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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:On OP's post history he has posts about : This reminded me of the story of the mute, autistic man in Seattle who spends many hours a week in neighborhood record stores and apparently had so many records (and boots) in his subsidized apartment that the landlord evicted him for being a hoarder. Someone set up a GoFundMe page that managed to raise almost $20,000 in a week. It turns out that this is bad with money if you are receiving significant benefits from the state because the windfall would've made his income too high to qualify for many of those benefits. (The happy ending is that he was eventually able to find support from a neighborhood housing group.)
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I'm eating lunch and coworkers at neighboring table are loudly discussing slot machine strategy for the weekend. Bored boomers breaking down machine strategy, reward programs, and pondering if Indian casinos are regulated.
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Feb 17, 2017 21:11
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What other caller ID stories do people have? I don't answer unknown numbers and apparently a $50 charge from my final bill from AT&T when I cancelled a year ago has gone to collections because I never got it because I moved, even though I changed my address on their website and filed a change of address with the post office! Also when you cancel the account, it unlinks from your profile so you can't see/pay your bill when you log in, so I had no idea I owed them anything! Whoops!
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Feb 17, 2017 21:56
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What do people think about those caller ID's that read aloud the name of the person calling? I don't have any good caller ID related anecdotes about them, but maybe other people have content?
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Feb 17, 2017 21:59
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What do people think about those caller ID's that read aloud the name of the person calling? If you have that activated in an office setting, I wish for your painful death every time someone calls you.
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Feb 17, 2017 22:00
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big trivia FAIL posted:I don't answer unknown numbers and apparently a $50 charge from my final bill from AT&T when I cancelled a year ago has gone to collections because I never got it because I moved, even though I changed my address on their website and filed a change of address with the post office! Also when you cancel the account, it unlinks from your profile so you can't see/pay your bill when you log in, so I had no idea I owed them anything! Whoops! This happened with the internet provider when I moved. It was the second time I'd done so, and I did the same thing I did before; here's the new address, come set everything up, switch the account over. I always paid the bill when it hit my inbox (I don't use autopay), but it wasn't showing up and I didn't think much of it since I was so busy. Two months later I started getting automated phone calls saying "Please log into (provider dot com) for important account information". Nothing else. Logging in didn't show any news, a bill of $0, etc... Turns out that they didn't actually move my account properly, so I had new service set up outside of my actual account, that wasn't sending any physical or email bills, and was 3 months late.  I had to go to a physical store and complain until they took off the late fees and set it up properly.
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Feb 17, 2017 22:48
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cool story bro
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Feb 17, 2017 23:07
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BFC posts ain't always the most exciting. Sorry boys, it just comes with the territory. Let's shake things up, who wants to eat mushrooms and then try to do their taxes?
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Feb 17, 2017 23:13
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big trivia FAIL posted:I don't answer unknown numbers and apparently a $50 charge from my final bill from AT&T when I cancelled a year ago has gone to collections because I never got it because I moved, even though I changed my address on their website and filed a change of address with the post office! Also when you cancel the account, it unlinks from your profile so you can't see/pay your bill when you log in, so I had no idea I owed them anything! Whoops! Really? You should be able to use your email. I just moved to T-Mobile last night, and while they unlinked my account from the number (as they should have since I ported the number), I was still able to access my account to make sure they didn't nail me with any more charges.
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Feb 18, 2017 00:03
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Pryor on Fire posted:BFC posts ain't always the most exciting. Sorry boys, it just comes with the territory. Drugs and Bureaucracy would be an interesting reality show. Watch next week when Dave takes acid and goes to the DMV!
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Feb 18, 2017 00:11
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Call it the Slow-Mo Show edit: that was drugs at the opera, right?
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Feb 18, 2017 00:24
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BWM: Buying a stupid couch as a metaphor for life, or something.quote:This is why, a few weeks after moving in with my partner, Kevin, we decided to buy a couch from West Elm. The couch would be the most prominent piece of furniture in our small apartment and our first big purchase together — a gigantic spongy representation of our shared style sensibility. We chose a West Elm design called the “Peggy” in a deep rusty orange color. We would each put a fat $600 towards the couch, and that money would be an investment into our new life together. It was more than we were used to paying for a piece of furniture, but the price seemed to be proof of enduring quality. I looked at the image on the West Elm website and saw an entire montage of us laughing on the couch with friends, reading the Sunday paper on the couch, drinking obscure liqueurs on the couch (would this be the couch on which we would discover that we loved Cynar or Chartreuse?), moving the couch into a larger apartment, covering the couch with tarps while we painted the walls around it a daring color, giving birth on the couch, dying on the couch. Reading the article on a 15-year-old IKEA sofa, I particularly appreciated the attitude displayed by the employees: quote:Both store employees told me that between one and three years was normal for a couch with light use. (West Elm was a lot cheaper back in the day. Somewhere along the line they realized that selling the same furniture at a higher price would lead to customers subconsciously comparing it to Crate & Barrel rather than IKEA.)
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Feb 18, 2017 01:30
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Bad with money: Being liable for up to $10k in fines from Customs and Border Protection due to smuggling in 13 pounds of horse genitals http://www.abc2news.com/news/state/13-pounds-of-horse-genitals-concealed-in-womans-luggage-claimed-it-was-for-medicinal-purposes
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Feb 18, 2017 01:32
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canyoneer posted:Bad with money: Being liable for up to $10k in fines from Customs and Border Protection due to smuggling in 13 pounds of horse genitals  pssssssst, you lookin' to score horse wang? i got some...
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Feb 18, 2017 02:13
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Related, I recently found out this is a thing: http://horseandrider.com/article/cleaning-horse-sheath-18021 Unsurprisingly you can pay large sums of money to have someone else clean your horse's sheath.
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Feb 18, 2017 02:23
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Zero One posted:Related, I recently found out this is a thing: http://horseandrider.com/article/cleaning-horse-sheath-18021 BWM. You need to find a horse lover to pay you to clean your horse's sheath.
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Feb 18, 2017 02:29
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Kenneth Pinyan (Mr Hands) will clean your horse's dick thr good old fashioned way.
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Feb 18, 2017 04:56
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Zero One posted:Related, I recently found out this is a thing: http://horseandrider.com/article/cleaning-horse-sheath-18021 This is the worst thing I've read in a long time
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Feb 18, 2017 06:37
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Zero One posted:Related, I recently found out this is a thing: http://horseandrider.com/article/cleaning-horse-sheath-18021 This should have a loving NFSW tag on it
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Feb 18, 2017 06:50
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pig slut lisa posted:This is the worst thing I've read in a long time C'mon, how bad could it be? "In this case, you'll need to go in up to your elbow, so wear a long disposable glove to avoid getting the greasy, smelly smegma on your arm and sleeve."  "Some horses really resent this procedure." I bet they do.
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Feb 18, 2017 06:57
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As near as I can tell, getting the bean out of the urethra requires squeezing it out. For as frank as they are in describing cleaning the sheath, these folks seem awfully shy to describe how to clear the urethra.
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Feb 18, 2017 07:12
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lavaca posted:BWM: Buying a stupid couch as a metaphor for life, or something. Store employees will make up the dumbest poo poo on the durability of their product. I had a guy had best buy tell me I should get the extended warranty, because 30% of their laptop were returned every year. My reaction was well, you sell lovely laptops so I'm going to go buy it elsewhere. He changed his tune.
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FrozenVent posted:Store employees will make up the dumbest poo poo on the durability of their product. I had a guy had best buy tell me I should get the extended warranty, because 30% of their laptop were returned every year. When I worked at Best Buy, only two things were true 1 - At least 30% of the guys working there were weirdo sexual predators trying to pick up on the 17-year-old cashiers 2 - You can't sell a cheap laptop without an extended warranty unless you want to get scolded by your manager The cheap laptops were loss leaders and the company only wanted to sell them with service plans and $50 ink cartridges.
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Feb 18, 2017 07:20
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NancyPants posted:As near as I can tell, getting the bean out of the urethra requires squeezing it out. For as frank as they are in describing cleaning the sheath, these folks seem awfully shy to describe how to clear the urethra. Is this "bean referring" to dry horse precum or is there something even worse than horses have coming out of there?
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Feb 18, 2017 07:23
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CHANGING TOPICS RAPIDLY: Here is a short video entitled Bankrupt By Beanies, described as "A short documentary about my family's sordid past with Beanie Babies."
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Reddit Roundup...https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/5uqmct/in_the_us_over_50_have_over_200k_in_student_loans/ posted:In the US, over 50, have over 200k in student loans due to interest rates/low income Help? (self.personalfinance) Racking up loans to get a degree in MFA is shockingly not GWM. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/5uo99n/10130816_in_debt_i_have_no_idea_what_to_do/ posted:$101,308.16 in debt. I have no idea what to do. (self.personalfinance) He has a major spending problem regarding cars, like having 20 of them: quote:The 20 cars are old, old, 60s Beetles and Buses that he's hoping to restore amd sell one day. The whole thing cost him $10K and if he fixes them up one bus will pay him back. Chances of that happening = 0%
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Feb 18, 2017 07:59
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"Stop buying candles." "No."
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Feb 18, 2017 08:29
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quote:We recently bought and paid off a $25K house
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Feb 18, 2017 08:40
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What sort of house do you get for 25 thousand?? 
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Apparently one where the neighbors don't care if you have twenty VWs in various stages of disrepair laying around the yard. edit: Alternatively, one where the neighbors are operating meth labs out of the twenty VWs in various stages of disrepair laying around the yard. Porfiriato fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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Feb 18, 2017 10:51
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Solice Kirsk posted:All of those important things would leave a message. Lol no they wouldn't, as evidenced by the numerous different important calls I missed from various organizations (such as my bank) because I was expecting important calls to leave a message Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Do you really get enough spam calls that, upon seeing an unknown number, it's more likely to be a spam call than someone you know calling from a different number? I get a spam call once or twice per day, and the other times I get called it's someone who thinks I'm the guy who used to have this phone number before I got it. A year and a half ago.
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Weatherman posted:What sort of house do you get for 25 thousand?? Had to be a trailer or used manufactured home
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Ugghhh my wife is trying to buy a dog this morning that is 14 years old and has Cushing's disease with drug costs totalling $160 a month. We could literally board a horse for less than that around here.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Ugghhh my wife is trying to buy a dog this morning that is 14 years old and has Cushing's disease with drug costs totalling $160 a month. I had a dog with Cushing's growing up, that dog was miserable. Maybe the drugs are better but it's hard watching a sick animal be a "pet."
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Feb 18, 2017 16:48
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Ugghhh my wife is trying to buy a dog this morning that is 14 years old and has Cushing's disease with drug costs totalling $160 a month. There are x healthy dogs euthanized per year. If you adopt a sick one then an otherwise healthy dog will die instead. It's zero sum, don't adopt sick old dogs.
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Weatherman posted:What sort of house do you get for 25 thousand?? Wasn't that house with the chamber pot in the kitchen 50K or so?
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Ugghhh my wife is trying to buy a dog this morning that is 14 years old and has Cushing's disease with drug costs totalling $160 a month. Watch the horse get Cushing's too.
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BloodBag posted:Watch the horse Fixed.
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Weatherman posted:What sort of house do you get for 25 thousand?? I bought a house for exactly that about 6 months ago. It's missing 60% of the floors, most of the plumbing, has no AC or heat, the foundation is in bad shape, and up until I fixed it one of the walls was falling off of the house and taking the roof with it. So...a house that is about 50% intact, optimistically.
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Leviathan Song posted:I bought a house for exactly that about 6 months ago. It's missing 60% of the floors, most of the plumbing, has no AC or heat, the foundation is in bad shape, and up until I fixed it one of the walls was falling off of the house and taking the roof with it. So...a house that is about 50% intact, optimistically. Good luck with your renovations!
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