What people forget is that not that long ago, America had a coin with the buying power of the modern-day dollar bill, and no-one had any problem with using it. This coin was known as the “quarter”.
Are you Catholic, by any chance? That’s the kindest answer I can come up with as to why you would be defending the Vatican to the extent of making yourself out to be an idiot.
Or maybe, and I mean this sincerely, you’re wiser than I on the subject of power and can enlighten me. It seems obvious to me that many people seek power just because they want power (power = control = getting whatever you want). Why are they really seeking it, then?
As for greed, to acquire material possessions and wealth. What else for?
Please do me the courtesy of answering these questions and intelligently rebutting my opinions instead of just writing me off as another tool.
He really did have a third eye.
[Jack Palance voice]
Believe it, or not.
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I don’t want to speak for Smash, but I think it’s because your questions are really stupid (“why would fire be hot, eh? Answer me that!”), and make you look like a really desperate apologist for Catholicism. Arguing with someone who’ll deny something as basic as lust for power is no fun.
Well, okay, it’s a little fun.
Maybe the mint should emphasize this point in their publicity and get the dollar coins enthusiastically embraced by at least one niche market, the pyromaniac numismatists.
I just want to know what this means.
The same thing all his posts mean: “I’m a pretentious wanker.”
Correction.
“I’m a pretentious wanker who would run screaming for the nearest nascent dictator to protect me if my personal ideal worldview were ever to actually happen.”
Actually, “crown size” dollar coins – Barber, Peace, and Eisenhower dollars, circulated quite freely. They were not common, but were used in the West and for gifts, etc.
The objection seems to be to the “quarter-size”* dollar coin – the Susan B. Anthony, Sakajawea, and the present issue of dollars.
- Kindly don’t object to this – I’m aware they’re marginally larger, and significantly thicker and heavier. They’re still “quarter-size” for practical purposes.
Catholics in Kanada* aren’t satisfied just to be a rich minority faction like Amerika’s Catholics. They want to rule the world! Starting with subjugating Kanada, of course.
*smashy: why substitute Canada’s c and not Catholicism/Catholics?
Definite band name.
Yeah, well Canada has the metric system and national health care, so it proves that they suck.
(ducks)
Well, sure, if it is forced on the public, then we can either have a dollar coin or nothing at all, then that’s a no-brainer. I think it is telling, though, that if given a choice, people prefer the bill.
ETA: I mean, it’s getting to the point that people don’t want to carry money at all (use of debit cards) so carrying money around in coin form with 20lb pockets seems even more counterproductive.
Bit of brilliance, really - Carefully picking the fights you know you’ll win.
I saw this first time around, too. Imagine my dismay when I wasted a perfectly executed happy dance in celebration of the missing god motto, only to have my dreams dashed.
elucidator, since you said:
How, precisely, is my asking you:
a dictation of the terms of your end of the conversation? You brought it up first, after all. Then wiggled, waggled, and avoided my desire for expoundment.
You been learning from Starving Artist, or what?
Frank, I get the feeling you’re trying to pick a fight. Really, what are you pissed about here? I never said anything to the effect that such mottoes are “blasphemous”, or that their removal would be either. You are insisting on an explanation of a position I do not hold, and have not offered.
Again, the fight isn’t worth it. In a nutshell.
And rest assured, sir, I will resist your desires for expoundment most vigorously, and I am a master of Cringing Mantis kung fu! And even if our genders were appropriately aligned, I maintain a strict dinner and a show minimum!
Not so. You’ve offered that ceremonial deism is not a big deal for you. In support of that you stated that you are not blasphemous to your religious friends. I’m asking you in what way do you conflate the two?
My insistence that my country’s money should not contain an invocation of God does not mean that I respond to an social greeting of, “Merry Christmas!” with, “Fuck off!” It merely means that I do not trust in God.
People aren’t making an informed choice, as they have no significant experience with dollar coins. Ask Canadians old enough to remember dollar bills if they’d like to go back to paper dollars, and tell me what they say. As I am such a person, I’ve got a pretty good idea how those conversations will go.
Said it before: If American dollar coins worked in more vending machines they’d see more use.
They’re accepted in the vending machines where I work. Of course, it’s in a secure Post Office building, so maybe those machines aren’t representative of vending machines in general.