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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1597 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.

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.

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.

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