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Apparently in Australia we have the "McDonald's test" where if a counterfeit note is of good enough quality to be spent at Macca's then it'll pass muster. Employees there are apparently given pretty solid tips on how to check for fake notes as it's a common place to move cash through. Pubs and clubs are another venue as often the lighting is too dim to really suss out the quality of a bill. Polymer film is now available easily enough to be able to manufacture fake notes that are convincing enough to even fool banks. The quickest way to check is to scrunch up the note, a fake bill won't spring back in place.
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DarthBlingBling posted:Try the mega rare, only printed in Scotland, £100 note. Even cunts in Scotland don't know it exists poo poo I had one of those when I was there. Clydesdale Bank, right? I broke it at a bar (to be fair I was paying for like 60 pounds worth of food/drink) and they looked at it like I was trying to pay with Confederate money. Not distrustful, just confused.
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Dec 22, 2016 03:09
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:To be fair, that's a very flattering image of the queen. She's entering her final Sith lord stage in reality. Royalty is born s---oh SITH lord, sorry.
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Dec 22, 2016 08:07
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Intoluene posted:Also old people if my experience as a cashier is anything to go by. Go on, break a 100 on your 2 dollar bottle of milk as soon as we open. I loving dare you. You're assuming those old people aren't drug dealers.
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Dec 22, 2016 14:56
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killa-pope posted:So long as you're feeling deferential, I work in a grocery store and when we get hit with large bills, it's exactly as HaB described. Pack of gum or something cheap near the checkout so they can be in and out in the shortest amount of time. They also know to look for new or younger cashiers who either don't know or don't care what a $100 bill actually looks like, and have probably never heard the word "watermark" in their life. Yeah, social engineering is a big part of it. Go in hurried, keep the cashier off guard, heck maybe even try and buy something that with a smaller denomination, realize you don't have enough, and then pull out the $100 all apologetic like. I wonder if the fact that everything is caught on camera these days makes any of this more difficult.
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Dec 22, 2016 16:00
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Are you thinking that places have HD security cameras? AHahahaha god no. 99.99999% of places still have potato boxes that wouldnt be out of place in the 1990s.
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Dec 22, 2016 17:26
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bitterandtwisted posted:No matter how many transparent windows and holograms my Scottish money has, I know half the cunts in England still won't accept it! Note for people outside Scotland: this is common enough that some English oval office not liking a Scottish note is featured in the most recent Royal Bank of Scotland TV ad
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Dec 22, 2016 18:19
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Johnny Aztec posted:Are you thinking that places have HD security cameras? AHahahaha god no. 99.99999% of places still have potato boxes that wouldnt be out of place in the 1990s. Honestly, there are a lot of places that did install HD security cameras...that mostly are run at low-SD quality because the owners cheaped out & didn't also replace the 10 year old hard drives storing the footage or the tiny CRT monitors in the surveillance room.
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Dec 22, 2016 19:20
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Johnny Aztec posted:Are you thinking that places have HD security cameras? AHahahaha god no. 99.99999% of places still have potato boxes that wouldnt be out of place in the 1990s. No, but if you're passing funny money in a mall there are cameras in the store, cameras in the plazas or food courts, and cameras in the parking decks. I'm not saying it's easy or even likely - but if law enforcement has a big enough hard-on then it becomes a problem and I think the Secret Service always has a hard-on. I guess it becomes a real issue once everything is digital and software is advanced enough to identify and track people on its own. From a more practical perspective, even lovely footage makes for a good training tool. Stuff like flim-flaming a cashier is tough to describe, but easier to show.
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Dec 22, 2016 19:37
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Note for people outside Scotland: this is common enough that some English oval office not liking a Scottish note is featured in the most recent Royal Bank of Scotland TV ad The biggest problem with accepting Scottish notes, as a business, is getting them pried out of the Scotsman's fist. (is that still even a stereotype, Scots being cheap?)
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Dec 22, 2016 21:09
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Krispy Kareem posted:No, but if you're passing funny money in a mall there are cameras in the store, cameras in the plazas or food courts, and cameras in the parking decks. I'm not saying it's easy or even likely - but if law enforcement has a big enough hard-on then it becomes a problem and I think the Secret Service always has a hard-on. The Secret Service has a hard-on for everything in their purview, usually. But yeah, it's a question of money, you need more expensive security equipment to get good footage of suspects. Security cameras in most places are about deterrence, not detection.
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Dec 22, 2016 21:38
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Pham Nuwen posted:The biggest problem with accepting Scottish notes, as a business, is getting them pried out of the Scotsman's fist. Understanding what they are trying to buy is kind of tough too.
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Dec 22, 2016 22:34
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Kwyndig posted:The Secret Service has a hard-on for everything in their purview, usually. But yeah, it's a question of money, you need more expensive security equipment to get good footage of suspects. Security cameras in most places are about deterrence, not detection. I thought money policing got passed to a different dept after the creation of the DHS. Aren't the secret serve just president-minders now?
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Dec 23, 2016 00:23
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Nope, they also got saddled with dealing with electronic financial crimes too. They're just not part of the Treasury Dept anymore and instead are under the direction of DHS.
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Dec 23, 2016 00:30
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Once a cashier accepts the bill it doesn't sit in some special area of the drawer, it gets mixed in. Chances are more than 1 hundred note comes in on a single day and if it gets missed when the drawer gets counted it ends up in the safe mixed with all the other poo poo. Once the cashier takes the bill there isn't much proof the guy on the camera was the one that passed the fake bill. Obviously if a rash of stores in one area all had bad bills and you are at each of them you are busted but that's why you would spread them around.
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Dec 23, 2016 07:24
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Humphreys posted:They were made plastic so we don't need to hide our wallet inside our shoes while going for a swim in the billabong or going for a surf. Also the $100 note is disappearing too very soon. Because as someone said above - the only people that used them were drug dealers. $100 bills disappearing? First I heard of it. They're not common because ATMs don't dispense them, but every time I needed a large cash withdrawal (say for example buying a $3000-5000 car), I used to go into the bank and get a pile of them. There's a point where people will take bank cheques and related hassle, but below that amount, cash only and $50 bills are too bulky. E: whiteyfats posted:I tried to buy a pack of cigarettes recently with a fifty as soon as the local gas station opened and the cashier laughed in my face. Fo3 has a new favorite as of 07:37 on Dec 23, 2016 |
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Dec 23, 2016 07:26
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Some ATMs will give you pineapples or lobsters, 100s you'd probably only see once or twice.
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Dec 23, 2016 13:42
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my turn in the barrel posted:Once a cashier accepts the bill it doesn't sit in some special area of the drawer, it gets mixed in. Chances are more than 1 hundred note comes in on a single day and if it gets missed when the drawer gets counted it ends up in the safe mixed with all the other poo poo. The paper tape will show what you took in and time stamp it. Even if you took in a dozen $100 bills, you'd just look at the one where you gave back a lot of change. Again, it all depends on how much effort the merchant or police want to put into tracking down counterfeiters. But more likely you just buy some marking pens and train/replace your cashiers.
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Dec 23, 2016 17:36
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well why not posted:Some ATMs will give you pineapples or lobsters, 100s you'd probably only see once or twice. Initial thought  then I remembered your 10 and 20 notes are yellow and red.
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Dec 23, 2016 17:46
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WTF are you going to do with $10 here? Buy a big mac or some soda? The ATMs don't have them either. Fo3 has a new favorite as of 19:02 on Dec 23, 2016 |
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Dec 23, 2016 18:59
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Horse Clocks posted:Initial thought It's Australia, exotic dancers are probably used to such workplace hazards.
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The fact that "pineapple" and "lobster" are longer words than "twenty" or "ten" is Australia as hell 
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Dec 24, 2016 01:01
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*fifty and twenty
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As an Australian I've never heard anyone call them that and I'd probably cut out anyone who did, like I had to with someone who called KFC "kayfers". Authentic Australian slang is a kind of pidgin baby-talk that ends every noun on a vowel. It's the worst. Lizard Combatant has a new favorite as of 05:03 on Dec 24, 2016 |
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Dec 24, 2016 04:58
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Lizard Combatant posted:As an Australian I've never heard anyone call them that and I'd probably cut out anyone who did, like I had to with someone who called KFC "kayfers". Maccas is however, the only true name for McDonald's in Australia.
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Dec 24, 2016 05:44
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maccas? nah, mate. spag bol and cab sav.
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Cindy Shitbird posted:maccas? nah, mate. spag bol and cab sav. What about shrimp on the bobby, didgeridoo, and outback steakhouse? fosters! australian for wastewater.
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It's burgin' time! 
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Australians only deal with their poo poo because the government has a recurring daily quest available to turn in spiders for exp. if Americans had a simpler daily quest instead of one long level curve it'd be a different story, but instead we're all scrubs carried by assholes who buy fully kitted raid accounts and gently caress up repeatedly if only they weren't so strict on Australian server transfers
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I heart bacon posted:What about shrimp on the bobby, didgeridoo, and outback steakhouse? fosters! australian for wastewater. Yeah nah, that's crook, oval office.
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The Foster's green can is literally the grossest beer I have ever had, and I've had something called Lobster Beer.
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Kelp Me! posted:The Fostahs green can is literally the grossest beeah I have ever had, and I've had something called Lobstah Beeah. In my head.
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Kelp Me! posted:The Foster's green can is literally the grossest beer I have ever had, and I've had something called Lobster Beer. I suggest you sample some of the native beers of East Asia. That Buddha beer is the biggest gulf I've ever seen between how cool the packaging is and how terrible what's in the packaging tastes.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I suggest you sample some of the native beers of East Asia. That Buddha beer is the biggest gulf I've ever seen between how cool the packaging is and how terrible what's in the packaging tastes. The big brands I've had, at least in China/Japan aren't that bad. Tsingtao is basically Carlsburg, Snow is basically Miller Lite, and the Japanese big 3 are at least average beers. The Foster's green was so gross I couldn't finish it, and it wasn't even skunked or poured from dirty draft lines or a anything.
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Dec 24, 2016 09:39
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They're all disgusting because they're beer. Seriously don't understand how anyone can drink that swill. (I know, I know, I'm the obsolete and failed...)
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Dec 24, 2016 10:43
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Kelp Me! posted:The big brands I've had, at least in China/Japan aren't that bad. Tsingtao is basically Carlsburg, Snow is basically Miller Lite, and the Japanese big 3 are at least average beers. The Foster's green was so gross I couldn't finish it, and it wasn't even skunked or poured from dirty draft lines or a anything. Well drinking beer in China is a total crapshoot because 8/10 times you get fake/counterfeit beer (like all booze in China basically). Hite is the big Korean beer and it's awful pisswater for terrible humans. I was more referring to Thailand, Malaysia, etc who produce terrible garbage like Chang Beer.
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my turn in the barrel posted:Once a cashier accepts the bill it doesn't sit in some special area of the drawer, it gets mixed in. Chances are more than 1 hundred note comes in on a single day and if it gets missed when the drawer gets counted it ends up in the safe mixed with all the other poo poo. When I used to cashier, I would put all the hundreds I received under the drawer so they weren't visible to customers. I'd bank in at $125 and always keep my drawer shut. Any time my bank was high, I'd tuck it away so my drawer looked empty. We also had to inspect every bill, straighten them, and align them when we did a drawer pull. Every time I've used a hundred dollar bill, the cashier has held it to the light so they can check for the watermark. Some of them use a test marker. My current company has a lot of customers that use $100s to pay. We usually assume that they are hiding purchases from a spouse or they're drug dealers.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Authentic Australian slang is a kind of pidgin baby-talk that ends every noun on a vowel. It's the worst. It's like we try to do British Cockney (?) rhyming slang, but drunker. Also on the topic of pidgin talk my absolute favourite from PNG is their word for helicopter: "magimiks bilong Yesus (Magimix belong Jesus)" EDIT: Or: emti tin (empty tin) – person who speaks nonsense liklik box you pull him he cry you push him he cry – an accordion Humphreys has a new favorite as of 13:54 on Dec 24, 2016 |
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Keiya posted:(I know, I know, I'm the obsolete and failed...) Nah, just more time and money for wines, spirits and drinks.
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Keiya posted:They're all disgusting because they're beer. Seriously don't understand how anyone can drink that swill. I always thought "It's an acquired taste" was bullshit, but it was actually true in my beer experience. Initially the stuff was awful except for beers with really sweet flavorings added, but as I continued drinking it I gained a tolerance for bitterness. My brain actually became a bit numb to bitter flavors in general, which allowed the actual taste of the beer to come through more and made the previously "good beer" disgustingly sweet and fruity. It's also fun when you go to World of Coke or a place with similar beverage dispensers and you dare new people to chug Beverly with you.
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Yeah, like a lot of things it takes time to acquire the taste and notice all of the nuances. Whisky enthusiasts go through the same thing with cask strength bottlings. Initially they seem to be overpowering, but as you get into them, you realize how much taste they have over standard bottlings, even with a bit of water added.
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