I would think pennies still spend in this country.
Why is it no body likes them??? Is it the copper color?
And isn't it the "meth heads" that are stealing copper wire? Maybe we should just give them pennies when they sit begging for money at the stop signs by the freeways, and kill 2 birds with one stone, so to speak.
I like this vid. I see both side's of the argument and yet, customer should win this one. Perhaps he should write a cheque then cancel it because he hadn't had time to put the said dosh in the bank?!
This is a stupid commercial....NOT A VIDEO! WTF glumbert, it's bad enough you jam all the add's right into the "videos" now you just run them as if they were a video.
if the pennies had been rolled in proper containers than they would have been forced to take his payment in pennies no matter how ridiculous it may have been.
The copper in a penny is worth more than $0.01. You are actually getting more by accepting the pennies...... if you plan on melting them down that is. :P
It isn't illegal to melt down currency in this country. It is in most countries, but not in the US.
Pre-1982 pennies are 95% copper and 5% zinc, post-1982 pennies are 2.5% copper and 97.5% zinc. Pennies last a long time, so if you go to the bank and get $10 worth of pennies, you'll get about 80 pre-1982 ones, (not that I counted them, you can actually tell by weighing them: Get an accurate scale, (like one you'd use to make meth,) and weigh a pre-1982 one and a post-1982, and then put all 1,000 pennies on scale, and do the math.) The pre-1982 ones are worth about 1.3 cents in copper, the post-1982 ones are only worth about 0.6 cents in zinc. So you have to sort the pennies, and then melt them down into ingots, (and skim the 5% zinc out of them,) to get top dollar for the copper...
I looked into all of this a few years ago, (when copper was about the same price as it is now.) The problem is the sorting: it has to be done at the bank for a lot of reasons, (even back then I wasn't sure that making a bunch of trips to the bank wouldn't eat up all my profit in gasoline, and so the way to make this pay is to do it by bicycle, which means cutting down on the weight: No moving pennies home and back if I can help it.) And it has to be done quickly. Not actually a problem: I made a fairly simple mechanism to have them sort themselves by weight, (roll down a ramp, hit a small spring: They fall into two piles,) all you have to is unroll the pennies. About that time the price of copper fell and I gave up the idea, but the price has gone back up, so now I need to work on the kiln...
If you took a penny and dropped it off the Empire State Building and it landed on someone's head, it would go right through them, killing them instantly. Imagine what would happen if you used a $10 bill. Talk about getting your money's worth!
If you took my penis and cut it off then dropped it from the top of the Empire State Building, it would pass through the center of the earth and exit in Melbourne at around 9,000 mph before leaving Earth's orbit and carrying on to Saturn. Anyone unfortunate enough to be struck by it as it fell from the ESB would be vaporized instantly.
However, as I have no intention of cutting off my penis, the world will be safe.
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