MWDG = Midwest Degenerate Gambler. I wanted that to be my username but this site has character limits for usernames. So, I had to settle for MW Degen Gambler.
Regular ol’hands are filthy. The money is already a cess-pool.
Aren’t all dollar bills adulterated with cocaine?
Is that a compliment or insult? 
MWDG is short my my username.
That’s what those thingies in casinos are called. TITOs! What should we call them instead? Benjamins are $100 bills. I guess some people here dont listen to ANY rap music?
Haven’t really noticed that reaction to cash.
Of course, when I go out, it’s either to a crummy dive bar, and I’m all about abetting minor tax fraud on the behalf of my favorite bartenders! (No, I don’t know that for sure, and I’m sure they report accurately, probably…still…they’d rather have folding money in the hand than making a draw against when they run the cards at the end of the night).
Or getting huge mountains of quarters for pool tables and such.
I prefer using cards for anything other than those select uses…I don’t have to handle filthy paper unduly, and I can immediately (or nearly so) see what’s what.
If I had the time to just spend all day at a bar…meh…I could see just laying out a stack of bills and having the barkeep take what she (usually a “she”) needs…equally simple system.
You say that’s like a bad thing!
Yeah, I think many dollar bills are tainted with drug residue. But it is kind of a bad thing if you get pulled over and searched. Cash can be sniffed out by police K9s, because of that reason. They’re trained to detect any trace of dope. If police gets hold of your cash, they can take it legally. It’s called civil forfeiture. Good luck trying to get that back. Especially if you’re on tribal lands. The money you pay for court fees may exceed the amount that was forfeitured. Depending on the amount of course.
Priest: Mother Superior… What is a Quicky?
Mother Superior: $20, just like Downtown
I was speaking figuratively. Yeah, cash is icky and I dont want it touching my skin. I called it “sweaty cash” as a joke. Since people consider cash as unclean. Hygienic-wise and morally.
No, I don’t think it’s obvious.
I think the servicers of ATMs are lazy boobs. Not just $2 bills, but $10s should be standard, in addition to the Jacksons and the Benjamins.
Lincolns even.
They know they have a captive consumer base, and are lazy as hell.
Think they all be special.
Aside from somebody carrying a gangster roll, for what are louche reasons, I’d bet most people don’t need much cash at all. Unless they don’t qualify for credit/debit cards or need the services of “night people” on the regular. I get by fine having my cards and a couple Jacksons every day and twice on Sunday.
It’s a missed opportunity on the part of ATM people, IMHO.
Are they? Or are the beasts trained to respond to the cues of their handlers?
Not that it matters when it comes to civil forfeiture.
Nothing wrong with cash. My local racetrack will only accept cash for wagers. Or a credit voucher, which can only be purchased with cash.
But they allow me to run a tab at the bar and pay it off with my card. So there’s that.
It’s much better than it used to be where a majority of stores and restaurants were cash only. When I was first here in the early 80s, it was 99% cash only. They never used checks and payments for some things could be made by bank transfers, but they were extremely.
At my first job starting in 1990, I was given an envelope of cash once a month, and didn’t even have a credit card for five years.
These days, most places take cards and more and more have various forms of e-money/tap to pay.
My doctor’s office and mechanic won’t take cards but most of the rest of the businesses us we take cards.
In Taiwan, many people use an app for payments among friends.
1a.) I bet if you looked at the OP username, a clue might pop out at you.
2b.) I assume something to do with payouts at a casino.
3c.) Benjamin is a gangsta term for $100 bill. It’s probably older than Snoop’s first single, though, and that’s sayin’ something.
I have also experienced restaurants were it is cash for lunch, but credit card accepted for dinner. And given the ubiquity of cash in Japan, having a lot of the equivalent of Benjamins is not unusual or even looked at as particular sign of wealth.
I noticed a big change soon after Tokyo won the bid for the Olympics. The food court at the local mall went from almost no one accepting a card to everyone being able to do so, albeit some with a lot of trying to figure out how it worked. I think there must have been a push because they knew they were going to have a large influx of tourists.
Also, and I am sure it is probably possible in the US, but in Japan you can pay your taxes in cash, which I have done, though it was Prefecture (i.e. state) taxes.
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Thank you, I love that word.
Yeah. It seemed apt. I guess in English one would say sort of “dodgy” or even “suspicious.”
“Skeevy” or perhaps just “suspicious.”
Yes, I speak French, maybe even better than English, but I’m a terrible person to translate word-for-word or interpret.
It’s all about the Shibusawas!
I’ve never had trouble paying with cash. It’s my preferred means of payment for small purchases.
All you need is cash.
I’m one of them—I listen to zero rap music. But I did know the reference, because I listen to a lot of Weird Al and when that song came out I had to look up what he was referencing.
Still don’t understand what a ticket-in/ticket-out machine is though, I guess because I don’t go to casinos.
A joke I remember from more than fifty years:
Why is money considered “unclean”?
Because people are always kissing it “Goodbye.”
Other than the word “Gambler”, the username meant nothing to me. Fortunately he(?) translated it in post 81.
What “thingies in casinos”?
I certainly don’t. (Nor do I consider it to be music.)