On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 06:33:56 +0200, "tile" wrote:
>
>"poldy" ha scritto nel messaggio
>news:poldy-9B9BEC.18123304042008@newsgroups.comcast.net...
>> In article <0001HW.C41C414C001B3CA3B01AD9AF@news.cable.ntlworld.com>,
>> Mike Lane wrote:
>>
>>> > There wasn't a machine that accepted anything 10 years ago. Even when
>>> > there
>>> > are
>>> > they are some times out of order, even in the Netherlands. :o)
>>>
>>> It happened to me more recently than that. 2 years ago in a small town in
>>> France we were stuck overnight having got too low on petrol. We had cash
>>> and
>>> several credit and debit cards from different banks. None of our cards
>>> worked
>>> in any of the automatic pumps in the town. It was after 5.00 pm and none
>>> of
>>> the pumps were manned, so we couldn't use cash either.
>>
>> I thought that was an issue more for Americans, because our credit cards
>> don't have the chips in them.
>>
>> What do they call chips in Italian?
>
>they call them CHIPS
I thought only the British shouted when they spoke to foreigners :o)
The main article in the local Dutch newspaper today was about another Italian
synthetic wine scandal.
--
Martin
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