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A reason we Irish are so complacent?

  • 30-03-2003 3:50pm
    #1
    Yoda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭


    I was at Burger King in O'Connell Street last week. Interestingly, the receipt shows that the till was programmed for the euro changeover. However, it says:

    Total due EURO 5.95
    Euro Equivalent is 5.95.
    Amount Tendered 20.00
    Change Due EURO 14.05

    Apart from the irritating CAPITALIZATION of euro, there's one very interesting difference between this and what I noticed in France.

    In bookstores and supermarkets I noticed that almost everything was still dual-priced, and the receipts showed dual pricing as well. Surely this price-transparency helped keep inflation from reigning in France.

    Surely our own Euro Changeover Board seriously messed up by encouraging a total obliteration of IEP as soon as possible.

    (This in addition to their incompetence with regard to understanding the correct Europea rules regarding the plurals "euros" and "cents".)


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  • #2
    Ixidor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭Ixidor


    doesn't get much worse then our government,


  • #3
    Kell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kell


    Complacency seems to be a general Irish attitude. When presented with an unfair deal or the feeling of being ripped off, your average Irish person simply doesnt go back to said establishment rather than complain his ass off. Worse case scenario, they'll get ripped off and still go back mumbling about it the whole time.

    In order to stop the tide of growing prices, some of which I am shocked and stunned at (a friend was in a bar last week and Guinness was €4.20), we all have to refuse to pay for the product or service and leave the place.

    Me telling a barman to fúck off when he asked for more than £10 punts for a double JD & Coke and a pint THREE YEARS AGO doesn't cut much mustard in the grander scale of things when the next person is willing to pay it. Everyone needs to say, and to the bar trade in particular "Fúck right off".

    Newspapers are telling us daily that we are likely on the brink of negative equity with the housing situation and yet pubs etc are nearly daily increasing the price of your tipple, increasing inflation and helping the economy flush itself down the jaxxy.

    K-


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