The NFL will never hold a Super Bowl in Indianapolis until that law is off the books.
The NCAA is already looking into avoiding the state, though next week’s NCAA Final Four will be held there.
The Big Ten Conference will probably be looking into how it can avoid the state for its football championship game and basketball Tournaments.
pedantry credentials noted.
Before the Euro, a bunch of European currencies stopped dealing with .01 of their unit of currency and rounded everything to .05. They survived.
Canada’s doing it now. If they survive, I bet we will. If they don’t, hey, free land!
And in Canada retailers can (and do) still use $x.99 pricing. It’s only the total transaction that gets rounded to the nearest $0.05 in cash transactions, not the price of every item.
But card transactions are still down to the cent, aren’t they? It’s only the physical coin that’s out.
Really, when was the last time a US cent was worth anything? Or a nickel or even a dime, for that matter? We haven’t minted a fractional-cent coin for well over a century, and we’ve had a lot of inflation since.
Indianapolis actually hosts a lot of medium-sized conventions ( or they did about 10 years ago when I had a job that required attending lots of conventions and I can’t imagine that’s changed much ). I probably attended conventions there 5 or 6 times.
Granted, I used to roll my eyes and groan when I found the convention was located in Indianapolis instead of LA or Vegas but I traveled there just the same. Apparently the Chamber of Commerce spent a lot of time courting these conventions and gave them some very good deals.
As a result there are lots of nice hotels and high end chain restaurants in the downtown area that rely heavily on conventioneers. I am having trouble believing that the outbursts aren’t louder because this may kill the convention business. Organizations are not going to want to risk their attendees being denied accommodation at hotels because they want to share a room with their same sex spouse.
That wouldn’t likely happen. Major hotel chains aren’t about to drive away customers like that, not even Marriott. The places that will be assholes will be restaurants and other privately-owned places.
But the entire state should be put under edict and boycotted completely until the law is repealed and people who supported it ridden out of town on a rail.
Then shot.
I have in my possession a number of recently minted one cent Euro coins. They are copper colored and a bit smaller than a dime.
Edit: The first one that came to hand is dated 2010 and the second 2004. I have several more, I’m sure, but they’re buried in a jar.
I live in Indiana. I’m going to start a church that opposes everything. They won’t be able to force me to do anything!
Anti-breathertarian!
I’ve got two jars of assorted 1, 5 and 10 Eurocent coins because naturally marketing assholes are just as fond of 9.99!!! prices down there as they are in the US, and they’re the bane of my existence.
You can’t use the little bastards because vending machines don’t take them, and because you can’t not feel like a gigantic asshole holding up a supermarket queue while you painstakingly add up to one whole euro out of the numismatic equivalent of pocket lint. Same with going to a bank to have the jars turned into a very small handful of 1 Euro coins - it’d take forever. And then some bastard would give me change on those.
So they just sit there. And add up. Someday they’ll drive me nuts for good, I’ll go up the Eiffel tower and kill a whole bunch of people with them.
Ninja’d:
I’m more astonished that her being referred to as “R - Snowflake” is not sarcastic; she really does represent a town called “Snowflake”, and there really is a town called “Snowflake”… in Arizona.
Her actual statement isn’t really that bad - she sounds like she’s just spitballing a nutty idea, as anyone might do, and practically in the same breath she recognizes that such legislation would never pass. It’s not she formally introduced the idea as a resolution or piece of legislation.
In the US, a lot of supermarkets have machines near the front doors where you can dump in all your accumulated loose change, and it totals it up, takes a cut (usually ~10%) off the top, and gives you a receipt you can turn into the store for cash. Is that not a thing in Europe yet?
Yep. I have a friend who lives there. It’s a total shithole.
A supermarket near me has one with a jaw-dropping 11.5% cut. Fuck that shit. Fortunately, there a branch of my bank across the street with an identical machine and no parasitic percentage purloining. You have to be an account-holder, though. I assume at least some of the other banks have similar machines for their customers.
Well, maybe the meth helps the days go by.
With some of those machines, you can take a gift card rather than cash and not have them take the cut. So, if you often buy from Amazon or the like, getting a gift card can make more sense.
The change machine that I use lets you take your coins and get a gift card number which you can then take to a website and plug in to buy stuff, and those gift cards don’t take any cut. I usually use one for Amazon.com.
Heh. Ninja’d.
The self-checkout at my local Safeway takes change. When I’ve got too much change, I just dump it in a bag and use it for regular groceries, preferably not during rush hour with annoyed people standing behind me as I feed the coins in.