Post #384833 · Elektrine

@ElenLeFoll reminded of the time in the 90s when I was catching the tube home and the ticket office was closed. I couldn't buy a ticket from the machine as I only had Scottish notes on me and presented myself at the barrier at the other end to pay my fare. They called through to station I said I'd travelled from to confirm my story before they would issue my ticket rather than a penalty fare. Happy days!

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@torf@c.im 2025-12-30 13:42

@ElenLeFoll It smells like a riot.

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@thebluemarble@mastodon.com.pl 2025-12-30 13:46

@ElenLeFoll So many problems to overcome, only because guillotines were not imported to Britain when they were fashionable in the mainland 🥲

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@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us 2025-12-30 13:55

@ElenLeFoll The US has had this as an unforced error with most bills for a while now because apparently we forgot how to standardize designs

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@bjb@fosstodon.org 2025-12-30 14:09

@ElenLeFoll Why is that note about "notes" (paper money) next to the coin slot?

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@Szescstopni@circumstances.run 2025-12-30 15:31

@ElenLeFoll Perhaps it wouldn't pay to upgrade the software considering the king's age and health.

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@Professor_Stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-12-30 15:45

@ElenLeFoll This never would have happened if they'd adopted the Euro. Neither would Brexit, I'd say.

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@m@martinh.net 2025-12-30 15:47

@ElenLeFoll Not quite the robot rebellion I was anticipating... :ms_robot_headpats:

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@huntingdon@mstdn.social 2025-12-30 15:48

@ElenLeFoll It's what you get when you starve govt and make one part unable to work with another. It's also what you get when businesses refuse to update their models to save money. Poor or no service is often the outcome. A machine would accept one class of banknote and not another, for example, because it hasn't been reprogrammed to accept the different appearance of the new banknote. It's not because there's a fundamental problem with the note.

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@UkeleleEric@mstdn.social 2025-12-30 16:05

@ElenLeFoll What I find most odd is the specificity of the notice. I mean, if they didn't put King Charles III, I would never have tried my King Charles II note...

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@lonelystone@mastodon.world 2025-12-30 16:09

@ElenLeFoll I can't wait for our glorious leader to be on every piece of physical currency. #offtopic #uspol

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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2025-12-30 16:13

@ElenLeFoll Probably treason. Someone is for the chop 😉

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@EricLawton@kolektiva.social 2025-12-30 16:27

@ElenLeFoll Why "uniquely British"? Chuckles is king of other countries too.

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@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net 2025-12-30 18:22

@ElenLeFoll also accepted: Freddie Mercury and Spinal Tap

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@theWeaver@chaosfem.tw 2025-12-30 18:39

@matthewcroughan

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@vivi@mastodon.catgirl.cloud 2025-12-30 19:10

@ElenLeFoll this machine has never seen a man before

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@uc@mastodon.scot 2025-12-30 19:17

@ElenLeFoll Even the automated world is saying "not my king" it seems....

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@notavi10@critter.cafe 2025-12-30 19:58

@ElenLeFoll why would it not work? other countries change the people on the bills all the time and atms still work. euro coins have different designs for each country.

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@europlus@social.europlus.zone 2025-12-30 21:56

@ElenLeFoll revenge from the grave!

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@matt@mastodon.lqx.net 2025-12-30 22:23

@ElenLeFoll It's only a matter of time until our machines won't accept bills with Trump on them.

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@dartigen@aus.social 2025-12-30 22:34

@ElenLeFoll And here I thought the machines were like, scanning some kind of embedded something in the note to find out the denomination, not scanning the look of the note or something. (I know the notes in some countries are also slightly different sizes but I thought that was purely an accessibility feature.)

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@tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one 2025-12-30 23:03

@ElenLeFoll respect

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@14mission@sfba.social 2025-12-31 00:13

@ElenLeFoll Are there many banknotes with Kings Charles I and II or Queen Elizabeth I still in circulation?

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@jonhendry@iosdev.space 2025-12-31 01:04

@ElenLeFoll Sounds like it needs therapy to help it accept QEII's death.

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@nyankat@beach.city 2025-12-31 02:28

@ElenLeFoll @yassie_j

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@SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz 2025-12-31 02:46

@ElenLeFoll Not really uniquely British: none of the ticket machines around here accept bank notes showing king Charles either, and I'm in California, 9 time zones from Britain...

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@bookandswordblog@scholar.social 2025-12-31 04:47

@ElenLeFoll Canadian coin machines have no troubles with Elizabeth II or Charles III coins (although I once saw a roll of loonies with a Chuck-e-Cheezes token inside)

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@ZS@techhub.social 2025-12-31 08:03

@ElenLeFoll If only everyone would get with the program and use contactless. Currency tokens are severely past their prime.

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@cford@toot.thoughtworks.com 2025-12-31 09:48

@ElenLeFoll There are a lot of countries that could in theory have the same issue.

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