Monopoly money (moderate rant warning)

This is a bit pointless, but I thought I'd record it anyway. I have decided that euros are rubbish. Just look at the picture below of the five euro note."What's wrong with it?" I hear you cry. Well look at it. It just looks like it was dreamt up by some suit in Brussels. Which, of course, it was. "But there's a picture of the arc de triomphe" you say. Well, look closely and you will see it is not the arc de triomphe. It is a ficticious building based on the arc de triomphe, in some ludicrous PC stunt to avoid it favouring any EU member state. Why do that when you have the common agricultural policy?

My problem is that if you have banknotes in your posession, they should feel like they are worth what they say they're worth. A classic example is the Bank of England £10 note. With the Queen on one side (and I have to say it is a fetching photo, if heinously out of date) and Darwin on the other, the water mark and the satisfying way "£10" is written on the top left, you feel like you are getting your money's worth. Similarly with a dollar.

But the euro note has no soul, no pride or identity. It doesn't make me proud to be european, and, if I am honest, it doesn't feel like real money. Obviously it is, but I would feel more distressed if I lost a fiver than if I lost a €50 note, because that doesn't feel like money at all.

So in summary... bank notes are better when they make you feel good about having them, and I don't mean because it makes you feel richer.

Rant over.

Apologies for lack of coherence, structure, or point.