"dollar"

[pits]

Is this some new fad to refer to money as dollar?

I have just been browsing some threads, first came across this

theironduke said:

Ladies and Gents

I've been pondering of late and would like your thoughts.

At the moment my sole car is my Porsche 928, i don't use it everyday; a) i don't need too and b) i can use my Dads E36 if i need a daily hack...sooo she gets used when i want a giggle or have a decent trip to do.

I did have a little corsa as my hack but that threw it's cambelt and went to meet it's maker, hence i've been using the old mans '36 as my "daily" since.

Anyways...i've got a bit of dollar spare and have been thinking about a new daily shed, so Dad can have his back. It would need to be...

I dont know why but irritated me, but I though it would be a one off, appears I was wrong as I then read this thread

Urban Sports said:

Car manufacturers spend obscene amounts of dollar on crash protection for occupants and pedestrians, quite rightly!!!


Awesome!!

Edited by Urban Sports on Wednesday 25th November 22:56

Is this some new way of referring plurally to money in Britain, I mean this is Britain is it not? We do work in Pounds Sterling, the second post I can sort of understand if it was "dollars" but not dollar.

Why are people doing this, and why haven't others picked up on this?

I don't even know why its irritated me.

[mybrainhurts]

This kind of thing gets up my nose, too...

When I take over, buzzword creation will be a hanging offence...

[dudleybloke]

yet another manerism borrowed from jamaica

[Rex Ironstone]

The fad here these days is 'coin'. As in

Bazza: "Hey Shazza, lets go get fked up at the pissa"
Shazza: "Nah Bazza. I aint got no coin"

[bob1179]

I thought this was going to be a thread about that duo from the early 80's...

[CommanderJameson]

When the Need For Speed Underground game first came out, my son was about 13. He and his friends all talked about having "bank".

See.

Video games do influence the young, and should all be banned.

ETA: Except the ones I like, of course.

Edited by CommanderJameson on Friday 27th November 07:44

[J-Tuner]

This has been around absolutely donkeys years.. like most fads it was used by teenagers a number of years ago... don't hear it often these days though !

[glazbagun]

Hasn't this been around since Vietnam movies?

[sleep envy]

pits said:

Is this some new way of referring plurally to money in Britain

new?

I heard it at least 15 years ago in the more 'colourful' parts of London

[Don]

glazbagun said:

Hasn't this been around since Vietnam movies?

That would be "dolla".

ApocryphalVietnameseweToaGI said:

Sucky fky all nigh long only ten dolla?

[bull996]

Yep.

Disco dollars.

[Eric Mc]

"Dollar" were rubbish and David Van Day was (is) extremely odd!!

In fact, they had some very successful "pop" hits in the late 70s and early 80s.

Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 27th November 09:08

[bob1179]

Eric Mc said:

"Dollar" were rubbish and David Van Day was (is) extremely odd!!

In fact, they had some very successful "pop" hits in the late 70s and early 80s.

Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 27th November 09:08

I think the blonde (bird) was tidy though. Definitely would have been worth a go back in the day.

I quite liked the single 'Mirror Mirror', but then my taste in music has always been somewhat suspect...

[gamefreaks]

Scarecrow "You want manual?"
Conker "Sure. How much?"
Scarecrow "Uhh. Got any Mepsipax?"
Conker "What?"
Scarecrow "Never mind. Um, well actually, um, eh, uh, er, 10, er, 10 dollar. You love manual long time, 10 dollar."

[prand]

Some people I know say "bar" as in "It cost me 50 bar".

Not sure where that comes from.

[DrTre]

Don said:

glazbagun said:

Hasn't this been around since Vietnam movies?

That would be "dolla".

ApocryphalVietnameseweToaGI said:

Sucky fky all nigh long only ten dolla?

That'd be dorrar.

[Red Firecracker]

A similar annoyance (which does seem to have run its course now) is to refer to the BiB as 'the Feds'.

[youngsyr]

prand said:

Some people I know say "bar" as in "It cost me 50 bar".

Not sure where that comes from.

A "bar" is a million in "trader speak" in the City of London.

It is a bit knobbish, but I have to admit that it's a lot quicker and easier to say "100 bar" or "quarter bar" than "one hundred million pounds" or "two hundred and fifty thousand pounds".

Edited by youngsyr on Friday 27th November 10:04

[hornetrider]

youngsyr said:

prand said:

Some people I know say "bar" as in "It cost me 50 bar".

Not sure where that comes from.

A "bar" is a million in "trader speak" in the City of London.

It is a bit knobbish, but I have to admit that it's a lot quicker and easier to say "100 bar" or "quarter bar" than "one hundred million pounds" or "two hundred and fifty thousand pounds".

So... it's fair to say his mates have no idea what 'bar' actually means then

[youngsyr]

hornetrider said:

youngsyr said:

prand said:

Some people I know say "bar" as in "It cost me 50 bar".

Not sure where that comes from.

A "bar" is a million in "trader speak" in the City of London.

It is a bit knobbish, but I have to admit that it's a lot quicker and easier to say "100 bar" or "quarter bar" than "one hundred million pounds" or "two hundred and fifty thousand pounds".

So... it's fair to say his mates have no idea what 'bar' actually means then

Well, unless his mates are all Sheiks, I think it's fair to say that they aren't using the same meaning as the traders.

Still, it's an invented usage, so who is to say who is right?