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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on July 15, 2012, 11:44:08 pm
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Don't leave your canadian dollar bills inside the car during an hot, sunny day. The new polymer/plastic-like $50 and $100 bills can melt under a certain heat. D:
http://www.meteomedia.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=la_chaleur_ferait_fondre_les_billets_canadiens_15_07_2012?ref=ccbox_weather_topstories
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What, the bills actually melted? O.O
That's a bit alarming...
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According to the pic, the plastic doesn't seem damaged too much, but the painting or whatever is used for the drawings and design is gone.
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wow, thats not good
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Wow. That's kinda bad.
Hope only the figure on the bill melted and it still counts as money...
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Funny, it looks like it's only the parts with maple leaves that melted away from the bill. Wonder why.
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Don't leave your canadian dollar bills inside the car during an hot, sunny day. The new polymer/plastic-like $50 and $100 bills can melt under a certain heat. D:
http://www.meteomedia.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=la_chaleur_ferait_fondre_les_billets_canadiens_15_07_2012?ref=ccbox_weather_topstories
Well, nothing new really. Some MackBooks batteries used to explode when left unattended inside a car! So, i guess, the idea is catching on.
Try to leave a ti-nspire, i assure you it will disappear in the twinkle of an eye (or sunlight, for that matter).
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that's scary O.o
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Oh wow, I would hate if that happened to my calc or my phone. I mean, imagine if you're walking outside during an hot day, then your phone starts to explode inside your pocket. Not only you get injured but I heard the fumes are very toxic. X.X
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Well, yeah, the thing that is the most likely to explode in your cellphone is the battery, there's tons of toxic chemicals in it, so if it explodes you could get injuried and the fumes would be pretty toxic indeed.
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So they're some kind of plastic? Actually that's pretty good. Imagine it was paper and the sun burnt the money. O.O
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Dafuq?
That isn't good. Not at all.
Luckily I don't have a cellphone XD
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Canadian banknotes were already made of paper that isn't really paper but some composite tissue or something with tons of anti-piracy features on them that aren't really reproducible (holographic stuff, the Queen made of small characters, braille, etc.) since a while, so one does not simply put notes in a photocopier, that won't work. I think Canada is pretty much the most technologically advanced country in the world in term of money printing.
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Canadian banknotes were already made of paper that isn't really paper but some composite tissue or something with tons of anti-piracy features on them that aren't really reproducible (holographic stuff, the Queen made of small characters, braille, etc.) since a while, so one does not simply put notes in a photocopier, that won't work. I think Canada is pretty much the most technologically advanced country in the world in term of money printing.
Money printing on inkjet paper. That'd be awesome :3
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Canadian banknotes were already made of paper that isn't really paper but some composite tissue or something with tons of anti-piracy features on them that aren't really reproducible (holographic stuff, the Queen made of small characters, braille, etc.) since a while, so one does not simply put notes in a photocopier, that won't work. I think Canada is pretty much the most technologically advanced country in the world in term of money printing.
Actually I think until the past few years people could still create nearly identical money bills that are fake, even reproducing the texture, and the result was almost impossible to distinguish unless you checked every single detail, which were obviously not noticed by most cashiers and people. Today it's much harder, though.
And I wonder what kind of paper or tissue they use? I heard money bills won't deteriorate as fast in water as regular paper, but the texture really looks like paper.
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You mentioned it's only the $50 and $100 bills that have the new plastic base, right? Kinda weird that all your big bills could melt away while one-dollar ones are fine o.o
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There are no 1 dollar bill in Canada :P. They're coins. I think they used to exist, though. Also $2 bills got replaced by coins in 1996 and $0.01 coins will stop existing this Fall. $1000 bills stopped existing a few years ago I think. I think it's only the $50 and $100 bills that are plastic, because they have yet to replace the others. I wouldn't be surprised if new $5, 10 and 20 bills arrived in the future.
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When they introduce new series of banknotes, they always start with the high-value notes ($50 and $100), then they introduce the low-value ones ($20, $10 and $5). The $20 bills are the most common since they're the only ones you can withdraw in an ATM.
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I always thought it was the $20 that got changed first, since they're the most common ones. And yeah it's annoying how all you can withdraw at an ATM are $20 bills, especially when you're short on cash then need to buy like $3.01 of stuff.
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Yeah well for the latter you can always go in a convenience store, buy something and ask for extra change. Sometimes, they even let you get change without buying something.
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Yeah true. They tend to not like that much, though, because convenience stores rarely keep a lot of money, for safety reasons. In fact where I live, almost every convenience store even refuse $100 or even $50 bills.
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It's even written on the door that the cashier never keeps more than $50. For $50 or $100 bills you're better going to the bank, although grocery stores will let you withdraw $100 (I did that today and it worked). Dunno if yours do that tho.
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I think we can only withdraw if we buy something, but my place lets you change a $20 bill for coins and $5/10 bills most times, even without buying. You can even do the opposite: Bringing $60 of $0.01/0.05/0.10/0.25/1.00/2.00 coins or so and get bills instead, but for that you have to use the Coinstar machine near the exit, which keeps 10% of your money as a fee.