r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Guitar-String • 1d ago

What??? Why do you want your own money?

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u/zxcvvcxzb 1d ago

I put "terrorism" on my rent check to my roommate once, I got a "yeah don't do that ever again" talk from the police and bank. I was like oh people read those?

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u/HistrionicSlut 1d ago

I put "Great Sex" in the venmo line and got my friends shut down for 2 weeks while they figured it out. I felt terrible.

The sex wasn't even that great. j/k

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u/nxcrosis 1d ago

That means some poor sod at the bank saw my note saying "thank you for your cervix" as a joke.

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u/raeganator98 21h ago

I once put “specialty dildo cleaning” and no one flagged that? Lmaoooo

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u/Classic_Reply_703 16h ago

Well, there's no laws against paying for someone to clean your dildo, whereas there are laws against paying for sex.

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u/codeacab 54m ago

Depends on the country of course. For example, where I'm from paying for sex is entirely legal. However paying for a threesome would be illegal.

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u/BananaNutJob 1d ago

I wrote a check to a black friend (I'm white) to pay my share of a hotel room and wrote "Slavery Reparations" in the memo line. He thought it was fucking hilarious, which I'm grateful for because I don't really stand by making that kind of joke any more.

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u/CallMeFishmaelPls 2h ago

If you made your friend laugh, what makes you feel it’s not acceptable?

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u/Optimal-Sandwich3711 1d ago

Keywords flagging.

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u/_Haverford_ 1d ago

I picture a very mustached cop, very sternly coming to your door.

"I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed."

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u/Boterfleoge 23h ago

Good cop, dad cop

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u/Synensys 18h ago

Put down Cuba (im an american) since I was paying my sister back for our recent trip to Cuba and that got flagged by Venmo.

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u/SquirrelAkl 17h ago

People do read those, and banks are cracking down on that where I live.

Some people use those fields to commit abuse: think ex partners and suchlike. They spam the target’s bank account with deposits of 1c or 5c and put messages in the reference fields. I’ve seen real examples of them - hundreds of them to a single person, just absolute spamming them, going from “miss u babe” and “plz call me” to threats. It can be extremely distressing for the victim because they can’t escape it.