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dimejinky99 wrote:You guys used ATMs… in a foreign country?

Wtf were you thinking would happen? You’re not only paying the banks charges and exchange rate commission, youre paying the ATM operators too. Cash is king folks. Bring it with you
Yeah, no shit.

I can't bring many USD from Argentina -- we've been kind of mired in a currency exchange crisis for years. And nobody wants Argentine pesos.

Sometimes ATMs are the only and/or best option, unfortunately.
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Oh wait you guys aren't talking about ass to mouth
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Jorge wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:You guys used ATMs… in a foreign country?

Wtf were you thinking would happen? You’re not only paying the banks charges and exchange rate commission, youre paying the ATM operators too. Cash is king folks. Bring it with you
Yeah, no shit.

I can't bring many USD from Argentina -- we've been kind of mired in a currency exchange crisis for years. And nobody wants Argentine pesos.

Sometimes ATMs are the only and/or best option, unfortunately.

Was aware of that and obviously you get a pass.

Tangent but Only way I learned not to do this was on some PJ tour and I think we were in Oslo? And my bank card wouldn’t work. In ATMs or bars etc. whatever way it worked visa didn’t have a link at the time.

Always bring cash
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bodysnatcher wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I've been using Apple Pay on my watch lately to pay for most things. Very convenient.
How do you do this?
With the apple wallet app on my apple watch. Just open, scroll to which card you want, then double click to pay.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I've been using Apple Pay on my watch lately to pay for most things. Very convenient.
How do you do this?
With the apple wallet app on my apple watch. Just open, scroll to which card you want, then double click to pay.
I just tried this at Best Buy. Accidentally bought new printer with an Applebees gift card.
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bodysnatcher wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I've been using Apple Pay on my watch lately to pay for most things. Very convenient.
How do you do this?
With the apple wallet app on my apple watch. Just open, scroll to which card you want, then double click to pay.
I just tried this at Best Buy. Accidentally bought new printer with an Applebees gift card.
does it print out coupons for various riblet platters?
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I've been using Apple Pay on my watch lately to pay for most things. Very convenient.
How do you do this?
With the apple wallet app on my apple watch. Just open, scroll to which card you want, then double click to pay.
This has been one of the best things about Australia. I haven’t had to carry a wallet for months.

(You can also put your driver’s license into your Apple Wallet, so all good there. Now Melbourne just needs to work out the same for the Myki card, which is public trans)
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You can do all those things in the US…
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spike wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I've been using Apple Pay on my watch lately to pay for most things. Very convenient.
How do you do this?
With the apple wallet app on my apple watch. Just open, scroll to which card you want, then double click to pay.
This has been one of the best things about Australia. I haven’t had to carry a wallet for months.

(You can also put your driver’s license into your Apple Wallet, so all good there. Now Melbourne just needs to work out the same for the Myki card, which is public trans)
That fucking Myki card...

I have a Myki card in my Google Wallet on my phone (yep, can do that) but only ever use the Myki card when I'm in Melbourne (which is a couple times a year at most). So when I first got it I put $10 on it as I thought I'd need it, but turns out I didn't that trip. So we go back for PJ in November and I'm hopping on the tram with my fam, so 5 of us in total. Didn't want to have any issues so put a further $30 on the Myki card to make sure I could pay for everyone's tram ride to the show. Turns out we were in the free tram area, so again, didn't need it.

So I have this bloody Myki card on my phone with $40 credit that I will likely never ever use! I'm back in Melbourne in May to watch some AFL games, but again, staying in Richmond, so likely not gonna need to use the card this time either.

SMH.
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bart wrote:You can do all those things in the US…
Nah plenty of places where tap and pay isn’t an option.

For example, I remember Home Depot being fairly archaic.
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Higgs wrote:
spike wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I've been using Apple Pay on my watch lately to pay for most things. Very convenient.
How do you do this?
With the apple wallet app on my apple watch. Just open, scroll to which card you want, then double click to pay.
This has been one of the best things about Australia. I haven’t had to carry a wallet for months.

(You can also put your driver’s license into your Apple Wallet, so all good there. Now Melbourne just needs to work out the same for the Myki card, which is public trans)
That fucking Myki card...

I have a Myki card in my Google Wallet on my phone (yep, can do that) but only ever use the Myki card when I'm in Melbourne (which is a couple times a year at most). So when I first got it I put $10 on it as I thought I'd need it, but turns out I didn't that trip. So we go back for PJ in November and I'm hopping on the tram with my fam, so 5 of us in total. Didn't want to have any issues so put a further $30 on the Myki card to make sure I could pay for everyone's tram ride to the show. Turns out we were in the free tram area, so again, didn't need it.

So I have this bloody Myki card on my phone with $40 credit that I will likely never ever use! I'm back in Melbourne in May to watch some AFL games, but again, staying in Richmond, so likely not gonna need to use the card this time either.

SMH.
Ah yeah, I think it’s only Apple Wallet that won’t take it, which is ridiculous when you consider how many iPhones are out there.
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spike wrote:
bart wrote:You can do all those things in the US…
Nah plenty of places where tap and pay isn’t an option.

For example, I remember Home Depot being fairly archaic.
You can definitely tap at Home Depot and pretty much everywhere else in the USA.
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tommy wrote:
spike wrote:
bart wrote:You can do all those things in the US…
Nah plenty of places where tap and pay isn’t an option.

For example, I remember Home Depot being fairly archaic.
You can definitely tap at Home Depot and pretty much everywhere else in the USA.
Walmart is not tap and pay, but their gas stations are.
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wease wrote:
tommy wrote:
spike wrote:
bart wrote:You can do all those things in the US…
Nah plenty of places where tap and pay isn’t an option.

For example, I remember Home Depot being fairly archaic.
You can definitely tap at Home Depot and pretty much everywhere else in the USA.
Walmart is not tap and pay, but their gas stations are.

Yeah, Walmart is trying to get people to use their app to pay. I've done it before when I've forgotten my wallet and it works like Google pay.
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"Maybe the real ___ was the friends we made along the way"

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Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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Damn smoke detector keeps beeping. I took the battery out (don't have an extra on hand), held the button down a few times for 20 seconds +, hit the button over and over in quick succession and yet it still beeps.
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Damn smoke detector keeps beeping. I took the battery out (don't have an extra on hand), held the button down a few times for 20 seconds +, hit the button over and over in quick succession and yet it still beeps.
Crack a window and let your pot smoke outside
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Dev wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Damn smoke detector keeps beeping. I took the battery out (don't have an extra on hand), held the button down a few times for 20 seconds +, hit the button over and over in quick succession and yet it still beeps.
Crack a window and let your pot smoke outside
I only snort meth idiot
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Figured out how to pop the wired part off huzzah
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