DBWI: People Stop Keeping Coin in their Mouths?

ninebucks

Banned
What if people stopped keeping their coins in their mouths? Instead they start keeping them in cloth pouches that they have to carry around with themselves at all times, (implausible I know).

OOC: This discussion is taking place in the village green of a pre-industrial settlement.
 
umm... I guess I might finally get that metallic tang out of my mouth. Still, it would be so much less efficient!
 
carry coins... in a pouch? wow! That's a great idea! I'm gonna do it right now! Maybe then I won't lose so many of them by swallowing them!
 
What if people stopped keeping their coins in their mouths? Instead they start keeping them in cloth pouches that they have to carry around with themselves at all times, (implausible I know).

OOC: This discussion is taking place in the village green of a pre-industrial settlement.

I think that it would be better to have them in pouches. So many people seem to get sick and their gums seem to rot.

OOC: Basically talking about copper and nickle poisoning and bacterial infections from the coins.
 
(Spits out coins) Pah! It would certainly make this conversation a lot easier. (Puts coins back in mouth).
 
well, all those people who go sifting through outhouses to recover coins that people accidently swallowed would be out of a job... they might turn to thievery and prostitution to make ends meet...
 
What if people stopped keeping their coins in their mouths? Instead they start keeping them in cloth pouches that they have to carry around with themselves at all times, (implausible I know).

OOC: This discussion is taking place in the village green of a pre-industrial settlement.

For one thing, people might stop getting mouth cancer, choking to death all the time, getting huge tears in their intestines and rectums, and might actually be able to hold conversations.
 
For one thing, people might stop getting mouth cancer, choking to death all the time, getting huge tears in their intestines and rectums,

OOC: you know though, if people actually did carry coins in their mouths, they'd probably make them small and smooth to prevent all of that... :)
 

ninebucks

Banned
OOC: you know though, if people actually did carry coins in their mouths, they'd probably make them small and smooth to prevent all of that... :)

OOC: This is actually based on something from OTL, believe it or not, carrying coins in one's mouth was quite common in Ancient Athens. There's a scene in one of Aristophenes' plays where a young woman french kisses her father in order to pilfer the money out of his mouth. Remove the familial relationship, and you have almost have a good reason to keep money in your mouth.

IC: I don't buy the health argument, everyone knows that mouth diseases are caused by speaking ill against the gods or against one's lords. Also, consider the Jews, they refuse to keep money in their mouths out of fears that it has been spiritually contaminated by you or I, and if you ever venture into one of their squalid ghettoes, you'll see they are inflicted with just as many, if not more, diseases than ordinary people.
 
OOC: This is actually based on something from OTL, believe it or not, carrying coins in one's mouth was quite common in Ancient Athens. There's a scene in one of Aristophenes' plays where a young woman french kisses her father in order to pilfer the money out of his mouth. Remove the familial relationship, and you have almost have a good reason to keep money in your mouth.

IC: I don't buy the health argument, everyone knows that mouth diseases are caused by speaking ill against the gods or against one's lords. Also, consider the Jews, they refuse to keep money in their mouths out of fears that it has been spiritually contaminated by you or I, and if you ever venture into one of their squalid ghettoes, you'll see they are inflicted with just as many, if not more, diseases than ordinary people.

OOC: Well played good sir.

IC: But what about those who do speak well of the Lord our savior (OOC: GAG!), they are getting sick as well.
 
*removes coins from mouth* Good sir, those with mouth disease, who speak well of our lord, are hypocrites. It is obvious that they speak lies and falsehoods.*puts coins back in mouth*
 
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