Why PENNIES need to die in North America

[Zylka]

1 - They suck
2 - Ugly
3 - They're annoying
4 - Also useless
5 - The nickel is more popular at school
6 - Full of germs
7 - They stink
8 - Number one coin thrown in the garbage
9 - You can get AIDS from handling them (probably)
10 - I said so

Why do you think the penny is a burden to society whilst in circulation?

[Dinner]

Except every **** sucking salesman will mark his goods $.96 cents so that you end up paying them an extra 4 cents per transaction. No multiply that by the number of transactions every bank, every super market, and ever (insert company here) makes and you'll see how the costumer will get hosed big time.

[Dinner]

If the problem is that they feel the penny (Canadian or American) isn't worth enough then the solution is to print fewer bills so that the value of the dollar (again Canadian or American) rises.

[Zylka]

No

5 cent increments, anything else results in death and deportation

[Dinner]

Hell, they can't even execute serial killers with in 30 years of him being caught nor can they deport the millions of illegal aliens who flood into the US and Canada each year.

[Zylka]

but just think

They could then take all of the useless copper and build a new "capital of the world" on the Manitoba/Idaho border, with the largest copper dome ever built (for the senate house). The surrounding city could probably be copper as well, even the fire hydrants

[Dinner]

In the old TV show Robotech didn't all of humanity nearly get wiped out and they decided to build their new capital city on the Montana-Alberta border? Gee, if I got to decid where to build the major city where most of humanity would live then I would ceretainly choice some where with better weather.

[Zylka]

They did? That's pretty cool - I want to see some robotech

[mrmitchell]

IIRC, it costs the US Mint $0.007 to mint every penny. So they're not a complete waste.

Of course, this is compared to $0.001 (probably) for any type of paper currency...

[monkspider]

Greatest Zylka thread ever.
Pennies are an abomination.

I make this thread my lock of the week.

[Nubclear]

I once went to get a candy bar. I was off by one cent...Luckily, they let me get away with it.

Down with pennies!

[Zylka]

Cost of production is minute compared to the societal devastation. Think of all of the straight aggravation and time lost (trillions of man hours) over people having to rifle through s* coloured discs which have no use other than being thrown in a jar at the end of the day?

Then - the fools who yearly amass these jarly preserves and further waste the time of good bank tellers with their redistribution to equally aggravated hands. I bet the local coin roll manafacturing union doesn't want you to believe this one

...and what is that old, macabre saying - again? Let's go to the top of the Sears tower and throw pennies at people below.

You'd like to think this is mostly harmless, except when the annual death toll report (due to) celebratory handgun firings and subsequent bullet droppings on unsuspecting victims reaches 17 in LOS ANGELES ALONE

[Nubclear]

"Find a penny, pick up, and all the day you'll have good luck." - United States Mint Propaganda

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
"Find a penny, pick up, and all the day you'll have good luck." - United States Mint Propaganda

Damn capitalist bastards.

[st_swithin]

Pennies haven't been made of just copper for years now. They're little sandwiches of zinc and copper alloy. DIE PENNIES, DIE!!!

"They keep turning up like a bad penny!!"