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Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

MrKatharsis posted:

Along the same lines as the powders, the military may not consider camwhoring the best use of an officer's talents. Gentlemen and all.

He should definitely do some roleplaying scenes in his class A.

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cstine
Apr 15, 2004

What's in the box?!?

Zeta Taskforce posted:

He wouldn't have to show his face, but if he were going into politics it would probably be a bad career move.

Or, you know, any job involving kids. Like, say, teaching.

Eris
Mar 20, 2002
Why are you sending out Save The Dates for an informal potluck wedding? It's this weird formality for an informal celebration. Just send out invites!

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005

quote:

I don't know if this post is a joke or not. Are you guys truly hurting for money?

Since you live in Canada, do you know how to skate? If so, I recommend going to a minor hockey league or beer league to ask if they are looking for referees and what do you need to do to get in.

You can make decent cash under the table.

Hey, we lunatics in the BFC writing thread already gave him the key to riches beyond his wildest dreams perfectly acceptable debt-reduction money. But no, BASIL was more important than gay teen werewolves.

tuyop
Sep 15, 2006

Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted

Fun Shoe

Zeta Taskforce posted:

Putting stuff in your butt doesn't flip a gay switch or anything, but don't put stuff in there unless you want to.

Hey I don't mind putting coffee cans in my butt or anything, I'm just wondering if it's obligatory to make money in this crazy competitive gay camwhoring economy.

Also, I will be ordering a luchador mask before doing and camwhoring, so my identity will be safe!

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
What is your gay porn prop budget? Have you planned this out in detail?

tuyop
Sep 15, 2006

Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted

Fun Shoe

Baloogan posted:

What is your gay porn prop budget? Have you planned this out in detail?

Condom: $0.80

Coffee can: recycled from use as a coffee can.

Done.

Zeta Taskforce
Jun 27, 2002

tuyop posted:

Condom: $0.80

You're not going to catch any diseases over a cam silly boy! And you don't need to put anything up your butt.

wynott dunn
Aug 9, 2006

What is to be done?

Who or what can challenge, and stand a chance at beating, the corporate juggernauts dominating the world?
Hey, sometimes a man just wants to use a condom and have a really posh wank.

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider
Tutor can't afford tetanus shots, the condom is to keep from getting lockjaw off a rusty coffee can.

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you
So when should we expect the news article about the married schoolteacher who got fired when his employers discovered his luchador camwhore alternate life? Also, the Canadarmy now demands the $57.24 disability payout back.

DoctorTristan
Mar 11, 2006

I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?
Normally I'd post a long list of reasons why Tuyop shouldn't do this, but I'm actually rather curious to see what value the free market places on his dignity.

Giant Isopod
Jan 30, 2010

Bathynomus giganteus
Yams Fan

tuyop posted:

I think I am in a position to begin that uh, career now. Toeshoes also wants to start shlicking for cash.

How should we begin? Are there any best practices for models that I should know about? What strategy makes the most money? Do I have to put stuff in my butt?

If Toeshoes is into it too why don't you guys just do stuff together on camera. It seems like there should be a market for that right?

Added bonus: No need for coffee can butt stuff. Unless you're into that.

CanadianSuperKing
Dec 29, 2008

El_Elegante posted:

Tutor can't afford tetanus shots, the condom is to keep from getting lockjaw off a rusty coffee can.

This is... Beautiful. The imagery of this post takes my breath away!

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Troops in Trouble Two: Basil Butt Boogaloo

tuyop
Sep 15, 2006

Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted

Fun Shoe
In other news, I'm posing naked again for 60 bux again tonight, further amortizing the cost of the robe!

Dr. Video Games 0050
Nov 28, 2007

tuyop posted:

In other news, I'm posing naked again for 60 bux again tonight, further amortizing the cost of the robe!

Is there a point where you'll stop...announcing what you're doing over the Internet?

You know what I mean? Like, certain things are better kept between you and the wall?

You'd be surprised how easy people can find out all about you, and if you're in a public position (pun intended, why not) this could seriously ruin your life.

Fork of Unknown Origins
Oct 21, 2005
Gotta Herd On?
I don't think being a male nude model for an art class will cause him any problems. The camwhore thing might though. Then again he wants to go live in the woods so...

Adar
Jul 27, 2001

Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:

Is there a point where you'll stop...announcing what you're doing over the Internet?

You know what I mean? Like, certain things are better kept between you and the wall?

You'd be surprised how easy people can find out all about you, and if you're in a public position (pun intended, why not) this could seriously ruin your life.

That point was crossed about eight manic phases ago

Never you mind
Jun 5, 2010
This is quickly degenerating into an episode of Law and Order: SVU.

big shtick energy
May 27, 2004


A friend of mine did gay cam stuff for a while, he said that he made a bunch of money at first due to being a new face, but that interest fell of pretty quickly and he hardly made any money after a little while. And this was a guy with abs who was showing his face.

quaint bucket
Nov 29, 2007

3-1 odds that tuyop is in the hospital after putting stuff up his butt for an extra $30

tuyop
Sep 15, 2006

Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted

Fun Shoe

DuckConference posted:

A friend of mine did gay cam stuff for a while, he said that he made a bunch of money at first due to being a new face, but that interest fell of pretty quickly and he hardly made any money after a little while. And this was a guy with abs who was showing his face.

So like how much is "a bunch"?

I got a letter this morning advertising a balance transfer to my 12.5k visa ($0 balance) for 2.9%, so I'm using 5k, putting it on the 2.5k MasterCard (apparently that's a normal thing to do), and then transferring that to the 9.5% line of credit ($7500 balance), and then again for the last 2500 of the balance. This will save us $46 a month in interest. The 2.9% rate is up in 6 months at which point the debt will probably be gone, but we can just put it back on the line of credit if we have to.

They couldn't do the balance transfer onto the line of credit directly, before anyone asks.

Does this mean that I should pay down the student loan for those six months instead because it has the higher rate of 4.5%?

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

In the US, those balance transfers typically come with a 3% to 5% fee. This makes them only worthwhile if you're getting a much better rate, AND you're going to take many more months to pay it down. They also often are temporary promotional offers which expire after a certain amount of time, and I see yours is that as well.

What's the rate default to after the promotion expires? Is this rate higher than the current card?

If you are paying a transfer fee, how much is it?

Some of these deals are worthwhile and a lot of them are not.

LorneReams
Jun 27, 2003
I'm bizarre

Leperflesh posted:

In the US, those balance transfers typically come with a 3% to 5% fee.


I don't know if its just me, but with the exception of BoA, I haven't seen a balance transfer with an additional fee in years. They do usually remove the grace period though.

tuyop
Sep 15, 2006

Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted

Fun Shoe

Leperflesh posted:

In the US, those balance transfers typically come with a 3% to 5% fee. This makes them only worthwhile if you're getting a much better rate, AND you're going to take many more months to pay it down. They also often are temporary promotional offers which expire after a certain amount of time, and I see yours is that as well.

What's the rate default to after the promotion expires? Is this rate higher than the current card?

If you are paying a transfer fee, how much is it?

Some of these deals are worthwhile and a lot of them are not.

No fee, and the default rate is 10.75%. But I can just pay back the balance with the line of credit that the money is being transferred from before the rate increases. By that time I'll have saved potentially $270 in interest so it seems worthwhile.

Edit: OH LOOK AT THAT. My visa limit got cut from 12.5k to 7.5k at some point. Please give me the told-ya-so's.

Not that I'm worried. We still have 16.5k in available credit, it's just interesting to me that they actually lowered my limit.

tuyop fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Jan 25, 2013

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost

tuyop posted:

Not that I'm worried. We still have 16.5k in available credit, it's just interesting to me that they actually lowered my limit.

My credit limit on my main card used to be almost $20K a few years ago when I was making less money. I just checked it and it's at $5.5k now. Banks are being smarter about how much credit they give people.

I always carry a zero balance, and have never missed a payment in my life FWIW.

Zeta Taskforce
Jun 27, 2002

DuckConference posted:

A friend of mine did gay cam stuff for a while, he said that he made a bunch of money at first due to being a new face, but that interest fell of pretty quickly and he hardly made any money after a little while. And this was a guy with abs who was showing his face.

Did he have a...

...how should I put this?

A no jokes big...

well you know what I'm asking.

bam thwok
Sep 20, 2005
I sure hope I don't get banned

tuyop posted:

No fee, and the default rate is 10.75%. But I can just pay back the balance with the line of credit that the money is being transferred from before the rate increases. By that time I'll have saved potentially $270 in interest so it seems worthwhile.

Make sure you read the fine print a gazillion times. I know it seems straightforward, but I've got a premonition that this is the prologue to another post a few months from now where you let us know that the rate ballooned to 29% and your bank put a restriction on the number of balance transfers you can do, so it's stuck there, and then you wonder aloud why you keep having setbacks.

I think it's because you keep hunting for tricks and quick ploys to bring in extra cash. Yeah, you can save $270 in interest payments if this all goes according to plan. But you could've much more easily (and with zero risk) saved $100 if you'd spent less at Ikea.

YeahDavidLeeRoth
Sep 23, 2008

One thing to be very careful about when doing a balance transfer to another credit card is NOT to use that credit card until you've paid the balance off. I've always seen them apply a rule that your payments go towards what you transferred and not your new purchases. Therefore you end up getting a poo poo ton of interest applied to your purchases.

LorneReams
Jun 27, 2003
I'm bizarre

YeahDavidLeeRoth posted:

One thing to be very careful about when doing a balance transfer to another credit card is NOT to use that credit card until you've paid the balance off. I've always seen them apply a rule that your payments go towards what you transferred and not your new purchases. Therefore you end up getting a poo poo ton of interest applied to your purchases.

No longer true in the US thankfully

tuyop
Sep 15, 2006

Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted

Fun Shoe
So, in Ontario it takes 90 days or so to get a security license. So I can't get a job as a guard because I'll be leaving too soon after they train me.

Good news is I just DESTROYED the security guard interview. I would be such a high flying high school dropout.

big shtick energy
May 27, 2004


Zeta Taskforce posted:

Did he have a...

...how should I put this?

A no jokes big...

well you know what I'm asking.

Allegedly yes. I don't really know what the actual amounts he made were, though.

tuyop
Sep 15, 2006

Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted

Fun Shoe
Can I get some help with my resume again? I don't think it's working for lovely part time jobs.

I've spent a few minutes on indeed.ca and found some more in the area that should work with my schedule.

Dr. Video Games 0050
Nov 28, 2007

tuyop posted:

Can I get some help with my resume again? I don't think it's working for lovely part time jobs.

I've spent a few minutes on indeed.ca and found some more in the area that should work with my schedule.

Use the guy from SAmart. My new résumé from him owned poo poo

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
He's a little expensive for tuyop, however. (As in, he doesn't work for free.)

CuddleChunks
Sep 18, 2004

FrozenVent posted:

He's a little expensive for tuyop, however. (As in, he doesn't work for free.)

Will he work for... trade? :heysexy:

Wolfy
Jul 13, 2009

CuddleChunks posted:

Will he work for... trade? :heysexy:
Maybe tuyop can shove some advertising up his rear end on gay cam sites?

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
I don't know if a guy who sells a resume polishing business really wants an endorsement from a guy who does cam shoes to supplement his income.

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tuyop
Sep 15, 2006

Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted

Fun Shoe
I also don't know if it's worth like $150 to compete REALLY WELL with a bunch of dysfunctional adults and high school students for a cashier job somewhere.

Of course, even if I only make 300 bucks at that job, it'll have doubled my investment... :ohdear:

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