The Euro

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 1, 2002 @05:57AM from the rfid-tags-coming-soon dept.

Dizer writes: "Today sees the historic introduction of the new European Currency (Euro) into European hands. The Eurozone market, with a population of 300 million people, will be cashing in their Punts, Francs and Deutschmarks in favour of the new common Euro currency. This is the biggest currency transition in history, vive l'Europe! See stories on ireland.com or the BBC."

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conversion by qqtortqq · 2002-01-01 06:23 · Score: 2, Redundant

1 euro is equal to the following: Austrian Schillings = 13.7603 Belgian Francs = 40.3399 Dutch Guilders = 2.20371 Finnish Markka = 5.94573 French Francs = 6.55957 German Marks = 1.95583 Greek Drachmas = 340.750 Irish Pound (Púnt) = 0.787564 Italian Lira = 1936.27 Luxembourg Francs = 40.3399 Portugese Escudo = 200.482 Spanish Pesetas = 166.386
Re:Picture of bills with US bill by drsoran · 2002-01-01 07:36 · Score: 0, Redundant

You know, all we need is a good World War to stir things up over there and this common currency idea will drag all of Europe down with it. Should be funny to watch. Remember guys, just 60 years ago Austria and Germany were marching into France, Poland, Belgium, Italy, and just about any other place they damn well pleased. Just because there's been a level of semi-peace for the last 50 years or so doesn't mean it'll last long. History has shown that the diverse cultural groups of Europe tend to get pissed at each other and wage war every century. I'd say we have less than 50 years until Europe has another major war between states. Good luck until then.
Re:Complete image collection at official Euro site by weave · 2002-01-01 11:54 · Score: 1, Redundant

Wow, so the fractions are called "cent" now. Now the EU shopkeepers can say things like "That will be 59 cent please" -- just like in the U.S (adjusted for local language of course. Hmm, le cent instead of les cent?).
(from someone who is annoyed as hell at people who can't seem to understand how to pronounce "cents.")
...and from the looks of the coins, they already say just "cent" so it looks like cent is officially a plural of cent now, at least in E.U. :(
It's phat. Word up mother fucker. I did it all for the nookie, the nookie....