Comments that leave you shaking your head

[onehitwanda]

Do you want sand in your nethers? This is how you get sand in your nethers.

"Goin’ on a year now I ain’t had nothing ‘twixt my nethers weren’t run on batteries."

 

[AlexFourways]

Just had this Anon (ok yesterday) on The Waitresses - Christmas Rappin'
"Is your house on fire Clark? lol no aunt Bethany those are Christmas lights."
Nobody called Clark or Bethany in the story, just Jeff and Lizzie, and no aunts!

Possibly a comment on the wrong story, but I'm shaking my head!

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Probably author error, but it's not impossible. She could've had a two-cent piece, or less plausibly four three-cent pieces, or four half-cents.

All of those would've been rare; the story is set about thirty years after the last 2c and 3c were made, and almost fifty years after the last half-cents. But I could believe a solitary 2c coin; Australia stopped making 1c and 2c coins more than thirty years ago and I think I still have a few of those somewhere around the house.

You know, Bramblethorn, there are times you scare me, just a little!

 

[bestkeptsecret678]

Just had this Anon (ok yesterday) on The Waitresses - Christmas Rappin'
"Is your house on fire Clark? lol no aunt Bethany those are Christmas lights."
Nobody called Clark or Bethany in the story, just Jeff and Lizzie, and no aunts!

Possibly a comment on the wrong story, but I'm shaking my head!

You’re underestimating the power of controlled substances on lit readers.

 

[Bramblethorn]

You know, Bramblethorn, there are times you scare me, just a little!

If it makes it any better, I didn't actually have that information in my head! I was just going off "currency denominations often change over time, I wonder if there were other small denominations available back then?" and googling got me the rest of the way.

...though there is another option that would've worked if the story were set in Australia. Here, incomplete banknotes between 20% and 80% of a complete note can be redeemed in proportion to the amount remaining; if I cut a ten-dollar note into thirds, each piece is worth $3.33. Since the smallest note is $5, it's possible to make any value larger than a dollar with no coins at all.

 

[mildlyaroused]

If it makes it any better, I didn't actually have that information in my head! I was just going off "currency denominations often change over time, I wonder if there were other small denominations available back then?" and googling got me the rest of the way.

...though there is another option that would've worked if the story were set in Australia. Here, incomplete banknotes between 20% and 80% of a complete note can be redeemed in proportion to the amount remaining; if I cut a ten-dollar note into thirds, each piece is worth $3.33. Since the smallest note is $5, it's possible to make any value larger than a dollar with no coins at all.

This is crazy, and I LOVE it. It puts me in mind of an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine in which Jake Peralta says a ½ dollar taped to a ½ $2.50 pizza coupon is technically worth more than $1, and therefore the vending machine would have made money if it'd accepted the fragmented money as payment for a snack.

 

[sinfantasy]

Here, incomplete banknotes between 20% and 80% of a complete note can be redeemed in proportion to the amount remaining;

wow... Just googled it. They really do that in Australia

 

[ElectricBlue]

wow... Just googled it. They really do that in Australia

Of course we do. Why would you waste money? Throw it away if it gets torn?

 

[mildlyaroused]

Of course we do. Why would you waste money? Throw it away if it gets torn?

I feel bad when I give a customer a more-than-averagely crinkled bank note as change, let a lone a partial one... I love the fact that partial notes are valid!

 

[AlexFourways]

I feel bad when I give a customer a more-than-averagely crinkled bank note as change, let a lone a partial one... I love the fact that partial notes are valid!

What are these bank notes you speak of? I am now only aware of single use (very thin) pre-paid debit cards that you hand over and occasionally get bits of metal back - that I understand can be used with some merchants or put in boxes marked 'charity'. Mostly I just use my multi use debit card.
(BTW I am 67 and so not a Gen X freek - just a post boomer one who thought the best place for a thick wad of cash was in the ATM - or CashPoint that just came into existence when I went to University - and not in my pocket!)

 

[ElectricBlue]

What are these bank notes you speak of? I am now only aware of single use (very thin) pre-paid debit cards that you hand over and occasionally get bits of metal back - that I understand can be used with some merchants or put in boxes marked 'charity'. Mostly I just use my multi use debit card.
(BTW I am 67 and so not a Gen X freek - just a post boomer one who thought the best place for a thick wad of cash was in the ATM - or CashPoint that just came into existence when I went to University - and not in my pocket!)

Apparently Australia has something like A$105 billion cash circulating in the economy. Not going to disappear any time soon.

 

[Buffy47]

My camera doesn't work i can't send you a real pic of me

 

[onehitwanda]

My camera doesn't work i can't send you a real pic of me

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

 

[AlexFourways]

Apparently Australia has something like A$105 billion cash circulating in the economy. Not going to disappear any time soon.

Just Googled, apparently £95 billion* notes and coins circulating in UK June 2023, up £10 billion from 2020. (approx 190 AU$ - actually not much difference when the AU$ was set to be the Stirling 10 shillings - £1 was 20 shillings).

I see quite a few people out shopping with wads of cash, but it has never been my way of doing things - but as someone who uses an electic coffee filter machine to make a pot of teabag tea (shouldn't work but it does 2 bags > four mugs - but the machine is dedicated to tea) I can't be trusted as an example of British behaviour! As of this moment I have £20 (5x2 +10) in my phone case and £2.38 in coins in my pocket - all just in case I need a cuppa and the internet is down! Almost every small trader can take contactless payment these days and some don't do cash!

*I presume this is a thousand million definition not the million million one it should logically be! YLMV!

 

[ElectricBlue]

Almost every small trader can take contactless payment these days and some don't do cash!

My local cafe prefers cash, because their suppliers prefer cash, and you'll find a bunch of tradies will often give you a discount for cash, because the taxman can't see it.

 

[Buffy47]

Just Googled, apparently £95 billion* notes and coins circulating in UK June 2023, up £10 billion from 2020. (approx 190 AU$ - actually not much difference when the AU$ was set to be the Stirling 10 shillings - £1 was 20 shillings).

I see quite a few people out shopping with wads of cash, but it has never been my way of doing things - but as someone who uses an electic coffee filter machine to make a pot of teabag tea (shouldn't work but it does 2 bags > four mugs - but the machine is dedicated to tea) I can't be trusted as an example of British behaviour! As of this moment I have £20 (5x2 +10) in my phone case and £2.38 in coins in my pocket - all just in case I need a cuppa and the internet is down! Almost every small trader can take contactless payment these days and some don't do cash!

*I presume this is a thousand million definition not the million million one it should logically

My local cafe prefers cash, because their suppliers prefer cash, and you'll find a bunch of tradies will often give you a discount for cash, because the taxman can't see it.

Protect Cash as once gone there is a chance all Transactions can have a "Fee" attached by the banks/ Government's. Small traders will struggle also

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Protect Cash as once gone there is a chance all Transactions can have a "Fee" attached by the banks/ Government's. Small traders will struggle also

Exactly this, for more reasons that just that too.