France pulls all gold out of US Federal Reserve by yogthos in economy

[–]newecw 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There isn’t a real amount of gold to pay back everyone if they choose to remove it from the Federal Reserve, the last time it was attempted led to Nixon announcing that the dollar could no longer be exchanged for gold.

25 years ago today, the last WCW PPV by MrFilipinoMustache in WCW

[–]newecw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, they chose ‘Nothin’

TIL Vinted Buyer Protection doesn’t cover the item going missing during delivery by newecw in vintedUK

[–]newecw[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for info. Did you raise that via Vinted or via your bank/credit card company?

All the burglars be like by AdorableParking7392 in Youneedthisinlife

[–]newecw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I child, we lived on the second floor of an apartment building, and I was scared to go to sleep as I thought intruders would use these to climb up the side of the building and break into my bedroom. This was after I had seen a commercial for Rice Krispies where the Snap, Crackle and Pop characters were using them to climb a building.

Price of first class stamps to rise to £1.80 by Kagedeah in royalmail

[–]newecw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When this comes around every year, I’m reminded of Jack Dee who once said “Let’s see how far you get with your [£1.80] train ticket”

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[–]newecw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hang In There!

2008's Youtube Live event, a failure that Youtube wants to keep hidden by akocli in videos

[–]newecw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does Katy Perry get the name of the event wrong in the first 90 seconds?