New Fivers contain animal fat...

[mybrainhurts]

Not sure if I just farted or the fiver in my back pocket went MOO...

[mondeoman]

FourWheelDrift said:

4x4Tyke said:

Their website is down because their Apache is targeting their Tomcat server. So they don't mind using Cats as cheap labour but no easting them unless you they are Native American. (Yes I know I'm a IT Geek)

Edited by 4x4Tyke on Saturday 3rd December 17:28

Do you think they understand about the animal products in the materials and components used in the servers and networks hosting their website?

Nah, they're just cheap hypocrites after 5 minutes of fame.

[Halmyre]

Cold said:

Cambridge Rainbow vegetarian cafe refuses new £5 note

Oh no, what am I going to for lunch next time I'm in Cambridge...oh, wait, I don't frequent vegetarian cafes (or Cambridge come to that). Problem solved.

[Pesty]

Hope they have no other plastic anywhere in there or at home. No nail varnish etc etc.



Wait a minute isn't it illegal not to accept legal tender for services or goods rendered ?

[Vipers]

Pesty said:

Hope they have no other plastic anywhere in there or at home. No nail varnish etc etc.



Wait a minute isn't it illegal not to accept legal tender for services or goods rendered ?

Don't think so.

At one time, no shop in Aberdeen would accept a £50 note as there were so many forged in circulation.

Edited by Vipers on Saturday 3rd December 20:46

[FourWheelDrift]

Order coffee, drink coffee first then hand over new £5 note. If they don't accept it then it's hard luck on them.

[Ste1987]

Vipers said:

Pesty said:

Hope they have no other plastic anywhere in there or at home. No nail varnish etc etc.



Wait a minute isn't it illegal not to accept legal tender for services or goods rendered ?

Don't think so.

At one time, no shop in Aberdeen would accept a £50 note as there were so many forged in circulation.

Edited by Vipers on Saturday 3rd December 20:46

That's same for a lot of retailers nationwide, to be fair

[Vipers]

Ste1987 said:

Vipers said:

Pesty said:

Hope they have no other plastic anywhere in there or at home. No nail varnish etc etc.

Wait a minute isn't it illegal not to accept legal tender for services or goods rendered ?

Don't think so.

At one time, no shop in Aberdeen would accept a £50 note as there were so many forged in circulation.

That's same for a lot of retailers nationwide, to be fair

Which I think answers the questions, retailers are not legally obliged to accept anything.

[alfie2244]

Pesty said:

Hope they have no other plastic anywhere in there or at home. No nail varnish etc etc.



Wait a minute isn't it illegal not to accept legal tender for services or goods rendered ?

ISWYDT

[Pesty]

Vipers said:

Ste1987 said:

Vipers said:

Pesty said:

Hope they have no other plastic anywhere in there or at home. No nail varnish etc etc.

Wait a minute isn't it illegal not to accept legal tender for services or goods rendered ?

Don't think so.

At one time, no shop in Aberdeen would accept a £50 note as there were so many forged in circulation.

That's same for a lot of retailers nationwide, to be fair

Which I think answers the questions, retailers are not legally obliged to accept anything.

I'm going back something like 30 years to my o level in business studies but something tells me that there are limits I.e they don't have to accept 10k in 2p pieces or £50 for a mojo but within the limits set..

Or I could have just dreamed that.

[Vipers]

Pesty said:

I'm going back something like 30 years to my o level in business studies but something tells me that there are limits I.e they don't have to accept 10k in 2p pieces or £50 for a mojo but within the limits set..

Or I could have just dreamed that.

Think your right there.

Just found a link

https://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2012/m...

Edited by Vipers on Sunday 4th December 09:58

[Halb]

FourWheelDrift said:

Do you think they understand about the animal products in the materials and components used in the servers and networks hosting their website?

What are they?

[dudleybloke]

Hamsters, obviously!

[FourWheelDrift]

Halb said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Do you think they understand about the animal products in the materials and components used in the servers and networks hosting their website?

What are they?

Stearic acid.

[Halb]

dudleybloke said:

Hamsters, obviously!

server monkeys

FourWheelDrift said:

Stearic acid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stearic_acid#Niche_uses
As part of the ceramic heatsink?

[FourWheelDrift]

Halb said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Stearic acid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stearic_acid#Niche_uses
As part of the ceramic heatsink?

Rubber (release agent and heat stabiliser), plastic, lubricants used during manufacture. In the flux of the solder used in the PCB.

Oh and most likely the fire extinguisher they will have in the server room to put out any fire they might have. Animal products saving their business, how about that

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Sunday 4th December 12:30

[Moonhawk]

The really stupid thing about this is - even if the animal product was removed from the £5 note itself - you can almost guarantee that they have been used elsewhere in it's production (e.g. the printing presses, the computers used to design them, the vehicles used to transport them etc etc). The same is likely true of the paper money and coinage already in circulation and used happily by vegans and vegetarians alike for decades.

How many steps removed from the end product does the use of animal products become acceptable or tolerable to these people? Out of sight - out of mind

[bitchstewie]

I think the point is that rather than a science lesson, if you're going to run a business in 2016 unless you pretty much source manufacture and control everything in the entire supply chain of every single thing you use you simply cannot know what's gone into it.

I don't have an issue with their stance, tbh the food looks pretty damned nice on the website, but I suspect they aren't being consistent if you drill into it.

[Skii]

So how about an e petition in favour of the new fivers and their tallow content? Could be quite popular

[mybrainhurts]

I've just mailed one to that cafe in Cambridge.

I think it was worth it..

Anyone in Cambridge, listen for howls of anguish in a couple of days, it's gone second class...