Canada has a new $10 bill out, with a portrait on it of Canada's version of Rosa Parks (yes, alas, Canadians have not been -- and many still are not -- as nice as our scrubbed international image suggests we are ... )
Viola Desmond was in a movie theatre and refused to sit in the balcony, which was the 'blacks only' section of the theatre. Theatre staff called the police who dragged her out, and she spent 12 hours in jail.
Okay, so the weird thing is, this bill does not have the standard horizontal design of every other bill ever made in this country. For whatever reason, the Mint has designed it vertically (you can Google the image). IMO it's really nice, although there is one major problem with it: many machines that take bills won't take this one, because they can't read it, because it's designed vertically, and so on and so forth.
However, according to one recent customer, there is another reason:
SC, after I hand him one of the new bills as change: "Hmph. Well, I don't want to pull a card, but this is the same design on the money used in [Country That He Apparently Disapproves Of]."
I managed not to roll my eyes until he left.
Yes, this is undoubtedly a Nefarious Plot by [People from Country That He Apparently Disapproves Of] to ... I dunno ... make Canadian funny money even funnier?
No fratching, please and thank you.
Viola Desmond was in a movie theatre and refused to sit in the balcony, which was the 'blacks only' section of the theatre. Theatre staff called the police who dragged her out, and she spent 12 hours in jail.
Okay, so the weird thing is, this bill does not have the standard horizontal design of every other bill ever made in this country. For whatever reason, the Mint has designed it vertically (you can Google the image). IMO it's really nice, although there is one major problem with it: many machines that take bills won't take this one, because they can't read it, because it's designed vertically, and so on and so forth.
However, according to one recent customer, there is another reason:
SC, after I hand him one of the new bills as change: "Hmph. Well, I don't want to pull a card, but this is the same design on the money used in [Country That He Apparently Disapproves Of]."
I managed not to roll my eyes until he left.
Yes, this is undoubtedly a Nefarious Plot by [People from Country That He Apparently Disapproves Of] to ... I dunno ... make Canadian funny money even funnier?
No fratching, please and thank you.
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