What is a strong economy like the British doing with such a petty litte coin like the Penny. It is not worth anything! What can you buy for a penny? To most of us it is just an annoying purse filler. If one is found on the floor it is often ignored and left there, even the children do not bother to pick it up! So it Litters! Retailers take advantage and use it in a psychological game, knowing that most customers feel commodities are much cheaper if they cost £99.99 rather than £100! In reality it is just litter they give in exchange! If you start to fiddle in your wallet trying to dig out your good for nothing change so you do not need to get any more, the eyes of the customer behind you are boring into you, and the checkout worker is getting clearly annoyed at this delay.
Countries comparable to the UK have done something with their smallest change,the British too should rid themselves of the embarrassment the Penny is.
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kendrive
Pro - 07.12.2005 @ 22:46:52
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- 09.12.2005 @ 10:21:12
This is clearly the work of a diranged imagination.
Pennies are not merely currency, they're a link to the past and culturally significant.
The penny has been part of our currency for hundreds of years, I have a penny thicker and larger than the current £2 coin from a time when it was worth (compartively) more than £2.
If we are to have a decimal system (which I think is the best and simplest one) it makes sence to have the single digit.
I personally put all (what I call) shrapnel, by which I mean small amounts of currency into a tin, then take it down to the bank and then treat myself to whatever it amounts up to (usually between £10 and £20) to spend on cinema tickets or some other treat.
Spend a penny and be proud!-
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hanneviken
- 09.12.2005 @ 13:58:01
I think it is a nice idea to save your change and treat yourself or give to charity etc, but all this your could also do with the 5 pence coins, the only real difference is that you would not need to carry so many coins to the bank, wasting someone elses time needing to man handle all the coins.
I beileve Will sums it up nicely when he points out the fact that the pennies have been around for a long time. The world has moved on, so we should leave the penny where it belongs in the past!
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- 16.12.2005 @ 07:50:30
What a great blog!
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KarenF
- http://www.lordbothwell.co.uk
- 01.01.2006 @ 12:00:09
I would personally be really sad to see the demise of the penny. One of the little things that I really enjoy about being over forty is doing the 'Mrs Brady, Old Lady' act in shops, and annoying people as I fumble with all my change, whilst muttering on about 'new money'. If the penny was abolished, what is there left for me to fumble with? A 2p is much bigger. 5p is small, but it only takes two to make 10p, instead of ten teeny, little, difficult to get to 1p coins. My enjoyment would be severely curtailed. SAVE THE PENNY!
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hanneviken
- 12.01.2006 @ 22:43:21
I do undstand your sense of humour:-) But you have to realise you only get more people on my side, more people upset with the penny, more people feeling that Pennies are in fact Pants
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KarenF
- http://www.lordbothwell.co.uk
- 13.01.2006 @ 12:52:13
Having tested your theory thoroughly, I'm afraid that pennies are most certainly not pants. Even when you join many of them together in a string-pants kind of effect, they do not cover adequately and are most uncomfortable as the 'fabric' doesn't move with your flesh. And you have to have the Queen next to your flower, which is unnerving to say the least.
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TheImaginativelyNamedWillsBlog
- 25.01.2006 @ 14:45:04
I agree Karen, also the g-string version is very cold when you first climb into them *brrrrr*
Once I lost a coin for 2 weeks, fortunately the police didn't find out what I'd done to the Queen's face. Treason I believe. -
One of the thing that irritates me is when the checkout girl (or man) hands back one penny and says "One pence change."
'Pence' is plural and 'penny' singular - so it should be "One penny change".
Even worse is "One pee" !
(Grumpy Old Man)