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powderific posted:I'm a goony rear end person sooo... That does make more sense. But the person it was posted in response to was clearly talking about other people needing help for their problems, same with what life sun death is describing? My b, came off more hostile than I meant to. I just got off a call w some coworkers who keep getting scammed lol. Yeah you're right in the case of people asking for cash at the gas station etc, the true solution is to always say no. Sucks for the people that need help but 99% are scammers. I take that quote more to mean in regards to people offering to fix your problems, otherwise yeah it's too simple/lacking in context to be any useful to people who keep getting scammed
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No worries, and I didn't get the idea of someone bringing you a problem you have and a solution for you at the same time, which does feel like it makes a lot of sense and is part of the pattern (and you could substitute unsolicited problem with unsolicited opportunity and it'd be just as true.)
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True, tagging unsolicited opportunity accounts for all the threads' favorites like: crypto, metaverse real estate speculation, and kid tested mom approved MLMs. oh yeah I'm definitely a goony rear end myself seeing as to I'm still posting in SA in 2023
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If someone comes to you and says “I have a problem, can you help me with solution X” that’s not a scam. If someone comes to you and says “you have a problem, and I can help you with solution X” that is more likely to be a scam.
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Take that doctor!
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tater_salad posted:Take that doctor! *Looks at American healthcare*
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Pick two stonks and if it's a girl invest in #1 and if a boy #2.
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There's another successful Goon Project brewing. A goon inherited a derelict building and has decided to go all in on repairing it to open a coffee and donut shop. He has no business plan, no cost estimates, and no experience in running a coffee shop or a business. It's already going pretty well. 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:There's another successful Goon Project brewing. link now
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come on man that is in this forum
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Potato Salad posted:link https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=4012279&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#pti1 KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:come on man that is in this forum Even more reason to be aware. Thankfully, everyone is telling him that this is a very bad idea that will probably not work out. But, he seems intent on doing it. He has planned on downsizing from a full restaurant to just a donut shop, though. He now wants to blow holes in structural masonry walls to remodel the building and is mad that the code official needed an engineer to sign off that it wouldn't collapse the whole building first.
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lol there was another goon that almost opened a coffee shop a few years ago. I think the pandemic luckily put a stop to those plans
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No matter who or where the story originates the age old 'I'm opening a restaurant. Plan? What plan?" will always be a good read.
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1583036944837058561
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Leon, quit cross posting. I don’t want another page ruined because you decide to track in more intraforum drama. Besides we just had the carpets cleaned.
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Can’t wait to compare that thread with the pizza goon who is about to open their storefront after years of pizza development and scaling the business model.
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wow i always wondered what it would be like to own a movie
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:There's another successful Goon Project brewing. Was this the guy in Houston who asked for business ideas at the start of the Pandemic because he was down to the last of his savings and needed a win?
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Was this the guy in Houston who asked for business ideas at the start of the Pandemic because he was down to the last of his savings and needed a win? Different guys; this one's in Ohio
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Baggins Walking Middleearth
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:There's another successful Goon Project brewing. 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:There's another successful Goon Project brewing. Someone in the thread described it as "Zaurg sells donuts" and that's about as close as you can get to the truth
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Donut goon seems like a joke or something, like a planned troll, as he keeps smugly posting about all the great deals he is getting buying truckloads of furniture and equipment from failed restaurants in the area. There's one active baker and one 'retired' baker in the thread giving advice and it's mostly "please, just make some loving donuts now so you understand what it will take" Otherwise his plan is "sell 40-50 dozen donuts to nearby business every day, lock it down, roll around in the pile of money I make"
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:There's another successful Goon Project brewing. Relevant: here's the coffee shop version of the infamous Toronto Restaurant Guy article.
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pentyne posted:Donut goon seems like a joke or something, like a planned troll, as he keeps smugly posting about all the great deals he is getting buying truckloads of furniture and equipment from failed restaurants in the area. There's one active baker and one 'retired' baker in the thread giving advice and it's mostly "please, just make some loving donuts now so you understand what it will take" A lot of the more entertaining goon sagas are just made up poo poo so yeah. This is literally a dumb comedy website
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Thank God they halted finishing out the last little bit of what they needed to release the fully-filmed Batgirl movie so that they could redirect their efforts into things that matter.
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SpelledBackwards posted:Thank God they halted finishing out the last little bit of what they needed to release the fully-filmed Batgirl movie so that they could redirect their efforts into things that matter. I mean, it was pretty much the entire editing process. That's not one last little bit. But yeah, they're a loving train wreck and it's going to be amazing to watch them torch everything.
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B-Rock452 posted:Yeah I know someone that had a pretty active verified account and he lost everything after a hack. He spent close to a week trying to fix it before giving up and starting a new one but it really screwed him over pretty bad. KitConstantine posted:One of my friends wasn't verified but was starting to gain a lot of followers and lost her account to a bitcoin shill. I found out when they messaged me from her account talking about how 'she' had just bought a house with her crypto profits 
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If he owns the building outright, so he’s only paying taxes and insurance, isn’t that’s a huge leg up on the whole restaurant experience? Why not pursue that dream for a while?
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lifg posted:If he owns the building outright, so he’s only paying taxes and insurance, isn’t that’s a huge leg up on the whole restaurant experience? Why not pursue that dream for a while? So you end up burning a smaller pile of money then most people for 2-3 years, still not a good idea to burn money at all.
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lifg posted:If he owns the building outright, so he’s only paying taxes and insurance, isn’t that’s a huge leg up on the whole restaurant experience? Why not pursue that dream for a while? Property leases aren't a significant portion of a startup or operating budget in most places. Especially not some rust belt town in a location 15 minutes away from any other place to get coffee or donuts/pastries.
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maybe just make it into a club house where you eat donuts with your friends?
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lifg posted:If he owns the building outright, so he’s only paying taxes and insurance, isn’t that’s a huge leg up on the whole restaurant experience? Why not pursue that dream for a while?
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There is a definite stupid guy attraction to donuts as a get rich plan, my former boss was (and presumably still is, based on last I heard) trying to make sure the new location in Texas being built from scratch had a drive-thru window for what he was convinced was a brilliant plan, an add-on he called the Dough-Joe, a coffee and donut vendor. The company sold lab supplies.
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Edit: Goddamnit, why are donuts in two threads now? I meant to post this over there.quote:There is a definite stupid guy attraction to donuts as a get rich plan, See, I don't understand this (I believe you, I just don't get it). If I look at the best- and worst-case outcomes for owning a donut shop, 99.99% of positive outcomes just put you making a middle-income income on a shop while working a full-time job or more, while assuming all the risks. The remaining 0.01% of "against all odds, you won the lottery" positive outcomes are still a middle-class income but with employees at the shop plus normal hours for yourself. None of those outcomes are fame and riches. Meanwhile, the negatives are mostly disastrous or at minimum very expensive. Because again: big donut stores don't make their money on donuts. They make their money by franchising out to suckers who then might make money on Nothing about a donut shop (unless you're actually using it to launder money and/or sell drugs) screams Get Rich to me. At all. quote:an add-on he called the Dough-Joe Okay, hear me out: A store that sells DIY donut+decoration kits you take home to fry so you can pretend you're hot poo poo or something. We'll call it "John Dough" because you're the anonymous donuteer behind it all. Sundae fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Oct 20, 2022 |
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Sundae posted:Okay, hear me out: A store that sells DIY donut+decoration kits you take home to fry so you can pretend you're hot poo poo or something. We'll call it "John Dough" because you're the anonymous donuteer behind it all. Love to buy baking supplies from a store named after a pornstar. Yes, self-own, etc. apparently I know too much about 90s porn stars.
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This whole "it was never my dream but I'll get rich anyway" poo poo is reminding me of a guy I knew who retired from a massively successful career in IT -- only to lose almost everything over the next five years trying to run a ranch. This stuff is hard
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Excited to one day post about opening a combined coffee/bike shop. I'll make millions!
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