563: When White is Wrong

[McNally]

Originally Posted by spooky

also, as i understand it, your strippers arent worth a fiver.

I can't argue that.

[armenta]

My Dad and two of my brothers just got back from Colombia yesterday.

/ Making the sign of the cross. Thanks baby Jesus.

-Peesch

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by spooky

i refuse to carry around a money sack for my singles, its not the middle ages or some late night back alley comic book shop pen and paper D&D night.

Ha!

Canadians and Americans will never agree on whose money is better. However, I have to say that calling your money "loonie" and "toonie" is quite gay.

*We tried introducing a dollar coin in this country. It didn't take.

[Aristoprat]

Originally Posted by spooky

i refuse to carry around a money sack for my singles, its not the middle ages or some late night back alley comic book shop pen and paper D&D night. you can bitch about american singles, but when i was in canada, i constantly had a huge jingling pocket of silly coins because thats all you have.

No, you had a pocket full of coins because you didn't understand the concept of change. Mickey Mouse currency = over dependence on notes (Yen, Lira, Goomba Beads).

[spooky]

Originally Posted by Aristoprat

No, you had a pocket full of coins because you didn't understand the concept of change. Mickey Mouse currency = over dependence on notes (Yen, Lira, Goomba Beads).

no, i get it.

[McNally]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

*We tried introducing a dollar coin in this country. It didn't take.

I do think the bill vs coin debate is largely personal preference, but the lifespan of a dollar bill is something like 25 months. If you found a dollar bill from fifty years ago, that would be unusual. But if you find a penny from fifty years ago, nobody bats an eye. So eventually your government is gonna get tired of the expenditure and go for coins. I guarantee it. And when you have no choice, because there are no bills left, trust me, it'll take.

[MichaelG]

Originally Posted by McNally

I do think the bill vs coin debate is largely personal preference, but the lifespan of a dollar bill is something like 25 months. If you found a dollar bill from fifty years ago, that would be unusual. But if you find a penny from fifty years ago, nobody bats an eye. So eventually your government is gonna get tired of the expenditure and go for coins. I guarantee it. And when you have no choice, because there are no bills left, trust me, it'll take.

No one carries coins except old ladies who hold up the line getting exact change to pay for their groceries.

if they always have exact change, why do they always have change in heir purse? Don't you think they would have run out by now?

[MichaelG]

Originally Posted by ballzon

I just looked in my wallet and I have bills that were printed in the 80's. How's that work?

Pennies will be the first to go because it costs something like twice as much to produce them as they are worth.

Coins are from ancient biblical times. Bills are the future.

Debit cards are the future.

[McNally]

Originally Posted by ballzon

I just looked in my wallet and I have bills that were printed in the 80's. How's that work?

I gotta admit, that surprises me.

But I think y'all should relax. Like I said, you've already got dollar coins. They're in widespread use in the subways of New York, and as the dollar continues to devalue the practice of printing it as a bill is gonna go away. It's not logic holding the process back, it's attachment to a tradition.

Having one extra coin type isn't gonna weigh anybody down so much that they can't get to work on time. A few years after the switch you'll forget what dollar bills were even like. It is gonna happen, but you got no power to stop it. So don't worry about it.

[Keith]

You should stop with the coin subway defense. I don't think any New Yorker knows what you're talking about. We don't use coins anymore, and even then they weren't $1 coins. They were a subway ride coin.