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Shirec posted:I've got a BWM family story to share, although I only know the more basic details. Stories of boomers trying to do anything other than being paid handsomely to sit on their rear end, failing miserably, and blaming everyone but themselves are always welcome.
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# ? May 17, 2018 04:05 |
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Is it BWM to have a kid at 61 fuckin' years old? It is when he also turns out to be BWM and murders your rear end because he stole 100k from your kitty to buy a used Ferrari. http://theprovince.com/news/local-n...1b-6472cea82fa2 quote:
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# ? May 17, 2018 07:27 |
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Shirec posted:Grandpa gets bored again, buys a prop plane or two (I'm not sure the total here). Crashes that because he falls asleep while flying, gets his license revoked. He was fine after, just embarrassed. Do you know more details about this part? I'm curious how he crashed due to falling asleep and didn't get killed. Do you know the approximate date it happened, maybe we can find the accident report?
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# ? May 17, 2018 09:31 |
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I am assuming the loud buzzers that sound when you are about to die woke him up in time for him to mitigate the crashing and it wasn't a head first into the ground type of crash. https://planecrashmap.com/list/ar/ Edit dang it those are only the fatal ones. Google you failed me!
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# ? May 17, 2018 12:19 |
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He might have also been on the ground taxiing or something, and ended up taking a snooze while waiting for the tower or something
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# ? May 17, 2018 12:54 |
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Plane chat reminds me of my childhood and a BWM conversation I just had with my parents. They passively aggressively blame me and my sister for them not starting to save for retirement until later than they should have, probably somewhere around their late 30's. After the mortgage and feeding two kids, we didn't have any money! Times were hard! My fathers hobbies during my childhood included: building a plane (that was never finished), fly fishing, and building computers. This was in the early 90's. I remember dad dropping hundreds of 90's dollars at any computer show we went too. We also had a new car every two years. You could probably count pool and deck building as a hobby too, given the number of different things constructed in the back yard over the years. I think it would have been cheaper to just actually light money on fire for fun. And hey, building planes and computers and going on fly fishing trips is cool, but man, I roll my eyes so hard it hits my brain when they cry about how broke they were, as gainfully employed engineers, for a giant corporation, for 10+ years at the time.
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# ? May 17, 2018 14:00 |
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Vox Nihili posted:drat I came here to post this one. That FIAT story is utter insanity. I mean, they all are, but that one in particular is extra depressing. So much negative equity that even driving your car into a lake and getting 150% of its value still has you paying your car loan. It's crazy.
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# ? May 17, 2018 14:28 |
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paternity suitor posted:Plane chat reminds me of my childhood and a BWM conversation I just had with my parents. I'm sorry your parents are so horrible.
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# ? May 17, 2018 15:05 |
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If my time on these dead gay forums has taught me anything at all it's to be grateful to have parents whom I love, respect and trust.
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# ? May 17, 2018 15:07 |
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Per posted:Do you know more details about this part? I'm curious how he crashed due to falling asleep and didn't get killed. Do you know the approximate date it happened, maybe we can find the accident report? I went and asked and I don't want to give toooo many details because he is my grandpa and thus doxx him and myself. He had already crashed one plane due to "landing for fueling, catching a tailwind, and crashed during landing." He had just bought that plane and was flying it home. The second one, he was re-certifying or whatever due to the first crash, had a licensed trainer, and fell asleep during that. I guess it was low altitude/low speed so I'm not sure how the plane got damaged, but he got his license revoked. All of this is third hand, and I'm sure edited because my grandpa was really embarrassed by both of these. Also I don't know jack poo poo about flying so sorry if the details sound weird/off.
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# ? May 17, 2018 16:11 |
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paternity suitor posted:Plane chat reminds me of my childhood and a BWM conversation I just had with my parents. Your parents are engineers you say? Sounds about right.
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# ? May 17, 2018 16:26 |
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Hoodwinker posted:I feel like this was already linked in this thread, but my friend just sent this to me: Bitcoin Butt Plug BTC. Too long to fit in the thread title
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Shirec posted:I went and asked and I don't want to give toooo many details because he is my grandpa and thus doxx him and myself. He had already crashed one plane due to "landing for fueling, catching a tailwind, and crashed during landing." He had just bought that plane and was flying it home. The second one, he was re-certifying or whatever due to the first crash, had a licensed trainer, and fell asleep during that. I guess it was low altitude/low speed so I'm not sure how the plane got damaged, but he got his license revoked. Is your grandpa Harrison Ford?
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# ? May 17, 2018 17:09 |
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ltugo posted:Is your grandpa Harrison Ford? Haha, no sadly. He's just another boring Midwest/Southern dude who happened to be an unusually selfish rear end in a top hat (also he's dead now so def not Harrison Ford). Another BWM story, although I guess GWM on their part in the most ghoulish way, is about my great grandma (my grandpa's mother). When she was getting on in years and could no longer take care of herself, my grandpa and my great uncle decided to put her in a home (also a big contributing factor was my grandpa/grandma didn't like having to help someone else). The agreement, verbal only, was to sell the house, car, and valuables, and split it. My grandpa got my great-grandma to sell everything to him for various amounts of change to transfer ownership, sold it all (except for the jewelry my grandma kept), and pocketed it. Never gave anything to my great uncle, and put my great-grandma in the cheapest nursing home they could find. BWM for my great-grandma to trust her son
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Bird in a Blender posted:Your parents are engineers you say? Sounds about right. You'd think engineers would be better at engineering their finances, but alas.
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Guinness posted:You'd think engineers would be better at engineering their finances, but alas.
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Hoodwinker posted:I feel like this was already linked in this thread, but my friend just sent this to me: Bitcoin Butt Plug BTC. Oh my god. I'm dying.
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# ? May 17, 2018 18:01 |
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Guinness posted:You'd think engineers would be better at engineering their finances, but alas. My engineer friend is bad, but in a weird stingy min-maxing sort of way. We took a road trip from Denver to Albuquerque a few years back. 4 men, one Jeep. The agreement was that we'd each take turns filling up the tank. Heading down I-25 in the wasteland of northern New Mexico, the driver sees he has 75 miles left to empty, wants to stop in Flower Mound to get gas. The engineer protests because, according to the gas price thing in the Jeep, gas is 3 cents cheaper per gallon 50 miles down the road in Las Vegas. The driver overruled him and we stopped in Flower Mound anyway. I don't even think it was his turn to pay, or my partner got it for that go around to shut him up. Then we get to our hotel. I had put the hotel and tickets to the pride festival on my credit card with the understanding our friends would pay us back in cash. Total amount was $220. He wouldn't pay us back until he could hit a Wells Fargo ATM, because he refuses to pay ATM fees or get a bank account with a bank that reimburses them. Cue us driving around to find a Wells Fargo ATM and him flipping out when we joked about how this isn't the first time he's done this. Like, flipping out so bad my partner, who hadn't had a cigarette in 2 years, took up smoking just for the rest of the night. We're still friends. But I'll never vacation with him again.
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# ? May 17, 2018 18:24 |
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What you should've done is totaled up the total price of gas and just divide it by 4 to shut him up. Is plane crashing grandpa really that BWM? Sounds like he did a lot with his retirement, even if he wasn't very good at cattle ranching or flying airplanes. Probably more fun then just sitting around waiting to die while relatives squabble over the pickings.
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Panfilo posted:Is plane crashing grandpa really that BWM? Sounds like he did a lot with his retirement, even if he wasn't very good at cattle ranching or flying airplanes. Probably more fun then just sitting around waiting to die while relatives squabble over the pickings. Except they got bailed out of bankruptcy by my parents and burned away all that money so my grandma is a lot more screwed. I’m sure it was fun for him though, he basically did whatever he wanted
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# ? May 17, 2018 18:56 |
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Too bad his pensions weren't the kind that can transfer over to a surviving spouse.
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# ? May 17, 2018 18:58 |
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blackmet posted:My engineer friend is bad, but in a weird stingy min-maxing sort of way. Ugh, I have known some people like that that will get bent out of shape over really trivial stuff that amounts to a couple of bucks or less. It's so obnoxious. "Well I didn't eat any of the appetizer so I don't want to split it" when it's like $7 split between 6 people. One of the best things about me and friends being over 30 now with generally good jobs and stability is that most of that poo poo becomes noise and no one frets over a couple bucks one way or the other, it'll all come out in a wash in the end. I buy you a beer today, you buy me a beer tomorrow. Move on with life. Also just let one person put a credit card down and then Venmo/Square Cash/whatever instead of being that stupid group that puts a mix of 4 credit cards and loose cash down on a $80 tab.
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Guinness posted:Also just let one person put a credit card down and then Venmo/Square Cash/whatever instead of being that stupid group that puts a mix of 4 credit cards and loose cash down on a $80 tab. That's a great way for the money collector to get shorted, because people forget tax and tip and oh the drafts are $6 I thought they were $4 etc.
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# ? May 17, 2018 19:03 |
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Just split tabs, why does everything have to be family style or whatever when it's so so easy for everyone to take care of their own tab? It reminds me of ex-roomates I had many years ago who would absolutely lose their poo poo if I refused to eat with them during the designated dinner time and pay my "share" of their stupid pathetic "can't cope with the loneliness of being on my own for once" ritual (and yup, I never touched their lovely meals). Wow I just made myself irrationally angry. It had been a long time since I had thought back to those sheltered idiots
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Panfilo posted:Too bad his pensions weren't the kind that can transfer over to a surviving spouse. They probably were, but if you choose that option the payout is lower while you're alive and we've already seen how their grandpa treats family, so
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# ? May 17, 2018 19:08 |
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Panfilo posted:What you should've done is totaled up the total price of gas and just divide it by 4 to shut him up.
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# ? May 17, 2018 19:09 |
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It's always weird to me when restaurants won't split the bill for a table of people
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# ? May 17, 2018 19:21 |
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In all fairness that's really uncommon these days, I mean if god drat Wal Mart can split a balance between two people, I don't see why any other establishment using a regular POS system can't (or a payment system that was custom designed for restaurant usage for that matter) It's usually some overzealous chode in the group who makes the executive decision to split the bill evenly, not the restaurant staff
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# ? May 17, 2018 19:31 |
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DariusLikewise posted:It's always weird to me when restaurants won't split the bill for a table of people Splitting bills is fine, splitting items is a headache sometimes. Like when you have four people who say the following: "We'll split large pizza A 3 ways between guest 1, 2, and 4, Medium Pizza B will be split 4 ways but guest 1 is paying for two shares, the nachos are split 3 ways between 2, 4, and 3. the breadsticks need to be split into 6 equal parts and guest 2 will pay for 3/6ths and everybody else pays for one sixth. Also Guest one is paying for all of the alcoholic beverages but everyone else is paying for their own non-alcoholic beverages" It's doable, but it's loving annoying. Also they don't refer to themselves as guests 1-4, they use their first names as if I have any idea as to what everyones name is. Even the example I gave isn't all that bad. But it becomes even more annoying when you have situations like that with groups of 12-25 people.
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# ? May 17, 2018 19:42 |
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I'm not a server, but I've literally never seen anyone try to split singular items on the check between multiple people. People who share just decide between themselves who's covering what and pay each other back individually if necessary. Or like, you just write down the dollar amount each person is paying and the name on the credit card. There was one time when a server implied that bread refills were free, and to "just ask" if we want more bread, and then put "1/9th Xtra bread" on all our checks. Elysium fucked around with this message at 20:04 on May 17, 2018 |
# ? May 17, 2018 20:01 |
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An honest-to-God avocado toast truck showed up at work, today. It's an entire food truck that does nothing but expensive toast. I'm sure you pay a premium to have your avocado toast delivered. I got ricotta and tomato toast.
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Bought an IHG Vacation Club Timeshare. Did I just make a huge financial mistake? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/8k6y58/bought_an_ihg_vacation_club_timeshare_did_i_just/ quote:For context: - 24 y.o. male - never owned a timeshare in my life - gainfully employed >70K/yr - got offer "thru lottery system (only 16k people get it a year)" by having an IHG membership and staying at an embassy suites a year ago, I received a phone call about a $200 stay at a number of IHG hotels (went to myrtle beach) for 4 nights. Overall, nice stay and I received the 200 back after the presentation along with another 100 dollar rebate to use later. - presentation seemed legitimate enough and I think I'm decent enough at seeing thru salespeople's BS Enormous financial mistake https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/8etlwq/enormous_financial_mistake/ quote:My good friend and his family (siblings, parents) have been in dire financial straights the past number of years but the upshot was always that they owned a rental property in an expensive area that they planned to someday sell. My friend's mother had inherited the property and they planned to eventually sell it and use whatever equity it had to pay off some of their personal debts. A few years ago, the parents decided to sell the property for $1 to my friend and his siblings because they thought it would protect the house from creditors, and the family all lives together and share their resources so what's the harm - it's just a change in ownership on paper, right? It seems they might have miscalculated because now that they're on the verge of selling it, they were told that my friend would owe an enormous capital gain sum (around $100k) because he "purchased" the house for a dollar and is selling it for a small fortune. This all seems unnecessarily cruel to a family that is on food stamps and is on their last leg. What I'm wondering is A) is this true - do they really owe this tax? and B) is there any way to reverse the ownership or remedy the situation otherwise? Would a home equity line of credit be a possible solution for me? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/8h2byq/would_a_home_equity_line_of_credit_be_a_possible/ quote:I am currently dealing with a nightmarish situation at home that has virtually ruined my life. I have a long post history you can look through, but long story short, I own a horse farm that I inherited from my grandmother. My mother remained in the upstairs apartment hoarding 10 dogs and hoarding in general. It has prevented me from being able to open the farm for business due to the way the place would be perceived. Even after repairing everything and buying insurance for boarding horses, there was constant barking dogs, her making a mess, her causing problems overall. Without droning on, it has ruined my professional life.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:It's an entire food truck that does nothing but expensive toast. I'm sure you pay a premium to have your avocado toast delivered. San Mateo, California.
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# ? May 17, 2018 22:14 |
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Elysium posted:I'm not a server, but I've literally never seen anyone try to split singular items on the check between multiple people. People who share just decide between themselves who's covering what and pay each other back individually if necessary. Or like, you just write down the dollar amount each person is paying and the name on the credit card. It happens a lot.
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Uterine Lineup posted:Bought an IHG Vacation Club Timeshare. Did I just make a huge financial mistake? I love the idea that barking dogs would ruin a horse farm. If the dogs are all inside I doubt you could even hear them at the barn, never mind on the trail. I mean wtf, 97 acres and their huge focus is on their hoarding mom? Lol
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Uterine Lineup posted:Bought an IHG Vacation Club Timeshare. Did I just make a huge financial mistake? Lol Bad With Money Thread: I think I'm decent enough at seeing thru salespeople's BS
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Lol Bad With Money Thread: I think I'm decent enough at seeing thru salespeople's BS Literally this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB1NCuvYPpM
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Uterine Lineup posted:Enormous financial mistake I weep copiously for the family with nothing to their names except food stamps and an $800,000 house.
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Phanatic posted:Literally this: I'm the comments section YouTube User posted:But
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axeil posted:To be fair, the guy in the story probably thought a snorkel let his Jeep drive underwater.
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