Let Them Eat Hats

[moneypenny]

Wait. I have one last thing to say about this examination. I wish to impart my wisdom gleaned from the marvelous world of intermediate macroeconomics. The most important thing that I learned during this first half of the semester in preparation for this midterm is this: Sometimes you can pay people in hats

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Hat Economics 102

[mercuryfading]

Hats can be used for bartering, though sometimes not successfully.

SCENE: A PUB IN DEEPEST, SCUMMIEST SCOTLAND.

Kristin is wearing a hat reminiscent of a 20s flapper hat, drinking her cider along with two girlfriends.

OLD MAN AT THE BAR: Eh! Girly! That's a fine hat ye got there.
KRISTIN: Thanks!
OMATB: I'll buy it from ye. A quid!
K: No!
OMATB: What're ye playin' at, there? I say I'll give ye a quid fer yer hat!
K: Uhh....still no!
OMATB: 3 quid! It'll buy ye a pint!
K: The hat cost $25.
OMATB: I cannae tell ye what that is in pints, but I reckon two pints'll cover it.
K: No. You can't have my hat! You can't have my hat.
OMATB: Ten quid!
K: (annoyed) Fifty quid! The hat is pricesless! Fourteen pints! FOURTEEN PINTS.
OMATB: Ach, ye can keep it!

Re: Hat Economics 102

[rokeby_venus]

Having lived in Scotland all my life and been a regular wearer of hats for the last five years, I can attest that this is a fairly typical Scottish response to hat-wearing.

Then again, most Scots think that alcohol is the greatest currency of them all and there can't possibly be anything that booze can't buy. I am an atypical Scot who doesn't drink and considers hats the superior currency.

Re: Hat Economics 102

[mercuryfading]

Heh. I apologize for my mangling the accent in written form, by the way.

[ods_bodikins]

pancake bunny asks: i can has hat???

[cycon]

Good luck today.

[mabfan]

I like hats. I wear hats often.

[xorus]

Indirect use of commodities as a medium of exchange for the win!