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Movie in Canada works out to like $40 for two people, and that's if we share a pop corn. I can see $100 for four people. It's like $12-$15 a ticket these days.
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The average Matinee price in the US is something like 8 bucks. Take a 2 hour break from cramming food into your gaping maw and you can take your family of four to the movies for less than $40.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:17
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What is it that prevents people from accessing the mainstream banking system? Do banks turn you down for savings accounts based on bad credit or something? How is a debit card out of reach for so many people?
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Oct 20, 2015 23:22
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Cicero posted:Yes, the US sucks for paying for medical stuff. We get it Europe, you're better at this than us. Needing medicine as a poor/working-class person in the US is bad with money. My point wasn't so much about the cost but more about the types of medications. I don't have children but how common is it for them to need hundreds of dollars worth a month? One hears about over-prescribing ADHD drugs and such so I wondered if that had anything to do with it.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:22
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the talent deficit posted:What is it that prevents people from accessing the mainstream banking system? Do banks turn you down for savings accounts based on bad credit or something? How is a debit card out of reach for so many people? Well like 64 million people in the US are under 14 so that might have something to do with it.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:26
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blugu64 posted:Well like 64 million people in the US are under 14 so that might have something to do with it.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:28
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SmuglyDismissed posted:The average Matinee price in the US is something like 8 bucks. Take a 2 hour break from cramming food into your gaping maw and you can take your family of four to the movies for less than $40. Going to the movies without a popcorn and soda sucks. That's some oliver twist poo poo. Seriously, if you can't afford popcorn and soda at a movie, don't go. Use your ticket money on a bag of chips and a soda at a bodega, then throw the remaining ticket money in a crowd of bums and enjoy the show.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:36
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the talent deficit posted:What is it that prevents people from accessing the mainstream banking system? Do banks turn you down for savings accounts based on bad credit or something? A lot of things.
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jarjarbinksfan621 posted:Going to the movies without a popcorn and soda sucks. That's some oliver twist poo poo. Seriously, if you can't afford popcorn and soda at a movie, don't go. Use your ticket money on a bag of chips and a soda at a bodega, then throw the remaining ticket money in a crowd of bums and enjoy the show. No, soda and snacks are trash you should be sneaking a large beer in.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:39
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BraveUlysses posted:No, soda and snacks are trash you should be sneaking a large beer in. What's a beer going to do anyway? "I had a slight buzz while watching Avengers 2, it was wild." You remind me of some highschool friends who brought some water bottles filled with kool aid and vodka to a field trip at the zoo. Drunk at the zoo, how zany.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:46
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:lol if that's really the source of that 70m statistic then I admire their brazen misdirection Yeah no idea, and full disclosure, that's just some back of the napkin fishmeching
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Oct 20, 2015 23:48
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jarjarbinksfan621 posted:What's a beer going to do anyway? "I had a slight buzz while watching Avengers 2, it was wild." You remind me of some highschool friends who brought some water bottles filled with kool aid and vodka to a field trip at the zoo. Drunk at the zoo, how zany. I've heard some people drink beer because they enjoy the taste...
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Oct 21, 2015 00:09
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kidhash posted:I've heard some people drink beer because they enjoy the taste... Yeah, some loving warm skunk beer you brought to the movies concealed in your knapsack is going to be a delicious treat.
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Oct 21, 2015 00:21
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Comrade Flynn posted:GWM is living in a box truck in your work's parking lot. One of my acquaintances posted this; he also lived in a truck for a while. GWM, bad with life (IMO). jarjarbinksfan621 posted:What's a beer going to do anyway? "I had a slight buzz while watching Avengers 2, it was wild." You remind me of some highschool friends who brought some water bottles filled with kool aid and vodka to a field trip at the zoo. Drunk at the zoo, how zany. I bet you are a fun guy to hang out with.
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Oct 21, 2015 00:41
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the talent deficit posted:What is it that prevents people from accessing the mainstream banking system? Do banks turn you down for savings accounts based on bad credit or something? How is a debit card out of reach for so many people? I think you need a valid ID to open a bank account, that would be a barrier for a significant share of people.
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Smoking weed vs. drinking alcohol. Which is the better monetary choice?
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jarjarbinksfan621 posted:Yeah, some loving warm skunk beer you brought to the movies concealed in your knapsack is going to be a delicious treat. Why would you bring warm beer to a movie, dude, get it together.
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fits my needs posted:Smoking weed vs. drinking alcohol. Which is the better monetary choice? Depends, both vary wildly in price based on a number of factors. Huffing glue is the safest option.
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SmuglyDismissed posted:The average Matinee price in the US is something like 8 bucks. Take a 2 hour break from cramming food into your gaping maw and you can take your family of four to the movies for less than $40. Living in LA is bad with money. Crimson Peak was $18 a pop last Saturday and a medium popcorn was $8.
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Gorman Thomas posted:Living in LA is bad with money. Crimson Peak was $18 a pop last Saturday and a medium popcorn was $8. Movies are PRICY nowadays. It costs more to see an opera livecast at Cineplex than it does to buy an under-30 ticket to the actual opera. For the price of a movie and snacks, you can drink scotch at the opera. Opera is pretty good value.
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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. Are you referring to cost or to number of medications? If it's cost or availability, most kids are covered by some kind of insurance (their parents' private insurance or state-run plans for low income kids) and many of the medications have generics so cost is usually minimal. As for the number of medications. Oh yeah. We like our kids medicated.
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Gorman Thomas posted:Living in LA is bad with money. Crimson Peak was $18 a pop last Saturday and a medium popcorn was $8. I see tickets at an amc theater in LA this Saturday at 11am and 205pm for 12.49 and 13.49 respectively. So ~50 bucks plus tax for a family of 4. If you are struggling financially you can definitely make it work for a lot less than 100-150 dollars... SmuglyDismissed fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Oct 21, 2015 |
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Oct 21, 2015 03:33
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Advanced tickets of Star Wars on sale now at a nearby AMC theater range from $10 for general admission to $16 for reserved seating in 3D. North DFW suburbs. Plus I have a rewards card so I get $10 back for every $100 I spend. I buy everyone's tickets and have them pay me back. Good with money!
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lol just lol if you aren't sneaking your entire family into the theater. I miss going to movies in the Dominican Republic. $2.50 and no rules about food or alcohol. I watched Frozen while drinking a bottle of rum and eating a sandwich... now that's living! Dominican women all have curly hair but literally spend around 10% of their household income at the salon getting their hair straightened every week because the term for curly hair is literally "bad hair" and straight hair is known as "good hair". That's a national BWM and bad with racial self identity.
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Saeku posted:Movies are PRICY nowadays. It costs more to see an opera livecast at Cineplex than it does to buy an under-30 ticket to the actual opera. Drugs are expensive though.
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The Mandingo posted:Advanced tickets of Star Wars on sale now at a nearby AMC theater range from $10 for general admission to $16 for reserved seating in 3D. North DFW suburbs. I do this with pretty much anything I do with a group of friends nowadays. Offer to pay for everyone for simplicity's sake and have them Venmo me the money. Get the credit card rewards points and/or Hotels.com rewards.
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Oct 21, 2015 04:47
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the talent deficit posted:What is it that prevents people from accessing the mainstream banking system? Do banks turn you down for savings accounts based on bad credit or something? How is a debit card out of reach for so many people? http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-high-cost-for-the-poor-of-using-a-bank
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Re: Hairchat-- if you live near a barber college, you could easily just drop by and get a haircut for under $10. There's a barber college not far from where I work and they offer $6 haircuts. Nice!
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jarjarbinksfan621 posted:What's a beer going to do anyway? "I had a slight buzz while watching Avengers 2, it was wild." You remind me of some highschool friends who brought some water bottles filled with kool aid and vodka to a field trip at the zoo. Drunk at the zoo, how zany. At my local cinema you can buy microbrews and one of the "popcorn and something to drink" menus is popcorn and a beer, living in Denmark might be bwm, but it's good with beer. And drinking at the zoo is essentially a once or twice a year thing for biology students here. Their admission is free and we have a lot of different beer either named after animals or with animal pictures on the label, so you go see the giraffe and drink a giraffe beer etc. To be fair, the zoo has asked the students to stop or at least take it easy.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Are the giraffe beers longnecks ? I wish...
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the talent deficit posted:What is it that prevents people from accessing the mainstream banking system? Do banks turn you down for savings accounts based on bad credit or something? How is a debit card out of reach for so many people? Chexsystems is like a credit reporting agency for bank accounts. My BWM story, in 1999 I moved to LA. I used my cleveland debit card for gas, threw it in a sock drawer and Opened a new account in LA. 6 months later I moved back to Cleveland, closed the LA account. Found out I had overdrawn my cleveland account (this was before every bank had online access). They had sent letters to my parents house, and then put me in chexsystems. I paid off the 45 bucks, but was locked out of checking accounts for 7 years until it fell off. I don't know if it's still as severe, but it was really difficult for me. Back when I was a poor I would get payday loans, and holy poo poo the fees just lock you in a cycle until you find a way out of paying them. Even worse my bank (US Bank) had cash advances that were a HIGHER fee than the payday loan places! I'm lucky to have made strides in income, but for the vast majority of people, they are trapped in an awful cycle of predatory lending. There are at least 5 payday loan places within 2 miles of my house, they wouldn't be there if they weren't profitable. It reflects how many people are getting killed by those services. And one more little thing, I opened an account with a local credit union for loan services, they hard-pulled my transunion AND chexsystems for a debit card I didn't want. I was pretty pissed at that. Edit: One of the comments on that documentary: Guy who is clearly great with money posted:
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If that's the case, I wonder if it'd be GWM to start a payday loan business?
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I suspect that part of the reason that payday loans charge usurious rates is that they have an equally outrageous expenses (collections, write offs for non payment/bk). Not to suggest that the owners of such outfits aren't living large, but otherwise there would be a line of hedge funds a mile long operating payday loan shops and driving down the rates. At the population level, i can only imagine the primary reason banks don't want to do business with such a big segment of the country is that they're not profitable customers.
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antiga posted:I suspect that part of the reason that payday loans charge usurious rates is that they have an equally outrageous expenses (collections, write offs for non payment/bk). Not to suggest that the owners of such outfits aren't living large, but otherwise there would be a line of hedge funds a mile long operating payday loan shops and driving down the rates. 1. Don't give those fuckers any ideas 2. Lol if you think hedge funds getting involved in something would make it cheaper
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Uncle Enzo posted:1. Don't give those fuckers any ideas It could be hedge funds staffed entirely by Hitler clones and the rates would still drop if there was competition for the customers and the business was profitable at the lower rate.
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Ooh ooh! Better yet, start a payday loan business and then bundle the debts into financial products and sell them to hedge funds!!
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DrSunshine posted:If that's the case, I wonder if it'd be GWM to start a payday loan business? GWM is often BWMorality.
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antiga posted:It could be hedge funds staffed entirely by Hitler clones and the rates would still drop if there was competition for the customers and the business was profitable at the lower rate. There's a ton of hedge/private equity in payday loan already. It turns out that subprime lending, like most markets, is not a perfectly competitive Econ 101 spherical-economy-in-a-vacuum fantasy.
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