So... Slenderman is stealing our gold? I thought he just abducted people and made proxies!

So, Churchill.....

Sometimes I think about coming back to you all. Then I read this sort of thing and see that you are still arguing about nothing at all. Winston Churchill deserves a place in memoriam. I don't care what you think about the worth of paper money. For the love of all that is good, learn to turn it off once in awhile. Jesus H. Christ.

I used to like this place, you know.

Well sir, if I recall correctly you're from Germany which makes you humourless by default. Therefore nobody could expect you to be funny.:D

Certainly he deserves more than 5 pounds?

*lfg unicode for pound symbol*

I mean, he only held the free world together.

Largest Bill in UK, who is on it, most likely the queen right?

She has not done a millionth as much as Churchill.

No disrespect intended.:salute:

I agree 100%. I have to get me one of these for my wall. :yep:

The current British 50 pound note has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth the Second on the front and a portrait of Sir John Houblon (the first Governor of the Bank of England, serving in the post from 1694 to 1697) on the back.

Me too :cool:

Skybird is rapidly turning into GT's very own Tea Party Commissar.


Nevermind that by switching to the gold standard you're swapping a halfway-predictable inflationary model for one that is completely arbitrary and subject to massive unexpected supply shocks. Better hope the random assortment of countries mining gold doesn't get any more random.

Nevermind that practically nobody with a serious scholarly and/or professional interest in currency trading advocates going to gold. The arguments for going back to the gold standard, as evinced in this thread, have nothing to do with how beneficial the gold standard is, but with the perceived problems with fiat money.

Most of which are imaginary.


As for Winston, good for him! It's too soon for Thatcher, legacy nonwithstanding.

Thank you for curing my ignorance on that matter. :up:

I think maybe the fiver would be good for Sir Churchill, after all. It is more commonly used, I would think.

I have a shining respect for the man, he was just as much an American hero as Washington, he is vastly underrated here across the pond amongst the "rubes". (I.e: people who do not appreciate history)

Rgr that...he was a great man and a friend of America.

He was the man the world needed. And Britain stood with him.

He had a unique insight on America, being half-American.

He was a great man, period. Like all great men, and all men for that matter, he did good and he did ill. In the end, he left his indelible mark on humanity, and for all of us that is all that we can ask.

A drunken paralytic I believe was the phrase.

Is the 50 pound note the largest denomination note in Britain?