In which we yet again post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing -or neither- tweets

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  1. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

    Jul 2, 2003
    Fornax Cluster
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    "Network with Peers" = "Drinking at the airport bar with faculty who want to bore you with their inflated sense of self importance."
     
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  2. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Bragging about bullying a grad student is another reminder why I've long since stopped bemoaning failing in academia.
     
  3. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France

    Speaking of $3 notes, here's what the current one in the Cook Islands looks like (the previous one was pink, which seems more appropriate for the "queer as a $3 bill" saying; I have one of each):

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  4. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    It's just a matter of time before one of the MAGAs complains about a merchant not taking one of the bills.
     
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  5. Funkfoot

    Funkfoot Member+

    May 18, 2002
    New Orleans, LA
    There used to be a saying about somebody being so crooked, if you gave him a $9 bill, he could make change in 3's.
     
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  6. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    "Like a politician kissin’ babies, hustlin’ votes
    And baby, you’re just a three dollar
    Baby, you’re just a three dollar
    Baby, you’re just a three, you’re just a three dollar bill."

    (Mac Rebbenack)
     
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  7. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Those Cook Island notes are muy cool! But $3 is an odd amount, usually you see currency in 1, sometimes 2, 5, 10, etc.

    Pretty much every country has more interesting looking currency notes than the US. My favorites were the Dutch Guilders, but the Euros aren't half bad. Canada got rid of the $10 bill with the kids playing pond hockey:(
     
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  8. Smurfquake

    Smurfquake Moderator
    Staff Member

    Aug 8, 2000
    San Carlos, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Another casualty of climate change. :(
     
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  9. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    #459 Sounders78, Aug 14, 2024
    Last edited: Aug 14, 2024
    The Cooks have $1, 2, and 5 coins - all of which are unusual in one way or another - the $5 coin is quite large. The $2 coin is triangular (photo below is from wikipedia).


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    I use money (specifically notes) from around the world in one of my classes as a first day lesson on culture. The images & people countries put on their money are symbolically important and help reveal cultural values. I purposely give an all-female group money I have from Sweden that features females (I have one note of an opera singer Jenny Lind, the one in "The Greatest Showman", and one featuring an author). I then have them compare whatever country they are looking at to the people and images on American money.

    Needless to say American money is all about politics, not science (Charles Darwin in England, Pierre and Marie Curie on the old French francs), the arts (Belgian francs were magnificent for this - including Adolphe Sax and my favorite Rene Magritte, among others), explorers (Sir Edmund Hillary in NZ), cultural myths ('Ina and the shark in the Cook Islands), sports (Samoa rugby 7s team), feminists (Kate Sheppard in NZ), indigenous leaders (Sir Apirana Ngata in NZ), etc. as you find elsewhere.

    One generality is that countries will economically support what they value and you can see what they value on their money.
     
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  10. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    I have an old Iraqi dinar with Saddam Hussein's face on it.
     
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  11. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I have a Yugoslavian bank note that depicts the "happy worker," a guy with a shovel and a coal furnace in the background.

    So is Britain and all the other Commonwealth countries that had Queen Elizabeth on their money going to re-issue them with King Charles? Maybe it's time for the far-off ex-colonies who still have the Queen to revamp their money with something more relevant to their won culture.
     
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  12. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    An old tradition is to put your head of state on your money and for Commonwealth Realms like Australia and Canada, Charles is the head of state. For republics that are just part of the British Commonwealth like Nigeria and India, he is not.
     
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  13. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    The Bank of England already has issued some with the King. NZ will start having him on some coins beginning next year.
     
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  14. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
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  15. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
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  16. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
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  17. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jun 16, 1999
    Big City Blinking
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    There's nothing I can say that is going to change your subjective perception of him and vice versa. I went to school with a lot of future McKinsey guys and worked with enough after law school too, so I'm familiar with the type. But I don't get that vibe from him because when he talks about issues/policies, he can get in the weeds, he can go "off script" if he has to, he's sharp witted, but he actually seems to really care about people and how polices affect them.

    I'm familiar with Harvey Birdman. And of course, I know Stephen Root ---- guy has played so many great (usually supporting) characters over the years (I particularly like when he shows up in Coen brothers' films) and then throw in his voice roles? I don't know how he finds time to sleep.
     
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  18. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    “Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor,” CNN reports.

    “Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting would help his think tank secure a substantial contribution. For nearly two hours, he talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump, his expansive views on presidential power, his plans to restrict pornography and immigration, and his complaints that the GOP was too focused on ‘religious liberty’ instead of ‘Christian nation-ism.'”

    “But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/15/poli...t-2025-trump-secret-recording-invs/index.html
     
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  19. Funkfoot

    Funkfoot Member+

    May 18, 2002
    New Orleans, LA
    Must be very helpful for blind people. I wonder if that's why they made them in different shapes and sizes.
     
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  20. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nitpick: Consigliere has to be a made guy. Only made guys can rise through the ranks. Pete would be a perfect consigliere as he'd be an advisor.

    Source: Kind of obsessed with underworld stuff, given that a good chunk of my family was involved with it at one point.

    I was asking more out of curiosity and maybe seeing your point. I was trying to leave out the McKinsey and Ivy League part out, because even without those credentials he still comes across as a suit. I see Buttigieg, I see a lot of the higher ups I had to deal with when I was with the sports team and with my most recent employer. A lot of them weren't Ivy grads, but places like U of M, if that makes sense.

    That said, I do see his positives too, but he does not however, have a personality that goes far. And if anything, he's better behind a desk.

    I've got a lot of respect for voice actors. Many years ago at my school, I got to meet one Rob Paulsen. He voiced characters like Raphael in TMNT, Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, and much more. It was quite impressive to see him run the gamut of voices in person. He'd do his Pinky voice, switch to a surfer dude voice, then to a nerdy kind of voice within 30 seconds of each other.

    Also, he's a gent. Hilarious too.
     
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  21. The Euro bills had fake "monuments", because which ones would you choose from the EU with epic monuments that can fit the Euro bills ( :)), without offending every other country, which monuments werenot chosen.
    So a Dutch town had the bright idea to appropriate several of those "monuments" and made them theirs:ROFLMAO:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobridges_Spijkenisse

    We Dutch do miss our beautiful banknotes though.:(
     
  22. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Thanks for the correction; I was thinking Godfather Tom not Sopranos Sil, and got my terms mixed up.
     
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  23. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France

    Narf!
     
  24. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Zort!
     
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  25. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    Plan 2025 from outer space..

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