Interesting Links for 03-06-2012

[andrewducker]

• Republican spokesman: ‘Let's hurl some acid' at female Democratic senators
  (tags: usa republicans )
• We encouraged people to learn to program and just look at what happened
  (tags: funny graffiti programming )
• Pub Tokens – Gift Vouchers for Pubs, Bars and Inns
  (tags: wtf alcohol )

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Honestly I have a lot of friends who would rather pub tokens then the random gifts they get on birthdays and such.

[andrewducker]

In which case wouldn't cash make sense?

I mean, you buy book tokens to _stop_ 16-year-olds from spending the money on beer.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Well, the thing is if someone gave them to me I'd put them aside for weeks when I wasn't bringing in much freelance income.

If someone gave me cash it would be spent easily. With these tokens lying around I could get myself a pint or two on weeks when I was broke.

[andrewducker]

Good point!

Possibly you should be putting 5% of your wages into beer tokens!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I don't know WHY but it does seem to make sense to me: somehow giving me a bunch of cash is just a hassle to think of something to buy with it, but a voucher for something I actually want is fun to spend (although that's quite rare -- even things like john lewis vouchers just get filed under 'remember to use this when I next go to john lewis' not 'ooh, bonus stuff' :)).

[naath.livejournal.com]

Cash is more likely to end up in the general pot, or shoved into savings. Whereas a beer token is something you can't go out and spend on boring practical things like the rent.

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We encouraged people to learn to program and just look at what happened

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Apparently they encouraged people to learn Java... :)