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Elephanthead posted:Carrying $500K into a strip club is either very BWM or very GWM I can't decide. How big would a bundle of 500k strip club folded $1 bills be?
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500k at a West Virginia strip club better buy you the club, every car in the lot and every performer on the stage.
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Feb 14, 2018 17:02
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Panfilo posted:Most of those lottery horror stories have more to do with lovely friends and family that are just tolerated. Look at all the R/relationships stories that involve a spineless person putting up with way too much poo poo. Maybe if you win all that money you can afford to grow a pair when it comes to lovely friends and family. i lost almost all of my friends and had most of my familial relationships strained when a startup i was an early employee at raised money at a crazy number. everyone just assumed i was secretly sitting on like 20 mil, at least. at the time my options were worth around $170k but i wasn't fully vested and they weren't liquid at all. i ended up clearing just over $20k when they finally exited. maybe all those friends and most of my family were actually just lovely all along, but never underestimate how money can gently caress everything up
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Feb 14, 2018 17:09
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:500k at a West Virginia strip club better buy you the club, every car in the lot and every performer on the stage. Sadly, they stopped allowing that 155 years ago.
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Feb 14, 2018 17:15
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FrozenVent posted:How big would a bundle of 500k strip club folded $1 bills be? 358 feet tall. You couldn't bundles them but I am assuming you folded them in half and stacked them perfectly on a strippers butt.
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the talent deficit posted:i lost almost all of my friends and had most of my familial relationships strained when a startup i was an early employee at raised money at a crazy number. everyone just assumed i was secretly sitting on like 20 mil, at least. at the time my options were worth around $170k but i wasn't fully vested and they weren't liquid at all. i ended up clearing just over $20k when they finally exited. maybe all those friends and most of my family were actually just lovely all along, but never underestimate how money can gently caress everything up Ya people don’t understand how startup equity works at all, never mind stocks on the whole. Most of my friends not in startups assume my options are shares. Nope - they’re the option to purchase shares. I’m gonna err on the side that those friends weren’t really your friends. People are lovely and weird about that stuff. I actually don’t tell friends I work for a startup - I tell them I work for a small business. Regarding stripper talk: I bet you could buy the babies inside the strippers too with the $500k.
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Feb 14, 2018 17:55
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Inescapable Duck posted:I think it was Chris Rock who said there's a big difference between 'rich' and 'wealth', and lottery winners illustrate that terrifyingly well. Even people who become wealthy more steadily through a sports or entertainment career have more opportunity to adjust and may occasionally not end up broke (Oprah comes to mind) while lotto winners find that that, ironically, a rich person's lifestyle isn't something you can just go to a store and buy. I bet there are a lot of lottery winners you never hear about because they spend their money sensibly, and use it to raise the station of their family. Guillermo del Toro's father won the lottery, and I'm sure that helped his son in being able to piss about making movies rather than getting a "real job"!
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Feb 14, 2018 18:11
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BarbarianElephant posted:I bet there are a lot of lottery winners you never hear about because they spend their money sensibly, and use it to raise the station of their family. Mel Gibson's dad won a lot of money in a work-injury lawsuit and then won a lot of money on Jeopardy, which allowed him to move the family to Australia and raise them as loony right-wing Christian cultists.
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Feb 14, 2018 18:21
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BarbarianElephant posted:Guillermo del Toro's father won the lottery, and I'm sure that helped his son in being able to piss about making movies rather than getting a "real job"! GDT's father was also kidnapped by the Mexcan cartels and held for a $1mil ransom before GDT had "made it" (this was around the time he made Mimic, iirc) so James Cameron paid it for him.
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Feb 14, 2018 18:32
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BarbarianElephant posted:I bet there are a lot of lottery winners you never hear about because they spend their money sensibly, and use it to raise the station of their family. a friend of mine won a lottery in ireland or spain or somewhere, got about a million, which was spent on paying off his mortgage, his mom's mortgage, college funds for the kids and the leftover sub 5k was spent on a big night out with his wife obviously his life is way loving easier now due to no concerns about saving for college/housing expenses but the outward appearance is identical to most other folks
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Feb 14, 2018 19:07
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mastershakeman posted:a friend of mine won a lottery in ireland or spain or somewhere, got about a million, which was spent on paying off his mortgage, his mom's mortgage, college funds for the kids and the leftover sub 5k was spent on a big night out with his wife poo poo, I knew I should've answered those e-mails about my winning Eurolottery numbers. 
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Feb 14, 2018 19:09
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mastershakeman posted:a friend of mine won a lottery in ireland or spain or somewhere, got about a million, which was spent on paying off his mortgage, his mom's mortgage, college funds for the kids and the leftover sub 5k was spent on a big night out with his wife Yeah, that's what sensible people do with a lottery win. It makes their life pleasant, but doesn't make interesting headlines like "Lottery winner on streets after blowing the lot on high living."
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Feb 14, 2018 20:26
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This thread consistently has the best titles but it seems they get lost in the ether after we move on. Could we chronicle each new title change in the OP? It'll be nice to look back on in the future, especially if each includes a quick bit of context or link for those who miss the initial discussion that inspires each change. e: or are previous iterations visible somewhere already? Maybe I've missed that feature.
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Feb 14, 2018 21:54
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Teeter posted:This thread consistently has the best titles but it seems they get lost in the ether after we move on. Could we chronicle each new title change in the OP? It'll be nice to look back on in the future, especially if each includes a quick bit of context or link for those who miss the initial discussion that inspires each change.
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Feb 14, 2018 21:55
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The amount you win probably factors in as well. A million would make life a ton easier but it isn't "stop working, live in London, shop at Harrods" money. 10 million and it's cockroaches out the woodwork time because everyone wants a piece of that
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Feb 14, 2018 21:58
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Teeter posted:This thread consistently has the best titles but it seems they get lost in the ether after we move on. Could we chronicle each new title change in the OP? It'll be nice to look back on in the future, especially if each includes a quick bit of context or link for those who miss the initial discussion that inspires each change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YBvP6j8cJ8 I dropped the ball on Wonderhanger awards 2017, which I will make up for at some point, so I should probably put in some effort.
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Sloth Life posted:The amount you win probably factors in as well. A million would make life a ton easier but it isn't "stop working, live in London, shop at Harrods" money. 10 million and it's cockroaches out the woodwork time because everyone wants a piece of that
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Teeter posted:This thread consistently has the best titles but it seems they get lost in the ether after we move on. Could we chronicle each new title change in the OP? It'll be nice to look back on in the future, especially if each includes a quick bit of context or link for those who miss the initial discussion that inspires each change. this is the best idea i've seen this week of any kind
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bob dobbs is dead posted:this is the best idea i've seen this week of any kind Yes, thirded (fourthed?)
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Feb 14, 2018 23:30
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Thread titles that I remember: I bought every horse I've ever seen! My main man I’ve got three words for you: time-share horse. What's the grace period on a margin call, again? What else have we had?
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Feb 14, 2018 23:55
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I think the margin call grace period was the stock trading thread.
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Feb 14, 2018 23:59
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Bad With Money: Lularoe and Meggings Too #MomBoss
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I know I had the personal submarine from aol stock options one for a bit, and another that only lasted a day or two that I can't remember.
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Feb 15, 2018 00:10
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legendof posted:: I’m not sure this one will ever be topped
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Feb 15, 2018 00:15
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Just wait til we're diamond Think of all that delta
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Feb 15, 2018 00:31
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legendof posted:Thread titles that I remember: Just Wait 'til We're Diamond! Time to Get Oily! There was also one about a guy who spent a bunch of money on some sort of electrical dick shocking sex toy but I can't remember the specifics, which is what inspired this idea in the first place. Senor Dog posted:I’m not sure this one will ever be topped  I'm going to start recording thread titles and story highlights in a personal BWM.txt file moving forward but got curious if anyone (or the forums automatically) had saved previous iterations anywhere. They'll be nice to look back on around Wonderhanger time
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Feb 15, 2018 00:33
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There was one about a Corvette, too lol.
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Feb 15, 2018 00:40
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It's not a BMW, that's just the dealership I got it from
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canyoneer posted:It's not a BMW, that's just the dealership I got it from The person actually wrote BWM in their reddit thread title. Perfect. If my laptop didn't die in December, I would have had every title change I've ever made saved to auto fill text. But let's see... Bad With Money: Don't Miss out on these dealzzzzz!!! THEY ARE FROM THE LORD! BWM 2018: Ah, mine isn't actually a BWM; that's just the dealership I bought it from
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Looks like she's upside down on her horse mortgage! That one still makes me chuckle.
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Teeter posted:Just Wait 'til We're Diamond! That last one was the last thread, which I remember because it's still the title on the achieved thread. But for reference, it's "I just paid for a fat bitches electric cock zapping sex toy in Kentucky"
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quote:Sadly my last remaining grandparent passed away last year, and I'm a small beneficiary of his will. I've since learned that my mother, the executor of his will, has used a great deal of his cash to purchase silver coins from the Perth Mint, and it will be these that I 'inherit'. It turns out that his mother might acted unlawfully with the estate. This dude is sensbile enough to not cause a fuss over $2000 AU, but, quote:I won't be suing her, but my cousins might. Basically, mom thinks this is a good long term investment, for people with crippling credit card debt.
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Feb 15, 2018 01:57
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BattleMoose posted:Basically, mom thinks this is a good long term investment, for people with crippling credit card debt. But-but-but what about the inevitable mad max collapse of civilization. That precious metal is so going to worth more than food/water/medicine/ammo/fuel. Checkmate bond holders
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If you’re afraid of fiat currency for some reason then why buy silver and not gold?
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cowofwar posted:If you’re afraid of fiat currency for some reason then why buy silver and not gold? I mean geez have you seen how much more silver you get for your money??
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I would like to see someone carry off a 600 lb chunk of silver.
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Feb 15, 2018 02:49
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cowofwar posted:If you’re afraid of fiat currency for some reason then why buy silver and not gold? Silverbugs tend to believe that silver is undervalued compared to gold.
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Feb 15, 2018 02:57
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I just googled my question and it appears that it doesn’t matter since smart money is in bitcoin.
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Its actually worse than it seems because the mom didn't just buy silver she bought silver coins, which cost about twice their value in silver. So selling them is just made that much harder. Also, $8000AU of silver comes to about 24 pounds. Its actually super weird the type of coins the Perth Mint sells. http://www.perthmint.com/catalogue/latest-silver-coins.aspx Can get star trek, spider man and planet of the ape themed coins.
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Elephanthead posted:I would like to see someone carry off a 600 lb chunk of silver. I went to a science museum a few months ago and one of the displays was a chunk of ore almost a yard across at its largest point that contained something like a quarter million worth of silver. Even with a wheelbarrow and a getaway van it seems like it would be too much effort to haul off, refine, cast, and fence by the ounce for fifteen bucks.
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