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If you ever receive an email from me saying that "I felt compelled to reach out" then call the police, either I've been mind-controlled by aliens or there's an AI impersonating me to extract money from your wallet. Probably the latter.
And that nice ship on the (?) 25 cent!
If you don't want to revive the Dundee Banking Company then simply relocate the UK's central bank to Port Talbot, rename it the Bank of Wales, and stick dragons on EVERYTHING.
This is a reasonable and proportionate proposal and I will not hear a word against it.
Mid-C19th five-pound banknote including a coat of arms with dragons.
Since we appear to be arguing about whether there should be animals on banknotes, and if so which animals, I'm going to point out that this is the five-pound note issued by the Dundee Banking Company in 1845, and it had dragons on it.
He was! It’s just, it’s Peter Cushing.
But fascist regimes are full of petulant incompetents.
Look so this isn't really OP's the point, but one of the weirdest things about the prequels *even at the time* was the disconnect between their /relatively/ astute politics & big-picture work on the one hand and their clunky writing & scene-work on the other
Nice!
Yeah, even if you had a lot of problems with your fieldwork, that suggests issues (unless it was part time? That’s a reasonable time scale)
Agreed
And everyone’s a downgrade on Peter Cushing, except possibly Christopher Lee (am I still mad about how much basically wasted potential there was with Count Dooku? Absolutely).
Yeah, Hux is dislikeable and uncharismatic, but… he worked as a character.
I would say I don't really care what's on the bank notes, but actually I have long thought how much nicer the current RBS notes are than the English money, so absolutely. Beavers on the banknotes. Bring it on.
One of my favourite bits of religious trivia is that, (in a way) the Buddha is a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches
I have heard of it happening occasionally (though it usually means the supervisor's messed up pretty spectacularly), though that's in a UK context, may be different in Canada.
However, super unusual.
ChatGPT really can't get the scale right with hands
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bank notes featuring animals are nothing compared to negotiable instruments written on the side of a cow, as the great AP Herbert once explained.
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I've heard it a couple of times over the past week or so and FINALLY managed to spot it. Smashing wee bird.
Goldcrest
Aw, I rather like the mackerel. Though I grant it’s less cute.
The RBS notes are lovely
Going to be the guy that argues they should RETVRN to looking like a hand written note from the Chief Cashier:
This piqued my curiosity, and people were only put on banknotes from 1971 onwards in the UK.
Merlin thought it heard a Siskin, but I didn’t mange to spot it if so.
I mean obviously I have the beliefs I have, but I am quite capable of recognising that they are held on faith and frankly the (not all that surprising!) thinness of the historical sources beyond the Epistles and Gospels aren’t the biggest obstacle to faith.
A picture of some branches. And a small blur of feathers which I promise you is a Goldcrest, a very small cross bird with a gold stripe on its head and a feisty attitude. Quick, too.
Behold! An awful photo of the Goldcrest I got an actually pretty good view of just now!
Birds, man.
We don’t know because there is no evidence.
Yes, this seems like something he’d actually be pretty pleased about!