I think the foreigners make fun of us because they realize that they would get even more money from us if all the businesses wouldn't commit tax fraud and think they get us to pass a law this way, which would force everyone to use credit cards making tax fraud impossible.
Ain't happening, you already get way too much anyway
oh brother...if only you knew how much money switches hands in this country without Papa Staat noticing. Restaurants, barber shops, construction workers...these guys live off undeclared revenue
All these shops have this sign, since years.
https://preview.redd.it/jhxirvkpay9d1.png?width=682&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d9f9d7c418ac9098aa6c60dfe607d51b68d550d
hahahha youâre adorable, several of my colleagues created companies just to cheese the tax system a bit. as my grandfather always said one person will get cheated, make sure its not you.
whenever you tell a german i donât like cash they reply but then you canât âjust pay đâ someone.
Yes the state gets around 100 billion euros less do to tax fraud... This would literally fix most of our budget issues, but oh well the politicians don't care, so we cut social spending.
Do you even realize how insanely high the tax burden is in this country? Germany gets enough tax revenue, it just gets wasted by our politicians. We need competent elites and not more tax revenue. Switzerland manages with way lower tax rates and is a functioning country, stop spreading this bullshit of we just need more taxes to fix our problems
The tax for the richest in the country has steadily decreased while the tax burden for lower income families and the middle class has either stayed the same or even increased. It's a redistribution from the bottom to the top. You paying your barber in cash has no impact on the tax income. It's mostly rich people and companies that can even affort to pay experts that discover tax loop holes. Hell most of the time the same companies tasked with fixing loop holes actually work with cooperations to get around said tax rules. Also millionaires in Switzerland pay more taxes than in Germany....
German state wastes 50 billion on fake refugees every year, billions on foreign aid that achieves absolutely nothing, billions on random ngos that do nothing, finance gender studies and other woke bullshit, we have the second largest parliament in the world and pay insane sums for our politicians, we give 20 billion to the EU every year and get nearly nothing in return. BĂŒrgergeld even for people who refuse to work. We do not need more taxes, just stop wasting the money and we could actually lower taxes for the poor. But apparently my ideas are literally fascism and would destroy the democracy or something and therefore cannot be implemented
Wow so much uneducated bullshit in one post impressive.
- Germany spend 27 billion on refugees last year. This year it's 21 billion, next year probably around17 billion.
Where do you get the 50 billion from?
- Ukrainian refugees are fake? Ok is the Russian invasion an illusion or what?
- our foreign aid is mostly credit which we get back + interest (means we gain money from this)
- foreign aid is geopolitics, it it's like a bribe for access that German companies gain in those countries to resources or markets, or to have those countries hold back refugees coming to Europe.
- you complaining about us giving 20bil to the EU and getting nothing from it is the most stupid take you made. Like that is Brexit level of bullshit.
our companies get access to a market of 450million people. Literally 50% of our exports go to other EU countries.
We gain around 68 billion every year just from trade in the EU making, so it raises our per capita income alone by 1000âŹ
Our farmers get subsidies of 156 euros per Hektar
- 2.2million Jobs in Germany depend on EU trade
It is an undisputed fact that we gain the most from the EU even when we pay a big amount into it.
...
I have been in cities where a döner cost 5 euros and it came go ur door in under 30 minutes (ON AVERAGE)
The competitive price SHOULD bee around 10 to 12 Euros and by pure coincidence they never take card.
I'm confused. Why would I keep an expired credit card? And the second picture seems like pretty normal self-checkout except the signs are written in gibberish.
As a German my first reaction was: get a new card, yours is expired. And if you're already on it also check if your IDs are still valid and don't forget to make your taxes.
Come out Luigi, the Carabinieri are standing outside your house for buying the wrong brand of olive oil. You'll be shipped to the penal colony of Naples
Let me guess, it's a disgusting Maestro card? That's not a true debit card, you dumbass. Get a MasterCard or Visa debit card.
Also, a big part of our economy is still cash. Consumers may use cards in stores but ask a contractor if he prefers cash and he'll give you a 20% discount. Heck, I got my car at the Mercedes dealership 10% under the listing price because I paid in cash. Not sure what kind of creative accounting they used but it saved me 6k.
Actually no, if you use it wisely its a great tool. I use mine to get 0% installments. Lets say something costs 2k, if I buy it on credit i can pay in 12 monthly installments, and invest the money that would otherwise spent one off. So in a year I can get a 100 euro back from a 2k investment and minus 30 euro for the card subscription I will make a profit of 70 euro + the monthly payment convenience + credit card bonuses like miles.
This model only works if someone else is too stupid to game the system and pays for your bonuses through crippling debt. I feel like this could be a metaphor for something....
I think its up to the merchant and not depend so much on the bank/issuer. They (the merchant) will still pay a percentage to the bank/issuer, but they do it to boost sales. In some stores they offer a discount OR 0% installments but thats not the case everywhere. Its very common in Greece tho
Ah yes i know what you mean. There always such advertisements at electronics stores. I heard though that having many different credit cards/loans hurts your credit score.
You should pay all big things with your credit card. Most scam free way as it'd all insured.
You don't actually need to go into debt to use a credit card
Self-checkout is another way for the supermarkets to lower wage costs. If an employee there asks you "*Why don't you use self-checkout?*", your answer should be "*Because I don't work here*".
Went to Germany a while ago. Passed by an ATM because I wanted to buy some Kuchen at the Backerei. They asked me whether I could pay by card because they preferred that over cash.
WTF happened to you guys?
Huh? All grocery stores in my city either don't have self checkout or disabled them a few weeks after installation and I just spend a few days in Berlin and constantly had to get cash because places would not take card.
Nicht ĂŒberall - von 25+ Restaurants in der NĂ€he wo ich Wohne akzeptieren nur 2-3 Karten, bei den Rest hĂ€ngen laminierte Schilder "NO EC/NO CARD/CASH ONLY". In der NĂ€he habe ich auch 5 MĂ€rkte (3x Discounter, 1x REWE, 1x Edeka) - alle wurden wĂ€hrend Corona oder kurz danach entweder neu gebaut oder kernsaniert und renoviert - nicht eine SB-Kasse zwischen allen 5 da zu sehen.
Dann ruf beim örtlichen Finanzamt an und hinterleg nen anonymen tip mit dem Verdacht der Steuerhinterziehung dann gibbet ein paar Tage spĂ€ter da ne kassenprĂŒfung.
I dont know a single shop withlut self-checkout and our EC-Cards usually have an implemented Debitcard (at least where i live its common for every Sparkasse to do so). The only thing im confused about is why i should be confused
Come to Munich. I can only name two or three shops here that have self-checkout that aren't a Kaufland â and one of them I only discovered last week.
The cheaper supermarkets usually donât have self-check out. But the more âexpensiveâ ones like Rewe and Edeka usually have some of them. (But here it always depends on the owner of the store)
To be fair I think quite a few have been installed recently (a year or two ago it was literally nothing except Kaufland afaik, but since then I've seen one in each of Rewe, Edeka and tegut).
So my preconceptions could be out of date â I just think of Germany as decades behind already and I fail to acknowledge that it does move forward.
When I move to a different municipality (within my country), I can register myself there online.
I don't need to physically go to an office, I don't need to have a paper trail on me, I don't need an additional trail of paper for my car and all my insurance stuff.
https://preview.redd.it/ch3of1ooxy9d1.png?width=545&format=png&auto=webp&s=34d783f3c854ddb93d4ccb0e86b005c409cc925d
This may one day replace your fax machine.
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that side of the river is Germany btw, this side is Switzerland so you can't touch this.
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Bit tough, but this made lot of Germans go :). Sorry, Hans itâs a joke, before you come to burn my house.
I prefer an ALDI cashier scanning 5 Items per second, testing my skills in catching groceries.
I don't want to make a 2 hour siesta in a carrefour cashier line like Juan.
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We add cheese to our kebab and put it in the oven
Yes. (And especially for South Prussians, also because it's open past 8pm sometimes.) And it's not a railway station.
Although I guess it is overpriced like one, so that might make you feel at home.
Blow their minds, show them the 24h Tesco and ASDA superstores. Shopping at 3am is simply a must (even though our local Tesco now closes at midnight due to a string of robberies without police response, but that's just Britain in 2024)
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https://i.redd.it/24amp7tp2x9d1.gif
Cool I think I bought this once. The installments are killing me though.
Tbh, the average reaction would rather be: đ€Łđ€
Context pls
Germoney having to pay Ellenic Feta-backed state Debt
ty
The financnial crisis < immigration crisis < Covid crisis < right-wing party crisis (the "<" should all be arrows, I think.)
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itâs not like we donât have credit cards or self-checkoutsâŠđ
only fĂŒr die groĂe rechnung. đ
I thought you guys were paying in the supermarkets by fax?
We've replaced that option with Apple Watches.
They still take signatures for credit cards lol. Germany craves the 90s.
Oh I recently had that too in Germany, had to sign, I donât even have my signature on my card, no one checked, great securityđ
https://preview.redd.it/37rt9h8xry9d1.jpeg?width=304&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=207a382d42f78d49dfe18ae022c12659ffd1d841
This one actually hits
I think the foreigners make fun of us because they realize that they would get even more money from us if all the businesses wouldn't commit tax fraud and think they get us to pass a law this way, which would force everyone to use credit cards making tax fraud impossible. Ain't happening, you already get way too much anyway
But I need a new PC...
Do germans really commit tax fraud though?
big time
I think itâs no coincidence that card terminals entered pubs, restaurants and döner place exactly when the prices almost doubled
my local döner still only has cash and they have decent prices
Discount at Finanzamt's expense
my top g
Yeah 5 bucks and you know you get extra meat
Döner places that accept anything else than cash serve disgusting shit most of the time.
oh brother...if only you knew how much money switches hands in this country without Papa Staat noticing. Restaurants, barber shops, construction workers...these guys live off undeclared revenue
All these shops have this sign, since years. https://preview.redd.it/jhxirvkpay9d1.png?width=682&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d9f9d7c418ac9098aa6c60dfe607d51b68d550d
hahahha youâre adorable, several of my colleagues created companies just to cheese the tax system a bit. as my grandfather always said one person will get cheated, make sure its not you. whenever you tell a german i donât like cash they reply but then you canât âjust pay đâ someone.
Just ask Uncle Scholz if he knows anything about it. He might have forgotten about it though.
Yes the state gets around 100 billion euros less do to tax fraud... This would literally fix most of our budget issues, but oh well the politicians don't care, so we cut social spending.
Do you even realize how insanely high the tax burden is in this country? Germany gets enough tax revenue, it just gets wasted by our politicians. We need competent elites and not more tax revenue. Switzerland manages with way lower tax rates and is a functioning country, stop spreading this bullshit of we just need more taxes to fix our problems
The tax for the richest in the country has steadily decreased while the tax burden for lower income families and the middle class has either stayed the same or even increased. It's a redistribution from the bottom to the top. You paying your barber in cash has no impact on the tax income. It's mostly rich people and companies that can even affort to pay experts that discover tax loop holes. Hell most of the time the same companies tasked with fixing loop holes actually work with cooperations to get around said tax rules. Also millionaires in Switzerland pay more taxes than in Germany....
German state wastes 50 billion on fake refugees every year, billions on foreign aid that achieves absolutely nothing, billions on random ngos that do nothing, finance gender studies and other woke bullshit, we have the second largest parliament in the world and pay insane sums for our politicians, we give 20 billion to the EU every year and get nearly nothing in return. BĂŒrgergeld even for people who refuse to work. We do not need more taxes, just stop wasting the money and we could actually lower taxes for the poor. But apparently my ideas are literally fascism and would destroy the democracy or something and therefore cannot be implemented
Wow so much uneducated bullshit in one post impressive. - Germany spend 27 billion on refugees last year. This year it's 21 billion, next year probably around17 billion. Where do you get the 50 billion from? - Ukrainian refugees are fake? Ok is the Russian invasion an illusion or what? - our foreign aid is mostly credit which we get back + interest (means we gain money from this) - foreign aid is geopolitics, it it's like a bribe for access that German companies gain in those countries to resources or markets, or to have those countries hold back refugees coming to Europe. - you complaining about us giving 20bil to the EU and getting nothing from it is the most stupid take you made. Like that is Brexit level of bullshit. our companies get access to a market of 450million people. Literally 50% of our exports go to other EU countries. We gain around 68 billion every year just from trade in the EU making, so it raises our per capita income alone by 1000⏠Our farmers get subsidies of 156 euros per Hektar - 2.2million Jobs in Germany depend on EU trade It is an undisputed fact that we gain the most from the EU even when we pay a big amount into it. ...
You are incredibly dense.
I have been in cities where a döner cost 5 euros and it came go ur door in under 30 minutes (ON AVERAGE) The competitive price SHOULD bee around 10 to 12 Euros and by pure coincidence they never take card.
You dont need cash for that, i went to an arab barber shop and was told i could pay in cash or paypal(friends) lmao.
The "European" flair should be more offensive.
I'm confused. Why would I keep an expired credit card? And the second picture seems like pretty normal self-checkout except the signs are written in gibberish.
As a German my first reaction was: get a new card, yours is expired. And if you're already on it also check if your IDs are still valid and don't forget to make your taxes.
Yes, more power to the banks, this is what we need
Based Hans. Turns out he's the one with most common sense
Fuck cash. I am tired of having to deal with coins and paper.
NOOO THEY CONTROL US THE BANK WILL SEE HOW MUCH I SPEND ON GROCERIES AND OVERSIZED DILDOS REEEEEEEE
Come out Luigi, the Carabinieri are standing outside your house for buying the wrong brand of olive oil. You'll be shipped to the penal colony of Naples
Penal? Sounds like fun
papa staat auch.
If their internet could load the comments, they would be very upset
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That one actually does confuse me. Why is there no copper in those cables?
??????????? Never seen that stuff over here
It's future pasta
I don't get it. How am I able to watch cable TV?
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Why are those numbers mismatched? Very confusing to me.
Why should I use self checkout when there is a hot cashier waiting for me at Kasse
https://preview.redd.it/c9szh3cn5y9d1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=32d110f70832b8c11fa23ddb20b57fa50d49aa61 sorry, wrong cuntry
Credit cards suck dick, paying with money you don't own is a dumb idea. Self check out is God's gift to mankind however
Literally use a debit card then?? How is this a problem. I even have a mastercard debit which I use with zero issues.
I use one dumbass, cashless is pretty much the way to go now
Let me guess, it's a disgusting Maestro card? That's not a true debit card, you dumbass. Get a MasterCard or Visa debit card. Also, a big part of our economy is still cash. Consumers may use cards in stores but ask a contractor if he prefers cash and he'll give you a 20% discount. Heck, I got my car at the Mercedes dealership 10% under the listing price because I paid in cash. Not sure what kind of creative accounting they used but it saved me 6k.
Lmao enjoy paying 20% tax on your house / car (nvm youâll never be able to afford it because you canât lie about how much you paid for it)
I love self checkout! You wouldn't believe how much shit I've stolen from Aldi đ
I like it so I can avoid all the slow pensioners đ
And to steal shit. Don't act like you never accidentally forgot to scan something..
Uuuh no.
If you can't spot the mug on the bus, you're the mug đ€·
Do you have it all organized in a spreadsheet?
I'm German but I'm not *that* German. But realistically it should be between 700 and 1000⏠worth of groceries.
But Hans! Zat iss a Kreim!
Actually no, if you use it wisely its a great tool. I use mine to get 0% installments. Lets say something costs 2k, if I buy it on credit i can pay in 12 monthly installments, and invest the money that would otherwise spent one off. So in a year I can get a 100 euro back from a 2k investment and minus 30 euro for the card subscription I will make a profit of 70 euro + the monthly payment convenience + credit card bonuses like miles.
We know Greece love to spend credit money. đŻ
forgot for a moment in which sub I was đ€Ł
This model only works if someone else is too stupid to game the system and pays for your bonuses through crippling debt. I feel like this could be a metaphor for something....
Greeks teaching Dutch about finance. The rapture is upon us, we're in the end times!
You do realise the CC companies take 2-3% of all purchases and prices are simply raised accordingly if CC usage is popular?
Where do you get one year 0%? I can do 3 months without interest on mine.
I think its up to the merchant and not depend so much on the bank/issuer. They (the merchant) will still pay a percentage to the bank/issuer, but they do it to boost sales. In some stores they offer a discount OR 0% installments but thats not the case everywhere. Its very common in Greece tho
Ah yes i know what you mean. There always such advertisements at electronics stores. I heard though that having many different credit cards/loans hurts your credit score.
You should pay all big things with your credit card. Most scam free way as it'd all insured. You don't actually need to go into debt to use a credit card
Self-checkout is another way for the supermarkets to lower wage costs. If an employee there asks you "*Why don't you use self-checkout?*", your answer should be "*Because I don't work here*".
OP last visit to Germany: 20 years ago My dude/dudette⊠Corona changed a lot of things over her.
True, now we are just 10 years behind the world, not 20
Went to Germany a while ago. Passed by an ATM because I wanted to buy some Kuchen at the Backerei. They asked me whether I could pay by card because they preferred that over cash. WTF happened to you guys?
Germany has fallen
Ja ja, last time I had to pay something cash was on EURO 2024. Long time ago.
Huh? All grocery stores in my city either don't have self checkout or disabled them a few weeks after installation and I just spend a few days in Berlin and constantly had to get cash because places would not take card.
well Berliners do not like to pay taxes
Why pay Taxes when most other states pay to keep that shithole running.
Nicht ĂŒberall - von 25+ Restaurants in der NĂ€he wo ich Wohne akzeptieren nur 2-3 Karten, bei den Rest hĂ€ngen laminierte Schilder "NO EC/NO CARD/CASH ONLY". In der NĂ€he habe ich auch 5 MĂ€rkte (3x Discounter, 1x REWE, 1x Edeka) - alle wurden wĂ€hrend Corona oder kurz danach entweder neu gebaut oder kernsaniert und renoviert - nicht eine SB-Kasse zwischen allen 5 da zu sehen.
Dann ruf beim örtlichen Finanzamt an und hinterleg nen anonymen tip mit dem Verdacht der Steuerhinterziehung dann gibbet ein paar Tage spĂ€ter da ne kassenprĂŒfung.
Terminator early access, V0.00001
Btw. those self-checkouts seem to lack the pay cash option. Where is the coin-counter-machine?
I dont know a single shop withlut self-checkout and our EC-Cards usually have an implemented Debitcard (at least where i live its common for every Sparkasse to do so). The only thing im confused about is why i should be confused
Come to Munich. I can only name two or three shops here that have self-checkout that aren't a Kaufland â and one of them I only discovered last week.
The cheaper supermarkets usually donât have self-check out. But the more âexpensiveâ ones like Rewe and Edeka usually have some of them. (But here it always depends on the owner of the store)
To be fair I think quite a few have been installed recently (a year or two ago it was literally nothing except Kaufland afaik, but since then I've seen one in each of Rewe, Edeka and tegut). So my preconceptions could be out of date â I just think of Germany as decades behind already and I fail to acknowledge that it does move forward.
Oy bruv o'er 'ere all the edeka, rewe, lidl, an nettos aswell got em selfcheckouts
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Moustache is barely visible
That pillow looks uncomfortable and inefficient. It forces you into the same tech-neck Gollum posture you slouches spend all day in.
We have export surplus to cope.
LMAO, like if we don't have self checkouts.
The credit card is expired. Why haven\`t you arranged for a new one?
Itâs coming. Via fax.
We Germans have a word for that: Your Antrag is verfristet.
The most confusing thing would be that the cardholders name isn't Max Mustermann
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I would comment, but my fax is not done receiving the images.
I fucking hate those self-checkout registers, they are slower than the cashier at Edeka!
When I move to a different municipality (within my country), I can register myself there online. I don't need to physically go to an office, I don't need to have a paper trail on me, I don't need an additional trail of paper for my car and all my insurance stuff.
But we can\`t get hacked by the Russians that way.
Except all that paperwork eventually goes into a computer that runs on Windows XP
Nah, you got enough Russians in the government to not need hackers
#âąïž
WAT HANGT ER AAN DE WASLIJN???!!??!
*\*sigh* Pretty standard over here, where's the sensation?
Someone forgot their salad dressing on one of those self check out machines. How negligent of them.
https://preview.redd.it/4iev434gqy9d1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=45a70568dba944b7f5980baf6c71d18d9f77bd73 During summer on the Autobahn.
https://preview.redd.it/ch3of1ooxy9d1.png?width=545&format=png&auto=webp&s=34d783f3c854ddb93d4ccb0e86b005c409cc925d This may one day replace your fax machine.
Never!
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King of deers?
https://preview.redd.it/owehr87n6x9d1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cccc1e23fcfef72d413abf280cc58afa1dcded22
https://preview.redd.it/qi4weytpbx9d1.jpeg?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=210b742cb4f2c18f8d4b11364e02b48e44c98857 Any of these on the countryside
Nur Bares ist wahres.
What are these things?!
Poland
https://preview.redd.it/ooxe8owhzy9d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6884093d1b4ddfab3ac8bf1fe8b4aa8f92c83e6 that side of the river is Germany btw, this side is Switzerland so you can't touch this.
I'm not impressed. In Germany, you can FAX letters. It's the epitome of technological advancement that you savages can't even begin to fathom.
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**Adhocracy**
Funny, I love those. Because I donât have to interact with people. đ But yeah, Germans and their cash money. Itâs insane.
Who dares to take away my paper cash for tax fraud??? Not in my germany đ€Źđ€Źđ€Ź!!!!!!!
Free coffee at work
Could someone explain the joke to the savage? And please donât tell me that Germans are writing checks for groceries.
https://preview.redd.it/jvsiu36jz1ad1.jpeg?width=338&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd2fb45733b582acb9a2398a88b984e96af7a130 Bit tough, but this made lot of Germans go :). Sorry, Hans itâs a joke, before you come to burn my house.
We would have burned your house anyway. Now, we can laugh about it.  So thanks for that!
Yeah, itâs good we are able to laugh about all that now.
I prefer an ALDI cashier scanning 5 Items per second, testing my skills in catching groceries. I don't want to make a 2 hour siesta in a carrefour cashier line like Juan.
https://preview.redd.it/wk6bu820l2ad1.jpeg?width=3834&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ca26f84d3583fd24de979efbcd319ea993fd58b We add cheese to our kebab and put it in the oven
Not an image but: _If you are invited to a party at 22.00 you should not show at least until 22.45._
Debit card > Credit card
I'm not German, but I'm confused. What's going on?
Germans don't like credit cards and therefore rarely have self-checkouts.
I do it constantly so I donât have to interact with people anymore.
You don't use debit cards either?
We do, but some shops want to avoid the card reader cost and some also avoid taxes by taking cash.
Why would you need a credit card for self checkout? Do you not have regular bank/pin cards?
We do have them and we do have self checkouts but its less common because we don't trust the Je... Banks, I meant banks
We use debit cards, but prefer cash. Well, actually the shops prefer cash because they can avoid fees .... and taxes.
you can also pay with cash at the Rewe near me for self checkout
We have self-checkouts where you can also pay cash.
98% of all stores and restaurants have card payment and we have self checkout in almost every store. So idk what OP is about.
we donât like taxes which is why we prefer cash. which is why some shops donât offer credit card.
Just donât pay them?
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I donât get it. Because itâs open on Sunday?
Yes. (And especially for South Prussians, also because it's open past 8pm sometimes.) And it's not a railway station. Although I guess it is overpriced like one, so that might make you feel at home.
Blow their minds, show them the 24h Tesco and ASDA superstores. Shopping at 3am is simply a must (even though our local Tesco now closes at midnight due to a string of robberies without police response, but that's just Britain in 2024)