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Punt stops becoming legal tender after the sixth week of the year, halfway through February, so yeah, the bastards'll probably hike the price up to 3.50 euros.
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The exchange rate between the Punt and the Euro is 1:1.27, so without doing a calculation, the price will probably be about 3 euros. (I don't have the Euro symbol on my keyboard).
A lot of people I've met are against the Euro, but I'm all for it. What do the other Europeans think about the change?
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no, lover boy, no. The publicans will most likely ramp up the price in the confusion of the first three weeks or so.
Some places in Dublin actually charge over three squids already for drinks. It's getting obscene.
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I'm not sure. The Euro's not doing very well. Of course, it would probably do a fair bit better if the pound was assimilated.
Mainly though, I hate the name. I'd have prefered anything over Euro. Hell, even European Dollar would have been better.
Thinking about this, is there a name for one hundreth of a Euro? Are we going to end up saying "5 euros and 37 pence?", or are we going to be buying bags of crisps that cost "point 50 euros"?
And that IS expensive beer. In Liverpool, providing you don't go to a trendy wannabe-London pub/club place, the pints will all be under �2.00. Dunno about Guiness, but I guess it would be the same.
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GA darling: I'm sure the publicans and other retailers will try to rip you off but that's where you as consumers come in. I'm sure many of you will be able to convert currencies using the exchange rate from the Punt to the Euro. Use that as a basis and ask if you're not sure. The EU has recommended that in the first month and a half of the introduction (dual currency stage), prices should be shown in both national currencies and the Euro. Although this isn't compulsory, if someone refuses to do this then you should ask a few more questions to be sure. Besides, dual pricing would be good business IMHO and also in the opinion of the EU. If you think someones ripping you off, you could also go somewhere else. When their pockets are hit, I'm sure any profiteers will be forced to reduce their prices to a fair level. The moral of the story: Be prepared and don't take any shit from them!
Liam: As I understand it, the sub-unit of the Euro will be the cent. This however shouldn't be taken as gospel because I've been reading about other stuff too like the rounding up of prices to whole units. I don't quite understand how they'll be able to make this work, especially for small confectionary items, but we'll see how it ends up. The cent would seem to be the logical unit. With regards to your other point, I agree that 'Euro' is an ugly name for the currency, but I suppose it's better than the 'ECU' from which they changed it. The Euro has also picked up in the last couple of months, but is mainly due to the downturn in the US rather than a strengthening of the Euro itself. In Britain, we still have a long way to go, so hopefully the Union will be able to do something about it in time.
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I can cope with "cent". I can see "penny" actually staying on as slang, the same way that a 1 cent piece in the US can be called a "penny".
And yeah, ECU was even worse. It made you sound like a bloody German clearing his throat.
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Just pretend that "Euro" is short for "European dollar". Will that make you feel better? :-)
Oh, and excuse my uninformedness, but WTF is a "punt"?
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Also, you can do a Euro symbol in HTML by typing "€". €€€€€€
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Simon: It was pronounced ECU (ekku), not E-C-U. Someone wasn't feeling very creative that day anyway, so in a meeting designed to name the new European Currency Unit, some bright spark came up with ECU. I prefer Euro anyway - bring it on.
Tim: Thanks for the tip.
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