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the new canadian currency
May 3, 2012 - 4:56pm
is it just me, or does this weird queen woman that appears on our money look terribly evil on the new $20? this reminds me of that guy in star wars who could electrocute people with his hands, or maybe some sort of villain from a gruesome german legend.
Of course, it looks like a German fairy tale figure, she is after all the evil Queen of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Boom Shakalaka
I never realized how evil that pic is - mind you, who can afford big bills like that??
Phil Windsor of Greece's mug should be on the other side.
yes, actually, david icke was right all along, i really am a reptile! hssisssthhh!
It's something about the eyelids, I think. Perhaps they touched up the original print to eliminate shadow or wrinkles. That's what it looks like to me. And on close examination it makes her look more like a lush than a reptile. It could be the sickly green that suggests reptile to some.
She seems unhappy to be on our bill.
Hey, she's an old woman. Some day you'll look like that, if you're female and live long enough.
So 86 the sexist and ageist comments, please.
There's plenty to criticize the Windsors for without commenting on their looks.
Will this new currency material make it more difficult to add horns and a 'tache with a felt pen?
When we were kids, we used to fold the one-dollar bill and "make an ass of the Queen". Haven't tried that in years. I wonder if it works with the loonie?
I recognize that too.
Morphine.
Have to second M. Spector here. Also, to paraphrase a relative of hers, the deposed Kaiser: What we have here is treason ladies and gentlemen, barefaced, outrageous treason!
I think the comments are directed at her countenance, not at her being "ugly" for looking (and being) old.
My mother and a lot of elderly women look older. The queen looks haughty and stunned, at the same time. Why they would choose such a photo....
Interesting, the farther away shot looks worse.... then I do the shades of evil.
The inset portrait looks normal. Is it actually the same shot?
the queen looks really unpleasant and evil, but the broader point is obviously that it's nuts that this ghoulish visage is on the money at all, and certainly not so extravagantly with the insets and that. i get a darkly perverse thrill when i have to explain to americans that the queen of england is on our money/head of state, usually followed up with a "so you're part of britain?"... followed then by an explanation of the colonial fetishism that dominates a certain strain of the canadian identity, certainly on full display in this ludicrous note. having to explain things like that to people from normal countries that have revolutionary or national histories is a nice little exercise in that timeworn grim self-effacement of the canadian, well beyond wincing or explaining away, just this sense that a certain portion of one's countrymen are either totally insane or deeply neurotic and pessimistic. for some it might feel disempowering, for me it simply reinforces my fanatical republicanism - every time i see the queen of england on our money, i feel irritated and bored. i suppose in a way that it's nice that what's likely to be the final queen of england not before it becomes a king of england note depicts her as a deeply sinister figure, as unfriendly as likely any figure on any note worldwide (except maybe the genghis khan notes in mongolia). it makes me wonder if a quebecois weren't in charge of the note's design.
That would be the same Quebecois who have no problem with the royal emblem and colours of the House of Bourbon on all their national symbols?
Meh, I think she is looking more and more like Harpo Marx, actually. I haven't yet tried the smiley-frowny trick with the new bills.
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At least she doesn't have the devil grinning in her hair anymore.
I was surprised to see just the Queen side being discussed.
The $20 bill is the main one people will use-- the big story here is what has changed.
First Nations Iconography that was on the bill is replaced with military iconography.
I think that is more important than the looks of that senior citizen on the other side.
I agree that if we are going to have a Queen on the money maybe we can find a Canadian one but can we discuss the ditching of FN iconography as well?
Why do you wonder that it was a male Quebecer who designed the note, and not perhaps a female?
lol, that's the catch-all term for quebecers in french, it would be ludicrous to write "it makes me wonder if a quebecois or a quebecoise weren't in charge of the note's design." but nice try with the pedantism.
Quebecois is no more a catch-all term than the use of "men" in "all men are created equal" or "in all thy sons command" is a catch-all for men and women. It's a product of a more sexist era.
wokka wokka
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/201...
Lina Dib
La Presse Canadienne
Ottawa
La toute première résolution au cahier des néo-démocrates québécois qui se réunissent à Drummondville samedi et dimanche devra être abordée très délicatement.
Les militants d'Outremont proposent que la section Québec du Nouveau Parti démocratique (NPD) se solidarise avec la lutte étudiante actuelle.
Une partie de la résolution se lit comme suit: «Il est en outre résolu que la Section Québec se solidarise avec tous ceux et celles qui réclament à l'heure actuelle une accessibilité équitable à l'éducation supérieure de qualité pour tous.»
Or depuis trois mois, les élus néo-démocrates à Ottawa ont été très discrets sur le sujet, refusant de se commettre, insistant que c'est une question qui doit se régler au niveau provincial.
À la veille du conseil général de la section québécoise de leur parti, ces mêmes députés se sont vus obligés de défendre la tenue d'un tel débat réclamé par les leurs.
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Nah, just gin. Family tradition. Matrilineal.
Because we know that the monetary system is one large pyramid scheme, there should be a pyramid and evil eye on the back side.
Excellent point Sean and one that needs highlighting. Vimy Ridge is now the symbol of all that is truly Canadian.
Ready Aye Ready
http://canadaonline.about.com/od/currency/a/20dollarbill04.htm
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120502/boc-to-unveil-polymer-20-dollar-bill-120502/
Better than a picture of an oil refinery (what were they thinking?).
I expect to see a lot of despoiled twenty dollar bills now, with this symbol on the back:
I never noticed any despoiled $10.00 bills. There's no real difference with the new $20.00 bill.
I'm in Quebec and I see the occasional defaced bill - in every denomination.
That's next-as well as a Tim Horton's
Not sure why we would need more militarism, but its a good thing, this will remind canadians of what an idiological asshole we had as prime minister that he couldn't leave nothing alone, his tainted touch had to spoil any and all things in our nation. The Shadow of Harper falls across all middle earth, I mean Canada.