
Music 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 What hideously out of date stuff do you still use?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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With the creation and availability of debit cards, what's the point of physical money?
( , Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:01, 24 replies)

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would be the chosen activity of a prick.
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Isn't that what the supposed contactless technology is for (a la oyster)?
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admittedly not many places take it (http://www.barclays.co.uk/Helpsupport/Barclayscontactlessdebitcards/P1242561764200) yet, but it'll grow.
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Almost all transactions will be made like this within a decade or so.
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it's in their hands to keep it secure.
( , Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:23, closed)

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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Send any unwanted notes to me and I will safely dispose of them for you.
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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.
( , Fri 5 Nov 2010, 23:42, closed)

and not want a record of that transaction.
Cash is anonymous. Micropayments are not.
Big brother loves electronic payments.
( , Sun 7 Nov 2010, 13:43, closed)

...the customer in front of me in Morrison's who debited 22p for 2 bananas yesterday, AICMFP. Cash, please!
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