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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: StarSlayer on September 12, 2010, 07:28:23 pm
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So I was rifling through my change today and noticed something:
(http://unionshieldcents.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Union-Shield-Cent.jpg)
:wtf:
What happened to Lincoln Memorial?
What bureaucrat with no cents of taste thought this was a worthy image for reverse face?
I mean if your going to replace a snazzy architectural piece with the Union Shield why would they go with something that looks like it came in a $15 clipart pack purchased at Staples, instead of one being ridden by a pissed off eagle with a talon full of barbed arrows?
(http://www.scripophily.com/webcart/vigs/unionwovencordvig.jpg)
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Omg, yeah that's a terrible design. Looks like something someone drew in 8 seconds. :(
My favorite American coin design is still this.
(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7620/susanbanthonydollarcoin.png)
That's right ****es, eagles can breathe in space!
And are 600km tall!
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Yeah, it cost more to make a penny than they are worth. Which is probably why its cheezy :D
Also noticed they have re-done every coin but the dime, as far as i can tell. My wife says its because dimes are so small. hehe. :nervous: No im not laughing at you (wife). Any way, no pun intended..
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its probably cheaper to manufacture.
and for my money, the morgan dollar is the best coin design we've had.
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They should get rid of pennies. Not worth it.
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And how will you give change back if it cannot be multiplied by five?
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Adjusting the price system into multiples of 5 would be art of the process of getting rid of pennies.
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I hear France did it yeeeeears ago.
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Adjusting the price system into multiples of 5 would be art of the process of getting rid of pennies.
and then we have the same problem, with nickels instead. there's always going to be a bottom rung.
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Adjusting the price system into multiples of 5 would be art of the process of getting rid of pennies.
So in other words everyone pays between a cent and 4 cents more for everything. :p
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You live in a country that did just that a while ago. :P
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When did China do that?
I've never even seen anything you can buy with a fen. :p
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When did China do that?
I've never even seen anything you can buy with a fen. :p
Quite a while ago. It used to have a pricing system like the US, but changed it so the fen piece is no longer useful. Occationally you'll still find them, but they aren't made anymore.
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They can have my pennies when they pry them from my cold, dead jeans pockets. :p
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Meanwhile, I don't even bother with notes.
If it ain't electronically available via chip'n'pin I just don't wanna do it.
Doubley, it means I'm virtually unrobbable, since my money is kept in an account that cannot be accessed by anything other than my internet banking and can only be moved onto my card account, which can only be used via my card.
Mwahaha.
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Meanwhile, I don't even bother with notes.
If it ain't electronically available via chip'n'pin I just don't wanna do it.
Doubley, it means I'm virtually unrobbable, since my money is kept in an account that cannot be accessed by anything other than my internet banking and can only be moved onto my card account, which can only be used via my card.
Mwahaha.
nope but you are just as vulnerable to being hacked, and not to long ago in the UK Northern Rock was hacked for a notable (to the public) amount of money
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Lions and Unicorns could beat up an Eagle :p
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Lions and Unicorns could beat up an Eagle :p
Sorry to burst your My Little Pony bubble but unicorns don't exist. :P
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I hear France did it yeeeeears ago.
We (the Dutch) actually stopped doing it when the euro was introduced. We hated it, and then all the shopkeepers changed every price to multiplies of 5 again :P.
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Lions and Unicorns could beat up an Eagle :p
Sorry to burst your My Little Pony bubble but unicorns don't exist. :P
LIEZzzzzz!
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Meanwhile, I don't even bother with notes.
If it ain't electronically available via chip'n'pin I just don't wanna do it.
Doubley, it means I'm virtually unrobbable, since my money is kept in an account that cannot be accessed by anything other than my internet banking and can only be moved onto my card account, which can only be used via my card.
Mwahaha.
nope but you are just as vulnerable to being hacked, and not to long ago in the UK Northern Rock was hacked for a notable (to the public) amount of money
My main account is setup so that there is no way of getting money off of it 'cept my card :>
Does make online banking a pain in the ass sometimes.
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In God We Trust? Sweet Knights of Colombus!
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Why do we still have those archaic ideologies on our currency?
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In God We Trust? Sweet Knights of Colombus!
Dawkins commented on it mentioning that the British equivalent had Darwin on it :D
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Lions and Unicorns could beat up an Eagle :p
Sorry to burst your My Little Pony bubble but unicorns don't exist. :P
That's what they want you to think. You just get a horn sticking out of you about 3 inches above your navel and have just enough time to wonder what a narwhal is doing in the middle of town before you expire. :p
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Lions and Unicorns could beat up an Eagle :p
Sorry to burst your My Little Pony bubble but unicorns don't exist. :P
That's what they want you to think. You just get a horn sticking out of you about 3 inches above your navel and have just enough time to wonder what a narwhal is doing in the middle of town before you expire. :p
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=653#comic :D
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Meanwhile, I don't even bother with notes.
If it ain't electronically available via chip'n'pin I just don't wanna do it.
Doubley, it means I'm virtually unrobbable, since my money is kept in an account that cannot be accessed by anything other than my internet banking and can only be moved onto my card account, which can only be used via my card.
Mwahaha.
I find cold hard cash to be a far better alternative myself. You actually think about how much you're forking over for something when you have to count out the $10s and $20s. Online banking can wind up getting too abstract for your own good.
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Why do we still have those archaic ideologies on our currency?
Because those "archaic" ideologies are the principles the country was founded on and the go-to values for how it should be run? What would you prefer "*****es, hos, and cash" on the back of all our money? Is that contemporary enough?
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Why do we still have those archaic ideologies on our currency?
Because those "archaic" ideologies are the principles the country was founded on and the go-to values for how it should be run? What would you prefer "*****es, hos, and cash" on the back of all our money? Is that contemporary enough?
Not to open a giant writhing can of worms, but weren't the Founding Fathers quite a mixed bag faith-wise? Christians, Deists, what-have-you's? I always got the sense they were a bit leery of such things, and that the great religious sentiment in our country comes from the Great Revival, which was much later.
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Because those "archaic" ideologies are the principles the country was founded on and the go-to values for how it should be run?
Seriously, separation of church and state. Read something about it.
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Yeah, the In God We Trust thing wasn't added until the Civil War.
So this
Because those "archaic" ideologies are the principles the country was founded on and the go-to values for how it should be run?
seems like a bit of a misconception at least with respect to the motto on currency. It doesn't have anything to do with our country's founding, and it didn't even make it to paper currency until 1957!
I'm not particularly anti-Christian, but I do stand with the Founding Fathers' belief in a secular government. To quote Madison in the Treaty of Tripoli,
As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion...
Washington, Franklin, Jefferson and Paine seemed to share similar sentiments.
Then on the other hand we've got Patrick Henry, who seems to be of mixed opinion on it. We've got:
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religion but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We shall not fight alone. God presides over the destinies of nations." - Patrick Henry