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A bunch of Commie Lady Boys!
No wonder they have purses. :rolleyes:
The answer is to kill the penny and swap to dollar coins. Utility goes up, coin contents of wallets stays the same. Oh, sure, more than a few people will have heart attacks over the change but they were dead weight to begin with.
Jews in the military is what, chopped liver?
In the past one of the big road blocks for dollar coins was the lack of vending machine support. This appears to be ending. The other day I went to buy a soda ($1.25) at work. All I had on me was a 5 and the cashier was low on ones. Shit, OK, I will have to carry a metric fuck-ton of quarters.
I put in the 5 and got my soda, 3 $1 coins and 3 quarters. Woot!
Today at the mall I wanted a soda, so I put a $1 coin in and the machine took it no problem.
I believe that the US Mint worked extensively with the vending industry to ensure their support for the new Presidential dollar coins, including making sure that they had the same electromagnetic “signature” as the previous Susan B Anthony coins. But the vending machines at work take credit cards, so that’s what I use if I want to buy something.
Yes, but that didn’t mean that most vending machines ended up taking them.
I’m buying you fucking dungarees for all that crap you carry!
I’d love to stay and chat about men’s fashion all day, but I have to go roll some coins.
In that case, when patronizing my place of employment you are welcome to place your unwanted coins in the “tip jar”, thank you very much.
Actually, I notice quite a few people do just that - put their coinage in the jar. Which is fine because even if you don’t want that money (and it is real money) we can use it.
That is exactly what I do. I’ll usually throw in a extra dollar bill too because I feel like a schmuck leaving a 19 cent tip.
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Then apply for unemployment and food stamps when your ass is fired by Congress, who will respond to the massive blow-back from voters by cutting the Dept. of Printing & Engraving’s budget to $.05 until they drop the fucking STUPID idea about dollar coins.
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Why would Congress fire the Dept of Printing and Engraving for doing what they were directed to do? Changing our coinage requires legislation. Now if you’re saying that those legislators would then have to face public disapproval and possibly ouster at their next election, you might have a point.
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One of the standard complaints about dollar coins is that people find the coins they already carry around to be a hassle. Well, that’s because their face value is so small that they’re not worth carrying or spending.
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I agree, that is a large contributor to the frustration people feel for coins. “I have to carry so many to add up to anything of value, it’s so tedious to fish them out of the pocket and count them out, it takes time, it’s such a hassle.” What if the smallest coin was a quarter, and you had a dollar and a 2dollar coin. You’d carry at most about 6 quarters before you’d spend them on something, you’d carry a couple 1dollar and a couple 2 dollar coins. It would make more sense to pay in coins then break another large bill. Assuming you’re using “cash” at all, and not paying electronically.
Furthermore, instead of the quarter and dollar coins being the current sizes, make the quarter dollar the size of a modern dime, the 1 dollar the size of a nickel, and the 2 dollar the size of a quarter. Now they weigh less and take up less space.
The hassle with that is the transition period, where we have old coins still in circulation and new coins coming out, and making vending machines able to accurately handle both. Now that would be a PITA.
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I call hyperbole. Six sacagaweas is 1.1 cc or about 2/3 in³. If you can stuff a pocket knife, bunch of keys, and a cell phone in there, you have room for the coins, you just don’t want them. Which is fine, I’m just trying to figure out the real reason. “No room” isn’t it.
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Much of the hassle is sorting the coins from the other items in the pocket, and fishing them out as necessary without fidling with everything else in your pockets. Which is partly because of fashion in not carrying a coinpurse, and partly of fashion of carrying a myriad of things stuffed in pockets. Hey, I’m guilty, too. I have things distributed so I know what is in each pocket, and I still end up with clumps of things in specific pockets that occassionally get in each other’s way.
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The stripper problem could be handled by selling scrip at the club.
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That is a solution, though not one the strippers will like as much, in part because currently the practice is to charge the strippers for it.
How it works: customer comes in without cash. Instead of using ATM (available at outrageous fee), you get script from credit card. Or get dances and pay bill with credit card, which is converted to script handed to dancer. $20 “bills” get cashed out by strippers at the end of the night, but the club pays the stripper $19 for each bill they cash in.
But at least they’re not getting pelted by [del]quarters[/del] dollar coins. And “making it rain” would be a different experience.
[QUOTE=Martin Hyde]
The real problem is we still have pennies. Although the Euro is no better in this regard, they have both €0.01 and €0.02 coins which are just retarded. The smallest coin should be the nickel.
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Nickel, schmickel, why not dime? Or quarter? I wonder if the €0.01 is a holdover expectation of dividing the currency to hundredths rather than any real need for value transactions at that level. Make it tenths.
[QUOTE=Desert Nomad]
If they want a dollar coin to work it has to be two-toned so as to be very different from a quarter. …
The Susan B and more recent $1 coins are just not distinct enough.
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Nonsense. While two-toned coins do stand out, the current dollar coins (sackies and presidents) are gold-toned, which is very distinct from quarters. The size difference is reasonable, though less obvious than the dime/nickel difference because the overall sizes are larger. It just takes a modicum of attention to tell the difference - they’re more distinct than the difference between a dime and penny.
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I know how to fix the “no bills for the strippers” problem. Have them wear garters with metal cups attached, about mid-thigh. Drop in coins. They wouldn’t be able to go upside down on the pole any more, but they could learn some new skills using the cups as maracas.
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Fail on all levels. First off, pole tricks are awesome, so anything that impedes those is right out. Second, there’s something sensual about sliding a bill into a thong strap/garter that is not duplicated by dropping a coin in a cup. Third, cups sticking off their legs would look silly and detract from the aesthetic lines. While they could certainly put a tip jar/bowl/hat on the stage to collect coins, that kinda detracts from the tipping experience.
The best options are $2 bills and bar script. Each has merits and demerits. From the customer stand point, the bar script seems more reasonable, under the current policy where there’s no fee charged for the service. Downside is strippers get shafted. Alternately, $2 tips might at first reduce tipping slightly, I don’t think that would matter very long. Whereas if it went straight to $2 coins and the lowest bill a 5, that would impact tipping.
I submit for your consideration the idea of making the core of the coins ferrous. Then the strippers need only wear a magnetic garter. 