How big is a 50c piece?
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2005 5:22:31 am PDT #4874 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
-t - Apr 12, 2005 5:26:57 am PDT #4875 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
How big is a 50c piece?
30.56 mm in diameter. [link]
Not, as I was going to guess, twice as big as a quarter.
Consuela - Apr 12, 2005 5:27:01 am PDT #4876 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Bigger than a quarter.
Jesse - Apr 12, 2005 5:27:30 am PDT #4877 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, deleting someone else's posts? Cree-pee.
Half-dollar is say 50% bigger than a dollar coin.
-t - Apr 12, 2005 5:29:51 am PDT #4878 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's the Kennedy silver dollars that are huge, I guess. That's what I was picturing when I thought "50 cent piece".
(eta: I'm having trouble getting passed the possibility of deleting someone else's posts to the ettiquette of it. Seems wrong, in any case)
Consuela - Apr 12, 2005 5:30:34 am PDT #4879 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Ooh, deleting someone else's posts? Cree-pee.
Yeah. I want to be sympathetic, because I was snotty and condescending (there was no logic to be found in their arguments), but I really am put out that they deleted other folk's words.
Clearly someone who hasn't mastered the whole arguing-on-the-internet thing.
Vonnie K - Apr 12, 2005 5:30:34 am PDT #4880 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Oh, 'Suela. That's awful. I think I know the debate of which you speak and the wrongheadedness of the involved person. Swearing and deleting? Talk about childish.
Btw, I have to e-you about the memorial weekend thing. I'm gonna have to book the plane tickets soonish.
On an unrelated note, say a person has only been driving for a little over 6 months and therefore had an insurance for less than a year. If the said person--oh, frakk it, I mean myself--had a reasonable driving record except for a ticket I paid when I, uhmm, nicked a parked vehicle (which I didn't use insurance to pay), what should I expect as a reasonable monthly premium? I have to renew my auto insurance with GMAC and it turns out to be around $200/mo, and something tells me I could do better. Except I really can't be arsed to shop around too much.
Consuela - Apr 12, 2005 5:33:11 am PDT #4881 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Swearing and deleting? Talk about childish.
It smelt a great deal of "taking my toys and stomping off home".
Sorry about the ding! But the ticket could be a problem -- you'll probably get points for that. Reasonable insurance varies too much depending on where you live, how much you use the car, and so forth, so I can't really give advice on that. But $2400/year seems kinda high.
-t - Apr 12, 2005 5:33:52 am PDT #4882 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The pricing of auto insurance is a total mystery to me. Doesn't Progressive do some sort of side-by-side comparison for you (or is that Geico? Someone with advertising that I see and semi-remember) so you can get an idea of what's "normal"? That'd be minimum effort, I think.
juliana - Apr 12, 2005 5:33:57 am PDT #4883 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I have to renew my auto insurance with GMAC and it turns out to be around $200/mo, and something tells me I could do better. Except I really can't be arsed to shop around too much.
Vonnie, we pay about $139/month through Progressive, and that's with a big GMC truck and an urban environment.