Why does an ATM belonging to an American bank in the heart of Chicago...

[ZombieNixon]

have a British accent? :shrug:

[skygazer]

1. Maybe it's an immigrant

Better ask for its green card. Might be one of those dreaded illegals.

[ZombieNixon]

2. Fuck!

So I took $20 out of a slot in an illegal immigrant female?! x(

[skygazer]

3. What are you, a Republican?

:rofl:

[Kutjara]

4. My office has a talking elevator like that.

I think the building owner thinks it makes the dump look more sophistimacated. Your bank probably believes you'd prefer to be ripped off by an nice polite British voice than a rude American one.

[ZombieNixon]

5. It does seem more palatable that way...

:rofl:

[ohiosmith]

6. Chicago ATMs. Always putting on airs.

[NewJeffCT]

7. Foreigners, and their educated ways...

are now sophisticated to us hillbilly Americans...

Look at the Dr. Z commercials for Mercedes.

Or, the Dyson guy selling his own vacuums.

If you have an accent, it gives you a stamp of sophistication.

[pstokely]

8. The ATM is British

[qnr]

9. My ATMs don't talk to me, and I prefer it that way n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. My credit union has a British ATM, too.

And the passenger tram at the Minneapolis airport is British as well. She says, very Britishly, "The tram is leaving the station. Please stand clear of the doors." In fact, I think it's the same voice. The tram is moonlighting as an ATM.

[Redstone]

11. Because Brits are so clawsy, you know. What ho, pip pip, pop off,

old chum.

Redstone

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. It's related to the shuttle train in the Minneapolis airport, which

also has a British accent.

However, when I was in England this summer, none of the mechanical objects had American accents.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. I think my ATM should give up its British airport tram gig,

and that way we can get a real Minnesota airport tram that says, "So this thing's gonna get going now, so let's just stand clear of the doors, then, okay?"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. And in a rural Minnesota accent, too!

:7

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. I think "Marge" from the movie "Fargo" would be the perfect voice

of the MSP tram. None of that stuck-up British stuff, ya know.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Well, shurr, that's kyna whud I was thinking, ya know

But out-of-state folks would prolly be on-able to understand a reel Minnesota accent.

[ComerPerro]

15. Because its better than you

you uncultured swine