• New £5 note to feature Winston Churchill
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/mc8y.jpg[/img] [B]^^ Only the initial concept design, far from final[/B] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22306707[/url] [quote]Sir Winston Churchill will feature on the new design of a banknote which will enter circulation in 2016, the Bank of England has announced. The design includes a portrait of the former prime minister, adapted from a photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh on 30 December 1941. He is the only politician from the modern era to feature on a banknote. The artwork will also include: • Churchill's declaration "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" which came in a speech in the Commons on 13 May 1940 • A view of Westminster and the Elizabeth Tower from the South Bank • The Great Clock showing three o'clock - the approximate time of the Commons speech • A background image of the Nobel Prize for literature, which he was awarded in 1953 The current face of the £5 note is social reformer [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Fry]Elizabeth Fry[/url].[/quote]
Oh yes!
Deserves it.
100%
see Churchill's got that kinda face where if foreigners see it on a piece of paper they instantly say "oh shit" and leave the country
British currency is 4:3? or is that a crop of the bank note?
[QUOTE=meppers;40431349]British currency is 4:3? or is that a crop of the bank note?[/QUOTE] It's a crop, but like in the OP the design isn't final.
Ah cool, too bad Turing didn't make it to the note
[QUOTE=meppers;40431349]British currency is 4:3? or is that a crop of the bank note?[/QUOTE] Crop Here's the current note [img]http://imgkk.com/i/8sq7.jpg[/img]
I'm surprised that nobody's photoshopped the popular advertisement dog of the same name onto a £5 note yet
Awesome, now we can refer to five pounds as a "Winston".
I've heard the final concept of the note features Churchill pissing in the Rhine.
[QUOTE=smurfy;40431375]Crop Here's the current note [img]http://imgkk.com/i/8sq7.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] who is that old hag
My friend thinks they should make a -1 pound note that has Margret Tatchers face on it.
[QUOTE=jordguitar;40431504]who is that old hag[/QUOTE] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Fry]Elizabeth Fry[/url], she's kinda great.
[QUOTE=lope;40431526]My friend thinks they should make a -1 pound note that has Margret Tatchers face on it.[/QUOTE] i bet you could fix the deficit with one of those
All we need now is cash points to use that actually give the damn things out.
Winston Churchill was a warmongering, german hating, fat piece of shit.
[QUOTE=Kentz;40431553]Winston Churchill was a warmongering, german hating, fat piece of shit.[/QUOTE] woooooAHHHHH will u b my facbook friend u r so edgy and cool
[QUOTE=Kentz;40431553]Winston Churchill was a warmongering, german hating, fat piece of shit.[/QUOTE] And a racist! Still got Britain through the war though.
[QUOTE=Kentz;40431553]Winston Churchill was a warmongering, german hating, fat piece of shit.[/QUOTE] So edgy.
Best, most awesome prime minister on the most used note? hell-fucking-yeah
Much better then a Neville Chamberlain bill.
[QUOTE=Kentz;40431553]Winston Churchill was a warmongering, german hating, fat piece of shit.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure how being a "fat piece of shit" affected his ability as a politician.
[QUOTE=brainmaster;40431588]And a racist! Still got Britain through the war though.[/QUOTE] Yes, and he would have driven us into another war.
Wonder why he hasn't been on it yet.
[QUOTE=DaysBefore;40431578]woooooAHHHHH will u b my facbook friend u r so edgy and cool[/QUOTE] [I]Seven Cabinet members were ready to resign rather than go to war. "The Cabinet was absolutely against war and would never have agreed to being committed to war at this moment," wrote Churchill. Those favoring Britain's going to war, should it come, were Grey and Churchill, who had made commitments to France. But only the First Lord relished the prospect. On July 25, when it appeared that Grey's call for a conference of ambassadors to halt the slide to war might succeed, Churchill “exclaimed moodily that it looked after all as we were in for a 'bloody peace.'" "Churchill was the only Minister to feel any sense of exultation at the course of events," writes biographer John Charmley.[17] On July 28, he had written his wife Clementine: “My darling one & beautiful: Everything tends toward catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?”[/I] (Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War)
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;40431636]I'm not sure how being a "fat piece of shit" affected his ability as a politician.[/QUOTE] that can be a serious problem for a world leader. taft conducted his entire presidency from inside that bathtub he got stuck in.
Where is his glass of whiskey/scotch and cigar???
[QUOTE=Kentz;40431800][I]Seven Cabinet members were ready to resign rather than go to war. "The Cabinet was absolutely against war and would never have agreed to being committed to war at this moment," wrote Churchill. Those favoring Britain's going to war, should it come, were Grey and Churchill, who had made commitments to France. But only the First Lord relished the prospect. On July 25, when it appeared that Grey's call for a conference of ambassadors to halt the slide to war might succeed, Churchill “exclaimed moodily that it looked after all as we were in for a 'bloody peace.'" "Churchill was the only Minister to feel any sense of exultation at the course of events," writes biographer John Charmley.[17] On July 28, he had written his wife Clementine: “My darling one & beautiful: Everything tends toward catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?”[/I] (Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War)[/QUOTE] Not as if Hitler was steamrolling the continent right? [QUOTE=Jellyman;40431782]Yes, and he would have driven us into another war.[/QUOTE] How? He was PM again in 1951 and only took Britain into Empire-rebellion conflicts
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