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Saros posted:Why the hell would you use a DSLR for taking selfies I can't see that working well at all. Also uh surely if you're going on a trip of a lifetime you take your camera with you? It's an obvious excuse to justify spending too much money buying a DSLR that she couldn't afford and was probably struggling to operate. e: talking about bullshit excuses; there's a local crowdfunding campaign to return a $2m beach back to public ownership. So they've been running the crowdfunding in a high profile manner. So high profile that a local philanthropist offered to buy it, have small area for his family and leave the rest available to the public. They said no, they'll hit the mark through crowdfunding. Sounds good but in typical crowdfunding fashion today's news is that they can't sell the beach because it's tied up in legal action with them owing $6.2m to the bank which is trying to get a summary judgement to sell their house. Their excuse for not paying the mortgage. quote:Garnham and Spackman maintain they were misled into signing refinancing deals, which they believed would allow them to pay interest only on the loans and none of the principal amount. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/76582067/bank-of-new-zealand-chasing-abel-tasman-beach-owner-and-others-for-millions Devian666 fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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So i googled that whole tumblr blog and found she's already familiar to digital panhandling, this is from summer '15:quote:Help Me Keep My Dog edit: another one from october quote:
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Feb 11, 2016 19:14
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Will commit academic fraud for food
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Feb 11, 2016 19:22
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Just saw a Youtube ad for binary options trading. You can even trade bitcoin! 
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Feb 11, 2016 19:48
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Saros posted:Why the hell would you use a DSLR for taking selfies I can't see that working well at all. Also uh surely if you're going on a trip of a lifetime you take your camera with you? That's how "selfies" were taken before the cell phone camera. Camera, timer or remote, something to rest the camera on, hilarity when the photos are developed. 
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Feb 11, 2016 19:54
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Not a Children posted:Will commit academic fraud for food
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Feb 11, 2016 20:11
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That lady keeps hitting up everyone for 'about tree fiddy'. I wonder if she's the Loch Nes....quote:all of my pieces were not the easiest to come buy given being plus size I knew it 
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Feb 11, 2016 21:19
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:At least maybe convince them to ditch the company stock because it going down is, uhh, correlated with unemployment. I'm pretty glad I didn't do that yet, because we work here.
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Feb 11, 2016 22:11
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Inverse Icarus posted:I'm pretty glad I didn't do that yet, because we work here.
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Feb 11, 2016 22:16
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I worry about Tumblr girl, but in a very selfish way. I just keep thinking "please don't meet a conservative and give life to their lazy worthless millennial caricature." I think everyone deserves a life of some dignity and I can only imagine the horribleness that makes a person perpetually in crisis, but goddamn.
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Feb 11, 2016 23:13
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Blinkman987 posted:I worry about Tumblr girl, but in a very selfish way. I just keep thinking "please don't meet a conservative and give life to their lazy worthless millennial caricature." What if she gives life to the caricature? Actually, I wonder if these sob stories are just "creative writing" exercises, a service that she just happens to sell!
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Feb 11, 2016 23:16
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pig slut lisa posted:That notecard already says that It does, but it doesn't mention that professional stock pickers don't pick stocks for their own portfolio either.
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Feb 12, 2016 01:13
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I really need to know the details of that Europe vacation... I also like how she states that filing a police report is "futile" despite apparently knowing exactly who took her stuff and when. Sounds like she didn't even report it. I bet there was something else going on that she isn't being straight up about. The runner up BWM is whoever promised to cover 85% of her expenses on the Euro trip. "I NEED this European vacation!" is pretty much the definition of entitlement.
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Feb 12, 2016 01:50
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Thesaurus posted:I really need to know the details of that Europe vacation... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZk1WHJ_fwo Not everyone inherits wealth, and that is sad 
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Feb 12, 2016 02:05
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Academic cheating businesses that successfully stay open have always fascinated me. Back when calculators were something I thought about, I proposed a company making cases to allow advanced graphing calculators to look like their more basic cousins. Same. Academic fraud has got a weird parallel to high finance, where the people that benefit the most from it are a) very difficult to prosecute and b) wealthy, or at least the biggest spenders. I think I read in a Readers Digest some years ago that it's just as well, because people that buy their way through school are really just training to buy their way through life.
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Feb 12, 2016 02:13
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Thesaurus posted:I also like how she states that filing a police report is "futile" despite apparently knowing exactly who took her stuff and when. Sounds like she didn't even report it. I bet there was something else going on that she isn't being straight up about. Depending on what evidence exists, it may not be possible to prove this person robbed her, even if everyone with sense knows drat well they did. When a housemate of mine (in a rent-by-the-bedroom place) robbed me, the cops told me straight out that they were sure he did it but couldn't prove it in court. A police report didn't get my stuff back or him arrested. Know what it did get me? Full coverage for my stuff because I wasn't an idiot and had renter's insurance.
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canyoneer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZk1WHJ_fwo
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effervescible posted:Depending on what evidence exists, it may not be possible to prove this person robbed her, even if everyone with sense knows drat well they did. When a housemate of mine (in a rent-by-the-bedroom place) robbed me, the cops told me straight out that they were sure he did it but couldn't prove it in court. A police report didn't get my stuff back or him arrested. Know what it did get me? Full coverage for my stuff because I wasn't an idiot and had renter's insurance. I believe you, but that sounds so crazy. How does anyone get busted for theft under such rules?
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Feb 12, 2016 05:28
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Mostly people are busted for theft if they're caught in the act or on video, or the goods are recovered as part of another arrest.
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effervescible posted:Depending on what evidence exists, it may not be possible to prove this person robbed her, even if everyone with sense knows drat well they did. When a housemate of mine (in a rent-by-the-bedroom place) robbed me, the cops told me straight out that they were sure he did it but couldn't prove it in court. A police report didn't get my stuff back or him arrested. Know what it did get me? Full coverage for my stuff because I wasn't an idiot and had renter's insurance. I had a similar situation when I was living in college dorms and my roommate was stealing from my other 2 roommates and I. The cops came and told us we could file a report but nothing would happen because even though they believed us, it was our word against hers. We even found some of our stuff hidden in her dresser/closet but since we moved it, it didn't count as evidence.
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Feb 12, 2016 05:40
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Academic cheating businesses that successfully stay open have always fascinated me. Back when calculators were something I thought about, I proposed a company making cases to allow advanced graphing calculators to look like their more basic cousins. lol if you ever stopped thinking about calculators calculator thoughts 4 lyfe, bitch
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Feb 12, 2016 11:48
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flynt posted:I had a similar situation when I was living in college dorms and my roommate was stealing from my other 2 roommates and I. The cops came and told us we could file a report but nothing would happen because even though they believed us, it was our word against hers. We even found some of our stuff hidden in her dresser/closet but since we moved it, it didn't count as evidence. I found out how roommate theft works back in 2013. I rented a room in a  former heroin addict... and the leaseholder knew but didn't tell me.  A month into living there, I took off for a weekend to visit NY without telling anyone, and the leaseholder went somewhere in Canada, making sure to talk about it constantly. I got a call Sunday night that the addict cleaned everything out of her room, took a bunch of stuff from the leaseholder, and disappeared. None of my stuff got stolen! Must have thought I would see it sooner and call the police. Cops said the same thing- wasn't caught in the act, her word against ours, me being "away" could be considered questionable, who else has keys, etc. It's been two and a half years, and all that's happened is we've had to show up to court a couple times, wait around for a few hours, then just leave because no meetings ever take place. Massachusetts legal system. Finding your roommates on craigslist: BWM. some of the time
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Feb 12, 2016 12:46
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Tumblr poster is Black so I can totally understand her not wanting to get the police involved even if it were prosecutable. Involving the police if you're Black is a really good way for you to get hurt or killed by the police.
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Feb 12, 2016 18:48
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Moneyball posted:Just saw a Youtube ad for binary options trading. You can even trade bitcoin!
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Feb 12, 2016 18:50
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Tumblr poster is Black so I can totally understand her not wanting to get the police involved even if it were prosecutable. Involving the police if you're Black is a really good way for you to get hurt or killed by the police.
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Feb 12, 2016 19:18
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But now I know who to steal from!
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Feb 12, 2016 19:30
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Are we still pretending that any of that post is real? begging for 350 bucks 3 times on tumblr in a single year seems to be more a test of gullibility than anything else.
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Feb 12, 2016 19:36
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BraveUlysses posted:Are we still pretending that any of that post is real? begging for 350 bucks 3 times on tumblr in a single year seems to be more a test of gullibility than anything else. $350 gives you the most return with the fewest followers/friends dropping you. $100 is too little because people will assume you don't really need it. Asking for $1000 is too much and people will stop following you. $350 is just enough so someone can donate $3 and feel like they're helping.
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Feb 12, 2016 19:49
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Moneyball posted:
Having the water bill be abnormally high only to find out a main burst and Water is billing you for the repair because it wasn't reported for several months = BWM. Not your fault because you just rent a room there = GWM
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Feb 12, 2016 20:11
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Thesaurus posted:I believe you, but that sounds so crazy. How does anyone get busted for theft under such rules? Similar to Moneyball and flynt, there were circumstances shithead housemate could have used as reasonable doubt--I'd been gone for a week so there was no "stuff went missing at X time when only Y was home," there were no fingerprints, other people had access to our section of the house. Except those people were the landlord and the other roommate who was a retired firefighter, neither of whom I'd ever had a problem with at the time, and the police recognized shithead because they'd had a few run-ins before. So we all knew it was him and couldn't prove it. He did eventually get caught in the act trying to steal from landlord, but this incident was just part of the downward slide of that living situation so I was basically out the door by then.
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Feb 12, 2016 20:34
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Nitrox posted:That's a really stupid thing to say No its not. Its a pretty common sentiment in PoC communities.
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Feb 12, 2016 22:58
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pr0zac posted:No its not. Its a pretty common sentiment in PoC communities. It really is kind of stupid. Even in a system like ours, with real and quantifiable institutionalized racism, there are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of peaceful interactions between police and minorities for every bad one. To not call the cops because you think they're going to hurt or kill you is paranoia. So maybe it's a common sentiment, but it's a stupid one. Like how White people think Muslims are going to kill them.
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Feb 12, 2016 23:24
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Feb 13, 2016 00:04
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More BWM less D&D please!!
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Feb 13, 2016 00:19
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Don't do this derail, nothing good can come of it.
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Feb 13, 2016 00:30
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I've got a textbook case of investing wrong here. This was a few months back, right as the markets started to nosedive. Remember that one day, when everything seemed to suddenly poo poo the bed? Well, all day long, my boss was either watching his phone, his computer monitor, or BNN. You could see he was very nervous. At the end of the day he tells me he's relieved that he managed to sell most everything before he lost it all. He was totally caught up in the panic "SELL EVERYTHING NOW". Good job fella, you managed to sell low. He'll be buying right back in once things appear to be recovering. Pretty much exactly buying high, selling low.
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Can we please keep D&D out of this thread? This is the thread for feeling good about ourselves for not being the BWM people, not the thread where we're reminded that people on the internet like to argue about the world's problems.
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Feb 13, 2016 01:30
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Asking for posters to plz avoid derails has never been effective. I just shut my eyes and scroll past debates without bothering. Seriously it happens in every thread ever and it's not going away so may as well ignore it or enjoy the ride.
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Marco Rubio is Bad With Money.quote:WEST MIAMI, Fla. - For years, Senator Marco Rubio struggled under the weight of student debt, mortgages and an extra loan against the value of his home totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. But in 2012, financial salvation seemed to have arrived: A publisher paid him $800,000 to write a book about growing up as the son of Cuban immigrants.
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Forget the presidency, this guy has financial problems that would disqualify him from being a bank teller. People like him in the Senate really explains a lot of things.
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