People are math challenged

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And anyway, why take away the glorious pleasure of being able to fondle a stack of beautiful orange $500's?

Maybe it's a government thing.

Maybe they're getting tired of hearing "This looks like Monopoly money," every time there's a new design for US money...

Quote: gDGBD

And anyway, why take away the glorious pleasure of being able to fondle a stack of beautiful orange $500's?

Speaking of which, the European Monetary Union is printing record amounts of the €500 note. This high value note is now up to 35% of the value in Euro banknotes in circulation. The ECB is now catering to every drug-lord, money launderer, petty tyrant, tax evader, and human trafficker in the world. Roughly €500=$681 and they are circulating almost two notes for every man woman and child in the Euro Zone.

You have to hand it to the British. Their biggest note is still £50=$78 and they are only circulating three of them per capita. They get by fine with coins, and £5, £10, and £20 banknotes. It is very difficult to deal with drug money in Britain. Because the £50 note is so rare, if you are trying to carry around US$1 million in £20 banknotes it weighs 70 lbs + weight of the suitcase.

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The dumbing down continues with the release of the 75th Anniversary edition of Monopoly, which has eliminated paper currency in favor of an electronic bank that keeps track of everything.

The only times I was ever able to finish a monopoly game, were when we played it on a computer. When playing on a board, the games went on forever and accounting mistakes killed things early.

speaking of the Brits with successful coins, the Canadians are reportedly having great success with their dollar coins, while the US struggles to get them accepted.

The reason, I've been told, is that paper Canadian dollars are no longer printed!

Of course that should be the solution in the US.

Yep. Us Canadians have great success with $1 and $2 coins, but we can't light a freakin' cauldron.

The $1 coin (The loonie) was introduced in 1987 and replaced the $1 bill. The $2 coin (The Toonie) was introduced in 1996 and replaced our $2 bill. Banks collected all remaining currency, so $1 and $2 bills are collector's items. I completely prefer the coins to the small bills.

Oh, you can light it all right.

You just couldn't get it up!

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...And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the next generation of gamblers...the kind that will think that double zero roulette is better because it has one more way to win, and that 6:5 is more than 3:2.

Did you know that seven fifths of children nowadays don't understand fractions!

Quote: samspruce

Did you know that seven fifths of children nowadays don't understand fractions!

Children? Heck I bet seven fifths of adults don't understand fractions neither!

Thats only a partial explanation. Yogi Berra can fill in the the remainder with the quote, "90% of the game is half mental".

So there ya have it, fractions for the people we can never understand.

Quote: samspruce

Did you know that seven fifths of children nowadays don't understand fractions!

That's hilarious.

It reminds me of the time I got a phishing spam email regarding the Fifth Third Bank. My immediate reaction was, "Can't they come up with a better fictitious name?"

It was months later when traveling in Ohio that I saw a branch and realized that it's a real bank!


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