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coffeetable posted:
So if we guillotine everyone above 45.
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coffeetable posted:i like the idea of a state-owned bank in general, but dropping a shitload of cash on brick-and-mortar branches is a bit daft in 2019. found a public online-only bank, and go the whole hog on converting libraries from paper repositories to places where people who are not comfortable with this internet thing can be helped out One major problem for a lot of small businesses, particularly retailers, outside of the cities (and even in many cities) is that all the other banks have already done this meaning they have to travel long distances to deposit cash. The whole point of government-owned enterprises is to do stuff the private sector can't be bothered to do, to the benefit of the community as a whole.
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Mar 31, 2019 12:17
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coffeetable posted:considering the entire rest of the economy is going to be online-only in the near future, Yep, just going to get my hair cut and a new bathroom installed over the internet.
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Mar 31, 2019 12:19
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OwlFancier posted:Doesn't the post office already do banking? It's not like there aren't plenty of closed-up shops in every high street in the country they could use. coffeetable posted:i like the idea of a state-owned bank in general, but dropping a shitload of cash on brick-and-mortar branches is a bit daft in 2019. found a public online-only bank, and go the whole hog on converting libraries from paper repositories to places where people who are not comfortable with this internet thing can be helped out yeah gently caress the old, poor and blind amirite e: also whoever thinks Weetman is somehow some sort of internet celebrity now is severely overestimating how representative this thread and/or political twitter are compared to the average UK person
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Mar 31, 2019 12:21
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yep, just going to get my hair cut and a new bathroom installed over the internet. My barbers has a contactless card reader if I want to pay that way and I paid for my boiler installation using a bank transfer
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Mar 31, 2019 12:23
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I like cash. It doesn't bleed information.
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Mar 31, 2019 12:24
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https://twitter.com/iresimpsonsfans/status/1112040402671030274?s=19
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Mar 31, 2019 12:26
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His Divine Shadow posted:The world really is hosed up when Jim Carrey is a voice of reason A broken clock etc Except tories they’re never right
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Mar 31, 2019 12:28
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Azza Bamboo posted:I like cash. It doesn't bleed information.
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Mar 31, 2019 12:31
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Got my hands in some cash recently but clerks aren't handling it well. Bought some food and the total came out to 10 euros and 25 cents. I gave him 20 euros and 25 cents and the guy gave me receipt and we stared at each other awkwardly for a while. When I asked for my change he had to get a manager because he had already punched in 10,25 with no change 
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Mar 31, 2019 12:36
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Lol if you think you’re not being tracked up the rear end nowadays even if you go 100% cash Unless you’re in like Latin America but that’s by design because everyone is avoiding taxes all the time, especially the people making the laws
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Mar 31, 2019 12:36
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Jose posted:My barbers has a contactless card reader if I want to pay that way and I paid for my boiler installation using a bank transfer Neither of those are "online-only" though.
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Mar 31, 2019 12:37
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Jose posted:My barbers has a contactless card reader if I want to pay that way and I paid for my boiler installation using a bank transfer oh cool is this the bit where we assume that one person's particular circumstances must be the same for the entire population
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Mar 31, 2019 12:40
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Julio Cruz posted:It's not like there aren't plenty of closed-up shops in every high street in the country they could use. Well yeah it's definitely doable but it's not quite as simple as just using the existing post offices, you would need proper branches. Which is fine, because like, the post office is useful and would be well served as a general point of contact for all sorts of government poo poo as well as handing out all your forms and stuff. But it'd be better done as that rather than just "make the post office do banking". Even when the world tranisitons more to online that's only going to increase the amount of post, cos everyone's now getting poo poo delivered. Which is why we have amazon lockers and poo poo. There's definitely room for a post office expansion. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Mar 31, 2019 |
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Mar 31, 2019 12:48
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Julio Cruz posted:oh cool is this the bit where we assume that one person's particular circumstances must be the same for the entire population No and I don't think moving online only is a good idea but I loving hate carrying cash if I can avoid it
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Mar 31, 2019 12:57
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I already use my post office for bank transactions, because all the bank branches have closed. This would just mean that the money got to my account faster. Well, perhaps I also might not have to trek across the county for anything more complicated, and my savings could be put to better use by the PO than by the banks.
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Mar 31, 2019 12:57
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yep, just going to get my hair cut and a new bathroom installed over the internet. Obliterati posted:Have you ever tried teaching old people to computer Machinery and typing were fine for him, but apparently combining the two was 'bollocks' and he never bothered with computers at all. There's a certain mindset that "they couldn't ever contain anything useful for me" that's common above a certain age.
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Mar 31, 2019 12:57
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Jose posted:No and I don't think moving online only is a good idea but I loving hate carrying cash if I can avoid it Carrying cash is great. If you don't want your cash I'll happily accept it in any denomination except coppers. I feel like my refusal to pay by plastic marks me out as really unusual and old fashioned but I just find it so much easier to know what money I've got and not spending more than it because I otherwise have the budgeting skills of a 3 year old. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Mar 31, 2019 |
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Mar 31, 2019 12:59
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forkboy84 posted:Carrying cash is great. If you don't want your cash I'll happily accept it in any denomination except coppers. Might be taking ACAB a bit far there, mate.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:02
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If you want to talk innovation why has nobody invented a funnel for the self service checkout so you can just dump all your coppers in it?
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Mar 31, 2019 13:04
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Like combine the change-eating machine and the self checkout but without the 15% fee? I like it.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:05
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forkboy84 posted:Carrying cash is great. If you don't want your cash I'll happily accept it in any denomination except coppers. Tory MPs posted:Have you tried being rich, instead?
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Mar 31, 2019 13:06
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Thanks for all the interesting ineffashency posts! No wonder the Nazis kept trying to get hold of Jesus's magic relicsJulio Cruz posted:e: also whoever thinks Weetman is somehow some sort of internet celebrity now is severely overestimating how representative this thread and/or political twitter are compared to the average UK person Yeah of course, but I keep reading responses to random stuff and there are people @ing her all the time to bring the conversation to her attention specifically, it's just 
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Mar 31, 2019 13:06
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cakesmith handyman posted:Like combine the change-eating machine and the self checkout but without the 15% fee? I like it. Yeah, I mean I know why because the fee is the point but I feel like if you had some kind of really cheap coin funnel you could put the change machine out of business.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:07
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OwlFancier posted:If you want to talk innovation why has nobody invented a funnel for the self service checkout so you can just dump all your coppers in it? If it's a slow day at Tesco and there's no queue I will happily drop all my 10ps in one at a time than pay that. efb
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Mar 31, 2019 13:07
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah, I mean I know why because the fee is the point but I feel like if you had some kind of really cheap coin funnel you could put the change machine out of business. Don't the change machines in the supermarkets usually waive the fee if you're willing to take a voucher for the supermarket? I haven't used one in years but I seem to remember that being an option the last time I did.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:09
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It's like the coinstar machine except instead of turning your change into fewer, smaller coins, it turns your change into biscuits.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:09
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Guavanaut posted:3D printed bathrooms. That's what you are going to complaining on the kids on dub dub dub dot something awful dot come when your grand children are jacking into the matrix directly from their spines.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:10
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Unfortunately I was born to the wrong family. Ruddy nuisance I'll tell you.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:11
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tino posted:That's what you are going to complaining on the kids on dub dub dub dot something awful dot come when your grand children are jacking into the matrix directly from their spines. This is already happening. I was an early adopter computer nerd all my life but now I’m like an old man regarding the young ‘uns and their instagrams and snapchats which I know fuckall about and I have zero interest in
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Mar 31, 2019 13:13
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Same for touchscreens. Hate them. Want a physical keyboard instead.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:14
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Most of the big banks used to have coin counters at inner city branches for the shops and the market, then just at their out of town commercial branches, and now nowhere at all. It's easier to get some change bags and a good set of kitchen scales now and use the local nationwide than find anywhere with a non-coinstar coin counter, whereas 10 years ago I could think of at least half a dozen.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:15
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Guavanaut posted:Because they want you to use the coinstar machines that scalp 12% or whatever from the top. I will always without fail throw way too much change in to a self service checkout, sometimes dropping coins in the process. I cannot be stopped.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:15
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Guavanaut posted:3D printed bathrooms. Same actually, maybe the solution is staring us in the face - National Service for pensioners
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Mar 31, 2019 13:16
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forkboy84 posted:Carrying cash is great. If you don't want your cash I'll happily accept it in any denomination except coppers. Getting a hip card like a Monzo literally allows you to track all of this better than you ever could with cash, and you can round everything up and save the pennies away. Get a Curve card too for multiple cards/safety & a Revolut for travel & insurance. Also pray the entire fintech ecosystem doesn't totally crash and keep most of your money in a Real Bank account.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:17
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Pochoclo posted:This is already happening. I was an early adopter computer nerd all my life but now I’m like an old man regarding the young ‘uns and their instagrams and snapchats which I know fuckall about and I have zero interest in 
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Mar 31, 2019 13:17
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tino posted:That's what you are going to complaining on the kids on dub dub dub dot something awful dot come when your grand children are jacking into the matrix directly from their spines. I mean, that's already how I feel about twitter and instagram Edit:  Guavanaut
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Mar 31, 2019 13:17
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I will die before I use one of those Coinstar machines. I don't care how nasty a glare I get from the girl at the bank when I dump £200 worth of coppers onto the desk. If I've bothered to hoard all this poo poo you better believe I'm going to sort, count and bag it all like a gleefull little greedy goblin.
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Mar 31, 2019 13:19
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OwlFancier posted:If you want to talk innovation why has nobody invented a funnel for the self service checkout so you can just dump all your coppers in it? The first generation self checkout machines did exactly that, but people got confused by "thing to put money in" that wasn't a slot and kept throwing in notes, credit cards, old receipts, grape stems and just about every other object they can think of. If you look at the old NCR machines they still use at most Tescos you can see that the coin slot is actually a blanking plate over the funnel for the change counter.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The first generation self checkout machines did exactly that, but people got confused by "thing to put money in" that wasn't a slot and kept throwing in notes, credit cards, old receipts, grape stems and just about every other object they can think of. I figured that, well, unsanitized inputs would be why they weren't issued with one as standard.
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