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Old 24-04-2013, 08:30   #16
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Scottish money already looks foreign anyway. Try spending a fiver /tenner in any shops round here, you end up being eyed suspiciously as if your trying to off load counterfeit cash. It has been known to be refused by wary shopkeepers.
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Old 24-04-2013, 09:02   #17
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Scottish money already looks foreign anyway. Try spending a fiver /tenner in any shops round here, you end up being eyed suspiciously as if your trying to off load counterfeit cash. It has been known to be refused by wary shopkeepers.
Think they haven't caught up with us yet, nearly sure they still pound notes too
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Old 24-04-2013, 09:23   #18
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Think they haven't caught up with us yet, nearly sure they still pound notes too
Your right Jaysay, just seen a picture of one on Google !
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Old 24-04-2013, 09:27   #19
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Scottish money already looks foreign anyway. Try spending a fiver /tenner in any shops round here, you end up being eyed suspiciously as if your trying to off load counterfeit cash. It has been known to be refused by wary shopkeepers.
I was refused many years ago at some shop in accy.
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Old 24-04-2013, 09:32   #20
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If they do get independence can we send the pipers back over the border before we finish building the wall
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Old 24-04-2013, 11:33   #21
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I was refused .
You personally? Now why am I not surprised?
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Old 24-04-2013, 11:48   #22
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Think they haven't caught up with us yet, nearly sure they still pound notes too
Pound notes have not been used north of the border fro quite some time now.

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Old 24-04-2013, 17:16   #23
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Pound notes have not been used north of the border fro quite some time now.
Don't think you can spend them here if you bring any back if you've risked a trip over the border
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Old 24-04-2013, 18:15   #24
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Think they haven't caught up with us yet, nearly sure they still pound notes too
id actually like to see the return of teh pound note i never saw the point or need for a £1 coin

mind you with a new higher value coin it meant payment meters could charge you double the money than the previous highest value coin 50p
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Old 24-04-2013, 18:27   #25
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id actually like to see the return of teh pound note i never saw the point or need for a £1 coin

mind you with a new higher value coin it meant payment meters could charge you double the money than the previous highest value coin 50p
That's the reason they did away with the £ note in the first place, they keep them in jockland because they're to tight
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Old 24-04-2013, 19:05   #26
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I don't think keeping the pound should even be an option for them. Its not their currency.

What bugs me about the whole debate is that the Scots seem to think they can have some sort of pic n mix taking the good but not the bad. I've even heard them talking about not taking their share of the national debt (which by population is GBP 126 billion).

The greater question for me is are we getting a refund for paying for the Royal Bank of Scotland? That's a Scottish HQ bank, with an entirely Scottish board that went bust to the tune of GBP 45 billion and counting. The British had to bail that out because 45 billion represents the ENTIRE Scottish annual budget! I could go on and talk about bailouts to the Bank of Scotland which add another 10bn or so. All very well talking about splits of oil revenue etc but we footed the bill for their banking collapse and that was far larger than Scotland could ever pay for.

I vote them out, say they take their 126bn share of national debt + 50bn for their collapsed banks and see how they get on. After that the country will look like a poor version of Cyprus.
You could also add into the equation the nice new Scottish Parliament building which was built to give the illusion of semi-independence, a snip at an estimated £414million.
It's a prickly question. Lets hope they don't adopt the thistle as their national currency for any kind of payback! If nothing else you could at least eat oatcakes...
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Old 24-04-2013, 19:26   #27
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id actually like to see the return of teh pound note i never saw the point or need for a £1 coin

mind you with a new higher value coin it meant payment meters could charge you double the money than the previous highest value coin 50p
I agree. Made you feel richer than you actually were. Could look like you had a wad of cash for twenty quid.
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Old 24-04-2013, 20:02   #28
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I agree. Made you feel richer than you actually were. Could look like you had a wad of cash for twenty quid.
Even better when there were 10 bob notes with a quid as the wrapper
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Old 25-04-2013, 09:04   #29
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Once remember finding a ten bob note on my way to school and handed it in to the teacher, who said if nobody claimed it I could have half and the other half would go to the St Vincent De Paul society, never handed out in again
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Old 25-04-2013, 10:09   #30
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Once remember finding a ten bob note on my way to school and handed it in to the teacher, who said if nobody claimed it I could have half and the other half would go to the St Vincent De Paul society, never handed out in again
But did you get your five bob?
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