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BarbarianElephant posted:No they didn't. They lived to about 60. We live until our 80s or 90s. No "we" don't, because "we" are not all wealthy white people. You're also going to need to define who "they" is because that 60 is pulled out of your rear end. ranbo das posted:Isn't that a fake fact as well? Even if you reached your teens, most people in pre-modern societies only had a life expectancy of 50ish years. Nope.
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https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/images/LD_fig3b.html These data show that life expectancy at age 65 has increased 5 years for women and 7 years for men just in this last century.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/images/LD_fig3b.html And? I guess you think I'm arguing life expectancy has never increased? No. I'm just trying to dispense the bullshit myth that cavemen or whoever all died in middle age. Also be very careful with generalized statistics like that because there are still massive differences for race and income. Sick of hearing white people wax rhapsodic about our inevitable deathless future when my people are lucky to make it to 70.
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Jun 27, 2017 19:35
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:And? I guess you think I'm arguing life expectancy has never increased? No. I'm just trying to dispense the bullshit myth that cavemen or whoever all died in middle age. Also be very careful with generalized statistics like that because there are still massive differences for race and income. Sick of hearing white people wax rhapsodic about our inevitable deathless future when my people are lucky to make it to 70. http://www.kff.org/other/state-indi...22:%22asc%22%7D
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Jun 27, 2017 19:39
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Oooh great we've found a new way to be offended.
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Jun 27, 2017 19:40
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Jun 27, 2017 19:42
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But really there's only one race: the human race.
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Jun 27, 2017 19:43
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This derail is probably bad with several things, but I don't think money is one of them.
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canyoneer posted:From a gbs thread about weird customers Good x-post. This is one of those per se bad with money things, imo. I don't care if you're a billionaire.
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ohgodwhat posted:Oooh great we've found a new way to be offended. Just don't repeat dumb myths, it's not hard. Kennedy didn't have a secretary named Lincoln and Eskimos don't have 1000 words for snow.
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pig slut lisa posted:Good x-post. This is one of those per se bad with money things, imo. I don't care if you're a billionaire. Yeah, I'm normally solidly in the relativist camp, but this is too much for me. E: though as I think of it, I bet that it cost one of my friends (' company) $250 to get him to work.
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Want to be a fly on the wall when he says the wrong thing to a cop and they put a boot on his lambo the next time he does this.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:No "we" don't, because "we" are not all wealthy white people. You're also going to need to define who "they" is because that 60 is pulled out of your rear end. Well poo poo I was gonna present sources like this (http://www.unm.edu/~hkaplan/KaplanHillLancasterHurtado_2000_LHEvolution.pdf) but clearly you know better. (Oh who am I kidding its TB they just want to start poo poo). (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Cold on a Cob posted:Want to be a fly on the wall when he says the wrong thing to a cop and they put a boot on his lambo the next time he does this. Eh, people usually only do that when trying to get out of the ticket. Doesn't sound like he even tried, he just considered it the cost of parking there.
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NancyPants posted:Eh, people usually only do that when trying to get out of the ticket. Doesn't sound like he even tried, he just considered it the cost of parking there. I'd guess the police department is happy to be GWM by letting him park there for a large fee!
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NancyPants posted:Eh, people usually only do that when trying to get out of the ticket. Doesn't sound like he even tried, he just considered it the cost of parking there. I'm more imagining him just chatting with the cop and being "funny" about his parking tickets in a completely out of touch way and the cop being like "gently caress this guy" the next day. Edit: I'm just saying sometimes "all cops are bastards" meets "rich bros are out of touch" and it's funny when this happens. Cold on a Cob fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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Cold on a Cob posted:I'm more imagining him just chatting with the cop and being "funny" about his parking tickets in a completely out of touch way and the cop being like "gently caress this guy" the next day. They could do a rotation, have a cop sit there every morning, ticket him and go on their way. Honestly it might make sense to charge the kid for 365 tickets in one go amd leave him alone for the year. Or just a direct billing to the family office.
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crazypeltast52 posted:They could do a rotation, have a cop sit there every morning, ticket him and go on their way. Honestly it might make sense to charge the kid for 365 tickets in one go amd leave him alone for the year. Or just a direct billing to the family office. At that price wouldn't it be cheaper for him to just hire a driver and have him circle the block?
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FYI to clarify my probation decision up thread: When I ask people to stop a derail, I like to give a five minute grace period to account for anyone who hasn't had reasonable time to see my request. That's why ranbo das is in timeout and Tiny Brontosaurus isn't. I didn't see anything worth a probation in the derail itself. If anyone has questions please PM. Thanks and hug your local derail bird today.
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Cold on a Cob posted:I'm more imagining him just chatting with the cop and being "funny" about his parking tickets in a completely out of touch way and the cop being like "gently caress this guy" the next day. Yes, I could see that happening. Seems silly, all that parking ticket revenue though. pig slut lisa posted:FYI to clarify my probation decision up thread: Just so you know, I will gently kiss the bird instead. I did appreciate the note on my last timeout though.
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In a lot of places you will get a boot for 4 tickets and $1000 owed. It is easy to fall behind on that if you are driving like an rear end in a top hat all the time. If the cops were smart about it they wouldn't even deal with the boot, just catch him with the tow truck to get this menace off the road.
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lampey posted:In a lot of places you will get a boot for 4 tickets and $1000 owed. It is easy to fall behind on that if you are driving like an rear end in a top hat all the time. If the cops were smart about it they wouldn't even deal with the boot, just catch him with the tow truck to get this menace off the road. I naively assumed he was paying them as they came.
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NancyPants posted:I naively assumed he was paying them as they came. I'm sure his FO is, as above.
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I would also accept a scenario where there is a fire nearby and the firetruck has to ram the car out of the way. 
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Cold on a Cob posted:Want to be a fly on the wall when he says the wrong thing to a cop and they put a boot on his lambo the next time he does this. Lol why would they ever boot someone like that who gladly donates the cost of a ticket to the city on a regular basis? Don't kill your golden goose and all
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:At that price wouldn't it be cheaper for him to just hire a driver and have him circle the block? Nobody who drives a Lamborghini wants to have a driver drive him or her around. That's completely missing the point of a Lamborghini!
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Lol why would they ever boot someone like that who gladly donates the cost of a ticket to the city on a regular basis? Don't kill your golden goose and all Yeah I know, it's rare but, Cold on a Cob posted:Edit: I'm just saying sometimes "all cops are bastards" meets "rich bros are out of touch" and it's funny when this happens.
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Cold on a Cob posted:Edit: I'm just saying sometimes "all cops are bastards" meets "rich bros are out of touch" and it's funny when this happens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKwkn6JT74 How right you are.
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Nobody who drives a Lamborghini wants to have a driver drive him or her around. That's completely missing the point of a Lamborghini! Ha, I forgot it was a Lambo. Maybe he could hire a driver to follow him in a motorcycle and valet his car wherever he goes.
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I'd be okay with this if there were a series of jumps and a water obstacle down the aisle.
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Maybe he should just take a horse to get his juice. Would they ticket a horse? BWM/GWM paradigm is questioned. 
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Higgy posted:Maybe he should just take a horse to get his juice. Would they ticket a horse? BWM/GWM paradigm is questioned. You would need an awful lot of them to match the horsepower of the lambo.
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Why buy a horse when you can buy a train car and have it towed around the state? Fake edit: and also forbid people from passing through the car, thus the legaladvice thread
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I would watch someone getting pulled in a carriage by 400 horses. I would watch someone get hundreds of tickets because horses poo poo constantly.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Ha, I forgot it was a Lambo. Maybe he could hire a driver to follow him in a motorcycle and valet his car wherever he goes. I mean the Lambo must be fun, but the family probably sent Winston up with the Rolls in case junior has too much to drink while out and about.
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monster on a stick posted:Why buy a horse when you can buy a train car and have it towed around the state? A private train car is GWM if you are a robber baron and need a place to plan your dastardly schemes. And being a robber baron is always GWM.
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pig slut lisa posted:FYI to clarify my probation decision up thread: This is actually a really thoughtful policy and I am genuinely not saying that to suck up to a mod or whatever
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monster on a stick posted:Why buy a horse when you can buy a train car and have it towed around the state? The best part about the comments is that someone dug up Amtrak's price sheet if you want to attach your own private rail car to an Amtrak train. There's a fairly hefty minimum charge, but at under $3/mile it's not as expensive as I would have imagined.
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monster on a stick posted:Why buy a horse when you can buy a train car and have it towed around the state? You know, you spend enough time on the interwebs, you see enough poo poo to completely numb you to even offbeat, unusual or just plain bizzare dumbfuckery.... years go by and you think yeah, you've seen it all, you are jaded as gently caress, and then you read a story like this and realize that the surface isn't even scratched.
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Known Lecher posted:The best part about the comments is that someone dug up Amtrak's price sheet if you want to attach your own private rail car to an Amtrak train. There's a fairly hefty minimum charge, but at under $3/mile it's not as expensive as I would have imagined. I had no idea that you could do this, and the idea that you can just pay Amtrak to tow your personal car around the country is awesome. You could get an old one and furnish it as some sort of crazy luxury cabin/sleeper and cruise around the country. I mean it's not cheap, but it would be rad.
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