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Cafe owner won't take the new £5 note
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meh...
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People are bonkers. What else is there to say?
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She will soon be happy enough to take them when she hasn't got a pot to piss in
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With the world in such a crazy state of despair, upset and unease, I find getting on your high horse about a bit of animal fat in a bank note quite distasteful (pun intended).
Yes principles are important to uphold, but I often wish that people would choose their battles more carefully and this isn't one of them. |
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Offer them the money, if they don't want it, walk away.
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I just read this:
"Professor David Solomon, who developed the first polymer bank note in circulation in Australia in 1988, said the new £5 notes contain “trivial” amounts of tallow, an animal fat which is also found in candles and soap." |
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I hope she has the message in clear plain view outside her cafe, so that customers unfortunate to only be armed with fivers, don't waste their time waiting for a cup of tea inside.
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Wait and I'll go back into my leather wallet and get a tenner for you instead...
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She ought to go and check all the labels of the products she uses in her Cafe before she complains
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Wait and I'll go back into my leather wallet and get a tenner for you instead...
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She ought to go and check all the labels of the products she uses in her Cafe before she complains
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A business turning away money?
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Well she is simply standing by her principals. She's a veggie as she cares for animals and doesn't want any killed to provide her with food (I think all veggies should be vegan or they're slightly hypocritical buts I digress). So her thinking is why should animals be killed to be used for these notes. She has a point.
I will add I'm not a vegetarian or vegan and I'm not personally bothered other than curious as to why they need to do this. |
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Isn't it against the law to refuse certain currency? Legal tender and all that?
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Well she is simply standing by her principals. She's a veggie as she cares for animals and doesn't want any killed to provide her with food (I think all veggies should be vegan or they're slightly hypocritical buts I digress). So her thinking is why should animals be killed to be used for these notes. She has a point.
I will add I'm not a vegetarian or vegan and I'm not personally bothered other than curious as to why they need to do this. |
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Well she is simply standing by her principals. She's a veggie as she cares for animals and doesn't want any killed to provide her with food (I think all veggies should be vegan or they're slightly hypocritical buts I digress). So her thinking is why should animals be killed to be used for these notes. She has a point.
I will add I'm not a vegetarian or vegan and I'm not personally bothered other than curious as to why they need to do this. If I offer money, she takes it or doesnt. |
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As it's legal tender I'm not sure if the retailer is allowed to refuse it.
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She ought to go and check all the labels of the products she uses in her Cafe before she complains
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As it's legal tender I'm not sure if the retailer is allowed to refuse it.
Legal tender is to do with what must be accepted in settling a debt via a court judgment. |
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As it's legal tender I'm not sure if the retailer is allowed to refuse it.
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Only if it's for settlement of a debt (the offer of a fiver to settle a £5 debt would be sufficient to settle the debt). But if the cafe staff bring the new £5 note ban to the customer's attention before providing the service, I think the customer would be deemed to have accepred the condition and would be obliged to pay by other means or using other notes or coins.
offer accepted. |
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What if the customer proffers an old fiver or tenner that has been rubbing up against a new fiver?
Credit card payments should presumably be refused too as the plastic is derived from an animal product (mineral oil). |
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Sausage and Egg please, £3. heres a £5
offer accepted. |
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I would do the same thing as when a restaurant refused my Scottish £20 note, I offered it twice then left my contact details and walked out telling them they had refuse payment and that I considered the payment refused.
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