The Official DOOM: New £50 note featuring Alan Turing goes into circulation

[NotAllThere]

I remember turning up at Heathrow, going to the cash point and taking out a few £ hundred. Went to buy a newspaper (£1). "Oh, do you have anything smaller?".
"No, of course I don't. I just got off a plane and filled up from that cashpoint over there that, like all others, doesn't do £5".

I mean, Heathrow? And their float is £15?

I've paid for a 3 franc coffee with a 200 franc note and the waitress didn't bat an eyelid. (Probably was wondering why I didn't pay with a 1000 Franc notes, and thought INKSPE).

[GigiBronz]

I went into the petrol station with a new £50 note that features Alan Turing on the note to pay for my fuel the assistant said "this is a bent note" .

Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts; the Labouchere Amendment of 1885 had mandated that "gross indecency" was a criminal offence in the UK. He accepted chemical castration treatment, with DES, as an alternative to prison.

Ironically at that point in time you were prosecuted for that, now you probably could as well be prosecuted for what you said.

Don't worry I won't tell, imagine someone reading all my rants on this forum.

[d000hg]

It is curious that the UK has always stuck with £20 while USA considers $100 very normal. And the EU has big bills too.

The latest £50 was introduced in 1981.
£200+ on the weekly grocery shop for a family of five

Are you Gigi's sock puppet or are you meaning 5 adults?

[vetran]

Ironically at that point in time you were prosecuted for that, now you probably could as well be prosecuted for what you said.

Don't worry I won't tell, imagine someone reading all my rants on this forum.

Bent = Not Straight

https://www.etymonline.com/word/bent

How would I be prosecuted for posting bent?

[AtW]

I remember turning up at Heathrow, going to the cash point and taking out a few £ hundred. Went to buy a newspaper (£1). "Oh, do you have anything smaller?".
"No, of course I don't. I just got off a plane and filled up from that cashpoint over there that, like all others, doesn't do £5".

I mean, Heathrow? And their float is £15?

So that's when you mean MF for the first time?

[Fraidycat]

still 10h of work for a good percentage of the country... before taxes

First five hours a day on minimum wage is tax free, only a bit of nics to pay.

[GigiBronz]

Are you Gigi's sock puppet or are you meaning 5 adults?

for 5 adults, £200 is probably only the fruits and vegetables if buying from Waitrose / M&S and don't want the plasticky ones from Tesco / Asda.

HTH.

First five hours a day on minimum wage is tax free, only a bit of nics to pay.

BUT still accurate in principle...

[vetran]

It is curious that the UK has always stuck with £20 while USA considers $100 very normal. And the EU has big bills too.

Are you Gigi's crusty sock puppet or are you meaning 5 adults?

EU 500€ and £50 notes tend to be used by criminals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48993008

High-value notes were once described by a former bank executive as the "currency of corrupt elites, of crime of all sorts and of tax evasion".

Peter Sands, former chief executive of Standard Chartered bank, produced a report for the Harvard Kennedy School in early 2016 urging the world's largest economies to do something about it.

"They play little role in the functioning of the legitimate economy, yet a crucial role in the underground economy," he said. "The irony is that they are provided to criminals by the state."

Banning the notes would not stop crime, but it would make hiding transactions more costly and more difficult, Mr Sands said.

[Fraidycat]

It is curious that the UK has always stuck with £20 while USA considers $100 very normal. And the EU has big bills too.

Are you Gigi's sock puppet or are you meaning 5 adults?

We are family of five, 3 kids, 19, 15, 10

Our grocery shop comes to about 200 a week. And i had presumed others spent even more, hence 200+ in my orginal message.

Thats not all food. Includes all the stuff we buy from the supermarket eg washing up powder, dish washer tablet, bog roll, razor blades, bin liners etc.

Wife likes to buy a lot of fruit and fruit isnt cheap.

That £200 also includes the create of beer and a couple of nice steaks i enjoy every week, so about £30 for the beer and steaks.

[AtW]

We are family of five, 3 kids, 19, 15, 10

Benny : [shrugs] I got four kids to feed.
Douglas Quaid : So what happened to number five?
Benny : [beat] Aw, tulip, man! You got me. I'm not even married. Now, shut up and put your ******* hands in the air!