Dutch Money

On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:11:14 +0100, Martin wrote in post :
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There is a problem somewhere. Mixi hasn't contributed to the thread.

There's a logical reason for that if you think about it!

He's saving himself for when Erilar discusses French money?

lol!


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Tim C.
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:57:14 +0100, Martin wrote in post :
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On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:18:45 +0000, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 11:12:06 +0000, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:29:08 +0000, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:
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There is a problem somewhere. Mixi hasn't contributed to the thread.

There's a logical reason for that if you think about it!

He's saving himself for when Erilar discusses French money?

I was thinking more along the lines that he claims he doesn't have
any...

... not having any has never stopped him claiming to be an expert in the past.
Take sex for example.

Please. Let's not!

Euggghhh! :-)

All he's got is a jar of peanut butter and a rice-cooker.
Doesn't bear thinking about.

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On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:19:14 +0100, Martin wrote in post :
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In the 1970s, in a bank in central London, a guy on the counter used 5 figure
log tables to do the currency conversion. For a conversion that I could do
mentally.

Staff on the counter nowadays wouldn't know a log table if it got up and
bit them.
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"I bet you 10 quid you can't reach that meat up there".
I said, "No, I'm not betting, the stakes are too high".

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:44:13 +0100, Giovanni Drogo wrote in post :
news:alpine.LSU.2.00.1102081339140.29997@cbfrvqba .ynzoengr.vans.vg :

In the '80s (when I'd just moved to Germany) I felt uneasy when I had to
put an announcement on a newspaper, and they wanted to know my account
number (I suppose that is a "Lastschrift" payment).

Yep, that's it. It's a concept that those used to paying with cheques even
in this day and age seem to have a problem with. ;-)

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Tim C.
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:07:28 +0100, Martin wrote in post :
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Doesn't that mean that there are far more people employed by banks to pass bits
of paper around than in for example a paperless transaction Germanic country on
Germany's western border?

Add Austria and make that 2 paperless transaction Germanic countries


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Tim C.
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Am 08.02.2011 13:56, schrieb Tim C.:
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:07:28 +0100, Martin wrote in post :
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Doesn't that mean that there are far more people employed by banks to pass bits
of paper around than in for example a paperless transaction Germanic country on
Germany's western border?

Add Austria and make that 2 paperless transaction Germanic countries

Don't we all love germs?

"Tim C." wrote in message
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:11:14 +0100, Martin wrote in post :
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There is a problem somewhere. Mixi hasn't contributed to the thread.

There's a logical reason for that if you think about it!

He's saving himself for when Erilar discusses French money?

lol!

Mixi hasn't posted anything to his Paris blog since 5th November 2010. Has
he gone back to Arizona?
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JohnT

Am 08.02.2011 13:44, schrieb Giovanni Drogo:
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, Josef Kleber wrote:

So shops tend to use "Lastschrift" instead, a concept not very known
outside germanic countries. The card is just used to read account
information like name and account number.

You mean reading via a machine, or is a human reading what is printed on
the card?

Account and bank number are read by machine from the card's chip, just
like ATMs do.

In the '80s (when I'd just moved to Germany) I felt uneasy when I had to
put an announcement on a newspaper, and they wanted to know my account
number (I suppose that is a "Lastschrift" payment).

Yes, Lastschrift (usually direct debit in English, since November 2010
SEPA within Euroland).

No need to feel uneasy about that. You have a comfortable six weeks
after you have received the list of transactions to reclaim your money -
no questions asked by your bank, even if you did allow the Lastschrift
in the first place.

And if you did not allow it, i.e. someone used your account number
illegaly, you can reclaim the money within 13 months.

"Tim C." wrote:
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 15:21:37 +0000 (UTC), Erilar wrote in post :

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Despite the time I've spent there in the last few decades, I've never had a
German credit or debit card.

You've never had a Bankomat card? I find that hard to believe.

For periods of 2-4 weeks? I' ve described what I've done over time.


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On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:51:01 +0100, Johannes Kleese wrote in post :
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Am 08.02.2011 13:56, schrieb Tim C.:
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:07:28 +0100, Martin wrote in post :
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Doesn't that mean that there are far more people employed by banks to pass bits
of paper around than in for example a paperless transaction Germanic country on
Germany's western border?

Add Austria and make that 2 paperless transaction Germanic countries

Don't we all love germs?

Vee heff vayz ov makink you pork!

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Tim C.
Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with
hundreds and thousands.
Police say that he topped himself.