Made from Truth and Lies

"In a world...."
"...where one man's rubbish is another man's treasure..."
"Who watches the rubbish collectors?"

In a world where litter is everywhere, one Womble isn't going to take it any more.
Orinoco is going to take out the trash.

*big explosion*

*shotgun sounds*

*Inception noise*

BLAAAAAAAAAAAARP

Starting Christian Bale as Great Uncle Bulgaria, Colm Meaney as Tobermory, And Martin Freeman as Orinoco, With Lucy Liu as Madame Cholet.

(This conversation brought to you by Adam and I entertaining ourselves last week over chat while he was lunching alone, and I was in the jury-service waiting room.)

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andrewducker
19 Apr 2021, 15:57
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I'm very wary about letting businesses deny service to the most excluded in society because it's not convenient to them.
andrewducker
19 Apr 2021, 15:57
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Apparently 4% of adults in the UK don't have a bank account, including 6% of unemployed people.

Apparently you need a home address to set one up, which might be a barrier for some. And there are…
tobyaw
19 Apr 2021, 15:29
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But I’m very wary about requiring businesses to take a form of payment that they are not comfortable with. Plenty of traders refuse to take high-value notes for good reasons, or sterling notes issued…
tobyaw
19 Apr 2021, 15:25
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Don’t we have something similar here already? I recall basic bank accounts being in the news perhaps five years ago, with the idea of creating a bank account with a low barrier of entry for those who…
andrewducker
19 Apr 2021, 13:33
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I totally agree that the government ought to be acting as a banker-of-last-resort for the unbanked.

And once we have 100% coverage of that, I will be happy with shops being allowed to turn away the…