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Greenbacks No More
Chacham writes "The Financial Times has an article about the US adding colors to some denominations of US currency. Apparently, with both size and color the same, foreigners have a hard time differenciating between the bills.I still haven't gotten used to the larger pictures. And now this? As Kermit the frog sang, It's not easy being green." The Federal Reserve has a press release. At least there's no mention of RFID tags.
What the hell is paper money? Is that what my parents used to buy things?
Damn, I just go my vending machines to accept the new bills. Now I have to do it all again.
Yeah, cause those Europeans spell "20" as... umm... "20".
Apparently, with both size and color the same, foreigners have a hard time differenciating between the bills.
One would think the big number in each corner would be a pretty big giveaway as to the bill's value.
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I'm all for color on our bills. Our money is pretty boring compared to "exciting" foreign money.
But then, when it come to money, I'll all for boring. When "exciting" and "money" are used in the same sentence, it usually means I'm losing my ass.
"International visitors complain 'We can't tell your denominations apart,'" said the Bureau of Engraving and Printing which will release new versions of the $20, $50 and $100 bills next year.
What you mean besides having different pictures and a HUGE FUCKING NUMBER on them? This just seems silly to me.
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It's *REALLY* hard to read the difference between the numbers "20" and "100" and "50" and "5"
I get them mixed up ALL THE TIME.
Seriously. Maybe you liked money in europe where each denominiation is a different size (and dimension, often).
I found it a royal pain in the ass. Can't carry it in a neat bundle.. can't fan it properly.
I hardly think some foreigners finding money all the same size too difficult is a reason to change something that has been standard for ages.
Now I can use every color in my ink cartridge.
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We call them "pennies"
Lets forget these paper bills altogether. If we want to make our money more interesting and easier to distinguish, we should just start using giant round rocks with holes in the middle.
Now strippers can tell what I'm throwing on the table at a glance.
Apparently, with both size and color the same, foreigners have a hard time differenciating between the bills
The Federal Reserve announced they would also hire outside consultants from Parker Brothers.
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From the linked articles, it seems one of the major motivations for changing the color is to help tourists distinguish between denominations. Is it really that hard to read the big number on any of the corners of the bill? It's also printed out elsewhere on the bill. How are colors going to help if tourists can't make sense of the numbers?
Yah, 'cos you know colors add in your head so much easier than numbers.
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You Americans have always been jealous of us Canadians and our beautiful money!
Brazilian 1: "Look at all that pink and purple."
Brazilian 2: "Our money sure is gay."
I've always thought US monochrome money was by far the best looking money in the world. Other countries with all their "pretty" colors look like fake, monopoly money.
US money, on the other hand, looks like serious money , beefy and substantial. There's no mistaking that US currency is a serious document.
In fact, I thought the current redesign really took a lot of the "heft" out of the bills. Now color?
Who's running the federal reserve? Whoever it is needs to get a clue. Next the military will be painting our fighter jets with nice, pastel colors.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I'm a Canadian trapped here in the land of dull Greenbacks and I can attest that, while the confusion factor over the domination is not that high, damn, its a dull, ugly currency.
If only I had a lot more of it.
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Thats alright, the ink required to make a counterfeit $5 bill costs $7.95.
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Apparently, with both size and color the same, foreigners have a hard time differenciating between the bills.
Where can I find some of these foreigners? I'd like to do some currency exchanging!
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Cool, so I can counterfeit canadian money with a paper cutter and a hole punch now, as long as I only pass money to blind people. WOO HOO!
That would lead to the most valuable denominations having the most subtle color variations. The new colors will be based on a proven scheme most Americans are familiar with:
$1 white
5 pink
10 yellow
20 green
50 blue
100 gold
500 bronze
No more standing on a dark street corner in the bad part of town counting through notes to know if you have enough for a beer/cab home/meal/whatever.
Wouldn't you get arrested if you were standing on a dark street in a bad part of town with your hand going wild in your pocket?
Just as I'm about to finish the script for my live-action adaptation of Danger Mouse, I learn that we're changing our money. Great.
So now the name Silas Greenback will be an antiquated reference and the villainous character will have to be changed to reflect whatever color the government finally chooses. It will change the entire dynamic of the show, since the name "Greenback" made since because he is GREEDY and therefore desires MONEY, and because he is a FROG. A GREEN FROG.
I just hope they don't choose pink...because then the villain will have to be a Flamingo in order for the name to work. And there's already a bird villain in the show - the nefarious Stiletto! Not to mention Mad Manuel, "the Flamenco assassin", which sounds entirely too much like flamingo.
Thanks for ruining Danger Mouse, you feds!
Considering the cost of ink cartridges i don't think it will be very profitable.
Actually, probably NOT screwed...
It's cheaper for us to give the blind an income tax deduction because we assume they've been cheated by dishonest clerks than it is to make all that gay money.
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Boy am I humiliated. Up till now I thought my 6" money was quite adequate.
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Now that we're pretty close to having LCD paper, and wireless internet access in every major city, I'm all for the next generation of money having LCD hologram foil that has a full 3-D animation of George W (or whomever is President when it's "printed") waving out from each bill. Whenever you're in range of a wireless network, the hologram can be updated to meet the current political climate, and of course banner ads can scroll between the large flashing colored denomination symbols. (Quickly pulsing red ball means $50, slower green pyramid means $20).
Now if they can get integrated micro-foil speakers too, we can have money that talks to us and cries "Spend Me!", "I've been in your wallet for 3 days, Don't you need more Cheezy-Poofs?"
> to help tourists distinguish between denominations
Maybe they're tourists from ancient Rome, and can't read Arabic numbers.
Anyone have a picture of one of the new bills? Preferrably a large tiff image, around 2400 dpi, front and back...something I could print at the local Kinkos?
Arabic numbers?! AYY-rab-ick numbers? Damn, I better write my congressman about this awful plot! They're in our numbers now!
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Let's go whole hog and make money in powers of 2.
$1, $2, $4, $8, etc. denominations.
It would make it so much easier for geeks to count, and make writing software for ATMs so much simpler.
;)
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
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From a marketing standpoint, the greenish color scheme has fantastic brand awareness.
Good point - we wouldn't want people to start using competing U.S. currencies. Seriously, you sat through too many marketing classes if you think U.S. currency needs brand awareness to be valuable.
Well some colors that are on the paper money in certian countries are just obsurd. To quote one Simpsons episode, about Latin American money: "Our paper money is so gay." I hope the US won't have to stoop that low. ;)
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I think I need practice with really large denomination bills. If the government would just send me a bag full of VERY large denomination bills I could willing to practice.
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why no, officer. i have no idea how it is that the money i pulled out of that atm got deposited into that drug dealer's bank account 2 days later. i spent that $400 on ice cream, not an ounce of alaskan thunderfuck.