regular-ass cash withdrawal transactions at ATMs take, conservatively, 3 times as long as they did 20 years ago.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:13 (three years ago) link
Any good video game requires twelve buttons
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
i have felt that atm one, every time
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
The heck do you need cash for
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
tipsthe laundromatlittle daily purchases at places with a $5 or $10 minimumlittle daily purchases where you just wanna get things done quicklybigger purchases at places that charge you less to pay cash, perhaps in order to cheat on their taxes, perhaps to avoid giving a chunk away to the credit card companiescash-only storescash-only salonscash-only barscash-only restaurantscash-only food trucks, ice cream trucks, (etc.)garage sales, flea market boothsunderground and informal economies generallyvending machinespinball machinestolls
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:46 (three years ago) link
you can do a lot with four american dollars
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:47 (three years ago) link
Hmm I just lead a different lifestyle I guess. Not sure when the last time I encountered a cash-only establishment was. Even Dick’s takes cards now.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:49 (three years ago) link
Cash-only?
By Christ just how far backwards did trump *take* ye?
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:50 (three years ago) link
I think even sex workers are on Venmo.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:51 (three years ago) link
shrug idk, i mean obv i haven't been out too much in the past ten months but the phrase "ohhh, we're cash-only...." is one i heard many a time in the ten months before that.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
yes, like many people i pay for a handful of goods and services in cash, necessitating the use of the ATM every other month or so.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
Idk what ATMs y'all are using but mine are actually faster than they used to be ... and as far as what one uses cash for ... damn, making me remember a year ago when there were shows and bars.
xp silby - my sex worker friend gets paid mostly in cash
― sarahell, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 06:20 (three years ago) link
I eat money
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 06:43 (three years ago) link
little daily purchases where you just wanna get things done quickly
still no contactless in the US eh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 10:24 (three years ago) link
in canada i can put everything on debit or credit card. there's an option to tip on the device in situations where it's appropriate. even tim hortons finally takes plastic now.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:02 (three years ago) link
Yeah, cash has basically disappeared from my life and the rare things that still required that (some boulangeries for instance) have all turned to contactless with covid. I'm not even sure I use cash once a year !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:02 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that's crazy. I'm struggling to process the very concept of a cash only anything. We're fast going in the opposite direction in the UK, of places that don't accept cash at al - I've experienced that once, in a posh bar.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:08 (three years ago) link
there are places in the US that don't take cash too
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:13 (three years ago) link
there's still a few cash-only pubs in Dublin
but they're doing it out of a sort of performative Luddism
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:14 (three years ago) link
I need 50p to put air in my tyres and the logistics of actually getting a 50p-piece seem impossibly baroque.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:29 (three years ago) link
Just put your lips together and blow.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:41 (three years ago) link
ditto the £4 for the laundrette. get notes from atm, pay for cheap stuff with it in the self-service tills, pray you don't get £2 coins in the change...
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:44 (three years ago) link
In the workplace, using excel and PowerPoint for all corporate documentation and reporting - even though it’s not actually particularly well suited for word-based documents.Not helped by corporate templates being badly designed by those who don’t have a good knowledge of the software.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:56 (three years ago) link
yeah a friend of mine was telling me she got some temp work which involved somehow getting product information out of a giant powerpoint and inputting that into a CMS for their website and i was like.... powerpoint??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link
With most food apps not allowing for tips to be included in the order I've found cash to be more important in the pandemic than it was before.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link
xxp I went through the whole process of finding a cashpoint, buying something unrequired to get change, making sure I got 50p in the change etc to use the tyre pump a few weeks back. Turns out Tesco garage ones are now contactless and I now have a pocket full of corona vectors.
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:00 (three years ago) link
i seem to need cash quite a lot? w33d guy hasn't got contactless yet
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:01 (three years ago) link
oh yeah and a quid for the shopping trolley
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:02 (three years ago) link
and the shop round the corner has a minimum card charge and their machine breaks down every other week
weed from clean shiny shops with 100s of products is cash-based in America too, bcz credit card companies can't process it while it's not legal nationally
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:05 (three years ago) link
W33d and music kit from Gumtree are pretty much my only cash purchases nowadays tbf
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:08 (three years ago) link
My last use case for cash disappeared when I started paying for w33d with M0n3ro.
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
Here's one though:
Can't play audio directly from a Mac through Microsoft Teams. I have had to do this (and endure this) on a regular basis since lockdowns. Every time it sounds like call-waiting music for the dental surgery because it's being played and received through laptop speakers and mic. Been chatting to our tech team about it, and there are work arounds, but they're fiddly and not that easy to do.
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:14 (three years ago) link
I prefer cash and pretty much always used it until the pandemic, haven't used any since last March.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:26 (three years ago) link
i have admittedly been walking around with the same tenner in my wallet for several weeks now
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
I've had a fiver in my wallet since last March!
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
Three fivers growing fur in mine since same
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:54 (three years ago) link
The fervour of a furry fiver
― nashwan, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
I'm a huge Kevin Grisham fan...
Been using cash loads since Covid, as have been getting more things second-hand from people in my village. I've even bartered with packets of flour. There's a bit of a 'things Amazon incorrectly delivered'/'things I accidentally ordered too much of from Ocado/ 'dumb things my online grocery substituted' market going on.
― kinder, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:04 (three years ago) link
fwiw i still practice cash tipping when i can because when i worked for tips this was very much preferred to credit card tips.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:04 (three years ago) link
Something that just happened: My whole screen went blank while typing something and my heart leapt into my mouth thinking the computer had crashed. Turned out it was one of those "hot corner" things which I hadn't turned off. What the blazes and why would I want this to happen when I accidentally nudge my mouse into the far corner of my screen??
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
companies have to pay for credit-card processing so some small local businesses are cash-only to avoid those extra charges
― na (NA), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
> why would I want this to happen when I accidentally nudge my mouse into the far corner of my screen?
was company policy here, back when we worked in an office, to lock screen when away from computer. there were also tales of people comming back from breaks to find 'comedy' emails sent from their accounts / odd things ordered from amazon. oh, my sides.
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
Some restaurants, even busy successful ones, chose to be cash only for that reason. Also some do to so it’s easier to cheat on taxes. There was a movement recently of restaurants going cashless but they got pushback from people saying it’s unfair to mostly low income people who don’t have credit cards. A lot of places in NY went cashless and then switched back.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
Specifically, being "cashless" was banned by municipal statute (and rightly so!).
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
The prices on everything from the parking meters outside to the vending machine in the breakroom are higher for card purchases than they are for cash.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
― Canon in Deez (silby), Tuesday, January 19, 2021 8:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
weed still illegal in new york for some reason
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
My friends who own small businesses pay credit card processing fees (1.3-3.5%) that eat into their margins and are always appreciative to get cash.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
i know you made the point about sex workers taking venmo but my weed guys do not
nyc itself has been a haven for cash-only businesses to a degree that other places potentially do not experience xp
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 5:05 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
damn that'll teach me to read the thread
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link