"Svend" (svend)
05/20/2020 at 03:32 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
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Thankfully most British bank notes are plastic now so in this time of washing and re-washing hands and surfaces, I thought it best to launder my wallet contents.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 03:59 |
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how dirty was the water?
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Svend
> pip bip - choose Corrour
05/20/2020 at 04:57 |
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Water was clean, but the notes are cleaner than before.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 05:36 |
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This is yet another reason why all cash should be immediately spent.
PartyPooper2012
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 05:44 |
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Cant you 3d print your way into the filthy riches?
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Svend
> PartyPooper2012
05/20/2020 at 06:42 |
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I wouldn’t even know where to begin.
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PartyPooper2012
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 06:57 |
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dirty filament ?
CalzoneGolem
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 08:00 |
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Svend you carry a lot of cash around. I normally have no actual bills on me.
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Svend
> CalzoneGolem
05/20/2020 at 08:16 |
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I usually only have about £30-60 in notes on me.
I don’t do 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p coins as it bulges out the pockets and makes a noise, so I leave them at the till or put them in the charity box.
20p, 50p, £1 and £2 coins I occasionally keep a small amount on me but I almost always use my debit card in the chip and pin reader if the transaction is over £45 or use the contactless and tap the reader or use my mobile’s NFC and Googlepay on the reader. It saves getting out cash and waiting for change.
Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 08:28 |
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Is dry cleaning them too expensive? Gotta get that nice smooth wrinkle free finish.
Plastic is for Fisher Price, not cold hard American greenbacks that are also plague infested because they are paper.
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Svend
> Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
05/20/2020 at 08:37 |
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I'm amazed American bank notes are the way they are in this day and age. They are the same size and feel, variations in colour ye', but most are like ours, different sizes, more vivid colours, Braille for denominations, raised and textured surfaces, etc... to help visually impaired people, not to mention other security features.
facw
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 08:46 |
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If you are actually amazed, you really don’t have a very good sense of the arrogance of American Exceptionalism. It’s really shocking how many people hate the idea of accepting ideas that came from elsewhere.
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Svend
> facw
05/20/2020 at 08:50 |
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I believe you still sign slips against your cards, is that true?
I watched a banking film on why shops didn’t want chip and pin in America a few years ago, banks wanted it, but the likes of Wal-Mart thought It'd slow the whole customer shopping experience with the customer having to enter a pin and the shops would rather swallow any card fraud than slow the customer. Crazy.
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Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 08:56 |
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Security features? Hahahaha we don’t need those. Just look at how social security numbers are used for identification and that. . . doesn’t work at all. In case you are wondering, the end digits aren’t the sum of the others so one wrong number will just give you someone else’s number who was born at the same time. Also this number s secrecy is very important but people won’t change it because they don’t want a national isssued ID card.
Washable money sounds pretty good right about now. They fold perfectly fine right?
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Svend
> Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
05/20/2020 at 09:00 |
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Lol.
Wait till you guys get contactless, not just chip and pin.
Ye', they fold okay, just like other bank notes.
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facw
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 09:00 |
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The requirement to collect signatures was finally dropped by the credit card companies last year (or maybe in 2018?), so it is mostly gone. Not completely though. Some places (mostly non-retail) still do it, whether out of habit, or because they think there’s some benefit to them. Restaurants in particular still do it because there’s concern that people wouldn’t tip if you simplified that process...
And yeah, we now have chip readers most everywhere (gas stations were the hold outs but they finally had to adopt them last year or pay for fraud themselves, so that functionality is being turned on), but we aren’t doing the pin anywhere (except for debit cards). And it’s been less than 8 years since I had people process my card payment with those old carbon paper rollers (which seemed to be in wide use for taxis in Chicago when I was there in 2012).
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Svend
> facw
05/20/2020 at 09:09 |
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Here, it's contactless payment. Tap your card to the reader for transactions below £45 (it was £30 before the pandemic), you have to use the chip and pin machine for transactions over £45 and you can only 'tap' so many times before they request you enter your pin to show it's not being used fraudulently.
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Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 09:09 |
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What is this "contactless" you speak of?
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facw
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 09:14 |
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Every once in a while there’s someone who advertising contactless payment with their cards, but it never seems to take off here. Support for contactless smartphone payments through Apple Pay/Google Pay is getting pretty common though (honestly I’ve never used it simply because of concern about looking like an idiot if it doesn’t work. I need a vending machine or gas pump to practice on...)
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Svend
> Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
05/20/2020 at 09:16 |
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Contactless is where you tap you debit/credit card to the screen of the reader for transactions below £45, if you have Google, you can use the app on your mobile phone and NFC to use your mobile in place of a debit/credit card.
It's so much easier than cash or putting your card in the reader (you still have to for transactions over £45) and entering your pin.
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Svend
> facw
05/20/2020 at 09:26 |
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Lol. First make sure your card in enabled and compatible with the wavy lines (they look like a sound wave on the card) and that the till also has the same illustration and your good to go.
It's also good for if you've forgot your card, you can link your account to Googlepay, etc... and tap your NFC enabled mobile phone (it's came in handy a couple of times, lol).
smobgirl
> facw
05/20/2020 at 09:39 |
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The problem with it now is it uses FaceID to verify you’re the one paying, so you have to get that rejected first (for the mask) and then enter your phone pin. It was neat in the before times though.
66P1800inpieces
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05/20/2020 at 09:41 |
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More and more cards in the US have this. They are great for travel because even if we don’t have chip and pin, contact less works all over europe with no pin or signature required (under about $50 or so)
Turn your card over and look for a
zipfuel
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 09:47 |
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I was
in the states a couple of years
ago and tapped
my Canadian bank card at a
subway for lunch because I recognized a compatible pin pad
. “No sir you have to swi.... What?
that worked?!” it was like witchcraft or something. I think they’re mostly caught up now though.
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Svend
> 66P1800inpieces
05/20/2020 at 09:49 |
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Chip and pin and contactless make so much sense and ease of use.
Add to shopping apps, where you scan your own shopping as you shop, then display the generated QR code to the till and then tap your NFC enabled mobile to the reader to pay and then go. Brilliant.
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Svend
> zipfuel
05/20/2020 at 09:55 |
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You should of used y our Googlepay, Applepay, etc... NFC enabled mobile phone. That’ll really freak the guy out.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> Svend
05/20/2020 at 12:58 |
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I do that, only one of my cards had a contact- less feature.