Cyclists waste petrol

"a desert is a region that is simply very dry because its receives little to no water" "deserts are characterized by little to no moisture" Snow is frozen water. It has loads. So the example in the photo is not a desert.

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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife
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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote

No, it works regardless of how you pay for it, with cash or with a card or now with an app on your phone, or with apple pay or google pay etc or even with paypal etc.

You can still do that too, or specify before you start pumping, the dollar value of what you want in terms of how much petrol. Those who do pay with cash, even when they walk inside to pay for the petrol, can prefer a specified price so they don't have to fart around with change.

Its more complicated than that when you use the card to get cash from other than an ATM. We can get additional cash in addition to paying for the goods you have purchased at almost all shops and supermarkets and the self service checkouts in supermarkets actually have the main screen which allows you to just get cash, you don't need to buy anything to get cash from those machines. Those will not allow you to do that with a credit card, just a debit card.

Yes, Aldi does that here. Its only 0.5% tho.

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Rod Speed

That is a stupid definition, there are in fact none that receive no water at all.

You're wrong, as always.

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Rod Speed

A desert is like the Sahara - virtually no rain, f*ck all grows.

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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife

That is just one form of desert.

Ditto.

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Rod Speed

This was the first one I've seen that takes cash and it was at a station that just opened this summer.

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rbowman

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rbowman

Shit, you're ugly.

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Rod Speed

From what was said that was unusual. So my point stands.

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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife

Who says that's him? How can ou tell from a small icon? He needs to shave.

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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife

In France I came across something very annoying, especially as I couldn't read the notice telling me what to do. You paid to the cashier woman, but you had to go give her your card first, to prevent petrol theft.

On another occasion (in France) I wasn't watching the pump, but heard it come on as I pressed the lever. When it stopped I went to pay, and they refused to take my money. I left wondering why they were giving me free petrol, then realised my tank was still empty. The noise must have been for the other side.

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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife

It's the meaning of the word everyone normally uses.

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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife

No it doesn't because that isnt the only desert that sees snow.

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Rod Speed

I do, and don't you forget it.

I use my glasses, stupid.

Nope, only fools shave. And only poofters shave their legs.

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Rod Speed

If you're not paying by cash, why would you need that function? Even if you wanted about $30 of fuel because you knew your account was low, you just stop it around there. $30.02 isn't going to kill you. But if you only have $30 of cash in your pocket, then you need it to be exact.

That would be handy, but only with cash.

Same here. But what I was saying was there's no point in a credit card (apart from the borrowing), because debit does everything credit does.

Aldi doesn't here, only very small shops, like a pizza takeaway or a bicycle repair shop.

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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife

It doesn't prevent petrol theft because you can just give her a maxed out or cancelled card.

< they were giving me free petrol, then realised my tank was still
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Rod Speed

Only the pig ignorant fools like you.

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Rod Speed

When you know that's all the account has in it, or you only want to spend that much so you can spend the rest on something else like something to eat etc.

Mate of mine just did it last saturday. We were well out of town to a garage sale there, just off one of the main state highways at one of the roadhouses that used to have some of the cheapest petrol in the area and he hadn't bothered to check the petrol prices on his smartphone and discovered that it was actually one of the most expensive in the area and he didn't have enough petrol in the tank to get to the cheapest. So he just got $10 of petrol to get him to the cheapest.

But would be a nuisance with the change.

But if the debit card only has $30 available...

Nope, also when that's all the debit card has available.

Wrong again. The other advantage with the credit card setup to automatically pay off the balance in full at the end of the month from the account that pays the best interest is that everything is completely automatic, you never have to move any money manually between the high interest paying account and the transaction account you have the debit card on.

And with a fee free credit card, it doesn't cost you a cent to have the convenience of being completely automatic.

In our case none of those do, only the sort of places that flog takeaway coffee and small snacks etc and only a few of those and mostly only with the cards like Amex that charge the merchant more than what Visa and Mastercard charges.

And now they arent allowed to charge more than the pay the card in merchant fee.

A few just refuse any card when the transaction cost is less than $5, but the last greengrocer that did that has just stopped doing that now.

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Rod Speed

Nobody needs to be that precise with a card.

I would have just stopped it manually at $10 +/- 30c.

I was talking about how pointless it is to have it for CARDS.

Then you stop it when it's almost there incase you're inaccurate.

Ah, all to get a few cents of interest.

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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife

Not really an important word in the UK.

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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife

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