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[Vector]

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[martinuzz]

Massive traffic jams at the German-Dutch border, as Dutch automobilists rushed to Germany to fill their tanks with slightly cheaper petrol, before the Dutch / German border is closed tomorrow.  Germany declared the Netherlands high-risk area and will close the borders. Or well, not close them completely, there will be border checks, only people with a recent negative corona test may pass.

RIP Schengen I guess.

[dragdeler]

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[martinuzz]

It's not really worth it unless you live really close to the border. German petrol is only marginally cheaper.

[scriver]

Speaking of border trade: The Norwegian state has earned 6 milliard crowns in taxes over the closed border to Sweden. Kind of puts the final nail in the coffin of the discussion on why Norway's openness policy towards Sweden was so arbitrary and inconsistent, doesn't it?

Not that I blame them for wanting their purchasing power to stay in the country of course, I'd want that too. But it just makes it abundantly clear that it was the experts who said "this isn't about epidemic prevention, it's a financial decision" that was correct.

edit: milliards, not billiards

[bloop_bleep]

The Norwegian state has earned 6 billiard crowns in taxes over the closed border to Sweden.

That'd be "trillion" for us Americans, right?

[dragdeler]

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[Starver]

Thousand Billion. Where Billion is a Million Million.

To short-scalers that's a Quadrillion.  That sounds like a lot.  1NOK being 12US˘, apparently. (Yep, drag, you ninja you, I was also wondering if it was Turkish Lira all over again, but apparently not.)



ETA: A quick glance at the untranslated text of that link only mentions "16 miljarder" (presume 16 Thousand Million, or short Billions) as the number of Norwegian Krone, but I haven't established the context, and if it's mentioned in the embedded video report then it'll probably[1] not be worth piping it through a page-translator.

[1] Depends on how good Google have got with their all-pervasive natural language data-processing!

[bloop_bleep]

Oh yes, my bad.

[scriver]

Sorry, my brain did a scale mess up

I meant billons as in the scale we don't use (we say milliards), but I mangled them together and said billiards by mistake

I am a foolhead

[ChairmanPoo]

Sorry, my brain did a scale mess up

I meant billons as in the scale we don't use (we say milliards), but I mangled them together and said billiards by mistake

I am a foolhead

This is why the norwegians want to close the border, scriver.

[scriver]

But we just want to play pool

[hector13]

But billiard balls don’t float, scriver.

[King Zultan]

Then why do some people call a billiards table a pool table?

[Egan_BW]

because a pool table is what you use to play pool