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Originally Posted by comrademoomoo
How dare you? The English can clog our arteries just as well as the Scots. God didn't invent the pork pie for nothing.
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Yet somehow Scotland leads the UK in heart disease.
Unless…comrade, I see it now! You English who move to Scotland are part of a grand conspiracy to drive up Caledonian rates of heart disease!
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Originally Posted by unaluna
I think it has to do partly with abandoning the gold standard. Used to be, frinstance in america, the cash in circulation was backed by gold bars in Fort Knox etc. Then they stopped that law and Congress "just started printing money" - you may have heard that expression. Then bad people took over and thats pretty much the limit of my knowledge and my explanation for everything  |
The gold standard was THE issue in the Presidential election of 1896. Ah, simpler times…