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    So you're saying that it's actually smaller than it looks and we Americans shouldn't be ashamed by the size of ours?


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    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:
    1. What are the most dongs you've ever had in your pants?
    2. How many dongs do you think you could wrap your hands around?
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    And my nationality is neither Japanese or Korean, so I didn't say that out of nationalism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
    Since we are all avid currency speculators, I'd like to float a couple of questions:
    1. What are the most dongs you've ever had in your pants?
    2. How many dongs do you think you could wrap your hands around?
    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.

    Who here knows where to find a lot of dong?




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    Well, as of today, one dollar equals around 19.500 dongs so you get more dong for the buck than before...
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    I loved this thread!!! Thanks Big E!!!
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    Dave, you're welcome to continue your analysis if you wish...
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    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.
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    Oh my god, this was by far the best thread I've ever read here.

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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meneldil View Post
    Oh my god, this was by far the best thread I've ever read here.
    This was when creating threads were about skill, art, and the disturbed inner workings of the mind. Ahhh, the good old days...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave View Post
    This was when creating threads were about skill, art, and the disturbed inner workings of the mind. Ahhh, the good old days...

    Dose that mean your creative juices have all been expended and you just can’t get them up for the dong any more?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave View Post
    This was when creating threads were about skill, art, and the disturbed inner workings of the mind. Ahhh, the good old days...
    this one is really funny XD good old DD. maybe i should start writing stories about you again

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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    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.
    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.

    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.
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    I heavily invested in the dong. I expect to get a suitable hands on return.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
    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.

    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.
    Well none of this serious talk is going to make my Euro hard again.

    I just want it to point upwards again, like it used to do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Well none of this serious talk is going to make my Euro hard again.

    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.

    maybe take a little economic viagra to set off inflation
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
    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.

    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy View Post
    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.
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    eh... last time i checked the pick up line comes before the girlfriend :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
    eh... last time i checked the pick up line comes before the girlfriend :P
    You get the drift
    Pick up line, seal the deal line, whatever...

    It's all about the firmness of the dong on the international markets. I don't want it to soften up and lose in front of the basket of currencies.
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    Given that there is a small but real chance of the USA defaulting on its sovereign debt, thus undoing in a weekend the tireless work of John Adams in the Neds, it may be time to re-evaluate your dong holdings, or lack thereof.

    Vietnam's dong may be small compared to our dollar, but it is thursting tirelessly upwards, while our dollar will go limp without serious stimulation. So I ask the Orgahs: Is a small but rising dong better or worse than a large but flaccid dollar?

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    Indeed, If it wasn't for the central bank in Uan Khing then the Dong would be a spent force.

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    It's been a long time since I've had my dollar analyzed by Dave's dong.

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    A moment's thought will tell you that while the dollar seems quite big in purchasing power, due to inflation and the cost of living, in situ it is quite soft. Whereas the dong, while seeming small in value, swells when actually used as a hard currency, since the cost of goods and services is so low in Vietnam.

    Therefore it would be safe to call the dollar a "shower" and the dong a "grower."

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    Ah, but remind yourself that if the dollar becomes soft and the world loses it's grip on the dollar, the salvadoran colon would ultimately become irreparable and so ruptured; no salvadoran could ever consider buying any more dongs.

    Let alone the fact that fifty years ago, the dong-wielding soldiers pierced through the american ego as they [americans] could not handle them anymore. Now; it would be possible for a scenario that makes the vietnamese dong much bigger and wieldier that the soft dollar. Especially since the harder euro is still unvanquished as it's bigger rival.

    Let alone the possibility that the state of the dollar could be split in this recent unfolding of events.

    Now, onto math, right now I will proceed to calculate how many dongs can fit into a colon. Right now, the dollar can very easily grasp around 16000 dongs, right. So divide that number between 8.75, and you will come to the result that around 1828 dongs can fit into a single salvadoran colon.

    Now, I recall that the Costa Rican colon is much bigger and stronger than the salvadoran one. So that will have to be another calculation.

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    Of all things I have learnt in 10 years at the Org, the Dong and the Colon rank amongst the most important.
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