What gets you jazzed?

[Edbert]

(turn it up, a LOT)

 

[Edbert]

...okay, maybe this fits more of you ;-)

 

[blakeh1]

Airshows are definitely a thrill

 

[Edbert]

 

[Edbert]

For @BOATMAN

 

[Edbert]

 

[Edbert]

 

[Col.Kilgore]

Getting a shot of 7 flyable B-17s in one photo (2005 Thunder Over Michigan)

 

[kevin]

I found a 1955 Washington quarter in my pocket change today.

 

[Jakko]

Interesting that the money hasn't really changed at all since then. Back when we had guilders here (25+ years ago), you would sometimes come across a mid-1960s coin, but not really anything older than that. Today, the equivalent is finding coins from faraway lands, like, say, a Latvian or a Croatian coin rather than the Belgian, German or French coins that are pretty common here.

 

[kevin]

You can still find older coins here in the US during the course of doing business, wheat pennies mostly ( 1909 - 1958 ), an occasional Buffalo nickel ( 1913 - 1938 )
All US dollars, half dollars, quarters and dimes minted pre 1964 are 90% silver, that's what got me jazzed.
So it's worth much more than face value.

 

[Edbert]

So it's worth much more than face value.

Probably worth more than the silver-value alone since it appears to be lightly circulated.

 

[Jakko]

wheat pennies mostly ( 1909 - 1958 ), an occasional Buffalo nickel ( 1913 - 1938 )

Those nicknames mean nothing to me I assume the first has wheat pictured on it, the other a bison?

All US dollars, half dollars, quarters and dimes minted pre 1964 are 90% silver, that's what got me jazzed.
So it's worth much more than face value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law

Unrelated to that, but related to your coin finds, there's a bunch of shows on British TV about antiques, flea markets, helping people get rid of stuff, etc. Occasionally what comes up in these are sovereign coins. These are worth 1 pound if were to you use them in a shop. Then the show shows it go to auction and bring in 800+ pounds, because the gold content in them alone is worth £700 …

 

[kevin]

Yes, I was very surprised to find a 90% silver coin still in circulation.

 

[kevin]

I'm lucky alot kids working cash registers these days can barely make change, let alone know what they have passing through their fingers.
Weeks ago I went to the drive thru to get a coffee, I gave the twenty something year old kid working there the exact change... $2.76. He looked at me and asked " how much is this ? ".
Too many people these days pay with their phones.

 

[Edbert]

I'm lucky alot kids working cash registers these days can barely make change, let alone know what they have passing through their fingers.
Weeks ago I went to the drive thru to get a coffee, I gave the twenty something year old kid working there the exact change... $2.76. He looked at me and asked " how much is this ? ".
Too many people these days pay with their phones.

Just yesterday I bought two Chorizo and egg tacos, $4.21 total cost. You should have seen their face when I gave them a twenty and a penny.

 

[Jakko]

Some things are the same the world over. I get that occasionally as well: need to pay €16, hand them a twenty, and say, "I can give you a euro, too, if you want" at which point they look at you like, "What would I want that for?" Maybe so you can hand me a fiver back, get change for your til for people who need it, and I'll have less weight to lug around?

Though we have the advantage when it comes to prices like 2.76 and 4.21 — they get rounded to 2.75 and 4.20 (of course, 2.74 and 4.19 round to those, too ).

 

[Edbert]

They (you know..."them") have been talking about doing away with the penny since the 1980. It costs the government over 5 cents to make a penny back then, probably closer to 75 cents each now. Banks will not longer give them out, makes more sense to melt them down for copper I guess.

Now we are hearing they're gonna start the rounding off, up or down to 5 or 10 as you said the EU is already doing.

But I remember in the 1970s having a 1,000 Lire (Lira?) note that was worth less than $5USD at the time. Guess they've bee rounding out to 5 or 10 on the other side of the decimal for quite some time.

 

[kevin]

Banks will not longer give them out, makes more sense to melt them down for copper I guess.

Yes, no more minted after last year.
I believe they stopped putting copper in pennies in 1982.
Even without the copper it still costs more than face value to mint them.

 

[Ron2]

I'm lucky alot kids working cash registers these days can barely make change, let alone know what they have passing through their fingers.
Weeks ago I went to the drive thru to get a coffee, I gave the twenty something year old kid working there the exact change... $2.76. He looked at me and asked " how much is this ? ".
Too many people these days pay with their phones.

Haha. Oh that is bad. I've seen them get flustered if it's $10.26 and you give them $20.01.

 

[BarleyBop]

Oh that is bad

Try telling them you'll be back at a quarter to 2.
Or show them a watch face with just hands on it ... Or even with hands and numbers!

 

[Ron2]

Try telling them you'll be back at a quarter to 2.
Or show them a watch face with just hands on it ... Or even with hands and numbers!

Once my ex and I were on a beach in Florida and a beach bum came up and tried to sell us something. I was just chatting with him and asked "hey do you have the time?" He looked at his watch, "Uh. The big hand is on the …". Haha. Nice guy but his brain was fried.

 

[Jakko]

They (you know..."them") have been talking about doing away with the penny since the 1980.

We used to have one-(guilder-)cent coins until, off the top of my head, 1981. After that, the five-cent coin was the smallest, and the practice of rounding to the nearest five cents started. But when the euro replaced the guilder, one-cent coins came back, and two-cent ones came in as well. Shops, though, generally kept rounding to five cents but were required by law to accept exact amounts if someone paid it — so if you had to pay €4.98 they would say, "Five euros, please" but you could hand them exactly €4.98 in coins and they would have to take it. Which many shop assistants weren't even aware of … (This rule has now been abolished, though.)

IIRC, Finland had the same rules, and didn't even want to mint 1- and 2-cent coins but were required to do so, which meant they made the absolute minimum they had to and no more. That made them instantly collectable, of course.

Banks will not longer give them out, makes more sense to melt them down for copper I guess.

See the link to Gresham's law I posted above

Now we are hearing they're gonna start the rounding off, up or down to 5 or 10 as you said the EU is already doing.

IMHO, this just makes sense, given how little one-cent coins, in either the US or the EU, are actually worth. Since the rounding works for you about as often as against you, there's very little real effect even in the long term, but it makes things easier for everyone.

But I remember in the 1970s having a 1,000 Lire (Lira?) note that was worth less than $5USD at the time. Guess they've bee rounding out to 5 or 10 on the other side of the decimal for quite some time.

When I was 17, someone I knew in school bet me something "for a tenner". When I won the bet, he opened his wallet and handed me one of these:—

… an Italian 10-lira coin. When I protested, he said, "We didn't say which kind of tenner" and, despite everyone around us agreeing with me that he was being an arse, refused to give me one of these instead:

The difference in value was about ×1000 — that is to say, the 10-lira coin was worth about the same as a Dutch one-cent coin. (In modern money, without considering inflation, about 0.45 eurocents; with inflation, about 0.95 eurocents.)

 

[Jakko]

Or show them a watch face with just hands on it ... Or even with hands and numbers!

I saw this video a few years ago, one of those "Tell me you're an American without telling me you're an American" things. One girl, IIRC from Italy, said, "When they look at my phone and can't tell what time it is" — because it showed a 24-hour clock

 

[Ron2]

I saw this video a few years ago, one of those "Tell me you're an American without telling me you're an American" things. One girl, IIRC from Italy, said, "When they look at my phone and can't tell what time it is" — because it showed a 24-hour clock

I find those posts annoying. I use military time daily. I get sick of the disparaging comments about "rude" Americans etc. I've seen stories of German tourists doing asinine things and I've been to plenty of tourists spots in the US and had to deal with extremely rude foreigners. I remember teachers lecturing the class about how important it was to study other cultures before traveling abroad. Sure there are always idiots but that's on both sides of the pond.

 

[Edbert]

because it showed a 24-hour clock

I find two types of people here that have no trouble understanding it, former military, and people involved with information systems.

I understand them just fine, but do not like having to constantly convert from UTC/GMT to local. Basic subtraction is easy, but in the US we have the retarded idea of changing out time zones twice a year. So the extra thought of "are we minus five or minus six this month?" is definitely getting old.

Since I do a lot of log correlation (IT Security) I just want all of our systems to normalize the time zone!

 

[BarleyBop]

our systems

Back in the 90s, working at one of the biggest Telecom manufacturers of the day, I was surprised at how many systems in the industry didn't harmonize their date/time notation in the code with UTC, so a tech working in a network operations center couldn't be sure, or had to manually convert time stamps of alarm events from across the continent.

 

[Ron2]

I find two types of people here that have no trouble understanding it, former military, and people involved with information systems.

I understand them just fine, but do not like having to constantly convert from UTC/GMT to local. Basic subtraction is easy, but in the US we have the retarded idea of changing out time zones twice a year. So the extra thought of "are we minus five or minus six this month?" is definitely getting old.

Since I do a lot of log correlation (IT Security) I just want all of our systems to normalize the time zone!

Yeah I love that AZ did away with daylight savings but it's annoying to determine what time it is in other states because of DST.

 

[Jakko]

I understand them just fine, but do not like having to constantly convert from UTC/GMT to local.

Why would you need to do that? People using 24-hour clocks do so for their local time zone.

in the US we have the retarded idea of changing out time zones twice a year.

Not just in the USA, all of Europe does too. I'm in the GMT +01:00 time zone, but currently it's actually GMT +02:00 because we're in summer time. Which means that it gets properly dark only at about half past ten at night these days (sunset today is 22:06, says my computer, but that's the moment the bottom of the sun touches the horizon). The weirdest thing is that all of the Netherlands should be in the GTM +00:00 time zone, which is to say UK time — as would Belgium, France and Spain, but we're all on Central European Time instead. Almost certainly because it's more practical and more useful economically to be on German time instead.

Until maybe twenty years ago, the UK didn't switch to summer or winter time on the same date as the rest of Europe, but two weeks later. This was fun when watching British TV, as you would need to keep in mind during those weeks that shows you followed would be on an hour earlier or later than you were used to.

 

[Edbert]

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