It's time for an uprising

[randomlegend]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35115685

http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article3258011.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/MIDNIGHT-EMBARGO-New-%C2%A31-coin.jpg

Fuck off.

[Boydy]

I thought that was a new two pound coin then I clicked the link. Yeah, let's go. I've got my pitchfork at the ready.

[Giggles]

Why was that done?

[Boydy]

To make it more difficult to make fake ones, presumably.

[Disco]

Does anyone really care? If it was up to me the next step would be scrapping coppers altogether.

[Yevrah]

Absolutely unacceptable this.

[John]

Surely the profit margins on making a fake quid coin are such that they aren't common enough to justify changing the design over. Whichever committee they got to come up with that shambles will have been paid more than the UK economy has lost to fake quids, I'd imagine.

[Reg]

It just looks too similar to the £2 coin.

Barely ever use cash nowadays.

[wullie]

While they're both in circulation, what's the shopping trolley situation? This is the burning issue.

[hfswjyr]

http://wordpress.mrreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/uk-coins.jpg
What kind of sizing is that? Absolutely disgraceful. Come join the first world and have the size and weighting of the coin linear to the value!

[Lewis]

Classic TTH (http://www.thedugout.net/community/showthread.php?t=73294) on the subject. Not least because it smoked all the foreign idiots out.

[Spammer]

They're made of different stuff though aren't they.

I agree with everyone else. I'm particularly concerned about the trolley situation.

[Lewis]

What kind of sizing is that? Absolutely disgraceful. Come join the first world and have the size and weighting of the coin linear to the value!

How likely is it that you idiots will change your flag?

[hfswjyr]

How likely is it that you idiots will change your flag?
We can no longer stand being associated with idiots stuck with random coin sizes.

Canvassing traditional media it looks fairly unlikely to change, while our Prime Minister is the main supporter.

[Manc]

Pitch and toss just got easier.

[Baz]

The seethe in this thread is unexpected.
Absolutely unacceptable this.This made me LOL.

I voted for the quid being the best on Classic TTH too so maybe I should share the outrage.

[Shindig]

Whatever, son, I live me life in paper. C.R.E.A.M, mo'fuckers.

[Davgooner]

This is fucking diabolical.

[Mellberg]

I've had a shit end to the year and this has just fucking topped it. Wankers.

[Kikó]

The terrorists have won.

[Lee]

Wasn't this news about two years ago? I don't really care anyway; I quite like the new one. I remember being amazed by the new, tiny, five, twenty and fifty pence coins as a kid. Maybe I just like new coins.

[Toby]

Wasn't this news about two years ago? I don't really care anyway; I quite like the new one. I remember being amazed by the new, tiny, five, twenty and fifty pence coins as a kid. Maybe I just like new coins.

Yeah we had at least two threads about it on old TTH, so I'm surprised how many people seem never to have seen it.

[Mazuuurk]

Shame, the 1 pound coin was probably the mightiest coin I've ever held. It had a real great weight about it.
Coins are in general not practical at all, but having a bunch of pounds in my pocket whenever I'm in England is always a decent feeling.

The 2 pound one was fine, although I think I prefer having notes for that kind of money (because the we do for the equivalent in Sweden).

[John]

Classic TTH (http://www.thedugout.net/community/showthread.php?t=73294) on the subject. Not least because it smoked all the foreign idiots out.

Lol at Floyd voting for the ten pence.

[Lewis]

I've had a shit end to the year and this has just fucking topped it. Wankers.

That's twice now. If you're after a 'whats wrong babe?? x x' forget it.

[Mellberg]

It was just a throwaway line, Dr Autism.

[Smiffy]

.....

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shambles of a decision.

[Ian]

Cash is shit.

[Manc]

We are very much in the contactless era.

[Henry]

I renew my objection to having a benefit scrounger on the currency.

Apart from that, I don't give a shit.

[Spoonsky]

Never thought I'd see Henry use the term "benefit scrounger."

I do wish the US had coins for $1 at least. It would be so much easier.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://wordpress.mrreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/uk-coins.jpg
What kind of sizing is that? Absolutely disgraceful. Come join the first world and have the size and weighting of the coin linear to the value!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/British_coinage_reverse_designs_2015.png

The shield though :drool:

[mugbull]

I would've thought coins with corners are preferable to the round ones, but the emotional boys in this thread have put me off just enough to where im reconsidering that

[Spammer]

There'll be less coins rolling away from you when you drop them on the floor nowadays. #everycloud

[niko_cee]

Speaking of coins rolling away from you, I had an unbelievable experience with this a few months back (ironically involving a 50p so nuts to that theory Hammer). I dropped it in a queue, it rolled towards the front of the queue (about 2 people in front of me), I was going to pick it up when some old dear reached down to get it, no need I thought, then the bitch pocketed the fucker in plain sight of everyone without batting an eyelid. There really are no depths the elderly won't stoop to (for a 50p). Seething.

[Mellberg]

:D

How did you react?

[niko_cee]

I just laughed and an onlooker said something along the lines of "you've lost that".

Properly mugged off though.

Another one tried to run me over the other day. I was going to cross in front of her (she had stopped at a yellow line and I was across the other side of the junction) and she just accelerated at me, to the point that I had to step back, eyeballing me as she went. Fucking biddies.

[ItalAussie]

I thought the £2 was rather good. The £1 was slightly too heavy for my liking.

You should abolish the 1p and 2p coins altogether. They're already basically valueless. America too.

[Lewis]

I don't know if they would appreciate that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I thought the £2 was rather good. The £1 was slightly too heavy for my liking.

You should abolish the 1p and 2p coins altogether. They're already basically valueless. America too.

If we did that we'd have to round the price of everything up (or down to .95) which on a macro level would have some effect you'd think.

[niko_cee]

You'd just round up or down to the nearest 5p (it's what they do).

[Giggles]

We did it here recently, though in the most stupid way possible. Instead of pricing stuff to the closest 5c, shops are supposed to round up for prices ending in 8c or 9c and round down if it ends in 6c or 7c. Only if paying cash though, by card you still pay exact.

Naturally all shops chance their arm and round everything up.


EDIT: Yeah what Pen said in the next post.

[Pen]

If we did that we'd have to round the price of everything up (or down to .95) which on a macro level would have some effect you'd think.

We don't have 1 or 2 cent coins and something can still cost say 17 cents. It just means that where ever your total ends, you can end up winning or losing 2 cents at best/worst. Even if you would buy something everyday and win or lose that two cents each time, you'd still end up 7,30 pounds up or down per year, which is nothing really.

That said, we did buy one small potato a bit after we switched to euro (might have been an onion too) for two cents from a local shop and felt really clever when we didn't have to pay for it at the counter.

[Jimmy Floyd]

So you have phantom amounts of money? Best argument I've heard for keeping the coins. Also, they're great for playing silly games on pub tables, and using as gambling currency in small time card games.

[Lewis]

You get rid of the pence, and then the same wankers will be saying 'Oh well why don't we just have the Euro?' Then before you know it we're all gay. No.

[Giggles]

As much as I'd love to see implosion of seethe if the UK got the Euro, it would be the worst thing ever happened so fight it for as long as possible.

[John Arne]

I thought the £2 was rather good. The £1 was slightly too heavy for my liking.

You should abolish the 1p and 2p coins altogether. They're already basically valueless. America too.

Indeed. It costs 1.4 cents to make each 1 cent coin :D

The US mint have already stopped producing them. The UK really needs to follow suit.

[niko_cee]

How on earth could something (like an onion and a potato) have cost 2 cents in the modern age?

[John Arne]

Meanwhile, the mighty Vietnam has pretty much abolished coins altogether (I haven't seen one for a year). Plastic notes only, bitches.

[Pepe]

I thought we were supposed to be paying everything with our iPhones by now.

+1 on abolishing America.

[ItalAussie]

The British abolished the halfpenny in 1984, because it was pointlessly valueless:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfpenny_(British_decimal_coin)

Then penny is worth even less now than the halfpenny was when they were demonetized; it's worth about two-thirds of what the halfpenny was, after inflation. It's just too small a quantity to care about in cash interactions.

[Lewis]

We should bring back shillings and all that shite just for the CHAOS.

[ItalAussie]

:D

That would be entertaining. Some people just want to watch the world burn.

[Lewis]

These new fivers are an embarrassment.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I like Winston Churchill as much as the next man, but I can't be arsed seeing his mug on my fivers. His expression seems to be saying 'I defended this country against the Nazis for five long years, and here you are buying a McDonald's breakfast? Right.'

[Giggles]

Could be worse, could be Euros.

[GS]

Could be worse, could be Euros.

:nodd:

With Jean Claude Juncker's face plastered all over them.

[elth]

Meanwhile the note Mafia in Australia are already preparing the ground for eliminating the 5c piece. Really you lot need to up your games.

[John Arne]

I found a bunch of coins the other week (200,000đ), and the bank refused to change them for me. Wankers. Not having coins at all is pretty boss.

[Baz]

These new fivers are an embarrassment.The excitement when you got your first one though. :jayjay:

[McAvennie]

I like it, it's coinage that reminds me of the Adventure Game from the 80s

[Raoul Duke]

Lol @ using cash. Plebs.

[Shindig]

It's the shopping trolleys I feel sorry for.

[Giggles]

Lol @ using cash. Plebs.

What sort of a wankbag have you become?

[Kikó]

I forgot my pin numbers recently because I barely use chip and pin. Was pretty embarrassing not being able to take cash out.

[Raoul Duke]

What sort of a wankbag have you become?

82% of the things I do are just to wind you up

[Giggles]

82% of the things I do are just to wind you up

Do or say? I sincerely hope it's the latter as the former would be an awful waste of your time.