With the dollar going teets up, will the dong take over the dollar? Discuss...
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With the dollar going teets up, will the dong take over the dollar? Discuss...
I'm in!
Edit: Well the shrinking dollar has stretched the dong relative to it. Unfortunately the dollar will shrink due to cool economic conditions making the dong much more attractive. Personally I'm hoping that I'll be able to stretch my hard earned dollar in the near future, but not too much. If it stretches too much it may cause a chafing of the economy. It doesn't matter what your currency is, if it's too strong it actually decreases your competitiveness making you, I mean it, less attractive to other "markets". Remember that any shrinkage is short term as long as conditions heat up again.
What the hello is 'the dong'? If you're referring to my 'unit', it's worth a lot more than a dollar, just ask Mrs. Corleone. :kiss:
Do you mean the Yuan (the Chinese currency)?
Well, 1 dollar is worth over 16,000 dongs. So it's likely to be awhile before it overtakes the dollar. :smash:
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1 US Dollar = 16,235.9 Vietnamese Dong
They could always devaluate their dong in order to expand their economy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xiahou
Sounds like they'll need to keep inflation of their dong under control.
Well things are heating up down there and you know what that does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geoffrey S
Man, thats a lot of dong. So appearantly the dollar is a lot bigger than the dong. So 1 dollar can satisfy the economic outlook better than 16,000 dongs. Is it the strength of hard currency or the less flexibility in international markets of the dong?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xiahou
Well, you have to consider economies of scale. The dollar penetrates much more deeply into markets all around the globe. The dong only rarely enters exchanges outside its native Vietnam, and even then, most of the lucrative markets yield to the pressure and exchange the dong for the dollar, the first chance they get.
Good point Don. Nothing lubricates the international market like the dollar.
And nothing stiffens the dollar like the prospect of entering exotic new markets around the globe. You can actually watch it grow in some parts of the world, particularly the Far East, where receptive markets that are quite attractive welcome it for entry.
It would appear that the dollar will beat off the threat of the dong in the long and short of the economic orgy of statistics.
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Lock them all up please.
:laugh4: Priceless analyze of the situation!
so where the hell is Gregoshi?
And to answer your question Dave, it depends how long it can be stretched.
The strength, girth, and stamina of the dollar is important to everyone on this forum. The dong backdooring the dollar could have fatal economic blows to everyone. We must discuss these things in order to keep from shooting our load too quickly on the latest economic trend. Please feel free to discuss and take pleasure in the fact that we will in a open forum able to discuss the differences between dongs and dollars...:yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla
Failure to discuss these topics at length can have the frustrating consequences Dave mentioned.
Indeed, but the recent softening of the dollar has been on display for everyone to see. Quite the embarrassment. I don't think we're in danger of having our Asian partners ditch us for Vietnam, however, as their dong is tiny in comparison to the dollar. In other words, no matter how deflated and softened our dollar becomes, it's still bigger than the dong. In financial terms, the dollar is both a "grower" and a "shower."Quote:
Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
Honestly, if I had to take a position in the currency markets right now, I would short the dong.
Still, with the Vietnamese dong expanding into new markets I think preventative measures need to be taken lest it produces unexpected side-effects within the year which such fertile markets can't handle.
Dang, we didn't even need to get Gregoshi in for the march of puns to begin.
Puns? :inquisitive:
Puns...? You're not implying that members of the .Org would be so childish as to read a sexual meaning into the word 'dong'? Shame on you!
Great thread the first one in a long time that as been worth responding to.
I am greatly statified that while the dollar has gone soft and slightly smaller it still is far larger and more enjoyed then the dong.
https://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7373/usd2vdpn7.jpg
As we see here, the dollar showed a steady rise, getting stronger and rising faster, until September. Since that peak, it has become flaccid quite quickly. The future is not bright for the dollar, we may as well just roll over and go to sleep.
Threads like this get me thinking - are we looking for excuses to slide puns into our responses?
Is it just me or did this turn into something more. Any ways I believe the dong will take over because it has such a funny name
Wait.
What's that sound?
Oh.
Ho spinning in his grave.
I wonder if Ho got more satifaction from the dong or the dollar?Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
I can't imagine Ho would be sweating; many currencies are nailed to the dollar, pegged to it firmly, rising and falling as it goes up and down, up and down. The dong, however, is a free-floating hard currency, and it slips and slides all over the place before coming to rest in its natural state of liquid equilibrium.
The dollar does rely on a lot more oil lubricant to help stiffen its resolve. The dong relies more on an attractive exchange to get up and go. One has to remember that after exchanging dollar for dong you are left with a much larger wad then if you held the currency in dollars.
After some not so extensive research, I have discovered that when offered, most men prefer to receive dollars than dong. Women, however, being less financially minded, seem to welcome the dong. Though, I suppose one can get a lot of dong for one's buck...
So guys, will Ho be more receptive to the dong or wait until the dollar firms up to pre-inflationary volumninosity?
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NB:what have I done to give DD this thread idea? :sweatdrop:
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Horrible blow to the dollar.
Is this thread for joking or for serious discussion? :dizzy2: :inquisitive:
Some take the dong very seriously.....Quote:
Originally Posted by DukeofSerbia
Plus some of us currency speculators want to know whether to go short or long on the dong.
Whatever you do, don't go down on the dong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
While one may be circumspect at the idea of investing, the dong is a snip at 1/16000 of a dollar, and it's no skin off your teeth if the dong goes up or down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
I bow down to the dollar realising it satisfies where 15999 dongs fail.
Wouldn't it be more like 50 dollars satisfies a dong? Errmm...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
Also, Master Dave, I salute you and this most epic of epic threads. May it's star burn brightly, until the mods gas this into oblivion.
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As long as the dong doesn't create friction with the chocolate starfish the gases will remain unlit. :inquisitive: :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Whacker
Gawd this thread reminds me more of how the org used to be...:2thumbsup:
A dong time ago, in a malady far, far away...Quote:
Originally Posted by Papewaio
All we would need right now is Soly to post a vietnamese model, half naked, holding some of her home country currency, then IT WOULD be like old times.:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Papewaio
For the very first time in Orgah history, I would like to share a picture of my dong. Yes, it's thick. Yes, it's wrinkled. Yes, it fits in my pants, usually on the left. Behold and be amazed.
You only a 30 dong man Lemur? I got a 10, 000 dong in my pants somewhere! :sweatdrop: :laugh4:
Compensating for something IA? ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Ouch! I hope that wasn't in the backpocket of the pants... :oops: :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Forgive me if I have come [to a] prematurely [conclusion], but 1 dollar is more worth than some 16 thousand dong?Quote:
Originally Posted by Whacker
Honestly I'm not sure my friend, it would seem that we'd have to ask Dave or Lemur who seem to be experts on the dong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
Please explain how and why you are able to fit 10,000 dongs in your pants.Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
It amuses me to read this thread in light of that dong is slang for condom in Norwegian. :laugh4:
To be franc, as a speculator, I wouldn't want the dong to get anywhere near the the colon, not for real anyway. Though some may have the yen for it, I'd rather have a kip.
Strange... people are willing to pay many dollars for my dong...
All this talk about the dong...personally, I'm more concerned with My Ding A Ling.
I would ask Lemur, it appears that he has more dong in my pants than I do. But atleast I have enough self respect not to post a picture of it on the net... jeeez:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Whacker
Some people in this thread just seem to love dongs.
Why do you hate freedom?
And that dong is slang for penis in the US, UK and its penal colonies. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
Hah! You said penal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Papewaio
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I have this urge to assault Peter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
I don't know about the dong. I know that some countries don't use the decimal system in their currencies. Some just add extra zeros. That's why they use larger numbers.
For example,
1 dollar = 109 Japanese yen
1 dollar = 949 Korean won
Thus a 109 yen or a 949 won is very low to the Japanese and the Koreans, not just the Americans.
The Japanese use
https://i179.photobucket.com/albums/...88/etc/yen.jpg
like an American uses a 50 dollar bill,
and the Koreans use
https://i179.photobucket.com/albums/...88/etc/won.jpg
like an American uses a 10 dollar bill.
So you're saying that it's actually smaller than it looks and we Americans shouldn't be ashamed by the size of ours?
It's always been a stereotype that the Asian ones are smaller than Western ones. Hence a dollar or a euro is worth thousands of yen, or tens of thousands of Vietnamese dongs.
I think in this case the stereotype has some truth to it. If instead of a dollar we used the dong, our dong would be substantially larger than theirs.
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Since we are all avid currency speculators, I'd like to float a couple of questions:
- What are the most dongs you've ever had in your pants?
- How many dongs do you think you could wrap your hands around?
And my nationality is neither Japanese or Korean, so I didn't say that out of nationalism.
Call it King Dong, the G8th Wonder of the World.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemur
I'd like to answer your questions but I've never laid my hands on a single dong before. I'd like to, I'd like to have a pocket full of them. Run them through my fingers, admire the intricate details and variations among them, and etc. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places. Right now the dollar keeps my pocket fat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemur
Who here knows where to find a lot of dong?
3k baby!
Well, as of today, one dollar equals around 19.500 dongs so you get more dong for the buck than before...
I loved this thread!!! Thanks Big E!!!
Dave, you're welcome to continue your analysis if you wish... ~D :laugh4:
I have noticed that as my Euro is aging, it seems to decrease in value.
As little as a few years ago, my currency was considered the hardest in the world. The envy of all. But ever since those Greeks been playing with it while the Irish held me by the balls, my euro has just been sort of curving downwards.
Oh my god, this was by far the best thread I've ever read here.
Q: What sits by a street corner waiting for customers, and is capable of taking 10,000 dongs face up as well as face down?
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
This was when creating threads were about skill, art, and the disturbed inner workings of the mind. Ahhh, the good old days...Quote:
Originally Posted by Meneldil
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Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
Dose that mean your creative juices have all been expended and you just can’t get them up for the dong any more? :laugh4:
this one is really funny XD good old DD. maybe i should start writing stories about you againQuote:
Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
Thats because the Germans require a weak currency to achieve massive export potential Louis, of course a weak currency means the Germans must ensure inflation is low in order to maintain value of "there" currency.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Low inflation is now actually a bad thing as we need to get rid of debt all over the place and not just in Ireland, if we refuse to restructure debt we weaken our currency if we keep inflation low we will also weken our currency in fact every policy were following will weaken our currency.
At a measly couple of percent of EU GDP even in the good times you gotta ask yourself if your being sold a pup.
I heavily invested in the dong. I expect to get a suitable hands on return.
Well none of this serious talk is going to make my Euro hard again.Quote:
Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy
I just want it to point upwards again, like it used to do.
I know it was a funny Louis but tis funnier how the two relate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
maybe take a little economic viagra to set off inflation
Prime minister Dũng would seem to be trying to inflate his dong in the face of economic droop.
At the risk of being sexist, perhaps a female finance minister would do a better job guiding the dong.
On an intuitive level she may be able to stiffen the dong and drive it to new economic heights without sacrificing its value.
I'm not a rich man, even though I know how to handle my currency. Yet I am inclined to agree with you, I would feel much more comfortable if the dong were in the hands of a woman. While others prefer a free market approach, I am more of an interventionist. I'd rather someone with the right enthusiasm, experience, and know-how stepped in and played with it for a while; someone who is familiar with all the variables, and uses a gentle but firm hand to coax the dong upwards, and isn't discouraged with sudden setbacks or brief economic downturns. I want someone who realizes that the dong can't always compete against other hard currencies, and that maybe, all that international pressure just deflates its value, but that's only temporary. The dong will always come roaring back in a day or two, and besides, maybe I was just tired.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisherking