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Payday loans, double-digit car loans, pawn shops, and strippers - military towns are chock-full of every BWM nightmare. It's been a long while since I was in the Army, but I remember marriage, even more than cars, being the BWM sweet spot: The stereotypical "marry the stripper" which does happen and never, ever, ever goes well but can often be entertaining if you don't care too much for the person in question, in much the same way car wrecks that don't result in permanent injury or death do. On practically the same level, "marry the local town girl (aka "not a stripper....yet" ) who's looking for a way out - you". If you are woke and this offends you please feel free to substitute "boy" for "girl" or append cis or whatever - I don't judge or care. BWM is non-discriminatory. Then there is "The military business marriage". This is a fun one, and I actually abetted one of these once by driving the couple in question across state lines so they could be married that day in a state that allowed it (SC as I recall). They were already pretty BWM, hence me driving - not BWM because they didn't own a car (in the military that can be GWM) but BWM because the guy had his car repossessed a few months before. These arrangements happen because being a single enlisted grunt who has to live in the barracks sucks - you pretty much need to GTFO of there as often as possible, particularly weekends, before some rear end in a top hat a rank or three up the ladder from you comes around forming work parties to mow the common areas, etc. If you are married you get an allowance and can live off post in a lovely apartment or trailer where no one bothers you but your drug-dealing neighbors. So, in addition to the "stripper" and "might as well be a stripper" options that your average teenaged fuckstick who probably shouldn't be trusted with a water pistol chooses, the slightly more sophisticated grunt will pair up with a fellow soldier (of the opposite sex unless based in a state that allows same-sex, maybe? don't know how the US military handles that these days) and hitch the knot so they can live off post and get lovely benefits. Some of the time they aren't even dating, or rather, aren't dating each other. In addition to the expected emotional trainwreck that usually erupts out of this it's a true treasure trove of BWM situations because you are now legally bound to someone financially who you may not even really like, almost certainly don't know well, and now jointly share every bad financial decision made by either party. The couple I helped (I never said I was smart back then, though I was smart enough not to do this poo poo personally) ended up in a fantastically tangled web of terrible credit, emotional blackmail, and eventually an adultery charge - which is serious business in the military, who will also beat your rear end like a rented mule if you try to claim it wasn't a real marriage in the first place and thus you had intent to defraud - which is exactly what happened in the end to this couple. This was 25+ years ago and though I haven't kept up with them I wouldn't be surprised if they were still completely hosed, financially. Without self-posting too much I am glad I got out relatively intact with the GI bill paying for school - the military can actually be really GWM long term, if you keep your head halfway straight.
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Ixian posted:Payday loans, double-digit car loans, pawn shops, and strippers - military towns are chock-full of every BWM nightmare. That’s the good stuff. My dad did 22 in the Air Force as a meteorologist officer. Enlisted to avoid being drafted. Eventually they sent him to get his Bachelors and become an officer. Sent to get a Masters at MIT. Left the service and used his GI Bill to get a MBA from UT and is sitting pretty with lifetime medical and pension. All without getting shot at. Pretty solid deal I’d say if you play it smart.
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It's a very solid deal and I sincerely hope more troops take advantage of it these days then they did back when I was in. Benefits are better now, for one, particularly college. Hell even I never had to pay a dime in student loans, though I went to a state university and 4 year degrees were a shitload cheaper back then. It can be a tough life though, even if you only enlist for 3 or 4 years, and you can always get shipped off to some lovely land (I did) but if you do it right you will get a lot out of it. The real BWM...hell, BWL aspect is the people who go through all that and gently caress up their finances besides. I mean, you can be BWM easy without having to be in the military on top of it. Worst of both worlds. Most bases are pretty good about offering basic finance classes, etc., for free, and often mandatory for younger troops, but you can lead a horse to water but not make it drink and all that I guess.
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Jun 14, 2018 21:11
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People who bitch about money in the military are ridiculous. I was saving half my paycheck and I wasn't really being frugal on purpose. If you are in the Dorms, literally all your basic expenses are covered. Internet: 40 bucks, cell: 40 bucks. Car payment + insurance: 400. Making 1800 a month as an E-3. That's literally 1300 dollars left over of just spending money.
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TLG James posted:Car payment + insurance: 400 Well sure, if you're some sort of wimpy boy, but a real man like me deserves, nay, needs, a brand new Raptor or Hellcat. 
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Jun 15, 2018 00:14
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A Hellcat with the accelerator planted to the floor: all you'd ever need in the military.
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Jun 15, 2018 02:28
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The idiots thread in GIP has a bunch of stories like these, as well as other dumbass stories from the military.
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BWM, BWL: You sabotaged your significant other's career to keep them from moving away, and now you owe them $350k https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/eric-clarinetist-scholarship-girlfriend quote:Posing as Abramovitz, she told the famed musician that he was rejecting the scholarship because he "would be elsewhere." Then she deleted the evidence and created another email, giladyehuda09@gmail.com and, acting as Gilad, wrote her boyfriend an email that just about broke him: He had ultimately been rejected.
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Jun 15, 2018 03:27
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That’s a good judgment right there.
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Military BMW should be it's own thing Back in my early 20s I worked with a girl who married a marine, i hung out with them pretty regularly, i actually was the witness at their wedding at the courthouse. Although I went along more because they didn't have gas to get down there and they needed someone to hang onto her kids during the ceremony. They were both around 30, it was marriage number 1 for him and 4 for her. Its 12 years or so later now and she's on number 5 (retired army). He's still the kids official dad though since he adopted them, so at least he's a good guy. Most of our hanging out was me bringing over a 5 dollar little ceasars pizza and 9 dollar handle of vodka cause I had some money and their kids needed to eat and they needed to get hammered and scream at each other while the guy and I watched football on their 65 inch rent a center tv.
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My BWM uncle, was a teacher in south africa and taught in Prague for years, never earned amazing money but seemed to get by okay. Apparently didn't save a lot either. But the most epic moment was that when he retired he decided to spend all his savings on an international holiday in new Zealand. Of all places and the exchange rate would have murdered the south African rand but did ot he did. Hes no retired in south africa on a teachers pension which is virtually nothing and he is virtually destitute. Been living in a very poo poo apartment and can barely afford food, at 70. But my father has taken pity on him and has let him stay in an apartment he has and supports him in all sorts of other ways too i am sure. Knowing my father would bail him out, maybe it wasnt so bwm afterall BattleMoose fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Jun 15, 2018 |
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Oh Wow Tether was a scam and the crypto market was being aggressively manipulated by a few bad actors getting insanely rich that’s crazy who could have expected that Do you mean to tell me that there were not actually 850 million US Dollars spent on new Tether purchases in January 2018 my mind is blown all of this seemed so above the board
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Jun 15, 2018 15:40
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You didn’t need a big fancy academic paper with thetas and stuff to know tether was a huge scam, you just had to watch the tether printer It got pretty shameless in January, but December is like this too http://mobile.twitter.com/tetherprinter/status/948951898391855106 https://mobile.twitter.com/tetherprinter/status/952617647476060160 https://mobile.twitter.com/tetherprinter/status/952887157139505152 https://mobile.twitter.com/tetherprinter/status/953711933181476864 https://mobile.twitter.com/tetherprinter/status/954439288531304448 Literally every time the price of btc was taking a hit, here comes more Very Real Dollars into the system
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Jun 15, 2018 15:55
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Lol they used algorithms to figure that poo poo out. Bro just look at the fuckin screen.
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Wow I just can't believe that tether, which has been widely alleged to be fraudulent ever since its inception, turned out to be fraudulent.
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Jun 15, 2018 18:02
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In context of what it was used for, even the loving name tells you straight up that it's a scam. =X
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Jun 15, 2018 18:05
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For those of us that don't follow the bitcoin thread, what happened with Tether recently?
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Jun 15, 2018 18:16
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Enos Cabell posted:For those of us that don't follow the bitcoin thread, what happened with Tether recently? It's the same stuff Bitfinex'ed has been saying for months, but now the person saying it has more clout.
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Enos Cabell posted:For those of us that don't follow the bitcoin thread, what happened with Tether recently? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...osam&stream=top
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Crosspost from the IT Help Desk thread. TL;DR: student insists that she has missed deadlines and lost fees/tuition due to a "compromised" student ID#; also a "professor" requested remote access to her computer from the Virgin Islands and quite possibly installed malwarequote:Issue: Client believes that her account has been compromised. She thinks someone is connected to her computer with a remote device and every time she receives an email from advising, client reports rapid scrolling and zooming on the attachments that advising sends her. Client is requesting a new ID# because she said that someone else set her Username, despite her saying that she remembers seeing the different Username selection drop down. She also says that during the application process, Admissions sent out her ID# for her account to her husband's email address, which she says she know has been compromised before. She says that she used her husband's email during the application process. I explained to her that that is the reason why her ID# was sent to that email address, was because she started the application with that email address. She feels that none of this issue has been taken seriously. "Some idiot won't leave me alone and is intercepting messages from groups I am trying to communicate with". She also states that she is not able to email out, she thinks there is some kind of filter from the account being compromised preventing her from emailing professors and she claims this is the reason why she is not able to register for classes and why she has apparently lost money from this issue.
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Although I contend all crypto talk is on-topic in this here thread, I only recently heard the full story of MtGox’s downfall and that is some all-time Bad With Money type stuff. I remember hearing some stuff about valunerabilities and hacking back when MtGox closed but the truth is even juicier This post is from shortly after the “hack” but the gist of this has since been confirmed via log files and court proceedings so it’s generally correct. Just reading about being $150,000,000 in the hole to your clients makes me anxious. And it’s a neat trick considering his initial investment was only $50k. quote:It was June 19, 2011. Mark, a 26 year-old young man—a boy really—was ecstatic. He had recently purchased MtGox—a small, online exchange for trading virtual tokens—and business was booming. These virtual tokens were called bitcoins and Mark loved them. The present value of the original hack is $6.5 billion lol oops My favorite twist on this is that he holds a single asset, BTC, but the better that asset does, the more screwed he is. And while all his friends likely thought he was becoming a crypto bazillionaire he was actually just going further and further in the red. Was back in BTC news recently because someone did a more academic look at the manipulation involved, determined that this bot fuckery was almost entirely responsible for the original 2013 run up in BTC from $100-1000 in 2 months. It was like 3 years before it got back there. The bot was 18% of BTC trading volume when it was active, scooping up 10-20 coins every 5-10 minutes nonstop (even when the exchange went offline....)
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Jun 15, 2018 19:37
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Wasn’t this basically the plot of The Producers?
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GamingHyena posted:Wasn’t this basically the plot of The Producers? Yes but bitcoin would have to turn out to not be a Ponzi scheme to match perfectly.
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some dickhead posted:Mark, a 26 year-old young man—a boy really— Not to go full TB up in here, but gently caress this minimizing, apologist horseshit. It doesn't work when you're excusing a rapist, it doesn't work when you're excusing a mass shooter, and it doesn't work when you're excusing someone who knowingly committed criminal fraud on a massive scale
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Trustworthy posted:Not to go full TB up in here, but gently caress this minimizing, apologist horseshit. At 26 you can rent a car. You are a full blown adult.
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I’d say he was definitely a child. A manchild.
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The Macaroni posted:Crosspost from the IT Help Desk thread. TL;DR: student insists that she has missed deadlines and lost fees/tuition due to a "compromised" student ID#; also a "professor" requested remote access to her computer from the Virgin Islands and quite possibly installed malware Do you have a link? I'd love to read that thread.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I’d say he was definitely a child. Be careful, Reddit considers that hate speech.
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Can't remember if this has been posted here, but my wife saw a post by a friend for subscription boxes for horses: https://www.saddlebox.net Includes such excellent things as: quote:Gourmet Horse Treats - Every month, you'll get a new type of yummy, unique, made in the USA horse treats in your box. The whole barn will love 'em! All that for $35 a month. That seems low actually but still...
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Dick Nipples posted:Can't remember if this has been posted here, but my wife saw a post by a friend for subscription boxes for horses: https://www.saddlebox.net Yeah, but if that smegma cleaner sample sample works great you’ll pay full price for it later.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Yeah, but if that smegma cleaner sample sample works great you’ll pay full price for it later. The reason I don't own any large livestock is so that I don't have to know that things like "smegma cleaner" exist.
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Wash your dick.
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Subjunctive posted:Wash your dick. Especially if you have a horse dick, then you need to get the lumps of smegma out of your dick eye so you can piss.
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Holy poo poo I forgot about my Dad's most recent BWM story. His neighbor tells him that their fiancee is being held at the airport. Apparently the fiancee had some visa issues so border patrol held him until it was resolved. Once resolved, the guy had to pay border patrol money because they were feeding him while they were sorting out the visa issue. My dad, of course, chips in for the food fee. A month passes, and the fiancee is still being held, apparently because it took time to process the payment, during that time border patrol was feeding the guy, so now he has to pay them for this month's worth of food. My Dad chips in again, and suggests that they pay more so that they cover next month's food costs (because border patrol will have to feed the guy while they process the new payment).  My loving godAs soon as he told me this story, I asked him if had ever met this person ... well you already know the answer. He believed that this story was real because "the neighbor had a photocopy of the fiancee's passport."  To be fair, this is less BWM than that one time he accepted a drink from a stranger's flask and literally woke up in a ditch with not a thing in his pockets ... in Prague.  He was traveling from Hungary to Germany by bus and had to wait for a connecting bus in Prague in the middle of the night.My Dad is hell-bend on getting that BWM lifetime achievement award.
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GWM BWKidney
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On the other hand, with our current immigration policy I’d believe they’d hold someone in detention for two months and make them pay for their own food. Your dad is giving important people ideas.
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Wait a second, you're telling me that sketchy guy in Prague wasn't the official wallet inspector? 
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How come your dad and his neighbour are both engaged to the same person? And how has your dad never met his neighbour?
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Mantle posted:How come your dad and his neighbour are both engaged to the same person? And how has your dad never met his neighbour? Sorry, my writing was probably poo poo. My Dad knows my neighbor well. The neighbor (not my Dad) is engaged to a guy. My Dad has never met this fiancee. I am not sure if the neighbor has ever met the fiancee in person (I doubt it). My best guess is that the neighbor got engaged over email without ever having met the guy to get scammed out of money.
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If it helps for future tellings of the story, “fiancée” is feminine and “fiancé” is masculine.
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