouse money is used as currency in one the most powerful economies in europe

Euro Disney? :pac:

Sofiztikated

English, mudderpucker, do you speak it!?

orestes

You're the kind of person who writes letters to the council when the leaves off your neighbours tree fall into your garden, aren't you?

worded

Mickey money is liked here

The Backwards Man

I'm from Donegal, we love the queen's head here, bite your hand off for it.

I'm also drunk so I'd bite your hand anyway.:pac:

Nodster

strange, I always call sterling coins mickey mouse money when I get change when up d'north :P

bulld a bridge....

donegal_road

he was probably of the opinion that the Irish aren't exactly too fond of having the Euro as our currency and his remarks were in solidarity to the Irish.. thats how I would have picked it up anyway.

lost in cork

orestes wrote: »

You're the kind of person who writes letters to the council when the leaves off your neighbours tree fall into your garden, aren't you?

No im not

Norfolk Enchants

Ever see an Irish person in a former soviet bloc country? 'OMG that works out at like, just three euro. Everything is like, so cheap here'. Nice thing to say to a lad who is on that an hour.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

No you just came across a dickhead, same as you'd hear some condescending Irish guy being a twat to a waiter at a restaraunt somewhere in Thailand. The fact that your man was English is just details

hatrickpatrick

The Euro, as it's currently being managed, IS mickey mouse money.
Then again, so are almost all major currencies in today's world of incomprehensible financial systems. The whole f*cking system is mickey mouse.

lost in cork

deccurley wrote: »

No you just came across a dickhead, same as you'd hear some condescending Irish guy being a twat to a waiter at a restaraunt somewhere in Thailand. The fact that your man was English is just details

Oh thats cleared that up

Loads of people say mickey mouse money or monopoly money when they see a currency that isn't their own. No biggie OP.

carlmango11

Who are the "they" referred to in the title? The English? Pretty massive generalisation.

Micky Dolenz

Idle chat maybe.Sounds like you have a bag of chips on your shoulder.

Don't stress the small things OP.

Mint Sauce

lost in cork wrote: »

so to cut to the chase arent the English hard to appreciate?

Bit of a generalisation dont you think. Judging 50 odd million people based on the comments of one.

or am i wrong?

Yes, Yes you are. Purely based on above.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

lost in cork wrote: »

Oh thats cleared that up

Glad to be of service

efb

TBF their currency isnt in as much trouble as ours

Nodin

lost in cork wrote: »

Pulled into a local village shop today had a browse around ,picked up some goods and headed for the till,ahead of me was a couple of English tourists explaining to her that they were from Lincolnshire ,the girl at the till asked for 9.49 euros the English guy then says "ok no prob its only Mickey Mouse money anyway, i thought have a care English guy were a country in recession here and that money you refer to as Mickey Mouse is a valuable commodity in my house ,and also that Mickey Mouse money is used as currency in one the most powerful economies in europe,so to cut to the chase arent the English hard to appreciate? or am i wrong?

....a badly delivered jape, perhaps?

maryishere

if we had not joined the euro we would not be in this mess or have had our banks borrow so many billions during the boom. always knew the euro was going to end in tears. bring back the punt. Give me all your euros, you do not need them anyway.

Capt'n Midnight

maybe, just maybe they were referring to the lower value of the monetary units what with the amount only being about £8.11

There are only a few places left, eg: Cyprus where the currency unit is worth more than the pound sterling


The Yanks used to call Canadian dollars "funny money" back when they were worth less.

Karl Stein

I think we should return to 'the goat standard'. Actual goats though and not paper that represents goats.

padd b1975

lost in cork wrote: »

Pulled into a local village shop today had a browse around ,picked up some goods and headed for the till,ahead of me was a couple of English tourists explaining to her that they were from Lincolnshire ,the girl at the till asked for 9.49 euros the English guy then says "ok no prob its only Mickey Mouse money anyway, i thought have a care English guy were a country in recession here and that money you refer to as Mickey Mouse is a valuable commodity in my house ,and also that Mickey Mouse money is used as currency in one the most powerful economies in europe,so to cut to the chase arent the English hard to appreciate? or am i wrong?

Ireland??

Festy

HEY,ENGLISH TOURISTS

sunflower27

Festy - nice one :D:D:D:D

'We don't take kindly......' I had not seen that before. Hilarious.

jimgoose

But it is Mickey-Mouse money. And yet, and yet, English people are all baby-eating basturds who embody the living spirit of Oliver Cromwell, Edward the Longshanks Plantagenet and Phil Mitchell. So I'm in a bit of a quandary with this one. Ah sod it - kill 'em all and let God sort it out.

minidazzler

lost in cork wrote: »

Pulled into a local village shop today had a browse around ,picked up some goods and headed for the till,ahead of me was a couple of English tourists explaining to her that they were from Lincolnshire ,the girl at the till asked for 9.49 euros the English guy then says "ok no prob its only Mickey Mouse money anyway, i thought have a care English guy were a country in recession here and that money you refer to as Mickey Mouse is a valuable commodity in my house ,and also that Mickey Mouse money is used as currency in one the most powerful economies in europe,so to cut to the chase arent the English hard to appreciate? or am i wrong?

1. Money isn't a commodity. It's used to buy commodities.

2. That mickey mouse money is used in a fcuk ton of Europe, it doesn't make it a powerful currency.

3. Why should they appreciate it? It seems cheap to them because of how "little" they paid for it, they are still being fairly well ripped off and spending money here.

4. Yes, you are very very wrong.

lost in cork

lost in cork wrote: »

and also that Mickey Mouse money is used as currency in one the most powerful economies in europe,so to cut to the chase arent the English hard to appreciate? or am i wrong?

I work in a shop and about half the Irish people I've given their first new fiver to has called it "Monopoly money", "Mickey Mouse money" or "Foreign-looking". Aren't' the Irish hard to appreciate?

--Kaiser--

lost in cork wrote: »

Pulled into a local village shop today had a browse around ,picked up some goods and headed for the till,ahead of me was a couple of English tourists explaining to her that they were from Lincolnshire ,the girl at the till asked for 9.49 euros the English guy then says "ok no prob its only Mickey Mouse money anyway, i thought have a care English guy were a country in recession here and that money you refer to as Mickey Mouse is a valuable commodity in my house ,and also that Mickey Mouse money is used as currency in one the most powerful economies in europe,so to cut to the chase arent the English hard to appreciate? or am i wrong?

After Hours is getting stupider by the day

I always call foreign currency monopoly money

I called the euro 'holiday money' and 'monopoly money' when it first came in. I call the new fiver monopoly money.

This is up there with one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read in AH. Like....what?

But yeh, tar a whole country there OP, sure that's definitely better than saying 'Micky Mouse Money'.

Yeah, because no Irish person has ever been obnoxious abroad. I think judging the millions of British people on the back of the behaviour of a couple of knobends is a totally reasonable thing to do, yeah. :rolleyes:

Aglomerado

lost in cork wrote: »

Pulled into a local village shop today had a browse around ,picked up some goods and headed for the till,ahead of me was a couple of English tourists explaining to her that they were from Lincolnshire ,the girl at the till asked for 9.49 euros the English guy then says "ok no prob its only Mickey Mouse money anyway, i thought have a care English guy were a country in recession here and that money you refer to as Mickey Mouse is a valuable commodity in my house ,and also that Mickey Mouse money is used as currency in one the most powerful economies in europe,so to cut to the chase arent the English hard to appreciate? or am i wrong?

They were probably from Sc*nthorpe, Lincs....

Grayson

To be fair, whilst backpacking myself and friends used to refer to foreign currency as jibjabs. mainly because we went through so many that it was easier than remembering the names. But, we wouldn't have called them that in front of the locals. that's just rude.

Capt'n Midnight

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

I think we should return to 'the goat standard'. Actual goats though and not paper that represents goats.

The proposal has some merits. Goats do have intrinsic value. But there is the problem of deflation if everyone can produce more goats. And suppose someone starts breeding mini-goats ?

bnt

They're tourists. You don't have to like them, you just get to take their money. It'll still be here after they're gone. :cool:

General General

Ah, the English. I love them. So cutesy.

Ush1

Isn't the sterling on a serious dip recently anyway?

kylith

I don't get OPs point. Is it that they called his beloved Euro 'Mickey Mouse'? Sure when I have sterling I often call it 'Monopoly money'; all it means it that it doesn't seem 'real' because it's not the currency you're used to, and I have never come across anyone making such a big deal of it before.

RossyG

They were probably just conservative types who dislike the EU because the Daily Mail told them to. I doubt this was a swipe at Ireland; it was aimed squarely at Brussels.

And you shouldn't judge 70 million people on the actions of two.

gallag

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

I think we should return to 'the goat standard'. Actual goats though and not paper that represents goats.

You would like that alright, something to trade and love ;-P

gobnaitolunacy

He has a point. It's printed on crappy paper that doesn't last p*ssing time, esp the 5 euro notes.
Aussie plastic notes FTW, they survive washing machines quite well.

Don't get me started on the little sh*tty brown coins.

Designs on notes are bland boring architectural features that aren't intended to represent a specific building anywhere, in case one of the EU countries gets in a strop about it.

--Kaiser--

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

He has a point. It's printed on crappy paper that doesn't last p*ssing time, esp the 5 euro notes.
Aussie plastic notes FTW, they survive washing machines quite well.


Designs on notes are bland boring architectural features that aren't intended to represent a specific building anywhere, in case one of the EU countries gets in a strop about it.

Fun fact: euro banknotes are made out of cotton

HansHolzel

It's reminiscent of a line in McCarthy's Bar that goes something like this:

"Funny farking place, innit? They got their own manny and everyfing."

As for Lincolnshire, it produced both Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher.

Gmol

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm from Donegal, we love the queen's head here, bite your hand off for it.

I'm also drunk so I'd bite your hand anyway.:pac:

Luis?? Is that you?

Karl Stein

gallag wrote: »

You would like that alright, something to trade and love ;-P

And if one of my beautiful goats seen you approaching they'd be all like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIaFtAKnqBU

n'shit.

BeardySi

Grayson wrote: »

To be fair, whilst backpacking myself and friends used to refer to foreign currency as jibjabs. mainly because we went through so many that it was easier than remembering the names. But, we wouldn't have called them that in front of the locals. that's just rude.

dingdongs for me but yeah - the same.....

crazy cabbage

When i first seen american money i thought it wasn't actully money. Just seen a cuple of doller bills on the table and thought they might have been from the moneply board or something.

It is no biggy. Any curency that isn't my own looks strange to me. Micky mouse money or monoply money isn't insulting imo

Meritocracy Wins

OP, you didn't by any chance ask for directions home?