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    Canada introduces new plastic currency

    Canada Introduces New Plastic Currency - ABC News

    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.

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    Polymer currencies, first developed in the 1980s in Australia, have helped countries cut back on counterfeit bills. Australia introduced polymer cash in 1988.
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    I guess that would give the question 'paper or plastic?' some new meaning.

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    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.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Whip View Post
    I guess that would give the question 'paper or plastic?' some new meaning.
    Show me the plastic!

    Quote Originally Posted by okosh View Post
    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.

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    Hmmm, does this mean that the Aussie's and Canucks have to carry really BIG wallets?

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    Quote Originally Posted by EagleOne View Post
    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.
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    Re: Canada introduces new plastic currency

    It's always been said that in the future, we'd be paying for everything with plastic. Who knew?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whip View Post
    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.

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    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.





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    Quote Originally Posted by Nancetta View Post
    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.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by littleroundman View Post
    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....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Whip View Post
    It's always been said that in the future, we'd be paying for everything with plastic. Who knew?
    Us Aussies did of course.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by okosh View Post
    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. Canada rules!

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nancetta View Post

    BTW: We call our coins 'Toonies' and 'Loonies'. What do you call yours?
    Annoying little bastards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by littleroundman View Post
    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.





    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!

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    Re: Canada introduces new plastic currency

    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"
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