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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

"Gimmie a thousand turtles" we'd say, and they'd reply with "I just have a thousand sharks".

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 hours ago

USA: Best we can do is droopy-eyed, rich, white, rapist, enslaver men with powdered wigs who by todays standards might be the most unfuckable men who ever lived. Also some illuminati symbols to troll the public about our psuedo-secret bank club full of pedophile extortionists.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 6 hours ago

No argument here.

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 30 points 12 hours ago (4 children)
[–] arc99@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

That's a pretty lame contest. Contestants were told to make notes from an exact list of famous Europeans or birds with some lame architecture on the other side. Can you imagine the excruciating process of finding and sorting either list - "Marie Curie can't be there because she left a negative comment around the cleanliness of her room at a Belgian conference!", "Our prime minister died from an allergic reaction to curlews!"

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

Everyone vote for Design J, pls

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

I'm on team bird money but its not my call. The humans ones should also have the names for the sake of uneducated outsiders like me.

[–] Terminarchs@slrpnk.net 7 points 10 hours ago

Damn some of these go hard as fuck

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 139 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Canada could have had this...

We use pics of asshole PMs and the Queen instead.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 47 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I think at this point in world history we should just stop idolizing people, whoever they are. I love the idea of having animals or cultural symbols in the notes (like canada's leaf, france's eiffel, US's burguers etc)

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

burguers

Made me re-read this whole comment in a thick French accent

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Thank you for blessing me with these fond memories from my childhood 🥹

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago

How else would the plebes know who their betters are?!

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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know... I kinda like the $5 bill with the astronaut on it.

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Over a badass wolf? Put the astronaut on a coin nobody uses and move on.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago

Compromise: Wolf astronaut.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

Animal money is best money!

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[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 9 points 12 hours ago

I can't believe whale sharks are even real

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 9 points 13 hours ago

For some reason, I really like having the reverse side being in portrait orientation. I wish more notes were designed that way.

[–] HumbleBragger@piefed.social 5 points 11 hours ago

Seems like Brazilian currency. We have animals in the notes too and the sea turtle is one of them

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 44 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Cool. 1000 MVR is currently about $65 USD.

So for $130 plus the cost of framing, you can display both sides of the currency as art in your house.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 25 points 18 hours ago

€115

If I have enough money to vacation in the Maldives, this s a reasonable souvenir.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 26 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I have one of these to snort coke with.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 7 points 13 hours ago

How wholesome :)

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 13 hours ago

You could hold up a turd in that picture background and I'd still think it was a good picture

[–] Pattylay@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Maldives mentioned

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Could've just said "The 1000 rufiyaa banknote" on the title.

It's right there on the note in latin characters (on the left picture, below the top-right "1000").

Mind you maybe it's just me who finds it wierd to talk about a currency and not actually saying its name.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago

Rufiyaa, Rufiyaa, Ru-Fi-yaaaa!

Bangarang!

[–] colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz 4 points 13 hours ago

No no, it’s 1000 monies of course

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

That is very beautiful

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

Australian money is pretty cool looking too.

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[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

STFU, you're going to make this a challenge for the orange one to put more of his face everywhere thinking it's "beautiful"

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 10 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

A face so beautiful only a mother could love it

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This pic reminds me of Capt Pike from the Star Trek pilot.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

That character is from the initially-unaired pilot ("The Cage"), but that shot (and actor) is from "The Menagerie" - a 2-part episode from the first season that re-used scenes from The Cage as flashbacks.

They had Pike injured and in the wheelchair so they could use makeup and the "beep" communications to disguise the fact that the actor playing him was different in the newly-filmed scenes versus those from the flashbacks.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Thx, did not know that. Always nice to find out something new about Trek.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago

Why is the orange child rapist wearing earrings?

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