Dirty Money: Is Canada’s New $20 Bill ‘Pornographic’?

[Kavvy]

I just found this on cnn.....


http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/11/...hic/?hpt=hp_t3


For some reason this gets me angry. I think most of the nation knows what Vimy is and stands for.... not to mention all the other dumb quotes in the 'story'

If only someone had taken a closer look at what the new design actually was. While it features a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II (Canada is a commonwealth country, don’t forget), it also carries a reproduction of the National Vimy Memorial. There are a couple problems here: for one thing, the Vimy Memorial, created to honor Canadian servicemembers who lost their lives during World War I, is not the most recognizable of national symbols. “I’ve never seen this monument, ever,” said one Vancouver participant in a Bank of Canada focus group on the bill.

[MrMastodonFarm]

The only controversy is that the god damn Queen of England is all over it.

That memorial is beautiful, even Hitler liked it, and that guy hated everything!

It's a memorial of Peace, not of War, and hopefully people come to understand that. It's a piece of Canadian history most forgot or never knew about.


I do wish the base of the Memorial was built into the image on the 20, not just the two structures.

[Daradon]

It's sad some people have such little knowledge about our history and such little respect for our veterans. I think a memorial of hard work and sacrifice is a perfect thing to put on currency. Besides I'm sure have been other memorials on the notes before.

The thing about people thinking the DNA strand on the 100 resembling a sex toy is hilarious. How dumb are the people in the focus groups?

[Table 5]

With that type of writing, I really do hope TIME Advanced comes around.
http://www.theonion.com/video/time-a...d-at-ad,17950/

Only a moron would associate Vimy with the twin towers.

[Regular_John]

Is Canada’s New $20 Bill ‘Pornographic’?

No, no it's not.

And the fact that anyone is worried it might be should be interpreted as a good thing, it means all of our country's real problems have been solved, leaving us with enough idle time that we are forced to fabricate problems out of thin air so as to have something to worry about.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

The only controversy is that the god damn Queen of England is all over it.

That memorial is beautiful, even Hitler liked it, and that guy hated everything!

It's a memorial of Peace, not of War, and hopefully people come to understand that. It's a piece of Canadian history most forgot or never knew about.


I do wish the base of the Memorial was built into the image on the 20, not just the two structures.

Gorgeous pic.

What's the story about Hitler liking it?

[Kavvy]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Gorgeous pic.

What's the story about Hitler liking it?

" Adolf Hitler, who reportedly admired the memorial for its peaceful nature,[65] was photographed by the press while personally touring it and the preserved trenches on 2 June 1940 to demonstrate the memorial had not been desecrated.[66] He ordered Waffen-SS troops to guard the memorial from both German and Allied armies. While all Australian World War I memorial graves in France were damaged during the war, the Vimy memorial was preserved[65] although the undamaged state of the memorial was not conclusively confirmed until September 1944 when the Welsh Guards recaptured Vimy Ridge.[67]"

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Is that article for real?

As a bonus, the controversial currency also evokes the Twin Towers.

But the biggest problem may be that the Vimy’s double-columned design, draped with semi-clad classical figures, manages to evoke both the ill-fated Twin Towers of New York City

WTF?

[FlamesAddiction]

Female breasts are not pornographic. Only the prudest of the prude would think so.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

haha.

From the comments RE: the twin towers crap:

Thank you. Well put. Does everything that comes in twos now have to be abolished? It's pure ignorance.

uh oh... I hope my identical twins are going to be safe....

[GirlySports]

There are a couple problems here: for one thing, the Vimy Memorial, created to honor Canadian servicemembers who lost their lives during World War I, is not the most recognizable of national symbols. “I’ve never seen this monument, ever,” said one Vancouver participant in a Bank of Canada focus group on the bill.

what? just because some yahoo in Vancouver doesn't know it doesn't mean it's not a recognizable symbol!

[Daradon]

Actually since so many of these people seem to be in the dark about what it actually is, maybe that makes it the perfect thing to put on the bill.

Edjumacate their dumb asses.

[burn_this_city]

Time magazine is on the decline. This article was meant to be inflammatory but instead everyone who commented on it mocked the author and the magazine.

[#22]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Gorgeous pic.

What's the story about Hitler liking it?

Hitler himself fought as a soldier in WW1 and had a strong connection with the veterans and memorials from it. As a a rule, the Germans tried not disturb the cemeteries and memorials from WW1.

Aside from that, the Canadians were admired (even revered) by most Germans for their courage and tenacity throughout WW1, and, unlike the French, there wasn't this long history of bad blood between the two nations.

Lastly, the monument is not really a celebration of a famous victory, but more a plea for peace and a remembrance to all that died, which may also have contributed to it not being disturbed.

[GirlySports]

Here's the problem with this article.

@Heba__H
20, Journalism and art history student, Northwestern University.

[WhiteTiger]

Some people just have too much time on their hands.

[Jayems]

Pornographic? You have got to be kidding. Not everybody tries to see everything in an American context, nor does everyone think like sexually repressed prudes

Sums up my thoughts exactly.

[Lobotroth]

I thought it was going to be about how the Memorial looks like a vagina or something stupid like that.

[Hack&Lube]

The real controversy here is how it can possibly be that some Canadians are that ignorant to think this way or not know what that represents.

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

Is Canada’s New $20 Bill ‘Pornographic’?

I'm sure Canadian teenage boys will be jacking off to $20 bills all the time now.

Good grief.

Cowperson