Queen Mum RIP. Finally! One down. . .
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
... several (hundred? thousand?) more to go.
William may stay, though.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Hm... I take it Queen Elizabeth the First-and-a-Half wasn't the most popular of people over there?
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I have a feeling that Vogy has an equal hatred of all the royals.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Actually, she was probably the most popular royal (although Will comes close).
I'm not that bothered either way. I didn't mind her. She was just a slightly batty old woman. The Queen though is semi-evil, and Charles is a nice bloke who talks crap. A bit like Paul McCartney.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Gah! I can't believe it! Lee started a thread on a subject on which a thread has already been started! Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Sorry, I didn't see that one. The other thread though, is the "corny platitudes by Royal-awe-struck Americans" thread while this is the "Everyone who hates Royals, mainly me" thread. 8)
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Well VP the other thread was started by a Canadian.
Posted by Malnurtured Snayer (Member # 411) on :
Canadians are North Americans too.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Yeah, but Canada is also part of the British Empire, so you can imagine how confused they must get...
Posted by U//Magnus (Member # 239) on :
"but Canada is also part of the British Empire"
Oh, I guess so.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Canada's rockstars are among the best!
Posted by U//Magnus (Member # 239) on :
SHOVE IT UP YOU A-R-S-E!
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
13 posts this time..
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Until you stop putting the British monarch on your money, you're still part of the British Empire.
Posted by U//Magnus (Member # 239) on :
She has a nice profile. so SHOVE IT UP YOU A-R-S-E!
[ March 31, 2002, 22:16: Message edited by: U//Magnus ]
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
If the Bank of Canada got its head out of its ass, they'd kick her off our $20 note when the new ones comes out in the next 18 months and put Trudeau there instead. [digression... Trudeau miniseries was on CBC tonight.. wow. Perhaps the first CBC show that changed camera angles more than once every 3 minutes. Very, very well done.] Except then all our money would have dead white Prime Ministers on it. And there'd be 3 Liberal Prime Ministers to 2 Conservatives, which would inevitably cause somebody to go into a rage about patronage and all that stuff. [digression... Nevermind that Robert Borden was a complete tool who set back Anglo-French relations a few decades and did nothing of any substance aside from follow Lloyd-George's commands and avoid getting Canada wiped out in World War I and thus doesn't deserve to be on our hundred. Which is icky brown. Which is unusual.]
In any case, our money keeps on getting more Eurotrashy and less like fugly Yankee-money (which all things considered, I'd call an improvement) as time goes by.
Behold the power of the Laurier and Macdonald, American infidels! Note how the usage of colour makes it possible to easily identify the money in your wallet. Ooooh! How novel! Unfortunately, we lack the special Communist-fighting powers that your bills have with the whole "In God We Trust" thing. Maybe we'll catch on the next time we replace all our banknotes.
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
the ability to read and form memories allows us Americans to easily identify our money. besides, if you can't tell the difference between a $1 bill and anything else you can put it in a candy machine. if it is a $1 then you can have delicious candy, but if it is anything else you have to put it in your pocket and go home sad and hungry (this is all void if you go to a weird machine that also gives change for large bills. your SOL then, i guess).
--jacob
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
"Canada has the best rock stars"... Yeap - William Shatner! ;o)
And on the last post SOL? Sick of Lobster? Slipped on Linoleum?
Posted by Malnurtured Snayer (Member # 411) on :
Shit Out of Luck
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Satellite of Love.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
quote:If the Bank of Canada got its head out of its ass, they'd kick her off our $20 note when the new ones comes out in the next 18 months and put Trudeau there instead.
Trudeau, why would we want that a$$ on our bills. I had to live through his leadership and I certainly wouldn't want to see his face everytime I pull out a bill. When the russians shot down KAL 007 my wife's sister was on it, when her parents asked Trudeau what he was going to do about it, his response to greiving parents was "What do you want me to do about it, start a war with the russians?" I realize that there was no way we were going to get the truth from the russians, and later the americans but his answer should have been a little more cafefully worded to greiving parents. No, sorry this man was no leader he was an a$$ and deserves to be placed on an outhouse seat not a bill.
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
yep, Shit Out of Luck.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote: Canada's rockstars are among the best!
Rush is still my favorite.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
on the subject of money, i think the simpsons last night said it all in reference to non-American bills
"Now all this pink and purple is OURS. God, our money looks gay.."
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Except then all our money would have dead white Prime Ministers on it."
And this is worse than living white hereditary monarchs?
"Note how the usage of colour makes it possible to easily identify the money in your wallet."
Note how the usage of numbers serves the same purpose on our money. I take it Canadians can't read? :-)
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
quote:Note how the usage of numbers serves the same purpose on our money. I take it Canadians can't read?
copycat!!!!
--jacob
[ April 01, 2002, 13:28: Message edited by: EdipisReks ]
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Why "read" money when you can perform the mystical ritual known as "the glance?"
Expends less energy. I thought that was what the American ideal was all about.
[ April 01, 2002, 13:35: Message edited by: The_Tom ]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Jacob: It may have been the same point you made, but I said it better. :-)
Tom: There's an appreciable difference between the time it takes you to tell the difference between a "1", "5", "10", and "20" and the time it takes you to tell the difference between colors?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
The US Treasury wants to make American money look like that funny fancy-collored messa shit that the French use by like 2004. Shit like a yellow $20, a blue $5, & a red $10.
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
well, TSN, i made a funny in mine, so
--jacob
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
"Tom: There's an appreciable difference between the time it takes you to tell the difference between a "1", "5", "10", and "20" and the time it takes you to tell the difference between colors?"
Yes. We don't have to take our money out of the wallet to see what type it is.
"if you can't tell the difference between a $1 bill and anything else you can put it in a candy machine."
And another shocking development on the "They do things different over there" front. We don't put notes in vending machines.
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Philistines. Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
They just spent who-knows-how-much money on revamping all the bills. Now they're going to do it again?!
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
I remember watching a documentary on the making of the new series of bills in the US, and the mint people really wanted to bring in different colours then and there (all in the name of ease of use, I might add), but the public they surveyed demanded same-old same-old dollar-bill green and black. And so the American public got possibly the ugliest money in the developed world.
That said, what it lacks in looks it makes up for in strength.
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
quote:Originally posted by The_Tom: I remember watching a documentary on the making of the new series of bills in the US
Sounds riveting
Posted by Malnurtured Snayer (Member # 411) on :
Canadians have odd ideas of what TV to watch. Then again, I did watch a documentary on TLC about Boston's "Big Dig" ... but to be fair, I had just returned from the city a few hours earlier. I love Boston. It's a beautiful city. Probably the best on the East Coast (even eclipsing NY). Oh, well.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I saw part of a documentary about coins. I forget which channel it was on. They showed some kind of experimental Canadian coin w/ a hologram on it...
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I think I've seen the same documentary as Tom. I also saw the special on the US Mint branch at West Point and the making of the Sacajawea dollar.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by The_Tom: I remember watching a documentary on the making of the new series of bills in the US -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by Wraith: Sounds riveting
It was more interesting then you might think, that or I'm easily amused.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And yet you lot still aren't having hot sweaty nightly sex? Wonders will never cease.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Do I dare ask who that was directed to, Liam?
Posted by Malnurtured Snayer (Member # 411) on :
Himself, in the mirror, I'd bet.
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snayer: Himself, in the mirror, I'd bet.
Then why'd he say 'you lot'...(moment of sudden realisation)... oh.
[ April 03, 2002, 10:11: Message edited by: Wraith ]
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
In my defence, I didn't watch the entirety of the documentary. And I watched monster trucks afterwards. Yes.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Jeff: If you're going to attempt a witty comeback, make sure it makes sense. Otherwise you just waste everyones time, m'kay?
Tom: That'll only work in your defence if you weren't scared of the monstrous trucks of monsterness.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
The documentary I saw was only partial, also. And I only saw it because someone else was watching it, and I was in the room.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I'll stand up and say it, damn it, I enjoyed watching how money is printed and protected.
I also saw the monster truck thing. Not bad, but I went to one show with my nephew and his dad. Boring to watch live, and the fumes will kill you.
I'm a nerd damn it. No, I'm not really proud of it, but there it is. Hell, I'm a sub catagory nerd, I'm a trekie.
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