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Holly Willoughby attends the Barclaycard Exclusive British Summer Time Festival at Hyde Park on July 9, 2017 in London, England.
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Grace Jones x Barclaycard | There's more to Barclaycard
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Olly Alexander wearing a Kenzo A/W 2021 jacket at the Capital Up Close Presents Years & Years With Barclaycard Live photocall (September 1, 2021).
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Magento 2 Barclaycard Hosted Payments is a robust extension designed to seamlessly integrate Barclaycard's payment gateway into Magento 2 online stores. With the Barclaycard Hosted Payment Magento 2 Extension merchants can offer their customers a secure and convenient payment experience while leveraging the trusted Barclaycard platform.
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Ok but I still can‘t believe that I literally SAW LOUIS LIVE AND HE WAS 10 METERS AWAY. Screamin, Crying, Throwing myself against a wall
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What are Contactless Payment Apps – Explained
Contactless Payment Apps, In today’s fast-paced world, people are constantly in search of ways to make their life more convenient and easier. And often, they start with their day-to-day activities, and making online payments is one of them. This is where contactless payment comes into play. Contactless payment apps are mobile apps that provide users with the ease of making payments for their shopping without requiring any debit/credit cards. Users can make payments through their mobile phones without requiring any physical touch.
In this post, we’ll discuss what contactless payment apps are and how they change the world of fintech.
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What Are Contactless Payment Apps?
Contactless payment apps are simple mobile payment apps with one added feature – they do not require the user to enter any receiver’s banking or payment details manually or scan any code. The apps work on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology – by using which – a user can make a payment by just bringing his/her smartphone close to the payment terminal and the payment is made immediately. The app receives the banking details of the receiver from the terminal and processes the payment immediately.
How to Do Contactless Payment Apps Work?
While most of the payment apps or e-wallet apps in the market require the user to enter a phone number or UPI or banking details of the receiver, the contactless payment app works without all these details. While making a payment through a contactless payment app, the user keeps his smartphone near the payment terminal. The app uses Near Field Communication to fetch the receiver’s payment information which is transferred to the payment app. The app uses the preferred payment methods and transfers the amount to the receiver’s account. This works similarly to some debit or credit cards that allow payment through WiFi.
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Jamie Carragher.
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Sian Welby during Capital's Summertime Ball with Barclaycard, at Wembley Stadium, London on Sunday June 11, 2023
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As you might have guessed from the quotes, I’ve been reading Good Omens again. I was all prepared to be uncomfortable with this par. Crowley was about to turn paintball guns into gun-guns, and I was sure after all the mass shootings America has seen since the twelve or so years since I last read it, that part would just hit differently.
I wasn’t wrong, though I’d forgotten how funny and delightfully ‘90s-ish the corporate warfare was. Honestly I was laughing too hard at all the humor around the violence to notice. I can’t recommend it enough, if you’re old enough to remember why Dilbert was funny once upon a time, you really should give this bit a read. A sample:
The contingent from Financial Planning were lying flat on their faces in what had once been the haha, although they weren't very amused.
"I always said you couldn't trust those people from Purchasing," said the Deputy Financial Manager. "The bastards."
A shot pinged off the wall above him.
He crawled hurriedly over to the little group clustered around the fallen Wethered. "How does it look?" he said.
The assistant Head of Wages turned a haggard face toward him.
"Pretty bad," he said. "The bullet went through nearly all of them. Access, Barclaycard, Diners-the lot."
"It was only the American Express Gold that stopped it," said Wethered.
They looked in mute horror at the spectacle of a credit card wallet with a bullet hole nearly all the way through it.
"Why'd they do it?" said a wages officer.
What most struck me though was the bits woven between all the poking fun at white collar office culture and the human capacity to wish violence on each other. I’d almost call it a coincidence if it wasn’t actually relevant to everything else going on. Any of my fellow Sherlockians, you know what they say about coincidences.
Let’s start with Nigel Tompkins. Or a little before he shows up, for context. Aziraphale and Crowley are hunting for the antichrist so decide to go back to the hospital where Crowley left him. It’s been burned down, most of the sisters have left, but now Sr. Mary Loquacious (now Mary Hodges, no sister) has turned it into a rather unorthodox corporate events center. They’re doing paintball. Lots of stultified corporate types have been handed nonlethal guns and told to have at it, which has exactly the result you’d expect (humans being humans) even before Crowley miracles their dearest wishes into reality and turns their paintball guns into real guns.
This is the scene Az&Cr stumble into (the paintball version to start). Nigel Tompkins has the bad luck to shoot at them as they’re getting out of the car, and after much hemming and hawing over stained fabrics, Crowley scares him off:
Tompkins thumbed another paint pellet into the gun and muttered business mantras to himself. Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto You. Kill or Be Killed. Either Shit or Get Out of the Kitchen. Survival of the Fittest. Make My Day.
He crawled a little nearer to the figures by the statue. They didn't seem to have noticed him. When the available cover ran out, he took a deep breath and leapt to his feet.
"Okay, douchebags, grab some sk-ohnoooeeeeee . . ."
Where one of the figures had been there was something dreadful. He blacked out. Crowley restored himself to his favorite shape.
"I hate having to do that," he murmured. "I'm always afraid I'll forget how to change back. And it can ruin a good suit."
"I think the maggots were a bit over the top, myself," said Aziraphale, but without much rancor.
Then later:
Nigel Tompkins had come to with a mild headache and a vaguely empty space in his recent memory. He was not to know that the human brain, when faced with a sight too terrible to contemplate, is remarkably good at scabbing it over with forced forgetfulness, so he put it down to a pellet strike on the head.
He was vaguely aware that his gun was somewhat heavier, but in his mildly bemused state he did not realize why until some time after he'd pointed it at trainee manager Norman Wethered from Internal Audit and pulled the trigger.
It’s this “scabbed over” language that really interests me, because ti comes up again with Mary Hodges. Trying to get information out of her, Crowley puts her into a kind of trance to question her.
"Good"-Crowley glanced at his watch-"morning, ma'am," he said, in a sing-song voice. "We're just a couple of supernatural entities and we were just wondering if you might help us with the whereabouts of the notorious Son of Satan." He smiled coldly at the angel. "I'll wake her up again, shall I? And you can say it."
"Well. Since you put it like that . . ." said the angel slowly.
"Sometimes the old ways are best," said Crowley. He turned to the impassive woman. "Were you a nun here eleven years ago?" he said.
"Yes," said Mary.
"There!" said Crowley to Aziraphale. "See? I knew I wasn't wrong." "Luck of the devil," muttered the angel.
"Your name then was Sister Talkative. Or something." "Loquacious," said Mary Hodges in a hollow voice.
"And do you recall an incident involving the switching of newborn babies?" said Crowley.
Mary Hodges hesitated. When she did speak, it was as though memories that had been scabbed over were being disturbed for the first time in years.
"Yes," she said.
"Is there any possibility that the switch could have gone wrong in some way?" "I do not know."
Crowley thought for a bit. "You must have had records," he said. "There are always records.
Everyone has records these days." He glanced proudly at Aziraphale. "It was one of my better ideas." "Oh, yes," said Mary Hodges.
"And where are they?" said Aziraphale sweetly.
"There was a fire just after the birth."
Crowley groaned and threw his hands in the air. "That was Hastur, probably," he said. "It's his style. Can you believe those guys? I bet he thought he was being really clever." "Do you recall any details about the other child?" said Aziraphale. "Yes."
"Please tell me."
"He had lovely little toesie-wosies."
Neil and PTerry are not authors like me, they don’t just use the same word all helter-skelter because they cant remember what they wrote five lines earlier. They’re funny and most importantly clever people. Or at least they have good editors who will call them on it. So likening this hazy or lost memory to a scab seems intentional to me.
But it’s not that Mary was traumatized by her time with the order. She was young and a bit hemmed in, but they weren’t evil in anything more than being allied with Crowley’s side. There’s nothing about her time with them that would be particularly upsetting, certainly not so much she’d have blocked it out even from her subconscious. Crowley’s putting her under here feels vaguely akin to hypnosis, suppressing part of her mental defenses so she’ll share more information with less filtering. And even then, talking about that time brings on the same sensation Nigel had when exposed to something too scary and --more importantly-- weird to fit with how he normally saw the world.
I think it’s Crowley. Specifically, Crowley letting his human face slip a bit. With Nigel it was intentional, with the nuns, possibly because Crowley was more distressed than he normally was so was less in control of himself? He wasn’t transforming into things that go bump in the night, sure, but between being so upset about the Apocalypse happening and these being his people so he didn’t have to fight so hard to hide his essence, I wonder if he didn’t let a certain something just ... slip through? Something the human mind just isn’t equipped to deal with?
It calls to mind another scene where we talked about memory and the benefit of failing to leave an impression, from much earlier:
"Is that him?" said Sister Mary, staring at the baby. "Only I'd expected funny eyes. Red, or green. Or teensy-weensy little hoofikins. Or a widdle tail." She turned him around as she spoke. No horns either. The Devil's child looked ominously normal.
"Yes, that's him," said Crowley.
"Fancy me holding the Antichrist," said Sister Mary. "And bathing the Antichrist. And counting his little toesy-wosies . . ."
She was now addressing the child directly, lost in some world of her own. Crowley waved a hand in front of her wimple. "Hallo? Hallo? Sister Mary?"
"Sorry, sir. He is a little sweetheart, though. Does he look like his daddy? I bet he does. Does he look like his daddywaddykins . . ."
"No," said Crowley firmly. "And now I should get up to the delivery rooms, if I were you."
"Will he remember me when he grows up, do you think?" said Sister Mary wistfully, sidling slowly down the corridor.
"Pray that he doesn't," said Crowley, and fled.
I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but maybe it’s not Crowley, or just Crowley, that makes her memories of this event feel scabbed-over. “Lost in some world of her own” could just be getting a little absorbed in the new baby (lots of women particularly are conditioned to think we need to coo over infants, and I can’t imagine the type of women who become nuns-- satanic or otherwise-- are much different in that respect). But it doesn’t have to be just that, does it? Prolonged exposure to the supernatural, even the also-human antichrist in his veiled form, seems like the kind of thing that’s too weird for the human psyche to easily come to terms with.
It’s interesting, because that sort of inability to be noticed is really biting Crowley in the backside now.
"Of course, we might be able to get a human to find him," said Aziraphale thoughtfully. "What?" said Crowley, distractedly.
"Humans are good at finding other humans. They've been doing it for thousands of years. And the child is human. As well as . . . you know. He would be hidden from us, but other humans might be able to . . . oh, sense him, perhaps. Or spot things we wouldn't think of."
"It wouldn't work. He's the Antichrist! He's got this . . . sort of automatic defense, hasn't he? Even if he doesn't know it. It won't even let people suspect him. Not yet. Not till it's ready. Suspicion will slide off him like, like . . . whatever it is water slides off of," he finished lamely.
"Got any better ideas? Got one single better idea?" said Aziraphale.
"No."
I’m not saying this has to be the same sort of inability-to-be-perceived that affected Mary and Nigel above. It could be a sort of built-in defense mechanism specially for the antichrist. But it seems on theme at the very least. There seems something deeply sad to me, and probably very relevant to the queer experience of the ‘80s and ‘90s, around the time this book was written and published, to there being something about your true nature that’s just not allowed to be seen and remembered.
Now I’ve made myself a bit sad, and if you’ve read this long you deserve to end on a treat. Luckily, our favorite authors have us covered there as well.
"Ducks!" he shouted.
"What?"
"That's what water slides off!" Aziraphale took a deep breath.
"Just drive the car, please," he said wearily.
They drove back through the dawn, while the cassette player played J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor, vocals by F. Mercury.
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Just a few months after launching his solo career after 12 years as The Vamps’ lead singer, Bradley Simpson is taking to the Summertime Ball stage!
Louies are fuming about Bradley getting the Summertime Ball so early in his solo career.
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PERFORMANCE: MARINA PERFORMS AT MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE AFTER PARTY
Marina Diamandis performed at a party at The Box in London to celebrate the Barclaycard Mercury Prize on November 2nd, 2012.
Marina went for a goth-inspired look and chose a plush black velvet off-the-shoulder cocktail dress with gold macrame borders - an 1980s piece from former ladies fashion label Steppin' Out.
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Barclaycard Exclusive at Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park in London, England - July 5, 2019
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List of links (mostly Vimeo and YouTube) to some Christos Lawton short films/advert/music video appearances below the cut. I forgot I never posted this to Tumblr.
Enjoy.
Short Films
Hearse Buddies (2018) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af3otVNwEiA
Ourhouse, episode 3 “The Cure of Folly” (2011) - https://vimeo.com/427750763
Rice and Ryzi (2014) - https://vimeo.com/111430176
Tea with Tom (2013) - https://vimeo.com/groups/aubfilm20112014/videos/61093428
The Company (2013) - https://vimeo.com/108790290
Love After Sunrise (2010) - https://vimeo.com/70562720
Anti-Piracy advert (2010) - https://vimeo.com/24210355
Adverts
Amazon “Before Alexa” (2020) - https://archive.mpcadvertising.com/our-work/all/amazon-before-alexa
Go Compare (2016) (excruciatingly bad quality) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8h3t_fyHxc
Barclaycard (2013) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWO0n7ypPiY
Intel (2012) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2isDZgoTFk
British Airways (2011) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JdQi60an0
Music Videos
Christina (Boy Mandeville) - https://vimeo.com/200652537
1234 (Wampa) - https://vimeo.com/27997490
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Olly Alexander wearing Walter Van Beirendonck A/W 2021 trousers in a gig at the Capital Up Close presents Years & Years with Barclaycard (August 31, 2021).
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Via Twitter just now:
“Jubilee Celebrations gave the economy a massive boost, according to analysis by Barclaycard. Restaurant spend rose 41.5%; pub, club and nightlife spend was up 74.2%; 38.8% more was spent on public transport; retail gained 6.9% over the course of the week-end”
Which is fantastic after COVID...I know the UK really struggled with the lockdowns and whatnot.
This is why the Monarchy is so important in the UK. The vast amounts of money it brings in not only every year, but on major events.
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