Off Topic New £5Note !

Any idea if the Cabbage Hall has reopened yet?

 

I'm pretty sure it has mate

 

Just had a look, mate and it has. Gone all up market. Hotel now. Got some really good reviews too. Always last venue before the game for me. No matter how rammed it was, you rarely waited more than a minute to get served

 

Off The Oak on County Road tonight before the match Can't wait

 

Staying over or driving back?

 

Staying over tonight mate and having a few with my lad - before and after the game

 

Hope you win and send Alan Pardew down the table.

 

Enjoy mate. Always good to go home

 

Someone just pointed my attention to what is written at the back of New £5 note. Unfortunately I spent mine already,
If you still have yours please check "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"
Is that right?.

 

If so not very accurate... If you're holding a 5er it should be...

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat and £5"

 

I'll sell you mine for a tenner?


(Yes, it does say that)

 

Can introduce you to a beautiful woman if you like women..

 

I haven't seen one, but I know it has Churchill on it, so it seems appropriate.

 

Hindus urged not to donate new fivers at Leicester temple

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Image caption The Shree Sanatan Mandir is one of Leicester's oldest and largest Hindu temples
A Hindu temple has urged worshippers not to give new five pound notes in donations after the Bank of England confirmed they contain animal fat.

The notes are made from small amounts of tallow, derived from animal waste products, which has angered a number of groups who are against animal harm.

Vibhooti Acharya, president of one of Leicester's largest temples, said it has caused "anger" among Hindus.

She said the temple's committee was considering a ban on the notes.

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Image caption The five pound notes have been in circulation since September
About 90,000 people have signed a petition calling for tallow to be removed from bank notes.


The fatty substance is traditionally derived from beef or mutton and sometimes pork, at the slaughterhouse or later in the food production process.

Donations are taken at the Shree Sanatan Mandir temple for charitable causes in the community.

Ms Acharya, from the temple, said the revelation has been a source of "frustration" among Hindus as hurting animals is against their beliefs.

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Image caption Cows are sacred and are honoured in the Hindu community
She said: "No-one was informed and it's been thrown upon us. We don't have the opportunity to choose.

"There needs to be a decision made between committee as to whether we accept five pound notes in religious ceremonies in future.

"We have to give a reasonable amount of time for resolve, [but] we can't really take any drastic steps because it's just not practical."

She said the temple will encourage people not to bring in the fivers as charitable donations and will put up notices to make them aware.

However, Ms Acharya said it was a "matter of choice" and the temple will accept them for now.

Leicester has one of the largest populations of Hindus in England and Wales and holds one of the biggest Diwali celebrations outside India.

Holy cows - why are they revered?

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• In rural India cows and bulls are considered the most useful of all domestic beasts
• Eating only grass, one cow produces more milk than a whole family can drink in a day. What is not used is turned into yoghurt, cheese, butter and ghee
• Because cows supply milk, in Indian culture they are looked upon as "a mother", and revered as such
• The stool of a cow has antiseptic properties and is widely used in medicine - Cow urine is also prescribed in some places
• In many areas of India cow pats are dried in the sun and used as fuel for cooking
• When a cow dies she gives her skin for shoes and bags, and her horns for other implements
• The bull is still used in farming throughout rural India, and is seen as a father, working hard to produce man's food. And as a father he too is considered worthy of reverence

Source: Bhaktivedanta Manor - UK home of the Hara Krishna Movement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-38156650

 

This tallow stuff kicked off the Indian Mutiny in 1857 when it was given to the Sepoys to grease the cartridges of their guns. A cracking read is Flashman In The Great game, by George MacDonald Frasier.

 

It's a by product so it's not like they are being killed for this. See lots of veggies kicking off yesterday on BBC website about it all.

 

Fake new £5 note warning as scammers target online shoppers ahead of Christmas rush
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/tops...stmas-rush/ar-AAlcckZ?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=1PRCMSE

 

Lol back in the day I used to have a wod of fake 20's. The amount of 'massages' I paid for...gawd damn.

Eugh tallow, against my religion.

 

Well, they are though. Just because it's a by-product and a 'secondary' industrial substance doesn't mean that it's not what animals are slaughtered for

I wonder what these people would say/do if you took them to like a crystal dome full of fivers and said in you get, you can keep what you can grab ??

 

Animals would still be killed for meat productions.