I wonder what the reaction would be like if they replaced Darwin with Charles Dickens.
I take back all my previous picks for the notes.
It should be One Direction.
Why the fuck would you remove Darwin?
No offence to J. Austin but come on it's frickin Darwin we're talking about.
[QUOTE=Jocke;41577418]Why the fuck would you remove Darwin?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Stockers678;41577382]The people on the other side of the note have a 10-15 year life cycle before being replaced.
Darwin has been there nearly 15 now, so it's about time for a change. Calm your shit Internet!
Plus, it's only money - you didn't care about Darwin being on the note until you found out he was being replaced by Austen. Why do you even care?[/QUOTE]
Why does anyone care? Its a just a picture note.
[QUOTE=Jocke;41577418]Why the fuck would you remove Darwin?[/QUOTE]
because it's been 15 years and the bank notes are due for a change
end of story
oh my god this thread goes really fast
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;41577390]And without literature, intellectually we'd probably still be stuck in the stone age, your point?[/QUOTE]
If we didn't write our findings down, yes, you'd be absolutely right! However, Austen didn't invent literature. There were plenty of books by the time she got around to writing one, many of those contained scientific findings too! Literature is important, but it depends what's in the literature. A book on how the evolution works is not equivalent to a fiction book, is my point.
do you have to go and trade in old currency or it isn't worth anything anymore? if not, don't worry because darwin will be around long enough that they might change the face again before you see it become rare. You could start a collection! Frame darwin on the wall if you love the bill so much, and cherish its collector's value as time goes on maybe
Oh well
[QUOTE=.Isak.;41577373]Jane Austen is a [i]very[/i] important literary figure, and the fact that you know next to nothing about her is a standing testament to your ignorance on the subject. Unfortunately, I'm not the failure of a high school teacher who never even taught you about Jane Austen, so I'm not going to spend hours dredging up various articles citing her influence because I don't have any adderall on hand.
If you want to know her influence, read her wikipedia page. Don't try to force other people to teach you. You're not being taken seriously because you're sitting in front of a giant library that is the internet and asking random passerbys to explain the intricacies of Jane Austen's impact on literature. Just look it up yourself.[/QUOTE]
My high school english was focused around Shakespeare, I'm sorry that it didn't conform to your personal tastes.
Regardless, having just done a few quick google searches, I've not found anything very concrete. Quotes such as her "Teaching people the true meaning of love". You get the idea.
They all seem to simply point to her preassumed greatness. I'm happy to keep looking, and happy to be shown something that suggests otherwise, but thus far its not looking very convincing.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;41577428]because it's been 15 years and the bank notes are due for a change
end of story
oh my god this thread goes really fast[/QUOTE]
We don't have that in my country, didn't knew about this
[QUOTE=Trumple;41577378]because there's a great chance that without science you'd have died from an infection you had as a baby[/QUOTE]
Except Darwin had nothing to do with medicine
[QUOTE=daijitsu;41577432]do you have to go and trade in old currency or it isn't worth anything anymore? if not, don't worry because darwin will be around long enough that they might change the face again. You could start a collection! Frame darwin on the wall if you love the bill so much, and cherish its collector's value as time goes on.[/QUOTE]
If I'm not mistaken, they just keep the old ones in circulation because taking them out isn't worth the time and effort. Same here with the new 5 euro bill.
[QUOTE=Trumple;41577430]If we didn't write our findings down, yes, you'd be absolutely right! However, Austen didn't invent literature. There were plenty of books by the time she got around to writing one, many of those contained scientific findings too! Literature is important, but it depends what's in the literature. A book on how the evolution works is not equivalent to a fiction book, is my point.[/QUOTE]
May be so but I've yet to hear a convincing argument as to why Austen is apparently inferior to Darwin simply because she wrote books.
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;41577364]are you like 7?
like, I don't understand how you can live in britain for an extended period of time and not find out who jane austen is, even accidentally[/QUOTE]
Her books aren't really something that would interest me, and we weren't taught about her in school. Shakespeare and Ernest Hemmingway were two of authors i can remember that we studied at school. Jane Austen was not one of the authors we did anything on. I've heard of Pride and Prejudice, but i didn't know who wrote it.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;41577330]how do you people pass high school english[/QUOTE]
Not every school studys the same things, that's how.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;41577436]My high school english was focused around Shakespeare, I'm sorry that it didn't conform to your personal tastes.
Regardless, having just done a few quick google searches, I've not found anything very concrete. Quotes such as her "Teaching people the true meaning of love". You get the idea.
They all seem to simply point to her preassumed greatness. I'm happy to keep looking, and happy to be shown something that suggests otherwise, but thus far its not looking very convincing.[/QUOTE]
are you reading sparknotes or something
she was an influence in sparking 19th-century realism literature, which was a very notable change in literary history
Hopefully they will put another one of our great scientists on one of the notes as well.
[QUOTE=Emperorconor;41577407]I wonder what the reaction would be like if they replaced Darwin with Charles Dickens.[/QUOTE]
Surprise actually. Darwin replaced Dickens on the £10 note in 2000.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;41577330]how do you people pass high school english[/QUOTE]
Not everyone studied the same things in school. I know who Austen is, but we never covered any of her works in English when I was at school.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;41577456]are you reading sparknotes or something
she was an influence in sparking 19th-century realism literature, which was a very notable change in literary history[/QUOTE]
I'm going to have to step in and defend him for a moment here. The English classes in the UK (or at least, the school I went to) tend to have a massive hard-on for Shakespeare. Still, I also learned about her in history.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;41577330]how do you people pass high school english[/QUOTE]
by reading books by authors that arent her
[QUOTE=.Isak.;41577456]are you reading sparknotes or something
she was an influence in sparking 19th-century realism literature, which was a very notable change in literary history[/QUOTE]
I'm going through everything from wiki to blog posts and not finding anything.
[QUOTE=Stockers678;41577472]Surprise actually. Darwin replaced Dickens on the £10 note in 2000.[/QUOTE]
I mean, would people be bitching about it as much?
Somehow I think people prefer Charles Dickens to Jane Austen.
They should put Alan Turing on one of the bank notes.
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;41577511]by reading books by authors that arent her[/QUOTE]
not even excerpts?
i may be placing my standards too high, the average kid at my school probably wouldn't know who shakespeare was beyond "romeo and juliet is a love story," but in upper-level AP/IB/Honors classes, people generally would know who jane austen is and what she wrote.
[QUOTE=Emperorconor;41577527]I mean, would people be bitching about it as much?
Somehow I think people prefer Charles Dickens to Jane Austen.[/QUOTE]
People know Dickens wrote stuff which could be argued to be cool; Christmas Carol etc.
People's preconceptions of Austen are basically this:
[video=youtube;DQLhIWnpM6M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLhIWnpM6M[/video]
[QUOTE=AngryChairR;41577160]Equal rights shite again I see. Churchill and Darwin are one of the two finest men to be put on our notes, who's idea was it to put a woman who achieved nothing of importance?
I'm sure if a woman did something significant they'd have just as much chance of being put on a note...[/QUOTE]
holy fuck is this for real i cannot believe this post is real and in front of my eyes am i in the twilight zone
[QUOTE=.Isak.;41577330]how do you people pass high school english[/QUOTE]
Because most schools in the world teach English in their English-classes instead of History.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;41577518]I'm going through everything from wiki to blog posts and not finding anything.[/QUOTE]
I just checked Wiki and what Isak said is literally on the third paragraph of the page....
[QUOTE=Kinglah Crab;41577549]holy fuck is this for real i cannot believe this post is real and in front of my eyes am i in the twilight zone[/QUOTE]
anything is possible from AngryChairR
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