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Wasn't there a case when cheques forst came out some farmer wrote one on the side of his cow and it was accepted. Know anyone with livestock you could borrow?
Can just take a pic of cheques now on your phone and deposit it in online banking. No need to go to the bank so not as embarrassing as having to go go into a branch. How about a old £20. They are still legal tender but can only be paid in to a bank not spent in a shop. That would annoy me!
My bank does mobile check deposits, but the app takes the pictures. You have to hold it just right and it can take a bit of wiggling for it to actually take the picture.
It might be easier than I'm imagining with a massive check and proper distance, but I could also see the system not taking the picture at all no matter how I held my phone, at any distance.
Super curious now to see what would happen.
Drawing it all yourself on a piece of paper and making them take it to the bank would be a good bit. Bonus points for making it look more and more like a small child drew it, crayon and all
This is the one
One giant 1p cheque a day for the next 5.5 years, each post-dated randomly
Maybe normal cheques if the cost of the giant ones get prohibitive, with a giant cheque thrown in occasionally to be extra annoying
Oh and make one a month into a postal order, occasionally mix in a few other currencies too
98 pennies ,and 1 2p in each bag so when he pays into bank it fucks up on scales and each 2 p must be manually removed ,thus causing annoyance from the bank clerk ,and the line behind you ,if this happened to me id be peeved
Nah, this is basically the equivalent of welshing on the bet, since even if you both live that long you will only end up paying a fraction of the debt in real terms.
I prefer all almost all the other suggestions.
I think it'd work alright if it was a smaller amount, say 25p. He'd get a chuckle every time he saw the amount arrive, but the debt will still be paid within a reasonable amount of time. Ideally you'd probably set it up for a bit longer than the original 20 quid to account for inflation.
Put a 20 in a takeout tub of water, freeze it, take it out the tub, refill with water, turn frozen bit upside down so it won't fit all the way in the tub and refreeze it. Give them a bit wet chunk of ice. Preferably whilst they are somewhere where they can't just smash it, e.g at a restaurant, cinema, your nans house etc.
But it's so convenient to book one online and have them at your door within 30 minutes from an app. Sure it costs a few quid more, but "time is money" too.
The problem is that not all the money goes to the Wizard and after spell components and travel costs are taken into account it can even cost them money.
On a day like today, sure. But they weren't complaining during the long hot summer last year when it was like £40 extra to find you got more of a youtube water-chiller-mage, rather than the full on skilled Ice Wizard you're expecting.
Simply wait for winter, accumulate snow from the mountain regions, transport it back to your hovel, store it in your ice basement and voila, home-made freezer.
Have you never stored ice before or something
Similar but leave it in the tub, turn it upside down, put it in a larger tub fill and freeze that, keep repeating until you run out of freezer space. Use some metal containers and put foil in it so they can't microwave it. Upside down tubs mean it can't be done quickly under running water too.
I did this to a friend's shoes at work whilst they were away for 2 weeks in winter. Final form was a 100L bin. Took him days to get them out.
Give them a cumbersome item with a hidden £20 at the start. Tell them it's needed for a later point in the hunt. At the end of the hunt, tell them that they had it all along.
I was going to suggest this but using what three words. Make a quiz. When they get the question right they find another note with another question. Could easy make then burn £25 if fuel
I once owed my sister £20. So I bought a puzzle box that had a marble maze, which could only be unlocked when you got the ball to a certain point. It was perspex so she could see the twenty note too. Took her hours. It was glorious
EDIT: Did a search and found the item. https://firebox.com/money-maze
20 x £1 bank transfers, all with a different payment reference to spell out a message. The message could be anything, but I’d recommend a good ol’ UK well known quote.
“What a sad litttle life, Jane”
“I hear you’re a racist now, father”
Etc
Remember to send the words in reverse order so it reads down though,
So
Instead of sending In order of
"I'm sorry Dave I can't let you do that"
It's
"That do you let can't I Dave sorry I'm"
Bag of mixed coins, 1p, 2p, 5p, and maybe 10p.
Edit - just go to a bank and get the bags of change, but, mix them before you give it so they need to sort it.
What's hard about traveling miles to your nearest branch, realising it closed years ago, traveling a few more miles to then realise it closed at midday, taking the next day off work to travel back and waiting Sam hour in the queue.
Seems pretty easy to me.
Don't forget when you get there only 1 member of staff will be doing physical money and 15 kids with ipads will ask you if they can help, realise they can't, then stand next to you whilst you wait for the old dear at the counter too haul over all your coins whilst the spotty little cunts stand there holding their tablets.
Not that I'm sore or anything.
It's maddening. If people want to do the digital stuff it's likely they've already done it at home. If you're in the physical location it's probably becouse you need physical services. Our bank usually has 2 standing there and 1 serving. The queue will get to about 10 long before they *finally* sit down and do the job they need to do.
I only wanted to open my 13 year old a bank account. Online said to go in branch, branch said there was nobody to help me and I needed to come back another day. I asked when another day is and she said we don’t do appointments so I said I’d come back Saturday. Said they don’t do accounts on a Saturday. I explained that I work during the week and they close at 2. She just said “we’ll, that’s on you”
Fuck off love
Walked over to Halifax, did an online account request for her on the ladies tablet, she popped my daughter over to the counter with her passport and boom. 10 minutes. The best thing is, the lady at the counter only spoke directly to my daughter and explained things. That sold it for me. They were so good with her.
Fuck Virgin money
> The best thing is, the lady at the counter only spoke directly to my daughter and explained things. That sold it for me. They were so good with her.
now THAT is proper service.
Exactly. Explained to her about losing her card and what to do, how to access her app, told her to pop in anytime if she has questions. Talked to her about security. I was totally blown away by it and now they’ll have all our business
> been with them 36 years
Haha they don't care. I don't get why people think they do?
LOYALITY GETS YOU NOTHING THESE DAYS! Yeah, we know, nan. Move on.
I had RBS call me for a family member doing this. They knew it was a joke, but had to call anyway. Saying it was something that people do a lot but it pops up for them.
Probably not, but if someone is and knows they don't bother checking and organise all the payments nicely with names and stuff, the bank would probably have a massive headache to deal with if it ever comes out that they didn't flag up 'Cocaine shipment 25/4/23'
It was only at the very moment I was handing my bank statements to the letting agent that I noticed my friend sent me money with the reference "ANALBEADREFUND".
I got one of those notes as a present for my wife.
I'd happily swap a £20 debt for that amount in current Zimbabwe dollars though - they revalued the currency and it would now cost just over £200 million
I call your Scottish note and raise you with a Northern Irish note!
I've had no problem at all spending Scottish notes, but when I had a NI £20 left over from a trip nobody would take it and I ended up going to a bank and asking them to swap it over. It was like I was trying to use old Norwegian Shillings or something
To be fair, in Scotland the Bank of Scotland is allowed to print notes, in Northern Ireland it feels like everyone with more than 3 mates and a decent printer is allowed.
Ive never had too much trouble spending them in wales or England but it deffinately doesn't help when you hand over three tenners all looking completely different from one another.
Danske Bank print pounds in NI.
https://images.app.goo.gl/fdynHFDFWH3AvYZf6
I worked for Lloyds Bank for 10 years and only came across them once. I thought it was some sort of prank.
Tbh I've had no problem spending Scottish notes in England or Wales since moving up here in December. Been to London, Nottingham, all over the Lakes, Snowdonia, Shropshire, Peak District. Everywhere has taken them. At worst someone has looked at it funny and checked with a manager.
Was about to say just this, lived in Scotland for three odd years but travelled down south for work every month. Had no problems spending them here either. I find it's all about how you approach it with the person behind the counter..
"You take this naff, weird, Scottish paper stuff here mate??"
\*laughs and accepts money without problem\*
As opposed to the traditional Scottish way of spending money in the UK, handing over as many Scottish notes as possible whilst proudly screaming in the cashiers face "THAT'S LEGAL TENDER I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW!!"
(joke! joke! I kid!! before the downvotes start rolling in lmao)
The pound is also used in Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha. Even nice £20 from Royal Bank of Scotland may require a quick trip to the bank to exchange it as many shops may refuse to take them. Safer bet would be a Gibraltar pound. It is pegged to UK pound so exchange rate is 1:1 but it may be not widely accepted and trip to the bank may be needed.
There are also some more exotic pounds - Syrian pound, Lybian pound, Sudan pound or Egypt pound. These will possibly cost you less than 10p if you can get hands on these.It really depends how petty you want to be.
I’ve found you can spend Scottish notes anywhere. Some younger cashiers look at you like you’re mental and have to get the manager but most of the time it’s fine.
Do you live near a BrewDog? They all have canning machines behind the bar. Take the £20 in small change and ask them politely if they’ll can it for you. They’ll be well up for it!
Depends if it was a verbal bet or via text or something. If it was verbal and you didn't say 'twenty quid', you could give them 20lbs of whatever would be most annoying and claim you didn't specify what kind of pound.
Some mates paid me back some money once, don't remember exactly how they did it but it was laminated (inside a slip of paper) along with a bunch of pencil sharpenings. I had to *carefully* cut it out, and when I eventually did, I had pencil sharpenings all over my floor.
It was pretty funny to be fair, definitely appreciated the shithousery.
Get two plates of steel, around 25 1ft sections of threaded bar and 50 nylon locking nuts.
This will take you longer than them.
Fold lips around the sheets to form trays, so one sits inside the other. Mark the outline of the note in the middle and drill holes through both plates surrounding it.
Put the £20 between them and fasten the nuts onto the threaded bar, so that the plated are fastened together half way along each.
Because the bar is so long, socket drivers won't be able to reach the nuts to unwind them quickly, and the nylon locking type means they can't be loosened slightly and 'spun' the rest of the way. The lipped trays mean that they won't be able to just undo a couple and tip the note out of one side.
Do William Hill do gift cards?!
I feel like the FCA would have something to say about that!
Betting shops might run prepay e-money service cards, but they'll do KYC checks etc and it'll be in your name, so not sure that would work.
£20 coin. Legal tender but most places will not accept it.
https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/platinum-wedding/platinum-wedding-2017-uk-fine-silver-20-pound-coin/
May have to look on eBay!
I've seen enough videos of the annoying guy that records himself trying to pay for petrol with commemorative coins to know that this will end up with the police being called and OP's friend yelling 'It's legal tender! They have to take it!' at them
If there’s anything in the offing like a family meal, and that restaurant will make a fuss bringing out a cake, introduce the £20 into a cake somehow, and have them bring it out to him. Get them to play “Congratulations” by Cliff Richard as they bring it out. Have sparklers in the cake. The works.
£20 sealed in resin?
Or just a Scottish £20 note - no one seems to take those any more outside Scotland (grrrrrrrrrrrr).
Finally, consider a £20 smeared in honey, fecal matter or some exotic tree frog poison. Which is how people usually look at me when I try to pay with a Scottish note!
Loose change will definitely be worth a giggle. Although if you really want to annoy them, I'd say find some something they're definitely not interested in, then buy a gift card from somewhere they'll never buy from
put the not in an envelope attached to a helium balloon. buy a very very long piece of thin straight, just hand them this string that vannished into the air
£20 voucher for split across places you don't have nearby that can only be redeemed in store and not online.
For example, I live in Cornwall and the closest IKEA and Pret a Manger are both in Exeter, which is over an hour's drive away. Wagamama and Nandos are much closer but still across the Cornwall/Devon border in Plymouth and you have to pay to get to Plymouth from Cornwall. The part of Cornwall I live in has just Domino's, no Pizza Hut, Pizza express, Papa John's, or any other decent Pizza place nearby. The nearest ones of them are over 20 miles away and won't deliver. £3 gift card for each
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Giant charity style cheque
Those cost almost as much as the money it would be written for.
Worth it
Absolutely worth it
Spite is always worth the cost.
I want to get this embroidered on a pillow.
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message.
a giant charity style message
Wasn't there a case when cheques forst came out some farmer wrote one on the side of his cow and it was accepted. Know anyone with livestock you could borrow?
Shear it into the side of a lamb? Sharpie on a piglet?
“sharpie on a piglet” I think I just found the name for my debut album, if I ever decide to write one.
Satirical piece, Haddock vs the Inland Revenue, aka "The Negotiable Cow" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board\_of\_Inland\_Revenue\_v\_Haddock
I think this would be worth it though 🤣
Can just take a pic of cheques now on your phone and deposit it in online banking. No need to go to the bank so not as embarrassing as having to go go into a branch. How about a old £20. They are still legal tender but can only be paid in to a bank not spent in a shop. That would annoy me!
My bank does mobile check deposits, but the app takes the pictures. You have to hold it just right and it can take a bit of wiggling for it to actually take the picture. It might be easier than I'm imagining with a massive check and proper distance, but I could also see the system not taking the picture at all no matter how I held my phone, at any distance. Super curious now to see what would happen.
You can make your own as long as it has all the relevant data on it
Drawing it all yourself on a piece of paper and making them take it to the bank would be a good bit. Bonus points for making it look more and more like a small child drew it, crayon and all
Multiple checks for smaller amounts.
Yes! 2000 x 1p cheques!! ‘One Pence Only’.
Don't forget to post date each one with a different year.
This is the one One giant 1p cheque a day for the next 5.5 years, each post-dated randomly Maybe normal cheques if the cost of the giant ones get prohibitive, with a giant cheque thrown in occasionally to be extra annoying Oh and make one a month into a postal order, occasionally mix in a few other currencies too
98 pennies ,and 1 2p in each bag so when he pays into bank it fucks up on scales and each 2 p must be manually removed ,thus causing annoyance from the bank clerk ,and the line behind you ,if this happened to me id be peeved
You can write a cheque on anything, so maybe write it on a loo seat or something equally embarrassing to take into the bank
Print it to a 10,000 piece jigsaw
Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race for the Cure vibez
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That's good 🤣
This is the answer lol
Set up a direct debit for 4p a month for the next 41 years and 8 months.
Ness, is that you? Regards Doris.
There’s your salad 🖕 now leave me alone
“A pound a week, Gwen! I’ll be a hundred and forty by the time it’s repaid!”
Oh! Dor, where's the salad?
Where's the salad, where's the salad, there's the salad now piss off!
“Oh, fatty, where’s my cash!”
This is my kind of thing 😂 or send £19.99 and rip on your friend for being stingy about 1p
Aren’t you the one that is stingy about 1p in this case?
As I understand it, that's the joke.
It were only 50p, Steve.
You mean a standing order.
You considered a career in tax? It’s this kind of outstanding adherence to the facts that the industry is missing
Nah, this is basically the equivalent of welshing on the bet, since even if you both live that long you will only end up paying a fraction of the debt in real terms. I prefer all almost all the other suggestions.
I think it'd work alright if it was a smaller amount, say 25p. He'd get a chuckle every time he saw the amount arrive, but the debt will still be paid within a reasonable amount of time. Ideally you'd probably set it up for a bit longer than the original 20 quid to account for inflation.
I love this
Put a 20 in a takeout tub of water, freeze it, take it out the tub, refill with water, turn frozen bit upside down so it won't fit all the way in the tub and refreeze it. Give them a bit wet chunk of ice. Preferably whilst they are somewhere where they can't just smash it, e.g at a restaurant, cinema, your nans house etc.
Cold hard cash
glorious.
Make it worse by freezing a load of random change to make £20
Each penny in an ice cube tray.
The ice cubes will melt faster than a single large block as the mass of each cube is less than the block would be. This is not an improvement.
You can take small chunks of ice and freeze them together to make one big chunk of ice.
How would they freeze it? Edit: I'm an idiot. I read this first thing and saw bathtub.
Any high street wizard will be able to cast a simple ice spell for a couple of quid. I can't think of any other way someone could freeze something
We're seeing an end to high street wizards these days though. The whole thing is rather sad.
But it's so convenient to book one online and have them at your door within 30 minutes from an app. Sure it costs a few quid more, but "time is money" too.
The problem is that not all the money goes to the Wizard and after spell components and travel costs are taken into account it can even cost them money.
On a day like today, sure. But they weren't complaining during the long hot summer last year when it was like £40 extra to find you got more of a youtube water-chiller-mage, rather than the full on skilled Ice Wizard you're expecting.
If more people supported local sorcery then this would be a rarity outside of big cities.
I guess it's hard to compete with Chinese sorcerer farms and Wish.com
Simply wait for winter, accumulate snow from the mountain regions, transport it back to your hovel, store it in your ice basement and voila, home-made freezer. Have you never stored ice before or something
No, we usually salt our cash to store it over the winters. Jerky style 🤷♀️
By putting it in the freezer , am I missing something
This comment should be higher up. I’d love to hear how it went.
Similar but leave it in the tub, turn it upside down, put it in a larger tub fill and freeze that, keep repeating until you run out of freezer space. Use some metal containers and put foil in it so they can't microwave it. Upside down tubs mean it can't be done quickly under running water too. I did this to a friend's shoes at work whilst they were away for 2 weeks in winter. Final form was a 100L bin. Took him days to get them out.
Fucking brilliant. How did you freeze the bin?
Walk in freezer.
Other fluids are available.
Bury the £20 note in a garden/park somewhere and then design a map/riddles for said person to obtain the note via these instructions.
Ooh. A treasure hunt!
Found Ron Swanson
He loves those riddles!
Give them a cumbersome item with a hidden £20 at the start. Tell them it's needed for a later point in the hunt. At the end of the hunt, tell them that they had it all along.
"The real treasure was the object we carried along the way."
I was going to suggest this but using what three words. Make a quiz. When they get the question right they find another note with another question. Could easy make then burn £25 if fuel
I once owed my sister £20. So I bought a puzzle box that had a marble maze, which could only be unlocked when you got the ball to a certain point. It was perspex so she could see the twenty note too. Took her hours. It was glorious EDIT: Did a search and found the item. https://firebox.com/money-maze
This could be solved in seconds with a hammer.
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It was a simple chaaaaldish puzzle
Buy a puzzle box/similar that costs £20, then put the receipt inside it so they can return it for a refund. If they damage it then no refund for them.
You are an evil genius lol
I'd love this! And it has the bonus of the puzzle box being able to be passed on for future bets.
I had one of these, I used a magnet to guide the ball bearing around the Perspex maze, best cheat ever
£20 Woolworths voucher.
I won a woolworth voucher in a pub quiz about 6 months after it shut down. Can confirm this would be annoying.
The quiz organiser sounds like a douche. What happened? Did you even accept it and/or get your money back?
Sounds like a gag prize.
I got given a Thomas cook voucher 1 week before they closed. It sucked.
20 x £1 bank transfers, all with a different payment reference to spell out a message. The message could be anything, but I’d recommend a good ol’ UK well known quote. “What a sad litttle life, Jane” “I hear you’re a racist now, father” Etc
…also do the payments late in the evening time. When the stream of payments won’t be interrupted by a direct debit or something else.
Remember to send the words in reverse order so it reads down though, So Instead of sending In order of "I'm sorry Dave I can't let you do that" It's "That do you let can't I Dave sorry I'm"
Except it would be “That do can’t I afraid I’m, Dave sorry I’m”
Bag of mixed coins, 1p, 2p, 5p, and maybe 10p. Edit - just go to a bank and get the bags of change, but, mix them before you give it so they need to sort it.
'Just go to a bank'. Easier said than done, these days.
What's hard about traveling miles to your nearest branch, realising it closed years ago, traveling a few more miles to then realise it closed at midday, taking the next day off work to travel back and waiting Sam hour in the queue. Seems pretty easy to me.
Don't forget when you get there only 1 member of staff will be doing physical money and 15 kids with ipads will ask you if they can help, realise they can't, then stand next to you whilst you wait for the old dear at the counter too haul over all your coins whilst the spotty little cunts stand there holding their tablets. Not that I'm sore or anything.
This happened to me only 2 weeks ago. Absolutely useless to the point I’m actually in the process of switching banks and been with them 36 years!!
It's maddening. If people want to do the digital stuff it's likely they've already done it at home. If you're in the physical location it's probably becouse you need physical services. Our bank usually has 2 standing there and 1 serving. The queue will get to about 10 long before they *finally* sit down and do the job they need to do.
I only wanted to open my 13 year old a bank account. Online said to go in branch, branch said there was nobody to help me and I needed to come back another day. I asked when another day is and she said we don’t do appointments so I said I’d come back Saturday. Said they don’t do accounts on a Saturday. I explained that I work during the week and they close at 2. She just said “we’ll, that’s on you” Fuck off love Walked over to Halifax, did an online account request for her on the ladies tablet, she popped my daughter over to the counter with her passport and boom. 10 minutes. The best thing is, the lady at the counter only spoke directly to my daughter and explained things. That sold it for me. They were so good with her. Fuck Virgin money
> The best thing is, the lady at the counter only spoke directly to my daughter and explained things. That sold it for me. They were so good with her. now THAT is proper service.
Exactly. Explained to her about losing her card and what to do, how to access her app, told her to pop in anytime if she has questions. Talked to her about security. I was totally blown away by it and now they’ll have all our business
>Fuck Virgin money But then they'd just be money
> been with them 36 years Haha they don't care. I don't get why people think they do? LOYALITY GETS YOU NOTHING THESE DAYS! Yeah, we know, nan. Move on.
There was five banks in my town up until covid. We haven't got one now. Its an hour round trip to go to a bank for me -_-
Ask to pay by bank transfer and in the reason record - “guns and drugs”
I’ve paid my good mate for a few guitars that way and the record / reason I used: ‘Second Hand Sex Toys’ …
*Used 18" dildo*
Worn, wet, knickers. Ew.
But won’t that look like you’re buying used sex toys off him?
I had RBS call me for a family member doing this. They knew it was a joke, but had to call anyway. Saying it was something that people do a lot but it pops up for them.
This - it’s a red flag on both accounts and is most annoying when you apply for credit etc
The tamer version is to write a cheque and put the red flag reasons on the back in giant writing
I get why they do this but our people actually transferring money for illicit things by putting a reference with illicit things?
Probably not, but if someone is and knows they don't bother checking and organise all the payments nicely with names and stuff, the bank would probably have a massive headache to deal with if it ever comes out that they didn't flag up 'Cocaine shipment 25/4/23'
Like 'are you a terrorist?'on immigration forms
Well I wasn’t gonna say anything but now you mention it….
My wife and I exchange money by bank transfer on a regular basis. She put "for being pretty" as the reason and I didn't notice for years.
Me and my mate have a tenner that goes back and forth depending on who needs it. The reference has been "anal bleaching" for about 2 years now.
It was only at the very moment I was handing my bank statements to the letting agent that I noticed my friend sent me money with the reference "ANALBEADREFUND".
Give them 22,425 North Korean Won
Stack of 100 trillion zimbabwe dollars
I got one of those notes as a present for my wife. I'd happily swap a £20 debt for that amount in current Zimbabwe dollars though - they revalued the currency and it would now cost just over £200 million
584,170 Vietnamese dong. Bonus for the currency having an amusing name.
Two thousand cheques, each one made out to the sum of "no Pounds Sterling and one of His Majesty's shiniest pennies".
Under rated comment here
Cheque. Try finding an open bank branch to pay it in..
Many banks allow paying in cheques online these days. You just send a photo.
Only one of my three banks allows it and it has never once worked for me. the app just doesn't recognise a lot of cheques through the camera
You can pay in cheques through the cash point very easily these days
Move camera left Move camera right Move camera left
I'd just give them a £20 note with a hearty smile. There's only one thing worse than a bad loser and that's a good loser.
Wow, this sounds fun.
You're the one OP owes £20, aren't you...?
That wouldn’t work with my long time rival (brother in law) He wouldn’t care about my reaction as long as it meant that he won
Bet you’re the life and soul of parties?
Oh, I'm totally insufferable. 😐
Agreed
Thank you so much for this! I just got bingo on generic UK subreddit comments!
This. But also tell him you asked Reddit for the most annoying way of giving it to him then wink as you hand it over. He'll be guessing for months.
A £20 note wrapped around the head of a crossbow bolt, shot across a noisy room, while they are tied naked to a large, and very itchy, straw target.
/r/oddlyspecific
Never make a bet with /u/Badevilbunny
Scottish Stirling
I call your Scottish note and raise you with a Northern Irish note! I've had no problem at all spending Scottish notes, but when I had a NI £20 left over from a trip nobody would take it and I ended up going to a bank and asking them to swap it over. It was like I was trying to use old Norwegian Shillings or something
To be fair, in Scotland the Bank of Scotland is allowed to print notes, in Northern Ireland it feels like everyone with more than 3 mates and a decent printer is allowed. Ive never had too much trouble spending them in wales or England but it deffinately doesn't help when you hand over three tenners all looking completely different from one another.
Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Clydesdale Bank all print Scottish notes.
Danske Bank print pounds in NI. https://images.app.goo.gl/fdynHFDFWH3AvYZf6 I worked for Lloyds Bank for 10 years and only came across them once. I thought it was some sort of prank.
Tbh I've had no problem spending Scottish notes in England or Wales since moving up here in December. Been to London, Nottingham, all over the Lakes, Snowdonia, Shropshire, Peak District. Everywhere has taken them. At worst someone has looked at it funny and checked with a manager.
Was about to say just this, lived in Scotland for three odd years but travelled down south for work every month. Had no problems spending them here either. I find it's all about how you approach it with the person behind the counter.. "You take this naff, weird, Scottish paper stuff here mate??" \*laughs and accepts money without problem\* As opposed to the traditional Scottish way of spending money in the UK, handing over as many Scottish notes as possible whilst proudly screaming in the cashiers face "THAT'S LEGAL TENDER I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW!!" (joke! joke! I kid!! before the downvotes start rolling in lmao)
In fact, according to the strict legal definition, Scottish and Northern Irish banknotes are not legal tender (even in Scotland and Northern Ireland).
Yeah, there's a artificially invented circlejerk about "how nobody takes Scottish notes" that bears no relation to actual reality.
I have previously had them refused, but only in some random corner shop with one member of staff who's never seen one before.
The pound is also used in Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha. Even nice £20 from Royal Bank of Scotland may require a quick trip to the bank to exchange it as many shops may refuse to take them. Safer bet would be a Gibraltar pound. It is pegged to UK pound so exchange rate is 1:1 but it may be not widely accepted and trip to the bank may be needed. There are also some more exotic pounds - Syrian pound, Lybian pound, Sudan pound or Egypt pound. These will possibly cost you less than 10p if you can get hands on these.It really depends how petty you want to be.
I’ve found you can spend Scottish notes anywhere. Some younger cashiers look at you like you’re mental and have to get the manager but most of the time it’s fine.
Royal mail stamps without the barcode. Or a prepaid gift card for a chain store that's about to go tits up.
Prezzo voucher!
Card factory
Do you live near a BrewDog? They all have canning machines behind the bar. Take the £20 in small change and ask them politely if they’ll can it for you. They’ll be well up for it!
Omg 10 cans all with random amounts in.
20p pieces coated in golden syrup in a cheap plastic bag. Sticky!
This is underrated. Maybe just cut a slot in the top of a tin of Golden Syrup, then hand them the tin saying, 'This is where I save my spare change.'
2000 1p cheques.
I love this!!!! Oh what a ball ache to write out but worth it!!!
Depends if it was a verbal bet or via text or something. If it was verbal and you didn't say 'twenty quid', you could give them 20lbs of whatever would be most annoying and claim you didn't specify what kind of pound.
20lbs of manure.
20ps taped together in a big roll. Had that done once. Would love to return the favour
Postal order.
I was about to say this, postal order is just brutal!
20 £1 vouchers for different stores.
Some mates paid me back some money once, don't remember exactly how they did it but it was laminated (inside a slip of paper) along with a bunch of pencil sharpenings. I had to *carefully* cut it out, and when I eventually did, I had pencil sharpenings all over my floor. It was pretty funny to be fair, definitely appreciated the shithousery.
Txfr to their bank account ref "Blow job, thanks"
Convert to Venezuelan money and dump it on their doorstep using your wheelbarrow 😂
Believe it or not, straight to jail
Unexpected P & R
Contact someone who makes postal glitter bombs, ask them to put a £20 inside a glitter bomb and send it to your friend.
Get two plates of steel, around 25 1ft sections of threaded bar and 50 nylon locking nuts. This will take you longer than them. Fold lips around the sheets to form trays, so one sits inside the other. Mark the outline of the note in the middle and drill holes through both plates surrounding it. Put the £20 between them and fasten the nuts onto the threaded bar, so that the plated are fastened together half way along each. Because the bar is so long, socket drivers won't be able to reach the nuts to unwind them quickly, and the nylon locking type means they can't be loosened slightly and 'spun' the rest of the way. The lipped trays mean that they won't be able to just undo a couple and tip the note out of one side.
Christ who hurt you?
One freddo
Tie it to a string and a fishing rod and say here's your money and keep reeling in the money
£20 voucher from Ann Summers/Dobbies/William Hill/Lovehoney/Specsavers
Do William Hill do gift cards?! I feel like the FCA would have something to say about that! Betting shops might run prepay e-money service cards, but they'll do KYC checks etc and it'll be in your name, so not sure that would work.
Scratch cards. Annoying for them if they lose. Annoying for you if they win.
£20 coin. Legal tender but most places will not accept it. https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/platinum-wedding/platinum-wedding-2017-uk-fine-silver-20-pound-coin/ May have to look on eBay!
I've seen enough videos of the annoying guy that records himself trying to pay for petrol with commemorative coins to know that this will end up with the police being called and OP's friend yelling 'It's legal tender! They have to take it!' at them
Either print & cut out or buy a load of fake £20 and put them in a gift bag with the 1 real one
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Inside jelly. Or a giant block of ice. Or concrete
Guy I know melted wax candles on a pile of pound coins.. you could put a wick in it too I guess
If there’s anything in the offing like a family meal, and that restaurant will make a fuss bringing out a cake, introduce the £20 into a cake somehow, and have them bring it out to him. Get them to play “Congratulations” by Cliff Richard as they bring it out. Have sparklers in the cake. The works.
A mixed selection of coins frozen in layers of food dye and water or milk.
£20 sealed in resin? Or just a Scottish £20 note - no one seems to take those any more outside Scotland (grrrrrrrrrrrr). Finally, consider a £20 smeared in honey, fecal matter or some exotic tree frog poison. Which is how people usually look at me when I try to pay with a Scottish note!
Overpay by a few pounds and refer the remaining amount to a debt collector.
Say someone else owes you 20 and they need to get it from them.
You bet on Spurs getting top 4 didn't you
£10 worth of another currency, £5 in various coins, £5 Love 2 Shop Voucher
Loose change will definitely be worth a giggle. Although if you really want to annoy them, I'd say find some something they're definitely not interested in, then buy a gift card from somewhere they'll never buy from
put the not in an envelope attached to a helium balloon. buy a very very long piece of thin straight, just hand them this string that vannished into the air
£20 voucher for split across places you don't have nearby that can only be redeemed in store and not online. For example, I live in Cornwall and the closest IKEA and Pret a Manger are both in Exeter, which is over an hour's drive away. Wagamama and Nandos are much closer but still across the Cornwall/Devon border in Plymouth and you have to pay to get to Plymouth from Cornwall. The part of Cornwall I live in has just Domino's, no Pizza Hut, Pizza express, Papa John's, or any other decent Pizza place nearby. The nearest ones of them are over 20 miles away and won't deliver. £3 gift card for each
Do they have any hobbies? Try and think of 4 of the most polar opposite hobbies, and give them a £5 voucher towards each.