The 'fat in the new fiver' debacle...
This is the new £5 note - plastic, crumple-free, water-proof and hygienic, it's made by a company that has been supplying them for years, so it's generally well-known what ingredients are used to make them.
So then these vegetarian fuckwits decide to put in a protest to the Government and the BoE to get them to stop distributing them because they contain traces of animal fat. My question is: why protest now? Australia (and other counties) has been using these notes for years, surely some of these protesters have visited Australia as tourists and used these notes? Why didn't they protest then?
This is an example of many kinds of 'complaint faffing' these days that I really can't stand to see or hear about - nit-picking and making a big deal out of it just to make a name for themselves. Surely trace elements of animal fat in a plastic note isn't going to them your hands burn?
Then there's that nice old couple who have been running a vegetarian restaurant for 60-odd years, decide to not accept the notes and if people give them the 'legal tender' blurb they ask that they put the note in an envelope to be given to a charity. They're in danger of going out of business, why? Because people will go in there and, on principle, pay for their meal with just plastic fivers thereby forcing them to put all the proceeds of said meal to charity rather than for the running of their business... people are fickle like that. So their business is threatened because they joined in on a pointless, unnecessary protest bandwagon.
The inventor of the plastic notes was right to call them all 'stupid'.
