Sheesh, we manage here with sterling, (all three versions), and euros running alongside eachother, and our shopkeepers not only manage to sort out the genuine from the forgeries, but also work out the correct change.
...AND make sure you have the receipt so you can nip home over the border and claim the VAT back...
Is it impossible, after all these years, for England to educate people to recognise all forms of sterling which are legal tender in their country? All three of them!
Sheesh, we manage here with sterling, (all three versions), and euros running alongside eachother, and our shopkeepers not only manage to sort out the genuine from the forgeries, but also work out the correct change. And yet the English have a stereotype of the Irish as thick, its about time you took the log out of your own eye.
That's fine, but you organise it then
In the South East of England we don't ever encounter Irish or Scottish notes. I run a business and handle money on a daily basis, I've never seen either of them in this context. Last time I saw a Scottish note was about 7 years ago.
They are SO incredibly rare down here how would we ever know?
In the South East of England we don't ever encounter Irish or Scottish notes. I run a business and handle money on a daily basis, I've never seen either of them in this context. Last time I saw a Scottish note was about 7 years ago.
They are SO incredibly rare down here how would we ever know?
Mind-reading?
Well, I hope you'd recognise an Irish note- they're bloomin Euros
In the South East of England we don't ever encounter Irish or Scottish notes. I run a business and handle money on a daily basis, I've never seen either of them in this context. Last time I saw a Scottish note was about 7 years ago.
They are SO incredibly rare down here how would we ever know?
Mind-reading?
Lol, I'm not expecting random English people to magically know what Scottish and N.Irish notes look like, but you do have an education system over there, last I heard. You have a central government, who should certainly be able to provide businesses with the necessary info to train their staff appropriately.
And the UK wasn't created yesterday, so I would wonder why the English population is still being left in such ignorance about two forms of legal tender in their own country.
In the South East of England we don't ever encounter Irish or Scottish notes. I run a business and handle money on a daily basis, I've never seen either of them in this context. Last time I saw a Scottish note was about 7 years ago.
They are SO incredibly rare down here how would we ever know?
Mind-reading?
That'll be why the Heathrow cabbie recoiled in horror at the sight of my Scottish notes the other day then.He never said a word mind.But the look at the note said it all.:D
I was ready to say.'I'm quite willing to exchange it at the nearest Bank Of England if you've got the time old chap!'.
Years ago I had a stand-up row in a bank in Keswick because I had to do exactly that! No local shop would take an "Bank of Ireland" £5 Sterling note, so I went to change it in the bank...
And the bastards tried to charge me 50p for changing foreign currency!!!
Lol, I'm not expecting random English people to magically know what Scottish and N.Irish notes look like, but you do have an education system over there, last I heard. You have a central government, who should certainly be able to provide businesses with the necessary info to train their staff appropriately.
And the UK wasn't created yesterday, so I would wonder why the English population is still being left in such ignorance about two forms of legal tender in their own country.
Education systems tend to teach what is relevant. It's clearly not that relevant as we never see the notes, let alone get to use them.
Given that I have made a sum total of £0.00 from people paying with this money there is no economic incentive to exert *any* time or resources finding out
It'd be like teaching you what the Australian dollar looks like, utterly irrelevant.
Tell him - "fine, it's your pub (or place of work), however I'll be telling all my friends about this as I disagree with it" and walk out. Then bad-mouth the business at any opportunity you get.
So basically just be honest. Always the best policy.
Education systems tend to teach what is relevant. It's clearly not that relevant as we never see the notes, let alone get to use them.
Given that I have made a sum total of £0.00 from people paying with this money there is no economic incentive to exert *any* time or resources finding out
It'd be like teaching you what the Australian dollar looks like, utterly irrelevant.
Do you want to know why you've had £0.00 from people paying with what you call "this money", (ie, Sterling)? Because everybody outside England knows how ignorant the English generally are on this subject. So we all have to go to the hassle of going to the bank to change Sterling into Sterling before we visit England.
Isn't it about time you stopped being so ignorant of the rest of the UK? Scotland has been in the UK since 1707, N.Ireland since 1801 - you've had more than enough time to stop inconveniencing your fellow countrymen and women and learn what Scottish and N.Ireland notes look like.
Do you want to know why you've had £0.00 from people paying with what you call "this money", (ie, Sterling)? Because everybody outside England knows how ignorant the English generally are on this subject. So we all have to go to the hassle of going to the bank to change Sterling into Sterling before we visit England.
Isn't it about time you stopped being so ignorant of the rest of the UK? Scotland has been in the UK since 1707, N.Ireland since 1801 - you've had more than enough time to stop inconveniencing your fellow countrymen and women and learn what Scottish and N.Ireland notes look like.
Devil's advocate argument, Scottish and N. Irish could arguably have had more than enough time to conform to having just one set of bank notes for the UK.
Do you want to know why you've had £0.00 from people paying with what you call "this money", (ie, Sterling)? Because everybody outside England knows how ignorant the English generally are on this subject. So we all have to go to the hassle of going to the bank to change Sterling into Sterling before we visit England.
Isn't it about time you stopped being so ignorant of the rest of the UK? Scotland has been in the UK since 1707, N.Ireland since 1801 - you've had more than enough time to stop inconveniencing your fellow countrymen and women and learn what Scottish and N.Ireland notes look like.
You had your chance two weeks ago and you all voted 'no', so suck it up
Do you want to know why you've had £0.00 from people paying with what you call "this money", (ie, Sterling)? Because everybody outside England knows how ignorant the English generally are on this subject. So we all have to go to the hassle of going to the bank to change Sterling into Sterling before we visit England.
Isn't it about time you stopped being so ignorant of the rest of the UK? Scotland has been in the UK since 1707, N.Ireland since 1801 - you've had more than enough time to stop inconveniencing your fellow countrymen and women and learn what Scottish and N.Ireland notes look like.
Devil's advocate argument, Scottish and N. Irish could arguably have had more than enough time to conform to having just one set of bank notes for the UK.
Why should there be just one set of banknotes for the UK? English sterling circulates freely in Scotland and N.Ireland, and even in border areas of the Republic of Ireland, and nobody has a problem with it. The only country in these parts which can't respect its neighbours here, is England.
You had your chance two weeks ago and you all voted 'no', so suck it up
It was 55/45 in favour.Quite close really.Laaaaandan and the SE ought to get out more.:p
Take the money,even if it hasn't got your stinking Queen on it.
Why should there be just one set of banknotes for the UK? English sterling circulates freely in Scotland and N.Ireland, and even in border areas of the Republic of Ireland, and nobody has a problem with it. The only country in these parts which can't respect its neighbours here, is England.
Simplicity?
Are we not all one country? Why the money variations? Seriously?
It was 55/45 in favour.Quite close really.Laaaaandan and the SE ought to get out more.:p
Take the money,even if it hasn't got your stinking Queen on it.
Being a republican, that does seem advantageous to me
Just in a pub a few years hours ago and this girl ordered a drink and when she went to pay she handed the batman a 10 note but from
Northern Ireland went the barman refused to take. I think this is wrong . What wood you have done ?
Are we not all one country? Why the money variations? Seriously?
Yes, the UK is all one country, with no money variations. Its all sterling, and its all perfectly simple. Different notes have different designs on them, and all are legal tender in the UK. Every other part of the UK manages to deal with every version of Sterling, apart from England, for whom it is all apparently too complex.
Do you get confused between a fiver and a tenner because there's different pictures on them? No, because you know what each one looks like. If you were educated about what Scottish and N.Ireland notes looked like, that wouldn't be a problem either.
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You mean oiPhone?
...AND make sure you have the receipt so you can nip home over the border and claim the VAT back...
Ah, i believe that's a Bank of Scotland
Clydesdale's are brown iirc
That's fine, but you organise it then
In the South East of England we don't ever encounter Irish or Scottish notes. I run a business and handle money on a daily basis, I've never seen either of them in this context. Last time I saw a Scottish note was about 7 years ago.
They are SO incredibly rare down here how would we ever know?
Mind-reading?
Especially the bit that says "Sterling"...
Well, I hope you'd recognise an Irish note- they're bloomin Euros
Lol, I'm not expecting random English people to magically know what Scottish and N.Irish notes look like, but you do have an education system over there, last I heard. You have a central government, who should certainly be able to provide businesses with the necessary info to train their staff appropriately.
And the UK wasn't created yesterday, so I would wonder why the English population is still being left in such ignorance about two forms of legal tender in their own country.
That'll be why the Heathrow cabbie recoiled in horror at the sight of my Scottish notes the other day then.He never said a word mind.But the look at the note said it all.:D
I was ready to say.'I'm quite willing to exchange it at the nearest Bank Of England if you've got the time old chap!'.
And the bastards tried to charge me 50p for changing foreign currency!!!
You knew exactly what I meant ;-)
Education systems tend to teach what is relevant. It's clearly not that relevant as we never see the notes, let alone get to use them.
Given that I have made a sum total of £0.00 from people paying with this money there is no economic incentive to exert *any* time or resources finding out
It'd be like teaching you what the Australian dollar looks like, utterly irrelevant.
Tell him - "fine, it's your pub (or place of work), however I'll be telling all my friends about this as I disagree with it" and walk out. Then bad-mouth the business at any opportunity you get.
So basically just be honest. Always the best policy.
Do you want to know why you've had £0.00 from people paying with what you call "this money", (ie, Sterling)? Because everybody outside England knows how ignorant the English generally are on this subject. So we all have to go to the hassle of going to the bank to change Sterling into Sterling before we visit England.
Isn't it about time you stopped being so ignorant of the rest of the UK? Scotland has been in the UK since 1707, N.Ireland since 1801 - you've had more than enough time to stop inconveniencing your fellow countrymen and women and learn what Scottish and N.Ireland notes look like.
Is that you Phil Mickelson?.;-)
Devil's advocate argument, Scottish and N. Irish could arguably have had more than enough time to conform to having just one set of bank notes for the UK.
You had your chance two weeks ago and you all voted 'no', so suck it up
;-)
Do you know which notes to really need to look out for? Them there Welsh notes
ha! exactly
Why should there be just one set of banknotes for the UK? English sterling circulates freely in Scotland and N.Ireland, and even in border areas of the Republic of Ireland, and nobody has a problem with it. The only country in these parts which can't respect its neighbours here, is England.
I'm not Scottish, so that's a swing and a miss.
It was 55/45 in favour.Quite close really.Laaaaandan and the SE ought to get out more.:p
Take the money,even if it hasn't got your stinking Queen on it.
Oi! I posted that bluddy spider pic you asked to see!
You haven't said nuffin.
Never mind Welsh notes it's our £3 coins that no one will take.
Simplicity?
Are we not all one country? Why the money variations? Seriously?
Well, you must be from Northern Ireland then, so you still have my commiserations
Being a republican, that does seem advantageous to me
I voted no.But I hate the royals.:)
Oak, yew and balsa recently.
Yes, the UK is all one country, with no money variations. Its all sterling, and its all perfectly simple. Different notes have different designs on them, and all are legal tender in the UK. Every other part of the UK manages to deal with every version of Sterling, apart from England, for whom it is all apparently too complex.
Do you get confused between a fiver and a tenner because there's different pictures on them? No, because you know what each one looks like. If you were educated about what Scottish and N.Ireland notes looked like, that wouldn't be a problem either.