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kw0134
Apr 19, 2003

I buy feet pics🍆

ooh oooh ooooooooooooh the deep dicking the IRS is going to give him for the taxes he certainly owes is almost too glorious to contemplate.

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Dr. Chaco
Mar 30, 2005

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

Lmao "Doctor"

Veterinarians or ideally vet techs will do it for a fraction of the cost

Though it is a cheap option, vets mostly know how to remove testicles entirely, which isn't quite the procedure most men want....

What's not so cheap is replacing the testicles with silicone prostheses so your dog doesn't feel emasculated and get made fun of at the dog park. Caring about your dog's vanity, or placing excessive emotional weight on the state of your dog's genitals, is BWM.

UCS Hellmaker
Mar 29, 2008
Toilet Rascal

Phanatic posted:

Couple friends of mine had two kids intentionally, a third unexpectedly (go figure, I'd expect that people in their 30s would know how that poo poo works, but anyway), and decided that was that. Husband is a *giant wuss* about surgery, so the wife goes and gets an IUD.

At some point, she starts getting some pain, so goes in to get things checked out. Doc says "Um...I don't see the strings. Let's get you an x-ray." Turns out the IUD had perforated her uterus and gone walkabout in her abdominal cavity. They had to do real surgery and collect it where it had migrated down around her anus.

Husband ended up getting a vasectomy after that.

This is why I got snipped, wife reacts badly to bc and we knew we didnt want kids of our own. At 21 I got snipped and it cost us about 1200 dollars after it was all said and done, well worth the cost for the safety of mind and ability to control our future. Now that we are stable and she is finishing her MLT program we are going through foster care to adopt (and skip the loving infant stage)

Also calling bullshit at a vasect changing your body chem at all, since it only effects sperm not your hormones.

Xenocides
Jan 14, 2008

This world looks very scary....


I am only turned on by the thrill of a possible pregnancy.

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

Motronic posted:

And this is a perfect example of why allowing any idiot with a phone or computer access to "express themselves" on a potentially world-wide stage was a huge mistake.

Motronic I used to support your campaign to be made mod of AI purely based on that kickin' rad avatar you have, but with this quote I'm supporting you for mod of the entire Internet. :hfive:

Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

Weatherman posted:

your campaign to be made mod of AI

I did not support that campaign nor do I support yours.

But if made mod of the internet, at least I'm a trained router jockey and know how to really gently caress things up in interesting ways.

SiGmA_X
May 3, 2004
SiGmA_X

Weatherman posted:

Motronic I used to support your campaign to be made mod of AI purely based on that kickin' rad avatar you have, but with this quote I'm supporting you for mod of the entire Internet. :hfive:
Is this a nomination for Motronic to be a backup BFC mod?

Motronic posted:

Grab your kit, this fix needs to be mainlined:

$20,000+ Owed On Amex Platinum next week, what are my options (if any)?
https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/8ad94m/20000_owed_on_amex_platinum_next_week_what_are_my/


:zaurg:
Oh my god, what in the gently caress.

Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

SiGmA_X posted:

Is this a nomination for Motronic to be a backup BFC mod?

No.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

UCS Hellmaker posted:

This is why I got snipped, wife reacts badly to bc and we knew we didnt want kids of our own. At 21 I got snipped and it cost us about 1200 dollars after it was all said and done, well worth the cost for the safety of mind and ability to control our future. Now that we are stable and she is finishing her MLT program we are going through foster care to adopt (and skip the loving infant stage)

Also calling bullshit at a vasect changing your body chem at all, since it only effects sperm not your hormones.

There's a foster care thread in Ask/tell if you're interested :) I'm adopting my daughter through foster care next month and it's been a relatively good with money way to become a parent (there is no truly good with money way)

Day Man
Jul 30, 2007

Champion of the Sun!

Master of karate and friendship...
for everyone!


Yeah, being a parent is synonymous for bad with money

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬

Day Man posted:

Yeah, being a parent is synonymous for bad with money

Some people disrupt this paradigm by specifically fost adopting medically fragile children because they get more money (don't do it for this reason please)

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



I feel like that would get outweighed by the crushing price of medical care in the US.

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬

22 Eargesplitten posted:

I feel like that would get outweighed by the crushing price of medical care in the US.

Fost adopt kids are fully covered under Medicare until they are 18.

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011
Medically fragile children with pervasive developmental disorders also qualify for SSI disability and Medicaid throughout their lives, and in California are given services through regional centers which can also include supported living in adulthood in group homes or home-health staffed independent homes.

My first social services job like a decade ago was doing in-home care for disabled adults with cerebral palsy and intellectual limitations, they were nice people. One of them lived in her own apartment despite having very little ability to do daily acts of living, and the independence was a huge part of her happiness. She had been adopted as an infant and her elderly mother used to visit on Sundays and Thursdays every week and made sure we took good care of her the rest of the time. It's not all bad :3:

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!



Oh, I know this guy, he's an insane rear end in a top hat. Like the Fred Phelps of veganism. I remember that he made multiple videos about some other fitness figure who got diagnosed with cancer some time, saying he was glad, the guy deserved it for eating meat, you can cure cancer with fruit, etc.

I'm sad I remember any of this, but you can see why people talk about him. Good With Branding.

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



Panfilo posted:

Fost adopt kids are fully covered under Medicare until they are 18.

Huh, I guess that makes it work. I'm (please don't ban for self-posting) used to a lot of doctors that don't take any form of insurance, and I'm pretty sure Medicare doesn't do out of network.

Cacafuego
Jul 22, 2007

BonerGhost posted:

Vasectomies are even BetterWM if you get Tricare to cover it.

Thank you taxpayers.

Nice username/post combo there

Krispy Wafer
Jul 26, 2002

I shouted out "Free the exposed 67"
But they stood on my hair and told me I was fat

Grimey Drawer

22 Eargesplitten posted:

Huh, I guess that makes it work. I'm (please don't ban for self-posting) used to a lot of doctors that don't take any form of insurance, and I'm pretty sure Medicare doesn't do out of network.

No insurance or just no Medicare/Medicaid? I can’t imagine taking no insurance would work unless you were a boutique specialist.

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



90% of the mental health people here don't bill insurance. It seems to be mostly specific to that specialty (plus woo alternative health, but that's different). They'll give you a statement for out of network reimbursement, but that's a lot of out of network visits before your insurance pays anything.

FWIW the one psychiatrist I saw that took insurance was terrible. The only positive thing about him was that he had a really sweet black lab that would hang out with you.

22 Eargesplitten fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Apr 7, 2018

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬

Mocking Bird posted:

Medically fragile children with pervasive developmental disorders also qualify for SSI disability and Medicaid throughout their lives, and in California are given services through regional centers which can also include supported living in adulthood in group homes or home-health staffed independent homes.

My first social services job like a decade ago was doing in-home care for disabled adults with cerebral palsy and intellectual limitations, they were nice people. One of them lived in her own apartment despite having very little ability to do daily acts of living, and the independence was a huge part of her happiness. She had been adopted as an infant and her elderly mother used to visit on Sundays and Thursdays every week and made sure we took good care of her the rest of the time. It's not all bad :3:

Yeah California is awesome in this regard. Kaiser accepts Medicare I believe, so they can go to Kaiser clinics and hospitals for medical needs.

the onion wizard
Apr 14, 2004

kw0134 posted:

ooh oooh ooooooooooooh the deep dicking the IRS is going to give him for the taxes he certainly owes is almost too glorious to contemplate.

Also whoever investigates/charges people for money laundering.


Edit: since he might delete it, this is what I'm referring to:

quote:

The main thing I was mentioning was purchasing crypto and reselling with a mark-up to buyers of said crypto within less than 24 hours, usually marked up at least 25% which could easily secure any volatilities. But the majority of my business shifted away from that, hence the risky $70K being lost. Mainly when ICOs fell in price plus Ethereum being dumped at the same time, you had compounding effects.

UCS Hellmaker
Mar 29, 2008
Toilet Rascal
Yeah foster to adopt in my state is actually really good, Medicare coverage for the child till they are 18 (even then my workplace pays ALL of my medical coverage) and we will get a small stipend for it till they are 18 because we want to adopt a child over the age of 5 which makes them classified as a special needs child in the system.

Also everyone should look into fostering the systems so frazzled and needs help due to the opiod epidemic. And they don't sugar coat anything.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

UCS Hellmaker posted:

Yeah foster to adopt in my state is actually really good, Medicare coverage for the child till they are 18 (even then my workplace pays ALL of my medical coverage) and we will get a small stipend for it till they are 18 because we want to adopt a child over the age of 5 which makes them classified as a special needs child in the system.

Also everyone should look into fostering the systems so frazzled and needs help due to the opiod epidemic. And they don't sugar coat anything.

5 years is plenty of time to cause some pretty deep-seeded damage to a child, how do you make sure the kid you adopt wasn't snacking on lead chips or being slapped around by their parents for a few years before you get them? Is the hope that any such issues can be spotted before you kick off the adoption process? Seems like quite a risk to leave all those variables out of your control for a child you intend to call your own.

UCS Hellmaker
Mar 29, 2008
Toilet Rascal
My man you need to see the paperwork we have to do. There's pages of what you are willing to consider and not to. And social workers are front and center to make sure that the child will be alright in the placement home. They do not just drop a kid off and say here you go we don't know poo poo on this one, not like the stereotype of it.

Best way to put it is we get everything in our life torn apart for this process and to let the state know what we can and can't deal with.

Example : would you consider a child with a conviction for murder(this is legitimate and on the paperwork), tons of fire questions, questions on if the child has been abused physically Emotionally or sexually, and if they need medical care.

Staryberry
Oct 16, 2009

Panfilo posted:

This. Ditto for tubal ligation, which, in spite of being more invasive and requiring general anesthetic, is actually performed more frequently than vasectomies. I guess a lot of guys are just wusses when it comes to stuff involving their balls.

The rates of tubal ligation are tied to the rate of c-section. If you know you don’t want to be pregnant again, and if they are already going to have you open on the operating table, having your tubes tied isn’t going to increase your recovery time at all. The biggest complaint I’ve heard from women is that they end up needing an emergency c-section, and the dr won’t do the tubal ligation because they are worried that you are just asking to be sterilized due to crazy labor hormones. You have to get it in writing before labor!

Staryberry fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Apr 7, 2018

Mocking Bird
Aug 17, 2011

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

5 years is plenty of time to cause some pretty deep-seeded damage to a child, how do you make sure the kid you adopt wasn't snacking on lead chips or being slapped around by their parents for a few years before you get them? Is the hope that any such issues can be spotted before you kick off the adoption process? Seems like quite a risk to leave all those variables out of your control for a child you intend to call your own.

I'm adopting my daughter out of foster care and I met her when she was 15 years old.

Essentially, most people caring for these kids accept that they are in foster care due to abuse or neglect and choose to accept the risks that those kiddos might have lifelong impacts from that. They aren't trying to pick the perfect kid, I've found, they're mostly trying to pick the kid that they'll be perfect for and they can best help and love.

My daughter had a hard life and it will always make her life a little harder than her peers but it doesn't interfere with my love for her, and if anything, she needs that unconditional love more than her peers do at her age :shrug:

It's also turned out to be good with money in that she has a ton of scholarship and grant support for college that she wouldn't have if she were my natural child, and she gets support from the state until she's 21. And she needs and deserves it because only an incredibly tiny percentage of foster kids go to college and until she came to live with me no one was very supportive of her aspirations and she is less prepared than the average freshman.

I also kind of hate the idea of children over five being "special needs" because they're less appealing as adoptable kids to the average family. I get it, but I hate it.

ynohtna
Feb 16, 2007

backwoods compatible
Illegal Hen

Mocking Bird posted:

My daughter had a hard life and it will always make her life a little harder than her peers but it doesn't interfere with my love for her, and if anything, she needs that unconditional love more than her peers do at her age :shrug:

:love:

You are a very good person.

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬

UCS Hellmaker posted:

My man you need to see the paperwork we have to do. There's pages of what you are willing to consider and not to. And social workers are front and center to make sure that the child will be alright in the placement home. They do not just drop a kid off and say here you go we don't know poo poo on this one, not like the stereotype of it.

Best way to put it is we get everything in our life torn apart for this process and to let the state know what we can and can't deal with.

Example : would you consider a child with a conviction for murder(this is legitimate and on the paperwork), tons of fire questions, questions on if the child has been abused physically Emotionally or sexually, and if they need medical care.
Yeah the social workers are always going to be upfront about everything. Sometimes angry parents will accuse them of intentionally omitting stuff but that makes no sense from the agencies perspective. It's not just about finding foster parents but foster parents that are a good fit.


Staryberry posted:

The rates of tubal ligation are tied to the rate of c-section. If you know you don’t want to be pregnant again, and if they are already going to have you open on the operating table, having your tubes tied isn’t going to increase your recovery time at all. The biggest complaint I’ve heard from women is that they end up needing an emergency c-section, and the dr won’t do the tubal ligation because they are worried that you are just asking to be sterilized due to crazy labor hormones. You have to get it in writing before labor!

I had no idea but this makes total sense! I've also wondered if they can do tubal ligations in tandem with other laproscopic surgeries, since they already have you ballooned up anyway and it's less risky to have you under general anesthesia once vs twice.

Olive Branch
May 26, 2010

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

I teach Canadian immigrants English. I asked students to write me a response to the question "What is your next big project?"

One of my students said he wants to build a cryptocurrency mining rig and is buying the parts for it this weekend. :cripes:

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



Do you pretty much just have to teach students from Quebec, or do people from non-lovely parts of Canada not know English either?

Olive Branch
May 26, 2010

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

22 Eargesplitten posted:

Do you pretty much just have to teach students from Quebec, or do people from non-lovely parts of Canada not know English either?
I live in Montreal so it's all international students coming to Canada for work or something, but hell, apparently this guy knew enough English to know the crypto vocabulary, but not enough to know that is a bad idea. :v:

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
Here's a couple short and sweet ones from :canada:

What should I do about my escort addiction? (self.PersonalFinanceCanada)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada/comments/3p2wu8/what_should_i_do_about_my_escort_addiction/ posted:

32, making $65,000 pre-tax. After all expenses I would save ~$28,000 per year but...

I spend $500 on one two-hour escort session per week. I've been doing this since I was 26 and I would guess I've slept with ~300 escorts. At this rate I only save ~$2,000/year.

Monogamy bores me (each time it's with a new escort), but only saving $2,000/year also bores me in the sense that I can't really buy anything else.

What do?

Just received note from landlord saying I owe them four power bills? (self.PersonalFinanceCanada)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada/comments/854pe7/just_received_note_from_landlord_saying_i_owe/ posted:

So apparently the company I rent from has been receiving and paying my bills from the power company. I've been here 6 months and apparently the power company has been sending my bill to them instead of me.

Instead of contacting me or forwarding the bills to me, they simply paid all of the power bills without notifying me anything was going on. Just today, they stuck a big wad of invoices under my door with a note explaining how they paid all these power bills for me and now they're asking me to pay it all back. Well I can't afford to pay four power bills at once. I mean I can, but I just think that's kind of ridiculous. Will I have to pay?

quote:

[–]jono20 17 points 21 days ago

Did you think for some reason that your electricity wasn't costing anything? Or did you think it was included with the rent? If the latter, was it noted in your ageement that you're responsible for paying them?


[–]glhfggwp69 [S] -37 points 21 days ago

No but if I had power for six months and never received a bill, I'm not going to go making noise about it. It doesn't explicitly say on my lease that I'm responsible for power, only that the landlord is not. Theoretically I could live there with no power if I chose to, no? So the fact that they never switched off their power to the unit and just continued to receive and pay bills for it doesn't seem like my responsibility. If I received a bill I would have paid it immediately, like I do all my other bills.

Enfys
Feb 17, 2013

The ocean is calling and I must go

Monogamy bores me but only saving $2,000/year also bores me

Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

Haifisch posted:

What should I do about my escort addiction? (self.PersonalFinanceCanada)

Stop buying candleshookers.

Higgy
Jul 6, 2005



Grimey Drawer

Motronic posted:

Stop buying candleshookers.

No.

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



At least his STD treatments will be free.

Proposition Castle
Aug 9, 2004
Witty message goes here.
Maybe try poutine instead of pussy.

Harveygod
Jan 4, 2014

YEEAAH HEH HEH HEEEHH

YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN

THIS TRASH WAR AIN'T GONNA SOLVE ITSELF YA KNOW
Saw this and thought of this thread:

Lowtax posted:

Well you gotta spend money to lose money

BWM Thread: You gotta spend money to lose money.

jjack229
Feb 14, 2008
Articulate your needs. I'm here to listen.

Haifisch posted:

Here's a couple short and sweet ones from :canada:

What should I do about my escort addiction? (self.PersonalFinanceCanada)

Monogamy bores me (each time it's with a new escort), but only saving $2,000/year also bores me in the sense that I can't really buy anything else. 

I'm pretty sure he meant "monotony". Unless going to the same escort twice is what people mean when they talk about a monogamous relationship.

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CitizenKain
May 27, 2001

That was Gary Cooper, asshole.

Nap Ghost

Haifisch posted:

Here's a couple short and sweet ones from :canada:

What should I do about my escort addiction? (self.PersonalFinanceCanada)


Just received note from landlord saying I owe them four power bills? (self.PersonalFinanceCanada)

I can kinda understand the second one. Years ago when I moved into an apartment, I didn't get a utility bill for about 8 months. They worked with a 3rd party company to handle the actual billing, and apparently paid the utilities directly.
About 2 years in, every apartment got a notice that it turns out they'd been reading gas wrong and apparently that was being billed at random. So they took over all those payments and raised rent by 50 bucks. For me this wasn't great, as my heat payment wasn't much since the lady below me had her heat cranked.

I guess they got the last laugh since those fuckers kept my security deposit for no reason.

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