BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

Harriet Taylor Mill of her own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill...

Is that Yeats?

 

[First Aspect]

Is that Yeats?

Idle

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Harriet Taylor Mill of her own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill...

Brian doesn't like poetry!

 

[briantrumpet]

Brian doesn't like poetry!

Other than limericks

There was a young author called Mill
Whose husband more famed was, until
She won what was due
Though it wasn't on cue
Cos she's dead, having been really ill.

 

[icowden]

Is that Yeats?

Idle

 

[icowden]

Other than limericks

Doggerel can be fun as well.

 

[briantrumpet]

Doggerel can be fun as well.

As long as you know the right place to park your car.

 

[Beebo]

Idle

Billy?

 

[Mr Celine]

Billy?

Don't be a hero.

 

[briantrumpet]

An interesting thought: why do we still need £50 notes, given that they are the note of choice for counterfeiters?

The thought was raised by a parent who'd lent their daughter a small amount of money for her house deposit, and then got the whole anti-money-laundering treatment to check they weren't a Colombian drug cartel dealing in crypto. Which is the bigger worry, the bank of mum & dad, or counterfeit £50 notes amongst the millions being printed by the BoE?

 

[icowden]

An interesting thought: why do we still need £50 notes, given that they are the note of choice for counterfeiters?

Good question

The thought was raised by a parent who'd lent their daughter a small amount of money for her house deposit, and then got the whole anti-money-laundering treatment to check they weren't a Colombian drug cartel dealing in crypto.

Why on earth did they not just transfer the cash digitally to her bank account? Maybe they *are* a front for a Colombian drug cartel...

 

[briantrumpet]

Why on earth did they not just transfer the cash digitally to her bank account? Maybe they *are* a front for a Colombian drug cartel...

 

[Pross]

Don't think I've ever seen a £50 note in the flesh even when taking large sums of cash out back in the pre-electronic age.

 

[CXRAndy]

View: https://x.com/i/status/2034971867425988920

 

[Mr Celine]

Don't think I've ever seen a £50 note in the flesh even when taking large sums of cash out back in the pre-electronic age.

1983, last day of the Tay salmon fishing season, I got an unexpectedly thin pay packet. I was due two weeks wages plus end of season bonus, which came to £151.04.

My pay packet contained three notes and two coins. The rest of the crew were also paid in absurdly large notes.

We were all off to the pub to start the end of season piss up. It was Saturday lunchtime so no banks open. Forged £50s were a problem even then, so no one would take them. At least I could buy a pint back then with £1.04.