Penny pinching: Can Obama kill the one-cent coin?

[mongers]

Makes sense.

Its strange but I can't recall ever hearing of the penny being an issue in the UK but I have seen it from time to time about America. Its almost as stupid for Britain as for the US.

Its strange that you wouldn't know about the controversy over the tiddler (the half-penny, which was the equivalent of the US penny), you being British and all, but, then, again, the tiddler was before your time and what Brit knows any of Britain's actual history?

Ironically, the argument over the tiddler was the exact opposite of the argument over the US penny; the public disliked the tiddler and the government liked it.

Part of the reason why the public hated the tiddler was its size, though.  Since British coins (within metal class) were proportional in weight to their value (a normally good idea) the tiddler had to be made half the weight of a penny and a quarter the weight of the tuppence.  If the tuppence was to be kept a reasonable weight, the tiddler had to be too small and easy to lose.  They were only in circulation for a dozen years or so.

Because I didn't mention the half penny I'm unaware that it ever existed?

Grumbler is just being grumbler, chasing you from thread to thread to snipe at you.. 

What I find amusing is he mentions a nickname for the 1/2p that I've never heard in my life; it's almost like he looked up the wiki on the coin and got his information from there.   

[Razgovory]

Beat him in an argument and he'll pretend you don't exist.

[MadImmortalMan]

[Tonitrus]

I wonder how much we'd save if we just got rid of money altogether.

[Ed Anger]

I wonder how much we'd save if we just got rid of money altogether.

Ide just came.

[grumbler]

Because I didn't mention the half penny I'm unaware that it ever existed?

Because I note that you seem to be unaware of " the controversy over the tiddler" you think I am saying that you are "unaware that it [the half penny] ever existed"[my bold]?

What language is your first language?  Maybe you could translate what I say into that language, and then back into English, and thus improve your comprehension skills.

[grumbler]

Grumbler is just being grumbler, chasing you from thread to thread to snipe at you.. 

  Paranoia much?  What thread am I supposedly chasing mongers from (or to, if that is what you are trying to describe), as a matter of curiosity?

What I find amusing is he mentions a nickname for the 1/2p that I've never heard in my life; it's almost like he looked up the wiki on the coin and got his information from there.   

Really?  You lived in the UK in the early 1980s and didn't hear the term "tiddler?"  I lived in London at that time and never heard the coin referred to as anything else.  I realize that I made you resort to Wikipedia to learn the history of your own country, but you don't need to thank me. 

[Josquius]

Because I didn't mention the half penny I'm unaware that it ever existed?

Because I note that you seem to be unaware of " the controversy over the tiddler" you think I am saying that you are "unaware that it [the half penny] ever existed"[my bold]?

What language is your first language?  Maybe you could translate what I say into that language, and then back into English, and thus improve your comprehension skills.

Ah Grumbler and your arguments about nothing.

[mongers]

Grumbler is just being grumbler, chasing you from thread to thread to snipe at you.. 

  Paranoia much?  What thread am I supposedly chasing mongers from (or to, if that is what you are trying to describe), as a matter of curiosity?

What I find amusing is he mentions a nickname for the 1/2p that I've never heard in my life; it's almost like he looked up the wiki on the coin and got his information from there.   

Really?  You lived in the UK in the early 1980s and didn't hear the term "tiddler?"  I lived in London at that time and never heard the coin referred to as anything else.  I realize that I made you resort to Wikipedia to learn the history of your own country, but you don't need to thank me. 

You invariably take a pot at Tyr and do so in an unpleasant manner, I feel sorry for you than you need to behave in that manner.

I've never once heard that term used for a 1/2p, which is why I googled to see it, seems it's mentioned on wiki and very few other places.

If you say your time in London was fully of Londoners effing and dlinding and every third word a 'tiddler' I'll believe you.   

[dps]

You invariably take a pot and Tyr

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[Neil]

You invariably take a pot and Tyr

??

He's speaking English English in order to reinforce grumbler's status as a cunt.

[grumbler]

Ah Grumbler and your arguments about nothing.

  The Weasel of Tyr returns!  I am sure we are all shocked.

[grumbler]

You invariably take a pot at Tyr and do so in an unpleasant manner, I feel sorry for you than you need to behave in that manner.

Ah, the Ad Hom of Concession.  Concession accepted.

I've never once heard that term used for a 1/2p, which is why I googled to see it, seems it's mentioned on wiki and very few other places.

I am not sure what your ignorance evidences about anything but your ignorance.  Like most people, I suggest, you are ignorant of far more than you are cognizant of, so you shouldn't feel compelled to comment on every instance in which you are reminded of something about which you are ignorant.

If you say your time in London was fully of Londoners effing and dlinding and every third word a 'tiddler' I'll believe you.   

I ran the bolded gibberish through the Gibberish-English translator included in Chrome, and it still came out gibberish. 

Please try again in English.

[Admiral Yi]

 

[grumbler]

You invariably take a pot and Tyr

??

That was the only truly comprehensible part of the post, since context would give us "a pot at Tyr and we can assume "pot" is a Britishism for "attack" or "shot."