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jesus WEP posted:can’t medical bills be inherited though? I don't think so but in some states, nursing home bills can.
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Nov 3, 2021 21:26
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KillHour posted:I don't think so but in some states, nursing home bills can. But even in that case, the adult child is signing on as a guarantor. Possibly as a condition of being admitted there, but still a voluntary (potential) debt they are taking on.
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Nov 3, 2021 21:28
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The best bizarre slot machines are the ones where gambling is illegal but there's an exception for bingo. They look like normal slot machines, but when you pull the lever, it puts you together with other bingo slot machines being bet at the same time, then runs a fast simulated bingo game to decide if you win or lose and animates that result like normal slots.
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Nov 3, 2021 21:28
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The good news is if Nana is about to die you can run up her credit cards and then just don't answer the phone for 2 years and now all that stuff is yours.
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Nov 3, 2021 21:30
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jesus WEP posted:can’t medical bills be inherited though? You can’t take on debt without consent. These collectors may try to trick you into thinking you inherited debt though, but they can’t legally get anything from you if you weren’t involved in signing for anything at all.
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Nov 3, 2021 21:30
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Zesty posted:You can’t take on debt without consent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws
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Nov 3, 2021 21:34
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why is everyone in this thread calling slot machines fruit machines am i being gaslit
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Nov 3, 2021 21:43
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Pro move: Take out a large loan. Use the loan to buy shares in the bank that loaned you the money. Use the goodwill from being a shareholder to take out some more loans and buy a larger share. Misuse your position as a major shareholder to forgive your own debt since your basically just giving yourself money at that point. Can't possibly go wrong.
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Nov 3, 2021 21:47
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Also, depending on the loan shark company, they might just start illegally repossessing your stuff. There was some guys in Virginia just stealing cars with a tow truck. Most people aren't going to bother taking them to court, they need their car back now, so they'll just pay. It helps if one of your employees brothers is a cop though. Or they might just "repossess" your children's kneecaps until they get paid back.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Pro move: I do need to do some home repairs....
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Nov 3, 2021 21:49
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Zokari posted:why is everyone in this thread calling slot machines fruit machines It's a regional dialect
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Nov 3, 2021 21:53
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Zokari posted:why is everyone in this thread calling slot machines fruit machines "Slots" & "Slot machines" are an Americanism. I don't think any other countries refer to them that way, maybe some that have a high influx of American tourists do. In Australia they're called "Pokies" (as in poker machine although the card game ones are rare now), "One arm bandits", "fruit machines". We've got something like 5 times the per capita amount of these vampires than the US, too. The gambling lobby has the government (both major parties) completely captured.
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Nov 3, 2021 21:53
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Well the machines that steal from you were invented in America so I think we know what they're called
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Nov 3, 2021 22:06
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Theres these machines where you put money into a SLOT and then these three to five wheels spin around on an axis and arrange pictures of cards or star trek characters or whatever into various SLOTS on the wheel and you look through the SLOT in the machine to see whether you won and if you did a bu ch of nickels fall out of the SLOT and into the tray. They call them Pokies, i think
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Nov 3, 2021 22:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B49zI5UrAQ
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Nov 3, 2021 22:18
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Because the earliest ones were reels of cherries, oranges, bananas and the like. You know, 'Match the cherries, win a prize!' The name just sort of stuck. I know I was just trying to make everyone feel old
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Nov 3, 2021 22:20
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The first rudimentary slot machines were branded with star wars, E.T., and such barbaric things. Not like the refined angry birds and game of thrones of today. Slotologists are confident that by 2027, slot machines will reach a point that they are themed upon the neuroses and regrets of the gambler themselves, maximizing revenue.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:23
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Wait, are we talking about fobtees here?
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projecthalaxy posted:Theres these machines where you put money into a SLOT and then these three to five wheels spin around on an axis and arrange pictures of cards or star trek characters or whatever into various SLOTS on the wheel and you look through the SLOT in the machine to see whether you won and if you did a bu ch of nickels fall out of the SLOT and into the tray. wtf is a nickel?
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Capt.Whorebags posted:wtf is a nickel? Half a dime. E: wait on further research it turns out Australians call slot machines pokies because they think slot machines are video poker machines lol Local australian hits button, watches three wallabies line up, wins 40 didgeridollars, says "I love playing cards!" projecthalaxy has a new favorite as of 22:33 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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projecthalaxy posted:Half a dime. Well I feel foolish.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:29
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Back in those days they had a picture of a bumblebee on them. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:33
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projecthalaxy posted:Half a dime. We actually did have video poker machines, they were fun. You'd press a button, and you'd be "dealt" five cards. You could then choose which cards to hold on to, and which to swap out, to see if you could improve your hand. You could go double-or-nothing etc etc. I haven't seen these around for ages though. Now it's all just the "press button, lights flash, money gone" type.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:38
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Capt.Whorebags posted:We actually did have video poker machines, they were fun. OK all joking aside its actually super interesting to me that AUS got video poker machines before what I'd call "traditional" slot machines which as people have mentioned are at least in the US much older. Also that the slots are therefore considered a derivative/offshoot of video poker. The way culture gets spread/imported is crazy. E: do you know if its something like video poker was considered a game of skill so it was regulated differently than games of chance or something?
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Nov 3, 2021 22:41
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I think our early pokies were probably just the same as slot machines but instead of pictures of fruit, liberty bells, eagles, swastikas etc, they were playing cards. So you'd try and get three aces, or 4 kings or something. I doubt we had video games before spinning wheel machines.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:45
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"loosest pokies in town" doesn't have the same ring as the slots version.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:45
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Zokari posted:why is everyone in this thread calling slot machines fruit machines Something to do with toxic masculinity, is my understanding
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The Bloop posted:Well the machines that steal from you were invented in America so I think we know what they're called Billionaires?
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BiggerBoat posted:Billionaires? Slot machines are people, my friend 
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Fun fact, the largest operator of pokies in Australia is also the largest supermarket chain in Australia 🥳
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I'll admit this does seem extremely Australian
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There are, in my estimation, approximately three possible situations that would lead to this fact: 1. An Australian slot machine giant decided to break into the grocery business 2. An Australian grocery giant decided to break into the slot machine business 3. An Australian firm decided from day one to be a combination grocery and slot machine business. All of these are kinda charming in a way. I know the answer is probably just some corporate mergers and acquisitions stuff but I love the idea of some guy stumbling into the boardroom at Mandalay Bay with an armful of produce going GUYS YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS
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Nov 3, 2021 23:17
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we talkin about chazwozzers now?
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Zetsubou-san posted:we talkin about chazwozzers now? Is that half a nickel?
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Zetsubou-san posted:we talkin about chazwozzers now? I still want to know what the 'malanga gildechuck' is.
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Capt.Whorebags posted:I think our early pokies were probably just the same as slot machines but instead of pictures of fruit, liberty bells, eagles, swastikas etc, they were playing cards. So you'd try and get three aces, or 4 kings or something. I doubt we had video games before spinning wheel machines. Actually, playing cards were the original “insert a coin to possibly win” style slots. They only picked up the fruit motif because of gum. The widespread machines would sit on countertops right next to cash registers, so someone getting change could stick a coin in. If you lined up the fruit symbols, you won that flavor of gum. That eventually spread to the machines that gave actual money.
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projecthalaxy posted:There are, in my estimation, approximately three possible situations that would lead to this fact: It's gotta be #2. I'm just gonna assume that they decided to add one or two machines in each of their stores when it became legal or something and since they had so many stores it launched them above everyone else.
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projecthalaxy posted:There are, in my estimation, approximately three possible situations that would lead to this fact: Ah yes, unbridled corporate greed, how charming 
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Amphigory posted:That's a puggy, and that's probably a Wetherspoons (or similar atrocious chain pub) Chain pub sounds like the saddest poo poo imaginable
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