Just glance? I noted even the smallest establishments using an
electronic swipe box to check currency validity this Spring...

Tim K

"Tim Challenger" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:1125043988.68b3dc84c95f6be1b8da7fe3878b0fca@t eranews...
    > They do often glance at the notes to check the validity.
    > --
    > Tim C.

I'm picturing you slowly bobbing up from the bowels of your skiff round
Ten in the morning with that cheap 'tall boy' in one hand, scratching at
your disheveled head with the other... power boaters...gotta love
em...<g>

Tim K

"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:38:45 +0200, Tim Challenger
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:57:29 +0200, Martin wrote:
    > >
    > >> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:48:52 +0200, Tim Challenger
    > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >>
    > >>>On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:20:40 -0700, bill frogg wrote:
    > >>>
    > >>>> Then I arrive
    > >>>> with some moderately small E notes .. forget the 100 euro notes,
taxi
    > >>>> drivers don't like them.
    > >>>
    > >>>Depends on the country.
    > >>>I use Eur100 notes to pay for single beers or a Mars(tm) bar with
not any
    > >>>eye batted here.
    > >>
    > >> Things are expensive in Austria :-)
    > >
    > >LOL!
    > >Your mind works on a different level to mine :-)
    > but here I wouldn't dream of paying for a local beer, never mind with
    > Eur100 notes :-)
    > The latest oddity is that the local supermarket is selling half litre
    > Bitburger cans for far less than the local fizz and only we seem to
    > buy it. The question is how much do we have to buy and drink each week
    > to convince the supermarket that there is a demand for it.
    > --
    > Martin

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:32:59 GMT, "Timothy Kroesen"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >I'm picturing you slowly bobbing up from the bowels of your skiff round
    >Ten in the morning with that cheap 'tall boy' in one hand, scratching at
    >your disheveled head with the other... power boaters...gotta love
    >em...<g>

Power boaters? I've never been so insulted in my life ... :-)
--
Martin

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:32:57 GMT, Timothy Kroesen wrote:

    > Just glance? I noted even the smallest establishments using an
    > electronic swipe box to check currency validity this Spring...
    >
    > Tim K
    >
    > "Tim Challenger" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:1125043988.68b3dc84c95f6be1b8da7fe3878b0fca@t eranews...
    >> They do often glance at the notes to check the validity.
    >> --
    >> Tim C.

Of course, if you pay at a till. (supermarkets, drugstores etc)
Otherwise I've not noticed any in the places I eat and drink. Maybe they
check them when the return to the bar after we've paid.

--
Tim C.

Hmmm... OK... "round >Eleven< O'clock" then...<g>

Less fuel = More Beer!

Tim K

"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:32:59 GMT, "Timothy Kroesen"
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >I'm picturing you slowly bobbing up from the bowels of your skiff
round
    > >Ten in the morning with that cheap 'tall boy' in one hand, scratching
at
    > >your disheveled head with the other... power boaters...gotta love
    > >em...<g>
    > Power boaters? I've never been so insulted in my life ... :-)
    > --
    > Martin

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:00:14 GMT, "Timothy Kroesen"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Hmmm... OK... "round >Eleven< O'clock" then...<g>
    >Less fuel = More Beer!

Fuel? What's that?
--
Martin

Tim Challenger <[email protected]> wrote in
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    > surprisingly - German

this might have to do with the fact that Austria was compelled by EU
regulations to stop admission exams to univesities, thus causing a flood of
German students to immigrate

--
QQG

Now you Europeans are finally getting it! A good tip can save you money
in the entire scheme of things...<g>

Remember that thread just last year where tipping was denounced by
nearly everyone here???

Tim K

"DDT Filled Mormons" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
    > I gave a bartender in Poland a £10 tip once, after he told me he only
    > earned 6 Zloty (about £0.50) an hour. He did fill me full of some
    > great booze and kielbasa though, so I considered it good value!
    > --
    > ---
    > DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
    > ---
    > --

DDT Filled Mormons <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

[]
    > I'm not European, and I still think tipping is a load of shit, and
    > very rarely do it.

My partner used to work as a waiter in the US, and the tip is customary
there. (It's around 15-20%- and if you have had bad service, you don't
tip, or you complain. Preferably the latter IMO.) When someone left
leaving no tip, he asked them if there had been a problem with the
service. Invariably, they'd pull a few dollars out of their wallets.
Though I'm inclined to think that he did it nicely, it probably seems
very pushy (though he didn't mention the tip), but the point is that
tipping is a custom there to the extent that not tipping is making a
statement. I tip 15% in the US, and 10% in the UK (when service isn't
included.) For other countries, I try and get an idea for what's
expected.

Basically, I try to do it what's appropriate, though I err on the side
of caution. If a tip isn't expected, then I won't give it. I don't tip
in British pubs, for example.

'Cover charges' bother me more than the concept of tipping, and that's
certainly common in some parts of Europe. I don't see why I should have
to pay for simply sitting down. If they want to bring me some stale
bread without my asking for it, fine, but don't add on a charge for it.
When there's a choice, I'll avoid anywhere, as we did in Vienna
recently- I should add it's the only place we saw there which added the
charge. There was a nice Portuguese restaurant we went to in London
recently which added the charge retroactively! Rather than complain, I
simply subtracted it from what I would have tipped, but we won't be
going there again...

--
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:09:26 +0200, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:49:32 +0100, [email protected]
    >wrote:
    >> Tim Challenger <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >> []
    >>> I haven't noticed it recently, but a while ago, if the waiter/ess thought
    >>> you were being a bit stingy with the tip, they'd rummage around in their
    >>> money-pouch, pretending to be unable to find the right change. Sort of
    >>> tempting you to say, "oh alright, round it up a bit more then". When that
    >>> happened to me I always let them find the right change, and any tip I was
    >>> going to give got reduced to zero.
    >>
    >> I'm not sure if I overtipped in Vienna, but I gave 10%, and that seemed
    >> to be appreciated. Low expectations can be wonderful- I'd expected
    >> surly, indifferent, rude staff everywhere, and everyone seemed fairly
    >> friendly.
    >10% is on the upper limit - unless you were especially delighted with the
    >service.

I gave a bartender in Poland a £10 tip once, after he told me he only
earned 6 Zloty (about £0.50) an hour. He did fill me full of some
great booze and kielbasa though, so I considered it good value!
--
---
DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
---
--

Even though you've proven yourself wrong in that policy?

Tim K

"DDT Filled Mormons" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
    > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:48:29 GMT, "Timothy Kroesen"
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >Now you Europeans are finally getting it! A good tip can save you
money
    > >in the entire scheme of things...<g>
    > >
    > >Remember that thread just last year where tipping was denounced by
    > >nearly everyone here???
    > I'm not European, and I still think tipping is a load of shit, and
    > very rarely do it.
    > --
    > ---
    > DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
    > ---
    > --

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:48:29 GMT, "Timothy Kroesen"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Now you Europeans are finally getting it! A good tip can save you money
    >in the entire scheme of things...<g>
    >Remember that thread just last year where tipping was denounced by
    >nearly everyone here???

I'm not European, and I still think tipping is a load of shit, and
very rarely do it.
--
---
DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
---
--

bill frogg Wrote:
    > Here's my method; I get about USD 100 in Euros from a currency exchange
    > bureau, not a bank (banks are sooo completely clueless about small
    > foreign currency transactions} I use AFEX here in SF.
    >
    > So, naive question, perhaps, but what is a currency exchange bureau and
    > how do I go about finding one? Your strategy sounds good (and we'll
    > report the largest Euro amount that gets change for a beer in
    > Germany.)
    >
    > Pisces


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pisces143

"quiqueg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected] ...
    > Tim Challenger <[email protected]> wrote in
    > news:1125054432.1ab6329f88e17897ce558487133f3330@t eranews:
    >> surprisingly - German
    > this might have to do with the fact that Austria was compelled by EU
    > regulations to stop admission exams to univesities,

This can't be the whole story. UK universities still have
admission exams and no EU regulation has stopped them

tim


    > thus causing a flood of
    > German students to immigrate
    > --
    > QQG

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:34:01 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:04:19 GMT, "Timothy Kroesen"
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >>Even though you've proven yourself wrong in that policy?
    >No I haven't, I have proven myself right.
    >Ok, where do we go from here?

Ever decreasing circles?
--
Martin