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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Setekh on June 30, 2004, 09:23:09 pm
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This was a forward I got from my brother. I took out a few of the more stupid ones. Don't take offense anyone, just have a laugh. :D
ONLY IN JAPAN:
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ONLY IN AUSTRALIA:
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ONLY IN FRANCE:
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This is OLD... I mean really really old... Hell, I saw this before I got internet access. :eek2:
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ONLY IN AMSTERDAM:
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Yeah, I figured Ghostavo, but I still thought it was worth a laugh. The very last one particularly. ;)
ONLY IN SPAIN:
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Err.. woa..
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I want to see other countries :(
Keep the madness flowing! :D
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ONLY IN HAWAII:
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ONLY IN INDIA:
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ONLY IN MEXICO:
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ONLY IN THAILAND:
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And the last one...
ONLY IN AMERICA:
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heh
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:lol:
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lol
the Hawai one is actually not a bad idea. :D:D
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:lol:
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You know that 24 hour fitness is in Beverly Hills or sommat.
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:lol:
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Hey they have to work out somehow. What do you expect them to do jog :shaking:
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Originally posted by Falcon
Hey they have to work out somehow. What do you expect them to do jog :shaking:
no the point was they're all going to go work out, but none of them take the stairs...
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The escalator is their cool-down. :lol:
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shoot... if my gym had an escalator, then i'd use it too!
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damn that is one huge *****.
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This is a very odd thread, but somehow amusing.
I like the ones from Austrailia, France, and Hawaii.
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Originally posted by Darkage
damn that is one huge *****.
Yeah, the Amsterdam one scares me too. :nervous:
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ONLY IN GERMANY:
Image removed.. an0n, show a little discretion will you? -Kal
ONLY IN BRITAIN:
(http://www.3ammagazine.com/buzzwords/images/mar2001/brit_culture.jpg)
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*:lol: at all the pics*
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an0n, do us all a favour and remove/change the Germany one.
And it's hardly only in Germany, Kurdistan got the full load too, and mass genocide isn't that uncommon in Africa either.
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You're taking the picture at face-value.
Only in Germany (and maybe Poland) would there be Germans standing over hundreds of dead, charred Jews.
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Uh, Steaky, if that's Japan then why is the London Eye in the background? Or is that just Japan's biggest Ferris Wheel?
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The rest of the architecture looks japanese, and I know londoners aren't that consistently tanned...
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technically an0n should've posted : www.whitbyhs.cheshire.sch.uk/curric/history/trips/europe/europe2000/sat15/nuremburgpic.jpg
(Christ knows how I came up with such an obscure link for that image)
Anyway, I love the Hawaii one.
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Only in Yugoslavia
I actually have a 10,000,000,000 dinar note. My mom kept it back from when it was being used. Around 2 billion dinar would buy a loaf of bread if I remember correctly.
(http://home.psknet.com/tbirde1/PM/Yugo5bDr.jpg)
(http://home.psknet.com/tbirde1/PM/Yugo5bDo.jpg)
(http://www.thebanknotestore.com/world/yugoslavia/yugo134.jpg)
(http://www.thebanknotestore.com/world/yugoslavia/yugo144.jpg)
here is the one I have
(http://www.thebanknotestore.com/world/yugoslavia/yugo127.jpg)
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lol, it's like pesos but worse
Is that currency still used or do you have something else?
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No, this was back around '93 or '94. They kept issuing new money every few months, to try and get people to believe that they had inflation beat. Its not like that anymore. I haven't been back there is a few years, so I don't know what the money looks like, but I would venture to guess that even now its pretty voalitile (sp?), way more than would be accetpable in other nations. But its nowehere near that level of inflation. My best guess is that 1 Euro is equalivalent to anywhere between 5 and 15 dinar right now.
During the 90s, the dinar was always measured against the Deutsch Mark, so for example people knew that today, 1DM=3.4 dinar, or whatever. Now, its the same thing only with the Euro. There is, or atleast was for the past 10-12 years, I think its still going on, and entire industry is illegal currency exchange. On any busy street, you could find people who exchanged DM for dinar and vice versa, and everybody went to them becuase they had a better rate than the banks. Deutsch Marks were valuable, since they were stable currecny, and you always got a better rate selling them than buying them. The cops were in on it of course, since these guys were loaded. Their quintessentual item was the fanny pack, where they kept all their money. Manage to rob one of those guys and you can score up to a few thousand DM. Thats why, even today, I see a fanny pack as so stereotypically Serbian. Smal time Serbian hustler more specifically.
...and that has been a short lesson in Serbian currency, by Professor Rictor.
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"Mommy... will you let me borrow 100 billion dinars so I can buy that new game on the store?!?1 :lol:
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Rictor: How come they didn't run out of heads of state to print on the money?
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Because they might not be heads of state (only)? :p
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Good point, actually.