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01-31-2007, 06:10 AM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | No sys the English are now using barter system of 3 hairy goats 4 pigs and a muskrat to a Euro | 
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01-31-2007, 08:19 AM
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#32 | | World Traveler
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Country:  | We didn't want the Euro when it was introduced on the continent. There is talk of a referendum about the Euro but I suspect we will still keep the Pound...
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01-31-2007, 08:31 AM
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Country: | gnomey heard many shops are refusing to take the Euro in England is that correct or just another rumour | |
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01-31-2007, 08:41 AM
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#34 | | World Traveler
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Country: | You can use the Euro here but I am not sure about shops refusing it (they look at Scottish notes funny - they always seem to think they are fake for some reason). It wouldn't surprise me if some shops were refusing them as they would need to pay to have them converted.
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01-31-2007, 05:36 PM
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#35 | | Senior Member
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Country: | I'm pretty sure only shops in the south generally accept the Euro. Had Britain stayed out of World War I (as they were going to) then France would have been soundly defeated and none of this would have happened. Britain would have kept her empire, the U.S wouldn't have been a superpower so quickly, and Germany wouldn't have been so ticked off.
And Britain only joined in because Germany wanted to use Belgium as a passage to invade France. What is the British infatuation with Belgium!?! They're not even important enough to have their own nickname...the closest thing we've got to a proper nickname for them is Flemish Frogs - but really, what's more insulting than simply being called Belgian ! 
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01-31-2007, 05:58 PM
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#36 | | World Traveler
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Country: | Being mistaken for a Frenchman.. 
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01-31-2007, 10:44 PM
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#37 | | Senior Member
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Country: | They may as well be French...
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02-01-2007, 06:21 AM
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#38 | | World Traveler
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Country: | Yeah but I'm sure they are not pleased at being lumped with the French, no matter how close to them you actually are...
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02-06-2007, 05:45 PM
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Country: | Ok Belgium is the the ar*eh+le of Europe. But the beer and chocolate is fantastic and full respect to making some real hard men cycle races. Plus half them hate the French with a passion. | 
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02-06-2007, 05:57 PM
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#40 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country:  | The as*hole of Europe is Toulon, France...
Been to Belgium a couple few times, and never really considered it a sh!t place.... And the freakin beer was excellante...
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02-06-2007, 06:37 PM
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Country: | Toulon must be a real Sh$th@le if it make Belgium look good. 
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02-07-2007, 10:40 AM
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#42 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | I allways enjoyed all my trips to Belgium and never had a problem with the people. Except the cop who drove up to our helicopter to tell us we were not authorized to land on the pad because it was a NATO pad! Idiot!!!
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02-15-2007, 06:02 AM
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Country: | Belgium is just a waste of space. But we have extra reason to hate it now, Brussels - the sh*t palace of the EU.
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02-18-2007, 09:33 AM
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Country: | Driving back from Northern Germany to France is an eye-opener; as soon as you cross the border into Belgium, the whole environment changes. The houses look old and dilapidated, uncared-for and blackened with age and neglect; the people look grey and colourless, and the whole place seems to lack prosperity and dynamism. In direct contrast with Germany. Even Aachen, the last German town before the border, seems to be cleaner, more prosperous, better cared for, and simply more Western. Belgium reminds me of what the Eastern Bloc must have been like before they kicked the Sovs out. Then it gets yet worse as you cross into Northern France.
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02-18-2007, 09:40 AM
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#45 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | I dont know I allwasy enjoyed my times spent in Brussels.
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