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evobatman posted:The cheapest hair cut for men in Norway is about $60. A hair trimmer at our version of Walmart is under $30. I could buy a new hair trimmer for every single haircut, have my wife cut my hair and still come out ahead. (Cost of wife not included in calculations). When I was in Nigeria, the closest barbershop had a $3 haircut, and a $15 "European" haircut. The local haircut is anywhere from a 0 to a 2 all over. I just started getting that every few days because they took like 45 minutes each time and it was like an almost-free massage. A year later when I returned home, I bought some good clippers and haven't seen a barber since. It's good for traveling, too.
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District Selectman posted:Date a hair dresser - GWM What if you date a lovely hairdresser? "Uhh, I would've let you cut it, but I was at the movies, and Fantastic Sam's was in the same shopping plaza, and the movie got me riled up, and I..I..got caught up in the moment."
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Oct 20, 2015 12:14
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If they're bad then she/he will be a poor and that is super BWM Good hairdressers make bank and walk around with gangster rolls and pay for things. Double GWM
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Oct 20, 2015 13:06
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Regarding haircut chat, last year a short haired woman in Denmark sued a hair dresser for charging her the women's rate even men with hair as long as her's were only charged the men's rate. So basically the charge was that the hair dresser was discriminating based on sex. The court found in favor of the hair dresser on the grounds that women's haircuts are more technically challenging than men's.
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Oct 20, 2015 14:34
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pr0zac posted:The funniest part of your weird obsession with subjunctive is even with the cross referenced database you're keeping on him you can't get his job right despite it being a googleable fact. Lmao. Do you write 10,000 word screeds defending the honor of Facebook as well? Man you guys must love that Facebook corporate culture.
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Oct 20, 2015 14:39
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fits my needs posted:Lmao. Do you write 10,000 word screeds defending the honor of Facebook as well? Man you guys must love that Facebook corporate culture.
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Oct 20, 2015 15:07
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Not knowing anything about any of this, I think everyone involved are acting like children and should just loving drop the conversation. na mas te
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Oct 20, 2015 15:29
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With regards to hair stuff, My normally awful with money I'm totally going to make it as a famous actor someday cousin does have one thing going for him. He somehow got himself involved with one of those beauty schools, and they pay him money to let them practice on him. He's never had a bad haircut either, and it comes out looking better than asking a local barber to attack his head with some clippers.
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Oct 20, 2015 15:37
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Avatars and emoticons don't load here so yall are all anonymous to me! I went to get a manicure the other day and they said it was $90, but then would be an extra $20 to remove the old manicure. Bullshit! I walked right outta there and went to a different nail salon. ...where they charged me $98. I peeled off my old manicure myself because they were also gonna charge $20, they just didn't tell me that until I'd already been there for 30 minutes. Bastards. Maybe it's time I made my own thread, my money life is completely out of control and so far for October I have spent $3380 more than my paycheck. Dat lifestyle creep doe. In laws gave us a stay at a fancy hotel... thanks for the gift that cost me $1200 in airfare (sorry if that's a humblebrag).
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Oct 20, 2015 15:53
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Switchback posted:Avatars and emoticons don't load here so yall are all anonymous to me! Either i.somethingawful.com or fi.somethingawful.com aren't loading - sorry that doesn't explain why, but that's what's happening. test urls: http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/customtitles/title-switchback.jpg http://fi.somethingawful.com/safs/titles/00/ee/00117470.0001.gif
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Oct 20, 2015 15:56
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Switchback posted:Avatars and emoticons don't load here so yall are all anonymous to me! ?? Why don't you just buy mani/pedi groupons? I always get Shellac mani/pedis for $50.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:03
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Switchback posted:Avatars and emoticons don't load here so yall are all anonymous to me! Jesus. I pay 40 for a mani pedi with no groupon at my local place. It's a treat every few months.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:11
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I buy my own nail polish. Screw the nail salons and their overpriced services. You can learn to do everything they do at home with your own tools, or you can just do color and be done with it. No one can even tell the difference between a pro manicure and an at-home job if you practice enough. My own BWM contribution is that I've got more nail polish than I can wear in like 5 lifetimes. Don't even have any on my nails right now! But I am working on rehoming the ones I definitely don't want anymore, so there's that, at least.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:18
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Switchback posted:Avatars and emoticons don't load here so yall are all anonymous to me! Absolutely start a thread. If you're willing to put in some work, you could improve your financial situation. If you're not willing to make any changes, you'll provide priceless entertainment for all comers. It's a win-win, really. It's been weeks since Blue Story's thread got closed and I'm still cracking jokes to my wife about buying $150 lightsabers held by the bad guy in a movie I haven't even seen. Open a thread!
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Oct 20, 2015 16:19
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Can you post a link the the BS thread? I stopped following it when DM started the two-sentences-only posts.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:41
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GWM is living in a box truck in your work's parking lot. http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-truck-in-parking-lot-2015-10
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Oct 20, 2015 16:49
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It's just a truck version of those people who live out of vans and insist that it's totally cool to live out of a van. Except this guy probably gets props from coworkers for disrupting the housing paradigm.
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Oct 20, 2015 17:04
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Yeah um peeling off your own manicure because what they charge to do it is stupid is kind of like saying "yeah I'll have you do the stitches but that anesthesia charge is stupid, I'll just bash my finger until it's numb." That poo poo delaminates your nails, if you get acrylic you're opening yourself up for some nasty contact reactions/infections. Also switchback don't you live in Singapore? I am going outside to buy chips and nail polish.
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Oct 20, 2015 17:25
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Instead of getting hair cuts I constantly pull out my hairs one by one so the average length is one inch.
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cowofwar posted:Instead of getting hair cuts I constantly pull out my hairs one by one so the average length is one inch. I do this but to my pubes e: something something topical joke regarding my av
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Oct 20, 2015 18:04
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Are you one of those fuckers that leaves urinals covered in pubes?
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Oct 20, 2015 18:28
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Home wax to save money. 2 ibuprofen. 2 Tyenol. 2 fingers of whiskey - then wax errything.
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Oct 20, 2015 18:36
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Get some Wahl trimmers for $20 and buzz it down to a 1 or 2. Bam, extra $20/month in your pocket.
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Oct 20, 2015 18:39
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Get some Wahl trimmers for $20 and buzz it down to a 1 or 2. Bam, extra $20/month in your pocket. I rarely upgrade to the 'premium' version of a consumer item, but there's a world of difference when it comes to hair clippers. Mine are definitely Wahl, though.
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This documentary claims that 70m Americans are locked out of traditional financial services. I don't know about the statistics but there's a lot of BWM. Some had bad luck, some made bad financial decisions and some a bit of both. The perspective of the documentary is skewed but it does show what a horrible trap payday loans are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTd9Z2nCjM0
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Devian666 posted:This documentary claims that 70m Americans are locked out of traditional financial services. I don't know about the statistics but there's a lot of BWM. Some had bad luck, some made bad financial decisions and some a bit of both. The perspective of the documentary is skewed but it does show what a horrible trap payday loans are. Made it to 0:46 and it is already gold. "For four people to go to the movies, it's over 100 to 150 bucks."
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SmuglyDismissed posted:Made it to 0:46 and it is already gold. Maybe adult movies
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SmuglyDismissed posted:Made it to 0:46 and it is already gold. Maybe they're amortizing the cost of a car over all of their trips to the movies.
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Oct 20, 2015 20:45
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Get some Wahl trimmers for $20 and buzz it down to a 1 or 2. Bam, extra $20/month in your pocket. Sure, but a buzz cut is a suboptimal (sometimes, downright bad) look for anyone who isn't balding, black, or has a jewfro. Like, look at Brad Pitt, he's particularly handsome with a buzzcut, but he's way hotter (no homo) with his frosted tips fight club haircut.
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Oct 20, 2015 20:59
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SmuglyDismissed posted:"For four people to go to the movies, it's over 100 to 150 bucks." In Manhattan it is.
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BarbarianElephant posted:In Manhattan it is. Just another reason why NYC is bad with money.
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BarbarianElephant posted:In Manhattan it is. Nah - I could see $15 a ticket but that's about it. I think the assumption encoded is "going to the movies and buying lots of junk food from the theater". In manhattan it's even easier to avoid because there's probably a bodega with whatever junk food you want a block away.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Nah - I could see $15 a ticket but that's about it. I think the assumption encoded is "going to the movies and buying lots of junk food from the theater". In manhattan it's even easier to avoid because there's probably a bodega with whatever junk food you want a block away. A 3D movie in Union Square is about $20 a ticket. You don't need to buy much junk food to make that up to $100 for 4! Even if you go to the bodega 
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BarbarianElephant posted:A 3D movie in Union Square is about $20 a ticket. You don't need to buy much junk food to make that up to $100 for 4! Even if you go to the bodega Well $20 is a lot of junk food and that's to just brush the bottom end of that range. Hitting the halfway point of 125 would be a tall order. Honestly I forgot about the premium for 3d movies because I don't like them.
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Don't watch 3D movies, instead pantomime movie plots with your friends based on what you've read on the internet. Problem solved.
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I get a $50 haircut and it makes me happy. I guess I could just not get haircuts and in 30 years I'd have enough money to buy an economy sedan. Maybe 40 years considering inflation. Bad hair in the workplace probably results in poor earnings though, so *shrug*
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When people say they spend a lot of money on medication for children, is that normal in the US, and what's it for? I hear it a lot. As a child in the UK I was never on anything regular and even if I were it wouldn't have cost anything.
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Lady Gaza posted:When people say they spend a lot of money on medication for children, is that normal in the US, and what's it for? I hear it a lot. As a child in the UK I was never on anything regular and even if I were it wouldn't have cost anything. My kid's pediatrician put her on a nasal spray to try and shrink her adenoids. I have good insurance, which took the cost from $284 dollars for a teeny bottle to only $109. It didn't do anything so we stopped after that bottle ran out, but had we stayed on it there would have been $100/mo out the door. Heaven help you if your kid actually has a serious disability or cancer or something.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Well $20 is a lot of junk food and that's to just brush the bottom end of that range. Hitting the halfway point of 125 would be a tall order. Not to mention it doesn't look like they are buying tickets in Manhattan so I'm sure they are not paying 80 dollars. I'd be willing to bet that they have other activities that 'require' extra purchases because 'that's just what you do' when you do X. SmuglyDismissed fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Lady Gaza posted:When people say they spend a lot of money on medication for children, is that normal in the US, and what's it for? I hear it a lot. As a child in the UK I was never on anything regular and even if I were it wouldn't have cost anything.
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