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Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Hazo posted:

I do not think I will be paying the 95 dollars

Sounds like someone isn't a successful leader :colbert:

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Guest2553
Aug 3, 2012


For real, I'm personally running out of space in the curio to put my awards for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence. :monocle:

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

For $75 I will induct you into the International society of big dicked birds

Hazo
Dec 30, 2004

SCIENCE



Thank you fellow goons. I'm happy I sought your advice.

Volmarias I'll send you the cash via venmo

edit: dick bird posts here so I know it's legit

Parallelwoody
Apr 10, 2008


bird with big dick posted:

For $75 I will induct you into the International society of big dicked birds

Tell me more.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



For $30 I'll tell anyone who asks how awesome you are.

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Hazo posted:

Thank you fellow goons. I'm happy I sought your advice.

Volmarias I'll send you the cash via venmo

edit: dick bird posts here so I know it's legit

I never asked for cash though.

This is why you're getting scammed! :eng99:

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

For only :10bux: you can already join the finest global community of philosophers and polymaths on the information superhighway

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

way before lowtax:

i got shoulder tapped by an attractive 40-something lady with a matching husband, my better half is also hot so im thinking hell yeah

we go up to their hotel room and there are cardboard advertisements everywhere

motherfuckers tried to get us into a mangosteen MLM

Brain Curry
Feb 15, 2007

People think that I'm lazy
People think that I'm this fool because
I give a fuck about the government
I didn't graduate from high school



goatsestretchgoals posted:

way before lowtax:

i got shoulder tapped by an attractive 40-something lady with a matching husband, my better half is also hot so im thinking hell yeah

we go up to their hotel room and there are cardboard advertisements everywhere

motherfuckers tried to get us into a mangosteen MLM

https://youtu.be/OkdLWuCRe0c

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

I assume you didn’t sign up for the MLM but was the sex good

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

bird with big dick posted:

I assume you didn’t sign up for the MLM but was the sex good

we did not do a “hey you wanna gently caress anyway?” and i regret this

E: i was 20 and other half was 19, im proud of me for walking us out the room on the MLM thing, an older and more cynical me would have tried the above

goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Aug 4, 2023

neurobasalmedium
Sep 12, 2012

Hazo posted:

Absurd Alhazred over in the grad school thread said I should post this here so you guys can laugh at this

I do not think I will be paying the 95 dollars

Counteroffer that :10bux: is your hard limit

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Masquerading as swingers hitting on couples at a bar is a very funny (and sad) scheme

namlosh
Feb 11, 2014

I name this haircut "The Sad Rhino".
Gets up to hotel room…


“Have you heard the good word of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?”

Extra row of tits
Oct 31, 2020

namlosh posted:

Gets up to hotel room…


“Have you heard the good word of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?”

I heard he swings.. from a cross.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Ever heard of “DP”? My wife and I have always wanted to try it.

Hotel Room: Yeah, “Divine Providence”. Let’s open up to the first chapter…

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!
"Why do girls like jesus so much"?



"because he's hung like this":
*/spreads arms wide open

Robert Facepalmer
Jan 10, 2019


Professor Shark posted:

Masquerading as swingers hitting on couples at a bar is a very funny (and sad) scheme

Eventually they would have got hosed...

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


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pumped up for school
Nov 24, 2010

peanut posted:

Final Reminder - Edition Closing Shortly


My boss, who's been managing his own business since the mid 90s and owner since mid 00's, fell for a slightly-more targeted version of this. He sent me the email about getting a 1-pg spread in a trade mag no one had ever heard of. He was convinced it was cheap advertising. To the seagulls at the landfill, maybe. If printed at all.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



pumped up for school posted:

My boss, who's been managing his own business since the mid 90s and owner since mid 00's, fell for a slightly-more targeted version of this. He sent me the email about getting a 1-pg spread in a trade mag no one had ever heard of. He was convinced it was cheap advertising. To the seagulls at the landfill, maybe. If printed at all.

They usually print enough to send to everyone who bought an ad.

Konstantin
Jun 20, 2005
And the Lord said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
Or they send to anyone who is slightly interested. I signed up for a trade association about 10 years ago, paid a membership fee for a year, then stopped. I still get their print magazine a few times a year in the mail.

namlosh
Feb 11, 2014

I name this haircut "The Sad Rhino".
If you realize and accept it for what it is, a framed article or trophy can be something you put in a glass case in the lobby of your business to give you slightly more cred or at least the appearance of cred

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

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namlosh posted:

If you realize and accept it for what it is, a framed article or trophy can be something you put in a glass case in the lobby of your business to give you slightly more cred or at least the appearance of cred

Powerful "Donald Trump Photoshopping Himself Onto Magazine Covers And Displaying Them" energy in this suggestion.

Extra row of tits
Oct 31, 2020

Volmarias posted:

Powerful "Donald Trump Photoshopping Himself Onto Magazine Covers And Displaying Them" energy in this suggestion.

EXTRA ROW OF TITS CONQUERS EARTH!!!!

To marry Margot Robbie and rename moon.

namlosh
Feb 11, 2014

I name this haircut "The Sad Rhino".

Volmarias posted:

Powerful "Donald Trump Photoshopping Himself Onto Magazine Covers And Displaying Them" energy in this suggestion.

Agreed, just to be clear: I’m not condoning doing it in any way… just that not all of the customers are marks or getting scammed in some way. Some know exactly what they’re doing

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I’m at a union conference and there is a table for our insurance company offering a pretty good chance of getting a $100 giftcard… except you have to agree to give a blood sample.

My Wrong Detector started going off and I refused because I remember a goon once posting that you should never give your insurance company any more information than required.

What is the deal here?

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

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Professor Shark posted:

I’m at a union conference and there is a table for our insurance company offering a pretty good chance of getting a $100 giftcard… except you have to agree to give a blood sample.

My Wrong Detector started going off and I refused because I remember a goon once posting that you should never give your insurance company any more information than required.

What is the deal here?

They want some of your blood to sprinkle at the crime scene in advance

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

I assume they use it to deny you coverage in the future due to 'pre-existing conditions'. Or kick you off the plan if you have genes that make you susceptible to (expensive disease).

unknown
Nov 16, 2002
Ain't got no stinking title yet!


Insurance companies have discovered the treasure trove that information on their clients gives them and are now collecting as much as possible because who knows what in the future it'll show.

It used to be that they had to look at a group of people and do statistical analysis to guess how many who would have no/some/lot of issues and set rates averaging that out across that group.

That's no longer the case and they are increasingly drilling down the dataset to singleton levels and dropping the "expensive" people. (additionally the "expensive" payouts are also getting higher these days too).

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Professor Shark posted:

I’m at a union conference and there is a table for our insurance company offering a pretty good chance of getting a $100 giftcard… except you have to agree to give a blood sample.

My Wrong Detector started going off and I refused because I remember a goon once posting that you should never give your insurance company any more information than required.

What is the deal here?

Why is this happening at a union conference?

E: Is this a translation thing? I’m thinking of labor unions right now.

goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Aug 17, 2023

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

I’ll give you a chance at a $100 gift card and I don’t want your blood I want a different bodily fluid.

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

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That's what I assumed it was. You could always ask them specifically what it was for, then ask your union (assuming they are good). Inexpensive genetic testing and lab work if they don't have any from you is probably the answer, though, along with "maybe it's not as useful now, but in the future, who knows?"

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

goatsestretchgoals posted:

Why is this happening at a union conference?

E: Is this a translation thing? I’m thinking of labor unions right now.

No, it’s a labour union. It was explained to me that it was for the benefit of members, who could be told more information about their health in order to improve it and that it’s illegal in Canada to remove expensive members from insurance, but I still don’t trust it.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

I expect the way it will work (in future) is that it's all fed into an incredibly expensive black box machine learning model that tells them to drop all the expensive claimants

"Sorry your honour our process is just to follow the computer, you can't prove it drops expensive cases because no one understands it except Dr Blofeld from IBM"

Fruits of the sea
Dec 1, 2010

I wouldn't do it for the aforementioned reasons, but in principle I think companies should always pay us for the privilege of recording our personal information. So they are doing one thing right.

bort
Mar 13, 2003

Strategic Tea posted:

because no one understands it except Dr BlofeldElizabeth Holmes from IBMTheranos

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Submit some animal blood instead of your own.

("Sorry we have to drop you because we see you're suseptible to hoof and mouth disease")

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goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

What the hell union was this?

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