No Money? Time to create the BeexDollar

myp · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 13:25

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8245276.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8245276.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8245276.stm

kalmar could sell those Xbox Live cards for BX$5 each.

Bluecup · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 925

myp wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8245276.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8245276.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8245276.stm

kalmar could sell those Xbox Live cards for BX$5 each.

I'm not paying BX$5 for an Xbox Live card.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

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Other towns joining the experiment, started by environmental group Transition Network, are Lewes in East Sussex and Stroud in Gloucestershire which introduced the Stroud Pound this week.

Of course, the Stroud Pound is actually a cow.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38648

Craster wrote:

Quote:

Other towns joining the experiment, started by environmental group Transition Network, are Lewes in East Sussex and Stroud in Gloucestershire which introduced the Stroud Pound this week.

Of course, the Stroud Pound is actually a cow.

I have a large steak in that venture.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

MrDavPaz wrote:

Craster wrote:

Quote:

Other towns joining the experiment, started by environmental group Transition Network, are Lewes in East Sussex and Stroud in Gloucestershire which introduced the Stroud Pound this week.

Of course, the Stroud Pound is actually a cow.

I have a large steak in that venture.

I'd milk it for all it is worth

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 13:41

A Bombay Duck is a fish, a lizardfish to be precise.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 13:41

I'd beef it up with some quantitative easing.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38648

Riles wrote:

I'd milk it for all it is worth

Pull the udder one, it's a big risk.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 13:41

myp wrote:

I'd beef it up with some quantitative easing.

Dirty

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

myp wrote:

I'd beef it up with some quantitative easing.

Thats good mooooooooooooooooooo-netary policy, that.

Brixton already has a barter currency anyway. It's called Crack.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

For all that it's made the BBC news, this is actually no different from shopping centres selling gift vouchers that can be used anywhere in that centre, is it?

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

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Exchange £20 for 20 Brixton Pounds (B£s) at Morleys department store or Opus Cafe

So uh... why bother?

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

Riles wrote:

myp wrote:

I'd beef it up with some quantitative easing.

Thats good mooooooooooooooooooo-netary policy, that.

Brixton already has a barter currency anyway. It's called Crack.

Typical ignorant stereotyping. The Brixton currency is in fact stabbing.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 13:52

I'd go for this only if the BX$ has a picture of Craster or similar revered local figure on it.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 13:53

sinister agent wrote:

Quote:

Exchange £20 for 20 Brixton Pounds (B£s) at Morleys department store or Opus Cafe

So uh... why bother?

So that the £20 goes back into the Brixton economy and stays there. If you had £20, it could go anywhere.

Craster: no, no difference at all.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 13:54

sinister agent wrote:

Quote:

Exchange £20 for 20 Brixton Pounds (B£s) at Morleys department store or Opus Cafe

So uh... why bother?

The point is that you can only spend the Brixton pounds in Brixton.
It's a bit like saying "I'll try to shop locally" except with masses of inconvenience, administration costs and potential fraud on top.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 13:54

Exchange £20 for a bit of paper and then get upset when people go off the idea, and you're left £20 down with a lovely piece of paper.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 13:55

MaliA wrote:

Exchange £20 for a bit of paper and then get upset when people go off the idea, and you're left £20 down with a lovely piece of paper.

Or £20 up, and out a small quantity of printer ink.

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

This newfangled 'dollar' is essentially a form of treason.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

sinister agent wrote:

Riles wrote:

myp wrote:

I'd beef it up with some quantitative easing.

Thats good mooooooooooooooooooo-netary policy, that.

Brixton already has a barter currency anyway. It's called Crack.

Typical ignorant stereotyping. The Brixton currency is in fact stabbing.

Nah, thats Lewisham, the birthplace of knife crime.

Current exchange rate is five blades to a pound.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

I propose the BEEX Craster. There will be 1 Craster to £2.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 14:09

chinnyhill10 wrote:

I propose the BEEX Craster. There will be 1 Craster to £2.

Where one Craster is a triangular rubber coin 6800 miles along each edge.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

kalmar wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

I propose the BEEX Craster. There will be 1 Craster to £2.

Where one Craster is a triangular rubber coin 6800 miles along each edge.

And a flat top.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 14:25

kalmar wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

I propose the BEEX Craster. There will be 1 Craster to £2.

Where one Craster is a triangular rubber coin 6800 miles along each edge.

I read that book 3 days ago.

I've just finished Starship Troopers as well (kindly lent to me by Kern) and it was most awesome. Nothing like the film at all. Better, even.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

MaliA wrote:

kalmar wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

I propose the BEEX Craster. There will be 1 Craster to £2.

Where one Craster is a triangular rubber coin 6800 miles along each edge.

I read that book 3 days ago.

I've just finished Starship Troopers as well (kindly lent to me by Kern)

All of them? Blimey!

Malc · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 14:57

Riles wrote:

sinister agent wrote:

Riles wrote:

myp wrote:

I'd beef it up with some quantitative easing.

Thats good mooooooooooooooooooo-netary policy, that.

Brixton already has a barter currency anyway. It's called Crack.

Typical ignorant stereotyping. The Brixton currency is in fact stabbing.

Nah, thats Lewisham, the birthplace of knife crime.

Current exchange rate is five blades to a pound.

I was about to say I'd have no problem walking in Brixton at night, and have indeed done so in the past, but Peckham would be another thing altogether!

Malc

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

Malc wrote:

I was about to say I'd have no problem walking in Brixton at night, and have indeed done so in the past

I do so most days - worst I ever get is the occasional beggar pestering me for money. Last time that seemed to be happening, it turned out to be someone asking for bus-related advice, so I had to quickly adjust my demeanour from "skint" to "helpful".

Zio · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6093

Hmmm...

Would these be Dollar Bills, or Teds?

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 15:22

Craster wrote:

Quote:

Other towns joining the experiment, started by environmental group Transition Network, are Lewes in East Sussex and Stroud in Gloucestershire which introduced the Stroud Pound this week.

Of course, the Stroud Pound is actually a cow.

Is it.. a cash cow?

myp · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 15:23

I've already taken the liberty of getting your coat, hat, scarf and gloves from the cloakroom.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26056

Is this news?

I remember my dad taking me to some part of London where all the shops accepted a local currency - it may have been Brixton, I'm not sure he was from Brixton, so it is relatively likely.

Anyway, they had their own local currency there. There was a shop where you could trade electronic items. You could either accept stirling as payment for the items you bought in, or the local currency. If you accepted the currency, you received more of it, and this currency could be used to buy items in that shop or any of the other local shops.

TheAlbin0Kid · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 16:43

myp wrote:

I've already taken the liberty of getting your coat, hat, scarf and gloves from the cloakroom.

Oh come on, I bet given 10 minutes I could find 5 posts on this forum by you that are considerably worse than that one (assuming it was Kalmar's "cash cow" pun you were responding to)... I can see one in this thread for a start. If you took a cloakroom every time you deserve one, you'd have sweated to death by now.

Mr. Karl · **Joined:** 3rd Jul, 2008 **Posts:** 52

I, for one, think he deserves a pat on the back.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 17:01

Thanks man.

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