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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There are dedicated banking hours for a reason. It's so they have time to feed the money tree the crushed bones of children.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And blood. Don't forget the children's blood, which is important to make the watermarks and colors really pop.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Y'all forget to use the whole child? Tears and sweat are free salt that's just thrown away.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Shhh you cant give away the secret that the money trea runs on the bones of children under 7, then we might either get cancled or people will want their own money tree, and I am not sure what is worse

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It should display the time too, because people might not know. And every business on the avenue will have a sign showing the same information. What a weird fad in hindsight.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I loved how when I was a kid, the clocks weren't in sync. They were up to 5 minutes off between them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I hated that as a kid.

Also, my local pool has 3 clocks. The spinny cross one, actual time with seconds, and another one that counts down from 60 minutes, but it’s 5 mins off from the actual time with seconds, and the + spinny clock is also off between the two of them. Drives me insane.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In Denmark we had a service called "Miss Time" (Frøken Klokken) where you could dial 155 and get the time. You could just about get the current time in a phone booth without needing to pay, which I used pretty regularly during my paper route. The service ran between 1939 and 2021, but one can still experience it digitally here which is pretty cool: https://froekenklokken.enigma.dk/

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Phone companies used to employ somebody to sit and answer those calls!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

And they probably made enough to support a family of 4 with a house.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

F for the now-unemployed time callers 😞

[–] RedditRefugee69 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How dare you call an analog clock a "spinny cross one."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah but it’s the special pool one. There’s four second-arms 15 seconds apart and colour coded, and then a single minute hand with no indication of the hour.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There was a time when the Internet didn't exist and not everyone wore a wristwatch.

Having time on every other corner was useful for your bus stop.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, but that was like a quarter century ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

You either drove by a bank or called the time and temp number.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And with how frequently car stereos were broken lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The boomers love knowing about the weather

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

And yet they hate knowing about the climate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Are you a former bank employee that was fired?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Temperature on the side of any building is such a flex

Never see that in the UK because we just need to always assume it'll rain and maybe go a little over room temperature if we're lucky

Except that one week a year where the immense cost of adding AC to our Victorian houses becomes worryingly appealing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You guys have clock towers with tiny clocks on the top instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well how else will we know when it's time for breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper or midnight snack time?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

My country has largely shut down physical bank locations and has gone all in on online banking.

I guess the one silver lining is that they are always open.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In my country they close at 16:00 yay...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Woah 10.5 hours later than ours, now that's convenient!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

A thermometer, in direct sunlight all day.