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Nancetta
11-30-2011, 11:48 PM
Canada Introduces New Plastic Currency - ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/11/canada-introduces-new-plastic-currency/)

I had no idea Canada was even doing this...going plastic, but I got to feel my first plastic $100 bill tonight. I have to tell you, it was pretty exciting! And, it feels so slick, so smooth and is quite impressive looking. Makes me not want to spend it. :RpS_laugh:

littleroundman
12-01-2011, 01:09 AM
Polymer currencies, first developed in the 1980s in Australia, have helped countries cut back on counterfeit bills. Australia introduced polymer cash in 1988.

Y-a-a-a-w-n

Whip
12-01-2011, 09:57 AM
I guess that would give the question 'paper or plastic?' some new meaning.

okosh
12-01-2011, 06:13 PM
Polymer currencies, first developed in the 1980s in Australia, have helped countries cut back on counterfeit bills. Australia introduced polymer cash in 1988.

Given enough time the rest of the world will eventually catch up to Australia in so many ways.....

Nancetta
12-02-2011, 06:11 PM
I guess that would give the question 'paper or plastic?' some new meaning.

Show me the plastic! :RpS_biggrin:


Given enough time the rest of the world will eventually catch up to Australia in so many ways.....

I like to think of it like this...if I was playing against you in backgammon, and you won...it would only be because I let you. Just as I am sure Canada let AU have the plastic first. :RpS_tongue:

EagleOne
12-02-2011, 10:04 PM
Hmmm, does this mean that the Aussie's and Canucks have to carry really BIG wallets?

littleroundman
12-02-2011, 10:10 PM
Hmmm, does this mean that the Aussie's and Canucks have to carry really BIG wallets?

Nah,

they're actually smaller, lighter and come in a greater range of denominations AND remain "springier' for a lot longer.

One of the initial problems was they would snap back and "jump" out of tills when sales assistants put them in.

Whip
12-02-2011, 10:50 PM
It's always been said that in the future, we'd be paying for everything with plastic. Who knew?

Nancetta
12-03-2011, 12:05 AM
It's always been said that in the future, we'd be paying for everything with plastic. Who knew?

Well, I'm pretty sure it was the Canadians. However, I will have to look into this a bit further. Until then, I am going with my backgammon theory. :RpS_wink:

littleroundman
12-03-2011, 12:28 AM
Canadians are pussies.

Show me another country where you can go to a 5 star restaurant and be served its' national emblems medium rare with vegetables.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Australian_Coat_of_Arms_%281908%29.PNG/220px-Australian_Coat_of_Arms_%281908%29.PNG

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc153/thelittleroundman/rooforyou.jpg

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc153/thelittleroundman/emutoo.jpg

Whip
12-03-2011, 12:45 AM
Well, I'm pretty sure it was the Canadians. However, I will have to look into this a bit further. Until then, I am going with my backgammon theory. :RpS_wink:

It was actually a rumor here in the US for awhile in the 90s how everything in the near future was going to be paid by credit card and cash would be obsolete. I assume that was being said in many developed countries.

okosh
12-03-2011, 12:57 AM
Nah,

they're actually smaller, lighter and come in a greater range of denominations AND remain "springier' for a lot longer.



Actually it's less....The $2 paper note was replaced with a coin and not a plastic note in 1988.....


One of the initial problems was they would snap back and "jump" out of tills when sales assistants put them in.

It's still a problem....The plastic notes on the whole are garbage and a huge pain to those of us who handle large sums of cash....Once bent or rolled or folded they are hard to get straight again.....And in that condition they really jump around....
And 2 notes stick together way too easy.....Brand new notes from the bank are the worst at sticking together....

okosh
12-03-2011, 12:58 AM
It's always been said that in the future, we'd be paying for everything with plastic. Who knew?

Us Aussies did of course.....

Nancetta
12-03-2011, 01:22 AM
Actually it's less....The $2 paper note was replaced with a coin and not a plastic note in 1988.....



It's still a problem....The plastic notes on the whole are garbage and a huge pain to those of us who handle large sums of cash....Once bent or rolled or folded they are hard to get straight again.....And in that condition they really jump around....
And 2 notes stick together way too easy.....Brand new notes from the bank are the worst at sticking together....

Aha! I knew it. The $100's I had in my possession the other night (and still have), do not stick together, come unfolded easily, and are very easy to straighten out. And, no 2 notes stuck together. Let me say again...Backgammon. :RpS_laugh: Canada rules!

BTW: We call our coins 'Toonies' and 'Loonies'. What do you call yours?

littleroundman
12-03-2011, 01:42 AM
BTW: We call our coins 'Toonies' and 'Loonies'. What do you call yours?

Annoying little bastards.

Nancetta
12-03-2011, 03:42 AM
Canadians are pussies.

Show me another country where you can go to a 5 star restaurant and be served its' national emblems medium rare with vegetables.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Australian_Coat_of_Arms_%281908%29.PNG/220px-Australian_Coat_of_Arms_%281908%29.PNG

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc153/thelittleroundman/rooforyou.jpg

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc153/thelittleroundman/emutoo.jpg

Umm...eeww...who does that? Ours is the Maple Leaf. And, we only tap the tree to get Maple Syrup to put on pancakes.

If anyone wants to dig deeper, we have the 'Beaver'...but we would never serve it on a platter with veggies...or anything else. And we have the brown/black bear, the polar bear, the cougar, the mountain lion, etc....but never served with veggies...Come on now! :duh:

littleroundman
12-03-2011, 04:42 AM
The Statue of Liberty has inscribed on it a plate with words that include the phrase "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

The Oz version says:

"Give me your rare, your endangered, your mammalian species yearning to run free, and we'll barbecue them 'till they're charcoaled and serve them with onions between two pieces of bread"