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DandyLion posted:The inevitable inclined plane uprising doesn't have the same ring to it though. Said uprising has been ongoing for decades, as anybody that has witnessed people inexplicably tripping/falling can tell you. It's a very low-key insurrection. Solice Kirsk posted:Welcome to banking. Throw a hundred thousand bucks into an account and you'll never have to worry about any fees ever again, but have $100 in there and you can kiss 10% of it goodbye each month. I can tell you right now that most high income people may not like that BoA is doing this, but precious few of them will change their bank over it since it's a pain in the rear end. What kills me is the thought "Where have these people complaining about these fees been? Literally every bank everywhere has been doing this since Direct Deposit began as a thing.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:
My HSA account (which never has much in it to begin with) gets like 25$ removed as an 'administrative fee' every month. It honestly depreciates faster that way than when I need the healthcare funds, so I'm forced to spend it as fast as I can on inane OTC meds and stuff that is rather superfluous rather than saving it...
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 15:33 |
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Shameful wife carrying form. This is the superior way according to the top competitors of the North American Wife Carrying Championships:
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 15:34 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Shameful wife carrying form. This is the superior way according to the top competitors of the North American Wife Carrying Championships: Do polygamists have to carry all their wives or are they permitted to choose the lightest one?
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 15:48 |
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Inescapable Duck posted:What exactly they plan to accomplish here is the question. It's not like only poor people are necessarily going to start getting paranoid about a bank that clearly has no compunctions about robbing customers it doesn't like. They want to cut back on serving accounts for poor people. Apparently it's costly to maintain many accounts with small amounts of money. BoA stock prices have gone up because of these moves and their shareholders are happy. Working as intended. Anyone that just leaves like $50,000+ in a BoA savings is a fool anyway. Park it anywhere else. Online banks like Marcus, Ally, and Capital One offer 1.5% savings accounts.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 15:53 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:* as used by a grand total of three countries in the world. The backwards hellholes of Liberia and Myanmar. And the US. This is false. More countries than that use English units and are not fully metricated. If you drive in England, your car's speedometer is marked in miles per hour, and road signs give distances in miles, even though the gas ("petrol") pump dispenses liters. People will still tell you how much they weigh in stones, you buy beer by the pint. Paper sizes in Canada are inch-based, Canadian football fields are measured in yards, food prices are frequently advertised in pounds, grain sales are by the bushel, etc.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:02 |
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English people I think just use which ever system sounds more impressive when they complain about it. So like being too hot out would be Fahrenheit cause it sounds even higher.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:36 |
Britain didn't even have metric money until the 70s
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:47 |
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BoA (Bank of America) is a fantastic Bank as long as you always have at least several million dollars in your account like I do.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:48 |
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oldpainless posted:BoA (Bank of America) is a fantastic Bank as long as you always have at least several million dollars in your account like I do. Arguable
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oldpainless posted:BoA (Bank of America) is a fantastic Bank as long as you always have at least several million dollars in your account like I do. soon to be oldheadless
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:58 |
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https://i.imgur.com/1sugkay.gifv I like to imagine this guy is still tumbling down that misty mountain to this day.
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Phanatic posted:This is false. More countries than that use English units and are not fully metricated. If you drive in England, your car's speedometer is marked in miles per hour, and road signs give distances in miles, even though the gas ("petrol") pump dispenses liters. People will still tell you how much they weigh in stones, you buy beer by the pint. Paper sizes in Canada are inch-based, Canadian football fields are measured in yards, food prices are frequently advertised in pounds, grain sales are by the bushel, etc. Code switching applies to measurements as well. If you're talking to somebody over the age of 70, you'll talk about inches and pounds and gallons. Then that person's 20-year-old grandchild walks into the room, and you're back to centimetres and kilos and litres. Nobody uses Farhenheit here that I ever talk to, that died out (literally) about a decade ago. A pint in Canada is an informal, variable thing. It's just the name for the most-common size of glass of beer (beer only, nothing else is served as a pint) in whatever bar or restaurant you happen to be sitting. And nobody, even farmers, knows how big a bushel is. That's just a way of talking about farm trucks (bigger is better), or for complaining about how city folk are dumb and don't know anything about how hard it is to run a family farm. Large chunks of our culture is imported directly from the United States, which is why our paper is still the idiotic 8.5 x 11 format, except when it's "legal size" or some other weirdness.
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ExecuDork posted:The gradual loss of fluency in the old system, one piece at a time, is not an argument in favour of its continued use. I wasn't making an argument in favor of its continued use. I was pointing out that the claim that only those few countries use Imperial measurements is wrong. An argument in favor of continued use is that some measurements are more convenient than others in certain contexts.
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Phanatic posted:I wasn't making an argument in favor of its continued use. I was pointing out that the claim that only those few countries use Imperial measurements is wrong. Which they only are if you pretend that there's no rounding in metric.
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I caught a squirrel stealing from the suet feeder in my back yard, so I put out a new suet block laced with hot peppers. Checked back a little while later and found him miserably rubbing his face all over my porch, trying to rub the burn out of his mouth: Little thief hasn't been back since.
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Huntersoninski posted:I caught a squirrel stealing from the suet feeder in my back yard, so I put out a new suet block laced with hot peppers. Checked back a little while later and found him miserably rubbing his face all over my porch, trying to rub the burn out of his mouth: I like how spicy poo poo is a defense mechanism to make sure mammals don't eat your poo poo because you want birds or who ever spreading your seeds instead. But humans decided this horrible burning is actually very good and now we farm vast amounts of stuff loaded with anti-mammal mouth-burning poison because it's real good.
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ExecuDork posted:The gradual loss of fluency in the old system, one piece at a time, is not an argument in favour of its continued use. In Canada, more everyday kinds of measurements are becoming more metric with every death of an old person. What’s wrong with 8.5x11? It’s the golden ratio.
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Baronjutter posted:I like how spicy poo poo is a defense mechanism to make sure mammals don't eat your poo poo because you want birds or who ever spreading your seeds instead. But humans decided this horrible burning is actually very good and now we farm vast amounts of stuff loaded with anti-mammal mouth-burning poison because it's real good. We played right into the peppers plan to spread seeds all over the world. We were so sick if bland food, food meant to be unpleasant was stimulating. I wonder if there are other symbiotic relations like that brought on by European colonialism.
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Phanatic posted:I wasn't making an argument in favor of its continued use. I was pointing out that the claim that only those few countries use Imperial measurements is wrong. thank you for yet another WELL AKSHULLLY on another completely boring subject that nobody gives a poo poo about
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Hihohe posted:We played right into the peppers plan to spread seeds all over the world. We were so sick if bland food, food meant to be unpleasant was stimulating.
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Baronjutter posted:I like how spicy poo poo is a defense mechanism to make sure mammals don't eat your poo poo because you want birds or who ever spreading your seeds instead. But humans decided this horrible burning is actually very good and now we farm vast amounts of stuff loaded with anti-mammal mouth-burning poison because it's real good. It's still super effective against white people.
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Horse Inspector posted:I've seen this vid a couple of times now and I think it might the most morbidly grim footage I've ever witnessed. More so than car crashes and other horrible entanglements of soft, mutable flesh, and solid foreign materials. Something about it makes my soul feel a little colder, like I've been handed a chilled beer glass on a hot summers day, but the beer glass is lodged in my chest cavity. Its not lethal to the birds at all according to a couple random 'sources' online. The birds tend to pop out the bottom of the funnel and fly back up top to eat more.
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https://i.imgur.com/HZkkCkR.gifv
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 18:44 |
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Fat face = slap defense
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 18:46 |
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Dude lost his shoe. He dead.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 18:47 |
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It looks like fat dude got hit on the cheek. While skinny dude got a cross-chop to the jugular.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 18:54 |
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Kurieg posted:It looks like fat dude got hit on the cheek. While skinny dude got a cross-chop to the jugular. Yeah, that's like CTRL-ALT-DEL for the brain.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh0JlR4-beY
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VanSandman posted:What’s wrong with 8.5x11? It’s the golden ratio. No it isn't. An 11x17 tabloid page, though, made by placing two letter-size pages side by side, is pretty close. Also, Canadian paper is not 8.5"x11". It's infinitesimally shorter and wider, because the Canadian standard is an 8.5x11 page but rounded to the nearest millimeter
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 20:26 |
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Excellent camera work, very steady and had the sense to capture the others' reactions.
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Sagebrush posted:No it isn't. Well, yeah, I mean, we're not loving savages.
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Fantastic Flyer posted:Excellent camera work, very steady and had the sense to capture the others' reactions. Yeah considering how shithoused everyone usually is in a video like that the cameraman did really well.
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Gorilla Salad posted:EDIT: Also, no sane person actually uses decimetres and hectametres. I mean, what's the loving point? Basically no-one uses them but everyone still knows what a decimetre is in case some nutjob decides to use it. I bet a lot of people would understand hectometres as well (because hectolitres are pretty commonly used).
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 21:00 |
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Pssshhh, clearly fake. I've done this trick before to get my layabout friends to put my shoes on and tie them for me.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Dude lost his shoe. He dead. Just the one, and only half-off. There's a small chance he lived.
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lol
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Gorilla Salad posted:A perfectly logical measuring system*: The worst units are the ones that share names. Is a “ton” a short, long, or metric ton? Why are metric tons not called “megagrams”?
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