The Pound is going down the Toilet

[pErvinalia]

There's nothing wrong with the EU, especially if you like being told what to do.

Apparently you are fine with being told what to do by the union of the UK.

[Scot Dutchy]

Especially by a poncy load of old Etonians.

[rainbow]

A Twatocracy, if you like?

[Svartalf]

I've got nothing against being ruled over by a twat so long as I can fuck it... if I can't the trouble is beginning.

[mistermack]

Glug-glug.

Perhaps it should be rather known as the English half-pint?

The OP was posted in August 2016.

I just checked, and back then the pound was worth Average: 1 GBP = 1.1518 EUR
https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/best- ... 2016-08-16
Today's value is Spot: 1 GBP = 1.1420 EUR

And against the Dollar it was : Average: 1 GBP = 1.3124 USD
Today's value is Spot: 1 GBP = 1.3422 USD
https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/best- ... 2016-09-16

The experts on this site must be billionaires by now.

[cronus]

Difficult to predict sentiment based prices and exchange rates. What will the coming attack on Irans reactors and the subsequent oil price rise do to the equations in carried in men's guts? Maybe it'll accelerate the change to bicycles and electric based cars, collapse the German motorcar industry?

[Rum]

..and of course then we'll all die.

[mistermack]

Electric bikes are getting more and more impressive every time I see one.
It's the lithium revolution, and it's starting with bikes. Especially in cities where you can often walk almost as fast as you can drive.
The speed and range and charge time are fine now for electric bikes. The only problem is, you still need a car occasionally.
Driverless electric taxis should sort that problem out though.

[Scot Dutchy]

Electric bikes are getting more and more impressive every time I see one.
It's the lithium revolution, and it's starting with bikes. Especially in cities where you can often walk almost as fast as you can drive.
The speed and range and charge time are fine now for electric bikes. The only problem is, you still need a car occasionally.
Driverless electric taxis should sort that problem out though.

The problem with e-bikes is the people that buy them tend to be in their last days on the planet and are causing many accidents using them. There is a proposal to bring in an age limit. Kids dont buy them as they are too expensive and too vulnerable to theft. The cheapest is about €1200 new.

[mistermack]

The problem with e-bikes is the people that buy them tend to be in their last days on the planet and are causing many accidents using them. There is a proposal to bring in an age limit. Kids dont buy them as they are too expensive and too vulnerable to theft. The cheapest is about €1200 new.

Insurance is cheap on them so they can't be as accident or theft prone as you make out.
Kids don't commute, so the finances might not be so favourable for them.
I would get one, if I was commuting round a city. I would have thought that working people would be the best market for them, with the cost of trains etc.

[rainbow]

Glug-glug.

Perhaps it should be rather known as the English half-pint?

The OP was posted in August 2016.

[Scot Dutchy]

The problem with e-bikes is the people that buy them tend to be in their last days on the planet and are causing many accidents using them. There is a proposal to bring in an age limit. Kids dont buy them as they are too expensive and too vulnerable to theft. The cheapest is about €1200 new.

Insurance is cheap on them so they can't be as accident or theft prone as you make out.
Kids don't commute, so the finances might not be so favourable for them.
I would get one, if I was commuting round a city. I would have thought that working people would be the best market for them, with the cost of trains etc.

Sorry you dont understand the Dutch bicycle world. Here is a very recent article:
Older Dutch cyclists warned after rise in electric bike deaths

Netherlands police call for safety courses as data shows more riders die on e-bikes than mopeds, with 90% of deaths among over 60s

We have an estimated 22.3 million bikes in this country for 17 million people. People do not insure their bikes. It would be far too expensive. Bike theft is common and the police dont act on reports as they would not have time to do anything else. So buy a good lock.
Almost all kids cycle to and from school.



70% of all journeys under 12kms. are done on a bike.

[Sean Hayden]

You guys are straight out of a bad Star Trek episode. I'm just waiting for the great reveal. What is it, you're all 6,000 years old, androids, the people of the lost city of Atlantis who've managed to survive by eating babies --come on, what's really going on?

[Scot Dutchy]

Just found this as well. No traffic lights:

What happens if you turn off the traffic lights?

When Amsterdam removed signals from a busy junction, it made journeys faster and interactions more pleasant. Now the approach is being copied across the city

[Sean Hayden]

Family of 5 with their own island marvel at how well they get on compared to the rest of the world.