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WCT 17-21 May 2010
Tuitsuro:
Nazis.
There, I've officially Godwin'd the thread.
Akima:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 21 May 2010, 07:57 ---Therefore it is better for them to modernize the currency incrementally, rather than all at once.
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Australians are more flexible; we've modernised our currency twice in living memory. Once when we decimalised and dumped the Australian pound for the Aussie dollar in 1966, and again in 1988 when paper banknotes were replaced with the polymer notes we use today. Our notes are now all the same width (so they can be read easily by machines) but different lengths (so that blind people can distinguish them by touch).
Kugai:
There were changes to our currency here in NZ around the late '80's - early 90's (if memory serves, I tend to forget the dates), We went from paper notes to the polymer notes and dropped the 1c and 2c coins and went to $1 and $2 coins instead of notes. Those were the biggest changes to our currency since we went to the New Zealand Dollar from the Pound in the late '60's. Minor changes have occurred since, but one of the mini-majors was when we dropped the 5c coin about three or four years back.
laizeohbeets:
1. I put 1s and 5s and 10s and 20s in my wallet together. SOMEHOW I magically manage to figure out the amount of money I've given. We also have a magical, wonderful thing called credit cards. Takes the fuss out of having to deal with coins. (I loathe dealing with pennies. LOATHE.)
2. It's not real life because attractive women are walking outside in their pajamas? Maybe it's a Thing from college, but I go everywhere in a pair of pajama bottoms and a tee shirt -- GASP! SHOCK! My pajamas! (And don't start the, "Hurr, hurr, and I suppose you think you're attractive" thing. Yes, I've been told it many a time. Shh.)
Akima:
--- Quote from: laizeohbeets on 21 May 2010, 16:44 ---We also have a magical, wonderful thing called credit cards.
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Ooooh! I bet you're one of those people who pays by credit card in the 12-items-or-less queue at the supermarket... :x :lol:
And if you use your card, THEY will know what you bought...
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