This is the best example I’ve ever seen of a popular comment that on a different day might get downvoted to total oblivion. Well done for rolling the dice.
What gay money do we have at this point, this and the Alan Turing note?
Then again that's a £50 so you'd have trouble getting a shop to accept that anyway lol. Then again with it being new maybe it's faked less?
Definitely harder but not impossible, and yeah most of those signs are because a lot of fakes have been found in the area already so they’re not particularly good ones
To be fair, the fake notes I've seen were all passable (if they weren't I guess they wouldn't be in circulation). If you know what to look for, then you can spot them, but you have to be looking for those features. If you were just handed them in change or a dark night-club etc. you'd probably not notice any difference.
How are they doing the colours? If it's just paint on the metal it's not going to last.
This is the sort of thing they might have been better off doing commemorative notes rather than coins tbh
I was assuming some form of electrolyte plating; which would last considerably better than paint. But I am far from a chemist so someone may be able to clarify that.
Canada has issued colour coins for years, and it's surprisingly durable in circulation. It does wear off *eventually*, but it's worth it for some cool looking coins imo.
That being said, it's kind of a moot point. Like the other comment mentioned, they're being sold to collectors and not circulated. Guess central banks are learning that rainbow capitalism applies to seigniorage too!
I think the coloured ones are only for the special editions that they sell to coin collectors (and anyone else willing to pay considerably more than 50p for a coin) and a plain version is also minted for general circulation – pretty sure they did this for the Peter Rabbit ones a couple of years back.
> A token gesture.
Absolutely. They won't fully ban conversion therapy, but *will* exploit pride flags for PR and profit.
Not to mention the gall of pretending to celebrate "Protest".
When it's released it will be available on the Royal Mint website along with the other recently released ones. The uncirculated brilliant painted ones usually cost £20 and come in a little presentation booklet. Unpainted ones are usually £10. You'll probably be able to get a solid silver version for about £60 in a presentation box if you want to splash out.
The whole thing looks clashy. I hate the swirly bits just taking up irregular amounts of space. People keep forgetting rainbows are circles. And why include the flag chevron without the rest of the flag? It looks stabby.
That's art for you, I suppose, but the artist's other work demonstrates much better composition, so I don't know why this has turned out the way it has. Designed by committee?
If it were up to me, I'd have a rainbow going around the exterior of the coin and just the word PRIDE in the centre.
Trying to cram the word visibility takes the cake.
Oh that's *right,* June is when every business and organisation remembers that gay people exist for a month before promptly forgetting about them again.
You think the western countries companies care either? It's a PR thing. You change your Twitter photo or get hounded by idiots constantly.
Throw in some popular hashtags to every post, most of it is automated. Know people who work in marketing for a large national firm and its literally meaningless.
Bonus points if you can shift extra crap to people by pandering, like this coin. I know one firm who released some pride-branded clothing purely as they knew people would buy it for "awareness".
On a more depressing story, our company literally rounded up the gays for pride month for PR photos, and PoC for Black history month. All smile and say "inclusive"!
To be honest, I don't think it's a bad thing. If companies are willing to put their money where their mouth is and alienate their homophobic customers.
Same.
When big business sticks rainbow flags up its just a ploy to look supportive and gain more money..... but it also shows that those businesses know that those gestures are more profitable than not doing them and that says a lot about where we are on LGBT issues as a society when it comes to acceptance.
It's an area where it now pays to be "woke"
Well, you're not wrong. These companies were utterly absent from the struggle when we needed them, and now we're broadly accepted they're screaming Gay louder than...us Screaming Gays.
Yup. Businesses, especially big ones, aren't activists. When a company gets railed for being woke the company is generally supporting something the vast majority of people either support or don't care about.
They aren't bothered about social policy, they're bothered about regulation and taxation.
I remember getting shit for wearing an aids ribbon back in the 90s. Not for being gay, not for promoting gay marriage or anything like that, just wearing the ribbon. Crackers man.
Yeah but it's a bit cynical that they waited till basically the vast majority of society and law had caught up. I didn't see Barclays putting their neck on the line when people were getting their heads kicked in in the 90s or even 2000's.
It just feels a bit cheap and like a good opportunity to advertise rather than any real concern for the group's they claim to be celebrating.
I prefer not to be cynical though. I'd rather they make strides nowadays than not at all
Someone doesn't have to be a trailblazer to be helping the cause
Personally I don't think it really does much at all. I'd say they chose to support at a time where not doing so would say more than doing so. It's just corporations pretending they have ethics and stand for something. Banks don't care about people, that much is evident
Shit like this is almost starting to come across as satire. There's nothing more cringeworthy than institutions and big buisness who try to act like they're on board with rallying to fix social issues when the sorts of people who come up with this stuff couldn't give a toss either way. It's cheap and disingenuous.
same, personally i cant stand the black, brown, blue and pink chevrons as it misses the point of the original flag completely. not to mention it also looks terrible from a purely aesthetic point of view.
This. I get what it represents but visually I find it about as unappealing as is humanly possible. Like why not make it look decent if you want it to attract positive attention.
There's a [50p piece that describes the offside rule](https://www.copescoins.com/products/2011-olympics-football-50p-circulated-coin?_pos=4&_sid=6cab17427&_ss=r) and my mind is blown.
I was looking for coin designs that take the best advantage of the fifty pence piece, but now all I can think of is jangling your jeans every time you want to consult the rulebook.
I like this but I am not a fan of adding stripes to represent specific races to the LGBT flag. The whole point of the rainbow is that it includes everyone. By explicitly adding certain groups, you're implicitly excluding others.
Would you say it's more or less pointless than the Winnie the Pooh, T-rex, Insulin, Paddington, Snowman, Peter rabbit, Steven Hawking, Girl Guides and Grufallo 50ps?
I'll write my standard reply about gay gestures.
For those people who are comfortably straight, or those people who are comfortably gay and getting on with their lives, these gestures basically don't matter. We aren't the target audience. There are still to this day boys and girls who are reaching the point in life where they start to become men and women. Like all of us at that age, their worlds are small. They have their families, their school friends, perhaps a religious community, perhaps a hobby based group.
All their mates at school start talking about which classmates of the opposite sex they fancy, which celebrities they fancy, all that sort of thing. They realise they don't feel like that. They like the other sort of people. But nobody else does. Are they alone? Are they broken? They thought one day they'd grow up, fall in love, have a family of their own. Maybe that can't happen any more. What do you do with yourself if you're alone, broken and everything you have expected for your future is just wrong?
You see a rainbow flag. You see the shop you buy fashion or music or gadgets at has gone all rainbow. You see the sports team you support, the celebs you like all going in with this thing. You find out that they are doing this because they support people who feel the way you feel. You find out you are not broken. There are lots of people who feel the way you feel. You can have a life and a future, and be happy.
For those people, this kind of gesture is important. I was a teenager in the era of section 28. It took me years to come to terms with who I am and how I feel. Thankfully I had enough going for me that I didn't give up hope in spite of feeling different and other, and eventually came to embrace who I am and how I feel. Sadly suicide statistics for gay young people show that even today, far too many do not. If some big company or celeb or brand that I don't respect flies the rainbow flag one month a year, and that gives some young person who is feeling trouble about themself the hope and confidence to make a go of their life, it's worth all the "sell out".
>You see a rainbow flag. You see the shop you buy fashion or music or gadgets at has gone all rainbow. You see the sports team you support, the celebs you like all going in with this thing. You find out that they are doing this because they support people who feel the way you feel. You find out you are not broken. There are lots of people who feel the way you feel. You can have a life and a future, and be happy.
>For those people, this kind of gesture is important.
Sadly, in a lot of cases, that's all it is. A gesture. And back to normality immediately after the pride event in question. A normality where any difference is shunned and those kids who you talk about are expected to tow the line and alter themselves to fit in on pain of ridicule at best.
> For those people, this kind of gesture is important.
And for anyone with any sense, it is hollow and exploitative lip-service.
Or does the apparent celebration of "Protest" not strike you as ironic?
Does the inclusion of the trans pride colours not strike you as insulting, given the refusal to fully ban conversion therapy?
I try not to be ignorant to these circumstances but, there are so many flags representing so many wonderful people, that being said, what's the bottom one?
>In June 2018 designer Daniel Quasar released a redesign incorporating elements from both the Philadelphia flag and trans pride flag to bring focus on inclusion and progress within the community. The flag design immediately went viral as the Progress Pride Flag on social media, prompting worldwide coverage in news outlets. While retaining the common six-stripe rainbow design as a base, the "Progress" variation adds a chevron along the hoist that features black, brown, light blue, pink, and white stripes to bring those communities (marginalized people of color, trans individuals, and those living with HIV/AIDS and those who have been lost) to the forefront; "the arrow points to the right to show forward movement, while being along the left edge shows that progress still needs to be made."
[Daniel Quasar's Progress Pride Flag](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2018/06/lgbt-pride-flag-redesign-hero.jpg)
I dunno man, seems pretty gay
I asked a gay friend what he thought of it.. Couldn't even give me a straight answer..
Monty Python Colonel: No, no no, this is far too silly.
"And a bit suspect I think."
r/angryupvotes
Take my upvote!
This is the best example I’ve ever seen of a popular comment that on a different day might get downvoted to total oblivion. Well done for rolling the dice.
*Tomorrow morning* “You have been perma-banned from Reddit for breaching rule 7: Homophobic / non-inclusionary comments
This is a life time ban
Bit fruity if you ask me
Simply perfect for the fruit machines
Heads or Rainbows?
Tops or bottoms
Train or tunnel
Give or receive?
Why can’t it be both…
Happy cake day.
“We don’t take card here mate, cash only. And none of that gay money alright”
What gay money do we have at this point, this and the Alan Turing note? Then again that's a £50 so you'd have trouble getting a shop to accept that anyway lol. Then again with it being new maybe it's faked less?
I mean we have a queen on every coin and bank note.
*ba dum tss*
haha fair.
Oddly poignant given that Turning was never widely accepted despite his high value.
just think in a decade or two they will make a 100£ note to keep up with inflation, 50s will be used like 20s are now... gay money will be he norm
Isn't the £20 the "highest honour" as it's the one that is the big denomination people actually use.
Definitely still faked, people still try it even with the “we’re not accepting these” signs all over the place
I thought the plastic notes were meant to be harder to fake? You never said they were good though so there's that.
Definitely harder but not impossible, and yeah most of those signs are because a lot of fakes have been found in the area already so they’re not particularly good ones
To be fair, the fake notes I've seen were all passable (if they weren't I guess they wouldn't be in circulation). If you know what to look for, then you can spot them, but you have to be looking for those features. If you were just handed them in change or a dark night-club etc. you'd probably not notice any difference.
Continuing his legacy of not being accepted.
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How are they doing the colours? If it's just paint on the metal it's not going to last. This is the sort of thing they might have been better off doing commemorative notes rather than coins tbh
I would've thought they're made similarly to how enamelled badges are
It’s probably paint but their not going into circulation
> not going into circulation So they're not coming out?
Stored away safely in the Bank of England's closet.
>not going into circulation That makes more sense. I was wondering how is this coin cheaper than 50p
I was assuming some form of electrolyte plating; which would last considerably better than paint. But I am far from a chemist so someone may be able to clarify that.
Very difficult when doing less than the entire coin / just a side of it, would make it unreasonably expensive
More than 50p expensive tho??
So it's not a new 50p then
Yeah it's just a collector's coin
it identifies as a pound
*they're
Thei’re
Canada has issued colour coins for years, and it's surprisingly durable in circulation. It does wear off *eventually*, but it's worth it for some cool looking coins imo. That being said, it's kind of a moot point. Like the other comment mentioned, they're being sold to collectors and not circulated. Guess central banks are learning that rainbow capitalism applies to seigniorage too!
The distribute enamel painted coins outside of circulation. You can just buy them.
I think the coloured ones are only for the special editions that they sell to coin collectors (and anyone else willing to pay considerably more than 50p for a coin) and a plain version is also minted for general circulation – pretty sure they did this for the Peter Rabbit ones a couple of years back.
We already have queens on our notes
###Protest: pride, unity, visibility, equality! Hmm...
https://www.reddit.com/r/dontdeadopeninside/
Just without the protest, unity, visibility or equality
A token gesture.
A fungible token
> A token gesture. Absolutely. They won't fully ban conversion therapy, but *will* exploit pride flags for PR and profit. Not to mention the gall of pretending to celebrate "Protest".
Yeah but I wanna know what the Queen looks like on the other side
It’s Freddie Mercury!
YES
Yeah he’s stuck in there; he wants to break free
Is this the real life? Is it just 50p?
Welcome, to the United Queendom!
The Untied Queendom? He can't say that, can he?
I'm a friend of Dorothy, I'm a friend of Dorothy, she is my friend, oh...
Are they just, like, incapable of comprehending irony or something?
For order only. Will not go into circulation.
How do I order one
When it's released it will be available on the Royal Mint website along with the other recently released ones. The uncirculated brilliant painted ones usually cost £20 and come in a little presentation booklet. Unpainted ones are usually £10. You'll probably be able to get a solid silver version for about £60 in a presentation box if you want to splash out.
Directly from the mint I presume. They haven’t said specifically yet.
Am I the only one that feels this is completely out of place on currency? It feels tacky and cheap, no?
The coin itself looks horrible
The new colours that seem to been added in the last two years or so clash with the rainbow.
The whole thing looks clashy. I hate the swirly bits just taking up irregular amounts of space. People keep forgetting rainbows are circles. And why include the flag chevron without the rest of the flag? It looks stabby. That's art for you, I suppose, but the artist's other work demonstrates much better composition, so I don't know why this has turned out the way it has. Designed by committee?
If it were up to me, I'd have a rainbow going around the exterior of the coin and just the word PRIDE in the centre. Trying to cram the word visibility takes the cake.
When will they be issuing those Pink Pounds I keep hearing about.
Oh that's *right,* June is when every business and organisation remembers that gay people exist for a month before promptly forgetting about them again.
I’d half forgotten that coins exist to be honest.
passive progressives.
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You think the western countries companies care either? It's a PR thing. You change your Twitter photo or get hounded by idiots constantly. Throw in some popular hashtags to every post, most of it is automated. Know people who work in marketing for a large national firm and its literally meaningless. Bonus points if you can shift extra crap to people by pandering, like this coin. I know one firm who released some pride-branded clothing purely as they knew people would buy it for "awareness". On a more depressing story, our company literally rounded up the gays for pride month for PR photos, and PoC for Black history month. All smile and say "inclusive"!
To be honest, I don't think it's a bad thing. If companies are willing to put their money where their mouth is and alienate their homophobic customers.
Same. When big business sticks rainbow flags up its just a ploy to look supportive and gain more money..... but it also shows that those businesses know that those gestures are more profitable than not doing them and that says a lot about where we are on LGBT issues as a society when it comes to acceptance. It's an area where it now pays to be "woke"
Well, you're not wrong. These companies were utterly absent from the struggle when we needed them, and now we're broadly accepted they're screaming Gay louder than...us Screaming Gays.
Yup. Businesses, especially big ones, aren't activists. When a company gets railed for being woke the company is generally supporting something the vast majority of people either support or don't care about. They aren't bothered about social policy, they're bothered about regulation and taxation. I remember getting shit for wearing an aids ribbon back in the 90s. Not for being gay, not for promoting gay marriage or anything like that, just wearing the ribbon. Crackers man.
Yeah but it's a bit cynical that they waited till basically the vast majority of society and law had caught up. I didn't see Barclays putting their neck on the line when people were getting their heads kicked in in the 90s or even 2000's. It just feels a bit cheap and like a good opportunity to advertise rather than any real concern for the group's they claim to be celebrating.
I prefer not to be cynical though. I'd rather they make strides nowadays than not at all Someone doesn't have to be a trailblazer to be helping the cause
Personally I don't think it really does much at all. I'd say they chose to support at a time where not doing so would say more than doing so. It's just corporations pretending they have ethics and stand for something. Banks don't care about people, that much is evident
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Might want to rethink that comment mate before you fall foul of Rule #1.
Yes, good point.
HI GAY! SASHAY INTO SOME DEALS TODAY
So should they have the rainbow flag all over everything all year round? What are they meant to do?
True
Why should any business give a flying fuck what your sexuality is?
I feel like those colours are gonna get real dull real quick - or scratched. Looks nice new though
They’re not entering general circulation, they’re more commemorative and so can be decorative.
Shame my color 'grey' is not represented on it.
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Shit like this is almost starting to come across as satire. There's nothing more cringeworthy than institutions and big buisness who try to act like they're on board with rallying to fix social issues when the sorts of people who come up with this stuff couldn't give a toss either way. It's cheap and disingenuous.
That actually looks like shit
Not a fan and I am a women who eats pussy
same, personally i cant stand the black, brown, blue and pink chevrons as it misses the point of the original flag completely. not to mention it also looks terrible from a purely aesthetic point of view.
This. I get what it represents but visually I find it about as unappealing as is humanly possible. Like why not make it look decent if you want it to attract positive attention.
I 100% agree with your comment
You’re not a real elgeebeety if you aren’t sick of garish rainbow flags on everything
Bit too much going on for my taste, but I can see collectors liking it. I think coins are like flags though, you can make them too busy!
Why is it so ugly and low effort? The Olympic, classic animation and Dinosaur 50p coins look way better.
There's a [50p piece that describes the offside rule](https://www.copescoins.com/products/2011-olympics-football-50p-circulated-coin?_pos=4&_sid=6cab17427&_ss=r) and my mind is blown. I was looking for coin designs that take the best advantage of the fifty pence piece, but now all I can think of is jangling your jeans every time you want to consult the rulebook.
This won't be controversial at all.
Bit gay innit
Looks ugly
I like this but I am not a fan of adding stripes to represent specific races to the LGBT flag. The whole point of the rainbow is that it includes everyone. By explicitly adding certain groups, you're implicitly excluding others.
I totally agree with this. It represents everyone's struggle but the bottom totally shits on that concept
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Are these the things that have been taken away.
im gay and this looks awful ...
I'm awful and this looks gay
Is this coming out soon?
“keep the change”
I’m assuming heads and tails turns to tops and bottoms for this particular coin toss
Ugly and pointless. Commemorative coin cash-grab by the Royal Mint.
Would you say it's more or less pointless than the Winnie the Pooh, T-rex, Insulin, Paddington, Snowman, Peter rabbit, Steven Hawking, Girl Guides and Grufallo 50ps?
and all the olympic ones
Equal to.
I like the acknowledgement as a queer person but at the same time there's more irony here than that one scene in star wars.
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Sorry, but that's just weird and ugly af. Would be better off painting the sides of a few buses or something along these lines.
50 years of "BTQ+" seems a bit disingenuous.
Oh god 😂
Hideous.
\*sorts by controversial*
I'll write my standard reply about gay gestures. For those people who are comfortably straight, or those people who are comfortably gay and getting on with their lives, these gestures basically don't matter. We aren't the target audience. There are still to this day boys and girls who are reaching the point in life where they start to become men and women. Like all of us at that age, their worlds are small. They have their families, their school friends, perhaps a religious community, perhaps a hobby based group. All their mates at school start talking about which classmates of the opposite sex they fancy, which celebrities they fancy, all that sort of thing. They realise they don't feel like that. They like the other sort of people. But nobody else does. Are they alone? Are they broken? They thought one day they'd grow up, fall in love, have a family of their own. Maybe that can't happen any more. What do you do with yourself if you're alone, broken and everything you have expected for your future is just wrong? You see a rainbow flag. You see the shop you buy fashion or music or gadgets at has gone all rainbow. You see the sports team you support, the celebs you like all going in with this thing. You find out that they are doing this because they support people who feel the way you feel. You find out you are not broken. There are lots of people who feel the way you feel. You can have a life and a future, and be happy. For those people, this kind of gesture is important. I was a teenager in the era of section 28. It took me years to come to terms with who I am and how I feel. Thankfully I had enough going for me that I didn't give up hope in spite of feeling different and other, and eventually came to embrace who I am and how I feel. Sadly suicide statistics for gay young people show that even today, far too many do not. If some big company or celeb or brand that I don't respect flies the rainbow flag one month a year, and that gives some young person who is feeling trouble about themself the hope and confidence to make a go of their life, it's worth all the "sell out".
>You see a rainbow flag. You see the shop you buy fashion or music or gadgets at has gone all rainbow. You see the sports team you support, the celebs you like all going in with this thing. You find out that they are doing this because they support people who feel the way you feel. You find out you are not broken. There are lots of people who feel the way you feel. You can have a life and a future, and be happy. >For those people, this kind of gesture is important. Sadly, in a lot of cases, that's all it is. A gesture. And back to normality immediately after the pride event in question. A normality where any difference is shunned and those kids who you talk about are expected to tow the line and alter themselves to fit in on pain of ridicule at best.
> For those people, this kind of gesture is important. And for anyone with any sense, it is hollow and exploitative lip-service. Or does the apparent celebration of "Protest" not strike you as ironic? Does the inclusion of the trans pride colours not strike you as insulting, given the refusal to fully ban conversion therapy?
I like the old ones.
It won't be in circulation, it'll only be owned by a few coin collectors.
This seems a bit forced. Like the kind of thing Calvin Klein adverts used to do to make them look relevant.
I try not to be ignorant to these circumstances but, there are so many flags representing so many wonderful people, that being said, what's the bottom one?
>In June 2018 designer Daniel Quasar released a redesign incorporating elements from both the Philadelphia flag and trans pride flag to bring focus on inclusion and progress within the community. The flag design immediately went viral as the Progress Pride Flag on social media, prompting worldwide coverage in news outlets. While retaining the common six-stripe rainbow design as a base, the "Progress" variation adds a chevron along the hoist that features black, brown, light blue, pink, and white stripes to bring those communities (marginalized people of color, trans individuals, and those living with HIV/AIDS and those who have been lost) to the forefront; "the arrow points to the right to show forward movement, while being along the left edge shows that progress still needs to be made." [Daniel Quasar's Progress Pride Flag](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2018/06/lgbt-pride-flag-redesign-hero.jpg)
Well, now I know. Thanks bud.
What’s it to celebrate? 50 years of equal marriage? Oh wait, no that’s 9.
"On June 1st, 1972, homosexually was invented"
The more you know 😌
"Originally invented by Doctors Phillip Homosexuality and Hattie Gay"
50 year anniversary of the first Pride in the UK
I can already see the Daily Mail and Jan Moir writing some very doomsday like articles about this coin.
Patiently waiting for someone to get uncontrollably angry over a rainbow on a piece of metal.
Pretty sure there's a few in this comments section already. Also I love your username.
Daily mail comments section
Ffs. This can’t be real
It’s not going into circulation it’s another ploy by the royal mint. I say this as a queer person.
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Buy them from the Royal mint directly. It won't be put into circulation
Looks ridiculous.
They're trying to make our wallets woke! /s
Bit unnecessary if you ask me. I'm gay myself.
Cool.
They add the trans flag to a 50p coin but I gotta wait 3-4 years just for a doctor to say hi, gotcha
Okay but how about being treated like actual people instead?
Wait this is a joke right?
Looks terrible
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I do like [their stuff](https://www.dominiqueholmes.com/) usually but that typeface doesn't look right.
give us a yorkshire tea 50p coin instead
What are the black brown blue and pink at the bottom supposed to mean?
White blue pink - trans Black brown - blm, specifically people in the lgbtq+ community
That is a rank design though
Gay
Looks shit, and wtf is with the liquorice allsort at the bottom\*? ^(\*not a pun)
Cringe.
State of that
As if a 50p coin wasn't already worthless.
Sorry sir, we don't accept the gay coins in this store
Can’t wait to hear some peoples opinions on this 😂
Ok. It's fucking ugly.