All while you’re on the way to visit the La Brea tar pits, of course.
Huh? Also Huh? to La Brea Tar pits reference/joke.
La Brea means “the tar” in Spanish, so The La Brea Tar Pits literally translated is “The The Tar Tar Pits”.
The APC center was protected by a UPS power supply until the contract came up for renewal. Now they are protected by FedEx Express. Then they discovered they needed a FedEx Ground to prevent people from being shocked.
He’s jokingly saying that he’s going to buy tea tea and bread bread to eat on Fat Tuesday Day.
Remind me to change the combination on my luggage… and my PIN.
Dammit. Didn’t realize I had long since been ninja’d in this thread.
I used to have a palindromic PIN that was issued by the bank. It never called the cops. Just gave me my cash. The bank is no longer extant, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
Ah, so it an attempt at humor based upon the meme that “ATM machine” is a repetitive redundancy, which is not actually correct. Har.
What would be the point of that anyway? Like, I guess if you were getting mugged, and the mugger didn’t wait for you to finish the transaction…? Maybe?
“I see a car on fire! Quick the nearest ATM is 3 blocks away to the south.” Surely there’s a order of magnitude more phones than ATMs in the average square mile, right?
I think the idea is that someone holds you at gunpoint, and tells you to go to the nearest AT and make a large withdrawal. Such a criminal would probably not allow you to pull out your phone, but they will certainly allow you to punch numbers into the AT.
That would be too complex for most people.
What if the ATM Machine ran on reactive power?
That would depolarize the subatomic particles in the magnetic stripe, causing a chain reaction which destroy the universe as we know it.
Well, I’m tempted to reply to Chronos with the words
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There’s a truth in your eyes sayin’ you’ll never leave me
The touch of your hand says you’ll catch me if ever I fall
You say it best when you say nothing at all*
And, more to the point, if you say "I need to drive your car, and you say “A,” it shows…
Aw, forget it. I’m licked.
*This from the song When You Say Nothing At All by Allison Krauss. I think it is quite lovely.
Naw, we’re going to take all the letters out, and just mime putting your card into the slot.
(which is actually one way it is signed in ASL)
And watching The Los Angeles Angels
Idea of second PIN is useful if ATM shows zero balance in your account, instead of calling police. ATM user must decide whether to put right PIN to withdraw money and handover to the thief, or put second PIN to see no balance message and make the thief angry and risk getting hurt.
That’s a good idea, but once criminals catch on to it, they’ll simply start demanding that you try two different PINs before they give up on you.
Before digressing further into the world of pleonasms, since my home is close to the border of Wisconsin, we get a lot of its residents trouncing around here. At their home, they have (had) a bank called Tyme and they would innocuously attempt to ask where the nearest Tyme machine was.