Are you sure that's how it works? I know from taking mine apart that there are certainly two shielded areas which could contain processors, but I was under the impression all it did locally was recognise the trigger word. That once triggered it just streamed your voice to google's servers for parsing and then streamed back the response.
That's part of why I prefer that option. While I believe coats were probably more costly vs a poor person's income than they are today, I agree a clothes iron would likely have been worth more, making it the more obvious thing to pawn; plus in the cold of England you'd probably rather be without your iron than your coat while waiting for payday.
I'd also put calves above both, too. Not that I've heard of anyone having a calf fetish -- while I have unfortunately seen evidence of people into knees -- I think it's easier to understand someone into legs appreciating a shapely calf as well as the thigh.
"Weasle-and-stoat, coat", yeah. Tho I prefer the pre-electric iron theory, personally. I feel like I read somewhere that those were common things to pawn when money was tight, back in the day.
While I love this, I can't pass up the opportunity to explain "pop goes the weasel".
The song references the cost of food items in its first verse, followed by "that's the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel". What exactly a weasel was is up for debate; it could be rhyming slang for a coat, or it could mean the pre-electric type of iron that was heated on a stove before use on clothing. In any case, "pop" was slang for pawning an item for money.
I live in Australia. Over here it seems to be an even toss-up between Panadol, Panamax, or paracetamol when people are talking, in my experience. Nurofen (ibuprofen) doesn't get the same treatment tho, people usually use the generic name for some reason.
In case anyone's wondering, my intent is to make a smart mailbox using this. I'll probably make another post regarding how that goes, when it's closer to completion or failure.
My ignorant take is that if we could somehow do away with shareholders and also put a cap on how much money an individual can earn, we might be able to have companies that stay good. I dunno tho.
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Without my glasses I saw "risk of deer attack", which I think makes this post funnier