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    Default And you thought that you had to pay a lot for smokes!

    A man in the United States popped out to his local petrol station to buy a pack of cigarettes - only to find his card charged $23,148,855,308,184,500.

    That is $23 quadrillion (£14 quadrillion) - many times the US national debt.

    "I thought somebody had bought Europe with my credit card," said Josh Muszynski, from New Hampshire.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8152278.stm

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    Default Re: And you thought that you had to pay a lot for smokes!

    He says he then spent two hours on the phone with the Bank of America.
    That's the problem right there. It's Bank of America! I don't know anyone who hasn't had some weird ass fuck-up caused by that bank.

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    Default Re: And you thought that you had to pay a lot for smokes!

    the part that really bums me out is that 23 quadrillion dollars is only worth 14 quadrillion euros. The US economy is fucked.

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    Default Re: And you thought that you had to pay a lot for smokes!

    Could be worse. That's still more than 50% value, so we're not totally fucked. It's not like it's only worth 14 quadrillion pasos. Then we'd be really, truly fucked.

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    Default Re: And you thought that you had to pay a lot for smokes!

    wonder what that is in candian dollars.............

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    Quote Originally Posted by Morning Glory
    the part that really bums me out is that 23 quadrillion dollars is only worth 14 quadrillion euros. The US economy is fucked.
    Those are pounds, the euro's somewhere inbetween.

    Funny thing is that both the pound and the euro have really suffered also; it's just your dollar that makes them look good by comparison.

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    Default Re: And you thought that you had to pay a lot for smokes!

    $23,148,855,308,184,500.
    Pfft...that's chump change

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    Default Re: And you thought that you had to pay a lot for smokes!

    Quote Originally Posted by mystoo
    $23,148,855,308,184,500.
    Pfft...that's chump change
    In that case can I have a few mill?

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