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Switchback posted:The City Harvest Church scandal is pretty good BWM. A mega church tried to make the pastor's wife a US pop star, putting her up in LA and hiring Wyclef to collaborate on songs. The idea was that they were "spreading the gospel through song" (the songs have absolutely no gospel undertones). They spent more covering up the financial scheme than they did actually funding the failed endeavor. She's a terrible singer. It also doesn't take millions to make reggae with a couple of music videos.
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Zo posted:Also if special needs kid was too depressing here's Mr moneybags going into the negative on margins I am late to the party, but I have just been reading this and it blew my mind. After all those jawdropping losses, that forum is still hostile to the slightest suggestion that they should've known better. Amazing. But the best part is the people boasting before the drop, like this guy: quote:... my mom whose account I manage and has around 415k shares and probably doesn't know GTAT is on the Nasdaq. I have to set up separate accounts for her GTAT holdings so she doesn't see all her positions at once as she has been telling me to sell for it for more than a year and I have to keep telling her to wait and hide exactly how much of her portfolio is GTAT so she doesn't flip out about it.
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Trillian posted:I am late to the party, but I have just been reading this and it blew my mind. After all those jawdropping losses, that forum is still hostile to the slightest suggestion that they should've known better. Amazing.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/42eu3p/cousin_wants_to_go_to_equestrian_school_what_kind/quote:my cousin want to go to an equestrian college. She's 15 now and rides in horse shows all the time and wins quite a few of them. She loves horses and riding them, and is absolutely set on going to an equestrian college.
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Chaucer posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/42eu3p/cousin_wants_to_go_to_equestrian_school_what_kind/ Horse college exists?
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I went to people college.
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bovine university here
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Gotta appreciate that they pretty much got an immediate answer from someone in the know, and that answer was "unless she's from a rich family or insanely talented, lolno." The internet is a magical thing sometimes.NancyPants posted:Horse college exists?
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NancyPants posted:Horse college exists? Someone tell Lewis Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ0s0KUUpxo
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DrBouvenstein posted:Someone tell Lewis Black: That was exactly what I was thinking of when I read it.
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I think you go to horse college to become a horse.
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You should probably be an independently wealthy house wife if you plan to go to horse college.
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cowofwar posted:You should probably be an independently wealthy house wife if you plan to go to horse college.
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Does horse college offer the MRS degree path?
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Horse college is for if your daddy is Mitt Romney and you just LOVE horses and why can't I just go to this college dad, you said college was a good idea and this one lets you stay with the horses and ride them every day! It'll be ever so much fun and I'll get a degree and everything, just like you said. Besides, me and Thurston are getting married and he says I'll never need to work anyways, besides daddy you worked so hard and my trust takes care of everything anyhow!
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Uncle Enzo posted:Horse college is for if your daddy is Mitt Romney and you just LOVE horses and why can't I just go to this college dad, you said college was a good idea and this one lets you stay with the horses and ride them every day! It'll be ever so much fun and I'll get a degree and everything, just like you said.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I think you go to horse college to become a horse. We actually call it "university".
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quote:For me, it's spiritual,' she says. 'It's a different realm. You're not worried about bills, you're not worried about going to work. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...idle-night.html  Is this what you learn at pony college? Switchback fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Jan 25, 2016 |
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Switchback posted:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...idle-night.html GWM: Selling some idiot horse fetish outfits that cost £5k+ each
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I dunno man, the type of person who gets into horsefetish leather crafting probably has their own issues to contend with...
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I spent way too much time googling horse colleges tonight.
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horse mans posted:We actually call it "university". I love how there's a lurking account for every possible joke post just waiting for the opportunity to pounce.
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horse mans posted:We actually call it "university". Isn't it spelled uneighversity?
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hanales posted:Isn't it spelled uneighversity? Don't make fun of his speech impediment
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Seriously though bdsm stuff can make you a ton of money. Particularly if its a kink that can also go with cosplay stuff. Some of the people on etsy or that have custom shops just standard orders that can earn 200 dollars per each part of a job for a few hours of work. And dual markets can earn a ton more
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being a dominant who specializes in financial dominance is probably super GWM especially if you can get an accountant as a client
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I'm nominating this post from the climate change thread in D&D for 2016's worst with money from elsewhere on SA early.quote:You're acting like there's no tradeoff value to saving for retirement. If we genuinely believe that retirement will be structurally impossible at recommended rates of saving (say 10% of income when starting in early 20s, which is VASTLY more than most people actually save), then the rational course of action is to spend that money now. Yes, my plan to work less is to not save for retirement 
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I guess the EMT doesn't interact with people for the 20 years before they're in his ambulance where they're eating soup every night and have trouble paying the heating bill. I get the guy's position-- he or she is not a winner in the system, the system probably isn't going to allow them retirement, so why stumble along and sacrifice for something that's unobtainable? Still, the eventual answer to that question can't be "gently caress it, the revolution is coming."
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quote:You can strawman this all you want, but having talked to a lot of dying people as a former EMT (usually during interfacility transports), a lot of them really wanted to have worked less and seen the world more. Of course, everyone is free to jump from a bridge at the age of 65, which is also easier if your savings amount to nothing.
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Blinkman987 posted:I guess the EMT doesn't interact with people for the 20 years before they're in his ambulance where they're eating soup every night and have trouble paying the heating bill. For a little context, it's about his assumption (and mine, really) that eventually everything will collapse due to climate change. But he's pushing a pretty hard bet that it will happen before his retirement age, which is a dangerous gamble in my mind.
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Yeah uhh climate change absolutely could be the catalyst for global economic collapse and it could certainly happen in the next 40-60 years. That said, I'm not sure enough that it will happen that I want to sign up now to eating dog food for the entirety of my twilight years. That poo poo has glutens.
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They say climate change killed the dinosaurs, maybe the next climate change will bring them back. If that happens I will get a T-Rex and let him feast on the flesh of the bourgeois.
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Delusional, I love it. Best way to prepare for a revolution of the unfed masses is to be one yourself!
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Ha, like a government would go through the trouble of tracking down your retirement assets to redistribute to the starving masses. More likely they just print lots of new money, making your savings completely worthless. At least in that case you have a little warning so you can go hog wild with hookers and blow before you're heating your house with your cashed out 401k.
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Which is why you don't want all of your money invested in your home currency. I have more than I should invested in CAD funds, but I'm very thankful its not all of it. But that's good with money talk. My assumption is that if global warming or some other disaster tanks the economy as we know it, the only good investments will have been land with access to clean water, a gun, and lots of ammo. I'll likely have other things to worry about than not taking that trip 10 years ago.
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Every generation since the beginning of time thought the apocalypse would happen in their generation. It's not going to happen in ours.
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Switchback posted:Every generation since the beginning of time thought the apocalypse would happen in their generation. It's not going to happen in ours. I could understand people thinking like that in WWII. Especially when assets were seized for the war effort, what's the point in saving anything when it will be taken away? People should worry about events that are more likely such as: retirement and natural disasters.
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But how can I get off on my doomsday fetishism with realistic, practical advice like that?
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It doesn't matter what I say people will still get carried away with their highly specific doomsday OCD behaviour. Even goldbugs are ignoring evidence that gold has had worse returns that the stock market for all time.
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Nail Rat posted:I'm nominating this post from the climate change thread in D&D for 2016's worst with money from elsewhere on SA early. Radbot 
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