Abraham Lincoln goes purple

The Canadians are right on this one I'm afraid, carrying around shitloads of identically sized and coloured notes is annoying and takes unnecessarily long when you're paying for things.

-- Matt DC, Monday, February 11, 2008 3:07 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

youre just RONG all over the place today

-- sunny successor, Monday, February 11, 2008 3:09 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

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

-- bell_labs, Monday, February 11, 2008 3:11 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

lol @ the image of confused person "sorting" their bills while trying to pay

-- roxymuzak, Monday, February 11, 2008 3:13 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

somebody at Treasury propagandizing for Joshua Speed

So that's where Larry Kramer's been lately.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/167947883_ed4aacda55.jpg

So starting to look like UK notes then?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Bank_Of_England10.gif
Also the big '5' reminds me of this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Thunderbird5.jpg

...or possibly being in a multi-storey cark park

"What this design is screaming out to you is, 'I'm a 5, I'm a 5,' "

whorediamonds.jpg

lol @ the image of confused person "sorting" their bills while trying to pay

-- roxymuzak, Monday, February 11, 2008 3:13 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

lol @ the image of someone reading numbers on their identically sized/coloured bills while paying.

can one's brain recognize colors faster than a number?

yeah because it takes SO LONG to "read" the numbers on money.

^^^
it's like " hold on let me just finish this sentence, o this is worth 5 dollars, you may know it as purple"

wtf ppl when the thing involved is MONEY the human brain tends to figure out the important distinctions pretty quick.

every time i've travelled anywhere and suddenly had a bunch of strange coins and bills in my pocket it took maybe an afternoon to get it down by feel.

god.

^^^^
i miss all green bills :(

Why are the bills the same size and colour when they don't need to be? Yes, identifying the colour or size of a piece of paper instead of focusing on the text/images is marginally quicker for perfectly-sighted people, but more to the point, does everyone in the U.S. have perfect eyesight?

different sized bills?? madnesssssss

rest of world = mad?

are you serious? (caek)

like, there are ways for people who are vision impaired to identify whihc bills are which by the way. There's a special way of folding them.

no, i see blind people handing out 100 bills all the time.

Yes, it's possible to work it out with your eyes closed. It's possible to drive your car in reverse too.

ugh whatever.

why am I even arguing about this, who cares.

i hate this board.

Don't worry, caek is being crazy. It hardly requires "perfect vision" to tell what denomination yr money is, in large party thanks to our medical system, which while crappy, does make vision enhancing equipment such as "glasses" and "contact lenses" relatively widely available.

"party"? I wish going to the optometrist was a party. Margaritas and toric lenses for all!!

who the fuck is abraham lincoln?

So starting to look like UK notes then?

first step toward North American Union and One World Government.

why does Lincoln get the penny and the 5-dollar bill?

because he's a motherfucking lumberjack

Making your notes different sizes and using y'know, coloured ink, is a basic and pretty obvious usability device for the blind and seriously sight-impaired that the rest of the world introduced decades ago -- and apparently the U.S. is joining in, hence this thread. Good luck curing blindness at those "optometrists" I've heard so much about though.

POLL: The new NYC Taxi logo C/D?

Yes but think of the trauma to billfold manufacturers, caek, that well-known and powerful lobby group.

http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2008/02/New-Five

1896 $5 = rad

http://www.mixedmp3.com/5.jpg

new 5 is obv in tribute to lincolns well-known super-gayness

and he loved button-fly slim-fitting pants, hence $5.01

That's my area code!

Should've been

http://www.uiowa.edu/~c008g001/gallery/images/thumbnails/demuth2_tn.jpg

caek is right that Americans have this bizarre conservatism about money. Take the repeated failure of the $1 coin for example.

Having all currency in bills of the same colour has been a total non-issue for me, although it took a minor adjustment at first. (I tend to still feel that a dollar should be a coin and not a bill though. I can get over this.)

http://forevergeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/johnnyfive.jpg

1. I prefer bills to all be the same size.

2. I appreciate the slight dashes of color and re-designing that have gone on with the larger denominations lately, which do make everything easier to spot, visually -- it's especially handy if you're like me and sometimes get all your money wadded up in a pocket, because you can very quickly distinguish the valuable 20s in that mess from all the 1s around them (much liking spotting a silvery glint in a jarful of pennies)

3. This is funny because it would all fall apart if they did an update on the 1. The main way the updates have helped is that yr more valuable bills look crisp new and fancy.

Different sized bills is asking to have a fucking mess in your wallet. Fuck you blind people (safe to say after successful eye surg)

Q. WILL THE FUCKING CHANGE MACHINE AT THE LAUNDROMAT ACCEPT THE NEW FIVE?

A. fucking peasant; if you have five dollars pay a goddamn wetback to do your fuckin' laundry!!!!!

wow, funny stuff

Yeah, different sizes is crazy.

somewhat disappointed this thread wasn't ned breaking out some new, horriffic euphemism.

Monopoly money =

http://www.thirteenmonths.com/images/australia/auA/au_money.jpg

Plus side, the notes are made out of motherfucking plastic and can (and have) survived trips through the washing machine.

I thought this thread was going to be about the Log Cabin Republicans or something, but no, it's about the continued pussification of US currency.

Wait, who in the hell counterfeits $5 bills? $20 is the currency du jour here.

What this design is screaming out to you is, 'I'm a 5, I'm a 5,' "

and thus "5" was birthed into the Polari slang family

I rather like having different-colored bills. 'Tis quick! I didn't have any trouble with the bills in the US when I visited a few years ago though. The coins on the other hand! And those didn't even look like one another, I just never really learned which was which without looking at the denominations every time.

Some Norwegian grimbills:
http://www.tu.no/multimedia/archive/00019/penger_sedler_19608d.jpg

Having just one purple five in the bottom corner looks pretty dreadful though, doesn't it?

http://shinymedia.headshift.com/images/tech_digest/images/wasp_t12.JPG

Is the 5 so big because it's the most frequently used number?

So bored am I, that by taking 20,000 phone numbers from my database, I have calculated which numbers are most commonly used:

0 17%
1 14%
2 12%
7 9%
3 9%
4 8%
8 8%
5 8%
6 8%
9 6%

I would imagine the 7 would he higher if these included mobile numbers, but I don't think many of these do.

Take it up with Charlie Brooker, not me!