Common joke regarding text interpretation. Like, English teacher says "These curtains are blue to symbolize depression." Author says, "The curtains were fucking blue."
It's said by people who only want literal interpretations of text and nothing else.
I don't want only literal interpretation of text but like sometimes the curtains really do be blue. Not everything in writing has to have some hidden meaning.
Ah, but the sort of people who like to read literature want there to be a hidden meaning in everything. To them, reading is like a child's Easter egg hunt: there is a colorful treasure everywhere, and all you have to do is dance about and collect them. Suggesting that the curtains are fucking blue is hurtful. It's like taking one of those beautifully colored Easter eggs and throwing it against a fence and saying, "SEE, it's just a chicken's egg, it's not really the coming of Christ!" From their point of view it's needlessly going out of your way to do something malicious to their delicate psyche.
Huh? You didn't actually address the point or refute it. That came out of the blue.
Nah, I said that people have that reaction. But thanks for putting words in my mouth and incorrectly restating my idea. You're beating up a strawman.
Literally the Limmy sketch lmao
https://youtu.be/-fC2oke5MFg
Here I go saying “they’re both a kilogram” with a shit Scottish accent for the next 24 hours
I love how supportive and kind everyone else in the sketch is to Limmy
brb getting my tits augmented with both spare change and paper currencies
I’d say the coins are more “valuable” than bills because they’re more durable. Bills can tear easily unless you got the fancy plastic bills. Whereas coins can be thrown around and shoved up someone’s ass and back out and it’ll still keep its shape. Bills can also be counterfeited relatively easy whereas coins require metals
But then again, coins are heavier which means it’ll take more effort and sturdier storage to store or haul around whereas bills are barely noticeable. No one wants to count thousands of pennies, but $1 coins probably won’t be a huge problem. Plus coins can easily be lost or mistaken for another coin.
So basically, the lesson is that both are good depending on what you desire and how you use them. :think-about-it:
Lmao this reminds me of when I was a kid and fell into the "what weighs more, a pound of cotton or a pound of lead" trap and then spent five minutes arguing that £1 of lead weighs more than £1 of cotton, even though no one involved was british
Coins will also retain the value of the metals used to mint them after the currency becomes worthless due to societal collapse or something.
IMHO:
Worth considerably more than nominal value: $1 bills, Quarters (if you have any coin-op machines in your life, else slightly less than nominal value)
Worth slightly more than nominal value: $5, $10, $20 bills (also, all increasingly valuable as number of $1 bills increases)
Worth slightly less than nominal value: Half-dollars, Dollar coins, $2 bills (unless you're sentimental about unusual currency)
Worth considerably less than nominal value: $50, $100 bills
Worthless: Pennies, Nickels, Dimes
I want this person to read Vol I of Capital and find out that there are different types of value. They would probably have an aneurysm.
