French Constitution Vote

[WoodYouLike]

This is long enough ago that it is starting to become folklore. But I remember someone researching the price rise issue. They found that although the prices had all gone up at once, the overall rise was much as you would have expected taken over a year. The effect of changing the currency was to concentrate the price rises in one go. Not to cause any real increase.

Sorry Damocles, but you are wrong. Last weekend we were back in The Netherlands and we really didn't believe the prices there. At the same time there was an article in the local paper about did the Euro increase prices above average inflation?
Total shopping basket from 2001 to 2004 : 13%
Entertainment (pubs, restaurants etc): 25%
Supermarkets/groceries i.e. weekly shopping: 10%

There's you answer.
(The only items which dropped in price was electronical goods like pc's mobile phones etc).

As I said before: let the EU get their economics in order before trying (in vain IMHO) to go any further in becoming 'United States of Europe'.

BTW: read in The Times (behind a huge article about the French vote) a tiny article about the vote this Wednesday in The Netherlands. Conclusion of The Times: if the dutch say NO, the EU is really in trouble about the constitution getting approved

 

[masona]

Europe need England more than we need them. The EU want England trade, fish, gold, oil, your saving and plan to grab your pension which have over £600 billion invested and that is more than the rest of the EU put together and remember if England joins the euro we will have to take on part of their EU £1,200 billion pension debt and that's why they need us to bail them out. They want England inside the EU because they know if England was independent it would mean a major threat to the economy of the EU. England will not collapse if we leave the EU as many small countries do very well outside the EU. The EU is for losers which cannot cope alone and England is not a loser.

 

[Richardp]

Hey! Freddie! that camera, isnt it a water pistol? I got one in a christmas cracker its rubbish!! only girls go for that model.

 

[Freddie]

 

[Freddie]

Masona i take it back you arent a clown

I agree with you 150% there Britain may need selected immigrants for certain jobs and the idle bastards who wont work but the EU needs Britain and not Britain needs the EU

Hold on i can feel bullshit warming up, it's getting towards the evening, i actually think we are going to have a garbage moment----------Cue Damocles !

 

[masona]

Masona i take it back you arent a clown

Andy the wheelchair-bound from Little Britain " Yeah I know"

Hold on i can feel bulls**t warming up, it's getting towards the evening, i actually think we are going to have a garbage moment----------Cue Damocles !

Yeah, it was getting too quite, I thought I get that ball rolling again

 

[pipme]

Fred, dogs doodahs of the camera world (It is not a NASA type specialised techno piece of kit, but a real larger format camera .. ) Stuff like this produces the superb images as seen in magazines :-

[code:1]Hasselblad Digital Backs Only
H1 + 96C Bundle - £14,995.00
H1 + 384C Bundle - £18,995.00
H1 + 132C Bundle - £19,995.00
H1 + 528C Bundle - £23,995.00

Each of these Kits comprises a Hasselblad H1 Body, an HC80mm f2.8 lens HV90X Viewfinder plus the Digital back, Imagebank and I-adapter.[/code:1]
Super quality costs mega bucks but needs oil wellian pocketry ...
This is in kit form, don't ask them to build as well .....
PS. There is a Gold plated Hassledlad .. free to any collector .. On the Moon !!

 

[Richardp]

No! No! its this camera

this is the world famous expensive Camera and its comes in 4 different colours as you can see, which one do you think is the nicest? I like the pink one

 

[Freddie]

Pipme i know about these but mine i was referring that normal people could buy.

With the price of them you can understand why people still use 120 film cant you.?

 

[Richardp]

Pipme i know about these but mine i was referring that normal people could buy.

With the price of them you can understand why people still use 120 film cant you.?

See! Pipme, told you so, so which colour do you like the best ? and be serious

 

[AdamW]

Back to the Euro/price thing: a couple of years ago I worked with a lot of French and Italian people. They reckoned the prices had gone up since the Euro came in.

I also had a conversation with a Paris taxi driver that seemed strangely reminiscent of the genre of conversation one has with London cabbies! He was complaining about the euro and how most of the people he knew would have preferred to keep the Franc. He was surprised to hear the UK still used pounds, and told me that we would do better to keep it. Now, granted he wasn't an economist, but he had certainly noticed that the Euro had been detrimental to his pocket.

Most recently, I am buying some more computer hardware soon. I check the prices across Europe because occasionally I have found something cheaper in Germany, France or Belgium. But, recently I have noticed that the UK is about the cheapest place to buy. Perhaps that is because the Euro is strong, but the fact remains that my money currently goes further in pounds sterling.

As to the cameras: don't Canon have a 16.7 megapixel one at the top of their range now? Or has that one been superseded?

 

[pipme]

Pipme i know about these but mine i was referring that normal people could buy......

Normal is as normal does ???
Did you have the latest kevlar chassis ? Stronger and lighter than steel, more dimensionaly stable etc etc

20-00hrs Sun ... 'Exit' poll suggests French reject he proposed EU constitution.

 

[Freddie]

 

[Richardp]

Pipme i know about these but mine i was referring that normal people could buy......

Normal is as normal does ???
Did you have the latest kevlar chassis ? Stronger and lighter than steel, more dimensionaly stable etc etc

20-00hrs Sun ... 'Exit' poll suggests French reject he proposed EU constitution.

Ahh! so that'll be the green one then

 

[pipme]

If you prefer ..
Ummm..... Singapore airlines 4 adults 1st class return Lond-Melb total cost £18,679 ... That makes the Hassleblad camera, usable for a lifetime, quite cheap compared to approx 24 hrs in fa rt filled cylinder ... albeit reclining !