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Does London Underground accept Euros anywhere?
On 11/08/2010 21:07, Roland Perry wrote:
In message o7D8o.87903$pW4.52285@hurricane, at 20:47:32 on Wed, 11 Aug 2010, " remarked: I wonder what would happen if somebody tried to pay for a pint with a Scottish one-pound note. The barman would probably say they were about £2 short. Let me rephrase that: What if you tried to pay for your pint using several Scottish one-pound notes? |
Does London Underground accept Euros anywhere?
1506 wrote:
So if someone uses a taxi in England and offers nothing but Scottish money, are they committing an offence, and if so, what is the legal term to describe the things that can be used to settle the debt to the taxi driver, namely English notes and British coins? Those are exactly the circumstances to which I referred earlier in this thread. Whilst working in Edinburgh I took my spouse for a weekend in London. One evening we took a taxi from the Regent's Park area to Piccadilly. I paid the cabby in Scottish notes. He was very unhappy but I had nothing else with which to pay him. The guy had two choices, guess which one he took! He had a third - drive you to the nearest cash point and you could have got some English notes. A lot of cabbies will accept this (and keep the meter running while you do) as the best way to handle people who find themselves short or in an awkward situation. But if he were to take the fourth option then technically you would have had an undischarged debt. |
Does London Underground accept Euros anywhere?
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$X%4.89772@hurricane: On 11/08/2010 21:07, Roland Perry wrote: In message o7D8o.87903$pW4.52285@hurricane, at 20:47:32 on Wed, 11 Aug 2010, " remarked: I wonder what would happen if somebody tried to pay for a pint with a Scottish one-pound note. The barman would probably say they were about £2 short. Let me rephrase that: What if you tried to pay for your pint using several Scottish one-pound notes? "Sorry mate. Can't buy beer with those - Scotch only" :-) |
Does London Underground accept Euros anywhere?
In message TdE8o.107063$X%4.89772@hurricane, at 22:02:43 on Wed, 11
Aug 2010, " remarked: I wonder what would happen if somebody tried to pay for a pint with a Scottish one-pound note. The barman would probably say they were about £2 short. Let me rephrase that: What if you tried to pay for your pint using several Scottish one-pound notes? He'd probably say "I'm not trained sufficiently to be able to accept those". -- Roland Perry |
Does London Underground accept Euros anywhere?
"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message TdE8o.107063$X%4.89772@hurricane, at 22:02:43 on Wed, 11 Aug 2010, " remarked: I wonder what would happen if somebody tried to pay for a pint with a Scottish one-pound note. The barman would probably say they were about £2 short. Let me rephrase that: What if you tried to pay for your pint using several Scottish one-pound notes? He'd probably say "I'm not trained sufficiently to be able to accept those". On the subject of training, is it just me, or has every bar person in the UK lost the ability to add up/check the price of a drink as they pour it? old git mode when I were a lad, working in a pub you would add the round as you went along & inform the punter of the damage as you handed him/her the last drink. Today, the process seems to be serve drinks then prod listlessly at the till, sometimes asking the punter to remind them what they've just served them, until enlightenment dawns and a sum of money is requested. And then asks the sodding great queue that's formed "who's next?" then wonders why some people get a bit upset! /old git mode -- Cheers, Steve. Change jealous to sad to reply. |
Does London Underground accept Euros anywhere?
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, Mizter T writes What I meant was that you have clearly outlined to everyone else on the thread the whole situation w.r.t. 'legal tender', i.e. that it's a very technical thing, and in day to day life it simply doesn't matter most of the time - I was agreeing with you (or at least attempting to do so!), and wondering what 'everyone else's' problem was, that's all! Ah, thanks! It seems to me that "legal tender" is up there with "fine-toothed comb" as one of the great misunderstood phrases of the English language. -- Paul Terry |
Does London Underground accept Euros anywhere?
On 2010\08\12 09:01, Steve Dulieu wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message TdE8o.107063$X%4.89772@hurricane, at 22:02:43 on Wed, 11 Aug 2010, " remarked: I wonder what would happen if somebody tried to pay for a pint with a Scottish one-pound note. The barman would probably say they were about £2 short. Let me rephrase that: What if you tried to pay for your pint using several Scottish one-pound notes? He'd probably say "I'm not trained sufficiently to be able to accept those". On the subject of training, is it just me, or has every bar person in the UK lost the ability to add up/check the price of a drink as they pour it? old git mode when I were a lad, working in a pub you would add the round as you went along & inform the punter of the damage as you handed him/her the last drink. Today, the process seems to be serve drinks then prod listlessly at the till, sometimes asking the punter to remind them what they've just served them, until enlightenment dawns and a sum of money is requested. And then asks the sodding great queue that's formed "who's next?" then wonders why some people get a bit upset! /old git mode For stocktaking purposes, they might be required to enter a code for each drink rather than just prices. |
Does London Underground accept Euros anywhere?
On 11 Aug, 17:05, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2010\08\11 15:15, Paul Terry wrote: In message , Basil Jet writes On 2010\08\11 14:37, Mike Bristow wrote: This isn't a problem, because legal tender is not an issue in day-to-day life. I've never made a transaction for which legal tender was necessary. You always pay in advance in restaurants, hairdressers and taxis? It doesn't matter whether Mike pays in advance or in arrears for such services. Legal tender is only involved if there is a dispute that goes to court. If Mike then pays into court the exact amount due, in legal tender, he cannot be successfully sued for the debt. That is the only application of the term legal tender in the UK. Many people assume it has some wider meaning, but it really doesn't. So if someone uses a taxi in England and offers nothing but Scottish money, are they committing an offence, and if so, what is the legal term to describe the things that can be used to settle the debt to the taxi driver, namely English notes and British coins? The situation is quite simple. If you wish to pay for something in advance, you can come to any agreement with the vendor you like. For example, many vendors refuse to accept Bank of England £50 notes. You could pay with a big pile of penny sweets if the vendor chooses to accept them. If you have a debt, you can settle it with any form of payment provided the creditor is prepared to accept it, including the aforementionned penny sweets. The notion of legal tender has no bearing on this. The main reason legal tender law exists is to stop creditors imposing (contracutally agreed) extra fees for late payment by refusing to accept payment offered. The best (real) example of this was the protest some Oxford students made when tuition fees were first introduced in the late '90s. Having refused to pay them for a couple of terms, the college said the students would be sent down (expelled) if they did not pay up. The students all turned up at the college office with a wheel barrow full of 1000 £1 coins each. As the £1 coin is legal tender for any amount (throughout the UK), because they had offered legal tender in settlement of the debt, it would have been unlawful of the college to send them down (even if the college had refused to accept the wheelbarrow loads of £1 coins, though in this case they accepted the payment). Robin |
Does London Underground accept Euros anywhere?
On Aug 12, 10:37*am, Paul Terry wrote: In message , Mizter T writes What I meant was that you have clearly outlined to everyone else on the thread the whole situation w.r.t. 'legal tender', i.e. that it's a very technical thing, and in day to day life it simply doesn't matter most of the time - I was agreeing with you (or at least attempting to do so!), and wondering what 'everyone else's' problem was, that's all! Ah, thanks! It seems to me that "legal tender" is up there with "fine-toothed comb" as one of the great misunderstood phrases of the English language. Indeed. I try and avoid using phrases I don't properly understand, but 'legal tender' is one where I was aware of the complexities thereof and so avoid using for that reason. (I think sometimes it gets all confuddled with the Coinage Act 1971 rules which define legal tender vis-a-vis making payments with coins - e.g. 20p and 50p coins can make a payment of up to £10 - but again, when you're paying off your credit card bill or overdraft with bags of coins the bank is only concerned about getting the money, though the cashier might be a bit miffed about the queue forming behind you! [1]) ----- [1] That said, yes I know banks do have rules about how much coinage they handle, but they're not going to start repossessing your home if you can pay what's required, even if that is £50 in 50p's. |
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