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[–] mutual_ayed 120 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days 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

[–] CaptDust 70 points 2 days 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 2 days 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] 18 points 2 days ago (1 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 2 days 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/

[–] CaptDust 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

F for the now-unemployed time callers 😞

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days 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] 8 points 2 days ago

Yes, but that was like a quarter century ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Jakeroxs 5 points 2 days ago

And with how frequently car stereos were broken lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The boomers love knowing about the weather

[–] ray 9 points 2 days ago

And yet they hate knowing about the climate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Are you a former bank employee that was fired?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 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 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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] 2 points 2 days ago

I've seen it a few times in the UK, there's an ex CPC building in Preston that shows the temperature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm in the UK and my local pharmacy has one! It's fun to guess what it will be as I'm going past.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

A thermometer, in direct sunlight all day.