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    #11
    Originally posted by cityboy
    How can I get in on this fiver thing? in Budapest thats 4 beers
    another fiver will get you a 'ho.

    alledgedly.
    Call the cops

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      #12
      nearly beer time!!!!!!

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        #13
        Originally posted by cityboy
        How can I get in on this fiver thing? in Budapest thats 4 beers
        You just have to finesse or out a suitable piece of info and claim your fiver. It is only a virtual fiver mind.
        I am not qualified to give the above advice!

        The original point and click interface by
        Smith and Wesson.

        Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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          #14
          Originally posted by freakydancer
          another fiver will get you a 'ho.

          alledgedly.
          'Tis true. If you drive out on the main route from Budapest towards Miskolc and Debrecen you'll see loads of dusky cigány slappers ready for some 1800 Ft action.
          If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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            #15
            1800 Ft action? I thought they'd be taking Euro-action these days?

            I'll get me coat...

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              #16
              Originally posted by Joe Black
              1800 Ft action? I thought they'd be taking Euro-action these days?

              I'll get me coat...
              Sadly sir, if you frequent the ho's, erm sorry, local women, you'll find everything in HU is in Forints as is all transactions in the former soviet controlled state (don't mention the EU binding inflation limits, I might have mentioned it but I think I got away with it) and as such, it remains stuckfast with much complicated 000s in its currency.

              Euro = dodo.
              If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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                #17
                Forints, yep remember them. Just thought they had switched, or maybe they're still on the to-do list.

                Was there a few times years ago in the still Soviet era, East Germans queuing to change their maximum allowed 5 DDR marks per day, while me and then girlfriend rented an architects loft apartment for £5 per night and could buy bottles of Champanski and a whole chicken for 50p.

                Nice.

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                  #18
                  Hungary has problems with hiding its growing inflation, unlike the UK which has hidden it quite well. Ferenc Gyurcsany is a self proclaimed "friend" of President bliar which is a worrying sign...

                  Yes, I was there in the heady transition days in the early 90s when you could dine as a king with hard currency once arriving at Ferihegy 1 and off to the Kempinski for £40/night.

                  Now wife and I shoot off east to the inlaws for cheap beer, local food, no traffic and keeping our fingers crossed that Nyíregyháza military airport opens for commercial traffic...got married there...

                  Plenty of commercial properties available for SIPPS... but I never said that ol' monocular brown...
                  Last edited by hyperD; 22 February 2007, 00:11.
                  If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by hyperD
                    shoot off east to the inlaws for cheap beer, local food, no traffic ...
                    Yes, one of the things that strikes me most about everyday life in E Europe is the lack of traffic on the roads. Lack of jams, anyway. It seems to me that I remember this from my now distant youth.
                    God made men. Sam Colt made them equal.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Euro-commuter
                      Yes, one of the things that strikes me most about everyday life in E Europe is the lack of traffic on the roads. Lack of jams, anyway. It seems to me that I remember this from my now distant youth.
                      Most areas in Europe appear to have better roads and less traffic than the UK SE. I'm amazed that I can cycle a couple of miles to the shops and back quicker than I can by car now. Everywhere you go there are more and more traffic lights and tailbacks. I actually get this feeling of dread everytime I have to travel by car here which I never used to get.

                      Travelling by car in Europe is great fun. The main noticable difference is that lane dicipline seems to be better in Europe than here. As soon as you arrive back in Dover, you really notice the right hand lane hogging that appears to be solely a British disease.

                      Driving standards are pretty much the same - awful. Moreso in eastern europe where you have the dangerous scene of locals with limited experience driving new faster "western" cars mixing it with locals in trabants and skodas. Plenty of carnage but overall still far more pleasurable driving.

                      To be honest, I fecking hate driving here and might sell the TVR and just get taxis everywhere.
                      If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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