First of all, I didn't make a mistake in my thread title. I've been here long enough to know that editing a title is not easy. Besides, this is the thread for the Grumpy ol'Geezers of GOG. This is quite simple : rant all you feel like about what became of one thing of the past (in good or in bad), following this logic :

Back in the days ...
... everybody thought that 'Euro' was a lazy and incredibly stupid name for a currency ...

And nowadays
it feels like the most natural thing. That can't be possible, they put things in our food I tell you !

Carry on, free your inner Grumpy old Geezer.

Edit : you read correctly : there is nothing to win here. Now get off my lawn !

euro is stil a stupid fucking name for a stupid fucking currency

I know right? I once asked a 1 euro coin to solve a crossword puzzle, and it couldn't do it. Such a stupid currency. Now british pounds, let me tell you, those are some real brainiacs.

what with all those shapes and half a billion different kinds

Which "billion", the correct and traditional British one (a million million), or the wrong, American, and sadly also current British one (a thousand million, a milliard)?

Great, that was a disguised rant, so I fit in the thread, woohoo!

YES, THIS! *fistbumps in Swedish*

And to educate the English-speaking world, a video from Numberphile.

While I agree with your post in general, I disagree that this is (correct) American English spelling. Idk, the millenials will make it correct through brute force I guess. Bastards.

Back when the Euro became a thing I was in my early 20s. I had a minute amount of knowledge about currencies and exchange rates and I thought then that the idea of the Euro was ridiculous. It was effectively turning countries that were successful in their own right, but not economic powerhouses like Germany into Euro zone slum regions that were no longer successful because the bar was being set at the German level.

That's what my early 20s ignorant self thought. And oh look: I knew far more than all the Eurocrat morons combined.

That's the real reason we need to leave the EU. Fucktarded beyond reason.

There is no such thing as "correct American English".



OH NO I DIDN'T... DID I?

Back in the day, round about 3rd or 4th grade, public school tried to introduce the metric system. Puppets, catchy tune, and all that on a film strip. Didn't work.

And nowadays, I use it all the time for work and find it so much simpler than figuring out if 17/64" is larger or smaller than a King's Nosehair. It's oh-so-slowly creeping into automotive stuff but even those guys who work with the much-simpler metric numbers often grumble about it. Fuck me, how is it that you think a "quarter-twenty" screw is easier than an M6? And WTF is a number 10 screw? 10 whats? Dunno, just 10.

Back in the day
You could walk into a sporting goods store, buy a rifle, and walk home with it slung over your shoulder. No one noticed or cared.

Nowadays
A child in school draws the picture of a gun in his notebook and the SWAT team is called, and the school is locked down until the offending terrorist has been safely taken into custody.

I'm pretty sure everyone in Austin Texas cared when instead of walking home he walked to the top of an observation tower and opened fire. :P

my bank account still says its a million million they in NO way represent the correct pronunciation though nobody says or spells "hiccough"

get a dictionary thats not from 1786!