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We've probably all had the experience of being stuck in line at the pharmacy with a box of prophylactics, some tampons and some apple sauce, and found out far too late that we don't have the cash to cover it. Don't you wish there was something else you could trade instead of that "money" stuff you never seem to have? Well many parts of the world are way ahead of you, ditching money in favor of... #8.
Everyone has a damn cell phone these days. You can't urinate on the front doors of a library any more without at least three passers-by phoning the cops and having you picked up. For that reason, maybe it's not entirely surprising that in some rural parts of Africa, cell phone scratch cards have actually become a form of currency. Despite having a GDP on par with your average 7-Eleven, the Congo has several million cell phones and subscriptions have increased 150% in the last year, which means everyone in Buttfuck Nowhere, Africa really wants to talk to someone else all the time. Now that they can, they've taken to buying airtime vouchers or "scratch cards" and texting the codes to others who can then use the codes to redeem the cash value right away in a sort of rudimentary money transfer system that happens instantly and costs the price of a text message.
The practice is so widespread that these scratch cards are now acceptable currency for bribing officials. As an added bonus, you can pay the bribes remotely with this method, so there's no need for the cops to even take you downtown to bribe the judge when you can pay them all off at the same time. Ah, technology. Simultaneously bribing multiple government officials to quietly overlook your backyard sex parties has never been easier. #7.
Guerima, Colombia may be the most intense little village you've never heard of. While it's unlikely they're all skydivers drinking Mountain Dew and listening to one of those screaming, loud bands the kids these days love so much, the residents do have enough blow to keep themselves wired and tweaking 24/7.
It seems Colombia, in an effort to do something to curb its drug trade, has tried to stop Marxist rebels from trafficking in cocaine. One of the ways they did this was to deploy the army to remote areas and block access to places where cocaine is grown and processed, places like Guerima. So imagine a little town in Idaho growing potatoes until one day the army comes and stops anyone from coming in and buying those potatoes to make delicious, addictive, potentially lethal french fries. Now the little town has a shitload of potatoes and no money. So how do you get by? The people of Geurima, (population of 1,000), just replaced cash with powder. Without FARC rebels paying for cocaine, the people of the town use it to conduct transactions amongst themselves and, according to reports, one gram will get you a bottle of Coca-Cola.
If this society can actually pull off their homemade economic system, well, kudos. But we're betting heavily that the "Trapping 1,000 People in a Tiny Village with Nothing to Do But Pass Cocaine Around" Plan is eventually going to backfire in a pretty huge way. #6.
Prisons can be pretty wacky places. Morgan Freeman might hang around and share his wisdom with you. Adam Sandler might ask you to join his football team. You may even get to play softball with George Bluth. Oh, and the sodomy. The violent, nightly, sodomy. (What'd we tell you? Wacky, right?) Because of all that wackiness, drug screening is becoming more prominent in our nation's penitentiaries, in an effort to ensure all those non-consensual amorous shower rendezvous are at least done while clean and sober. The easiest way to screen for drugs is with a urine sample and, unfortunately, prison is not populated by an entirely honest group of folks.
As a result, clean urine has become a valuable commodity in prisons. Clean samples can be traded in condoms which are then stored in a really warm place to ensure they stay at body temperature. What warm place can you hide a condom full of pee that will keep it at body temperature? If you guessed in your anus, you're disgusting, but also correct. #5.
If you're unfamiliar with the island of Yap, it's because it barely exists. If you took Disney World and put it out in the middle of the ocean, that would pretty much encompass the same land mass as Yap. Call it Micronesia and suddenly it's its own country, complete with a population of about 6,000 people. The people of Yap had a curious tradition of using big ass stones as currency. How big ass? Big ass like 15 feet in diameter and weighing about 2 tons. In fact, the bigger the stone and the more difficult it was to move, the more it was worth, because as we all know, cumbersome shit is really worthwhile, just ask anyone who still has one of those giant half wooden TVs from the 70s or an 8-track player.
They would even sail canoes to other islands to bring back the giant stones with which they could purchase coconuts or wine coolers or whatever it is the people of a tiny island nation need to buy with 12 foot rocks. The official currency of Yap became the US dollar a little while back, but the stones, nearly 7,000 of which are still all over the island, are used for traditional exchanges, as in marriages or land transfers and, presumably, to bowl downhill over your poorer enemies, who are forced to flee in terror and scatter paltry pebbles in their wake. |
I live in Alberta, Canada. If you try to pay with CT money at the liquor store, or any f*****g store, they'll kick you out. :(
I paid for my meals and hotel in Thailand for 5 days with Canadian Tire Money!!!
The quid? Haven't they seen Star Trek? By the time we develop space travel, we won't be using currency.
Mackerel? The f**k is going on with that?
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Pretty funny, especially the Mack's!
the fallout universe uses caps as money too. awesome.
What in the world is wrong with Canada? hahaha that was funny!
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I simply MUST find these Canadian liquor stores that take Canadian Tire money.
Lol funny to see americans and canadians argue about who smokes more weed...
When its clearly the dutch who toke the most, on a percentile base anyways maybe even in total :P
Wow, the "Canada's stupid" comment was random.
Well, I guess it's still better than the people arguing about what country is best between Canada and the USA based on weed smoking.
man, you weed smokers are so awesomely cool.
Then of course theres the Age old currency everybody has GOT or WANTS...though the value fluxuates with the situation at the time.
Canadian Tire money is one of the many kinds of "token" in the world - quasi-money that is useful in only for a few transactions, like getting onto a subway.
CT is simply a (currently only) private corporation that has made tokens that have caught on. CT rocks!
i need to get me some quids
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Chong is Canadian jackass.
Yeah, man, that's not something you should really be that proud about.
I happen to have lived in Canada all 19 years of my life, and I've never been anywhere (besides Canadian Tire obviously) that accepts Canadian Tire money.
And Canadian Tire kicks Wal-Marts ass.
Also, it doesn't make you smarter.
And here we are, making it worse!
Let's ruin Disney again!
Killer Kowalski wasn't already dead?!?
These bums are better than you.
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As a resident of Saskatchewan, I can inform you all that we can't go outside without catching a buzz.In fact, drug tests aren't taken seriously since there's so much pot in the air we all have a little in us. And Jason, it's not legal, the cops just have better things to do than haul your ass in for smoking a joint, like smoking a joint.