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They're legal tender in Finland because they are legal tender in the EU. I don't know anything about Finish law but I believe permitting stores to refuse some coins while allowing others could violate some EU directive.

You believe wrong.

Sweden is a EU country. Want to try go with your Euros there? Is it not legal tender?

EMU =/= EU and EMU the regulations are made don't alway fit all an exceptions are made.

I got my hands on euros in late 01, before you could actually even pay for things with them. And I've been a cashier in several jobs since.

They're are not legal tender in Finland, except perhaps with the exception of possibly the national bank being forced to take them. (As it was to take Finnish marks for a decade after they went out of circulation.)

Finland is even forced by the EU to mint 1c and 2c coins

We have to have a design and they happen to mint them because rarity makes profit, but as you say, not circulated.

usually they will decline

They will always decline. "Swedish rounding"? Swedes use kronor. So that's probably just a term for the thing I explained.. How 1 and 2 round doen 3 4 to 5 and 6 7 to five and 8 9 to 10.

There most certainly is not a law demanding anyone to take 1c or 2c coins. I can bet my left testicle on that, I've played with customer service and taking money my whole life and half my family has as well.

Just not true.

Stores would have to accept them as they're legal tender even in Finland

No, they don't, and they never have. Yeah at one point "the most common ways of paying", had to be available. Before 2001, it meant marks and debit card and some credit cards.

2007 or so forwards it mostly meant Electron as well. Now it's pretty much solely cards.

We are in the EMU, but 1c and 2c eurocoins aren't considered legal tender in that way in Finland. You will not find a single business who would accept your coins. Not in the past 25 years and especially now when stores aren't even required to take cash, much less literally all denominations of euros.

Hell, there's limits to paying with cash in most stores. Upper limits. But there's always been a lower limit. But that also meant that for a while in 2002 and so forth before the policies caught up, you could get pick and mix candy for 2c (you'd get like... one, maybe two of some light one) and then just going through the till and watching the bored of life 20-something be slightly amused and not protest.

Didn't take too long before they made a minimum 5c or something.

In Finland we chose to not use the 1c and 2c cents when we joined EMU, and you can't buy shit with those in Finland, even though we use Euros. Probably could go to a bank and exchange a bunch, but anyways.

We do have 5c coins, that's the smallest denomination (and kinda futile tbh). Everything that cost 0.01 0.02c gets rounded down, 0.03 and 0.04 gets rounded up to 0.05 and 0.06 and 0.07 goes down to 5c and 0.08 and 0.09 goes up

except when you pay with a card. So for instance if you always made sure to make sure the gas pump stops at a 2 or a 7, when paying with cash or if its 0.08 or 0.09 you pay with card and you might save at least a few euros over a lifetime.

You take an online thing and make it local.

I understand how some younger folk might not see as stark a contrast in saving v downloading.

I'd say if you're 30+, you prolly do.

“Downloading” is how you acquire any external data to your internal storage media.

Aaahhaha. I didn't even read that bit before writing my first lines, and that only confirms my doubts.

Never seen these, eh?

How is that a predecessor? It's just the same tech but bigger? (I know this could be said for pretty much anything but still.)

Correction, without hitting Ctrl+S about a half dozen times in rapid succession

By OP's logic, this

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is a drawing of an ox head.

Thats for downloading though.

Because mild but overmedicated cases are completely unheard of?

Oh wait, no, they're just not documented, unlike when inpatients misbehave.

People who are not medicated enough are very easy to spot. People who are overmedicated are not, because they don't make a fuzz.

What are your feelings on lobotomy?

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