Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
My woke millennial pals pay for everything with their phones, even the cheapest stuff from market stalls. It drives me fucking crazy, takes too long, and what's wrong with "brass in't pocket" anyway? I try to tell them they're just giving more personal data to people who aren't entitled to it, but they're "living in the future", FFS.
ReplyDeleteElectronic money bytes are very useful (eg when paying for parking) but i paid for all my booze on Friday night in cash.
ReplyDeleteYou pay for parking? What kind of hellhole do you live in?
DeleteIn the UK during covid we were encouraged to pay by card (because cash could spread infection). I did this for a year or so, but found that I lost track of my spending and budgeting, I’m back to cash.
ReplyDeletePaying for parking has got silly now, but with English local councils mainly very short of money they seem to be addicted to the revenue stream, despite the decline in many of our town centres possibly not helped by silly parking prices.