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Yeah, if it had any kind of purpose I guess I'd be less inclined to blame the technology. I just don't see why we went from impervious plastic to oxidizable copper for apparently no benefit. To be clear, it's not like I'm soaking it or anything. This is a level of dampness that my cellphone survives undamaged; I don't think it's a big ask to want the other things in my pockets to be even slightly resistant to water.
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my big angry thing of the day: when places insist on cash only. it's 20-loving-18, let me just use the magic plastic that I have, I don't want to have to go to an ATM!
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Nov 4, 2018 11:20
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I don't know what the hell you're doing to your chip cards; I've had mine in a basic leather wallet for years while working outside in all sorts of weather, bike riding through storms and poo poo and haven't had a problem. The only reason they even let you mag swipe at all is because the store is willing to take the risk that your particular transaction is fraudulent rather than possibly lose the sale. Used to work at a small hardware store where they would just tell you to use another form of payment.
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Nov 4, 2018 11:35
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The implementation of chip technology in the U.S. has been as half-assed and grudging as it's possible to be while still technically working at all.
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Nov 4, 2018 12:02
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I've had UK and Australian chip bank cards for like the past 25 years now and could count on one hand the number of times I've has issues with them. I can remember one card that got a bit dodgy about reading the chip towards the end of it's 4 year life but the bank just sent the replacement card out earlier when I told them. My pet peeve is that I'm starting to forget my pin because Australia is going cashless and I don't need to get cash out anymore and only payments over AU$100 need a pin so I get a moment of panic as I try to remember it.
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Nov 4, 2018 12:42
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FluxFaun posted:my big angry thing of the day: when places insist on cash only. it's 20-loving-18, let me just use the magic plastic that I have, I don't want to have to go to an ATM! It's only a peeve to me when a new restaurant does it just because they think it's "trendy" and/or makes them unique. If it's some small remote village or something I don't mind it so much. My related friend peeve is people who never, ever have any cash on them. I get it, cards are easier, but at least have 20-40 dollars on you just in case we happen to pick a cash only place or the card reader breaks. I don't like being the designated money lender just because you can't fit a 20 dollar bill in your ugly money clip or rubber band or whatever people use instead of a wallet now.
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Nov 4, 2018 12:48
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It's only a peeve to me when a new restaurant does it just because they think it's "trendy" and/or makes them unique. That's a thing?
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Nov 4, 2018 12:51
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Andrast posted:That's a thing? I have seen newly opened places do it and that plus their general ambiance leads to me believe that's the reason they did it because nothing else makes sense.
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Nov 4, 2018 12:52
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FluxFaun posted:my big angry thing of the day: when places insist on cash only. it's 20-loving-18, let me just use the magic plastic that I have, I don't want to have to go to an ATM! Places that do this are so weird, nobody I know walks around carrying cash. When they tell me that it's cash only, I tell them that I can't buy from them and leave. They have to be turning away 95% or more of their customers and the only explanation I can think of is that they don't care how many customers they have because it's actually a money laundering operation. I've never had any problems with my chips over the past several years, but I also don't run into a ton of places with chip readers so I agree that the supposed extra security is pointless. Some stores near me don't even have magnetic strip readers and use 1960s credit card imprinters. I wish we could go cashless but it will never happen here because of how much people distrust banks.
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Nov 4, 2018 13:04
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having to explain to grown-rear end adults that no, a balloon will not float unless it's filled with helium sure you can blow them up yourself if you don't want to pay us but they won't inherently float the looks on their faces are priceless tbh but also infuriating
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Nov 4, 2018 14:05
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FluxFaun posted:my big angry thing of the day: when places insist on cash only. it's 20-loving-18, let me just use the magic plastic that I have, I don't want to have to go to an ATM! Every business doing that is either paying their employees under the table, good if they are paying a living wage, or avoiding taxes in which case 
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Nov 4, 2018 14:24
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DontMockMySmock posted:What happens (here in 'Murica) is it goes "can't read chip, try again", and you try again, and you try a third time, and after the third time it says "oh well swipe that poo poo i guess" and then the mag strip goes through just fine. If you just start off with the mag stripe, it gets angry and tells you to use the chip. You're being perfectly reasonable. It's a luck of the draw thing with card life. My wife keeps her card in her purse in a wallet. It makes it 3 months at best before it stops reading. Mine doesn't do that, but maybe my next one will. I can't stand the chip and pin thing at all. I loath it. Every transaction takes so much longer than it used to. I love going to the few gas stations that don't use chip. It's such a pleasure to swipe my card and they say "Thanks!" and that's the end of it. Instead we have this bullshit: "Credit or Debit?" "Do you want cash back?" "Enter PIN" "Is this amount correct?" "Do not remove card." ... ... ... "Approved" "TAKE THE loving CARD OUT NOW YOU loving rear end in a top hat!!!! NOW! NOW! NOW! BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!" Maybe this isn't irritating to people in other countries, but I'd rather have people stealing my card number (which has never happened to me) than have my day be a little bit shittier every time I have to buy something.
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Nov 4, 2018 15:29
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mostlygray posted:You're being perfectly reasonable. It's a luck of the draw thing with card life. My wife keeps her card in her purse in a wallet. It makes it 3 months at best before it stops reading. Mine doesn't do that, but maybe my next one will.  I have literally never heard of people having problem with chip cards breaking often before this thread
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Nov 4, 2018 15:36
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Andrast posted:
There are grocery stores here where the chip on my bank card just won’t work. It doesn’t even say chip read error, it just says “denied”. It’s embarrassing when it happens.
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Nov 4, 2018 15:45
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Rolo posted:There are grocery stores here where the chip on my bank card just won’t work. It doesn’t even say chip read error, it just says “denied”. That is always the worst experience. You know there shouldn't be a problem, but the cashier/waiter/etc always gets that smug "uhhuh, sure buddy" look on their face and asks if you want to try another card in that fake "i know you accidentally gave me a maxed out card but we'll pretend there's something wrong with it" tone.
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Nov 4, 2018 15:53
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I hate that so much. Card gets declined for a $7 purchase despite money in the bank and they look at you like you're an idiot.
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Nov 4, 2018 16:28
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Is there a particular reason the US apparently can't get debit/credit cards to work properly?
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Nov 4, 2018 16:33
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Because people complain about any possible changes so nothing ever gets fixed. My old bank from before my last move put PINs on their credit cards and so many people lost their poo poo about having to remember four digits that they got rid of them a little over a month later.
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Nov 4, 2018 16:49
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I had to remember 3 different 6 digit pins for my debit and 2 credit cards in switzerland and it was some bullshit. One four digit one is already enough for me. Meanwhile I have no problem remembering my 12 character random letter/number/symbol passwords from work because i'm too lazy to change it like they tell you to. 
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Nov 4, 2018 16:58
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I had to remember 3 different 6 digit pins for my debit and 2 credit cards in switzerland and it was some bullshit. One four digit one is already enough for me. Is there a reason you didn't just have a single debit/credit card?
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Andrast posted:Is there a reason you didn't just have a single debit/credit card? Probably, but I don't remember it. They just by default gave me a debit (maestro) card and a visa and mastercard credit cards. I guess that covered all the bases. In germany I just got a maestro so I don't know.
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Nov 4, 2018 17:10
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I'm Canadian; tapping my credit card on the reader has become automatic behaviour for me. When I travel to the States, I always find it a little depressing that I'm looking specifically for an Apple logo to get a hint about whether my cards are going to give me trouble at checkout. That or I'm in a rush and just pressing my card against a useless terminal and the cashier is staring at me like i'm an idiot 
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Nov 4, 2018 17:15
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Can't you just change the pin on your card like in civilised countries?
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Nov 4, 2018 20:29
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Cat owner peeve: when you're cleaning the litter box and that last clump of piss or single turd JUST WILL NOT get into the scooper no matter how hard you try. I still love the gently caress out of my two cats, though. But man, can they poo poo and piss in the box like I'm a hoarder home full of 80 cats.
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Nov 4, 2018 20:43
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My chip card works fine everywhere welp thanks for reading
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oldpainless posted:My chip card works fine everywhere welp thanks for reading More like oldproblemless.
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I think once I had to pull it from the reader and rub my thumb over the pads or something, then it worked. And one time I inserted the card backwards but tbh that one's on me. Zero other issues. In comparison the SD reader on my 3D printer is getting a bit janky so sometimes I have to repeatedly insert it to scratch the contacts clean before it'll read. The card design seems to be just fine in comparison
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ToxicSlurpee posted:More like oldpeeveless.
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You Are A Elf posted:Cat owner peeve: when you're cleaning the litter box and that last clump of piss or single turd JUST WILL NOT get into the scooper no matter how hard you try. One of my cats "buries" poop by scratching uselessly at the side of the litterbox. Like digging but pointless. The sound it makes is infuriating, but even if you pick her up and move her, at first opportunity she'll return to her futile "digging." Sometimes she even stops and looks at her handiwork like "what am I doing wrong?? "
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:One of my cats "buries" poop by scratching uselessly at the side of the litterbox. Like digging but pointless. The sound it makes is infuriating, but even if you pick her up and move her, at first opportunity she'll return to her futile "digging." Sometimes she even stops and looks at her handiwork like "what am I doing wrong?? My one kitty will "dig" in front of water sources for a long time before drinking. It's cute!
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Killingyouguy! posted:I'm Canadian; tapping my credit card on the reader has become automatic behaviour for me. When I travel to the States, I always find it a little depressing that I'm looking specifically for an Apple logo to get a hint about whether my cards are going to give me trouble at checkout.   My peeve is despite having tap for like, over a year now, I still reflexively put my wallet in my pocket, then immediately take it back out so I can put the card back. More of a FWP honestly.
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I don't enjoy fireworks. It's been two weeks of fireworks for Halloween and there will be more for the November Remember blow up parliament thing. They are dogshit unless it's a professional display and also it makes everyone's dog poo poo themselves. And people keep blowing their loving hands off with smuggled black market god-knows-whats-in-there rockets. They're stupid and poo poo and you are stupid and poo poo for doing it, neighbour. Especially the utter wankgoblin setting them off near my work in broad loving daylight.
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Brawnfire posted:My one kitty will "dig" in front of water sources for a long time before drinking. It's cute! My cat used to dig in front of his food bowl if she wasn't impressed with what she had to eat. And would then look at me with a "Seriously? Get me something better, motherfucker.  " kinda look. Cats are assholes but I still love them.
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teenytinymouse posted:I don't enjoy fireworks. It's been two weeks of fireworks for Halloween and there will be more for the November Remember blow up parliament thing. I only like them if i'm setting them off and they're big. There has to be at least some risk of losing some fingats for it to give me any kind of rush. Honestly I'm more entertained by just seeing how big I can make a camp/bonfire. Not as loud but it lasts longer, and you can cook something in it when you're done loving around with it assuming you haven't injured yourself.
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Nov 5, 2018 18:35
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:One of my cats "buries" poop by scratching uselessly at the side of the litterbox. Like digging but pointless. The sound it makes is infuriating, but even if you pick her up and move her, at first opportunity she'll return to her futile "digging." Sometimes she even stops and looks at her handiwork like "what am I doing wrong?? My cat does this too and I hate it. He's such a smart cat otherwise, why is he so stupid about his poop????
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I only like them if i'm setting them off and they're big. There has to be at least some risk of losing some fingats for it to give me any kind of rush. Honestly I'm more entertained by just seeing how big I can make a camp/bonfire. Not as loud but it lasts longer, and you can cook something in it when you're done loving around with it assuming you haven't injured yourself. At least if you blow your hand off you have to pay for it, my tax money is going into sewing idiots fingers/faces/dicks back on because they like the boom boom sparkle toob and can't read instructions. Or they've blown up their child and their face needs put back together and they need a lifetime of therapy. I also don't like bonfires but that's because in my part of the world they usually have the Irish flag, Kill All Taigs (me), effigies of Catholics who have killed themselves/ politicians on them and also cost the council £150,000 a year to clean up and sometimes set people's houses on fire when they fall over. Also twats throw bricks at the fire service when they come to put it out. My internet isn't working and I am so very mad about it and everything else.
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Blowing your hands off with fireworks is impressively stupid, because all you have to do it make sure it's not still in your hand THEN light it. Especially with rockets, I mean what the gently caress, they move away from you all on their own.
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Nov 5, 2018 19:31
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Yeah but it's way more fun and cool looking to throw them.
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I hate when you spend the night over someone's place and you wake up in the middle of the night bored out of your mind cause maybe you don't know how to work the tv or don't know the password for the computer or you don't have your phone on you, whatever. Everyone is asleep and you quietly lurk like a ghost waiting to get tired enough to try to sleep again. Bored bored bored.
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Oh christ. I was totally the kid that always preferred people spend the night at my place for exactly this reason. I’d always ALWAYS wake up at like 5am and then just have to lie there shivering and staring at the ceiling for two hours. I mean, I guess probably nothing bad would’ve happened if I’d just gone down and fired up the nintendo but I knew it’d be rude.
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