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[theinevitable]

plus, all our coins would say the wrong number on them.

[Drygioni]

Oh Judy, drunk again?  (laugh track)

-hilariously protests his sobriety, only making himself even funnier by his attempts to seem sober failing miserably-

(laugh track)

-cries-

Anyway what's the deal with your amount of notes? A dollar's worth roughly half a pound but we still have a pound coin (which I might add is the most beautiful shape, colour and feel of anything in the whole world ever. One pays for the gas meter, two of them buy you a lunch-sized amount of food and three of them will afford you any pint of your choosing in most pubs. Four gets you entry to Plug. Then we move onto notes. A fiver will cover nearly any purchase you make on a whim. A tenner is an afternoon's climbing with the change used to buy a pizza and Victoria sponge on the way home. A twenty is a thing of a beauty, cherished beyond anything else. Give a twenty to any cashier and you are guaranteed to get back a pleasingly weighty amount of change.)

?

Anyway what's the deal with a dollar note? Seems extravagant.

[AugustWest]

Victoria sponge

Dare I ask what this is?

[side_show]

I happen to like our dollar coins and wouldn't miss the paper ones, were they to stop print on 'em. The couple of times I've done the Canadian Money thing, the loonie/twonie bit worked out well as they had been integrated into all the machine/kiosk based payments.

Plus, money that jingles a bit is cool.

Except when the sound comes from a stripper being pelted with them, then bouncing around on the dance floor.  When the money is thrown by sad, lonely looking women who throw the coins in a mix of arousal and contained rage.

p.s. it's "toonie" not "twonee."   The one dollar coin has a loonie on it, so that sort of makes sense, but the two dollar coin has a couple bears on it, so actually twonie would make more sense, but... no. 


Many a fast food joint in Canada, including KFC have "Toonie Tuesday" which are cheap $2 or $2.22 meals avalialbe Tuesday.  Spending a single coin for lunch is pretty alright.

[Toaster]

This is an appropriate time to ask a question that has burned in my mind for the last six months:

How often do male strippers get boners? Is it...allowed?

[Drygioni]

Dare I ask what this is?

http://bethheartscake.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/cake.jpg

It is delicious.

As is this thread.

From sex music to dollars to male strippers to cake.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Agreed. But silent ca$h hardly makes that scene any better.

Holy quickthought, Batfarts! Out here the dollar bill is used in the strip clubs as an enticement to fake physical intimacy, part of the experience. Slipping the dollar in a thong waistband or having the gal pitch it in your lap and get it with her teeth is a thing that won't work (as well) with a coin.

Plus, a coin almost begs to be chucked, and having stuff flung at you is generally pretty demeaning.

On second thought, I demand Canada re-institute a paper bill in a denomination appropriate for these transactions. The institutional encouragement of the shaming of the sex industry workers must cease.

I have been to heard of clubs where you just hand them a pile of money at the door and they give you fake money to use inside. Canadian clubs should look into this.

[theinevitable]

hm.

on the one hand, that man is getting pelted with metal coins.
on the other hand, he has access to healthcare.

[side_show]

Ugh.  Also, sweaty, and selling photos to women for the privlidge of placing a coin in his greasy, sweaty navel.  Bleh.

[oball]

Male strippers aside, I think that using coins for amounts under five dollars is good for the economy.  Think about it.  Say for example you go out on the piss.  Because bars tend to be crowded, you'll pay for your drinks with notes all night because it's quicker and easier than counting out correct change.  This means that by the end of the night, you'll have a wallet bulging with change.  You don't want to walk around with all this money dragging your trousers down, so you'll blow it all on a souvlaki or a pie or some pizza before you go home.  With notes, which are light and easier to carry around, you may be more tempted to keep them in your wallet and just buy a couple of potato cakes or a dim sim instead. 

Thus, having heavy coins of higher denomination encourages people to spend more money than would otherwise be the case, and keeps money moving through the economy.

And get rid of the pennies.  When I was in America I ended up with so many of those fuck*ng things, and they're completely useless.  I even tried to get rid of some by giving them to a homeless guy, and he was all "What, you don't have a dollar bill?"  Ingrate.

[Drygioni]

Male strippers aside, I think that using coins for amounts under five dollars is good for the economy.  Think about it.  Say for example you go out on the piss.  Because bars tend to be crowded, you'll pay for your drinks with notes all night because it's quicker and easier than counting out correct change.  This means that by the end of the night, you'll have a wallet bulging with change.  You don't want to walk around with all this money dragging your trousers down, so you'll blow it all on a souvlaki or a pie or some pizza before you go home.  With notes, which are light and easier to carry around, you may be more tempted to keep them in your wallet and just buy a couple of potato cakes or a dim sim instead. 

THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, hey Marge, this guy gets it.

Basically that is all true.

[miles]

a couple of potato cakes or a dim sim instead. 

Oh man, nothing hits the spot after a night out on the piss like potato cakes or a dim sim. Love that shit.

[oball]

Ken oath, mate.

[Doc]

Mmmm 2 am pizza. Or Kebabs, there's always kebabs.

[theinevitable]

When I was in Paris last summer, I do not think I spent any more or less on drunk snacks due to having lots of 1 and 2 euro coins.

but then again, maybe this is because I spend too much on drunk snacks anyway. In St Louis i have not yet found a place in walking distance that will serve me cheese fries within walking distance of my place. In Paris... that was not an issue.
OK, maybe not cheese fries, but "sandwich grec" (like a less-great gyros) and french fries.

also nice: when I lived in the dorms at school, and the dining hall was open until 2 or 3 AM on weekends.

now I just like, make pigs in a blanket and burn myself a little bit.


bringing it all back home:
1. maximum cuddles, with no music
2. cape cod potato chips
3. crispy stellas, or schlafly, or something.

YEAHHH.
although I feel like maybe the soundtrack to this should be like... Vampire Weekend.
Not the sex, the part where we eat cape cod potato chips and drink expensive beer.