The church crowd collectively shitting themselves over what to leave for a tip at brunch
Oh please, they've been using those fake dollar, judgemental prayer notes for years
I'm not familiar. What is that?
They're slips of paper designed to be folder that look like a folded 5, 10, 20 dollar notes but when you open them its just a prayer or a note about how you're going to hell for greed because you expected money. Some people leave them as tips for some reason
They should throw them in the collection plate when that is passed around.
The reason is that they're assholes.
They've been planning for this. Church ads with faux dollars printed on the front cost less than a penny to print.
Is this a thing for church people.. Are they notorious bad tippers?
Yes. The sunday "after church" brunch is considered the worst possible shift in any resturant open for it.
Tends towards self righteous and demanding people who enjoy flaunting status and casting judgement. It also runs older, and older people tend to tip what they tipped in the past, and not keep up with inflation.
$2 might have been nice in 1988, but it isnt going far in 2025.
Also the worst retail customers when they are either finished with lunch or waiting to be paged for their table
church people are notoriously bad everything
it's why they have to go to church. because they can't just be good people.
To quote an ex-friend who was also Christian, "A church isn't a club of saints, its a hospital of sinners."
Some delusional religious freaks think they are doing you a huge favor by leaving a fake bill that either has a Bible verse and some dumb lesson, or an invite to their church.
They're giving you the opportunity to save your mortal soul, isn't that worth more than some pathetic tip? You were never going to get 15% out of those losers anyway.
Or maybe they're just fucking cheap bastards, using their religion as an excuse, like they use it to justify every other terrible thing they do in life, because they're Christians.
Church crowd is pretty awful in the grocery industry, too. It was especially bad at my previous store, which was in a deeply evangelical town in Central Alberta. All would be quiet on Sunday until about noon. Then the floodgates would open to the most high-on-their-own-farts religious degenerates. Nobody talked down to you quite like a middle-aged woman in church clothes. And they would plug up all the aisles talking scripture and shit. Fuck, I hated that town.
The dime is currently worth less than the halfpenny was when it stopped being minted because it wasn't useful to do so anymore.
This is wildly overdue, and honestly, probably not far enough.
Thanks CGP Grey. You keep moving them goalposts.
Just like how the federal minimum wage needs to be over 22 dollars, not just Fif-Teen bucks an hour
...what?
CGP Grey is a youtuber who made a video years ago about stopping printing the penny. when trump announced ending printing the penny, he made basically the same video about stopping printing the nickel, and the dime.
Due to Inflation.
The same reason that Bernie sanders pushed for a $15/h minimum wage, which should itself be inflated from its 2016 amount to 22 bucks an hour.
While I think both of you are making reasonable arguments, I wanted to make fun of the situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SrtQNt4YE < kill nickels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U < Kill pennies
Isn't a halfpenny worth half a penny so a dime is worth twenty times more?
One dollar in 1950 had far more buying power than one dollar does now. Something that cost a dollar in 1950 would cost nearly $14 in 2026.
The halfpenny, when discontinued, could purchase roughly as much as 12¢ could today.
At that time, it was decided that a halfpenny wasn't necessary, as transactions were of a high enough value that made tracking the numbers to the half-penny needless, and that you could just round to the nearest penny.
The equivalent today would be rounding to either the nearest dime or quarter, eliminating the need for smaller denomination coins.
I assume testfactor means in economic value / purchasing power.
A sensible decision, and one other countries have made before. If anything, this would probably have happened sooner, if US coins didn’t have affectionate nicknames that tended to accumulate sentimental associations. (There are a lot of sayings mentioning pennies, which will now lapse into the realm of archaism, alongside nursery rhymes mentioning pre-decimal British currency. There will also be dudes keen to explain that, actually, a penny was a 1c coin, and some of them will get the details confidently wrong.)
I can think of "penny for your thoughts," and "I don't give a red cent," and arguably the very concept of "penny loafers," but all of those are already fairly archaic. What are some others?
How will we pay each other for our thoughts?
Just another sign of rampant inflation.
Ehh we've been long overdue for this, tbh
But penny-pinchers beware: as businesses start rounding up prices, the move is expected to raise costs for shoppers. One study by researchers at the Richmond Federal Reserve estimated that could cost consumers $6m annually.
...or when divided by the population (currently 342 million), under 2 cents per person.
In the US attention has now turned to the nickel, which has a face value of five cents but costs nearly 14 cents to produce. Retiring that coin would have a far bigger impact on shoppers, costing consumers some $55m per year, according to the Richmond Fed study.
...or about $0.16/person.
In exchange, everyone gets to:
However, nickels only result in an annual loss of about $17.7m/year right now, so economically it would still be a net-loss, dollar-value wise.
There are still LOTS of pennies out there. There are basements with old mason jars and coffee cans full of them. Once people figure out they don't have any real value, they'll get dumped on the market. It will take decades to clear them all out.
Another thing the president is not supposed to be able to do unilaterally.
Welp, so much for adding to my pressed-penny collection
I can smell that thumbnail. I can smell her good.
Hell of a run, boys!
Trump is going to have a penny turn-in program to add them to his library, then personally sell off the copper to other nations after the American Dollar (and society) collapses.
/s. I hope.
Now will they have pressed nickel machines
Those press machines have used brass blanks for over a decade. Zinc pennies don't press well.
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