Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[Bairnardo]

Theres a lot of progressive thinking on P&B. It's quite odd to see the attachment to cash. It's dying a pretty fast death. You don't have to like it, just accept it. Contactless is better in almost all circumstances now.

I still ensure cash for going to the pub and going to a restaurant for the purpose of tipping but it wont be long until the pub finds its way to being mostly contactless too I think.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

1 hour ago, GordonD said:

 

Robertson's!

Tierney’s!

[carpetmonster]

If I’m in a Costa Coffee, buying a coffee and maybe a wee cake thingy for myself, and it comes to about £5.50ish, I pay cash. If I’m in a Costa with Mrs P, and our order comes to about £12ish, I’ll do a contactless tap on the machine with my debit card. If I’m buying anything over the £30 contactless limit, goes on my credit card. I guess we all have a wee compass point in our head where we think ‘cash, debit, or credit card’. I could never see myself whipping out a card for something like a tea and a roll & square sausage in a Greggs or somewhere. In my head, that sort of purchase is always, 100% cash. Everyone will be different.

Never use my debit card unless I need cash, and then pay for groceries with it and get cashback, because there's very few Citibank ATMs near us and I'm fucked if I'm paying withdrawal fees. Most things go on the credit card because cashback and airmiles and that sort of thing, unless it's a small purchase at a small business in which case I'm loth to have to have them eat the merchant processing fee and I'll use cash. And cash only places, natch.

[welshbairn]

I like the anonymity of cash. Card and app use uploads your every purchase and location to banks, retailers, global internet and phone companies, Facebook spying on you even when it's switched off. And most likely Governments. It allows them to establish what they think is an accurate psychological profile of you, and decide whether you should be trusted, be employed, offered a mortgage, or put on the watch list. Getting rid of cash altogether is their dream.

Edited December 11, 2019 by welshbairn

[The Golden God]

7 hours ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

Got another one. Old guys at the pub refusing to pay with contactless and holding up queues of people because they want to count out their change to pay, or even worse use notes and have to wait for the barman to go get their change. Could’ve served two people using card in the time it takes them to get their change back.

Barman in the pubs you drink in must be extremely fast if they can serve 2 folk in the seconds it takes to get change out a till

[welshbairn]

17 minutes ago, The Golden God said:

Barman in the pubs you drink in must be extremely fast if they can serve 2 folk in the seconds it takes to get change out a till

And the time it takes for the barman to go back to the till to collect the card machine and coming back, when he could have been sorting out the change.

[coprolite]

26 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

I like the anonymity of cash. Card and app use uploads your every purchase and location to banks, retailers, global internet and phone companies, Facebook spying on you even when it's switched off. And most likely Governments. It allows them to establish what they think is an accurate psychological profile of you, and decide whether you should be trusted, be employed, offered a mortgage, or put on the watch list. Getting rid of cash altogether is their dream.

Your profile will be defined by absence of credit card transactions. 

"b2 male, likes prossies and ching" 

[Rugster]

31 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

I like the anonymity of cash. Card and app use uploads your every purchase and location to banks, retailers, global internet and phone companies, Facebook spying on you even when it's switched off. And most likely Governments. It allows them to establish what they think is an accurate psychological profile of you, and decide whether you should be trusted, be employed, offered a mortgage, or put on the watch list. Getting rid of cash altogether is their dream.

 

[NJ2]

Barman in the pubs you drink in must be extremely fast if they can serve 2 folk in the seconds it takes to get change out a till

Folk paying in £500 notes

[Bishop Briggs]

The media's cult worship of a Swedish kid who is continually dogging off school.

[Guest]

No you don’t. Just after you have to use the emergency cash you no longer have £20 on you. What if you need cash at that point?!

I withdraw more cash and not many places dont take card these days.

[Muzza81]

2 minutes ago, Bishop Briggs said:

The media's cult worship of a Swedish kid who is continually dogging off school.

Beast. 

[Dan Steele]

3 minutes ago, Bishop Briggs said:

The media's cult worship of a Swedish kid who is continually dogging off school.

Looks like she's right about the rising sea level, though.

[MONKMAN]

Gretna Thundercuntberg

It’s of no surprise that your colleagues hate you.

[Muzza81]

Wee goons on social media trying to convince people what way to vote at this stage. “Hmm I was undecided but then I saw wee John from Dunbar saying how the Tories are bad and that’s my mind made up. Didn’t have a clue they were so bad until he tweeted it!”. 

[NJ2]

Wee goons on social media trying to convince people what way to vote at this stage. “Hmm I was undecided but then I saw wee John from Dunbar saying how the Tories are bad and that’s my mind made up. Didn’t have a clue they were so bad until he tweeted it!”. 

Beats the mainstream media goons trying to convince everyone to vote Tory imo. I just hope all the “wee john’s” do actually bother to vote and aren’t just saying it to be cool or for #numbers

[Trackdaybob]

4 hours ago, Dosser-fae-the-shire said:

People.

Aye, people are c***s right enough. 

[Muzza81]

5 minutes ago, NJ2 said:

Beats the mainstream media goons trying to convince everyone to vote Tory imo. I just hope all the “wee john’s” do actually bother to vote and aren’t just saying it to be cool or for #numbers

Have to be honest I’ve never noticed the media trying to convince anyone to vote Tory. I don’t pay much attention to all that garbage when it comes to elections though.

It’s definitely for #numbers though. 

[NJ2]

Have to be honest I’ve never noticed the media trying to convince anyone to vote Tory. I don’t pay much attention to all that garbage when it comes to elections though.
It’s definitely for #numbers though. 

It’s been difficult to escape tbh - thankfully I’ve only really been exposed to it on twitter where it’s people calling it out.
I suspect you’re right, but if it helps a few people vote against the tories rather than not vote I’m willing to accept it as an annoying, necessary evil. I did used to maintain I’d rather folk voted tory than not vote but with the election looming I retract that way of thinking.

[Sergeant Wilson]

37 minutes ago, Bishop Briggs said:

The media's cult worship of a Swedish kid who is continually dogging off school.

I withdraw the offer I made on behalf of The Daily Sport.

Edited December 11, 2019 by Sergeant Wilson