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Lmao, if you think a German pensioner would ever accept some punk-rear end store stealing their money through rounding. The streets of Berlin would overflow with blood.
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The reasonable 1/4 of population say:MonikaTSarn posted:I'd be happy with getting rid of the cents, if they simply adjusted the prices as well ! Just let the things cost 1 Euro instead of 99 cents, and I'll happily pay it. If it costs 99 cents, I want my money back, and I'll be wasting everybody's time by paying with cents coins once I have enough. The remaining 3/4 of the population say: waitwhatno posted:Lmao, if you think a German pensioner would ever accept some punk-rear end store stealing their money through rounding. The streets of Berlin would overflow with blood. note: the 3/4 include all the pensioners with nothing better to do than count 1 cent coins and vote.
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May 18, 2016 11:53
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Paying by card avoids all these issues and makes it easier to follow your expenses... But for Germans passing by card is the first step towards bringing back the Stasi...
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May 18, 2016 12:20
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Hey, keep in mind that the 1 eurocent coin is worth like ten thousand Italian lira from before the monetary union. People used to have banknotes with lots of zeros for these values.
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May 18, 2016 12:29
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blowfish posted:The reasonable 1/4 of population say: I already spending enough time of my lunch break standing behind old ladies doing their daily shopping of two bananas and a BIO yoghurt( it was 8% off this week!). gently caress anything that makes the cashier's work even harder. gently caress having to argue with these bored pensioners. I think it's better to upgrade the cash-free payment infrastructure. The technology is already there, with most new smartphones having a NFC reader. What we need is a nationwide, anonymous card system, like they are used in canteens, to go with these readers.
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May 18, 2016 12:43
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blowfish posted:With a rather broad definition for serious risk, arguably. Back when I was in the Bundeswehr, one of the buildings I had to guard had a poster detailing something ludicrous like 20 stages of alert for Germany. We were at stage 3 at some point, but our effort in Afghanistan raised this to 5 for nebulous reasons. Over the years, I hazily recall our dear leaders talking about raising the terror-alert one or two times. So if this is true, Germany is now at terror alert 7 (out of 20). Cat Mattress posted:The whole point of hiring foreign workers is that they aren't actually aware of how much free time their job is supposed to give them. Not only foreign workers fall into this trap, my own mother got screamed at by us last year because she stumbled into a lot of bullshit because she didn't know her employer wasn't allowed to do certain things and she and her fellow workers just believed everything they'd been told without question. Hell, even if you know about your rights pressure can sometimes force you into a lot of unpaid overtime. Would you throw away your chance at an apprenticeship just to enforce your rights? It's a hard choice.
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Finland doesn't use the 1 and 2 cent coins, but if you pay by card you pay the exact amount. So sometimes you win over paying cash, sometimes you lose. How exciting! 
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May 18, 2016 12:48
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Shazback posted:Paying by card avoids all these issues and makes it easier to follow your expenses... Cards is king, only sub Scandinavian scum insist on cash.    
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May 18, 2016 12:50
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Rappaport posted:Finland doesn't use the 1 and 2 cent coins, but if you pay by card you pay the exact amount. So sometimes you win over paying cash, sometimes you lose. How exciting! Did a lot of people complain when you switched to the new system? Like, complain about being "ripped off" by the store?
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May 18, 2016 12:51
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waitwhatno posted:Did a lot of people complain when you switched to the new system? Like, complain about being "ripped off" by the store? Iirc they did not have coins like them before the Euro and are only minting them because the ECB forces them to do so.
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May 18, 2016 12:58
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waitwhatno posted:Did a lot of people complain when you switched to the new system? Like, complain about being "ripped off" by the store? This was decided when we adopted the euro, we never had 1 and 2 euro cent coins so no one misses them. I can't remember if we had 1 penny coins back when we still had the mark.
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May 18, 2016 13:01
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Zudgemud posted:Cards is king, only sub Scandinavian scum insist on cash. I'm laughing so hard at all of these southern barbarians and their rinky dink caveman coins right now.
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May 18, 2016 13:06
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Rappaport posted:This was decided when we adopted the euro, we never had 1 and 2 euro cent coins so no one misses them. I can't remember if we had 1 penny coins back when we still had the mark. We had. I still have some 1, 2 and 5 Pfennig-coins for sentimental reasons.
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May 18, 2016 13:10
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Libluini posted:Back when I was in the Bundeswehr, one of the buildings I had to guard had a poster detailing something ludicrous like 20 stages of alert for Germany. We were at stage 3 at some point, but our effort in Afghanistan raised this to 5 for nebulous reasons. Over the years, I hazily recall our dear leaders talking about raising the terror-alert one or two times. So if this is true, Germany is now at terror alert 7 (out of 20). Still saner than being at the equivalent of stage 21 on that scale, like France since last November.
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May 18, 2016 13:16
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Cake Smashing Boob posted:I'm laughing so hard at all of these southern barbarians and their rinky dink caveman coins right now. Just you wait until the inevitable data leak at some big store or pharmacy chain happens and everyone in the world can just torrent your shopping lists and prescriptions of the last ten years. 
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May 18, 2016 13:18
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waitwhatno posted:Did a lot of people complain when you switched to the new system? Like, complain about being "ripped off" by the store? In the Netherlands the 1 and 2 cents are also gone, and i dont think anyone complained. The only complaining i heard once was when German tourists paid with them, the shop owner had no place to store them in his register. 
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Libluini posted:Back when I was in the Bundeswehr, one of the buildings I had to guard had a poster detailing something ludicrous like 20 stages of alert for Germany. We were at stage 3 at some point, but our effort in Afghanistan raised this to 5 for nebulous reasons. Over the years, I hazily recall our dear leaders talking about raising the terror-alert one or two times. So if this is true, Germany is now at terror alert 7 (out of 20). The Terror Ladder is the most dangerous climb Charlie Mopps posted:In the Netherlands the 1 and 2 cents are also gone, and i dont think anyone complained. The only complaining i heard once was when German tourists paid with them, the shop owner had no place to store them in his register. more evidence that Germans are the wurst
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May 18, 2016 13:35
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In Germany, most shop owners are thankful for small money, since they tend to run out of change fast
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May 18, 2016 13:37
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Charlie Mopps posted:In the Netherlands the 1 and 2 cents are also gone, and i dont think anyone complained. The only complaining i heard once was when German tourists paid with them, the shop owner had no place to store them in his register. Poor Dutch engineering again, register can't even store 1c/2c coins. Typical.
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May 18, 2016 13:46
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waitwhatno posted:Poor Dutch engineering again, register can't even store 1c/2c coins. Typical. Nieder-lande indeed.
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So, the EU threathened Portugal and Spain with fines for exceeding the 3%GDP deficit target as per defined in the Stability and growth pack http://www.politico.eu/article/spain-and-portugal-at-risk-of-eu-sanctions-over-national-budgets-austerity-europe-recession/ And much gnashing of teeth we're had. The hilarious part is that this refers to the 2013-2015 years, where the goverment in charge was PSD\CDS rightwing goverment , and at the same time Portugal was being lauded as the model example of austerity and going "beyond the Troika" in austerity measures. Yes, thats right, Portugal can be fined by the EU by following a program set by the Troika, that the EU is part of. Meanwhile , not a peep about other countries who are also breaking the Stability and growth pack (Allo France, Germany.) This was, of course, seen as kinda controversial, so they decided to postpone any decision after the Spanish elections: http://www.politico.eu/article/commission-spares-spain-and-portugal-on-deficit-for-now/ Clearly making it a pressure move to the current leftwing goverment of portugal to bend the knee, and serving as a warning for the spanish voters to not get funny in the comming elections. Meanwhile, i've just converted to buddhism , because im just sitting here and laughing
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I'd have to check what the status is on the report for Germany, but I am quite sure France and Italy are being threatened with fines as well. I don't see any evidence that Spain or Portugal are being singled out. That doesn't mean we shouldn't just get rid of the EMU of course.
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I really love that the krauts have no objection to fouling up every corner of Spain with ill-mannered tourists as they attempt to beggar it. They get you coming and going! Edit: I can say kraut because I'm half German. I'm reclaiming it.
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Lagotto posted:I'd have to check what the status is on the report for Germany, but I am quite sure France and Italy are being threatened with fines as well. I don't see any evidence that Spain or Portugal are being singled out. That doesn't mean we shouldn't just get rid of the EMU of course. Italy isn't in the Excessive Deficit Procedure so is at no risk of being sanctioned for now. Germany, as always, was told to invest more domestically to bring down its current account surplus France was given a deadline of next year to bring its deficit down below the required 3% so it's more like them getting singled out for leniency (you can find all the national recommendations here). . Portugal's program ended midway through 2014 and seems to have stopped reforming afterwards, and Spain last year posted a deficit that was a full percentage point higher than agreed with the Commission. So the Commission is within its rights to threaten fines, but I'd be surprised if the Council didn't find some excuse to shoot those down.
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PT6A posted:I really love that the krauts have no objection to fouling up every corner of Spain with ill-mannered tourists as they attempt to beggar it. They get you coming and going! Depends. What's your other half?
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This is a really good plan by the Commission, cause there's probably going to be no government coming out out of those elections, so they can just delay to the next Spanish elections, forever and ever.
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:Depends. What's your other half? Canadian of mixed extraction (mainly Scottish but from a long time ago). Germany's the only place where I actually have living relatives to go see and become infuriated with. I think I inherited more from the German side because I like beer much more than I like whiskey.
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PT6A posted:Canadian of mixed extraction (mainly Scottish but from a long time ago). Germany's the only place where I actually have living relatives to go see and become infuriated with. I think I inherited more from the German side because I like beer much more than I like whiskey. how do you stand on lederhosen?
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The Commission is threatening to suspend Poland's voting rights for "failing to uphold the rule of law": https://next.ft.com/content/1fb0e9c4-1d04-11e6-b286-cddde55ca122quote:Poland faces the prospect of becoming the first EU country to be sanctioned for failing to uphold the rule of law after Brussels issued Warsaw with another warning over its constitutional overhaul.
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LemonDrizzle posted:The Commission is threatening to suspend Poland's voting rights for "failing to uphold the rule of law": https://next.ft.com/content/1fb0e9c4-1d04-11e6-b286-cddde55ca122 Poland doesn't want to lose to Britain in the who-gets-the-gently caress-out-first race.
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:Poland doesn't want to lose to Britain in the who-gets-the-gently caress-out-first race. https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/732988347870793728 The Poles may win.
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ChainsawCharlie posted:how do you stand on lederhosen? Not a fan. But I do like women wearing dirndls.
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LemonDrizzle posted:This is the current state of play in the British referendum: How the gently caress is online polling a thing?
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:How the gently caress is online polling a thing? My theory is that the betting sites in Britain want to make a good buck by secretly promoting very wrong polls.
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GaussianCopula posted:My theory is that the betting sites in Britain want to make a good buck by secretly promoting very wrong polls. after leicester all betting odds were destroyed
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Mans posted:after leicester all betting odds were destroyed Contrary to what they want you to believe, betting sites are probably celebrating the Leicester victory even more than anyone else, because it means they will get a lot of money on underdog teams in the years to come, all dreaming to be this years Leicester.
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Austrian presidential election today! Are you excited to see if the... ahem... "right wing populist" wins?
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LemonDrizzle posted:Austrian presidential election today! Are you excited to see if the... ahem... "right wing populist" wins? Apparently there's been a shooting at a festival in Austria, it seems to be related to an altercation between a man and woman, but I wonder if it will feed into the voting patterns.
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:How the gently caress is online polling a thing? It's so cheap and easy compared to methods of old that people overlook the validity issues.
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Pesmerga posted:Apparently there's been a shooting at a festival in Austria, it seems to be related to an altercation between a man and woman, but I wonder if it will feed into the voting patterns. It's so adorable that us Europeans think a single random shooting is a noteworthy event. Now in America...
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