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# ? Apr 17, 2016 04:02 |
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EDIT: STOOPID DOUBLE POSTS!
Samizdata has a new favorite as of 04:18 on Apr 17, 2016 |
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Tunicate posted:Sadly the glasses only work for 30ish% of colorblind people, last I saw. Yeah, well, I am blue-green-purple colorblind to a degree the military turned me down and my ex-wife would tease me about picking the wrong shirts and stuff, so yay for that 30%! CJacobs posted:Wow this lovely rehost straight up stole the video wholesale including the description, then slapped their own watermark on top of it. I guess the poo poo that didn't happen in this case was that that channel did not make the video! Here's the original: And that is a serious rear end in a top hat manuever too. Clickbaiting scum.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 04:14 |
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hogmartin posted:"Meninist". I had to read that twice before I realized that it doesn't mean "subscribing to the theories of misogynist social philosopher Dr. Menin, whom I have never heard of". Maybe it's because it's capitalized for some reason. Also, I'm not terribly bright. All I thought of was the old commericial jingle. "Byyyyyyyy Meninist!" (Sorry, I suck at YouTube time codes, but it is only about 28 seconds.)
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 04:17 |
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Usenet Classic STDH posted:The following is a true story. It amused the hell out of me while it was happening. I hope it isn't one of those "had to be there" things.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 04:19 |
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So are $2 notes really uncommon (because ????????) in the US or is the manager just really dim
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 04:25 |
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Khazar-khum posted:Either that, or it's pathetic. Submitter spotted. CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:So are $2 notes really uncommon (because ????????) in the US or is the manager just really dim They're pretty uncommon in the US, to the point where, if I'm remembering right, some researchers have convinced strip clubs to only make change in them to track how money flows through that community. Anil Dikshit has a new favorite as of 04:38 on Apr 17, 2016 |
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:So are $2 notes really uncommon (because ????????) in the US or is the manager just really dim Kind of both. Two dollar bills are sort of a novelty currency, they're legal tender but you need to go out of your way to get them.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 04:32 |
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Kind of both. Two dollar bills are sort of a novelty currency, they're legal tender but you need to go out of your way to get them. You can just ask for them at the bank. No one does because $2 bills are pointless. Sorry, Thomas
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 04:40 |
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I like getting them from the bank because it makes people happy to see them in a tip. Same thing for those golden dollar coins. Samizdata posted:Yeah, well, I am blue-green-purple colorblind to a degree the military turned me down and my ex-wife would tease me about picking the wrong shirts and stuff, so yay for that 30%! During WWII the airforce would recruit colorblind people to be bomber pilots. Turned out aerial camouflage of the day was a hell of a lot easier for colorblind people to spot, for whatever reason. Tunicate has a new favorite as of 04:50 on Apr 17, 2016 |
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ED:Doublepost
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 04:50 |
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kizudarake posted:Submitter spotted. I thought they just did that so you would have to tip more.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 04:51 |
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Two dollar bills are considered lucky in South Korea, so my students always had them. I figured they were all North Korean counterfeit imports, but apparently not.a very bad teacher posted:Causing Participation Consternation
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 05:06 |
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Minarchist posted:You can just ask for them at the bank. Alexander Hamilton's final revenge.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 05:30 |
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Khazar-khum posted:Either that, or it's pathetic. Maybe if it was a very inexperienced doctor, but I've gotten the sense that med students have seen it all by the time they're done with their rotations.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 05:46 |
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bringmyfishback posted:...the headmaster of my school... [in a story set in the US] For anyone who didn't follow the last thread, the Not Always X series of bullshit publishers make very heavy edits to their submissions to make them more cookie-cutter same-y. The editors (tbh probably just one guy) are apparently from the UK, so stories submitted from the US by Americans will occasionally have incongruous Britishisms. The example from this story isn't the most egregious, but still.
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Tunicate posted:I like getting them from the bank because it makes people happy to see them in a tip. The Air Force was one of the three branches to turn me down.
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Mr. Belpit posted:For anyone who didn't follow the last thread, the Not Always X series of bullshit publishers make very heavy edits to their submissions to make them more cookie-cutter same-y. The editors (tbh probably just one guy) are apparently from the UK, so stories submitted from the US by Americans will occasionally have incongruous Britishisms. The example from this story isn't the most egregious, but still. You are 100% right, BUT I went to private school in the US and we did actually have a headmaster! His name was Baxter Ball and he was very fat. We loved him.
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bringmyfishback posted:You are 100% right, BUT I went to private school in the US and we did actually have a headmaster! His name was Baxter Ball and he was very fat. We loved him. Are you sure you're not from the UK because that sounds Britishy as gently caress
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 06:56 |
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Minarchist posted:You can just ask for them at the bank. Don't worry, he thought paper money was bullshit anyway. I don't think those were federally printed at the time, but he thought national banks were bullshit, too. ThePlague-Daemon has a new favorite as of 07:05 on Apr 17, 2016 |
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ThePlague-Daemon posted:Don't worry, he thought paper money was bullshit anyway. I don't think those were federally printed at the time, but he thought national banks were bullshit, too. *adjusts onion belt*
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 07:18 |
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Mr. Belpit posted:For anyone who didn't follow the last thread, the Not Always X series of bullshit publishers make very heavy edits to their submissions to make them more cookie-cutter same-y. The editors (tbh probably just one guy) are apparently from the UK, so stories submitted from the US by Americans will occasionally have incongruous Britishisms. The example from this story isn't the most egregious, but still. That's good to know. I thought there were just a lot of weeaboos but for British culture that submitted stuff.
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jodai posted:That's good to know. I thought there were just a lot of weeaboos but for British culture that submitted stuff. I like to call them "teeaboos".
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Are you sure you're not from the UK because that sounds Britishy as gently caress Well, we were very fancy. No jeans allowed, etc. Incidentally, I am a British person based entirely on passport ownership alone! CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:I like to call them "teeaboos". OKAY MARRY ME NOW WE ARE MARRIED
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 12:51 |
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I paid for a shredded chicken burrito at Taco Bell a few months ago with a $2 bill and had no problems. It was something between $1.50 and $2, and I had one on me, so why not. People aren't that stupid.
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jodai posted:That's good to know. I thought there were just a lot of weeaboos but for British culture that submitted stuff. They exist, and they are disgusting.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 13:11 |
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Type "I wish I were British" into your search engine of choice and prepare to kill yourself because of the cringe.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 13:53 |
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poo poo that did happen: one of the restaurants near my house has a counterfeit $2 that they received. So people actually do go to that effort!
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Kind of both. Two dollar bills are sort of a novelty currency, they're legal tender but you need to go out of your way to get them. To my understanding, they were an attempt to introduce a new denomination that failed for either looking too much like another denomination or just never really caught on. It's been decades since I last seen one. However, depending on location, I've still seen the old silver certificate paper bills. They're still valid currency, but look just different enough to throw people off. I used to see a lot of those when I worked at a Blockbuster Video that had a sizeable senior citizen demographic. I figured so many of them freaked out from the bank failure with the Depression they just kept everything at home.
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jodai posted:That's good to know. I thought there were just a lot of weeaboos but for British culture that submitted stuff. Those pop up from time to time. Usually Dr. Who obsessives, of course.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 15:55 |
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Yeah $2 bills are pretty uncommon but i'm sure most people know of them. Then again I haven't really seen or heard about them in probably 10-15 years.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:I like to call them "teeaboos". Mr. Belpit posted:Those pop up from time to time. Usually Dr. Who obsessives, of course. Teeawhos.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 16:51 |
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I've always liked the term tweeaboo.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 17:59 |
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I hadn't seen a $2 bill in years until I started working at a bank, which is like a very slow-working obscure currency goldmine. We'd keep the 2s, the gold and silver dollar coins, and half dollar coins separate because there's always some guy who wants to exchange regular cash for as many 50-cent pieces as he can get for his granddaughter's graduation present. Then one day one of the mythical grandchildren actually came in with a box of half-dollars totaling $200, separated out into plastic tubes of $10 each, to get cash back. She seemed pretty ambivalent about them. We would get mildly excited about some stuff, though, like silver dimes. Those were neat. Okay that's my story I'll stop now.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 19:03 |
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The F Plus did an episode about everyone's favorite https://thefpl.us/episode/210
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 19:58 |
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I've always liked the term tweeaboo. Tweetaboo
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My brother was really into D&D when he graduated high school, and was trying to get money together to build a computer for college, so I put three rolls of gold dollar coins into a crown royal bag and gave him a bag of gold for graduation, rather than just giving him a check.
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# ? Apr 17, 2016 20:41 |
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The US $2 bill was around from the beginning of Federally minted money (so the 1860s) until the mid-1960s. Then it was reintroduced with much fanfare in 1976, but it never caught on as more than a novelty item. Steve Wozniak is a big aficionado of the $2 bill, as was a dude I knew when I was in college and he was in grad school who was super pretentious and wore a pocket watch.
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Meanwhile a $3 bill is basically the proverbial scam of the early 20th century so... maybe STDH people should stop being such dicks about managers getting them confused.
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