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Posted by Chip Gelmini (Member # 44) on January 13, 2005, 07:52 PM:

Type ALT and at the same time ZERO ONE SIX THREE and the symbol will appear correctly. For those who want to know.

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Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on January 13, 2005, 08:09 PM:

Chip you've been in the booth too long! Time get some air. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Alan Rik (Member # 73) on January 13, 2005, 09:31 PM:

My fingers aren't long enough on my laptop. [Frown]

Posted by Chip Gelmini (Member # 44) on January 13, 2005, 11:23 PM:

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Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on January 13, 2005, 11:34 PM:

I think this is going to be a good year. [Eek!]

Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on January 16, 2005, 05:22 AM:

And on our UK keyboards we have both!

£$£$££$£$£££$£££$£$££$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£

Kev [Big Grin]

Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on January 21, 2005, 07:41 PM:

I can't even do the Euro sign! [Eek!]

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on January 22, 2005, 01:18 PM:

Euro? Whats a Euro? [Big Grin]

Posted by Craig Hamilton (Member # 258) on January 22, 2005, 02:13 PM:

Euro, no problem!

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Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on January 22, 2005, 02:50 PM:

Ahh, now your showing off [Big Grin]

Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on January 22, 2005, 05:36 PM:

I'll have to bookmark this thread for some future copying and pasting [Cool]

Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on August 15, 2019, 04:45 PM:

British pound now in a lot of trouble. Soon will be at parity with both the US dollar and Euro.

Posted by Mark Todd (Member # 96) on August 15, 2019, 05:04 PM:

I think soon we will get less than a Euro, and maybe also soon enough less than a Dollar for the pound Steven.

We are off down the Loo sadly.

Best Mark.

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on August 15, 2019, 07:06 PM:

Good time to buy films/equipment from the UK.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on August 16, 2019, 03:34 AM:

I used to exchange Euros to pounds from time to time all the year long and stock them in my dedicated wallet in prevision of UK conventions (I pay with a credit card for the other expenses). I still have some cash in Pounds but it's probably wiser to put some Euros aside and exchange them just before travelling in case the British pound looses to much of its value.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on August 16, 2019, 05:29 AM:

Today's exchange rate is one English pound (£1.00) for Euro currency of €1.20.

Posted by Mark Todd (Member # 96) on August 16, 2019, 05:52 AM:

Is it, if you pay on paypal £1 gets you 1.04 Euros.

So has inched up slightly.

Best Mark.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on August 16, 2019, 05:59 AM:

PayPal has outrageous unfavourable exchange rates. Check the difference with Visa and you'll be surprised.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on August 16, 2019, 06:10 AM:

Dominique is correct.
PayPal always seems to make a good degree of profit out of us, but, I suppose it's also the convenience of one-click buying.

Posted by David Hardy (Member # 4628) on August 16, 2019, 08:23 AM:

Guys just wait until Scotland becomes an independent country again . You might have to get an exchange rate for " Groats " . [Big Grin]

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on August 16, 2019, 11:21 AM:

If what Steven just said is true, though it certainly wouldn't be good for the British, I must confess that it would be good for U.S. film buyers as, one thing that has held back a great number of U.S. super 8 collectors, it the exchange rate between the pound and the dollar.

My big beef, however, is when a seller will have a really neat item I'd love to have, say a cartoon, and even at 3 pounds, but it'll have an 18 POUND SHIPPING CHARGE!!!

OOORG!!!

Posted by Mark Todd (Member # 96) on August 16, 2019, 02:18 PM:

The post from America to the UK is often twice from here to you Osi. Or more.

We are just going to have to settle in for the Long Haul.

I can see Scotland going back before long David.

Even just for your farmers sake, ours small hill farmers are worried sick.

Best Mark.

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on August 16, 2019, 04:15 PM:

Anyone rem,ember us here in Britain calling 5s (25p) a Dollar.

Yes, at one time it was 4$ to the pound!!!!1

Posted by Terry Sills (Member # 3309) on August 17, 2019, 01:24 AM:

Yep! and petrol was 2/6p a gallon.

Posted by Dave Groves (Member # 4685) on August 17, 2019, 03:38 AM:

And when I lived in Norwich some 20 years ago interest on savings was 14%! Now, the majority of bank accounts don't even reach 1%..

Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on August 18, 2019, 06:06 PM:

Decades ago,our NZ pound equaled the UK one and four US dollars equaled it.Twenty NZ shillings(a quid) equaled twenty-five Australian shillings(their quid!) [Eek!]

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