Goodbye Canadian penny

[Urethra Franklin]

Today, we bid adieu to the Canadian penny, which will no longer be sent from the Mint to stores and banks.

I'll miss those little bastards (Not really.)

Stay golden bronze, Pony Penny Boy.

www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/02/will-you-miss-canadas-penny.html

[CMWaters]

Good, maybe I'll stop getting them on my job in place of the US ones.

Speaking of which, I wonder if the US will ever follow suit...

[RI Richmark]

But how will the Canadian government get everyone's DNA?

[Sephiroth]

Its overdue in this country, in all honesty, along with replacing the dollar bill with coins

[Deleted]

First plastic money, now no more pennies.


Getting odd up here

[CMWaters]

Feb 4, 2013 8:35:03 GMT -5 @fsinfan said:

First plastic money, now no more pennies.


Getting odd up here

Well, WWE did always call Canada "Bizarro World"...

[willywonka666]

I think it's ridiculous how people hate on pennies. I have known people to throw them away! Now these same people won't care that everything over 2 cents will be rounded up to a nickel or a dime and really it will add up over time, and that's more money for them, not us

[Toxik916]

The penny sucks. I wish we would start phasing it out here in the states.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

the real reason we ditched it is we didn't want to have to mint new ones with Charles' ugly mug on it in a few years

Liz has been on our 20 so long, I think they'll keep it that way after she passes, though.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Feb 4, 2013 8:35:03 GMT -5 @fsinfan said:

First plastic money, now no more pennies.


Getting odd up here

I like the plastic bills. especially when they stick together at the bank and I get to withdraw an extra 20 bucks at no cost to myself

that one was quite the kerfuffle.

[corndog]

Feb 4, 2013 10:32:49 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

I think it's ridiculous how people hate on pennies. I have known people to throw them away! Now these same people won't care that everything over 2 cents will be rounded up to a nickel or a dime and really it will add up over time, and that's more money for them, not us

Actually I have seen some pretty extensive research done, it will really just even itself out. It won't really do much for us, minus not having to deal with them. But it actually makes alot of sense from the government's stand point, they cost more to make than they are worth and are a waste of money. I would like it if the US would follow suit, but it makes too much sense to do here.

[Free Hat]

It's been long, long, long overdue. Ideally we'd drop the nickel as well, replace the quarter with a 20 cent coin, and put the 50 cent piece into wider circulation, but that's probably a tougher sell.

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

I'd wish more places used a currency system like the Japanese Yen.

Honestly America's current currency system baffles me. We have both cents and dollars........why not just ditch the dollars and stick to cents, the American equivalent to Yen?

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Feb 4, 2013 8:32:48 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

Its overdue in this country, in all honesty, along with replacing the dollar bill with coins

I don't think we (American) well ever replace the dollar bill with a dollar coins. It much easier to tip stripper with dollar bills then it is with dollar coins . Too bad we don't uses the 50 cent coin, dollar coin or the 2 dollar bill anymore.

[Andrew is Good]

Feb 4, 2013 21:31:06 GMT -5 @shadowcage said:

Feb 4, 2013 8:32:48 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

Its overdue in this country, in all honesty, along with replacing the dollar bill with coins

I don't think we (American) well ever replace the dollar bill with a dollar coins. It much easier to tip stripper with dollar bills then it is with dollar coins . Too bad we don't uses the 50 cent coin, dollar coin or the 2 dollar bill anymore.

To be fair, in Canada after a dance, the stripper goes around the dance floor and plays a game with some of the patrons where they see if they can throw loonies at her to see if they stick on her body.