The 'Let's make fun of the low Dollar' thread

[Havoc]

Good old US of A's economy is collapsing and taking the whole world with them. Let's make some fun of them while we still can in the form of Dollar one-liners!

1. The Dollar is falling so fast it's violating the laws of gravity!

2. I went to the exchange office today, tried to change 1 euro to Dollars, they told me they don't that amount of money there for security reasons.

3. I tried to find something on E-bay to spend that Euro on, so I bought a house.

4. With the change I bought a car.

5. Fort Knox has relocated most of their guards.

6. They are now guarding the local garbage dump.

7. People are burning Dollars instead of gas in their cars, it's cheaper.


Yea lame thread I know, but give it your best shot.

[Mac Sirloin]

The dollar has descened so fast it's taken up its seat as a lord of hell.

[Nate]

I don't know what you're talking about - the dollar has never been higher.

Oh... you're talking about the American dollar.


I love being in the only country in the world not to have a crappy economy. God bless China and the resource boom! God bless... our increasing interest rates and inflation. Damn.

Still, it was nice to go travelling around the world with a good exchange rate for once. Last time I was in the US, a good exchange rate was to buy 72 US cents for one Australian dollar. This last time it was 94!

[Kimon]

I can buy much less with my money now that the economy is failing!

Ba-zing

[Leto]

Good time to buy things internationally. I remember as a child, when we wanted to buy something off of Ebay/Amazon, the bare basic assumption equation for how much it would cost would be: original price x2 + 1/2 of the original price eg if an item was $30, $60 + 15 therefore $75. must've been coupled with a really low NZD. now $30USD works out to be like $41USD or something. Yay for your crash.

[arkaznor]

And do you know how people are trying to make up for the dollars falling worth? They are making more stuff, and selling it at higher prices.

Doesn't American logic make soo much sense?

I went into a bagel shop, and order something that I do once a week. It was always $2.35, yet they raised the price to $3.12. As such, I questioned the fact that they were selling stuff at higher prices, while people's earning had less value, and that causing people to stop coming to the bagel shop and thus a lost of profit. I had a talk with the manager three minutes later, and he offered me a job (I had to decline because I was moving to Thailand in a week).

But seriously, my fellow Americans don't even bother looking at their own economic history. What's wrong with us?!

[T-nex]

I dunno.. But it's certainly MUCH cheaper to buy planetickets now.. Well except the fact that since last year, they have gotten more expensive, I have found a way to pay only 1000$ for a ticket from DK to USA... So yay for me.. And HA to USA for learning a life-lesson... or something....

[Nate]

Too bad oil prices are pushing plane tickets up...

[Alcar]

I don't know what you're talking about - the dollar has never been higher.

Oh... you're talking about the American dollar.

I love being in the only country in the world not to have a crappy economy. God bless China and the resource boom! God bless... our increasing interest rates and inflation. Damn.

It's still a right shame that when I return home, my pounds will be worth crap.

Alcar...

[Munch's Master]

The pound is falling but it's still the strongest currency in the world, Alcar.

And do you know how people are trying to make up for the dollars falling worth? They are making more stuff, and selling it at higher prices.

Doesn't American logic make soo much sense?

I went into a bagel shop, and order something that I do once a week. It was always $2.35, yet they raised the price to $3.12. As such, I questioned the fact that they were selling stuff at higher prices, while people's earning had less value, and that causing people to stop coming to the bagel shop and thus a lost of profit. I had a talk with the manager three minutes later, and he offered me a job (I had to decline because I was moving to Thailand in a week).

But seriously, my fellow Americans don't even bother looking at their own economic history. What's wrong with us?!

They don't look at Germany's history either. Hyperinflation is a-coming.

[T-nex]

Too bad oil prices are pushing plane tickets up...

yea I know. But 1000$ still isn't much. I paid MUCH more last year.
And i found out the planet-ticket companies are trying to rip you off. bigtime <.< . Instead of buying the ticket from ONE place(which includes all layovers n stuff), i bought the ticket from DK to London separately. And then a ticket from London to USA and back separately. Originally it would have cost me 1900$ *dies*.

Anyway.. Just a useful tip to any of you who plan a long plane-trip to somewhere. if you can, buy the tickets separately if they include layovers.

Also: Yay for ryanair and tickets that sometimes cost no more than 1$!!

[Mac Sirloin]

At co-op today I was making deliveries and the truck required a 100 $ tank of gas.

3/4 full.

fucking christ.

[Havoc]

Gas prices are absurd these days, I paid 70 EUR for 45 liters. And our government is planning on raising them even more, the dickwads...

[Kimon]

I went into a bagel shop, and order something that I do once a week. It was always $2.35, yet they raised the price to $3.12. As such, I questioned the fact that they were selling stuff at higher prices, while people's earning had less value, and that causing people to stop coming to the bagel shop and thus a lost of profit. I had a talk with the manager three minutes later, and he offered me a job (I had to decline because I was moving to Thailand in a week).

Well, in economic failure, the price of everything rises, meaning it it becomes more expensive to procure ingredients, make the food, and pay for the property, not to mention keep up with the inevitable raise in minimum wage and federal taxes. So they kinda have to raise the price, otherwise they'd be losing capital on every bagel.

[used:)]

Oh silly America, you've played right into the turrists' plans. Time to hop the border into Canada!

[mudling]

Well, it may not be all of Bush's fault, but I'm going to say this:
Last year I was having a coversation with some americans and we were saying something along the lines of "He may suck, but he's not here for much longer, and he couldn't possible do that much damage between now and then".
Guess we were wrong.
But look on the bright side, the Australian dollar is nearly equal to the US doller again!