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Volmarias posted:Looking forward to Congress solving the upcoming auto loan bubble bursting by making car loans stick through bankruptcy. Don't give Biden any ideas.
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I recently started listening to the podcast “Swindled”. They have lots of BWM stories, but I thought of this group when I listened to this one called the “Horse Queen”. In the largest municipal fraud in American history, Rita Crundwell embezzled over $50 million from the city of Dixon, Illinois, to support her extravagant lifestyle and expensive hobby, breeding and showing Quarter Horses. http://swindledpodcast.com/podcasts/season-1/episode-02-the-horse-queen/
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# ? May 23, 2020 16:09 |
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The Onion with some anti-BWM I found while trying to find a different article Man Wakes Up From Bender With Financial Problems Solved
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# ? May 23, 2020 16:25 |
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SpelledBackwards posted:The Onion with some anti-BWM I found while trying to find a different article Enjoying that the ad I got in the middle of this article was a guy saying he'd teach me his foolproof daytrading system. 2-5% guaranteed returns, daily!
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Wicked Them Beats posted:Enjoying that the ad I got in the middle of this article was a guy saying he'd teach me his foolproof daytrading system. 2-5% guaranteed returns, daily! Lmao mine was just for liquor
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# ? May 23, 2020 17:02 |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/gnj274/i_just_started_using_and_selling_on_paxful_and_my/quote:I just started using and selling on paxful and my bank just called me to tell me my bank account is closed
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# ? May 23, 2020 17:06 |
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Staryberry posted:I recently started listening to the podcast “Swindled”. They have lots of BWM stories, but I thought of this group when I listened to this one called the “Horse Queen”. In the largest municipal fraud in American history, Rita Crundwell embezzled over $50 million from the city of Dixon, Illinois, to support her extravagant lifestyle and expensive hobby, breeding and showing Quarter Horses. There is a documentary call All the Queen's Horses about this debacle. It looks like it's on Amazon Prime right now, definitely worth a watch.
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# ? May 23, 2020 17:17 |
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Jeez that BWM story went dark fast. Like, “haha look at the buttcoin!” to “oh poo poo looks like someone is going to jail.”
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# ? May 23, 2020 17:21 |
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Alan Smithee posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/gnj274/i_just_started_using_and_selling_on_paxful_and_my/ quote:he was telling me things like there's nothing you can do about it, you were part of a laundering ring, he even said "don't call me bro." quote:please provide evidence or a time where someone got scammed on zelle after payment was sent lol quote:People use bitcoin for freedom and personal reasons. They don't use it for illegal activity. Do you assume every bill you get came from a drug deal? quote:They literally locked all of my money despite the fact that a large portion of it is unrelated to the zelle transactions. There was no trial. quote:What some of you fail to understand is that there have been a total of 4 people who have been arrested for "laundering" money for bitcoin in the united states. Also, this situation is not much different than buyers filing disputes on paypal so they can get their money back. Happens everyday. Ya'll need to chill. My sweet summer child.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My sweet summer child. So what kind of laundering was he involved in?
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# ? May 23, 2020 17:55 |
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Residency Evil posted:So what kind of laundering was he involved in? There is a website that does peer to peer "currency exchanges" for bitcoin. There's people on there who will pay about 50% above market rate for bitcoin. You can buy bitcoin and then sell it on Paxful for a 50% profit immediately. This is because the buyers are all emptying compromised bank accounts that they have hacked for bitcoin.
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# ? May 23, 2020 17:58 |
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Breakups can be so expensive.quote:Being sued by ex-girlfriends father Sadly, OP doesn't say what caused the breakup. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/goqtbj/being_sued_by_exgirlfriends_father/
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# ? May 23, 2020 18:04 |
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Unrelated but it's funny to me that Game of Thrones choked so hard that the only surviving part of its legacy is the phrase "my sweet summer child" I wonder if that GRRM guy is getting any pages done since he's home for months and there's no football
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Unrelated but it's funny to me that Game of Thrones choked so hard that the only surviving part of its legacy is the phrase "my sweet summer child" You know nothing, GGGC. That also managed to enter our lexicon. Incest sure seems a lot more popular after GoT's came out.
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# ? May 23, 2020 19:17 |
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Worst Negative Equity You've Seen? quote:Sup guys -- have an interesting one for you. Had a customer come in looking at Silveraydos a few weeks ago, and planned on trading in his 2019 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro. Find a truck, go through the usual while they're doing the appraisal and start to get payoff info. He logs into Toyota Financial, screenshots, and texts it to me. I had to immediately walk away and talk to my GM. His payoff was $73,XXX on a 2019 Tacoma. I've only been in the industry for a year and was completely confused, and my GM who has 27 years in nearly lost their poo poo. Go read some of the responses in that thread
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Cacafuego posted:
Ugh gently caress car salesmen so hard.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Unrelated but it's funny to me that Game of Thrones choked so hard that the only surviving part of its legacy is the phrase "my sweet summer child" Doesn’t that phrase substantially predate GoT? I’m pretty sure I’ve been hearing it for 20 years at least.
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Well the first book came out in 96. Residency Evil posted:Ugh gently caress car salesmen so hard. True, but the guy also has a one year old truck and is looking to buy another new car. The blame is shared here. Most of the people who have terrible negative equity are in that position because they feel like they need to be constantly buying new cars. Not good enough to drive a car for 10 years and actually have a few years of no car payments.
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# ? May 24, 2020 03:08 |
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Bird in a Blender posted:Well the first book came out in 96. The car salesman is responsible in the same way as a heroin dealer selling to an obvious addict, but the heroin dealer doesn't play TV ads.
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Cacafuego posted:
The $16.44 daily interest accrued is my favorite. From the comments: quote:In the past two weeks Ive seen 19k on a 2015 Sentra, and 50k on a 2016 Armada. They did not get new cars.
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https://twitter.com/cryptonator1337/status/1262510117452484616?s=20
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Subjunctive posted:Doesn’t that phrase substantially predate GoT? I’m pretty sure I’ve been hearing it for 20 years at least. Bird in a Blender posted:Well the first book came out in 96.
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Bird in a Blender posted:True, but the guy also has a one year old truck and is looking to buy another new car. The blame is shared here. Most of the people who have terrible negative equity are in that position because they feel like they need to be constantly buying new cars. Not good enough to drive a car for 10 years and actually have a few years of no car payments. Yeah, nah gently caress the car dealer anyways. AreWeDrunkYet posted:The car salesman is responsible in the same way as a heroin dealer selling to an obvious addict, but the heroin dealer doesn't play TV ads.
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Subjunctive posted:Doesn’t that phrase substantially predate GoT? I’m pretty sure I’ve been hearing it for 20 years at least. Maybe it's my memory being weird but I remember my mom saying it before the GoT books existed.
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It's not like you need an 8 year long Summer to still look at a naive person and make a joke that they've never experienced harsh conditions. Looking online the etymology says the term dates back to the 1800's. Also I thought people liked Tacoma's? They sure like selling used one's for a lot of money. Is it possible this guy thought he could somehow get out from underneath his $70k+ burden by trading it in? I'm not entirely sure he understands how negative equity works.
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Tyro posted:Maybe it's my memory being weird but I remember my mom saying it before the GoT books existed. Yeah, I was just chatting with some old friends about it and we recall it being used a bunch by one of our high-school teachers, so that puts it somewhere before 1995. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018_September_27 says 1840!
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Tyro posted:Maybe it's my memory being weird but I remember my mom saying it before the GoT books existed. I was thinking the same thing but everything looking it up still points to game of thrones... Until I found this I thought I was going insane but luckily no, it's nerds assuming nothing existed before whatever media they cared about was made. E: didn't refresh and was beaten but we've definitely doxxed half the thread as being old as hell threelemmings fucked around with this message at 13:30 on May 24, 2020 |
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money bad
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# ? May 24, 2020 13:36 |
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You old dorks are having a Berenstain Bears moment. Some poem in 1850 that called the breeze "the child of summer" doesn't explain why people started using it to mean "naive" once the hit HBO series came out Now take your magnesium pills and tell me more about Nelson Mandela's funeral, grampa
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My mom says “sweet summer child” every now and then. I think she got it from growing up in the 60s from the hippies.
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Yeah, I can't imagine that all the old people in Florida when I grew up there were big Game of Thrones fans. Also if you search for the phrase minus a couple other keywords ("martin", "fear") you can easily find examples of the phrase being used in the 1800s and early 1900s, here's one that specifically uses it as a synonym for naive.quote:The phrase “sweet summer’s child” became a popular way of describing an innocent, naive person (especially among American writers) during the early Victorian era. It was used by a number of authors during the 1840s, notably: Fredrika Bremer (1840), James Staunton Babcock (1849) in The West Wind and Mary Whitaker (1850) in The Creole. It has been used in a number of other novels, poems and speeches (especially by US authors) throughout the 20th century. moana fucked around with this message at 19:28 on May 24, 2020 |
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Do not trade on small Bart
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# ? May 24, 2020 19:33 |
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GRRM is now officially an unoriginal hack.
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totalnewbie posted:GRRM is now officially an unoriginal hack. You're just now figuring that out?
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No one saying "sweet summer child" on the internet got it from early Victorian authors.
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withak posted:No one saying "sweet summer child" on the internet got it from early Victorian authors. No, but now it's pretty clear GRRM did, or he got it from someone who did.
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withak posted:No one saying "sweet summer child" on the internet got it from early Victorian authors.
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# ? May 24, 2020 20:28 |
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This is one of the dumber derails yet And this thread's seen a few
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# ? May 24, 2020 20:30 |
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oh sweet monopoly child
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Enchanted Hat posted:This is one of the dumber derails yet
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