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(August 2019)

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MrDexB
MrDexB posted:
I don't want to spam this thread, but I've always made it clear how I hated TCM's transformation to the home to showings of Moulin Rouge, Kangaroo Jack and The Exorcist II: The Heretic, and whatever western or documentary tatter they could find. I preferred if I could watch a TCM that had this much variety on [removed] . That website full of illegal, yet high quality and almost ad-free, movies has so much variety. Just watched this on Wednesday.

[Mod edit] No linked to illegal streaming sites


Okay. It was 'Three on a Match', which is something that TCM in the USA would definitely air. Apologies since we're meant to be streaming legally.
MI
Michael
FBC posted:
Michael posted:
Nobody says ATM machine. Everyone says cashpoint.

If we’re splitting hairs, also incorrect. It’s a registered trademark of Lloyds Bank so technically only theirs are called cashpoints. (It’s only after somebody told me this that I noticed other banks avoiding that term like the plague.)

Quote:
The word 'Cashpoint' itself was introduced in 1972 by Lloyds Bank and registered as a trademark in October 1986. Although 'Cashpoint' would be a fitting way to describe such machines generically, it is a trade name that has seeped into the English language for more general use.


I bet you hoover with your Dyson.

#euphamism
DJ
DJGM
I hate the term ATM. It's a rubbish "Americanism" that has sneaked into the English language. It's short for "Automated Teller Machine", because the people you'd usually speak to in US banks are called "tellers", while here in the UK they're known as "cashiers"

If ATM was the standard term for these devices, it should be short for "Automated Transaction Machine".

Urban Dictionary: RAS Syndrome
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LS
Lou Scannon
"Money Spitter-Outerer".
SH
Sh1ruba
Well, since this thread is already going off-topic, I think we should end it here.
CY
cylon6
I prefer the title TCM but I'll get used to this.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Michael posted:
Nobody says ATM machine. Everyone says cashpoint.


Now I like "ATM machine", but I also like "cashpoint". But which is better? There's only one way to find out...
JB
JasonB
Neil Jones posted:
Michael posted:
Nobody says ATM machine. Everyone says cashpoint.


Now I like "ATM machine", but I also like "cashpoint". But which is better? There's only one way to find out...


FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
JasonB posted:
Neil Jones posted:
Michael posted:
Nobody says ATM machine. Everyone says cashpoint.


Now I like "ATM machine", but I also like "cashpoint". But which is better? There's only one way to find out...


FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!


See you after the break.
DM
dmch82
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/money-saving-tips/10245049/Why-are-there-so-many-names-for-a-cash-dispenser.html

Apparently ‘hole in the wall’ is a registered trademark of Barclays.
JA
JAS84
One that article missed: Yorkshire Bank called them Minibank.
BA
bilky asko
dmch82 posted:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/money-saving-tips/10245049/Why-are-there-so-many-names-for-a-cash-dispenser.html

Apparently ‘hole in the wall’ is a registered trademark of Barclays.


Indeed, I've seen a couple of Barclays machines with that term on them.

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