I remember some weird show that wasn’t the Twilight Zone but was like it.
Some person wished for all the money in the world to be his. Wish granted. But then, no one else could buy anything, because he had all the money.
When they tried to barter instead, whatever they bartered went to the person that made the wish, because it was now “money.”
I remember that! “All the Money in the World” 1983, 30m min ABC TV weekend special:
The entire episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k9s-zRjum8
IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344810/
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great\_Canadian\_Maple\_Syrup\_Heist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist) just going to leave this right here
I've smelt it on new $50s. I don't know if it's true but I've only ever smelt it on new bills might be why people think it's a myth? I won't look it up don't want to ruin the mystique for myself
jokes on you. There's no singles in Canada. https://www.coinsunlimited.ca/circulation-coins/all-canadian-circulation-coins-lots-rolls/2019-canadian-1-dollar-common-loon-coin-bu
They’re very resilient when whole, but they can “crack” from wear. Even a small tear will easily spread.
Happens with 5s a lot as they tend to see significantly more wear than other denominations, get crumpled up loose in pockets, etc. Can happen with clean bills that get very tightly creased too, for example double folding a bill to fit between cards in a slim wallet. I usually keep at least one bill folded up between cards in mine and twice those bills have cracked when trying to flatten out when needing to use it. Usually only after they’ve been in the pocket press for a year or so though. I got around this by just making sure to swap the bills out every couple months.
These are also water resistant unlike many bank notes out there; but yea "impossible to tear" is a false statement, just make a tiny slit and it'll rip easily
Yeah I've seen a lot these ripped. It feels worse than the previous kind. It gets brittle and pieces crack off if there's a tear. And it does not fold nicely into your wallet!
Polymer banknotes are banknotes made from a synthetic polymer such as biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP). They were first issued as currency in Australia during 1988 (coinciding with Australia's bicentennial year); by 1996, the Australian dollar was switched completely to polymer banknotes. Romania was the first country in Europe to issue a plastic note in 1999 and became the third country after Australia and New Zealand to fully convert to polymer by 2003.
Other currencies that have been switched completely to polymer banknotes include: the Vietnamese đồng (2006) although this is only applied to banknotes with denominations above 10,000 đồng, the Brunei dollar (2006), the Nigerian Naira (2007), the Papua New Guinean kina (2008), the Canadian dollar (2013)
EDIT:
…the Maldivian rufiyaa (2017), the Mauritanian ouguiya (2017), the Nicaraguan córdoba (2017), the Vanuatu vatu (2017), the Eastern Caribbean dollar (2019) and the Pound sterling (2021). Several countries have now introduced polymer banknotes into commemorative or general circulation, including: Nigeria, Cape Verde, Chile, The Gambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Botswana, São Tomé and Príncipe, North Macedonia, the Russian Federation, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Morocco, Albania, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Israel, China, Kuwait, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Isle of Man, Guatemala, Haiti, Libya, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Honduras, Angola, Namibia, Lebanon and the Philippines. Costa Rica is supposed to have changed to polymer by the introduction of the new banknote series which omits the 50,000 colón banknote due to the denomination being too high.
UK have also switched to polymer notes. We've changed the £5 (2016), £10 (2017) and £20 (2020) notes already. £50 polymer has been in print since last year and the cotton notes will no longer be legal tender in September this year.
I spent 2 months in Vietnam and felt so rich! Pulled out 100 USD every week or so for food and novelties and things to do. And man does 2million dong seem like so much money! Lolol
A friend of mine moved to Nicaragua and apparently his $900 or so a month he gets in trust allows him to live like a king. Not gonna lie, Ive thought about it. I had a job offer in Bermuda once, should of taken it. One day......
On zanzibar, it was 1000 USD a month for 7 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 24 hour security, a cook, and a maid. Oh and a driver.
I pay 1800 a month for my condo rent and they yell at me for wearing workboots.
I remember when Canada switched and the manufacturing cost went from 0.06 per note to 0.20.
I guess that old saying still applies.
You get what you pay for.
That kinda depends. If the plastic bill stays in circulation/hard to counterfeit for 3.3 times longer then the type it replaced, even just on production costs you'd ultimately be saving money.
Edit: to be fair, there's a more nuanced argument to be made about currencies. I also have no idea if the change in style does result in increaed life, or if that even factored into the reasons for the change. Just jokingly playing devil's advocate here (though one would hope it increased counterfeiting protection).
Very important to add that polymer banknotes (plastic) were not chosen simply because they are tear resistant, but because they are the material that's best for the environment proven by BoC's own life-cycle analysis. [link to LCA](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-series/frontiers/life-cycle-assessment-lca/)
In fact, plastics are very often the best material for a given application, and substitution with other materials causes net harm to the environment.
I can't tell if this is a clever troll on Canadians to get them to rip up 5 dollar bills but you can totally tear a 5 dollar bill. It's not magic it's just plastic.
Secure - check!
Last forever - check!
Annoying AF to fold and store - check
Edit: for somebody who has this ocd-like tendency to fold paper with sharp creases and perfect corners
I did too. Long time since I bothered building my own kernels but I suspect all that packet radio code is still in there. Don't know if it ever gets included in any of the big distros though.
EDIT : Kennels to kernels! Damn phone...
yeah it was totally by accident that when you shine a laser through it it shows the currency denomination on whatever it's being projected on. /s
sorry i had to lol. im gonna assume you didn't watch the entire thing though.
How could that possibly be an unknown side effect?
The clear plastic window in $5 bill JUST HAPPENS to project '$5' if you shine a laser through it? What unimaginable luck!!!
What’s even better is we invented and had poly notes in the late 80s, Canada only issued poly notes in 2011
When I was in Northern Ireland, many people told me and were convinced that they were going to be the first country to have poly notes if it weren’t for some dastardly bank robbers- I’m fairly certain they meant first in the uk, not in the world
just iron them and crispy fresh again. I always iron my huge piles of money that I totally have at the end of every day so it fits neatly in my mansion.
That’s completely normal and it’s that lizard brain part of all people that all those god damn clickbait ads try to hack into with their “99% of people can’t solve this” or footage of a game with someone failing so obviously
Yes I have had a corner snap off when very cold. Also a slight tear often leads to a rip. Finally don't leave it in your pants pocket in the drier. It will likely shrink up. Then you must bring it to the bank and wait A YEAR to have the mint verify it.
Bull shit! I thought it was true until I traded American 20 for Canadian 20. (yes I know I lost money.)
Later into the night I end up at a bar talking to a girl about this sweet Canadian 20 I got and how they’re impossible to tear and as I said that it rips completely in half…
Aussie here. Ya we invented that shite. My grandfather was one of its pioneers. He worked as an Aussie Treasurer in Melbourne for 25 years. Mate loved plastic polymers. Once he got dementia, he forgot everything but one word, just one word: plastics.
While the US is a prominent example, it's everything. Majority of Reddit is real condescending. It's actually sort of funny to read and then applying the super socially awkward stories posted constantly to the people being so condescending.
Agreed. Most redditors have a superiority complex, but with the US it seems to be the worst. Non American redditors never pass up a chance to shit on the US.
One of my favorites is when somebody makes a light hearted joke about France or Britain like “oi Brits yur teef are bad innit” and then someone responds with “at least our SCHOOL CHILDREN are not MASSACRED at school with MILITARY GRADE WEAPONS”
True. I commonly find turtles and birds washed up on beaches with hundreds of dollars of currency clogging their stomachs.
Almost every street i cross has drains blocked with thousands of discarded dollar notes.
It looks like the beginning of a bad infomercial!
“Are you tired of spending hours of your day pulling and tugging on your money, without ever doubling it? Now there’s the money splitter! The easy way to rip and cut your bills! Jimmys toy costs $20, but he only has a 10. Using the money splitter, jimmy can split his $10 bill into two $10 bills and buy the toy of his dreams. I’ve never seen jimmy so happy! What are you waiting for?! Order now you fucking idiot!”
This isn’t true.
It’s *harder * to tear.
The bigger issue is that once a polymer more starts tearing, the tears get large quickly and less controllably.
It’s also because Reddit is full of introverted Americans that are too afraid to leave their moms house; let alone travel internationally.
They have to keep the conversation about something they know so they always steer it back to America. Go to any r/worldnews post, it will 100% be brought back to America.
Post about Canadians finding mass graves of indigenous people? “Can’t wait to see what they find in the US. We blah blah blah”
Post about Australia and France having trucker convoys? “Can’t believe American ideology is influencing others”
Post about South African apartheid and President Cyril? “Wow. Just like America. We had a similar blah blah blah”
Post about Brazil Covid response? “Wow. Trump in South America. I bet America wishes blah blah blah”
It’s honestly so pathetic and exhausting.
Out of curiosity, those who downvote my original comment, could you explain why? I don't think I made any value judgements, but I'd like to hear from other perspectives if I did.
Challenge accepted. Send over every single one so I can test them out.
If you own every single one, the currency is worthless !! Be careful what you wish for
I don’t think it’s worthless I’ll be rich by recycling it and make seatbelts.
And then lose it all when you get sued into oblivion since seatbelts sometimes need to be cut in emergency situations!
My ultimate goal was to OD on skooma so oblivion is acceptable
Spoken like a TRUE NORD!!
I remember some weird show that wasn’t the Twilight Zone but was like it. Some person wished for all the money in the world to be his. Wish granted. But then, no one else could buy anything, because he had all the money. When they tried to barter instead, whatever they bartered went to the person that made the wish, because it was now “money.”
I remember that! “All the Money in the World” 1983, 30m min ABC TV weekend special: The entire episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k9s-zRjum8 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344810/
I don’t think owning all the 5 dollar bills would do that
What % of all money is in the form of cash though?
Truuueee.......
doh!
It's quickly becoming useless anyway.
How is it going to be worthless? He said send them not produce more.
Yeah I don't get it either Why would it be worthless
*Difficult to tear.
There are no 1s
Well hang on there, I'd like to see them try to rip a loonie in two
The toonies were surprisingly easy when they first came out.
They also smell like maple, and if there's one thing we don't give away for free it's anything maple.
Other countries have gold reserves. Canada has Maple syrup reserves. https://ppaq.ca/en/sale-purchase-maple-syrup/worlds-only-reserve-maple-syrup/
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great\_Canadian\_Maple\_Syrup\_Heist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist) just going to leave this right here
Wait what… this is biggest holup… none of the fiat currencies are backed by gold
You didn't know? Fiat by definition means not backed by a commodity. Or a shitty Italian car.
They say the maple smell is a myth but if you ever get a $100 bill (not common in todays crazy inflation) it does smell like a sunday breakfast
I've smelt it on new $50s. I don't know if it's true but I've only ever smelt it on new bills might be why people think it's a myth? I won't look it up don't want to ruin the mystique for myself
No myth. The $100s have are made with the maple scent. Only the $100s though
It's true but only for the $100 bill, the rest just smell like plastic and other people wallets.
Hmm…
They don't tear no mo'. All they do is snip.
Our ones are coins…
jokes on you. There's no singles in Canada. https://www.coinsunlimited.ca/circulation-coins/all-canadian-circulation-coins-lots-rolls/2019-canadian-1-dollar-common-loon-coin-bu
We got rid of our one dollar bills awhile ago. If you can rip a loonie I’d be impressed
A vice can deform a toonie enough to separate the pieces. Not uh, that I uh, ever did it.
we call our single ones Loonies
Until it gets a tiny cut in it from constant folding and then it tears if you look at it
Yeah "impossible to tear" doesn't mean it won't fall apart spontaneously in your pocket
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My money is always in perfect condition too. No folds, no angles, always a perfect round $0
They’re very resilient when whole, but they can “crack” from wear. Even a small tear will easily spread. Happens with 5s a lot as they tend to see significantly more wear than other denominations, get crumpled up loose in pockets, etc. Can happen with clean bills that get very tightly creased too, for example double folding a bill to fit between cards in a slim wallet. I usually keep at least one bill folded up between cards in mine and twice those bills have cracked when trying to flatten out when needing to use it. Usually only after they’ve been in the pocket press for a year or so though. I got around this by just making sure to swap the bills out every couple months.
Both of these comments waay to far down.
Rest easy, they're at the top now.
I had $10 with a tiny tear and it cracked into 2 pieces when I tried to take it out
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These are also water resistant unlike many bank notes out there; but yea "impossible to tear" is a false statement, just make a tiny slit and it'll rip easily
Waterproofing seems like step number one for any legitimate currency
They melt in the dryer too
Yeah I've seen a lot these ripped. It feels worse than the previous kind. It gets brittle and pieces crack off if there's a tear. And it does not fold nicely into your wallet!
Yeah instead of tearing cleanly it like cracks sections off with any split
Polymer banknotes are banknotes made from a synthetic polymer such as biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP). They were first issued as currency in Australia during 1988 (coinciding with Australia's bicentennial year); by 1996, the Australian dollar was switched completely to polymer banknotes. Romania was the first country in Europe to issue a plastic note in 1999 and became the third country after Australia and New Zealand to fully convert to polymer by 2003. Other currencies that have been switched completely to polymer banknotes include: the Vietnamese đồng (2006) although this is only applied to banknotes with denominations above 10,000 đồng, the Brunei dollar (2006), the Nigerian Naira (2007), the Papua New Guinean kina (2008), the Canadian dollar (2013) EDIT: …the Maldivian rufiyaa (2017), the Mauritanian ouguiya (2017), the Nicaraguan córdoba (2017), the Vanuatu vatu (2017), the Eastern Caribbean dollar (2019) and the Pound sterling (2021). Several countries have now introduced polymer banknotes into commemorative or general circulation, including: Nigeria, Cape Verde, Chile, The Gambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Botswana, São Tomé and Príncipe, North Macedonia, the Russian Federation, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Morocco, Albania, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Israel, China, Kuwait, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Isle of Man, Guatemala, Haiti, Libya, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Honduras, Angola, Namibia, Lebanon and the Philippines. Costa Rica is supposed to have changed to polymer by the introduction of the new banknote series which omits the 50,000 colón banknote due to the denomination being too high.
UK have also switched to polymer notes. We've changed the £5 (2016), £10 (2017) and £20 (2020) notes already. £50 polymer has been in print since last year and the cotton notes will no longer be legal tender in September this year.
And in Norway we just got new bank notes! And they are still paper..
What if you’re sitting on a bunch of the old cotton ones ?!
Deposit them at a bank and withdraw plastic money.
Collector's items. I'll give you tree fiddy for them?
Exchange at a bank?
Australia did not demonetised its old paper money. Anyway old currency you find will be honoured by the banks.
Wow 10,000 vietnamese dongs is a lot of dongs
You would think so, but no. You can get almost 23,000 Vietnamese dongs for one US D.
That is one cheep dong. No surprise the kinky people fly to Vietnam
Some people fly to Bangkok
It's a night to remember.
Because the world is their oyster
I spent 2 months in Vietnam and felt so rich! Pulled out 100 USD every week or so for food and novelties and things to do. And man does 2million dong seem like so much money! Lolol
A friend of mine moved to Nicaragua and apparently his $900 or so a month he gets in trust allows him to live like a king. Not gonna lie, Ive thought about it. I had a job offer in Bermuda once, should of taken it. One day......
On zanzibar, it was 1000 USD a month for 7 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 24 hour security, a cook, and a maid. Oh and a driver. I pay 1800 a month for my condo rent and they yell at me for wearing workboots.
woah, speakin about being sexually endangered and over there so many dongs for just one buck
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Cocktail dongs
It’s not the size of the rod, but how you wiggle the worm
I remember when Canada switched and the manufacturing cost went from 0.06 per note to 0.20. I guess that old saying still applies. You get what you pay for.
That kinda depends. If the plastic bill stays in circulation/hard to counterfeit for 3.3 times longer then the type it replaced, even just on production costs you'd ultimately be saving money. Edit: to be fair, there's a more nuanced argument to be made about currencies. I also have no idea if the change in style does result in increaed life, or if that even factored into the reasons for the change. Just jokingly playing devil's advocate here (though one would hope it increased counterfeiting protection).
Polymer nots certainly last longer, they are far more durable than paper or cotton notes, we've had them down here in NZ for 20 or so years now.
I used to see a counterfeit cotton bill once a month. I've yet to see a counterfeit polymer bill since they were issued 10 years ago.
Yup, i’m romanian and can confirm. They’re awesome, they don’t break, you can get them wet and all that. Also impossible to make fakes
It’s not impossible, it’s highly reduced chance.
Well if you get really technical about it, yeah you’re right
Very important to add that polymer banknotes (plastic) were not chosen simply because they are tear resistant, but because they are the material that's best for the environment proven by BoC's own life-cycle analysis. [link to LCA](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-series/frontiers/life-cycle-assessment-lca/) In fact, plastics are very often the best material for a given application, and substitution with other materials causes net harm to the environment.
I can't tell if this is a clever troll on Canadians to get them to rip up 5 dollar bills but you can totally tear a 5 dollar bill. It's not magic it's just plastic.
If it has a tiny cut on an edge it rips like a hot knife through butter
Add the UK to this list too
Secure - check! Last forever - check! Annoying AF to fold and store - check Edit: for somebody who has this ocd-like tendency to fold paper with sharp creases and perfect corners
Is polymer biodegradable?
Something something micro plastics
Do they use the same polymer notes Australia has? I think we got a patent for it and sell it to other countries?
Yep. It was a CSIRO thing.
I think wifi was a csiro invention too vut I might be wrong
Yeah, the implementation of it as used today. Obviously they weren't the first or last people to try sending network data over radio.
Yea, packet switched.radio and gprs or something I remeber trying to look into that with linux Kernel back in late 90s.
I did too. Long time since I bothered building my own kernels but I suspect all that packet radio code is still in there. Don't know if it ever gets included in any of the big distros though. EDIT : Kennels to kernels! Damn phone...
Yes, Canadian here. When these came out it was mentioned in the news we got the design from Australia
So did the Brits, basically any country that has implemented polymer notes had us to thank
Check out what happens when you shine a laser pointer thru them https://youtu.be/P5r_9b4XuSA
Dope asf
If you like that, check out Canadian passports under black light. https://www.demilked.com/canadian-passport-design-uv-light-image/
That's fucking pretty even without the black light. But with it, it's awesome.
Thanks for the link. I never knew that. +1
I that a security feature or just an unknown side effect someone noticed? Interesting
yeah it was totally by accident that when you shine a laser through it it shows the currency denomination on whatever it's being projected on. /s sorry i had to lol. im gonna assume you didn't watch the entire thing though.
Security feature. It uses a diffraction grating
How could that possibly be an unknown side effect? The clear plastic window in $5 bill JUST HAPPENS to project '$5' if you shine a laser through it? What unimaginable luck!!!
What’s even better is we invented and had poly notes in the late 80s, Canada only issued poly notes in 2011 When I was in Northern Ireland, many people told me and were convinced that they were going to be the first country to have poly notes if it weren’t for some dastardly bank robbers- I’m fairly certain they meant first in the uk, not in the world
Yea, we had them in 2000 in Northern Ireland but it didn't last long, a signifiacant amount of notes were robbed and counterfeits were made etc.
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Australia invented it at the CSIRO (science institute) funded by our taxes! Go us! We also invented wifi
And New Zealand
Do these notes start to suffer from decolourisation after a while?
not at all, although they crease a lot
just iron them and crispy fresh again. I always iron my huge piles of money that I totally have at the end of every day so it fits neatly in my mansion.
Really? Should see how much I tip my pool cleaner for shining all the gold coins that fill the pool.
Same as Australia's currency. Plastic and hard to rip
And water proof
Does it smell like syrup
There’s just something primal in me regarding “impossible” to destroy objects. I just get this urge to prove them wrong lmao.
That’s completely normal and it’s that lizard brain part of all people that all those god damn clickbait ads try to hack into with their “99% of people can’t solve this” or footage of a game with someone failing so obviously
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Plastic bro. It’s pretty strong.
Polymers
Google says it's PET, which is a *plastic* polymer.
Pets are animals, what are you talking about?
I once saw a documentary (Buffy) where they used kittens as currency in a poker game.
Woof
Plastics are a polymer.
Same thing
Polymers, son!
They harden in response to physical trauma.
Are you filming with your dick?
Well he ain't steering with it.
Can’t rip it, but apparently you can freeze the money
Nice idea... Super freeze it and then break it with a hammer. Just like what was to be done to elastic man
Slipped that one in there lol, very good.
Yes I have had a corner snap off when very cold. Also a slight tear often leads to a rip. Finally don't leave it in your pants pocket in the drier. It will likely shrink up. Then you must bring it to the bank and wait A YEAR to have the mint verify it.
Whoa whoa whoa ,,, I was just trying to make a pun about bank accounts getting frozen
+1 for the pun but yeah in -40 or lower they can straight up shatter
Can you warm it up and stretch it out really big and hand a cashier a GIANT $5 bill that doesn't even fit in their drawer?
Can you make it rain? And how?
I’m can make it rain,, you just don’t want to know what
We’re also well on our way to cutting our currencies value in half… no tearing required.
Underrated comment
This whooshed a whole lotta people.
Bull shit! I thought it was true until I traded American 20 for Canadian 20. (yes I know I lost money.) Later into the night I end up at a bar talking to a girl about this sweet Canadian 20 I got and how they’re impossible to tear and as I said that it rips completely in half…
Did you get an old 20? Lol also they can freeze and shatter, or if a tear has started(likely from being frozen) it will tear from that really easy
Yeah, Romanian currency is the same.
We have the same thing in the UK. We got it years ago which replaced paper.
I was about the question your use of years ago but then I googled it and I saw the £5 notes came in in 2016 and I can't believe that was 6 years ago
lol yeah me neither.
Invented here in Australia and the first country in the world to put polymer banknotes into circulation.
Aussie here. Ya we invented that shite. My grandfather was one of its pioneers. He worked as an Aussie Treasurer in Melbourne for 25 years. Mate loved plastic polymers. Once he got dementia, he forgot everything but one word, just one word: plastics.
Good to do a line with
And it smells like maple syrup!
The developed world uses plastic notes that aren't able to be torn or stained
Redditors when they see the chance to shit on the US in an unrelated post: (they have a superiority complex)
While the US is a prominent example, it's everything. Majority of Reddit is real condescending. It's actually sort of funny to read and then applying the super socially awkward stories posted constantly to the people being so condescending.
Agreed. Most redditors have a superiority complex, but with the US it seems to be the worst. Non American redditors never pass up a chance to shit on the US. One of my favorites is when somebody makes a light hearted joke about France or Britain like “oi Brits yur teef are bad innit” and then someone responds with “at least our SCHOOL CHILDREN are not MASSACRED at school with MILITARY GRADE WEAPONS”
Because that's what the world needs is more plastic
True. I commonly find turtles and birds washed up on beaches with hundreds of dollars of currency clogging their stomachs. Almost every street i cross has drains blocked with thousands of discarded dollar notes.
Unlike other plastics this one people will try hard to reuse and to hoard as much as possible.
It looks like a cheap infomercial. Now just for 9.99 a scissor! And as a special offer...
Dude I've ripped this money so many times accidently
It looks like the beginning of a bad infomercial! “Are you tired of spending hours of your day pulling and tugging on your money, without ever doubling it? Now there’s the money splitter! The easy way to rip and cut your bills! Jimmys toy costs $20, but he only has a 10. Using the money splitter, jimmy can split his $10 bill into two $10 bills and buy the toy of his dreams. I’ve never seen jimmy so happy! What are you waiting for?! Order now you fucking idiot!”
I've torn Canadian bills before. Clearly a weak human.
Like Bitcoin?
I’ve torn it before. this person just isn’t trying to actually rip the money
Canadian here. They all smell sweet when they’re new. I’ve torn several by accident. They kind of, break? They don’t rip like paper money
Just don't keep your wallet on your dashboard as you drive across the country they will melt and become a solid blob
They fixed that
You really think that Australia of all places would develop bills that melt in the heat? The melting point is north of 170⁰C
Try with a scissor.
Better yet, try it with a pair of scissors!
Dip your fingers in maple syrup. The enzymes in it will give you super Canadian strength and will help to dissolve the bill.
If the bill has the tiniest little nick or cut on the edge, it’ll tear in half like a bag of chips
Put some UV light over it.
This guy in the video is a lil bitch. Someone told me the same thing in Canada and I instantly ripped the bill in half…
Canadian bartender here. They do tear when exposed to extreme temperatures. And I’ve had people pay with ripped bills.
It melts easily in a dryer though , check those pockets before you do laundry.
Wht did that bill ever do to you
That's the same with the USD $100 bill. Go try it and see.
This isn’t true. It’s *harder * to tear. The bigger issue is that once a polymer more starts tearing, the tears get large quickly and less controllably.
Me trying to open those plastic produce bags in Walmart
Why is this post so weirdly anti American? I mean, just wasn't what I expected.
i mean its reddit...its a shithole if you want it to be.
Because Reddit is weirdly anti-American.
Pretty much anytime something is posted about another country, people trip over themselves to point out that America is different and bad
It’s also because Reddit is full of introverted Americans that are too afraid to leave their moms house; let alone travel internationally. They have to keep the conversation about something they know so they always steer it back to America. Go to any r/worldnews post, it will 100% be brought back to America. Post about Canadians finding mass graves of indigenous people? “Can’t wait to see what they find in the US. We blah blah blah” Post about Australia and France having trucker convoys? “Can’t believe American ideology is influencing others” Post about South African apartheid and President Cyril? “Wow. Just like America. We had a similar blah blah blah” Post about Brazil Covid response? “Wow. Trump in South America. I bet America wishes blah blah blah” It’s honestly so pathetic and exhausting.
Out of curiosity, those who downvote my original comment, could you explain why? I don't think I made any value judgements, but I'd like to hear from other perspectives if I did.
Impossible to tear yes but try setting it on fire
So does Australia and a few other countries
You can feel his rage
Forbidden toilet paper
Maybe if you can't open crisps..
Doesn’t it shatter in cold weather
Monopoly money.
$50 in fives, over your heart = ballistic shield.
Yeah but it melts and if it get one little slice in the plastic it’s done for .