New £20 Note

KingDing · 13 Mar 2007 at 08:51

See there is a new 20 squid note out today! Sounds pretty funky with the see thru panel...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6096938.stm

Hugogo · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:03

Sounds funky.

geeza · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:06

great! my mates reply was what i felt

"why the **** do we want a scotsman on our notes they have a bank of their own"

I wonder which fool came up with this idea

AJUK · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:10

geeza said:
great! my mates reply was what i felt

"why the **** do we want a scotsman on our notes they have a bank of their own"

I wonder which fool came up with this idea

Agreed, Adam Smith was a great man and probably deserves the accolade but there are way too many jocks represented all over the UK so we don't need another on an ENGLISH bank note.

dirtydog · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:11

A Scot on an English bank note?

Tru · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:17

LOL, who the hell cares whose picture is on the damn money? The Queens head is on every coin in the country. Got xenophobia?

Visage · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:18

Which Englishmen who havent already been on a note would come before Adam Smith?

david334 · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:18

dirtydog said:
A Scot on an English bank note?

yeah

dirtydog · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:20

Tru said:
LOL, who the hell cares whose picture is on the damn money? The Queens head is on every coin in the country. Got xenophobia?

How is it xenophobic? It is bizarre to have a foreign national on a banknote. I bet no other country does it.

dirtydog · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:21

Visage said:
Which Englishmen who havent already been on a note would come before Adam Smith?

I don't understand the logic?

Tru · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:21

dirtydog said:
How is it xenophobic? It is bizarre to have a foreign national on a banknote. I bet no other country does it.

But that's what makes the UK so special, unique and better than the rest of the world.

Visage · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:26

dirtydog said:
I don't understand the logic?

You ssemed to suggest that there were more worthy Englishmen who should be on the note ahead of AS.....i was asking who they are.

Of course if thats not what you were suggesting then I apologise.

Perywinkle · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:27

What do you expect when half the government are porridge ****?

POB · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:28

Its a very sneaky way of introducing the Euro.

It looks more like a euro note then our current sent, its a bit plain.

AJUK · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:29

Visage said:
Which Englishmen who havent already been on a note would come before Adam Smith?

Edward 1st, but only on Scottish notes.

dirtydog · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:29

Visage said:
You ssemed to suggest that there were more worthy Englishmen who should be on the note ahead of AS.....i was asking who they are.

Of course if thats not what you were suggesting then I apologise.

Any Englishman (or woman) is more worthy of being on the note than Smith is, because Smith isn't English. I really don't think that we have 'run out' of historical English figures so were forced to look north of the border.

Vixen · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:32

Some of your attitudes make me sick. It's BRITISH money, and Adam Smith was a BRITISH national. I think it's quite cool that someone from my home town is going to be printed on money

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Chronos-X · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:33

dirtydog said:
A Scot on an English bank note?

Wrong. A Scot on a British bank note

AJUK · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:35

Vixen said:
Some of your attitudes make me sick. It's BRITISH money, and Adam Smith was a BRITISH national. I think it's quite cool that someone from my home town is going to be printed on money .

I take it you would you be happy with my suggestion of King Edward 1st, 'Longshanks' and Hammer of the Scots then?

Rotty · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:36

Vixen said:
Some of your attitudes make me sick. It's BRITISH money, and Adam Smith was a BRITISH national. I think it's quite cool that someone from my home town is going to be printed on money .

It's Bank of England note though, I undertstand what you are saying that it is legal tender in Britain but the Bank of England and the Scottish banks produce seperate notes