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They make it hard to like them....

  • 05-06-2013 12:32AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Mickey Mouse money is used as currency in one the most powerful economies in europe
    Euro Disney? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    English, mudderpucker, do you speak it!?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭worded


    Mickey money is liked here


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 956 ✭✭✭Nodster


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

    bulld a bridge....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭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


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 208 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭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


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭carlmango11


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


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

    Don't stress the small things OP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Oh thats cleared that up

    Glad to be of service


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    TBF their currency isnt in as much trouble as ours


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,862 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    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??:confused::confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    HEY,ENGLISH TOURISTS



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    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.


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  • Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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?


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