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PaperclipPerfector  6d ago (text post)   2128 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 24, 2026

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I had a shopkeeper in London try to decline a purchase because I paid with a "Scottish" £10 note. Motherfucker, I pointed out that unless the SNP had really switched up their game while I was on vacation, it's still the same country. I had to recruit a few other people in the queue to get him to budge, though I suspect that their support was less to do with patriotism for Great Britain than a desire to get me out of the way so they could make their purchases and catch their train.

Up till this point, I had thought that people being daft about Scottish bank notes was more of a meme, but alas. There's always a bigger fool.

You just reminded me of how people in Northern Ireland would go and exchange their Northern Irish sterling for 'English money' before travelling. Even when I was younger I had relatives giving me specifically English notes as a gift when they heard I was going to England.

Tell’em you’ll pay with Bison dollars and wooden nickels next time.

The only time I've ever had Scottish money declined was on holiday in Cornwall. I had to walk down the road to a cash machine to get Bank of England notes before we could pay, since their cash machines were down.

My wife's family are all unionists, but I've never seen her so full of Braveheartian fury. Apparently all it took for her to pull out the blue facepaint was getting turned away for using bank notes with otters on them.

Do you often use cash? I hardly ever do nowadays. I'm thinking I really ought to swap my big leather wallet for something more compact, the only thing in there that's really of any use to me is my driver's license.

I don't use cash, but my wallet is still enormously useful. It's just that it's now a way to hold my credit cards, driver's license, and insurance ID cards rather than something which holds all my cash.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve used cash apart from going to the laundromat or something. A lot of people I know now store it on a clip or wallet slots made in their phone case. I’ve always been very skeptical of them. It just seems to exposed and I’d be wary of losing it. My most important cards like SSC, etc., I keep in storage, never in my wallet. Only the most basic stuff and also a Tile tracking card in case I ever lose it.

I'm a big believer in building redundancy into a system and don't like the idea of my entire life being in my phone/phone case. I pay for everything with Google Pay on my phone, but still carry my physical debit card with me in case I lose my phone or it dies. But my wallet now seems impractically large compared to the size of the contents within it I actually use.

Not if I can help it, but my bank "helpfully" replaced my card while I wasn't in the country, which meant I lacked both a physical card or a way to get it to work with contactless payments.

"That's legal tender!"

Man I was totally thinking of something else.

What I was ready to do was dubiously legal and definitely not tender.

Bahaha, I immediately thought of this clip.

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