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Saros posted:The absolute best case scenario here is someone robs him at gunpoint and takes everything but he makes it back home alive. What a moron. Depending which direction he's going the jeep might break down irreparably causing him to head home before anything really bad happens. It's not that bad until he hits Libya or Sierra Leone and if he makes it through Libya that whole East side trip isn't so bad.
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Saros posted:The absolute best case scenario here is someone robs him at gunpoint and takes everything but he makes it back home alive. What a moron. If he gets kidnapped and held for random, he can just put it on his credit card.
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Jun 17, 2016 15:40
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JayKay posted:If he gets kidnapped and held for random, he can just put it on his credit card. If you get kidnapped is it better to have your emergency savings in an index fund or a checking account?
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Jun 17, 2016 15:45
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:If you get kidnapped is it better to have your emergency savings in an index fund or a checking account? I'm going to say this is the one time precious metals are preferable.
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Leviathan Song posted:Depending which direction he's going the jeep might break down irreparably causing him to head home before anything really bad happens. It's not that bad until he hits Libya or Sierra Leone and if he makes it through Libya that whole East side trip isn't so bad. Morocco and Mauretania will be fine but once he gets past there into proper west Africa he is totally hosed. I've been there for work and we had fixers and everything and never moved alone but it was still dodgy as all hell in many places. What really gets to me is the 1) Doing it alone and 2) In a shiny jeep with expensive poo poo hanging off it everywhere. Saros fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Jun 17, 2016 16:00
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If loving Caro can get out of Syria alive, anyone can. I say go for it. Ol' Kevin has proven mentally ill goons are immortal, unless phenazepam is involved.
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Jun 17, 2016 16:41
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If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die historic on the fury road 
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Jun 17, 2016 16:53
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Wow that guy makes the idiotic Everest tourists seem sane. I can confirm that running over people in Kenya and fleeing the scene is The Thing to Do, though.
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Droo posted:I was just searching for something on google, and typed "would a h" to start my search and I noticed that the first auto fill result is "would a horse enjoy a bouncy castle". A fun game
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"I'm just gonna, like, share my experience with them, man. We're all humans and just have to understand each other. I'm on a journey, we're all on a journey" - Jeep guy, explaining his plan to get out of trouble
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Some highlights from Jeep Guy's comment history: Fuel plans: quote:It's something I think about. I try to fill up at big stations that look like they get a lot of use so less chance of gas that has been sitting around for a long time. Long term planning: quote:That's not my house, or tools, or garage, that was a friend's place. The thinking that goes into deciding to drive through Libya, Sudan, and Western Sahara quote:Actually, I knocked that map out in photoshop in about 3 minutes because a magazine editor wanted it. Is it accurate ? nope. Will my plans change? yep. Also no mention anywhere of language skills besides English, to up the difficulty a little more.
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Jun 17, 2016 20:41
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This is like that dude who planned to walk from California to Florida, but much worse.
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Jun 17, 2016 21:07
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Not all of those borders are even open, though I guess that's really one of the least of his worries. Offhand, I know the border between Morocco and Algeria has been essentially completely closed for 30 years.
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Jun 17, 2016 21:16
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And even the open ones generally require visas be arranged well in advance. Bill Bryson talks about all the planning he had to do for Darkstar Safari.
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Jun 17, 2016 21:42
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I assume he's just gonna dick around in Morocco for a few months, claim some variant of a personal emergency, and bail
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Jun 17, 2016 21:51
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He makes a plan to drive around all of africa and loving skips Timbuktu? The one place people will ask about when they hear he drove around africa? What a moron
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Jun 17, 2016 22:12
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Someone else on reddit also mentioned that the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnet_de_Passages_en_Douane can cost many times what your vehicle costs for each country. I think he's just going to take a Ferry to Morocco, get stoned, and make up the rest. I mean it was supposed to be starting now, that reddit post is from two weeks ago.
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Jun 17, 2016 22:24
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Has he posted lately? I hear it's hard to type after the local warlord lops off your hands because you were foolish enough to stop at the barricade of burning tires instead of flooring it.
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Jun 18, 2016 00:10
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I like to imagine he's enjoying a nice piece of sesame cake.
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Jun 18, 2016 00:16
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Moneyball posted:I like to imagine he's enjoying a nice piece of sesame cake. 
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Jun 18, 2016 03:04
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Stop eating my sesame cake. 
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Jun 18, 2016 04:09
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Moneyball posted:This is like that dude who planned to walk from California to Florida, but much worse. Does anyone have a link to this thread again? I read it once before but have a long train ride coming up and could do with the entertainment. vvvvvvv A legend is y0u! Weatherman fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Jun 18, 2016 |
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Jun 18, 2016 05:08
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3714480&perpage=40
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im too lazy to read though that, but is he the one who was going to use a baby stroller to carry water through the desert?
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JohnGalt posted:im too lazy to read though that, but is he the one who was going to use a baby stroller to carry water through the desert? Yes And he never made it out of the park he started in.
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Inept posted:Jeep death wish 
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Jun 18, 2016 23:14
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Haifisch posted:The cherry on top is the comments going "wtf, don't take a Jeep to Africa, you should have gotten a Landcruiser or Hilux instead." I guess having a reliable, relatively inconspicuous car he'd be able to repair never popped into his head. I've rarely seen an SUV driver actually leave the suburbs / inner city, which is just as well, because they are incompetent drivers enough there, let alone in the actual, non-paved wilderness.
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Jun 18, 2016 23:56
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Somewhere in the archives there is a thread from a goon who actually did the drive around Africa thing, except he did it as part of a huge caravan of people in multiple vehicles and it was meticulously planned long in advance. They brought multiple spare parts and still ran out of at least one IIRC, and had to barter for repairs. They also ran into Michael Palin because he was in Africa for one of his travel shows, and Palin remembered him months later at a book signing.
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some_weird_kid posted:This happened to a friend of mine, in a similar amount, except since she was a 25 year old still under her parents' insurance (though living as an otherwise-independent adult on the opposite side of the country) the insurance company cut the check to her mom as the policy holder. My friend went about her business thinking insurance had taken care of it, as they said they would, until she got a call from the hospital about the unpaid debt. Once she figured out that the insurance hadn't paid the hospital directly and had instead mailed a check to her terrible-with-money mother, and called to tell her mom to send the check in to the hospital, her mom said she had assumed it was for some other medical bills for the parents and had used it all to pay those instead. Certainly the paperwork would have said something about the patient name, but her mom runs the many debts she's incurred as somewhat of a shell game between members of the family. So the medical debt is in my friend's name, but the best she can get from her mom is a shrug and a "sorry, it's all gone." So the mom has effectively transferred around $20,000 of medical debt from her old and unwell spouse to her young and reasonably healthy daughter. Is there any way to nail her on fraud charges? Because that's what I'd do at this point.
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Renegret posted:Yes wow. i stopped reading the before he actually attempted the trip. good read.
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Jun 19, 2016 15:28
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Ugh, Muerte's death march linked me to the e/n thread about the 31 year old guy with the camgirlfriend and let's just say I'm sad and angry.
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I am buying a used RV but I need 15 years to pay it off. Also I am pretty particular about my creditworthiness. (He did say peculiar, which makes it more accurate.)Reddit posted:So, I've been looking for an rv camper, found one I'm really interested in, and talked to my credit union to help me finance it. But! The maximum term they will finance it for is 120 months, long time I know, but I want it longer. Somewhere around 180 months. The loan officer at my credit union has checked my credit but not sent off my request for credit just yet. She wanted me to find a camper that was newer(which I did) now, here comes the question: can I take that credit report to the dealer and show it to him, then finance it with the dealer for the 180 months or would I have to let him check my credit a thousand more times to be satisfied. I'm pretty peculiar about my credit worthiness, being a 20 yo guy surrounded by people who have credit scores of 0-500max, and really want as few hard hits to it as possible.
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Jun 19, 2016 16:55
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Once again, the only people worried about their credit score are those that shouldn't be given credit
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Jun 19, 2016 16:59
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quote:Help my family spend less on food. (self.personalfinance) quote:Here is the breakdown for last month for food spending (includes any household items - toiletry & paper). We are in a high COL area (SF Bay Area) but I realize we are out of control. 
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quote:Safeway: $1713 Ok this seems pretty high for four people but its San Fran but maybe feeding kids is more expensive than I remember. quote:Trader Joes: $708 Now I'm concerned, this is more food on top of the Safeway food???? quote:Walgreens: $503  Well maybe its medicine and not expensive drug store snacks... quote:Paypal (Delivery food): $575  quote:Starbucks: $350 (I know I will get obliterated for this) 
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Jun 19, 2016 23:20
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They must only buy the hot pre-made food. I wouldn't be able to spend $2500 a month otherwise unless I was loading up a cart full of prime rib and trashing it every day.
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Jun 19, 2016 23:24
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I'm having trouble processing it. Granted I'm single and buy generic brand poo poo when applicable because I'm a cheapskate. However, growing up with my parents in a family of 4 in NYC we still only spent a fraction of that on groceries.
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Jun 19, 2016 23:35
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Jesus... The Bay Area is pricey, sure, but nothing out here is that pricey. Hell, fruits and vegetables are actually cheaper here than they were in rural Pennsylvania. My wife and I could eat out for every single meal, every day, and we'd still be spending less than that guy is. 
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Jun 20, 2016 00:19
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The dude spends more in a month on food than I do in a year. Granted, I'm only one person and not a family of four, but goddamn.
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I thought I was overspending by purchasing $50 of luxury food items yesterday. I see I'm out of my league with at least $3500/month on gently caress knows what. I see he also talks about food waste. Is it some sort of tradition to buy so much food that you just throw it away?
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