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:not-again:Bluebulldog said:....I'd lean towards calling it most enterprising. ;D
I have to agree ObedientiaZelum
:not-again:Bluebulldog said:....I'd lean towards calling it most enterprising. ;D
Old Sweat said:This crap was going on back in the sixties. I recall hearing of an incident following a port visit to Yugoslavia and that the Canadian embassy had to make good the losses.
Good thing you weren't going for one of the expensive girls. >GAP said:I tried cashing a blue Canadian $5 bill in San Diego....
Journeyman said:Good thing you weren't going for one of the expensive girls. >![]()
Scott said:No. It's a me versus complete and total ******* idiocy and condonation of said idiocy thing.
We do not need to be known, in any port, as this type of serviceman.
Pusser said:First off, I, and I don't think anyone else here has said that we either did it ourselves or condoned the practice. Secondly, in many cases these bills ended up posted behind the bar as examples of money from other places (if it's posted behind the bar, does it really matter that it's worthless - and CT money isn't actually worthless, just limited in its use). Thirdly no bank is being broken here, a 25 cent CT note is still only 25 cents - no one's getting a night at the Four Seasons for this. Fourthly, because of the "free-market" atmosphere that goes on in places like this and the fact that Canadians can't bargain worth crap, no one is actually losing money when you consider the considerable profit that the retailers are making overall. I watched "special price for you Canadian sailor" jump at least 300% in three days in one port - and we still paid it, thinking we were getting a great deal.
Is it a good thing? No.
Should folks continue to do it? No.
Has no soldier or airman ever acted like a jackass in a foreign country? Hmm...
Lighten up.
bridges said:Different-coloured money still looks funny to most Americans.
I exchanged one of the new polymer $100s in Havana last month; the clerk examined it for a few seconds & showed it to her friend in the back, but then took it without problems.
If I recall, it was about a month ago that he got bitch-slapped for a presumptuous post [some self-righteous staff fuctionary drivel ??]; at least that time he was quiet for a while, instead of this whiny back-peddling. :recceguy said:Trying to justify saying something outrageous.
FAIL.
Danjanou said:Probably just impressed to see what is 3-4 months wages for her in hard currency.
BTW Gap and JM there was a time years ago in Habana where $5.00 bought 5 packs of Marlboros and they in turn could be used for.......
or so I've heard :-[
Danjanou said:Probably just impressed to see what is 3-4 months wages for her in hard currency.
Danjanou said:I know things have changed in the almost 20 years I've been visiting Castro's island paradise, especially currency. Back in the 90's $5.00 US was treated with reverence. Mind then air conditioning was a Mig engine duck taped to the window in your room, you wanted a seat for your toilet you brought your own same for TP. TV was one per hotel in the lobby with only the Fidel channel, and dinner was rice and whatever the bus hit on the way in from the airport.