COINS: ABOLISH THEM NOW AND FOREVER!

lol at canada, get a real monetary system

i like quarters tho! you can play video games and get bubble gum.

parts of that 60 mins piece brought the lols >> introduction of dude who worked out how much time making change wasted "but what do the NERDS have to say abt this??"

almost as awes as andy rooney at the super bowl

people who hate change=people who hate america

listen australia is the same with the 1 and 2 dollar coins. the only bonus is when you throw all of your coins in a coin jar each night, by the end of the year you have A LOT of money.

also, i found it very disheartening when i first visited america because i kept thinking i had mad amounts of money in my wallet what with all of those notes stuffed in there but no.

do we really need pennies, nickels AND dimes? they should be able to get rid of at least one of those.

ban pennies

if you banned the penny, you've effectively made every single thing cost between 1 and 4 cents more. across the entire economy.

ROUND DOWN

No one is going to fucking round down, are you kidding me? That is not the capitalist way.

this is the weirdest fucking screed eva

New Zealand got rid of 1 and 2 cent coins in the 80s, and recently (in the last 3 years or so) abolished the 5 cent coin. Smallest piece of change is 10c. It's WEIRD TO ME.

I live in Canada now, and I have to say I like having coins instead of notes for the $1 and $2. I don't care about saying loonie or toonie, everyone is used to it. Having also lived in the US I think the biggest issue there is MAKE YOUR NOTES NOT LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME. Jesus. A different colour wouldn't kill you.

apart from sky-high metals prices, coins are much cheaper than paper money to keep in circulation. actually even with the high metal prices that's still probably true.

Having also lived in the US I think the biggest issue there is MAKE YOUR NOTES NOT LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME. Jesus. A different colour wouldn't kill you.

otm. also, 2 dollar and 5 dollar coins please

uh hello prices arent determined by the denominations of currency u guys - they can be raised anytime to any amount - people still got to buy what yr selling see.

but anyway 9cents isnt worth shit ok

im willing to compromise here. we have one coin of ten cents and a fifty cent bill thats all. there are no two decimal points after the dollar theres just one. if that sometimes loses you 9 cents well then omfg 9 cents what to do boohoo.

and anyone who disagrees can move to fucking canada where they have pitiful little poems to hockey on their smallest bill: the five!

I'm kind of with jhoshea on this. I would protest so much at coins worth a dollar or more. My pockets would be so heavy, and I feel like the coins would be easier to lose.

I've never understood the whole "all greenbacks look the same" argument. The tops of them look different for some say 20 and 10.

And I've been over this before, but I'll take a wallet filled with folded pieces of paper than a sack full of metal bouncing around in my pocket.

MAKE YOUR NOTES NOT LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME. Jesus. A different colour wouldn't kill you.

NO. you keep your monopoly money i'll stick with the green

i think we can all agree that the canadians have hilarious money. (not a diss)

i want a $2 coin really badly -- i think it would be super-practical for drinking purposes

i love quarters. quarters are the perfect coin size. to get a good coin flip, you gotta use a quarter. and for the trick where you put a stack on your elbow and then flip your arm down and catch them in your pal. i could live without the rest i guess. dimes are squirrelly, nickels are dull. british pound coins are kind nice and hefty. you can use them in a slingshot, worse comes to worst.

catch them in your palm. although catching them in your pal is arguably a better trick.

if we had 2 dollar and 5 dollar coins i would carry them around all the time and it would be awesome but i would never leave the house with a pocket full of pennies, nickels, dimes etc.

i do love quarters though

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canadians have a demonination with hockey players on it!

if u want to do a coin flip you can use a commemorative coin like the superbowl does that is why its called america

yah bell labs i know its kinda of cute... kind of

i used to go to this bar that would give you back your change in $2 bills, dollar coins and .50 cent pieces. It was a cool gimmick just because you’d wake up with all sorts of crazy change in your pocket

most annoying thing ever: going to the post office and having the stamp machine give me change in like $13 worth of dollar coins.

coins worth real money freaked me out in switzerland. i'd leave my change lying around and then realize it was worth, like, twenty bucks. fuck heavy pockets.

it's all a euro tranzi enfaggenizing plot to get men buying purses

the central banks are trying to shrink your testicles.

fuck murses.

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee39/samgezee/conspiracy.jpg

I really wish I could take part in this argument, but every country has the same denomination and form for 0$.

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/sad-cat.jpg

<3 coins

make me feel like i am in might and magic vi: the mandate of heaven

i would like it more if they were made out of gold and bore the king's head on them

http://www.versatiletalent.com/vertal%20standup.jpg

"I mean, all dollars were turned into coins, where would you tip the stripper? Don't answer that, ha ha ha!"

Apparently in many places in Canada strippers will often sit with their legs open and encourage men to throw one dollar coins at their crotch

see now that's just sweet

coin$lot

Oh this got weird:

http://www.sexyquarters.com/itemimagesqm/1120largepackage.jpg

http://sexyquarters.com/

I think they got Helen Keller to get nekkid.

Bloody hate coins too. The only problem I've found with small notes though (especially true since travelling in South America recently) is that the small ones change hands so often that they degrade really quickly (have been given notes recently that've been soggy, gaffa taped and even stapled together - and they still passed as legal tender).

Of course, introducing plasticised notes (like Australia) solves that problem.

no - plastic bills just dont feel right

um i don't care how weird canada is, no stripper on earth is going to be cool with dudes whipping little bits of metal at her labia. I CALL BULLSHIT.

Of course, introducing plasticised notes (like Australia) solves that problem.

-- __CB__, Monday, February 11, 2008 2:37 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yr kidding right? the plastic ones crack/rip/tear really easily.

doing stuff just generates more change. :(

jesus christ you guys

i feel like i'm in a really long cab ride

i hope yr not planning on paying w/change

i can assure you that cabbie would be quite peeved if you tried to pay him in change.

damn it! xpost

lol

um i don't care how weird canada is, no stripper on earth is going to be cool with dudes whipping little bits of metal at her labia. I CALL BULLSHIT.

more than one person i know has verified this; one of them has done the throwing, and one has had shit thrown at them, and they're both from different semi-backwater parts of ontario.

re: coins though, fuck them, I hate having twelve dollars in my pocket that is three pounds, BUT i will change my mind if they get rid of pennies and nickels, AND make the loonies/toonies/quarters weigh less.

Or jsut switch us all over to credsticks already, jeez.

i just want to brag that i got about $250 from my last coinstar haul
they take 8.9% >:(

I am now imagining attempting to toss jacks and bottle caps into strippers. Fuck you all.

when i was a kid my uncles used to talk about going to the "canadian ballet" and i thought it really odd that a truck driver and construction worker would want to go all the way to canada for the ballet, but hey, if you can throw toonies at their coinslot, it makes a lot more sense!

yah coinstar is a total rip - on my other change thread someone said there was a bank on canal that has a free machine - mercantile maybe?

http://www.kansasstatefair.com/KSF/ksfadmin/assets/entertainers/game.jpg

xp

http://www.videovat.com/videos/1705/lindsey-lohan-coinslot.aspx

your own bank won't charge your for the change machine

they doesnt hav one tho

your bank sucks ass.

yah that pretty much makes up for the lack of a change machine

that's the best part about my scheme, I don't even bank with chevy chase, I just abuse their generosity

tomboto, evil genius

listen australia is the same with the 1 and 2 dollar coins.

-- sunny successor, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 06:01 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

The $2 is a shit. It's so thick that you can't hear it hit the ground when you drop it. Nice having a TSI on the reverse, though.

btw our notes are far and away the most attractive I have ever seen. It was a pleasure to get home last year, after handling dull disintegrating paper rubbish for several weeks.

yah theyre nice until you want to separate two of them that happen to be next to each other in your wallet

I've never had trouble separating plastic notes, even on hot muggy days.

New Zealand got rid of 1 and 2 cent coins in the 80s, and recently (in the last 3 years or so) abolished the 5 cent coin. Smallest piece of change is 10c. It's WEIRD TO ME.

-- franny glass, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 06:13 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I wish we'd do that. 5c coins are bonkers. Nothing in the entire country costs $n.n5 cents anymore.

dude those shits are slippery as a motherfucker

like digging around your pockets for weird coins is less time consuming than paying with bills?!

Its easy because you put your hand in your pocket and you can immediately tell by the size and feel of the coin how much it is worth. That's because they're properly designed. Flicking through wads of different denomination bills to make sure you're getting rid of your small change first just takes ages. It wouldn't be so annoying if they didn't all look the same.

im sorry no matt no there is no way paying w/change is faster

its completely faster. nothing is ever 3 or 4 dollars on the nose, so you're eventually going to need to involve the change at some point of the payment process anyway. why bother with both? especially with sundry items, where the longer you spend rifling through your wallet + pockets, the longer you look like a tool. it just makes sense.

commerce bank has free coin machines in all of their branches, as far as i know, and they give you a nice red plastic bank for your future hoardings.

otm. they gave my kid one last weekend. then we went home and my wife gave him all her spare change that she has evidently been HOARDING from me (even though i NEED quarters for the coffee machine at work). so when she wasn't looking i took all the quarters and let him keep the rest.

I thought Ron Paul started this threads.

ron paul just carries around a gold nugget and chips off a little at a time.

"Here's ya 0.4 moles of gold, tootsie."

Coins belong in car ashtrays - for drive-thru purposes and even once when I filled up and realised I hadn't brought my wallet. (filling up LPG tank... Probably wouldn't have enough for a tank of petrol even if the glovebox had been full of $2 coins...)

Other than that, save for $1 beer nights at bars?

$1 beer nights at bars??!?!? where do they have these? RED STATES?

I guess Australia technically *is* a red state now.

Red means left here though.

I assume Catsup's talking about US states.

nah coins completely suck. i have several jars of mostly pennies with a few dimes and nickels in there. it sucks. they weigh down pockets, are a pain in the ass to sift through, and make your hands stink like metal.

one of my friends said we should have more coins and get rid of smaller bills. could you imagine carrying around $10-15 worth of $2 or $1 coins???

Coins have a smell?!??!?

I think I realised that Adam...

Also this:

I wish we'd do that. 5c coins are bonkers. Nothing in the entire country costs $n.n5 cents anymore.

-- Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 February 2008 22:58 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I can't remember when I've bought something that *hasn't* cost $n.95...

could you imagine carrying around $10-15 worth of $2 or $1 coins???

-- Mark Clemente, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:40 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

YES. IT NEVER BECOMES MANEGEABLE. EVER.

coins definitely have a smell, especially pennies, which smell like copper, obv.

ohh sorry abbott, if i remember correctly, you have some sense of smell issues, right?

I can't remember when I've bought something that *hasn't* cost $n.95...

-- S-, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:46 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

Things that usually cost $n.n0:

- Restaurant and lunch food
- Beer
- Papers

Everything else goes on cards.

Things I can remember buying in the last two days...

Double sided auto tape: 4.75
6 pack Monteith's Golden Ale: 15.95
10x Sony Data tapes: $39.05 (okay this is WTF)
Maccas: 5.95

Maccas != food

And yeah, $39.05 wtf? Was this a wholesale price?

Pennies smell like blood

song title^^^

listen australia is the same with the 1 and 2 dollar coins. the only bonus is when you throw all of your coins in a coin jar each night, by the end of the year you have A LOT of money.

God, American money sucks!! The only coins I ever find useful in Australia are the 50c and $1 (and that's not often)...which is why I still have a shitload of US pennies and quarters lying around.