Burn a fiver a day

Mr Whom

A mate of mine has started burning a five euro note every day as a rejection of the capitalist system. He's always on at me and the lads to join in and reckons if the country did this for a few months things would change.

I think he is insane. Is what he is doing illegal? Could the gardai stop this?

ED E

Spoof thread Im sure....


But destroying legal tender is very much illegal.

Boom_Bap

I'd be more impressed if he smelted a 2 euro coin every day.

Mr Whom

ED E wrote: »

Spoof thread Im sure....


But destroying legal tender is very much illegal.

Well nothing spoof about it. I think he's a nutcase but people do what people do

cml387

Give it to me and I'll promise to burn it for him.

nkav86

Mr Whom wrote:

I think he is insane. Is what he is doing illegal? Could the gardai stop this?

Are you thinking of reporting it? If it's real then he's a bit of a gob****e

Jodotman

Why doesn't he put it in a blunt and smoke it with homies

silverharp

my mate Dave...

...And Justice

Jodotman wrote: »

Why doesn't he put it in a blunt and smoke it with homies

Rather give it to the homeless

Ted111

Petty cash. Try a million

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid

fizzypish

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I'd be more impressed if he smelted a 2 euro coin every day.

Smelt it into grape shot, buy muskets, overthrow government in a coup, make all the good changes and end capitalism, realize that running a country is not that easy, become dictator, get overthrown by the Haely Rae's, Ireland becomes the republic of Kerry.

LeinsterDub

Mr Whom wrote: »

A mate of mine has started burning a five euro note every day as a rejection of the capitalist system. He's always on at me and the lads to join in and reckons if the country did this for a few months things would change.

I think he is insane. Is what he is doing illegal? Could the gardai stop this?

Nothing quite like the communist who's so rich they can afford to burn money

biko

Tell him not to be a cheapo and to burn twenties instead.

mdwexford

ED E wrote: »

Spoof thread Im sure....


But destroying legal tender is very much illegal.

It's actually not illegal here.

ScumLord

It's not a very good way of protesting capitalism.

Rejecting capitalism is pretty easy, just buy as little stuff as possible. When you do buy something forget the price and look for the best product.

Omackeral

Mr Whom wrote: »

A mate of mine has started burning a five euro note every day as a rejection of the capitalist system. He's always on at me and the lads to join in and reckons if the country did this for a few months things would change.

I think he is insane. Is what he is doing illegal? Could the gardai stop this?

I can smell the unemployment off him from here. Scruffy beard and hates 'the man'. What a prize cunt.

Walter H Price

Mr Whom wrote: »

A mate of mine has started burning a five euro note every day as a rejection of the capitalist system. He's always on at me and the lads to join in and reckons if the country did this for a few months things would change.

I think he is insane. Is what he is doing illegal? Could the gardai stop this?

Yes it's illegal , no the gards wont be too interested to be honest and yes he's a whackjob

The first clue there is that is saying stuff like he rejects the capitalist system, i have found most people who trot out this line to be either at best screaming hysterical socialists or at worst members of the tinfoil hat brigade who believe the Illuminati are causing global warming and the 1%/ elites want to eat their soul or some such sh!t.

JupiterKid

Money to burn? Does he have a trust fund from Daddy?

Such a hardline socialist.:rolleyes: Would it not be better to donate the fiver to charity?

Noveight

Could buy a pint a day with that fiver and have enough change for two pints on a Sunday. Some men just want to watch the world pints burn...

silverharp

silverharp wrote: »

my mate Dave...

It's RODNEY.

Galway_Old_Man

I was at a party back in 2005 where a few of the lads decided it'd be some craic to get pictures of them lighting up fancy cigars with a burning E50 note. I don't think they were protesting the capitalist system though.

Wesser

Only a fever? That's hardly a protest.

Protesting against capitalism? Where did he get the fiver from?

CathalDublin

Still cheaper than smoking, I might take it up myself!

Permabear

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topper75

ScumLord wrote: »

It's not a very good way of protesting capitalism.

Rejecting capitalism is pretty easy, just buy as little stuff as possible. When you do buy something forget the price and look for the best product.

I think you mean consumerism i.e. pointless excess.

Capitalism simply means the provision of a reward for risk taking and initiative that leads to success. Alternative systems prohibit rewards for such.

Your friend is a moron, OP.

He need to come up with another, more visible and less laughable form of protest.

Silane

The ECB are printing 80 billion a month, your mate is burning fivers? My money is on the capitalist system.

Winterlong

Easily the most pointless protest ever. If you are going to stick it to the man then burning a fiver in your living room is probably not too effective.

ScumLord

topper75 wrote: »

I think you mean consumerism i.e. pointless excess.

Capitalism simply means the provision of a reward for risk taking and initiative that leads to success.

No it doesn't, it means do everything within your power to trade for a profit and let the market decide the outcome.

At its most basic it's unfettered trading. Nothing more.

Turtyturd

His movement needs a catchier name, the burn a five euro note every day as a rejection of the capitalist system doesn't really roll off the tongue.

Silane

He should really be burning 35 euro in one day, by burning 5 euro a day he has to spend more on lighters, that just fuels the capitalist system.

T-Maxx

That'll teach those pesky capitalists!

oppenheimer1

LeinsterDub wrote: »

Nothing quite like the communist who's so rich they can afford to burn money

Communists burning money... Well at least it makes a change from them printing it.

Cee-Jay-Cee

What happens if your idiot friend hasn't got a fiver does he burn a tenner and then miss the following day? I'm presuming he's unemployed/unemployable given his very low intelligence levels?

Effects

Mr Whom wrote: »

A mate of mine has started burning a five euro note every day as a rejection of the capitalist system.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

benjamin d

"Lads we're missing a haaape of fivers."
- The ECB next December, presumably.

diomed

If the Central Bank hear about this they will just print an extra fiver a day.
Best to keep it quiet for maximum effectiveness.

If he wants the protest to go viral he should get someone to video him doing it outside the Central Bank in Dame Street (before they move to North Wall Quay).

topper75

ScumLord wrote: »

No it doesn't, it means do everything within your power to trade for a profit and let the market decide the outcome.

At its most basic it's unfettered trading. Nothing more.

Trading happens anyway. Capitalism acknowledges that the investment risk (if successful) deserves a payment of profit - just the same as labour deserves wages.

So that whole rubles thing back in the USSR - what was all that about?
China? Cuba? N Korea? All used money/cash.

I definitely think you are conflating consumerism and capitalism.

ScumLord

topper75 wrote: »

Trading happens anyway. Capitalism acknowledges that the investment risk (if successful) deserves a payment of profit - just the same as labour deserves wages.

Trading is a behaviour of humans in the same way pissing on things is a behaviour of dogs. It's been around since the dawn of humanity. Capitalism is a formalised version of that behavior, and it's fairly recent. It's sort of a justification for colonial powers to pillage all around them.

Capitalism is an extremely crude system that replaces personal trading with trading for profit, which can only happen with money. It's not intended to do anything other than insert money into the equation and justify any action if it's for profit.

I definitely think you are conflating consumerism and capitalism.

Probably, but I don't think there's much of a distinction between them. Capitalism is just a description of trade with money. Consumerism is just a continuation of that in that we've become completely dependant on making and buying stuff. Neither of them have anything loftier than making money in mind.

diomed

Money facilitates exchange.
If I wanted to trade my rabbit for your cow we can do a straight swop. But we probably would not and would have stagnation in the rabbit economy and the cow economy.

casscass4444

Tell your mate he could get a packet of liga and a bottleen of cow and gate milk for his fiver for himself and he will sleep better at night with a full tum tum the big baba.
Also pretty sure that kids shouldn't have access to matches

andekwarhola

It only qualifies if he's wearing a top hat, chortling and lighting a cigar with the fiver while a couple of lithograph factories belch smoke in the background.

Losty Dublin

Silane wrote: »

He should really be burning 35 euro in one day, by burning 5 euro a day he has to spend more on lighters, that just fuels the capitalist system.

Perhaps he stole his lighter from a geezer comrade at a AAA meeting?

Permabear

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MilesMorales1

Fiver a day? So thats 1825 euro a year, whose got that to waste?

Mr Whom

Mr Whom wrote: »

A mate of mine has started burning a five euro note every day as a rejection of the capitalist system. He's always on at me and the lads to join in and reckons if the country did this for a few months things would change.

I think he is insane. Is what he is doing illegal? Could the gardai stop this?

A complete and utter Fúcking idiot. :mad: Could he not just give it to people that actually need it? His statement will do nothing only infuriate people and that is before we get into the illegality of it.

Disgraceful carry on. Dont follow it OP and id also review who you keep company with if I were you. €35 euro a week....Im sick reading it.

ger vallely

He's nowhere near as hardcore as The Justified Ancients of Mumu.

Senna

Burning money is the exact same as handing it back to the bank that printed it. So in your mates case, he's just giving a fiver back to the EU every day? What a spanner.

Lowi

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Fiver a day? So thats 1825 euro a year, whose got that to waste?

Some lad in the dole

Lowi

Senna wrote: »

Burning money is the exact same as handing it back to the bank that printed it. So in your mates case, he's just giving a fiver back to the EU every day? What a spanner.

But how do the EU know it's burnt

...And Justice

Senna wrote: »

Burning money is the exact same as handing it back to the bank that printed it. So in your mates case, he's just giving a fiver back to the EU every day? What a spanner.

I was thinking that myself, it's only becomes legal tender when it's distributed to banks. What a fcuking numpty.