I Got A New $5 Note Today

[icyfroth]

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:

[*tippy*toes*]

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.

[icyfroth]

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@imastawka wrote:

Wonder if the pokies recognise the new ones?

( Did I say that out loud?)

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Apparently not.

I asked lol.

[imastawka]

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

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

[davidc4430]

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"

[davidc4430]

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.

[*tippy*toes*]

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.

[go-tazz]

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...

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),

[imastawka]

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.

[icyfroth]

Same.

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

[go-tazz]

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@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.

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@icyfroth wrote:

Same.

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

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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).