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Which would you prefer?

I prefer the coin, but both should be kept in production.
5 (20%)
I prefer the note, but both should be kept in production.
13 (52%)
We should conform and abolish the dollar note.
1 (4%)
We have a dollar coin?!
2 (8%)
I don't care.
4 (16%)

Total Members Voted: 23

Voting closed: November 15, 2004, 11:31:00 am

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« Reply #45 on: November 18, 2004, 03:14:41 pm »
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Germany's is boring! So if you like Germany's YOU are boring! Ha!

Gah. Beaten by flawless logic.

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(by the way I could try and send you one if you want :P)

Even though, hopefully, you will be seeing lots of German coins in the near future, I couldn't ask you to send me any of your hard earned cash. I know how poor you student types are :-P

As I'm in Germany for a weekend next year, I'll have to try and grab one :)

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But you will... just you wait... eventually all you Brits will have to give in to the evil continentals and march under our euro dictatorship bwahahahaha  :twisted:

Nevaaaaaar!

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« Reply #46 on: November 18, 2004, 03:44:28 pm »
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Treason! Hang him!


Back when the UK had capital punishment, I thought the proper execution method for commoners convicted of treason was drawing and quartering.
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« Reply #47 on: November 18, 2004, 04:00:37 pm »
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Treason! Hang him!


Back when the UK had capital punishment, I thought the proper execution method for commoners convicted of treason was drawing and quartering.

Actually I remember doing this in early humanities at school. I think you're right. Except maybe it was hung, drawn and quartered?

Either way, it's too messy.

-Kev

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« Reply #48 on: November 18, 2004, 09:34:18 pm »
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is it just me or is there holes in NZ money 8O


It's not holes, it's clear plastic :)

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« Reply #49 on: November 19, 2004, 03:01:29 am »
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Treason! Hang him!


Back when the UK had capital punishment, I thought the proper execution method for commoners convicted of treason was drawing and quartering.

Actually I remember doing this in early humanities at school. I think you're right. Except maybe it was hung, drawn and quartered?

Either way, it's too messy.

-Kev


And to think my dad teaches that subject. Scum, you need to read some Horrible Histories! They're the best- i swear my brother knows everything he does thanks to those books.

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« Reply #50 on: November 19, 2004, 06:40:20 am »
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What I hate about US currency is there is no coin between 25ยข-$1


Then what is this? :

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Yeah, but how often do you see that?  Nobody uses them anymore.


that was my point


Sure, they don't circulate, and that doesn't bother me.  We don't really need it.  It's not that it's too heavy because it is the exact weight as two quarters or five dimes - they all have the exact same composition - but rather it's too big around!  For a vending machine to take them, it would have to have one hella-big slot!
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« Reply #51 on: November 19, 2004, 07:38:56 am »
dollar coins are too easy to lose (at least for me). give me a dollar bill any day.  :)

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« Reply #52 on: November 19, 2004, 08:31:33 am »
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dollar coins are too easy to lose (at least for me). give me a dollar bill any day.  :)


at least if u drop them u have more of a change of hearing it and it won't blow away. :razz:

I meant to say chance

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« Reply #53 on: November 19, 2004, 08:39:34 am »
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Treason! Hang him!


Back when the UK had capital punishment, I thought the proper execution method for commoners convicted of treason was drawing and quartering.

Actually I remember doing this in early humanities at school. I think you're right. Except maybe it was hung, drawn and quartered?

Either way, it's too messy.

-Kev


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Hanging, drawing & quartering remained the lawful punishment for High Treason until abolished in 1870. It was not used often as it was considered so barbaric. Governments of the day were concerned about public opinion even in those days. Ordinary hanging (until dead) replaced it, although the Monarch could still order beheading and quartering of the body, but the cutting down of the prisoner whilst still alive and the disembowelling and burning of his organs ceased.  It was not until the Forfeiture Act of 1870 that all reference to drawing and quartering was removed from the Statute Book.


So Britain still had capital punishment but not always H.D.Qs

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« Reply #54 on: November 19, 2004, 08:47:09 am »
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dollar coins are too easy to lose (at least for me). give me a dollar bill any day.  :)


at least if u drop them u have more of a change of hearing it and it won't blow away. :razz:


That is so true.  I've had some pretty large bills totally disappear because they (probably) fell out of my pocket when I was getting something else.  A coin is easily heard and a lot more resistant to wind! :idea:
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« Reply #55 on: November 23, 2004, 02:47:26 pm »
There is NOTHING more uncomfortable than a pocket full of freaking coins.........the unnecessary excess weight of it, the excess bulk of it, the annoying rattle it makes when you walk, it's horrible and THAT should be abolished!
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« Reply #56 on: November 24, 2004, 01:49:16 pm »
I like the note because they're easier to stuff into g-strings. LOL

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« Reply #57 on: November 24, 2004, 02:40:40 pm »
I like bills!!!! i hate coins!! I hate the sounds they make!!!

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« Reply #58 on: November 24, 2004, 02:45:34 pm »
I actually love the sound of dollars (well casino coins) coming out of the slot machine.  8)

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« Reply #59 on: November 24, 2004, 03:48:46 pm »
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Treason! Hang him!


Back when the UK had capital punishment, I thought the proper execution method for commoners convicted of treason was drawing and quartering.

Actually I remember doing this in early humanities at school. I think you're right. Except maybe it was hung, drawn and quartered?

Either way, it's too messy.

-Kev


You actaully did that at school?  Harsh school.  One hell of a class.

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