US Dollar Coins - why the failure?

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Why do they fail to take hold again and again? The Australians and Canadians seem able to use them, the UK has the handy pound coin... why can't Americans get with the program? "But it looks like a quarter, I, er, uhmm..."

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

AND we still use the penny which has become more a liability than an asset.. just round it off to the nearest nickel, Australians dropped it along time ago and they seem to be getting along just fine.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.photospin.com/content/photos/thumb/0460058.jpg

She looks like a WITCH!

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

on the sacajawea, I don't know why we can't deal with the dollar coin. I was WARNED by a parking attendant a while back that the automatic parking machine would only give out dollar coins for change. When I told him it was no big deal, he insisted on personally breaking my ten so I wouldn't have to get the coins.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

also who else has had to convice some young punk that the susan b is in fact legal tender??

maybe we just hate women.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

They're just annoying...THEY JUST ARE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Sarah once had to try to explain to a large group of her (30- and 40-something) coworkers who Sacajawea was.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

the dollar coins are always badly-designed, to be made about the same size as a quarter.

also, they don't have adorable nicknames like "looneys" or "twooneys" or birds on them.

a "Saccy" just doesn't have the same ring.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Americans hate change. Introducing currency that increases the amount of change in your pockets is a non-starter.

Conversely, introduce the 25-cent bill and you will get more currency tail than you'll know what to do with.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

The dude at the snack stand downstairs tried to give me a $2 bill as change once, and I made him take it back and give me two $1 bills. The very next day, he gave me a dollar coin as part of my change, probably as some sort of revenge. I considered making him take it back and give me a bill, but instead I just bit down on it, like I was making sure it was gold.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

(That story is 85% true)

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

coins suck - I say 2 coins only, 10cecnt and 50cent.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I bet we don't like dollar coins because we go to strip clubs all the time.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/images/campCoin/1971Eisenhower$1_obv.gif

When I was a kid, I LOVED Ike dollars.. they had such weight to them, and always came from the cool uncle or something. I haven't even seen one in years.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I had much more trouble/was more annoyed with the one dollar bill. It just doesn't *feel* right. It's just a dollar!

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Soon after I was born, my dad won a photography contest for a photo he took of my mom holding me. The prize was $100 in Susan B. Anthony dollars. They had to spend most of them, but we still had about 10 of them in a piggy bank when I was a kid and they were a source of amazement and curiosity.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there a moon-landing commemorative Ike dollar? Or did I make that up?

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

In high school, I worked at a restarant near a Coast Guard base and one week they paid all the sailors in $2 bills, I guess to recirculate them. They were crisp and new, however... all of our tips were in two's.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

teeny, you're making me chuckle!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

yeah, there was one with an astronaut on the moon I think! My dad saves Ike dollars and gives them to kids he meets, he gave me about ten recently so that I could do the same, he's such a neat guy. I remember he got a gold-plated Ike dollar out of a slot machine once, I can just picture some big shot feeding the slots with gold-plated dollars!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

It was kinda neat when I visited Australia to dump out my pocket change onto the desk and find that I had EIGHTEEN DOLLARS on hand.

For me, it's easier to just flip through a few bills and fork over my pay. You thought that it was a pain in the ass when you get stuck behind a wino counting out his nickels on the liquor store counter? Just wait until EVERYBODY is doing that.

(The moon landing was on the back of Suzie B's. Either that, or the JFK half-dollar. It wasn't your imagination.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

coins are annoying

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

ok doods, I just dug out my Ike dollars and they all on the reverse have an eagle landing on the moon with the earth in the background, that's what I was thinking of.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Bring on the Foonie!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

some guy was arrested at a best buy for trying to use $2 bills wasn't he?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

The dude at the snack stand downstairs tried to give me a $2 bill as change once, and I made him take it back and give me two $1 bills.

What type of smacktalk is this? $2 bills rule. My dad is a $2 bill fiend, he loves giving them out as part of tips.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of liquor stores, you should've seen the winos try to pass the state quarters as dollars when they first came out.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

1. The only vending machines that take Susan Bs and Saccys are the Post Office machines.

2. If you put a $20 in a post office machine for $7.40 in stamps, you get the change in dollar coins. (See #1.)

But I love the idea of buying a beer or tipping with a single coin. Flipping it with your thumb into the hands of an appreciative cabbie or paperboy!

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Ned, I like John Muir fine but shouldn't ISHI have been on our quarter? He was actually a REAL californian, Muir was from Missouri or somewhere.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

The Chicago el used to give Sacajawea coins as change back in the days when there were change machines inside el stations -- they took them all out in 2001, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

hmmm maybe muir is the mysterious extra man in our three-person canoe.

http://www.lewisandclark200.gov/images/mint_moquarter.gif

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Japan doesn't have bills lower than 1000 yen (~$10USD). Which is to say there's not much that costs less than $10USD. There are 1 yen coins (~penny) but you can go weeks without encountering them.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Muir be guest-starring on EVERYBODY'S quarter!

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I really don't need the pile of coins at my bedside, on the floor, in the ashtray of my car, to suddenly include dollars. That would effectively multiply my wastefulness by 4.

I hate how the stamp machines at the post office give out dollar coins as change. I got screwed on that once when I bought some stamps with a 20 and ended up with a huge bulging pocket full of useless metal.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

god what a shitty representation of our beautiful arch.

Seriously, that's supposed to be Lewis & Clark and fuck I dunno, the dude that sleeps on Clark's sofa or something.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Next paycheck I'm going to cash it into Ike dollars and carry them in a leather bag, Like Conan at the Renn Faire: "A tankard of mead, wench!"

Cool.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

TS: Lewis & Clark vs Lois & Clark

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

(xxp)I'm guessing it's York, who was Clark's slave.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Japan doesn't have bills lower than 1000 yen (

The introduced the 2000 bill but noone wants to use it. I can understand why...

Dollars suck big time. The paper is so flimsy. If it gets wet (due to rain/sweat), it never really seems to dry...

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

waiters at some burger joint we used to eat at would give $2 bills back for change from paying the bill in cash... the thought being that tips would always be at least $2 then.

re: coins... if you could tell people, "okay, you get a tax break of X if we stop using $1 or $5 bills altogether and use coins, i bet that would get momentum." seriously, coins last longer than paper... are they harder to forge? i would imagine so...??

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

accursed proofreading mole... get back here you blind sob!
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there a whole lot of people counterfeitting $1 bills.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

the perfect unexpected scam...? "i've never paid for a can of coke in my life!" rubs hands together.
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.leedworshak.com/images/images/500%20Dollar%20Bill.gif

Here's the real shit... McKinley!!

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

American notes (or 'bills') suck. They all look the same. You want different sizes and colours.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Well don't we all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I actually really like American currency. Until they recently changed it, there was a 1929 Ford parked on the back of the $20. A very durable design. I don't like the new big-head bills at all.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I bet we don't like dollar coins because we go to strip clubs all the time.

Well, I did once read an article protesting against dollar coins on the grounds that they can't be tucked into a stripper's garter belt...

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

You guys really need to go to Montreal and see what they (strippers) do for a toonie.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

i also like 50 cent pieces.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

How many dollar bills do you stick in a stripper's garter belt? I'd expect it to be at least five dollars. Cheapskates! ;-)

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Well, I did once read an article protesting against dollar coins on the grounds that they can't be tucked into a stripper's garter belt...

Maybe you're tucking them into the wrong place.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

The best is when you're struggling for cash and dump out your big jar of change and start counting/rolling, and in with the pennies nickels and dimes you get some Susie Bs and random Canadian and Czech coins and paper clips and guitar picks and stuff.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

my explanation is always that the US is very big and has lots of 1) payphones 2) jukeboxes 3) coke machines 4) etc, all of which would have to be converted .. however, europe managed changing ALL of its money.. i think we're just not really capable of doing cool shit on a broad scale in the US anymore.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

obviously the problem is that it's the global ZOG/illumination/united nations conspiracy to MAKE US USE COINS rather than bills, so as to increase the value of their SILVER MINES IN OUTER SPACE.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

illuminati

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

"dump out your big jar of change..."

Coinstar! Why do I feel like I've just hit the jackpot when it's actually my money? I brought a smallish Nalgene bottle to the machine and there was $78.00! Holy shit, I won the BIG MONEY!

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I have so much change at home. I have a box brimming with change that prob. dates back to 2000.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

After the End Times, all that change will still be legal tender and your ATM card will be worthless! Bury it in the yard!

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

re. the comment about australian money.... i was sort of shocked to find that when i returned from europe, the loose change in my bag actually added up to a substantial amount, like 25 euros.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

When I was a kid, I LOVED Ike dollars.. they had such weight to them, and always came from the cool uncle or something. I haven't even seen one in years.

I've never heard of these. Damn generational gap.

The real reason why Sacagawea dollar coins failed? They could only be found at Wal-Mart! I'm not kidding, either.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

i like dollar coins

the bills are so scratty

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

The real reason why Sacagawea dollar coins failed? They could only be found at Wal-Mart! I'm not kidding, either.

that's what they said about white trash and the elderly, and they're doing JUST FINE THANK YOU VERY MUCH

― matlewis, Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

NYMTA's been pimping Saccy's ass for a looong time.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Muir was from Scotland.

My best candidate for a person on new currency is Frederick Douglass.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

maybe we just hate women.
-- teeny (teen...), June 30th, 2005 2:27 PM. (teeny) (later)
They're just annoying...THEY JUST ARE.

-- n/a (nu...), June 30th, 2005 2:27 PM. (Nick A.) (later)

xpost: Thank you, M., for pointing that out much more politely than I would have.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

NYMTA's been pimping Saccy's ass for a looong time.
Oh yeah, that's true! That's the only time I'd ever seen Saccy's outside Wally World.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

I have never been given back dollar coins as change. Not even at Wal*lyworld.

(in the U.S.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

1. The only vending machines that take Susan Bs and Saccys are the Post Office machines.

Not true! All of the vending machines at my college accept dollar coins, maybe it's just the older vending machines that don't accept them.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

My best candidate for a person on new currency is Frederick Douglass.

Love the idea. If only because he looked so dope.

Young Frederick vs. Old Frederick?

http://www.frederickdouglass.org/speeches/yngdoug3.jpg http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/douglass1.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

The PATH train used to give dollar coins in change and yet wouldn't accept them as payment.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Frederick Douglass vs. William Henry Harrison FITE!!

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

the other night i saw a mexican guy buy a tv from walmart in change.

― flufffybunny (flufffybunny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

He would fit right in, in the picture on the right, to the usual patriarchal iconography.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Yeah wtf was up with that at the PATH??? That infuriated me, why GIVE me dollar coins if I can't USE them at your place of business? Because god knows you can't convince a dude in a bodega to take a dollar coin to pay for shit, they think you're trying to trick them.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

the other night i saw a mexican guy buy frederick douglass from walmart in change.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Not particularly funny, Amateurist.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

The big design dillemma with US paper currency is that ideally we would start using some COLOR like every other country in the world but if we did so we would lose all of the connotations of green, greenbacks, etc.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Having the bills the same size sucks for blind people too.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

nah, it puts hair on their chests.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

But they put those HUGE sans-serif numbers in the corners of the bills now so blind people can see those right?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

At least the ATM's have braille buttons.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

"A tankard of mead, lusty wench!"

(I'm still at the Ye Olde Renn Faire.)

― andy the barbarian, Thursday, 30 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

GET OUT NOW BEFORE YOU DIE OF THE PLAGUE

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Plague in Marin County? GAWRSH!

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Actually, aren't they looking at you funny and calling you a wizard for carrying around a Mystical Device That Summons Words and Sounds Out of the Air?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

I txt msg old enlgsh LOL

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

It sounds like you guys have coinage issues because you dont have standardised money and machines using it. When we brought in 1 and 2 dollar coins they made sure they were very distinctive (theyre gold, the lower denoms are silver), and all vending machines very quickly, IIRC, were adapted to accept all the coins.

At a similar time we got rid of 1 and 2 cent bits, so its not like one was suddenly awash with change. You can use dollar coins in train ticket machines, coke machines and the like so in theory you can carry LESS change around for such things. Also, you run the chance of your shopping being rounded DOWN to the nearest 0.00 cents! Winnar!

Also american bills all being the same size, shape and colour - and still paper, in this day and age? Pshaw. Get one techno-money.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 July 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

I think my mom told me once that every American note is a different thickness, and blind people can tell the difference very easily. I've always believed that but suddenly I have no idea if it's true.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

Even if it was, being able to tell thickness of paper seems a pretty damn fine art :/

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

american notes make your country look like a BANANA REPUBLIC. a dollar bill is worth like 60p. i don't know how your vending industry copes...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lileks.com/money/index.html

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

I hate vending machines you have to put notes in! I'm scared it'll eat me money.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 July 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

There's nothing like having a back pocket bulging like Serena Williams only to find you can't even pay a cab fare as it's nothing but a vast wad of fucking one dollar bills.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

Wads of dollar bills vs wads of 1000 Lira notes?

I go for 1000 lira notes any day

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

1000s of one-Lira notes even better. You can throw them around like you just don't care! Here! Money for everyone!

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

The cleaning lady stole my Yankee Loonie. And I had to work hard to find it too, no one wanted anything to do with those coins except the duty free lady who used them as transit fare.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

I've never had any trouble spending them, but yeah, I suppose the subway is responsible for that. I have the opposite NYC problem: where the hell can I find a Coinstar-style change machine around here? At this point I'd take 60 cents on the dollar -- anything to get like two years and twenty pounds of accumulated change off of my desk. I can't even make a dent in that stuff, and I'm sick of the people at the coffee shop knowing when I'm broke: one day I pay in quarters, then for the next three I pay in dimes, and by the time a couple nickels get in there they look a little worried about me.

I also have like 25 pounds in coins: no clue what to do with that.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

NYC doesn't have coinstars? That's odd.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

That's 25 GBP coins, not 25 lbs.

I assume there's gotta be a Coinstar somewhere up in this bitch, but I can't say as I've seen one. Maybe outside Manhattan; Manhattan grocery stores are too "fancy" for that.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

When we brought in 1 and 2 dollar coins they made sure they were very distinctive (theyre gold, the lower denoms are silver), and all vending machines very quickly, IIRC, were adapted to accept all the coins.

Aren't the Sacajawea dollars golden-hued?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

yeah, and I think they have different ridges than quarters too--they're either smooth or they alternate ridges and smooth edge.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

ha! I found one! they're smooth.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Are there Coinstars in Chicago? I need to do this, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.coinstar.com/us/html/a-home

find a coinstar!!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

It's money, bitch! Use it!!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 1 July 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

A pickle jar that collected change in the kitchen for too long ended up containing $95 even after the 10% commission paid to the machine.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

J, just about every Jewel in Chicago has a Coinstar. Dunno about Dominick's, but I'd imagine the same. My recommendation is the Coinstar at the Ashland/Division/Milwaukee Jewel -- it's nice and loud and busy in there, which helps for massive Coinstar dumps. The one further up Ashland was too quiet and too close to the register, so everyone would stare at you while you clanked jar after jar of change in there and listened to it sort.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Teeny = official ILX relevant-resource locator! Maybe we can pay you to do this full-time. Nearest Coinstar: Food Emporium, 89th and Broadway.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I like how the mint has to plead "Keep the economy going! Just keep it going! Please!"

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, teeny and Nabisco! I hardly ever shop at Jewel, but now that you mention it, I think I have seen a Coinstar at the one near my place.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh cool, there's one in Tupelo!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

There's nothing like having a back pocket bulging like Serena Williams only to find you can't even pay a cab fare as it's nothing but a vast wad of fucking one dollar bills.

You'd prefer a front pocket bulging full of jangling coins?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

NB whoever came up with Coinstar is a genius. Their entire business model is that you give them money ... and then they give you less money back. All because banks are apparently too busy marketing credit offers to actually, you know, deal with your money.

Granted, ten cents per dollar is probably worth it for not having to look like a total tool at your local bank branch.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

(Also just imagine the trust we put into those machines: they could be programmatically undercounting, and we'd never notice.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

This is kind of off-topic, but does anyone else feel the need to try and impress the tellers at your bank? They already know how much money I make, so maybe I feel I have to overcompensate for my shitty wages and funny name of the company I work for on my paychecks by being really polite and entertaining. It doesn't help that the tellers are all 20-something women.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Shouldn't banks have some type of counting machines anyway? It pisses me off. Last time I collected all of my change up, and bagged them into those proper cardboard sleeves, the teller stood there, opened them all up and counted them by hand! It's like they don't train these people to deal with coins anymore. You don't have to count them, that's what the damn cardboard sleeves I went to so much trouble to use are for!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

My bank has a counting machine, at least at the branch near my house. I saw it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Don't use coinstar!! Go to C0mmerce Banks and use the Penny Arcade!!! FREE!!!

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

They have to count them, Walter, to make sure you didn't just put a couple quarters at either end and then fill the center up with wood chips and "post-consumer" toilet paper.

Jeanne -- you don't need a Commerce account to use their change capabilities?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Um, yeah - body shape means there's more room for a swinging bolus of change in the front pocket. I don't wear super-tight pants since the... accident.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Since direct deposit, I have not interacted with a bank teller in at least three years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Keeping wallets in back pockets still strikes me as the worst idea in the history of men.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

But incidents like this would reach epidemic level if wallets were kept in the front pockets.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

I've never kept my wallet in my back pocket; I've never understood why that makes sense, and I think I've talked about it here. But lately I have been very self-conscious of the bulkiness of my front pockets. It started when I acquired a cell phone and started carrying it in my other pocket. And then in summer, when I don't have a jacket, I have to fit my keys somewhere, too. It just looks stupid.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Keys and phone in one front pocket, wallet and change in the other. Nuthin' doin' for me.

If anyone balks at paying the 10% charge on Coinstar, you can always take your change to the casino! You may wish for the 10% after that, though.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Take all your damn change to Vegas! They'll count it for you for free!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Leon C. OTM: THINK OF THE SCROTI.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Dan if politicians would spend less time pandering to children and more pandering to my nutsack, I'm pretty sure the 'country-moving-in-the-right-direction numbers would improve. At least from my perspective.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I guess it depends on your pants, J! If I'm wearing, like, nice slacks, with a bit of room and thin fabric and loose pockets, carrying a bunch of stuff in the front makes me feel silly, yes. But in a snug enough pair of jeans or cords, it makes almost no difference -- the pockets stay in one place, so you don't have everything jangling around, and the fabric's thick enough that it doesn't bulge strangely. I carry wallet, keys, and change in one pocket, cell in the other, and it's pretty much strictly when I put on a suit that I need to change that set-up.

Having an ass makes back-pocket stuff difficult from the get-go, I think -- what, is my wallet supposed to curve?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I like carrying a paperback book around in my back pocket because I like the idea of a woman checking out my ass, seeing the book, and thinking "...and he's INTELLIGENT, too!" I have a rich fantasy life.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

i keep my wallet in my bag. when i have my bag. if i don't have my bag, i'll empty my wallet of most everything extraneous before it goes in my pocket.

i always make some excuse with a teller when i have to check my balance and it's like $200. "uh yeah, i just bought a new...uh..."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

nabisco in another life you would have made a good borscht belt comedian. "you want my wallet should curve?"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm all about that. We need a thread for small, thin, extremely intellisexy books to carry around in your back pocket.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

just paste the cover of foucault's pendulum on top of an issue of archie comics, and you're set!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

'The Time of the Assassins' - Henry Miller (Actually an essay on Rimbaud. Covers many bases)

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

"is that a copy of tropic of cancer in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

...I gotta write these down.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I want to get "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger to carry around, and possibly to read.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I do not, however, keep my books in my back pocket but in my jacket pocket. It gives the girls somehwere plausibly safe to be looking if I catch them staring at my ass. I too have a rich fantasy life.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

They have to count them, Walter, to make sure you didn't just put a couple quarters at either end and then fill the center up with wood chips and "post-consumer" toilet paper.

All they have to do is rub the edge of the roll against the edge of the counter and you can clearly see the edge of each coin. And they can dump them all out if they want to but the length of the roll already shows how many coins are in there so there's no need to count. Bank tellers used to understand this, back somewhere in the mists of time.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

fuck a john berger.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I shouldn't bother with John Berger? Who should I read that writes about art in a way that the layperson can understand it?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

United Auto Workers Quarterly Review of Fine Arts and Critical Theory

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

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― iamtom, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

banks usually weigh coins in rolls, don't they?

And for you guys who are sweating carrying so much in your pants pockets I have two words for you: Man Bag.

That's why they were invented silly as they are.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Sitting on a wallet full of ones for forty years is a ticket to sciatia, in'it?

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

I assume there's gotta be a Coinstar somewhere up in this bitch, but I can't say as I've seen one. Maybe outside Manhattan; Manhattan grocery stores are too "fancy" for that.

there's one in the park slope key food.

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Here we fucking go again. This time with the presidents.

So now, Washington will be on the quarter, the dollar bill, and the dollar coin. Thomas Jefferson will be on the two dollar bill and the one dollar coin. Everyone will be trying to figure out who the hell John Adams is. And once again, only the Post Office will even be giving a shit in all this.

I like that Grover Cleveland will make two appearances on the coin. Who knew that being elected to two non-consecutive terms would just fuck up the presidential numbering system forever?

Can't wait for the vice-presidential series.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.usmint.gov/images/pressroom/thumbPresWashington.jpg http://www.usmint.gov/images/pressroom/thumbPresAdams.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

can we just start using poker chips to pay for everything?

― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Why the failure?

It's simple, really. Most people in the USA are very conservative about money. When the dollar bill (Federal Reserve Note) was introduced to replace the silver dollar, it was very, very unpopular. It was only the withdrawal of the silver dollars that allowed the new bills to circulate.

Now it is the dollar bill that is cherished as 'traditional' and the dollar coin that is shunned. The US mint doesn't want to withdraw all the dollar bills, because it is seen as too drastic, too difficult and too unpopular a move to make. But, unless they do this, the dollar coins will never, ever be accepted. Never. Ever.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

I love dollar coins. I paid for my morning coffee with two Sac. coins.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, just withdraw from circ. and store owners can put the dollar coins where the bills used to go. DONE.

The Susan B Anthony and Sacajawea coins shared the problem that they just didn't have a heft to them. British pound coins are nice and chunky - they feel instinctively like MORE MONEY than the other coins do.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

?? the sac. dollar is fucking massiff! and it's gold!

surefire way to get them out there: deal with walmart and mcdonalds

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't get the implication that the reason Americans didn't take to the Sacajawea dollar was because of Sacajawea. Can't imagine the presidents will change things any.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

I like the dollar coin, especially when dealing like stuff like meters and vending machines.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

coins are inherently repugnant - all that weight and clinking around and stuff wtf.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

I think Wal*Mart did work with the federal government in introducing the Sacajawea coin. I never saw one, but I don't shop at W.M.

I haven't ever seen a vending machine that would take a dollar coin. I can still remember Coke machines in the early eighties that had labels on them saying THIS MACHINE DOES NOT ACCEPT SUSAN B. ANTHONY COINS.

I still firmly believe that the fewer coins being spilled on the counter is proportionate to a shorter transaction time for the customer.

And counting out a tipjar full of coins has got to suck. And I certainly don't ever find near as many bills in my couch cushions as I do loose change.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

I had problems occasionally using dollar coins because a lot of bodega owners and convenience store clerks refused to take them! I never quite understood why, to be honest.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

I've never gone to the bank and specifically asked for a roll of dollar coins, and I've almost never gotten them as change. I suppose there's an element of Americans not liking them, but a larger element of Americans who just don't care enough to consciously try to switch, and who don't come across them enough to use them at all.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Pleassant Plains, I sort of see what you're saying with all this stuff but practically every other country in the world forgoes bills in that small a value and it not only works out great but saves the treasury an assload of money, because coins are more durable.

and geoff I know what you're saying about the diameter, but the weight just isn't there. It's thin and insubstantial. It feels way too much like a quarter in your pocket, you can't tell the difference.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

Unfortunately a heavier coin feels nicer in the hand, but nine of them in your pocket are WORSE!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Lucky you to have $9!!!!!!!!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, too flimsy, doesn't have the heft of the British pound.

― songs and ballads of the bituminous miners (sanskrit), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

plus, this whole dolalr coin thing was pushed through by Vegas special interests, particularly size and weight specs, had to be compatible with slots with a minimum of expensive retrofitting.

― songs and ballads of the bituminous miners (sanskrit), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't they tell you, Ally? I'm a grown up now, with a real job and everything! I even hired movers yesterday to carry all my books for me!! NO MORE BRIBING NOISE BOYS W/ BEERZ.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

a lot of bodega owners and convenience store clerks refused to take them

Also: soda & snack machines.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

Damn.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

(Well, okay, only the same job I've had for almost four years. But it's nice to have shit together, y'know?)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

I've used Pound coins and euros without trouble. It's nice to be able to reach into your pocket and know that the paper bills aren't just a wad of singles and as long as these are perceptibly different in weight than the quarter, I'll have no problem with hem.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah that's totally true. Feeling your wallet somewhat thick with bills and being unpleasantly surprised to discover you're holding seven ones is pretty lame.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

Fear the mighty heft of the twony; worth 4000 of your puny dollar bills.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

The best thing about coins vs bills is you can't flip bills to make critical life decisions.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

BILLS FOLD BETTER. THEY EVEN HAVE THIS THING CALLED A BILLFOLD EXACTLY FOR THIS PURPOSE.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

SO INSTEAD OF THIS,

http://www.thednastore.com/images/moneyclip/clip1f.jpg

WE SHOULD JUST CARRY MAGNETS IN OUR POCKETS.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

COOL MYSTICAL SYMBOLS HARD TO BEAT

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

I loved having the 1 and 2 dollar coins in Australia. After a couple days I counted out my change and found that I had 50 bucks!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/6/6e/GuyFawkes2005.jpeg

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/2006-Two-Pound-Coin-Portrait.JPG

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

I can't wait for the flap over the Richard Nixon dollar coin

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

PP, it would be easier to carry that money clip without 5 bazillion WORTHLESS PIECES OF PAPER IN IT.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe it's because I'm cheap, but a dollar bill ain't worthless.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

they don't fold

they are bulky

they jingle

they make you look like a cheap ass paying with quarters

placing them on railroad tracks too tempting

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

they make you look like a cheap ass paying with quarters

It's funny that perception, 'cause I like the slightly anachronistic feeling of buying a drink with coins and a pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of gold, though for most of my life, four quarters has been worth well more than one single, especially if the laundry change machine was broken.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

No one would appreciate if you paid with a pound of feathers, I promise.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

How to make coins lighter without sacrificing strength and simultaneously make them instantly distinguishable from quarters by touch:

http://www.dragon-gate.com/Images/cpics/CO032_c.jpg

This shit is REAL easy, folks.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago)

In fact, I bet it'd be easy to make a die-punched coin with a hole in the shape of a star or eagle, or map of the 8 contiguous states just for extra patriotic oomph.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.uchsc.edu/mpaetc/images/states.gif

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

...or even the 48 contiguous states!

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:59 (eighteen years ago)

and a pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of gold

To clarify; I meant that a dollar is worth the same as four quarters. Why would it be 'cheap-ass' to pay with one form of currency as opposed to another? Why would anyone care?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

I like the idea of creating 50 cent bills, nickel bills, and quarter bills. Just print up a shitload of them.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

I love the idea of one dollar, two dollar, five dollar coins.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

The UK has two-pound coins, which are about $4. They work everywhere (in the UK).

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Damn straight. Pesonally I'd like there to be a £5 coin (that you can actually use, none of those novelty 'special edition' coins that for some reason people actually buy).

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

I still don't understand why some of you all prefer to use coins instead of bills. I assume it all comes down to personal storage i.e. not having a bunch of bills in your wallet. I would think it would be easier to carry folded pieces of paper in your pocket rather than a sack full of metal, but that's just me.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Change isn't that heavy.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

$1 and $2 coins would make me so happy. Eliminate small bills, plz.

I heard recently that the $2 bill is making a bit of a comeback, at least in the strip club industry. They're using them to make change for customers, to increase the dancers' tips. I guess they wouldn't like a change to coins, not that I care.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

A friend of mine, when I brought this subject up to him, opposed dollar coins because you can't tuck 'em in a stripper's thong.

OKAY THEN

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

"strip club industry" -- somebody please put me out of my pedantic misery.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

PP the other thing u are forgetting is that if your change were actually WORTH something you would spend it and hey presto - it's not in your pocket any more.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.24carat.co.uk/images/2005crownsilverproofobv240.jpg
http://www.24carat.co.uk/images/2006crownpiedfortsilverproof80thbirthdayrev240.jpg

anybody know how big these suckers are?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

those are life size

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

fucking fuck you $ coin people. fucking fuck you. I usually like to have at least $6 in $1s. That + normal levels of change = TOO MUCH COINAGE.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

I usually like to have at least $6 in $1s.

Is this about strip clubs again?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

COINS RULE

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

WOOOOO I LOVE COINS.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

"Put a wrinkly old bill in the jukebox, baby! I love rock n roll!"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

PP the other thing u are forgetting is that if your change were actually WORTH something you would spend it and hey presto - it's not in your pocket any more.

See, I almost dread going to the post office because I know I'm going to get stuck with a bunch of coins. Spending it to get rid of it isn't a very thrifty option.

If some of you all are having trouble folding your wallet or billfold because you have six one-dollar bills inside it, I suggest cleaning out some of those fortune cookie slips and month-old receipts.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

OK GUYS:
LET'S SAY I ALREADY HAVE A BUNCH OF 1$ COINS AND I MAKE A PURCHASE WITH A $20 FOR LIKE $16.00? AND THEN I HAVE TO FUCKING GET BACK MORE COINS?

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

YES! AWESOME! UNDER MY ADMINISTRATION YOU WOULD EITHER GET

1) FOUR ONE DOLLAR COINS
2) TWO TWO DOLLAR COINS

YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, WEAKLING?

COINZ RULE!!!!!!

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry I don't wear wigger pants with all this room for coinage.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

You'd prefer a front pocket bulging full of jangling coins?

I never answered this properly the first time around. The answer is yes because I should never have more than £4.99 in coins in my pockets at any one time - the £5, £10, £20 notes will be in my wallet, NOT bulging (I should be so lucky) and the coins will be barely noticeable even if they're at their most plentiful.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

jon you give the guy one of your one pound coins AND the 20, and you get a 5 back!!

DUH!!!!!?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, "thaler" coins (thank you, czech republic)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

haha i cannot believe jon "fucking" williams does not engage in this type of subconscious elementary coin management asshattery on a daily basis!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

In my wallet, twenties are in the back and onesies are in the front. It's very easy to take out the bills I need and hand them to the cashier.

In my pocket, there is just CHANGE. To pay for anything, I have to take a handfull out and count them out like a concert promoter picking out brown M&Ms.

Maybe one of you would suggest that I carry a fucking CHANGE PURSE. WHICH WOULDN'T HELP BECAUSE THE COINS WOULD STILL BE MIXED TOGETHER.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

And yet hundreds of millions of Europeans manage to do this every day. Hmmm?

I just like the idea of slipping dollar coins into the thong of strippers till it hangs low like they've shat themselves.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

Odd. That thought had never occurred to me.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

And yet hundreds of millions of Europeans manage to do this every day. Hmmm?

Exactly. You know what you can buy with a handful of dollar coins?

A beer
A donut
A seven inch single

I guess you pussies don't like beers, donuts of seven inch singles.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

To pay for anything, I have to take a handfull out and count them out like a concert promoter picking out brown M&Ms.

BECAUSE THEY ARE WORTH PRACTICALLY NOTHING!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Firmly on the coins' side here, myself.

But! isn't it time for the UK to phase out the 1p and 2p ones? I always end up with loads of close-to-worthless copper when I'm over there.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

They have talked about it a few times, but nothing has been done. They even introduced 1¢ and 2¢ pieces with the euro although you rarely get those.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

We'll probably have £5 coins before we loose 1p and 2p coins. The Bank of England would dearly love to get rid of the fiver note, preferably without replacing it with a coin.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, other countries use coins. They also use roundabouts, forbid woman to shop without a male relative, and eat puppies.

Since Americans don't like to touch each other, it's easier to hand a dollar bill over to someone than a coin. And if the cashier has Parkinson's, you can just forget it.

A dollar isn't worthless. Yet.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha, it's alway interesting to find out what really sets a person off.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

You also don't want to get me started on getting paid "double-time" to work Thanksgiving, i.e. regular pay for regular hours + obligatory paid holiday = DOUBLE TIME.

Also see, MS Word, MLB wildcard slot in playoffs, people who say the troops are protecting us in Iraq, and bandmembers apologizing for our performance from the stage.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

And if the cashier has Parkinson's, you can just forget it.

Guiltiest roffle today.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, okay, on the stripper front, could someone please confirm or deny:

I heard in Canada the ladies get loonies and twooneys thrown at them during their act, and then at the end they pick them all up with a magnet on a swinging rope. IS THIS TRUE?

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

Google "Stripper Magnets" and see what happens.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

It all looks like stuff Norm Abrams would use. :( Not helpful:

http://www.newequipment.com/media/Product/attqkkmr_632859633768446639_large.jpg

A "magnet stripper."

ANYWAY, throwing coins at women seems really mean and volatile. Are the bruises just not obvious due to full-on spray tan body makeup?

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

jon you give the guy one of your one pound coins AND the 20, and you get a 5 back!!
and
haha i cannot believe jon "fucking" williams does not engage in this type of subconscious elementary coin management asshattery on a daily basis!

I do this all the time! I even try to make exact change so I don't have fucking change on me. However, when you're buying fucking beers and you're sloshed, you don't want to have to try to figure this shit out. NOR DO YOU EVER WANT TO HAVE TO CONSULT BOTH POCKET AND WALLET TO DETERMINE HOW MANY DOLLARS YOU HAVE.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

i like the idea of M White in a strip joint

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

GIVE ME ONE FUCKING GOOD REASON WHY WE NEED A DOLLAR+ COIN OTHER THAN TO PLEASE SOME DOUCHEY FORM OF ANGLOPHILIA

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Because, you fucking pussy, it's more convienent to pull out some change when you have to spend less than 10 dollars. it's a lot easier to carry around change than a bunch of loose bills and such when you are making smaller purchase.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

jon you give the guy one of your one pound coins AND the 20, and you get a 5 back!!
DUH!!!!!?
-- Euai Kapaui (tracerhan...) (webmail), Today 11:55 AM. (tracerhand) (later)

so you have to carry coins to avoid coins?

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

WTF is wrong with you? Bills weigh less, are easier to organize. Define "easier" by other criteria.

xpost

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

Unless of course you carry around some sort of coin sorter or something.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

But then coins + coin sorter is always going to weigh waaaay more than bills + wallet/fold.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

But wanting my $10 to weigh 1 gram rather than 1 pound would make me a "fucking pussy", I guess.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

WTF is wrong with me? Dude, I dunno, alls I'm saying is when I was in Germany, I was pretty into the small change, the 2 Mark coins, the 5 Mark coins or whatever they had. It was cool and seemed easier when making smaller purchases. Seriously, losers, coins don't weigh that much.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

Look, I lived with $1 and $2 coins in Australia. The only upsides I can think of are you sometimes get surprised how much money you have in the bottom of your bag and, if your a daily coin jar type, you'll probably have enough to buy a fairly large LCD TV at the end of the year.

STILL, I'll take US paper dollars any day of the week. COINS ARE NOT CONVENIENT.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

FWIW it IS possible to post exactly what you just did without all the "fucking pussy"s and "losers"s etc.

xpost again

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, strike that, I forgot where I am (internet).

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

LETS ASK SOME EUROPEANS FOR THEIR OPINIONS. THEY SEEM TO LIKE IT OKAY I BET.

xpost: dude, if you are taking any part of my posts seriously that say "loser" or "dickbag" or "asshat" then you have much bigger problems than coins vs. bills.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

OTM, fucktard.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

ans 1: it's much cheaper on the treasury to keep billions of little bits of metal in circulation thatn billions of little pieces of printed fabric.

ans 2: it's a plot to feminize america further by stripping men of their natural carrier, the wallet, forcing them towards coin-purses, man bags, and other faggoty shit you can't pay strippers out of

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

GIVE ME ONE FUCKING GOOD REASON WHY WE NEED A DOLLAR

Ask the U.S. Treasury, that notorious bastion of Europhile douchery, why they've been trying since the 70's to re-instate dollar coins. It might have something to do with the relative expense/longevity of making bills vs. making coins.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

If I had my goddamn way you fucksticks the whole cocksucking legal tender thing would be handled by motherfucking credit systems via sensors and barcodes tattood to our bodies. Douchebfags.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha douche-b-fags

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

OH NOES! DOLLAR COINS THE TERRSTS HAVE WON!!

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha ha, I'ma fucktard

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

Next they'll be making us buy straight bananas, and put them up our own butts.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

OK, say you are buying a $3.50 beer and you have, say six singles left in your wallet after getting monumentally stewed. You reach into your back pocket, or the front pocket of your jacket you've left draped on a chair, to get your wallet. You open it up and fish out $4.00 to pay for your drink. Creating MORE CHANGE@!!@ Or you somehow peer through the haze of your own dissipation and additionally thrust a hand into the front pocket of your mysteriously change-laden jeans and fish out two quarters. So, you are either doing TWO operations or you are creating more change for yourself. With $ coins, there is a VERY strong likelihood that you will have the amount required in one operation with a probable net-zero change, uh, change.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

You put the change in the tipjar, duh.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

GAMBLING/VENDING SPECIAL INTERESTS MORAN!!!1

AGAIN, LET'S NOT MISS MR.QUE'S REASON:
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool
It was cool

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm sorry but neither side here really has made good arguments, myself included. It did seem easier, though.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

With $ coins, there is a VERY strong likelihood that you will have the amount required in one operation with a probable net-zero change, uh, change.
YES BUT IF THAT FAILS THE 2 OPERATION OVERHEAD IS TOOOOOO GREAT

This reminds me of the argument about leaving toilet seats in the last state vs. returning to down

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm sorry but neither side here really has made good arguments, myself included. It did seem easier, though.

EXCEPT $BILL PEOPLE WON'T HAVE TO CARRY AROUND POUND OF FUCKING MONEY.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

GIVE ME ONE FUCKING GOOD REASON WHY WE NEED A DOLLAR+ COIN OTHER THAN TO PLEASE SOME DOUCHEY FORM OF ANGLOPHILIA GIVE ME ONE FUCKING GOOD REASON WHY WE NEED A DOLLAR+ COIN OTHER THAN TO PLEASE SOME DOUCHEY FORM OF ANGLOPHILIA GIVE ME ONE FUCKING GOOD REASON WHY WE NEED A DOLLAR+ COIN OTHER THAN TO PLEASE SOME DOUCHEY FORM OF ANGLOPHILIA GIVE ME ONE FUCKING GOOD REASON WHY WE NEED A DOLLAR+ COIN OTHER THAN TO PLEASE SOME DOUCHEY FORM OF ANGLOPHILIA

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

and if you want a $5 coin... just make a bigger one... right?

http://www.chinanews.cn/news/2005/2005-09-09/U42P6T5D10680F80DT20050909152217.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

You're the one who said it was "cool".

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

Seems like a perfectly valid reason to me.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

You're the one who's entire defense of bills is

GIVE ME ONE FUCKING GOOD REASON WHY WE NEED A DOLLAR+ COIN OTHER THAN TO PLEASE SOME DOUCHEY FORM OF ANGLOPHILIA

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

EXCEPT $BILL PEOPLE WON'T HAVE TO CARRY AROUND POUND[s] OF FUCKING MONEY.
EXCEPT $BILL PEOPLE WON'T HAVE TO CARRY AROUND POUND[s] OF FUCKING MONEY.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

With dollar bills, I never have to worry that they've been in some kid's mouth or fished out of a toilet or fountain.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

THE 2 OPERATION OVERHEAD IS TOOOOOO GREAT

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Does money smell like cocaine or does cocaine smell like money?

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

I bet your wallet weighs a couple of pounds.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

haha yeah there's also the fact that if you've got a line broke out and want to snort it and all you've got is some douchy coins you are SOL.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Okay enough with the Bart Simpson impressions boys.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

wtf kind of retards are using dollar bills for their coke.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

I bet your wallet weighs a couple of pounds.
http://espn.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/george_costanza.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

Allie, you know that it hasn't been up anyone else's nose before, right?

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

ALLY

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

With dollar bills, I never have to worry that they've been in some kid's mouth or fished out of a toilet or fountain.

Actually, you have no assurance of any of that, not mention the very real possibility that the scraggly single you fish out of your wallet wasn't at one time used by a toothless crystal methanist with Hep C to snort up a delicious line of sweet, sweet, crank and the fabric of a bill is far more absorbent than solid metal.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Here's a picture of Mr.Que's prototype for a $50 coin:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Yap_Stone_Money.jpg/737px-Yap_Stone_Money.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

err
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

Also guys:

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU DROPPED COINS VS. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU DROPPED BILLS

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

www.wheresgeorge.com

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

^ otm

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

it's more like, that's a shitty, inefficient way of doing things. come prepared, don't scrounge for dollars, if you want to party. people who tried to do that in the presence of some people i knew got smacked upside the head and presented with all manner of more stable, quicker objects to use. FYFUCKINGI DOUCHEBAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love this thread btw, I don't even care about it cos I so rarely have money that it really wouldn't make a difference.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://mk23.image.pbase.com/u35/sleeper55/upload/23113917.Straws.jpg

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

do you have cocaine? y/n

btw ally you are v v pretty

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.hetemeel.com/haha/44126.I

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://print.org.nz/images/homepage/buscardsimages.jpg

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.poetsdreams.com/KEYS%20-%20LG%20BLACK.jpg

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

OOOH NOW YOUR INSULTING MY COIN PROTOTYPES OH NOES

hey jon how much does your cellphone weigh?

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ally I meant dollar bills as straw-replacement snorting utensil.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

those are some great cat money pictures, ally.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ctgilles.net/images/pictars/stevie-wonder-red-eyes.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.allayurveda.com/images/feminine/31.jpg

xpost I NEVER HAVE DOLLAR BILLS NICKA, PLEASE DON'T RUB IT IN ABOUT MY POVERTY.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

hey jon how much does your cellphone weigh?

PWNED BY ZACH MORRIS PHONE :(

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

jon your picture isn't showing up either

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

I know!

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

I have never had to deal with a sticky dollar bill. I have had greasy, green quarters shoved into my hands before.

Bills don't roll. I rarely see dollar bills in the bottoms of street grates.

http://www.firstadopter.com/200605281907.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

oh!!!! my straw picture isn't showing up so i thought you were making fun of me ;_1

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

all I wanna do is make this one last point and then I'm DONE with this thread: all of you, you're still a pussy for liking dollar bills.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

The only acceptable argument for keeping dollar bills is so you can do the wanky folding thing with it to mushroom George Washington's head. And to do the search for the owls on the bill. Other than that, there's no reason for any money at all.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Bills don't roll. I rarely see dollar bills in the bottoms of street grates.

People find paper money in the street all the time. My co-worker found fifty bucks once. OMG PEOPLE LOSE SHIT OH NOES.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/redexok0.gif

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

^ bullshit xpost

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

I once found a wallet stuffed full of dollar bills and tens, it was a good $300 worth of money, just sittin in an elevator.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

why can't i buy soda with my 4 pound phone

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

fuck you nokia

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

In Singapore people can make credit card transactions with their cellphones.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

People lose shit because thy're acting like hipster douchebags and listening to Depeche Mode while snorting things.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

OTM ^^^^^^

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

If the govt wants to phase out small bills in lieu of coins, I don't know why they don't just go ahead and do it. What are the chattering JWs and PPs going to do, refuse to go along with it? Hoard singles? Switch to debit cards for all transactions including stripper tips? I seriously doubt administrations are going to be turned out of office because of this issue. Some people don't want fluoride in their water either, but fuck 'em, let 'em move to Idaho and dig a well.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

u mad, MW???????????!!!!!!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://mirror.altrec.com/images/shop/photos/KER/19794_m.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Some people like their cucumbers better pickled.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.uwm.edu/People/tplee/IMAGES/ralph1.gif

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

What are the chattering JWs and PPs going to do, refuse to go along with it? Hoard singles?

~~I still have old twenties somewhere in a shoebox~~

(Seriously, Martin Scorsese's prop department's going to thank me one day.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I was just kidding about the hipster douchebags

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I just want to see a stripper with a debit card swiper installed in her cleavage, g-string or asscrack.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

If the govt wants to phase out small bills in lieu of coins, I don't know why they don't just go ahead and do it.

see: everyone in illinois flipping out everytime people talk about getting rid of the penny

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but this is a case where you could just let 'em flip. Are they really going to vote based on which pocket they dig cash out of?!

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

see: metric system

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

Or put Lincoln on the five dollar coin. But they would still freak out.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

That's a case where public refusal can obv. be effective, but the boat won't float without cash changing hands. The public just can't refuse to conduct that $2.29 transaction the way they can refuse to say kilometer. (xpost)

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

Guys, they ARE phasing out the penny.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Many of the countries don't have paper equivalents of <$10 USD currency.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

^^in Asia.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Idaho has flouridated water! Oh shit, but my parents did dig a well. maybe that 'splains my teeth.

I STILL WANT TO KNOW DO BEAVER CANUCKS THROW COINS AT STRIPPERS WHO THEN PICK THEM UP W/A SWINGING LODESTONE OR SOME SHIT?

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Please?

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yes.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.80stoysale.com/images/ad9.jpg

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

So you're saying that my grandma will have to send me something $5 or greater in my birthday card?

Nah, she'll just write me a check for two dollars.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

MW that is awesome

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks dude.

http://www.rchumane.org/cat_money.jpg

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bigcatrescue.org/images/HybridBengalCatlippi_cat.jpg

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

WUHT

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

I know, right?

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

It's five years later and they are still yet to catch on. I use 'em a lot but I think I'm the only one who does. I am very amused by the idea of them printing Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions. Maybe these will catch on more when they start printing the more recent presidents? I can't be the only one who would love some Bill Clinton currency...

― frogbs, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:06 (fourteen years ago)

I just like the idea of slipping dollar coins into the thong of strippers till it hangs low like they've shat themselves.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:59 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:16 (fourteen years ago)

okay now I've just shat myself laughing

― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:22 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/group_of_republican_congressme.html

who even wants 5.5 billion dollars if it is in dollar coins

― mr. vertical (schlump), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 00:18 (fourteen years ago)

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