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Terminator X

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15,041 posts

204 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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shakotan said:
alock said:
Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, roughly divide it by 6, round up to the nearest whole note and everyone just puts the cash on the table. Any change becomes the tip.

Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, decide what total tip to add, split the bill between 6, call the waitress over and have her put through 6 separate transactions on the machine the calculated amount.

One option is quick and easy. The other makes you look like a bunch of tight arsed students.
Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, decide what total tip to add, split the bill between 6, call the waitress over and have her put through one single transaction on the machine the full amount on one person's card, whilst the five other friends do a quick online transfer for their agreed split..
WTF surely not serious and/or have actually done that yourself?!

TX.

SantaBarbara

3,244 posts

108 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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shakotan said:
Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, decide what total tip to add, split the bill between 6, call the waitress over and have her put through one single transaction on the machine the full amount on one person's card, whilst the five other friends do a quick online transfer for their agreed split..
You cannot be serious

bad company

18,545 posts

266 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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alock said:
Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, roughly divide it by 6, round up to the nearest whole note and everyone just puts the cash on the table. Any change becomes the tip.

Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, decide what total tip to add, split the bill between 6, call the waitress over and have her put through 6 separate transactions on the machine the calculated amount.

One option is quick and easy. The other makes you look like a bunch of tight arsed students.
you'd do well to find 6 people all carrying sufficient cash.

ecs

1,228 posts

170 months

Dr Interceptor

7,773 posts

196 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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I always carry cash, but realise I'm in the minority in my age bracket. Most of my mates use cards/contactless for everything now.

PixelpeepS3

8,600 posts

142 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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until drug dealers take card/contactless i will have cash on me. smile

hairyben

8,516 posts

183 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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shakotan said:
alock said:
Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, roughly divide it by 6, round up to the nearest whole note and everyone just puts the cash on the table. Any change becomes the tip.

Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, decide what total tip to add, split the bill between 6, call the waitress over and have her put through 6 separate transactions on the machine the calculated amount.

One option is quick and easy. The other makes you look like a bunch of tight arsed students.
Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, decide what total tip to add, split the bill between 6, call the waitress over and have her put through one single transaction on the machine the full amount on one person's card, whilst the five other friends do a quick online transfer for their agreed split..
some wait staff in this country can be mardy but in other countries asking for a split bill isn't an issue.

I've always got a lump of cash in my pocket but going into wholesalers when you need £800 of kit to find your cards having an off day cos the bank are playing silly buggars can cost a days earnings. And while I have backup card options I struggle to remember the couple of pins I use regularly.

djc206

12,341 posts

125 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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SantaBarbara said:
shakotan said:
Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, decide what total tip to add, split the bill between 6, call the waitress over and have her put through one single transaction on the machine the full amount on one person's card, whilst the five other friends do a quick online transfer for their agreed split..
You cannot be serious
Why not? It takes seconds

anonymous-user

54 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Terminator X said:
shakotan said:
alock said:
Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, roughly divide it by 6, round up to the nearest whole note and everyone just puts the cash on the table. Any change becomes the tip.

Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, decide what total tip to add, split the bill between 6, call the waitress over and have her put through 6 separate transactions on the machine the calculated amount.

One option is quick and easy. The other makes you look like a bunch of tight arsed students.
Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, decide what total tip to add, split the bill between 6, call the waitress over and have her put through one single transaction on the machine the full amount on one person's card, whilst the five other friends do a quick online transfer for their agreed split..
WTF surely not serious and/or have actually done that yourself?!

TX.
The so-called "tight arsed students" seem to do it all the time. Looking at my daughter's bank statements there are plenty of transactions in and out for precise sums with references like "Emily drinks", "Charlie Pizza Express" etc.

Get with the future!

SantaBarbara

3,244 posts

108 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Roman Rhodes said:
The so-called "tight arsed students" seem to do it all the time. Looking at my daughter's bank statements there are plenty of transactions in and out for precise sums with references like "Emily drinks", "Charlie Pizza Express" etc.

Get with the future!
No thank you

toastyhamster

1,664 posts

96 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Terminator X said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41095004

I'd be fuming if a shop refused to take cash mad

TX.
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I've been reading a lot about blockchaining in the last few weeks. I think there's more work needed to make it "extremely secure", but it's already fairly mainstream.

drainbrain

5,637 posts

111 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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IME when the card readers in places which don't take cash fail then they immediately rescind the policy and accept cash readily.

And - when did car hire places stop taking cash? Must be some decades ago now. (might be wrong).

bad company

18,545 posts

266 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Sheepshanks said:
I wonder if that's why the Germans are still so keen on cash? I read the other day that they're freaking out about smart TVs listening to what they say!
As I posted earlier I returned from Germany yesterday, they are still VERY cash orientated. I was a bit caught out and had to make an expensive cash withdrawal from an ATM. frown

AJB88

12,385 posts

171 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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alock said:
Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, roughly divide it by 6, round up to the nearest whole note and everyone just puts the cash on the table. Any change becomes the tip.

Six friends go out for a meal. You get the bill, decide what total tip to add, split the bill between 6, call the waitress over and have her put through 6 separate transactions on the machine the calculated amount.

One option is quick and easy. The other makes you look like a bunch of tight arsed students.
Or one pays and the others forward the money, that's the way I do it.

otherman

2,191 posts

165 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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mcflurry said:
I prefer a Danish pastry rather than a croissant wink
What, even a fresh crusty fluffy inside croissant. Heathan.

otherman

2,191 posts

165 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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bad company said:
you'd do well to find 6 people all carrying sufficient cash.
Probably an age thing. When I go out for a meal with friends, everyone turns up with cash in pocket. It's what we've always done.

Heartworm

1,923 posts

161 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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otherman said:
Probably an age thing. When I go out for a meal with friends, everyone turns up with cash in pocket. It's what we've always done.
We are the opposite in our early 30s, nor uncommon to just do a cash transfer to the person who paid on card, and as it's done fairly regularly we have each other's details anyway. What I do notice is when I pay people transfer the cash to my wife..

768

13,662 posts

96 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Cotty said:
I have not used cash to pay for something in over five months. Love not going home from the pub with a pocket of change
I haven't either, but my wife goes mental every time she decides the family should get an impromptu meal somewhere that charges a fortune and all you can choose from is an egg or cheese sandwich that then doesn't take card. She invariably has cash but for some reason I still get grief.

AJB88

12,385 posts

171 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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All but one pub in town now takes card. Unfortunately for me the pub that doesn't take card is also the best pub.

So I still come home with lots of change, if only they took card my pub trips would be 100% cashless.

limpsfield

5,879 posts

253 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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James_B said:
I cut a cheque for £40m recently to settle a dispute over wording on a contract around negative rates.
PH fking gold!