Are you against folk music, also? [emoji2359]
Seriously, though, folk is of Germanic origin, it existed as "folc" in Old English and meant "people". Just as the French word "peuple" does. Without a definite article it just means "a number of persons" and with a definite article it means "A...
I don't see the problem, tbh. It's a purely hierarchical term. It doesn't mean the "species is sub", it means there is a distinction between different members of a species that is below the threshold for assigning a different species.
It's like folders and subfolders.
The advantage in basing currency on the number 240 is, it has 20 divisors total: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 30, 40, 48, 60, 80, 120, and 240, more than any previous number.
Try dividing 10GP evenly among 3 party-members.
I've been thinking about that for a looong time already. Working on something based on medieval England. This is super-simplified, though, but it does make sense (to me, at least)
This would make the CP a "farthing", a SP a "penny", an EP a "shilling", a GP a "crown" and a PP a "pound".
One think I thought of when I saw the funeral marching bands: Gilroy is the guy who gave us the Bourne flicks, so spy-thrillers are his thing: the marching bands must have been an callback to another classic spy franchise, namely James Bond, Live and let Die.
I take it you are not familiar with the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus? Existentialism as a philosophical current? Don't be so quick to (mis-)judge my statement. It is precisely the "expration date*, and the fact that we don't know what date it will be for us, that drives us to enjoy...
Oh but everybody is at a constant risk of death in real life!
People die all the time, all over the world, from causes innumerable, other than old age. Accidents and illnesses. It is precisely through the realization of our own mortality that we can fill out lives with meaning, sense, and...
I like the way The Black Hack and its derivates does it:
Close: ≤5ft
Nearby: 6-30ft
Over there: 31-60ft
Far away: 61-120ft
Distant: 121-300ft
Way far away: beyond 301ft
When using TotM just use these descriptives instead of precise numbers.
My wife is Algerian: if she invites people for a North-African dinner and she's spent a whole day in the kitchen preparing an entire panoply of snacks, dishes, and beverages from back home, and one of the guests brings his leftover tuna-casserole, there's gonna be weird looks to say the very least!