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Look, I'm all for whimsy but let's be honest with ourselves, this is clearly a vending machine and not an ATM. It doesn't even take cash, let alone allow salmon deposits.
Fake outrage aside, this whips and I dunno who's out here buying 200 gram portions of frozen salmon after midnight, but they seem fun.
I agree, this isn't an ATM. It's an automated machine, but it doesn't provide any of the same services as a bank teller. It should instead be called an AFM (automated fishmonger machine).
AFM - Automatic fish monger
That way, AFM machine isn't redundant. I like the way you think. This'll give pedants years of the same shit to talk about.
FTM - Fish Transaction Machine
Can you be 100% certain that someone doesn't consider salmon as currency? Since the automated teller machine is for giving out currency after all
My cat would totally accept it as payment.
Uh, what do you think S$ means? Clearly, it is Salmon-Dollars.
I just want to be very very clear that if you say this phrase out loud, you MUST. ARTICULATE. CAREFULLY.