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  1. Bull. You wouldn't remember jack all until at least into 2000. Nearly all stores took debit cards without additional charges, You could even use them to buy tickets onboard the train or at the cinema , in many pubs and even in my local corner shop. I certainly remember getting my slips to sign from all sorts of places day-to-day. By the time you claim you emerged onto this world, the switch debit card had been in existence for nearly a decade, contactless payments started before you even became a teenager. Some of us were actually there love. I don't care what your family did. Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. When are you going to get into your head, cashless society is not a new thing. It is just the tools that have changed.
  2. You make it sound as if there's no other human being on the planet who I will interact with during my day. I have my own social network of people to talk to. I don't need shop staff for it. See what I have said above. People these days have there entire communications and support network be it verbal, written, visual all in their pocket. We have never had more engaged society.
  3. 1967 love. Barclays Enfield. Well prepare to be disappointed because there's only one direction it's going. What if you get mugged and lose all your cash? What if you drop your wallet on the bus? Why if the store safe gets broken into? What if the till got jammed? We can all play those games You have never had 'change' love. By the time you were popped out into this world, cashless transactions were well established, ordinary consumers had been using cheque books for decades and debit cards were commonplace.
  4. Even cash transactions require digital dependency. Do you think a bank just throws cash into a big vault and writes it all down on big dusty handwritten ledgers. How do you think the ATM you use every day conducts its transactions. Your comparisons were the theatre are misguided, considering most of the venues these days have increasing use of digital ticketing where the ushers just scan a barcode from someone's device. It's sod all to do with laziness. Cashless transactions have been around since the 18th century. Before the advent of the digital revolution the vast majority of the world's financials was conducted by cheques and bankers drafts and orders. People were not wandering around which huge sacks of coins. The first plastic payment card was created in the 1950s. The first EPOS invented in the '70s. More talking out of your backside Mrs "28 years old"
  5. Its so coincidental that you just happened to have chaos and technical problems. I've flown lots of times using self-check in and never had any of the stresses that you describe. In fact on my last trip through Heathrow I got from the start of departures to the security point within about 5 minutes. I checked in online the night before in my hotel room, I got the boarding pass emailed straight to my phone, when I arrived at the terminal I went straight to the bag drop which was no more difficult than using a parking metre and then off it went. You really must be an unfortunate magnet to this type of fault and difficulty stuff.
  6. No. All it proves is exactly what I said in my earlier posts. If people want personal hands on service, it's still available - they just need to be prepared to pay for it. Those business class passengers will be paying thousands of pounds more for their tickets than your lot in economy so expect something in return. You still haven't explain why the minimal human interaction Amazon is so popular and absolutely decimating the in-person bricks and mortar retail. Like I said, where are all these 'normal people' you claim are so desperate for human service. Why are they not shopping in store anymore?
  7. You do realise that the physical cash itself is just a piece of paper. It is technically worthless. Its worth, power and means is only as good as the projection value of currency or commodity fix to it. Something that could all dramatically change at the stroke of a pen. The Bank of England is still the government. The Bank of England is the issuer and authority of a cash notes free to make any changes they want. If they decided tomorrow that £5 notes were totally worthless and remove from circulation they can. That's before we get onto the effects of things like hyper-inflation which has happened with real world examples of how even having a trolley full of bank notes gets you nothing. They already have total control. We don't make our own personal currency. I don't write bank notes on the bank of me. We're not bartering in beads and trinkets any more.
  8. Yep that I do agree with. Especially if there is a group of you. Much more civilised than all trying to cram around the bar or annoy other patrons by someone going up and ordering 8 meals and 16 drinks.
  9. If and when the entire internet goes down there will be much bigger problems to worry about than just changing a fuse.
  10. Well they wouldn't, they don't have the pound sterling. However what France did spend was about 4.5 billion euros on their immigration and asylum bill with over 1 billion euros alone just paying migrant medical assistance. This is not simply a British issue
  11. Hence why I used the word "most" not "all" What's the point you're trying to prove? Yes, so they store you went to had become cash only along with a handful of others. However, the fault was not entirely universal. From the sky news article: All stores remained open during the technical blunder, the supermarket said, and the "majority" of chip and pin transactions were working. Regardless, it was a temporary fault that was resolved. Hardly a great life changing drama. Nobody is suggesting that computers are completely infallible but then nobody can say that manual systems worked guaranteed 100% of the time either.
  12. You do realise that people have been willingly allowing computers 'take over their lives' for the past 70 years. You know that payroll you receive, that bank account you use, those planes in the sky, that power that goes to your house, that water that flows through your tap, that military that protects us from harm, those shop shelves that keep being filled, that television and radio that keeps being broadcast, even that health and medical treatment you receive is all touched by the power of computers. This nonsense people have to think that rebelling against technology and digital banking takes them off grid and somehow sticks it up to 'the man'. This complete naivety they have that somehow computer dependance is a millennial thing and became prominent in the past couple of decades.
  13. No it wasn't. Most of the stores were still able to accept chip and pin card payments - it was just contactless affected. In some others, all checkouts were working fine with just the handheld self scan devices and online ordering offline. It was only a small number of shops that had complete failure and had to go cash only.
  14. I found this very strange. Surely can't have been that many. Contactless hasn't made PIN go away. People still need to put their number in after so many contactless transaction for security. People still need to use it any time a transaction goes over £100. People still need to use it anytime they go to an ATM. People still need to use it every time they do a transaction in branch.
  15. Or one of those 20 years olds would just use their smartphone to look up how to change a fuse on the internet or watch one of the 1001 YouTube videos giving them a step by step demonstration.
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