10: Pennies
It's time to choose a side. Are you with Penalty or Lloyd? join a team, then join the fite!
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Penalty, thank you! Pennies have no place in our economic system today. Going with what Lloyd said with the...99 cent store deal, and this goes for any item in any store that costs $x.99, just round it up! You're saving one cent, big deal! We have plenty of these copper menaces around, the mint needs to stop making more and more. You know the last time I actually used a penny for something useful? I used it on one of those scratch-off prize cards. That is their place in the world now.
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I agree 100% with both Penalty and Mr. Anesti. The only reason I spend pennies is to get rid of them because I don't see a purpose for them. Nothing cost's one cent and nothing cost even below 5 cents so there is no purpose for them, our money system works in 5 cents or higher so the only thing pennies are really used for is either in the place of nickles and dimes or as change from a ninety-nine cent purchase you made with a dollar bill. It's easier to just break the cycle now and stop the stupidity.
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Besides, they only make things .99 cents to make it seem less than a dollar so in actuality they would probably become .95 cent stores
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I don't want to be the next John Wilkes Booth...
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This is the first time that I'm disagreeing with Lloyd...
Pennies suck.
Pure and simple. -
I agree with Penalty, forget the 99 cent store! Destroy the penny!
Oh, and one other thing, Lloyd said nothing about lobsters being delicious! I have been mislead! -
This is an interesting debate, although pennies cost more to make than they are worth, it would take a long overhaul to make prices rounded to the nearest 5 cents. Im 15 and work at a food stand, someone orders 1 item, its a nice round number. Someone orders 10 items, it usually involves a penny or two no matter what because of sales tax.
I can't take a side, so I'm going with the Guest. -
No. Pennies need to stay. We need to make more of them and not to stop making more of them. As a nation in crisis we need to hoard all the copper we can. Then when its ours we'll have the copper market cornered and raise the pennies value to $.50 a pop. This will solve the cash problem for every crisis America is in, save global warming. We're already fucked on that front.
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Penalty is totally wrong on this one. I'd carry 99 pennies over one dollar bill any day. 99 Abraham Lincolns vs. one George Washington? It's not even close!
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Without pennies we would be paying more for taxes.
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Doesn't it cost more to make a penny than its actually worth?
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right now, yes.
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Going with Lloyd here. I like pennies. Here are some things I would miss if we no longer had pennies.
•Stamping a souvenir scene on the back from one of those hand cranked machines
•Putting them on railroad tracks to flatten 'em
•Being able to snap them across a room at lightning speed
•Watching toddlers choke on them -
Not to be rude or anything . . . but I am certain that who ever it is out there that makes those penny souvenir stand gadgets things (seriously, that is what they are called on the patent) will gladly retool them to use a nickel, and charge you a dollar instead of fifty cents.
Hmm . . . the toddlers choking thing isn't so funny, but when the eat it and then 24-48 hours later poop them out, that is some good comedy right there. Again, a dime would work just as well, and then you lose the choking aspect of the laugh.
See . . . Pennies needed to be melted down for the eight cents of copper they are worth a piece and then the copper can be used for something good like wiring new factories needed to retool the penny souvenir stand gadgets things to take nickels.
Penalty FTW Again!!! -
I also forgot to mention one other thing . . . and that is beer bottle caps work just as well, if not better, and it is an added bonus to paying for your beer. All you're doing by flipping pennies is losing them.
In fact all you seem to be doing with your pennies is doing stuff to make them not spendable, or lost for 24-42 hours or longer Jenniqua, by flipping them or waiting for the toddler to poop it out. I think you are a closeted penny hater. -
All valid points you make, my namesake nemisis. But it is the COLOR of the penny that makes all these things work. Stamping a souvenir on something silver just doesn't WORK. Also the color of poop, etc.
I do like your thinking on the beer bottle cap, though. Nothing ever wrong with beer in any form. -
I've got to say, Lloyd, I'm with you only because of those awesome souvenir penny cranks that flatten your penny and put a little picture on it. America would not be America without those flattened pennies.
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It'll be a glorious day when the ash tray in my car is completely empty from the pennies that I keep in there.
Rock on, Penalty. -
Gotta side with Lloyd - annoying as they [pennies] may be, we need a smallest value monetary unit.
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eliminate the penny!
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i'm goin with lloyd pennies are important. by penalty's standards we should just get rid of all coin currency and just use bills
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Pennies should stay! They are great formagic, and what if you only have coins, and you want to buy somethingworth 56 cents?
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I have been saying this for years..i hate pennies but really i hate all change it's so annoying..
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Toll booth guy must hate pennies, funny ass ending! LOL
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Just for the record, pennies are fine. They're not great, but change lasts a heck of a lot longer than bills. If anything, we should get rid of dollar bills and replace them with coin counterparts so that the mint will appropriate less US tax dollars to make currency with.
And for the record: it shouldn't matter who's on the coin, and both Washington and Lincoln are overrated anyway. Nixon ftw! -
im actually gonna have to side with lloyd this time. pennies are a necesity, but it isnt very often that you actually need them. theyre usually only necesary when yor buying something that ends up being like $1.98. so i hink there should just be fewer pennies made, but not gone away with forever.
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Pennies will put ppl in 99 cent stores out of buissness and we need 2 Abe Lincone Tributes in money Go Loyd
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You spelled "Lloyd" wrong in your name..
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Lloyd, save your pennies and the dollars will take care of themSELVES! You and I know the secret to wealth over here.
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No way man, we have to have pennies. If not, how will old people tell us how much every thing cost in the 1920's?
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Get rid of all physical currency, and just use debit cards!
Money sticks should become the new standard. -
I'm with llyod all the way,i also just noticed there was no starburst add in this one
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
Once our economy rises back to it's...original...
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economy, you'll be happy we didn't get rid of the penny.
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Good episode, especially like the ending. I guess toll booth guys really hate handling pennies 24/7. And i agree with Penalty about the 99 cent store thing, and the Guest that the pennies are the currency of A holes
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i hate those pennies too...but we need them!
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Before I get started, thank you guys for bringing back the hard debate we're tuning in for. Keep it up!
I don't absolutely disagree that something has to be done about the penny, but for the sake of change it needs to stay in production. I've run into several situations in my own life where I was short 1-4 cents, and pennies saved my hide. Drive-Thrus are a common place for this to happen.
At the same time, there definitely has to be something done about these A-Holes who use a bunch of pennies to pay for stuff.
My solution: Limit the use of pennies to 5 cents! -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWEg3q1OdlU
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That guy's from Canada! Who the hell is he to tell us what to do with American currency!? And only old people use that phrase, because they were the only people who used...well, pennies!
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Canadian currency is currently worth a lot more than American!
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That's not the point. Canada may have use for their pennies, but with our staggering economy and ever-rising prices, we sure don't.
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what happened to the lobster thing?
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What happened to lobsters also being delicious?! seriously though I can't get pumped up about the next ep. if it's a different one than the teaser!
"ABRAHAM LINCOLN!"
Seriously though pennies are the shit. They can be used for much greater purposes than money. Like imprints, or vehicles of death defying flips across a room. Even if we got rid of the penny we'd still need it as a counter, imagine losing up to 4 cents on every purchase. Scary. Lloyd kicks ass. -
okay thaink you Penalty yeh pennies are dumb and stupied yeh you could collect like 100 or thousands to make like that 1-5 dollars out of them but other than that they are usless and should no longer be around.
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Ya it takes the goverment 2 pennies to make 1. They should just make a community credit system and get rid of the entire coin system. Viva La Papa Backs!!
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no pennies ever again. EVER.
Sheesh, penalty got so many votes his vote number is 024 (as of now). -
Theres an easy soulution,
GIVE ME ALL YOUR PEENIES!!
would you want gass to go up in 5 cent incriments?
i donknow, construction is cool, BUT THE MARKET IS ONE PLACE WE DONT NEED A CELLING OR FLOOR!! you think our econamy is bad now????
and your hurting THE poorest people in america, THE HOMELESS, if you didnt have a hand full of pennies, they wouldn't have lunch!! -
I don't see the issue her. Pennies only cost so much to make because we make them out of layers of metal. Make them out of something cheaper like the one yen coin. Its made out of this light aluminum stuff. Pennies are made out of what? Zinc and copper and some other stuff? Just make pennies lighter and less complex. Coin money doesn't have to be that heavy.
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wow penalty is so much betta than lloyd in this one but lloyd is really funny morgan freeman!!! lol luv nitfite!! keep goin dan meth rock on !! get rid of the penny!!!
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I also want to add that in the marriage fight Penalty's wife CALLS him PENNY. Hypocrisy!!!!!
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Getting rid of the penny would eliminate the 50 dollar stash of them I have in my bedroom. Keep the penny!
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are you kiddding? Peeny is near worthless. The productions of pennies cost more than the value of the penny by a long shot!
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You people make no sense, What if you buy something and the change is 4 cents? Then the clerk would have to give you more than needed. This would happen several times a day and add up to quite a lot over time. Penny must stay!
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Lloyd has gone too far! penalty wins the round!
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pennies are foe a-holes
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yes go aw pennies
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Eliminate the pennies! Lloyd, I hope to spend as many pennies just
by killing the dollar-and-dime store industry. Stop paying money
each day - spend more. -
pennies rule! they're good for whipping at people.
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I like Penalty, but he is so wrong! Who would want to get rid of pennies? Not me!
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I actually think we should do away with all opaper/coins and just use crediit points on a card like a credit card but you only pay with it
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I uses pennies for tolls
Yes that's the only when pennies come in handy. -
We don't have pennies in Australia, our lowest currency is 5 cents, we abolished the 1 cent piece in 1992, America should get with the times.
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