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Awesome, I'm probably reasonable for more dead cows per week.

 marv335 wrote:

 grrrfranky wrote:

 whembly wrote:
You don't ever want a cashless society.

Why not? It seems fairly inevitable. Paying using my contactless card is far more convenient than having to use chip and pin, let alone fumbling around in my pocket for change.

How would you pay strippers?

By any other method you are going to be anyway? Card, cell phone, maybe in future chip you carry or maybe your fingerprint.

Only time I use cash these days is if somebody insists paying by cash. Usually I pay some gas with such money.

Makers are now looking into the 'fat issue.'


Maker of £5 note 'looking into fat issue'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38164921

 welshhoppo wrote:
Makers are now looking into the 'fat issue.'


Maker of £5 note 'looking into fat issue'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38164921

In other news nutcase (not all) vegetarians are now campaigning to ban *all* clothes washing products as they kill bed bugs and all washing products are to be banned as it kills lice, nits and other small animals that like to live on our bodies. Farming of all foods is to be banned because tractor blades and wheels may harm mice, worms and woodlice. However they are happy to use wooden furniture despite the fact the felling of a single tree effectively kills 10,000's to millions of animals that live on it (and lets not get started on where some mahogany and so on comes from)

It's ridiculous really where does it end. I accept that people wish to choose to not eat meat for a variety of reasons and that in principle reduces the consumption of animals. However tallow is a by-product of the meat industry. Animals aren't raised just to produce it. The tallow will still be produced and instead of being used usefully will be landfilled. Instead an alternative is proposed to be sourced that likely requires more resources and more land and more environmental damage than using this by-product will ever do.

It's a silly campaign by people that have no idea of the ramifications.

 reds8n wrote:
A Very Precise Calculation of Exactly How Many Cows Are Being Murdered to Make the New Fivers

It's a Vice article so language etc ahoy !

And if you get about 40 kg of tallow-worthy fat from the average cow, how many cows would you need to make every single £5 note in circulation?

JUST OVER HALF OF ONE COW

"Don't half a cow, man!"

- Bart Simpson

 kronk wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
A Very Precise Calculation of Exactly How Many Cows Are Being Murdered to Make the New Fivers

It's a Vice article so language etc ahoy !

And if you get about 40 kg of tallow-worthy fat from the average cow, how many cows would you need to make every single £5 note in circulation?

JUST OVER HALF OF ONE COW

"Don't half a cow, man!"

- Bart Simpson

Get out. Right now.

 kronk wrote:


"Don't half a cow, man!"

- Bart Simpson

How else do you expect to make some moolah? Still should help the farmers they are sitting on a cash cow now!

What's your beef with the cows, man?

You can milk the cow jokes for all they are worth but this is udderly ridiculous.

Oh dairy, dairy me.

We had better lock the topic here.