Now the Canadian penny’s days are numbered, is the nickel next?
No more pennies? Why? They are worth almost nothing, they are cumbersome and they cost the government at least $130-million per year to keep in circulation. Most vending machines do not accept them and bartenders sneer at the sight of them – yet the Mint is still busy pumping out 25 pennies per Canadian per year – at a cost of 1.5 cents apiece. “If a coin has such low purchasing power that consumers refuse it, throw it away or horde it without worrying about putting it back into the distribution system, it would seem logical to stop producing it.
While we’re tossing out coins, why not the nickel?
Soon enough. Nickels are already relatively useless – and like all coins they’re dropping in value each year. New Zealand phased out its one-cent coin in the 1980s and then its five-cent coin in 2009.
life:
Happy Water Day, World!
We drink it. We swim in it. We inhale it with the air we breathe, and exhale it when we sleep, when we talk, when we laugh, when we stand outside on a cold night watching the stars, our breath made visible. We sail on it, ski on it and whitewater raft on it. We are, to a large extent, made of it.
On World Water Day, we pay tribute to the most wondrous of all elements — the poetically named dihydrogen monoxide.
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Pictured: Kathy Flicker dives at Princeton University’s Dillon Gym pool in 1962.
I have never felt so old in my life.
Omfg.
omg, i actually just started crying
how the fuck does a lemur turn into a bird
These men should be immortal.
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