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Haifisch posted:But there's a confounding factor here: I think the wife and her friend might be more than 'friends' here.  "We're having a collective panic attack, please leave us alone in the Master Suite!"
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Droo posted:Someone I see on Facebook, a broke 30 year old college student, is currently frantically looking for a two day supply of Pruvit Keto OS because their delivery got delayed so now they won't get their supply until Monday. I don't even think it's a protein powder. It looks like a powdered energy drink. It appears to be salt, caffeine, stevia, and some sort of chemicals I'm not familar with.
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My Dad dies that separate flight thing. When we were young we just thought he was bargain hunting, but when we were older my Mom explained he was worried about us all dying. But he did it from the outset, so he wasn't trying to do any last minute booking at stupid rates. The friend has gotten her wound up about this, which is why it's a sudden panic to address now. BWF.
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Nov 4, 2017 13:18
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Sic Semper Goon posted:Guilty as charged. My coworker partner, when asked by another for a recommendation on a cheap gaming PC, he suggested a ~$350 Intel dual-core i5 NUC and a $150 external GPU dock. That's not including the costs of the RAM, storage, video card or how loving crippled a dualcore ULV CPU is for modern gaming tasks, the terrible upgradability of the whole setup and the potential compatibility issues of the GPU dock. One can just buy some ~$120 i5-3470 mid tower refurb + used $100 semi-recent GPU and still be waaaaaaaaay ahead in performance. Unsurprisingly, he's pretty BWM in his financial life too which I won't mention here. Palladium fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Nov 4, 2017 |
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Palladium posted:My coworker partner, when asked by another for a recommendation on a cheap gaming PC, he suggested a ~$350 Intel dual-core i5 NUC and a $150 external GPU dock. That's not including the costs of the RAM, storage, video card or how loving crippled a dualcore ULV CPU is for modern gaming tasks, the terrible upgradability of the whole setup and the potential compatibility issues of the GPU dock. One can just buy some ~$120 i5-3470 mid tower refurb + used $100 semi-recent GPU and still be waaaaaaaaay ahead in performance. This sounds great with money. The i5 NUC is a fully functional computer. Most people happy with midrange performance only upgrade their video card, which this allows. It's my plan for whenever my 4? 5? Year old ~gaming rig~ stops playing games I like.
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Drunk Tomato posted:How do I do this? Login to Chase and go to the rewards section.
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BWM is splitting up the flights in case a plane crashes, because then it's only half of the massive payout from the airline.
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Do Millennials worry about plane crashes? I get Boomers being scared and even Gen X'ers, but if you were born in the 90's you could probably count the number of domestic airliner plane crashes in your lifetime on one hand as long as you weren't including that one big outliner. Plane travel is scary safe nowadays.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Do Millennials worry about plane crashes? I get Boomers being scared and even Gen X'ers, but if you were born in the 90's you could probably count the number of domestic airliner plane crashes in your lifetime on one hand as long as you weren't including that one big outliner. Millennials pray for plane crashes.
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Just came back from a trip to visit family. While there, my mom's BF got a phone call from a friend. Apparently the friend's car broke down and the dealer quoted them ~$3k to fix it, which exceeded the value of the car. What do they do? Finance a new car (>>$3k) at a ridiculously high interest rate. They knew the dealer was shady because other members of that family have been screwed over in the past.
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Splitting up your flights is stupid because you should die together so no one is left alone to suffer. Your kids will be fine because of all the money. If money can't buy them happiness, well, then they were never going to be happy in the first place.
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also what if the original flight where dad goes is fine, but the one carrying mom gets involved in an accident? 
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Krispy Wafer posted:Do Millennials worry about plane crashes? I get Boomers being scared and even Gen X'ers, but if you were born in the 90's you could probably count the number of domestic airliner plane crashes in your lifetime on one hand as long as you weren't including that one big outliner. I'm worried about plane crashes and I'm a millennial. Not because there's any reason to, but because anxiety doesn't really care about if it's logical or not to be worried. I'm not stupid enough to act on the fear by doing something insane like booking separate flights. Also I'm posting from an airport so if I never post again then my anxiety was right.
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ranbo das posted:I'm worried about plane crashes and I'm a millennial. Not because there's any reason to, but because anxiety doesn't really care about if it's logical or not to be worried. I'm not stupid enough to act on the fear by doing something insane like booking separate flights. Poor ranbo das... Thought about planes and crashed.
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ranbo das posted:Also I'm posting from an airport so if I never post again then my anxiety was right. Quick, go book a second flight, cut yourself in half, then re-sprout whichever half of you doesn't crash. GWM, planarian-style 
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Guy: "A $3 aliexpress multimeter will meet my needs, but I bought this $1400 Fluke one because ITS GOT THIS BEAUTIFUL COLOR LCD SCREEN" Me: 
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That Fluke one can be passed down to his children's children's children, so they too can touch the leads to the ends of 9v batteries to show their children how the screen lights up.
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The $3 one could also blow up pretty easily due to poo poo circuitry. $1400 fluke might be overkill but there's a middle ground there.
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brugroffil posted:The $3 one could also blow up pretty easily due to poo poo circuitry. $1400 fluke might be overkill but there's a middle ground there. Yeah that may be true, but when all he needs to measure tops out at 12V DC it's gonna take one hell of a miracle for anything to blow up.
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Panfilo posted:I think the wife and her friend might be more than 'friends' here. The first panic attack where scissoring doesn't lead to cutting
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Millennials only fear of flying is that they'll crash on a mysterious island with a bunch of wildly variously likeable people and deal with weird poo poo that doesn't really go anywhere and has a disappointing, confusing conclusion.
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I’m afraid of flying because of poo poo like the Toronto airport. Man that airport sucks.
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And I’m on an overbooked United flight. Bout to go viral y’all.
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brugroffil posted:The $3 one could also blow up pretty easily due to poo poo circuitry. $1400 fluke might be overkill but there's a middle ground there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNT98cjGhs If you can afford to buy good tools that will do the job forever instead of lovely tools that might do the job once without breaking or hurting you, buying good tools is not BWM.
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E: nvm, irrelevant.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Millennials only fear of flying is that they'll crash on a mysterious island with a bunch of wildly variously likeable people and deal with weird poo poo that doesn't really go anywhere and has a disappointing, confusing conclusion. Millennials fear they'll crash but not be killed, resulting in millions of medical debt to go with their student loans so they'll never be free from either. The claim against the airline will be resolved through mandatory arbitration, resulting in not only having to pay for the recovery efforts, but not getting miles for the crashed flight.
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Ashcans posted:Millennials fear they'll crash but not be killed, resulting in millions of medical debt to go with their student loans so they'll never be free from either.
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Phanatic posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNT98cjGhs Yes and no. I got a fantastic Bosch reciprocating that is the ultimate in German back-and-forth engineering and used it exactly once. Now I see it in the garage and realize I could have bought a Black & Decker for half as much and had the exact same utility and longitivtiy. If your tools are your livelihood then yes, get the best. Otherwise good poo poo is overkill.
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Yeah but they wouldn't be medallion qualifying segment miles
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:And I’m on an overbooked United flight. Check for any doctors or nurses that may be on board as police usually target them for an rear end whooping or false arrest.
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You know all those people that cash out their pensions early on for dumb reasons? This is one of those guys.A Restaurant Ruined My Life posted:...Eighty per cent of first-time restaurateurs fail. I knew this. Opening a restaurant was the least sensible, dumbest thing I could do. My wife, Dorothy, a daycare worker, was coasting toward the end of a maternity leave, and we had two kids to feed. I was in no position to take a risk. But if it succeeded, I could make more money than any office job had ever paid me. We could enjoy a better lifestyle and maybe buy a nicer house. Plus, I’d be doing what I loved.
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quote:By early 2014, the author, seen here behind the bar, was running a successful restaurant, but he’d had to sell his house to keep the business afloat. quote:So I brought in a guy from the neighbourhood named Helder who had tons of restaurant experience and had pinch-hit in our kitchen a couple of times. We decided that he would run the place, draw a paycheque and begin the process of buying into the business, which would free me up to get a day job and start catching up on my debts. But I was so far behind on my rent that Jameson ultimately arranged for the restaurant chattels and licence to be taken over piecemeal by Helder’s corporation in a sort of amicable exchange. Any other landlord would have simply locked me out. This arrangement would allow the restaurant to stay open, the name to live on and the staff to be paid. With the final paperwork complete, Helder was no longer my partner, but the sole proprietor of the restaurant that I built.
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quote:The next step was to find a space. I scoured listings and realized that my $60,000 could barely cover the cost of a chip truck. I contacted the banks to apply for a business loan, but I didn’t qualify. I looked into a few angel investor groups, but it turned out that they didn’t “do” restaurants. I even considered Dragons’ Den. As it turns out, no one invests in first-time restaurateurs, no matter how mind-blowing they think their cooking is.  quote:To qualify for a liquor licence, I needed at least three months of experience in the industry. So I arranged to work in Jameson’s restaurant over the summer of 2013. My shifts consisted of a few leisurely hours chopping veg and prepping salad dressings. His chef, a hotshot Grand Electric alumnus, was probably not happy to have a home cook screwing around in his kitchen, but he tolerated my presence and was pretty good about the whole thing. My role was largely symbolic anyway, and after a few shifts stretched over a three-month period, I checked off that box. 
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I want to see that episode of Hells Kitchen. If there's a guy that deserves to get screamed at by Gordon Ramsay, it's that guy.
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I was going to quote that same section, it's amazing how he just kept pushing on. He didn't even have enough cash to get the place to opening without getting a $20,000 buy in from a friend. Opening a restaurant is a terrible lovely idea anyway, but without even the cash on hand to even get it open? Then as soon as it somehow hits a stride and makes any money, he closes for a week to celebrate. Bonus: He left the AC running that whole time and ran up a bill while bringing in nothing.
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Because I'm an idiot who can't stop themselves from reading the comments:quote:Michelle Amanda Cannon • a day ago  Suspicious Lump posted:But this bit I don't really understand:
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Oh yeah, that's the stuff. It's not even loving up at opening a restaurant in this case (the place is successful under new management), it's 100% being bad with money. Running out of cash before even opening, God drat.
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GWM: Knowing someone BWM with a good restaurant idea that eventually transfers ownership of it to you in order to keep up on his Avocado Toast payments.
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