Just to prepare those of you with a low tolerance for predictable bullshit; the week the money comes out, you'll be subjected to all manner of news stories about the money being easily washed, shredded, bent, broken, burned and counterfeited.
Prepare for close-ups of gormless looking blokes in pubs with fivers torn in half with the caption "I just set me beer glass down on it for a moment, and it fell apart. It's all junk." and "I walked too near the microwave and it burst into flames. I could have been killed."
First time I've seen this thread, and am surprised (no, not really) that the English meejah are reporting this as new, exciting and controversial - N.Ireland and Scotland have had plastic bankotes for years, it's just taken the Anglo-Saxons and their Welsh cousins a while to catch up.
Really? I was reading something just yesterday that claimed Clydesdale was going to be the first Scottish bank to print polymer notes in a month or so.
Nocturnal Submission wrote: Got my first placcy fiver this morning.
Am I the OTF winner?
I got two on Monday.
They really are designed to be kept in a wallet or purse IMO - if you leave one in your pocket for a day or two they end up in the most bizarre shapes but unlike the old ones you can't flatten them back out easily.
3 Colours Red wrote: They really are designed to be kept in a wallet or purse IMO - if you leave one in your pocket for a day or two they end up in the most bizarre shapes but unlike the old ones you can't flatten them back out easily.
This is worrying - I haven't had a full size wallet for years, using a card holder instead, and plenty of other people seem to have adopted the same approach.
I sense the hidden hand of Big Big Wallet behind this so-called progress.
I haven't been to the cashpoint for a while. Took a load of money out a while back to pay a workman, but ended up doing a bank transfer instead, so I've been trying to get fiver change out of my 20s.
Well, that's the thing. I got £20 out to pay for some bits and pieces for dinner, expecting a twenty or two tens, when I got a ten and two fives. It's the first time in forever that I've had fivers out of the cashpoint, so it struck me as odd.
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