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snergle
Aug 3, 2013

A kind little mouse!

The Bramble posted:

My [M 26] girlfriend [F27] is really upset with me about Will Smith and Chris Rock.

op you have decorom poisoning. the only cure is violence.

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DeeplyConcerned
Apr 29, 2008

I can fit 3 whole bud light cans now, ask me how!

pentyne posted:

who's running the donut shop while she's out?

All right bobby you know the deal. I'm gonna go out to the parking lot and wolf down this dick. you're in charge of the donuts until I get back.

No problem, Mrs. S!

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

Pity video rental stores aren’t a thing anymore. They were the best to launder money. Restaurant you can compare the materials ordered vs receipts. Video store you can just claim 100 old movies a night more rented than you actually did.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Mister Olympus posted:

its definitely ABDL. legal but could be viscerally disturbing to people to the point where they wouldn't want to be around someone

I’m in public and not brave enough to google what on earth is ABDL

Haschel Cedricson
Jan 4, 2006

Brinkmanship

Hughlander posted:

Pity video rental stores aren’t a thing anymore. They were the best to launder money. Restaurant you can compare the materials ordered vs receipts. Video store you can just claim 100 old movies a night more rented than you actually did.

There used to be a video rental store in Salem that I'm 100% convinced was a front. The windows were covered in brown paper, a security camera on a tripod looked out a small tear in the paper into the parking lot, the shelves were arranged in the most labyrinthine floor plan I've ever seen, and in order to rent anything you had to "become a member" by paying a ridiculous sign-up fee and leaving a valid credit card number on file. The proprietor, instead of greeting you with a "hello" or "how can I help you?" would instead greet you with "What do you want?"

Also there were a ton of pornographic DVDs available to rent but they weren't kept in a separate room, just a big-rear end shelf right next to the sci-fi section.

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

I’m in public and not brave enough to google what on earth is ABDL

Adult baby diaper something. Lovers?

reignonyourparade
Nov 15, 2012

Mister Olympus posted:

its definitely ABDL. legal but could be viscerally disturbing to people to the point where they wouldn't want to be around someone

Viscerally disturbing enough that SOME people wouldn't want to be around someone but also fine enough that OTHER people literally do not understand it being a problem at all.

ABDL wouldn't have the latter in the numbers described, it's almost certainly BDSM.

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007

DoctorWhat posted:

Reddit is constantly like NTA/ESH on this one. Maybe I'm a crank on this front but not being able to see Sasha as his own kid worth raising and insisting on genetic progeny is freak rear end in a top hat behavior IMO.

Goddamn, hope this guy never bears fruit. Heartbreaking the kid saw him as a sort of father and he just didn't give a single poo poo about her top to bottom the entire time he knew her, and once breakup was over he just had no problem severing all connection.

Mx. posted:

AITA for not compromising on where we go to lunch, because of my food allergy?

meet them halfway. by which i mean put Cara, Janine and HR in the middle of the road and drive them over.

A week off work because a coworker yelled! gently caress the lunch dude, goad someone else to yell at you and take another week off and eat wherever the gently caress you want every day.

Khanstant fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Mar 30, 2022

WaywardWoodwose
May 19, 2008

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Khanstant posted:

Goddamn, hope this guy never bears fruit. Heartbreaking the kid saw him as a sort of father and he just didn't give a single poo poo about her top to bottom the entire time he knew her, and once breakup was over he just had no problem severing all connection.



So should this newly single adult man start just hanging out with child against her mothers wishes? Should he have stayed with the mother for her sake, even though they want their life to go in different directions?

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

pentyne posted:

who's running the donut shop while she's out?

I assume that she locked it up and maybe put up a "Back in 10 minutes" sign

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007
No and maybe he cared more about the kid than he let on but if you ever call the cops I will waste a dandelion wish on your infertility.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


AITA for embarrassing my FIL after I repeatedly asked him to explain his joke to me?

quote:

I (27F) used to be an ''escort'' (h*oker) from 18 until I was 23, I'm not proud of it but I also don't give a gently caress because I did what I had to do to keep studying and a roof over my head. That's how I met my now fiancé (37M) tho he was never my client.

We began to date when I was 25 and three or four months after that his BIL ''exposed me'' (no idea how he found out) because there's no way my fiancé knew and thus we had to come clean in front of his whole family. Yes I did that. Yes he knows. Yes he doesn't care. It was 2 years ago (at that time), we got over it. After that there was a span of 3-4 months in were my MIL and some of my fiancés aunts and cousin ''police'' their husband when I was around, it was really weird tbh because this dudes were like 40-60yo and I wasn't that desperate, so my fiancé shut their bullshit hard and even when his family still gives me the side eye from time to time, we thought it was behind us.

He proposed last year and five months ago we found out that I was pregnant, we were really happy about it and we told his family as soon as we knew. His sisters and young brother were happy for us, but his mom took me aside and begged me to be honest with her and asked if this was really my fiancés child, I was taken aback but I just rolled my eyes and said yes, she gave me some lovely speech about how ''she only wanted to make sure'' and that ''she was happy to be a grandmother''.

Well, last weekend we were at his parents with his family and some of his friendsand we were talking about the name, how he might look (small talk, we will love him regardless but there's always some ''Oh I hope he gets your nose!'' ''mmh I like your eyes, I hope he gets them'' comments) and my FIL said that he and his children have a birthmark in the inner tight and that even his grandchildren (one of my SIL's kids) got them, so our baby might too, and then he said ''But how can we know from who he got it? it may as well be from me, my boy or my brothers'' and he and his brothers began to laugh. My fiancé got mad and before he could say anything I said ''I don't get it'' and my FIL was ''yeah because it runs in the family'' and I said again ''I don't get it, why would he get it from you?'' and he began to get nervous and said ''because you know... it's just a joke OP'' and I said ''but I don't get it and you all laughed, explain'' it got to the point that some of his friends said ''hey, it's not funny'' so he he excused himself and left.

Later my fiancé's BIL came to me and said that I was wrong for embarrassing him like that in his own house and that I knew what the joke was about and because of my past, I shouldn't be surprised. Now they're all demanding that I apologize to my FIL.

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

WaywardWoodwose posted:

So should this newly single adult man start just hanging out with child against her mothers wishes? Should he have stayed with the mother for her sake, even though they want their life to go in different directions?

You don't understand: his desire to have another child means that he's a genetics-obsessed monster who views women as breeding stock. :rolleyes:

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





I love how "explain it to me" is the perfect loving comeback.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Mx. posted:

AITA for embarrassing my FIL after I repeatedly asked him to explain his joke to me?


haha she's awesome

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Hooker is banned?

sudonim
Oct 6, 2005

Mellow Seas posted:

Speaking from personal experience, joint custody sucks for kids. It loving sucks to live two places. Parents should suck it up and figure out a permanent arrangement rather than demanding a child live a weird double life to mitigate their own guilt for bringing a child into a loveless family.

Speaking from experience, my parents living in two separate places was so much better than pre-divorce. No more screaming matches because they couldn't even stand the proximity of each other. Different people different solutions :shrug:

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


AITA For sending pink envelopes?

quote:

I sell Pokémon cards on eBay as a side job. I have been doing it way before; the rush on Pokémon cards was a big thing. When I mail out my cards, I like to send them in different colored envelopes to stand out. The colors are red, blue, pink, green, and yellow. They are randomly picked and using different colors helps me remember who has what order. I have never gotten a complaint before and thought it was a great idea. So, when your letter arrives it’s a fun experience instead of just getting a PWE. ( Plain White Envelope)

I had an order for a card that was randomly put in a pink envelope and mailed off to the buyer. About a week or so later I get a message on eBay from the buyer asking me not to send him pink envelopes because pink is for girls, and he doesn’t want his neighbors to see him carry in a pink letter. About a week goes by and I add more items to my eBay and this person bought more things from me. About ten different cards. I don’t remember him from all the other orders, so one of his packages gets sent in a pink envelope. I had a lot of orders that week and a lot of people got pink envelopes along with different colors. I’m also sure another one of his orders was sent in a blue one.

He messages me again, furious that I have sent him another pink envelope. He informed me that he would not buy from me again if the next envelope was pink. His message also included “I don’t want another pink letter only sending me color associated with the American flag, so only red and blues. If it’s on the gay flag, I don’t want it.” Weird because the pride flag is a rainbow, but I digress. He sent other things that he felt were associated with pink that he didn’t want to be associated with, but I think we all get the point.

So about two weeks later he orders about twenty cards, which is over the weight limit for eBay standard card shipping, so I broke his order down into separate orders. Cards were bought in different orders of five, so it was easy to do. I had a buy three get two free.

I decided I didn’t want this person to go without his pink envelopes any longer, so I sent him five separate pink letters for his cards. Now, where I think I was being the A-hole was while talking to my girlfriend, she defended him, saying “he could have been in the closet, and you exposed him to his family.” I tried to show her the messages where I don’t think that is the case. So she changed it to " He doesn't want to be made fun of by his neighbors and now he will." But now I feel bad that he did ask to not get them sent anymore, but I decided to be petty.

So reddit AITA?

Slo-Tek
Jun 8, 2001

WINDOWS 98 BEAT HIS FRIEND WITH A SHOVEL

Mx. posted:

AITA For sending pink envelopes?


Mostly an rear end in a top hat for using PWE (Plain White Envelope) and then never using the defined acronym again.

Also an rear end in a top hat for dicking with a customer who is almost certainly mentally disabled/challenged in some way.

ESH. (Everyone Sucks Here)

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



C'mon, you shouldn't gently caress with reasonable customers but if someone's like "don't send me a pink envelope because folks might think I'm gaaaay :911:" you should feel free to send them more pink envelopes.

Rescue Toaster
Mar 13, 2003
It would have been polite to send the customer at least one quick response "I cannot guarantee envelope colors, if you order from me in the future it's possible the envelope colors could indeed be pink. Please keep this in mind before ordering from me again."

After they sent their "Oh my god what will my neighbors think!" screed then yeah gently caress 'em.

Human Tornada
Mar 4, 2005

I been wantin to see a honkey dance.

Kuros posted:

Run a good restaurant = more attention

More attention = more people at the restaurant

More people at the restaurant = more cops at the restaurant (because they need to eat too)

More cops at the restaurant = more chances for them to notice shady poo poo going on

Money laundering involves mostly spreadsheets and IRS forms and cash deposits at the bank, it's not like switching around labels on wine bottles or sneaking dead bodies out the back in rolled up carpets.

Are you under the impression that front businesses are doing "shady poo poo" in full view of the customers and just hoping no one notices?

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Mellow Seas posted:

Speaking from personal experience, joint custody sucks for kids. It loving sucks to live two places. Parents should suck it up and figure out a permanent arrangement rather than demanding a child live a weird double life to mitigate their own guilt for bringing a child into a loveless family.

Have you considered that a family where a divorce happens might not be loveless at the time the child or children are conceived? Have you considered that it might not even be loveless when the divorce happens, but that sometimes for other reasons things just don’t work out? It totally sucks for the kids, but there isn’t always a bad guy to blame. Additionally which parent should give up all custody of their kids and would a good parent do that?

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



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Slo-Tek posted:

Mostly an rear end in a top hat for using PWE (Plain White Envelope) and then never using the defined acronym again.

Also an rear end in a top hat for dicking with a customer who is almost certainly mentally disabled/challenged in some way.

ESH. (Everyone Sucks Here)

The assumption, and it is an assumption, is that they don't want to throw out their pink envelopes for one nutjob and that this person gets so many card orders it is not practical to check if every pink card order is weirdo guy so they decided to just kicked the can down the road and made it worse. That part is stupid. I don't think it's unreasonable to not have to treat assholes like this with kid gloves, just tell them as professionally as possible to gently caress off and be done with it.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


You don't have to be mentally disabled to love America and Pokemon cards

Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

The assumption, and it is an assumption, is that they don't want to throw out their pink envelopes for one nutjob and that this person gets so many card orders it is not practical to check if every pink card order is weirdo guy so they decided to just kicked the can down the road and made it worse. That part is stupid. I don't think it's unreasonable to not have to treat assholes like this with kid gloves, just tell them as professionally as possible to gently caress off and be done with it.

"You order might be packaged in a pink envelope" is not a the kind of thing you should need to "disclose" as a seller. This is all completely unreasonable and what the gently caress. How is this even a debate? The person having a problem with this has bigger issues than envelope colors. Even if this seller they occasionally buys from "corrects" this problem there are just so many other fundamental ones that this doesn't' even matter.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
Not sure why OP didn't just drop that customer and move on with their life.

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Kuros posted:

Run a good restaurant = more attention

More attention = more people at the restaurant

More people at the restaurant = more cops at the restaurant (because they need to eat too)

More cops at the restaurant = more chances for them to notice shady poo poo going on

Honestly it is better to have real business to mix your laundering in with so that it’s less likely to look suspicious. If a restaurant is pulling down tons of cash but never has any customers, it’s quite possible someone will notice at some point.

Someone upthread suggested casinos would be good for money laundering. Maybe once upon a time but not anymore. Casinos, jewelry stores, ATM operators, check cashing places, etc actually aren’t good vehicles for money laundering because of the additional scrutiny they come under from the bank and the authorities. Those accounts are subject to additional restrictions and mores eyes on them in the back office. I have actually had to drive to businesses to verify they exist and that their location matches their stated business type. If you own a bar and have an ATM there that you service yourself, you can’t even refill it from the till. You have to make your deposit and then draw out cash from a specific account for the ATM. And if the bank notices that your ATM records don’t match your account activity, they will terminate the entire relationship and you have to find another bank.

Part of why restaurants and bars are good for laud is there is going to be some natural slop and wastage goin on and that provides a screen for the additional cash.

Nae
Sep 3, 2020

what.

Captain Hygiene posted:

C'mon, you shouldn't gently caress with reasonable customers but if someone's like "don't send me a pink envelope because folks might think I'm gaaaay :911:" you should feel free to send them more pink envelopes.

He should send a PWE (plain white envelope) that says 'POKEMON TOYS INSIDE!!!!!!!' in huge letters you can read from across the neighborhood

therobit posted:

Part of why restaurants and bars are good for laud is there is going to be some natural slop and wastage goin on and that provides a screen for the additional cash.

One of the best money laundering ops is a street food cart, since everybody pays cash at those and they're on every single corner of most major cities. All you have to do is serve people wet, lukewarm hot dogs and nobody's the wiser.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Absurd Alhazred posted:

Not sure why OP didn't just drop that customer and move on with their life.

Because they can continue getting a weird rear end in a top hat to give up their own money :v:

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



ASK ME ABOUT
BEING
ESCULA GRIND'S
#1 SIMP

Motronic posted:

"You order might be packaged in a pink envelope" is not a the kind of thing you should need to "disclose" as a seller. This is all completely unreasonable and what the gently caress. How is this even a debate? The person having a problem with this has bigger issues than envelope colors. Even if this seller they occasionally buys from "corrects" this problem there are just so many other fundamental ones that this doesn't' even matter.

it's not a debate i agree with you: tell the dude to kick rocks and carry on.

Malcolm Excellent
May 20, 2007

Buglord

Mx. posted:

You don't have to be mentally disabled to love America and Pokemon cards

But it helps!! :wal: :stat: DOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO

DoctorWhat
Nov 18, 2011

A little privacy, please?

Mx. posted:

You don't have to be mentally disabled to love America and Pokemon cards

You're half right.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


Malcolm Excellent posted:

But it helps!! :wal: :stat: DOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Human Tornada posted:

Note that I said "own" a restaurant not "run" a restaurant.
No, we understand what you mean. But if your idea is to hang around the restaurant and let the employees run it, congratulations, you're like half the owners on the American version of Kitchen Nightmares. Unless you get incredibly lucky, your restaurant will be bad.

therobit posted:

Someone upthread suggested casinos would be good for money laundering. Maybe once upon a time but not anymore. Casinos, jewelry stores, ATM operators, check cashing places, etc actually aren’t good vehicles for money laundering because of the additional scrutiny they come under from the bank and the authorities.
Guys who sell dimebags aren't laundering their money through casinos. The guys who own the bank you work for launder their money through casinos.

Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Mar 30, 2022

Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

it's not a debate i agree with you: tell the dude to kick rocks and carry on.

Oh, sorry....I know I quoted your post but this was just general WTF posting on the topic.

Tendales
Mar 9, 2012

MarcusSA posted:

Hooker is banned?

At this point, I kind of assume any self-censoring of words is just an attempt to avoid getting spammed by bots in the comments.

Mr. Grapes!
Feb 12, 2007
Mr. who?

It's dumb and weird to teach kids that Harry Potter is real, but no moreso than any other traditional religious teachings about other equally fictional magical bullshit. I think it's gaslighting to teach kids that there is some omnipotent sky-ghost that will burn you for eternity if you touch your dick or eat a pig or press a button on his Special Day, but billions of people are doing that already. Harry Potter, while lame and written by a transphobic, is ultimately less bigoted and harmful than traditional religion. The awful ideas in Harry Potter at least have to be teased out rather than shoved in your face.

As we can tell easily from reading this thread, religion has a far greater potential to utterly gently caress up some kid's life rather than believing Harry Potter is real. At some point they are going to pick up that Harry Potter is fictional on their own, or from other kids. Any person she asks outside of her own family is liable to set her straight immediately, unlike religion which has billions of other people who will happily reinforce the idea that yes, these gays need to suffer for their gayness because God loves them.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Mr. Grapes! fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Mar 30, 2022

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

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Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




Halloween Jack posted:

Guys who sell dimebags aren't laundering their money through casinos.

They most certainly are. It is one of the things I was specifically trained to spot, because a casino can lose their license if too many people get caught by the cops getting away with it.

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Human Tornada
Mar 4, 2005

I been wantin to see a honkey dance.

Halloween Jack posted:

No, we understand what you mean. But if your idea is to hang around the restaurant and let the employees run it, congratulations, you're like half the owners on the American version of Kitchen Nightmares. Unless you get incredibly lucky, your restaurant will be bad.

There are people who are responsible for the operation of a business however they themselves do not own the business. In the restaurant world we call them "General Managers" and they're extremely common, sometimes even legitimate restaurants have them.

I'm not sure why my "idea" that if I owned a restaurant as a money laundering operation I'd want it to be good too is bringing out so many "well actually"-ers but as other people have already noted, successful businesses are less likely to draw suspicion than places that never have any customers but stay open for years anyway.

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