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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 What hideously out of date stuff do you still use?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

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 12:44)
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small transactions
Isn't that what the supposed contactless technology is for (a la oyster)?
(I helped save b3ta! bluemeat has been best of all the animals since, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:18, 2 replies)
hello from the significant proportion of people who don't live in London.

(I helped save b3ta! Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:21, closed)
I use it a little bit in Cheshire
admittedly not many places take it (http://www.barclays.co.uk/Helpsupport/Barclayscontactlessdebitcards/P1242561764200) yet, but it'll grow.
(Kip, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:26, closed)
This is the future
Almost all transactions will be made like this within a decade or so.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:33, closed)
until someone manages to rob people merely by walking past them in the street

(I helped save b3ta! Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:57, closed)
well yeah, but Barclays guarantee it against fraud
it's in their hands to keep it secure.
(Kip, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:23, closed)
Pffft "significant".

(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:35, closed)
Fair point, I suppose.
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.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:59, closed)

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