August 24, 200916 yr Cockney rhyming at cash machines Customers will be asked if they want to withdraw a speckled hen A cash point operator has introduced Cockney rhyming slang to a number of its machines in east London. People using Bank Machine ATMs can opt to have their prompts and options given to them in rhyming slang. As a result they will be asked to enter their Huckleberry Finn, rather than their Pin, and will have to select how much sausage and mash (cash) they want. The rhyming slang prompts will be available from five cash machines in east London for three months. Other rhyming slang prompts people can expect include a speckled hen (£10), while the machine may inform users that it is contacting their rattle and tank, rather than bank. Ron Delnevo, managing director of Bank Machine, said: "We wanted to introduce something fun and of local interest to our London machines. "Whilst we expect some residents will visit the machine to just have a butcher's (look), most will be genuinely pleased as this is the first time a financial services provider will have recognised the Cockney language in such a manner." The ATMs displaying prompts in Cockney are all free to use, although the majority of the group's cash machines charge a £1.50 fee.
August 24, 200916 yr Author The return of the fiver – banks reintroducing £5 notes to cash machines The fiver is making a return to the country's cash machines to help people manage their budgets during the recession. By Chris Irvine Published: 7:00AM BST 20 Aug 2009 The Payments Council, the organisation responsible for ensuring payments systems and services work, says that while the majority of people still prefer to get £10 and £20 notes from cash machines, they are increasingly being given the £5 option High street banks including Barclays and HSBC are stocking £5 notes at cash machines in lower income areas as well as university and college sites where they believe demand will be higher. They focus on areas where customers tend to withdraw £10 to £20 per visit, as opposed to the national average which is more than £60. The Payments Council, the organisation responsible for ensuring payments systems and services work, says that while the majority of people still prefer to get £10 and £20 notes from cash machines, they are increasingly being given the £5 option. Related Articles Nicklaus to appear on new fiver Sandra Quinn, the council's director of communications, said that banks had been putting no-charge cash machines in lower income areas in the last few years and these machines tended to include fivers. "These cash machines will be the ones where people take out the least money," she said. "They'll be taking out £10 or £20. If you're taking out £100 you don't want £5 from your cash machine, but if you're taking out £20, you might want a tenner and two fivers. "The recession may well be playing a part. They might find the lower denominations a better way of managing their money." A spokesman for Barclays said that two thirds of their on-site cash machines dispense £5 notes, while a handful of remote sites, mostly university campuses, stock them. "We do take into account the local social demographic," she said. "It tends to be more in the North because people tend to have less money and there is a social inclusion factor as well. A handful of our remote sites tend to dispense them too. They tend to be university locations." Inflation has meant that £5 notes have become increasingly uncommon at cash points in the last decade. Ron Delnevo, Managing Director of Bank Machine, who introduced £5-only cash machines last year, says Britain is "increasingly becoming a £20 note society", something he believes "causes problems for retailers and banks alike". "For the consumer, having fivers in your wallet means less time at sales tills and less fiddly loose change," he said. He added that a new machine, introduced at London Waterloo, was "particularly important given the economic situation, with many people turning away from plastic cards and back to cash in an attempt to manage their finances properly." HSBC said they started trialing the stocking of fivers last month in the South-West and the Midlands, as part of a joint initiative with The Bank of England and other banks to "improve the quality of the notes". Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, has previously described many £5 notes looking "noticeably soiled and scruffy".
August 24, 200916 yr Author haha i heard this news on bbc radio 1 i couldnt believe it :lol: Translation for Cockney Coldplayers: "I couldn't Adam & Eve it.":rolleyes:
August 24, 200916 yr :lol: I'm glad our machine don't do that, people would probably get too confused.
August 24, 200916 yr Author :lol: I'm glad our machine don't do that, people would probably get too confused. Doesn't that already happen if any Canadian from outside of Quebec is confronted with French??:P
August 24, 200916 yr The return of the fiver – banks reintroducing £5 notes to cash machines The fiver is making a return to the country's cash machines to help people manage their budgets during the recession. Lies, fivers have been in some cash machines for 18 months now, under the impression of getting fresh fivers into the system.
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