That is seriously uncool dude. Witchcraft and Paganism is a fine group of religions, every bit as valid as any other religion, and with an older tradition of practice than most. It has been persecuted and the Christian church has been trying to eliminate it along with other religions for centuries, and yet it has found a way to preserve.
Please don’t befoul it any more by comparing it to the utter stupidity that the imbeciles in government are promoting.
I’m no economist and don’t have any love for pennies, but I always thought it was funny that the solution to “pennies aren’t worth enough to bother with” was not “let’s look at inflation and why goods are increasingly expensive”, but “I know, let’s get rid of the penny!”
And on European smugness, it’s damn nice that tax is included in the price, rather than tacked on afterwards, since it leads to a lot more even amounts and way fewer pennies/tiny coins given as change (I’d say basically only when buying things by weight)
The penny just doesn’t make cents.
…Thank you and goodnight!
It hasn’t meant what it was for many years. People use the evolved meaning, i.e., First World vs. Third World, developed vs. developing, rather than adhering to the original political theory meaning.
First World are NATO countries, Second World are the Warsaw Pact Countries, and Third World are the unaligned or neutral countries.
That’s called FREEDUM! You’ll be sorry when all your coins have listening devices developed by George Soros.
So even though Ireland is technically a Third World country, nobody who still uses the term Third World would ever refer to them as such. Third World refers to countries with a surplus of melanin, regardless of their economic development. So whenever I read stuff like:
I immediately translate it to:
“The US is no better than a pack of wild n****rs!”
Of course you’re right. CLARIFICATION: I meant it hasn’t meant what it used to mean after it meant what it was supposed to mean. But now it barely means what it was supposed to mean,either.
Exactly. It originally was a Cold War term and then people began using it interchangeably with developed, developing and underdeveloped. And just like irregardless*, we’ve adopted newer meanings by it’s usage.
*my father’s pet peeve 
Vaguely related, but here in the UK generally the only reason we still have coinage for lower than 5-10p is the shops that insist on pricing things at £x.99 or £x.95 prices instead of just £x
I’ve been told by many people that the reason for this is that say £5.99 is seen as cheaper than £6. but every person i’ve ever spoken to admits they mentally round up prices to the nearest pound automatically, making the whole process completely pointless and just flooding everyone with mainly useless coinage…
My son had one of those the other day! I think he said it’s from an anime or game?
It’s practice currency used in Chinese banks, so Chinese tellers can become familiar with how US notes are supposed to look.
Aha. He got it from a kid in class (back when that existed), so it doesn’t surprise me the info was inaccurate.
Illinois is also a major lobbyist against killing the cent, being the Land of Lincoln.
The Sacajawea dollars, along with every version previously, have not taken off because they didn’t kill the dollar bill. I would be willing to wager (see what I did there) most of the Sacajawea coins just circulate from one slot machine to another – although Vegas has mostly switched to electronic voucher-based betting.
I like those coins, but the bigger Eisenhower dollar coins minted in the ‘70s were pretty cool too. Much larger than a quarter, and it had a freakin’ moon eagle!
My wife’s grandfather collected hundreds of them, so that’s what the tooth fairy brings my kids every time they loose a tooth.
Our stores in Canada still list prices like that, then the sales tax is added on afterwards, so you never know what the final cost will be.
Since we got rid of the penny, stores just round up or down to the nearest five cents for those paying cash. But in recent years, and especially since the arrival of Covid-19, almost all my transactions are via debit card anyway, so if the final cost is $14.38 that’s what comes out of my bank account and I don’t walk around with a pocket full of change.
One dollar bills are useless at this point because just about nothing costs less than a dollar. A two is more practical and instantly cuts your wallet thickness in half.
Ha, I remember thinking how outrageous that moon eagle is! 
But if everyone has $2 bills I won’t be the baller tippin twos at the sky club for my free scotch and sodas!
(but seriously, kill the penny and the dollar bill already…)
There’s your PR message for getting rid of the dollar bill: Give Strippers A Raise!
