I don't believe you're leaving 'cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream

[primroseburrows]

Australia has plastic money. Nobody told me this. I'm afraid.


Thanks (I think) to littlealex for the SCARYINFOI'MGONNADIEOMGOMG educational information.

*prim smile*

Also, Tori is following me around.

Comments

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

!

What's wrong with plastic money??

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

It's scary

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

Aww. But why?!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I dunno, it's just...plastic money? Plastic money?? It seriously never crossed my mind that such a thing could ever exist.

Now I really have to schedule a trip to Oz so I can see for myself. *sigh* Except that right now I have NO money, not even the paper kind.

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's less likely to be destroyed if you accidetally leave $5 in your pocket and put your jeans in the wash *s* Can paper money survive a spin cycle?

It's brightly coloured, too :)

[alfirin-kirinki.livejournal.com]

What? Credit Cards?

/sarcasm

.a.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Credit cards aren't money. I'm picturing flippy-floppy plastic dollars here, all smooth and shiny and *shudder*

[alfirin-kirinki.livejournal.com]

Ew! That' so bad for the environment!

.a.

[patchfire.livejournal.com]

This was exactly my thought! Plastics-crazed Aussies, wasting petroleum products!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. And I hear their cheese has no calcium.

[patchfire.livejournal.com]

I still say it's 'cause it's really plastic. PlasticOzCheese

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

It must be made of money. Aussie Cheese is Made of Money!

Now I can say to my kids, "Do I look like I'm made of Aussie cheese?"

[patchfire.livejournal.com]

I can just see the look on mr_t00by's face.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, he's used to me saying weird things. Ask him about "Da! It's a Ba!" sometime.

[patchfire.livejournal.com]

Well, all right. If you insist.

Maybe Alex could bring us some Aussie cheese in February.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you can spend it outside the continent. Country. Thing.

[patchfire.livejournal.com]

Island? Nation?

That continental island nation-state?

Big thing in the Pacific.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Lots of jumpy animals with pockets on their bellies.

[patchfire.livejournal.com]

I think Gillian thinks that all Aussies have pet kangaroos and koalas.

Then again, one never knows. They just might.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Let's ask one! *thinks* Hmmm....oh, I know! littlealex! We'll ask her. She's sure to know.

She was the one who informed us about the cheese, after all.

[patchfire.livejournal.com]

Maybe they all take their kangaroos instead of cars! Kangatransport.

*pictures Alex walking a koala regularly*

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I've heard Koalas can be viscious.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

They can be, and they make weird sounds too. Really angry sounds.

But they're a protected species, you can't own them. Kangaroos, however, are not protected. Unsurprisingly, most city people don't own kangaroos, and I'm sure the farmers just think they're pests. More people eat kangaroo than have them as pets (which is to say, very few anyway).

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Toldya she'd know.

[alfirin-kirinki.livejournal.com]

No wonder they're the ones with teh hole in the Ozone Layer!

.a.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

Good point.

*phones Greenpeace*

[alfirin-kirinki.livejournal.com]

My new housemate is an Aussie. Am SO quizzing him on this, tonight!

.a.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I just don't think I'll ever let littlealex live it down. *snicker*

I also want to see it. I have a visual in my head, and I wonder how close I am. What colour is it? What happens if it sits out in the sun and it melts? Can you use it in liquid form? And what about people who are allergic to some polymers? It gets scarier and scarier.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

Five dollars are pink/purple, Tens are blue with a bit of green, Twenties are red, Fifties are yellow, and Hundreds are green.

It doesn't melt.

There is no liquid money, only plastic.

I don't know about them but I guess they're screwed. Or they'd have to wear gloves or something. I'm sure the inventors of the money went through and thought about it all.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

It doesn't melt? All plastic melts. It's liquid to begin with.

*checks with patchfire for Expert Scientific Verification*

[patchfire.livejournal.com]

Apparently Oz!Plastic is somehow Different from other Plastic (just like their calcium-free cheese).

Hell, I had uniform skirts made out of polyester that would melt if you sat on the radiator long enough. Plastic melts. 'Nuff said.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

It might melt, but it wouldn't melt in the sun. Unless you're doing something really stupid to your money, it won't melt.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

How is it bad for the environment? You're not going to throw out your money, are you? It doesn't need to decompose. You keep it around in your wallet. And it doesn't tear. Because it's plastic!

[alfirin-kirinki.livejournal.com]

Making it is bad for the environment, recycling it is bad for the environment - the same money isn't going to be in circulation forever, is it?

.a.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

They recycle the money once they're done with it, and it gets made into things like compost bins, rubbish bins, plumbing fittings, you name it. I don't see how recycling it could be bad for the environment...

[alfirin-kirinki.livejournal.com]

It's the manufacturing of the new articles. The melting down of plastics releases chemicals into the environment that contribute to the greenhouse effect.

.a.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

It's making it that's teh Bad. All that smoke and hydrofluorowhatsits.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

They recycle the waste from producing the notes, as well. Make that into other plastic things, too. Found here.

Now I'm going to work. To handle lots and lots of plastic money. Bwah!

[patchfire.livejournal.com]

Only you, dear, can make me groan, laugh, and grimace, all at once.

She wasn't talking about the solid waste products.

And your icon is just. *shudders*