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Would you pick up 5c off the street?

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    #32
    Last_Minute
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Last_Minute


    How do these coins get on the ground in the first place is the question?


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    #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't even wait for my change if it less than 5c, thats when someone is literally handing it to you. Forget picking something up off the dirty ground. Plebs.


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    #34
    bnagrrl
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭bnagrrl


    Yes I would pick up coins, copper and all.

    Last year I saved all my change in two big jars. When I counted it up I had over €1000. Those pennies add up, people!


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    #35
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    I'd pick up any coin. As they say every little helps:)


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    #36
    Kichote
    Registered Users Posts: 305 ✭✭Kichote


    I believe it to be bad luck to leave the poor 1 and 2c coins lying there to be trampled on


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    #37
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Walking past money, even 1c, is bad luck. I pick em up, spit on them and throw them at homeless people. The look on their faces when they ping off their foreheads is priceless.











    I don't, I put em in my pocket..walking past money is bad luck - treasure the little gifts, the biggies follow...


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    #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    If you believe walking past coppers will have somehow have an impact on other parts your life, you are delusion


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    #39
    Lalealea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭Lalealea


    Find a penny pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck! :-) That was the rhyme on my little saving coin box when I was little!

    1 cent !


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    #40
    Sweet Rose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 206 ✭✭Sweet Rose


    Lalealea wrote: »
    Find a penny pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck! :-) That was the rhyme on my little saving coin box when I was little!

    1 cent !

    Lol, I was just about to post that. My Granny used to say it to us all the time.

    5 cent and 5 cent makes 10 cent etc etc. It's all money at the end of the day. Waste not, want not.


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    #41
    lopesc
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭lopesc


    3.50.


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    #42
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    lopesc wrote: »
    3.50.

    Do you pick it up to count and make sure, then throw away if less, or have you developed a gimlet eye for counting loose change?


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    #43
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    I'd I've to check with my monacle first.


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    #44
    Areyouwell
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭Areyouwell


    indigo twist wrote: »
    Would you pick up 5c off the street?

    Feck no.




    That's the manservant's job.


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    #45
    longhalloween
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭longhalloween


    Sweet Rose wrote: »
    Lol, I was just about to post that. My Granny used to say it to us all the time.

    5 cent and 5 cent makes 10 cent etc etc. It's all money at the end of the day. Waste not, want not.

    Pennies make the pound.


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    #46
    Paco Rodriguez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 701 ✭✭✭Paco Rodriguez


    I never pick up money...not even notes. I consider it bad luck to spend money that someone who earned it lost.


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    #47
    moc moc a moc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭moc moc a moc


    Last_Minute wrote: »
    How do these coins get on the ground in the first place is the question?

    I throw fistfuls of them around on my day off. I like to bring a little joy to the underclasses!
    Rucking_Fetard wrote: »
    Bill Gates only bends the knee if he sees $30,000.

    To be fair, Bill Gates makes $29,000 in the time it takes him to bend a knee, so the net profit is only $1k. Hardly seems worth it.


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    #48
    Enright
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Enright


    find a penny, pick it up, and all day it will bring you luck


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    #49
    Heisenberg88
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 87 ✭✭Heisenberg88


    Depends, if its coppers I usually pick up a nurse.


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    #50
    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    Lalealea wrote: »
    Find a penny pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck! :-) That was the rhyme on my little saving coin box when I was little!

    1 cent !

    How does the rest of it go?

    'See a penny, leave it down and all that day you'll wear a frown'

    Something like that anyway :)


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    #51
    Jagdtiger
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭Jagdtiger


    I picked up a farthing from 1806 once. So to answer your question, I would pick up money of absolutely no monetary value what so ever...


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    #52
    Rucking_Fetard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    gramar wrote: »
    Does he ask for its hand in marriage?
    Here ya go, watch it, it's about coins on the street and Billy Gates.



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    #53
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Rucking_Fetard wrote: »
    Bill Gates only bends the knee if he sees $30,000.
    Theres been stories of bill gates using money off coupons for food while he was worth millions or billions. Dunno if its true of not.


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    #54
    Heisenberg88
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 87 ✭✭Heisenberg88


    rubadub wrote: »
    Theres been stories of bill gates using money off coupons for food while he was worth millions or billions. Dunno if its true of not.

    I heard he also used to clean windows.


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    #55
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    I would pick up any coin. It's not about monetary value of it, I just see it as a sign of good luck.
    I found 2 eu coin few days ago and I keep it in my jeans pocket. Somehow I can't push myself to spend it. I know, I am a dork.


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    #56
    FullblownRose
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭FullblownRose


    There always seems to be somebody standing right up my you know what if i see money on the ground. I am always in a hurry. Otherwise I would pick it up regardless of the denoimnation.


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    #57
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Kinky


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    #58
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The paths around here are covered in phlegm. There's no way I'm going to risk putting my hand in a puddle of phlegm for a few cents.


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    #59
    ardle1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    I'd pick up anything and throw it in the bin!
    Filthy animals


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    #60
    Uncle Ruckus
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Uncle Ruckus


    Christ no. I'd have my butler do it for me.


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    #61
    indigo twist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 500 ✭✭✭indigo twist


    Areyouwell wrote: »
    Feck no.




    That's the manservant's job.

    You quoted me saying something I didn't say! :/


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