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This is the appropriate response to an error: "nobody died". I can't help but wonder what would have been the response if this happened in the US? I assume a fu

This is the appropriate response to an error: "nobody died". I can't help but wonder what would have been the response if this happened in the US? I assume a full news cycle would be taken up with opportunistic politicians trying to score points by ascribing blame to their enemies.

anchpop 7y ago
Typogate? In all serious things of similar or greater magnitude than this happen all the time in the US and usually don't get very much attention
pvg 7y ago
I think you have it the other way round. "nobody died" is the pithy and fun response from a politician trying to deflect and score points by being pithy and fun. The standard of error of the part of the government that, you know, prints money should probably be a lot higher than 'nobody died'.
- rabbitonrails 7y ago
  You clearly have never been to Australia.
  - pvg 7y ago
    I don't go to imaginary places.
sorenn111 7y ago
I disagree somewhat. US news might laugh about it on morning news coverage. But is it that trivial and a laughing matter? I get it, typos are funny and no one dies. But "nobody died" isn't a valid excuse for mistakes on filing for taxes or legal contracts. Errors do matter, even if no one dies. not to overblow the issue, but governmental trust may require error avoidance for many people.
- PhasmaFelis 7y ago
  Taxes and contracts can a big impact on the people they affect, though. A typo on a bank note has no direct effect on any users. It's an aesthetic problem, not a functional one.
  - SilasX 7y ago
    Really? Isn't it going to throw a lot of false positives when people try to spend them and the cashier thinks that the misspelling means it's counterfeit?
    - was_boring 7y ago
      Did it though? It's been in circulation for years.
      - SilasX 7y ago
        I thought the version with the typo was recent?
        was_boring 7y ago
        Years is probably an over statement on my part. A second read indicates probably a year and half.
    - fivefive55 7y ago
      You really think any cashier is going to read the microtext on every bill they get? You practically need a magnifying glass just to see the typo. It's an absolute non-issue no matter what way you spin it.
    - PhasmaFelis 7y ago
      46 million bills were in circulation for 8 months before the first person even noticed the typo, so probably not, no. I've been a cashier, and trust me, we had more important things to do than examine bills with a magnifying glass looking for spelling errors. If a bill seemed suspicious at a quick glance, I swiped it with the counterfeit detector pen, and if it came out fine, I shrugged and put it in the register.
ljm 7y ago
It’s a nice security-by-obscurity feature if someone makes a counterfeit and doesn’t spot the typo. That would be easy to miss unless you had explicit instructions to spell the word wrong.
- nwsm 7y ago
  I doubt someone would attempt to remake the bill from scratch like that, instead of scanning.
oh_sigh 7y ago
Probably somebody at the US mint would be embarrassed and it would be out of the news cycle in a week. It isn't like they misspelled the name of their country - they misspelled a word that is in size 1 font as a security feature.
- starman100 7y ago
  Nobody at the U.S. Mint would be any more "embarrassed" than anyone else over a misprint on U.S. currency. But these people, part of the U.S. Treasury, might be: https://moneyfactory.gov/ https://moneyfactory.gov/
sailfast 7y ago
I tend to think it would be about the same reaction in the United States. "Oh those dumb printers hahaha [cue one day of local news stations across the country having an easy story to take up their air time that night]" and then it'd be over. Though I won't rule out that someone would probably suggest that the mistyped word was actually a valid spelling, and anyone that said otherwise was fake news.
microcolonel 7y ago
After the two-scoops debacle, I suspect that'll be the case until at least 2024. ;o )
tamaharbor 7y ago
What would happen in the US would depend on whether a Democrat or a Republican was in the White House.
pmiller2 7y ago
Nothing would happen. Some currency collectors would want them because they represent a minor variety, but, with 480M printed, they wouldn't even be worth very much. There might be a 1 minute story on the news like "look at what those dummies at the BEP (Bureau of Engraving and Printing) did now," but it wouldn't be news for very long, if at all, outside collector circles.

anchpop 7y ago

Typogate? In all serious things of similar or greater magnitude than this happen all the time in the US and usually don't get very much attention

pvg 7y ago

I think you have it the other way round. "nobody died" is the pithy and fun response from a politician trying to deflect and score points by being pithy and fun. The standard of error of the part of the government that, you know, prints money should probably be a lot higher than 'nobody died'.

rabbitonrails 7y ago
You clearly have never been to Australia.
- pvg 7y ago
  I don't go to imaginary places.

sorenn111 7y ago

I disagree somewhat. US news might laugh about it on morning news coverage. But is it that trivial and a laughing matter? I get it, typos are funny and no one dies. But "nobody died" isn't a valid excuse for mistakes on filing for taxes or legal contracts. Errors do matter, even if no one dies. not to overblow the issue, but governmental trust may require error avoidance for many people.

PhasmaFelis 7y ago
Taxes and contracts can a big impact on the people they affect, though. A typo on a bank note has no direct effect on any users. It's an aesthetic problem, not a functional one.
- SilasX 7y ago
  Really? Isn't it going to throw a lot of false positives when people try to spend them and the cashier thinks that the misspelling means it's counterfeit?
  - was_boring 7y ago
    Did it though? It's been in circulation for years.
    - SilasX 7y ago
      I thought the version with the typo was recent?
      - was_boring 7y ago
        Years is probably an over statement on my part. A second read indicates probably a year and half.
  - fivefive55 7y ago
    You really think any cashier is going to read the microtext on every bill they get? You practically need a magnifying glass just to see the typo. It's an absolute non-issue no matter what way you spin it.
  - PhasmaFelis 7y ago
    46 million bills were in circulation for 8 months before the first person even noticed the typo, so probably not, no. I've been a cashier, and trust me, we had more important things to do than examine bills with a magnifying glass looking for spelling errors. If a bill seemed suspicious at a quick glance, I swiped it with the counterfeit detector pen, and if it came out fine, I shrugged and put it in the register.

ljm 7y ago

It’s a nice security-by-obscurity feature if someone makes a counterfeit and doesn’t spot the typo. That would be easy to miss unless you had explicit instructions to spell the word wrong.

nwsm 7y ago
I doubt someone would attempt to remake the bill from scratch like that, instead of scanning.

oh_sigh 7y ago

Probably somebody at the US mint would be embarrassed and it would be out of the news cycle in a week. It isn't like they misspelled the name of their country - they misspelled a word that is in size 1 font as a security feature.

starman100 7y ago
Nobody at the U.S. Mint would be any more "embarrassed" than anyone else over a misprint on U.S. currency. But these people, part of the U.S. Treasury, might be: https://moneyfactory.gov/ https://moneyfactory.gov/

sailfast 7y ago

I tend to think it would be about the same reaction in the United States. "Oh those dumb printers hahaha [cue one day of local news stations across the country having an easy story to take up their air time that night]" and then it'd be over. Though I won't rule out that someone would probably suggest that the mistyped word was actually a valid spelling, and anyone that said otherwise was fake news.

microcolonel 7y ago

After the two-scoops debacle, I suspect that'll be the case until at least 2024. ;o )

tamaharbor 7y ago

What would happen in the US would depend on whether a Democrat or a Republican was in the White House.

pmiller2 7y ago

Nothing would happen. Some currency collectors would want them because they represent a minor variety, but, with 480M printed, they wouldn't even be worth very much. There might be a 1 minute story on the news like "look at what those dummies at the BEP (Bureau of Engraving and Printing) did now," but it wouldn't be news for very long, if at all, outside collector circles.