Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to Toyman! :

914Driver said:

Confirmed

volvoclearinghouse said:

914Driver said:

Confirmed

Based on the private school my niece and nephews go to - public vs private school is not the problem here.

Real pennies cost more than a penny to produce, so they're basically subsidized by the higher value denominations. Which sounds like the auto industry :)

And how long do you think 100 real pennies would actually stay in a classroom?

It's worth $11 just to not have to do that first bank run. Let alone the other 4+ you will have to every year. As opposed to these, that will probably survive 5 years.

Obligatory meme.

DarkMonohue said:

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

The classics never to out of style. 

I am a Rock, I am a Cornholio.

In reply to Keith Tanner :

Nickels, too.  

Doesn't matter if it's subsidized, it would still be cheaper to use them in school.  And what students are going to steal them?  Hardly anyone bothers to pick up a penny from the ground if they see one.  Plus, real currency is already made, and will go back into circulation.  Plastic pennies use resources and energy to produce.  So real money would be "greener".  

Thus, to summarize, Save Planet Earth, use Real Money in schools!

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

Kids take things. They take things adult minds think are inconsequential. My kid steals rocks. There would be 7 cents left at the week.

In reply to Appleseed :

They'd steal the plastic money, too, then.  Which is more expensive, and, as we've established, an environmental catastrophe.  

volvoclearinghouse said:

In reply to Appleseed :

They'd steal the plastic money, too, then.  Which is more expensive, and, as we've established, an environmental catastrophe.  

Yes. They will. But nowhere near as fast.

"Timmy, empty your pockets. Put the classroom materials back."
"But those are my plastic pennies from home!"

If you've never been a teacher, you wouldn't believe it.

I drink less as a brewer than I did as a teacher.

In reply to 914Driver :

I feel this meme...

Scotty Con Queso said:

If you might think your money is yours to do with as you please, you're not quite right. The federal government has a statute that specifically prohibits mutilation, cutting, disfiguring, perforating, and other acts that are intended to make the bills unable to be used. The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for enforcing the law.

It should be noted that this is unlikely to be enforced unless you are trying to defraud someone.   E.g. the reason why some coins have the rough edges is because when they were a pure valuable metal is to make it obvious of someone shaves some of the valuable metal off (particularly a problem with gold coins).

Toyman! said:

I've been accused of being a robot a couple of times this morning. Now I'm starting to wonder.

Any time I browse Aliexpress too fast I get something like that. I take it as a compliment.