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I Got A New $5 Note Today

icyfroth — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 08:24:53 GMT

In my change at the Supermarket.

All crisp and straight and shiny, it is:

I'm going to save it and not spend it. I still have an original $1 and $2 note stuck in a time appropriate photo album.

Probbly should've saved an old one as well. Think I will.

While I was googling, I found some variations:

and

last but not least:

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

*tippy*toes* — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 08:53:15 GMT

They're nice, aren't they? They are supposedly blind friendly, to make it easier for the blind folk to be able to distinguish between the different notes. That came about after a petition and campaign by a 15yo boy. Kudos to him!

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

davidc4430 — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:38:21 GMT

do they think blind people only use $5 notes?

maybe they should have the prime ministers face on em,

best used for giving to blind beggars.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

serendipityricho — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 21:17:19 GMT

The new notes dont work at the self serve in Woolworths.

The other supermarkets had prepared for it being introduced.

Richo.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

electric*mayhem*band — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 22:21:39 GMT

To quote the old adage:

'AS BENT AS A NINE BOB NOTE'.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

lind9650 — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 23:32:18 GMT

Cleaning out some drawers yesterday I found some one and two cent pieces.

Now, how long is it since we had those in change?

Everything marked as $1.98 costs $2.00 and we get no change.

Talk is going on about eliminating the 5 cent pieces as well.

Erica

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

davidc4430 — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 03:31:23 GMT

story on radio today saying how theives/pickpockets are going for the 'tap/wave' cards, spending up to $100 fast then tossing the cards,

who would have thought a card that didnt require a number or anything to get at your money would be targeted by crims. ((SLAPS FOREHEAD))

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

the_great_she_elephant — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 03:37:41 GMT

I imagine the banks have done the maths and decided the savings and convenience outweigh the incidents of misuse.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 07:11:51 GMT

@davidc4430 wrote:
do they think blind people only use $5 notes?

maybe they should have the prime ministers face on em,

best used for giving to blind beggars.

The $5 notes were just the first ones they rolled out with the new design and features. As the other denominations get rolled out, they will also have the new features.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

imastawka — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 07:44:18 GMT

Wonder if the pokies recognise the new ones?

( Did I say that out loud?)

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:58:44 GMT

That's a good point! Probably not. Although my mum spent nearly 30 years working in a pokie room and they updated the machines very quickly when there was a change in money. They didn't want the punters to spend less money and didn't want to inconvenience them by them having to get up to go and buy change. Her club was pretty big, maybe they're a bit slower in the smaller places.

Funny thing about that job, mum has never ever put one coin in a pokie! Even before she started working there. She would also boot the regular oldies out, otherwise she'd see them outside pulling food scraps out of the garbages because they'd spent their whole pension. She'd have got shot if the big boss knew she was doing that. She was a supervisor so had a bit of clout over the other staff, so they would never have been game to report her.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

icyfroth — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:04:06 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Wonder if the pokies recognise the new ones?
( Did I say that out loud?)

Apparently not.

I asked lol.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

imastawka — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:05:44 GMT

The last time they changed the $5, the machines wouldn't recognise them

Damn....there I go again (I don't gamble.....much)

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

davidc4430 — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:12:18 GMT

i heard it from a friend of a friend who knew someone who heard it from their next door neighbour....phewww

that the PM was sayin when he heard about the new $5 notes "geeze, it was only the other day i realised we still had $5 notes and now they are doing a new one! thought the one i found in me wallet was like from 1980 or sumthin, still saved me another fiver cos the smallest other note i had was a tenner. really didnt wanna give that begger a fiver, really didnt wanna give him a tenner"

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

davidc4430 — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:16:09 GMT

i too have never put any money in a poker machine. played a pinball machine when i was a young feller a few times.

so glad gambling has never interested me, that and smoking.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:52:17 GMT

I used to have the occasional flutter on the pokies. I always set a limit and once it was gone, it was gone. More often than not I left in front. I'd walk out with at least double my money. Anything over the double I'd put back through. Sometimes I lost it, sometimes it would make my take home triple or quadruple.

I never wanted to be like any of mum's regulars that would be there waiting for the doors to open and have to be thrown out at closing. They'd sell household stuff to get money after they'd dropped their whole pensions through. They'd eat out of bins, or scavange for things they could sell. They'd beg from strangers on the street by putting on the poor me look. It was very sad.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

go-tazz — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 01:10:13 GMT

The NSW ones probably don't,(so that they have to put in the bigger notes).

The maximum you could bet at one time was $5 per hit but that has increased to $10 on some of the pokies.

What happened to the so called limit that was put on all pokies as suggested by welfare groups,(due to the

stress caused to families including suicides).

Oh!,that's right,it would interfere with the profits made by the "big" guys,(including the government).

Then you have the newer machines where you can bet $100 per hit,(a problem gamblers nightmare),

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/pokie-gambling-in-nsw-surges-to-73b-despite-fewer-machines-20151119-gl2q1b.html

I know a retired bloke who worked part time and was self funded and his wife who blew over a quarter of a million

in cash plus their big house and their Merc,(total over six hundred thousand dollars).

They are now on a pension,live in a small flat and they are both on medication for depression.

IMHO the Government put them there and they are now paying them so that they can still spend their

money at the pokies,(it's a no win situation for anyone),

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

imastawka — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 02:26:04 GMT

IMHO the Government put them there

Sorry Tas, they put themselves there. You can't blame anyone else.

I go every now and then. Two years ago it funded a trip to Tassie for a month.

And it's funded quite a few other small holidays as well.

You've got to know when to walk away. I keep tabs and I'm well in front.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

icyfroth — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 02:57:07 GMT

Same.

I wouldn't say I was well in front, but I'm ok.

Re: I Got A New $5 Note Today

go-tazz — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 06:11:16 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
IMHO the Government put them there

Sorry Tas, they put themselves there. You can't blame anyone else.

The Govenments allowed the pokies despite all the negative impacts it would have on people as

documented via research done on the US pokies,(they only saw $ signs in how much it would benefit

each state).

The rules are that an establishment aren't allowed to stop someone from gambling,(even if they are losing

their pay each week).

You only have the self exclusion as an avenue to stop,(but problem gamblers aren't doing that).

So it's all about getting the revenue and nothing about preventing the family breakdowns.

IMO the Government doesn't do enough to stop

I go every now and then. Two years ago it funded a trip to Tassie for a month.
And it's funded quite a few other small holidays as well.

You've got to know when to walk away. I keep tabs and I'm well in front.

@icyfroth wrote:
Same.

I wouldn't say I was well in front, but I'm ok.

Then you two are two of the most unusual "patrons" ever as they are designed for you to lose.

I've seen people win "big" but it was all poured back into the machines.

There are numerous patrons here that claim they are in front each day and will say things like:

I only put fifty in and won an extra fifty,(then someone that was sitting close to them says that they actually

put two hundred or more in and so they are way down).