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Next time you make a withdrawal from your bank, ask to be paid in gold
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and let us know how you get on! 
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Better still ask for shirt buttons!0
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I am sure your local pawnbroker will accept the cash you get from the bank for gold.0
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For what it's worth I think the 'gold boat' has been missed, if you were going to hedge, it should have been done 6 months ago.0
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if your bank is a swiss bankbeaujolais-nouveau wrote: »and let us know how you get on!
then many of them do sell gold at high street banks so you wouldnt have a problem.
even many indian high street banks sell gold coins etc so it wouldnt be a problem there either. same with some middle east banks as well. so this wouldnt be an issue in many places!!! bubblesmoney :hello:0 -
I don't go into banks. If I want cash it's cashback at a supermarket usually.
After that it'd be a cashpoint machine.
I doubt I've gone into a bank for cash for over 10 years... maybe 15.0 -
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I can't exchange it for goods and services anywhere useful. I'll stick with my fiat currency thanks “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
the British government finally abandoned the gold standard September 20, 1931.0
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But gold is shineeeeey so it must be good.0
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