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Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
srry 4 bringing up guns they are dum

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Reince Penis
Nov 15, 2007

by R. Guyovich

Baloogan posted:

srry 4 bringing up guns they are dum

The guns aren't the only thing. :rolleyes:

cowofwar
Jul 30, 2002

by Athanatos
People who own guns don't trust the government.

People who don't own guns don't trust people that own guns.


It's mostly just hicks that own 20 guns each so meh.

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005
I know a lady on another forum who gets night terrors and sleepwalks and she posted about how scared she was because the other night she had one and managed to get her gun out of its locked case and then started pointing it around at things, including her husband, and I just laughed for like twenty minutes because those morons will never understand that they're infinitely more likely to hurt themselves or their families with their guns than anyone else is ever going to do.


edit: she's American

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
ah the good old wholesome canadian past time of laughing at americans. nice. and yet you would tut tut an american laughing at a stereotypical mexican being dumb

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
(plz look at my symbol, i was so offensively polite, good n'warm and canadian the (awesome) admin on SA uploaded a special maple leaf 4 me)

cowofwar
Jul 30, 2002

by Athanatos

Baloogan posted:

ah the good old wholesome canadian past time of laughing at americans. nice. and yet you would tut tut an american laughing at a stereotypical mexican being dumb
No one in this progressive Canadian circle jerk cares about Mexicans.

Guest2553
Aug 3, 2012


Baloogan posted:

ah the good old wholesome canadian past time of laughing at americans. nice. and yet you would tut tut an american laughing at a stereotypical mexican being dumb
tbf i lived in the US for a few years and am contemptuous of them both.

Baloogan posted:

(plz look at my symbol, i was so offensively polite, good n'warm and canadian the (awesome) admin on SA uploaded a special maple leaf 4 me)
the grenade is probably a good summation of my feelings so it all works out

e. CI save us

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Guest2553 posted:

tbf i lived in the US for a few years and am contemptuous of them both.

the grenade is probably a good summation of my feelings so it all works out

e. CI save us

The man is still keeping CI down for another 16 days.

If only he wasn't so horribly racist.

the talent deficit
Dec 20, 2003

self-deprecation is a very british trait, and problems can arise when the british attempt to do so with a foreign culture





baloogan is cool & good please don't run him off

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

the talent deficit posted:

baloogan is cool & good please don't run him off

does he have other gimmicks in the rotation?

triplexpac
Mar 24, 2007

Suck it
Two tears in a bucket
And then another thing
I'm not the one they'll try their luck with
Hit hard like brass knuckles
See your face through the turnbuckle dude
I got no love for you
I saw an explosion of posts and thought housing bubble armageddon had finally come.

AmericanBarbarian
Nov 23, 2011

triplexpac posted:

I saw an explosion of posts and thought housing bubble armageddon had finally come.

When it pops everyone will be off the forums telling all their irl friends they saw it coming and bragging about it.

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




AmericanBarbarian posted:

When it pops everyone will be off the forums telling all their irl friends they saw it coming and bragging about it.

You dont know us very well. We dont have IRL friends to laugh at.

I imagine it will be fun to walk around Vancouver for the first week or so while it rains the screaming corpses of ten thousand RealtorsTM.

Booourns
Jan 20, 2004
Please send a report when you see me complain about other posters and threads outside of QCS

~thanks!

Baloogan posted:

(plz look at my symbol, i was so offensively polite, good n'warm and canadian the (awesome) admin on SA uploaded a special maple leaf 4 me)

Please autoban yourself, seeing as I can't put you on ignore

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

Booourns posted:

Please autoban yourself, seeing as I can't put you on ignore

sorry

the talent deficit
Dec 20, 2003

self-deprecation is a very british trait, and problems can arise when the british attempt to do so with a foreign culture





Subjunctive posted:

does he have other gimmicks in the rotation?

he has good opinions on vancouver's craft beer scene and sewer maintenance

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:

Subjunctive posted:

does he have other gimmicks in the rotation?

this thread's only big enough for one gimmick poster :clint:

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Let us check in with ze Americans:







Hmmm getting a bit crazy.

Reince Penis
Nov 15, 2007

by R. Guyovich

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Let us check in with ze Americans:







Hmmm getting a bit crazy.

[INHALES DEEPLY]
mmmm That's some good poo poo to start the work week.

TerminalSaint
Apr 21, 2007


Where must we go...

we who wander this Wasteland in search of our better selves?

cowofwar posted:

No one in this progressive Canadian circle jerk cares about Mexicans.

Canadians only care about Mexico because they can take an all-inclusive resort vacation there, and then tell people how much they love experiencing other cultures.

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

TerminalSaint posted:

Canadians only care about Mexico because they can take an all-inclusive resort vacation there, and then tell people how much they love experiencing other cultures.*

* Except for the terrible food [that they serve at the resort].

TerminalSaint
Apr 21, 2007


Where must we go...

we who wander this Wasteland in search of our better selves?

PT6A posted:

* Except for the terrible food [that they serve at the resort].

"Oh I love Mexican food..." *puts Old El Paso taco kit into shopping basket*

Guest2553
Aug 3, 2012


Alternatively, Cuba so you can be all :smaug: about the lack of americans as you gorge yourself on bar food and mixed drinks that are 50% spit.

cowofwar
Jul 30, 2002

by Athanatos
We don't care about Cuba anymore because Americans can go there legally now.

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
There is no good Mexican food in Canada. The best Mexican I had was in some small village in the Yucatan.

Cuban food is great.

Femtosecond
Aug 2, 2003

quote:

China Gets Strict on Forex Transactions to Stop Money Exiting Abroad

At risk of capital flight, China marked the new year with extra requirements for citizens converting yuan into foreign currencies.

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the currency regulator, said in a statement Dec. 31 that it wanted to close loopholes exploited for purposes such as money laundering and illegally channeling money into overseas property.

While the regulator left unchanged quotas of $50,000 of foreign currency per person a year, citizens faced extra disclosure requirements from Jan. 1.

The annual limits for individuals’ currency conversions reset at the start of each year, potentially aggravating outflow pressures that intensified in 2016 as the yuan suffered its steepest annual slump in more than two decades. An estimated $762 billion flowed out of the country in the first 11 months of last year, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence gauge, pumping up residential property markets from Vancouver to Sydney. Some money also spilled across the border into Hong Kong insurance products.

Key elements of the new requirements:

* Customers must pledge money won’t be used for overseas purchases of property, securities, life insurance or investment-type insurance. While such rules aren’t new, citizens previously didn’t have to sign such a pledge

* Customers must give a more detailed account of the planned use of funds, such as business travel, overseas study, family visits, medical treatment, merchandise trade or purchases of non-investment insurance policies, including the timing, by year and month

* Violators of foreign-exchange rules will be be added to the currency regulator’s watch list, denied foreign-exchange quota for three years and subjected to anti-money-laundering investigations

* Customers must confirm compliance with restrictions on money laundering, tax evasion and underground bank dealings

* Customers must now confirm they aren’t lending or borrowing quotas to or from other citizens

The measures may curb enthusiasm for purchases of dollars and ease pressure for capital outflows, according to Zhao Yang, chief China economist at Nomura Holdings Inc. in Hong Kong.

The yuan fell 0.1 percent to 6.9554 per dollar on Tuesday, approaching an 8 1/2 year low.

SAFE also warned of the potential risks from investing in foreign assets, adding that yuan deposit rates are “significantly” higher than overseas equivalents.

Investors face “significant uncertainty and risks” on the returns from foreign-currency holdings, SAFE said. Banks should make spot checks on individuals’ foreign-exchange reports, penalizing those who provide false information or illegally move money abroad, it said.



RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:

cowofwar posted:

We don't care about Cuba anymore because Americans can go there legally now.

I wouldn't expect this to last. There's this new guy coming in and he's kind of a douche.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

My friend's rich dad owns a mansion in the Uplands and a decent sized house in Oak Bay that he was planning on downsizing to but is now renting it out because he'd be a fool to sell his mansion right now, prices keep going up. In fact he's now going to buy a presale condo or two as investments. He's very proud that he's "always made a killing on real-estate" and is very confident this is the right thing to do. Who knows, maybe it is.
Oh also they're not worried about a bubble because "we'll just sell all the investment properties when it looks like the market is about to crash".

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/BullionBaron/status/816182210004819969

cowofwar
Jul 30, 2002

by Athanatos
Additional restrictions on moving money out of China effective Jan 1st probably going to take some steam out of the markets.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

cowofwar posted:

Additional restrictions on moving money out of China effective Jan 1st probably going to take some steam out of the markets.

You just have to sign a form promising you aren't buying property? Doesn't seem to be too much of a deterrent.

Ccs
Feb 25, 2011


My girlfriend's parents always want to send her money to buy a house but now it's not allowed; people sending money from China have to sign a form saying it won't be used to invest in foreign real estate. Though I don't know how the Chinese government would track what their citizens overseas are doing with the money if it stays in a foreign bank for a while before being used for a down-payment, etc.

The Butcher
Apr 20, 2005

Well, at least we tried.
Nap Ghost

Bitcoin is only going UP from here!

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Ccs posted:

My girlfriend's parents always want to send her money to buy a house but now it's not allowed; people sending money from China have to sign a form saying it won't be used to invest in foreign real estate. Though I don't know how the Chinese government would track what their citizens overseas are doing with the money if it stays in a foreign bank for a while before being used for a down-payment, etc.

Watch china actually have better data on BC realestate finance than the government.

mojo1701a
Oct 9, 2008

Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth

Ccs posted:

My girlfriend's parents always want to send her money to buy a house but now it's not allowed; people sending money from China have to sign a form saying it won't be used to invest in foreign real estate. Though I don't know how the Chinese government would track what their citizens overseas are doing with the money if it stays in a foreign bank for a while before being used for a down-payment, etc.

Does it count if you say I'm not using it to invest in real estate while giving it to your daughter?

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


I'm just paying my kid/professional student to go to school in Canada, what they decide to spend the money on after it leaves China is their choice! (It's real estate)

peter banana
Sep 2, 2008

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Ccs posted:

My girlfriend's parents always want to send her money to buy a house but now it's not allowed; people sending money from China have to sign a form saying it won't be used to invest in foreign real estate. Though I don't know how the Chinese government would track what their citizens overseas are doing with the money if it stays in a foreign bank for a while before being used for a down-payment, etc.

I'm sure she'll be getting a call from Metro/G&M/National Post/CBC to ask her to tell her tragic tale any day now.

peter banana fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jan 4, 2017

Vehementi
Jul 25, 2003

YOSPOS
It was already not allowed to send money out of china like that... unless you mean that now up to the $50k/year limit they also have to promise not to spend it on real estate, but lol

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JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line
I promise not to spend this money on real-estate

on an unrelated note I just spent and simultaneously made a bunch of money at the casino, which I will spend on real-estate

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