Zim ROFLCoptor

[Moederloos]

sheesh

http://allafrica.com/stories/200811111081.html

The country's currency plunged to a new record low on Monday, trading at an average Z$28,4 quadrillion to the U.S. dollar and triggering massive price increases.

 

[rwenzori]

I had to look up "quadrillion":

"the number that is represented as a one followed by 15 zeros"

Let's try:
1,000,000,000,000,000

Yikes!

 

[Moederloos]

Yesterday it was 30 TRILLION to 1.

 

[Nod]

How low can you go? I think Mogabe misunderstood the challenge.

 

[Devill]

ROFL

Zim = Fail

Poor people.

 

[Moederloos]

ROFL

Zim = Fail

Poor people.

Agreed - this time we cannot even say "you voted for him", because they did not.

 

[hoegh]

surely the printing press is going to burn out???

 

[Devill]

Agreed - this time we cannot even say "you voted for him", because they did not.

It is also not that they would even vote but I think my hand being chopped off might also "inspire" me to vote for comrade mugabe

 

[Slaine73]

You see the problem is this, Bob still thinks everything is the higher the better. He just wants more and more. In his eyes nothing can be lower and better.

 

[Arthur]

Let's not laugh too loudly - we're all heading that way, unless we abolish fiat money.
Ever since modern states created central banks to make money out of thin air, our hard work is being expropriated by inflation. Here'a nice doccie from the Mises Institute: Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve.

 

[Tassidar]

I had to look up "quadrillion":

"the number that is represented as a one followed by 15 zeros"

Let's try:
1,000,000,000,000,000

Yikes!

Bush was told by Rice, that 5 Brazillian soldiers had died.

After much wailing an gnashing of teeth by him, he finally looked back up at Rice and asked "how much is a Brazillian?"

 

[Sneeky]

The lengths SADC leaders will go to to protect a mad old struggle hero, turned despot, is sickening.

African mediocrity for African bugger ups.

 

[daveza]

I'm curious - how the hell do the in-store tills work there ?!

The tray that pops out must be about 6 feet deep, and the LCD about 3 foot wide to accommodate all the zeros.

 

[DigitalSoldier]

I had to look up "quadrillion":

"the number that is represented as a one followed by 15 zeros"

Let's try:
1,000,000,000,000,000

Yikes!

LOL

At least Africa now got "quadrillionairess" NO other country can say that

 

[Moederloos]

I'm curious - how the hell do the in-store tills work there ?!

The tray that pops out must be about 6 feet deep, and the LCD about 3 foot wide to accommodate all the zeros.

They dont work.
Money is useless.
The biggest note is a million zim$.
you would need a thousand of those to have a billion dollars.
a million of those to have a trillion dollars.
and god knows how many to have a quadrillion.
It would takes YEARS* to count the notes.

*literally - there are a billion seconds in 32 years.

 

[AvOk]

Let's not laugh too loudly - we're all heading that way, unless we abolish fiat money.
Ever since modern states created central banks to make money out of thin air, our hard work is being expropriated by inflation. Here'a nice doccie from the Mises Institute: Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve.

interest is the key word...interest gets charged on interest and gets used to print more money and so the cycle goes

 

[daveza]

I take it there are no coins in ZimBarmy ?

What do you put in your piggy-bank ?

 

[DigitalSoldier]

I take it there are no coins in ZimBarmy ?

What do you put in your piggy-bank ?

I think the piggy-bank is worth more than the money you put into it

 

[Natas]

AH.. the endless spiral into eternal horribleness!! They shoudl just take Zim off the map.. leave that whole spot blank!

 

[gpe]

Bob may as well stop printing numbers and start printing pictures. It's all the same really.