Redundant technologyMusic on vinyl records, mobile phones the size of house bricks and pornography printed on paper. What hideously out of date stuff do you still use?
Thanks to boozehound for the suggestion
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 12:44)
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physical moneyWith the creation and availability of debit cards, what's the point of physical money?
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I like to roll around the bed covered in 50 pound notes.(
girlinthehole, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:08,
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I'll make it fifty-oneif I can watch.
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You can't snort a line of drug powders with a rolled-up debit card(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:09, closed)
Because paying a bus fare with a debit cardwould be the chosen activity of a prick.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:09,
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OysterSeason ticket, carnet
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small transactionsIsn't that what the supposed contactless technology is for (a la oyster)?
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bluemeat has been best of all the animals since, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:18,
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hello from the significant proportion of people who don't live in London.(
Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:21,
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I use it a little bit in Cheshireadmittedly not many places take it (http://www.barclays.co.uk/Helpsupport/Barclayscontactlessdebitcards/P1242561764200) yet, but it'll grow.
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This is the futureAlmost all transactions will be made like this within a decade or so.
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until someone manages to rob people merely by walking past them in the street(
Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:57,
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well yeah, but Barclays guarantee it against fraudit's in their hands to keep it secure.
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Pffft "significant".(
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:35,
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Fair point, I suppose.Meh.
Though I do wonder what'll happen to things like school tuck-shops should this sort of thing be universal. Loose change does have its uses.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:59,
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I agree entirely!Send any unwanted notes to me and I will safely dispose of them for you.
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sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:11,
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A wad of rolled-up fivers makes for a useful crotch bulge.(
flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:20,
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I wouldn't know.I don't have any.
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Hookers don't carry card swipe machines.(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:18, closed)
I could think of somewhere to swipe it.(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:24, closed)
Where?(
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:32,
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that'd be telling young man(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:05, closed)
Pub tricks.(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:37, closed)
Not annoying the corner shop by buying something for under a pound that generates charges for them of... just under a pound springs to mind.
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because sometimes you might want to pay for something or be paid for somethingand not want a record of that transaction.
Cash is anonymous. Micropayments are not.
Big brother loves electronic payments.
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You are......the customer in front of me in Morrison's who debited 22p for 2 bananas yesterday, AICMFP. Cash, please!
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