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If you use your card why are you so concerned with people that use change anyway Seems kind of petty and you just want to flail and get mad for no real reason.  Though I admit I get a little annoyed when someone is in front of me in line counting out 84 cents in pennies. But not annoyed enough to really give a poo poo.
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Cole posted:If you use your card why are you so concerned with people that use change anyway The issue is that the US mint is making GBS threads away hundreds of millions of dollars a year of taxpayer money making pennies, not that we get stuck behind grannies with big change bags at the gas station (though that sucks too)
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Nov 25, 2015 06:25
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Coins are more reliable for machines than dollar bills, and it's a bit much to demand everything go digital (one power outage and everybody will freak out). I wouldn't want to see coinage eliminated entirely. Although I would like to see bitcoin dead and in a ditch, but that's another matter entirely.
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Nov 25, 2015 17:05
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SlothfulCobra posted:Coins are more reliable for machines than dollar bills, and it's a bit much to demand everything go digital (one power outage and everybody will freak out). I wouldn't want to see coinage eliminated entirely. It's funny how Americans point at so many ideas and say 'but it's completely unworkable in real life!' while other countries have been successfully implementing the idea for years or decades.
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Nov 25, 2015 17:28
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TheCenturion posted:It's funny how Americans point at so many ideas and say 'but it's completely unworkable in real life!' while other countries have been successfully implementing the idea for years or decades. It's only successful if America does it, because the United States of America is Exceptional by god's grace.
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Nov 25, 2015 17:40
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SlothfulCobra posted:Coins are more reliable for machines than dollar bills, and it's a bit much to demand everything go digital (one power outage and everybody will freak out). I wouldn't want to see coinage eliminated entirely. You can't really buy anything with physical currency during a power outage except from a street vendor, because practically all Point of Sale terminals are digital. You may be thinking of network outages, but networks have become so much more stable over the years that now it usually takes a power outage to knock one out.
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Nov 25, 2015 18:04
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SlothfulCobra posted:Coins are more reliable for machines than dollar bills, and it's a bit much to demand everything go digital (one power outage and everybody will freak out). I wouldn't want to see coinage eliminated entirely. Naw, it's fine. Dollar bills are insanely retarded though. Canada has that poo poo on lockdown. 1 and 2 dollar coins are a really good idea.
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Nov 25, 2015 18:27
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Paper Kaiju posted:You can't really buy anything with physical currency during a power outage except from a street vendor, because practically all Point of Sale terminals are digital. Virtually all stores here, even the smaller ones, have battery-powered NFC-enabled systems that connect via a standard GSM mobile network. If you have one of these you could probably still function during a power outage provided the mobile network is still up and running (they're pretty robust).
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Nov 25, 2015 18:57
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Austrian mook posted:Naw, it's fine. Dollar bills are insanely retarded though. Canada has that poo poo on lockdown. 1 and 2 dollar coins are a really good idea. Nah I'd like to never have coins really. Plus canada also has a proud tradition of hucking loonies and twonies at strippers. Which doesn't affect me, but let's try to think of everyone's wellbeing. IRQ fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Nov 25, 2015 |
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Nov 25, 2015 20:03
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IRQ posted:Nah I'd like to never have coins really. Plus canada also has a proud tradition of hucking loonies and twonies at strippers. Which doesn't affect me, but let's try to think of everyone's wellbeing. I've never heard of anyone doing that, and they're not spelled twonies. That would be ridiculous.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:06
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Austrian mook posted:I've never heard of anyone doing that, and they're not spelled twonies. That would be ridiculous. Sorry, I forgot to link it. And why aren't they spelled that way? It's ridiculous that it isn't.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:09
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IRQ posted:Sorry, I forgot to link it. And why aren't they spelled that way? It's ridiculous that it isn't. They're spelled Toonies, like Loonie, which is called that because it has a loon on it... It makes a lot of sense.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:14
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Austrian mook posted:They're spelled Toonies, like Loonie, which is called that because it has a loon on it... It makes a lot of sense. But the toonie is two canada funbux, so it should be a twonie, or a twoonie. I mean it just makes sense.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:15
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IRQ posted:But the toonie is two canada funbux, so it should be a twonie, or a twoonie. No. Its spelled Toonie. Its even built into my spell check.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:27
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IRQ posted:But the toonie is two canada funbux, so it should be a twonie, or a twoonie. The one-dollar coin is called the Loonie, as it features a loon. Therefore, the two-dollar coin is the Toonie, which sounds like 'Twoonie.' But if it were so spelled, would appear to be pronounced 't'woonie.' And that would just be silly.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:55
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They're named after Looney Toons. Obviously.
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Nov 25, 2015 21:05
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Yes, it would certainly be a travesty of Biblical proportions if there were an English word whose spelling made the correct pronunciation ambiguous.
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Nov 25, 2015 21:05
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We should really just call it the Polar Beary for consistencies sake.
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Austrian mook posted:We should really just call it the Polar Beary for consistencies sake. Beary was very much in the mix!
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Nov 25, 2015 21:29
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IRQ posted:Nah I'd like to never have coins really. Plus canada also has a proud tradition of hucking loonies and twonies at strippers. Which doesn't affect me, but let's try to think of everyone's wellbeing. I've never heard of this tradition before this article but I'm sure given it's Alberta is more about makiing it rain
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Nov 25, 2015 21:35
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IRQ posted:Nah I'd like to never have coins really. Plus canada also has a proud tradition of hucking loonies and twonies at strippers. Which doesn't affect me, but let's try to think of everyone's wellbeing. Oh that's just Alberta dude, that place is loving weird. Think of it like the Canadian Texas
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Nov 25, 2015 21:40
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Austrian mook posted:Oh that's just Alberta dude, that place is loving weird. Think of it like the Canadian Texas I thought that was secessionist Quebec. Or are they your South Carolina?
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Nov 25, 2015 21:54
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Gyges posted:I thought that was secessionist Quebec. Or are they your South Carolina? Quebec is its own beast, not really comparable to anything in the US. South Carolina is northern BC.
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Nov 25, 2015 22:43
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Austrian mook posted:We should really just call it the Polar Beary for consistencies sake. It's obviously too much of a mouthful but I liked "the queen's bear butt."
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Nov 25, 2015 23:26
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Austrian mook posted:Quebec is its own beast, not really comparable to anything in the US. South Carolina is northern BC. I thought Quebec was only allowed to exist because it produces a steady stream of hot women with sexy accents. 
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Nov 25, 2015 23:31
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Klaus88 posted:I thought Quebec was only allowed to exist because it produces a steady stream of hot women with sexy accents. and poutine, and hockey players.
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Nov 25, 2015 23:40
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Austrian mook posted:Quebec is its own beast, not really comparable to anything in the US. South Carolina is northern BC.
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Austrian mook posted:and poutine, and hockey players. And don't forget all that sweet, sweet asbestos.
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Gonz posted:My "Cash, most of the time" policy is backed up by the fact that many years ago, my debit information was stolen by some sort of malicious device affixed to a gas station pump. Skimmers are still common and are still a threat, however this is exactly why you should use credit, not debit. Your bank account would not be at risk and you have better protections against unauthorized charges in general, on top of some other benefits that vary between cards. Duzzy Funlop posted:Like, I get that this is SA and we need to argue for the argument's sake, but you do know that he means the penny as the smallest denomination of the currency (or unit) that makes up larger denominations like the quarter and the dollar? A quarter is 25 units of 'penny', a dollar is 100 units of 'penny', like the number 1 is the smallest non-fractional number, of which 1,000,000 units make up a million etc. As previously mentioned, the dollar is our base unit, and low-denomination coins represent fractions thereof, rather than any of our coins/notes representing multiples of a base penny (i.e., the "cent" is not our base unit.) A US quarter is literally defined as a fourth of a dollar and not 25 pennies, as proven by literally every quarter ever, which have "QUARTER DOLLAR" displayed obviously on either the obverse or reverse of every coin. 
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Dec 4, 2015 23:45
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Gonz posted:DraftKing and FanDuel advertisements are constant and insidious, and I can't wait until they're forced into "fly-by-night offshore operation" status.
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Dec 15, 2015 20:50
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Seasonal web exclusive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjatG8QFoOk
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Dec 16, 2015 12:55
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Camp Crystal Lake
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Camp Crystal Lake It was a great sight gag. Unremarked, but appreciated.
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Dec 17, 2015 05:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0X-8tSgiuA Get moist, bitches.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgOgdGpWqzQ new vid
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Jan 25, 2016 09:19
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I bet these guys are super sad they were on hiatus for Vanilla ISIS. I hope we get an episode anyway.
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I've seen a couple of people in this thread and elsewhere on the internet insist that Last Week Tonight is a news show and not a comedy show. They say that John Oliver uses comedy as a rhetorical tool to make a point about a topic. But John Oliver himself said that this is a comedy show, so if it continues to be stale this year, it's time to find a new defense. So, yeah. New episode tomorrow! I'll play it by ear and decide whether to watch.
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Y-Hat posted:I've seen a couple of people in this thread and elsewhere on the internet insist that Last Week Tonight is a news show and not a comedy show. They say that John Oliver uses comedy as a rhetorical tool to make a point about a topic. But John Oliver himself said that this is a comedy show, so if it continues to be stale this year, it's time to find a new defense. Because no one ever pushed back on Stewart when he claimed to just be a comedian telling funnies.
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Gyges posted:Because no one ever pushed back on Stewart when he claimed to just be a comedian telling funnies. Yeah, the whole trouble with the format has never been one of intent, it's been a fundamental question about the function satire serves in media. It's not really one with a clear-cut answer, either, so it almost doesn't matter what Oliver or anyone else actually wants to achieve.
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Whatever John's intent might be, I just want this show to be worth tuning into on a regular basis again. He's certainly got the talent and the comedy pedigree to do so.
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