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pmchem posted:yeah, if you're gonna crosspost from another forum and then halfway through realize that most of the post has nothing to do with the actual thread you're posting to... please reconsider next time? this thread at least ostensibly has a topic for original content
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Organza Quiz posted:It was the Langham on the Gold Coast, which was the fanciest of the rich people hotels I've gotten to stay in, easily. Really rich people don’t give a poo poo about shorts and tattoos, but they might judge the cost/quality of them.
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Barely Warranted Massage: Pay the handy man for a good corking
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EricBauman posted:I apologize for the NY Post link (got it from Matt Levine), but drat are timeshares BWM There was a recent NYT Daily podcast episode about this guy. After he sent six figures of "fees" to "release" the payment for his timeshare, the scammers talked him into "investing" in a "Mexican vacation development" to milk him for another couple 100Ks. Basically, they were virtuoso pig butchers. Also, the guy is a retired cop who always prided himself on his street-savviness  What sort of industrial scam infrastructure is required to pull this off? Well, it turns out the Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartel pulled a hostile takeover of a local call center and murdered the employees who tried to quit. Now they're forced at gunpoint to rob feebleminded American retirees of their life savings. Grim stuff.
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Jesse Ventura posted:Also, the guy is a retired cop talk about Pig butchering
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Organza Quiz posted:It was the Langham on the Gold Coast, which was the fanciest of the rich people hotels I've gotten to stay in, easily. posting prices in australian dollars is cheating cuz they are only worth like 2/3 of a real dollar Organza Quiz posted:I always pettily enjoy going to breakfast at those places in shorts and a t-shirt with all my tattoos on display. hell yeah mate 
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Subjunctive posted:Really rich people don’t give a poo poo about shorts and tattoos, but they might judge the cost/quality of them. Exactly. I know more multi-millionaires with huge visible tattoos than poor folks with them. If you're already in the lobby of the fancy hotel and the tattoos aren't literal prison stick-and-poke jobs, then everybody is probably gonna assume you're richer than you actually are (rather than poorer than you actually are). Powerful Two-Hander posted:From C-Spam: That article is a loving paid advertorial piece for GOBankingRates.com, and doesn't appear to have any actual research behind anything in it. It's just rage-bait to get you to visit their site, and it appears to have worked.
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That article is what happens if you ask an LLM for "fifty financial habits seen as lower-class in today’s society". Just pure vaguely-on-topic bullshit to fill out a list. The fact that it got as much attention in the CSPAM thread as it did made me roll my eyes, and the fact that it got even more attention here is hilarious.
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Splicer posted:Banging With Myself: Sounds like someone could do with a visit from the handyman.
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drk posted:posting prices in australian dollars is cheating cuz they are only worth like 2/3 of a real dollar Man, for some reason I've always thought it was the other way around. I think they got rid of the buy-your-way-in visa though, and I'm too old now for the "productive workers we want" one.
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Splicer posted:Bored With Masturbation: Sounds like someone could do with a visit from the handyman.
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Why the gently caress am I spending $23 on left
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Tag yourself. I'm the $0 spent on food & drink.
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Gaius Marius posted:Why the gently caress am I spending $23 on left Admiralty Flag posted:Tag yourself. I'm the $0 spent on food & drink. I'm left handed so the $23/month is the tax I pay for my disability.
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Where's the candle budget?
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Admiralty Flag posted:Tag yourself. I'm the $0 spent on food & drink. steal protein shakes from the gym 3x per day
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Having an "etc." budget item is always a good sign.
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Gaius Marius posted:Why the gently caress am I spending $23 on left You might be Microwave
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withak posted:Having an "etc." budget item is always a good sign. I assume it's other things in the "things similar to Netflix and Uber" category
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I'm the 15% of the budget for "Gym, Yoga, etc" when rent is already 62% of it
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Why would you have Netflix and Uber in the same budget category?
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The price hikes on the etc. subscriptions are killing people now that it costs over $500 a month. They should consider downgrading to a basic etc. plan for only $399 a month.
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While not as bad as that rich-people spa, the town I used to live in has a place called "StretchLab" which is not a massage place or a physical therapist or anything actually licensed, but is just people helping you stretch. Introductory assessment with an expert "flexologist" is $59 for 50 min, after which point I see no prices listed anywhere. I'm trying to think of any reason someone would ever use this. If you are healthy enough to stretch out yourself, you would. If you aren't, you're either at a physical therapist or a sports medicine place (or a combination of the two) and you're working with someone with a state license anyway. Oh, and your insurance covers it then. Right, that too. I just want to relax? I'm getting a loving massage. https://www.stretchlab.com/ ^^^ These folks.
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Gaius Marius posted:Why the gently caress am I spending $23 on left Not all of us are natural ambi-turners!
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withak posted:Why would you have Netflix and Uber in the same budget category? they both have apps, obviously it is very normal to spend $568/month on your mobile telephone ($205 phone bill not included)
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Organza Quiz posted:Speaking of rich people nonsense, I got to stay in a fancy hotel last year for work and they had a spa menu that I just had to save a screencap of out of sheer disbelief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YdqFPbSpc
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I'm the $200 phone bill,or maybe I'm the fixed/predictable monthly spend on Ubers.
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Sundae posted:While not as bad as that rich-people spa, the town I used to live in has a place called "StretchLab" which is not a massage place or a physical therapist or anything actually licensed, but is just people helping you stretch. Introductory assessment with an expert "flexologist" is $59 for 50 min, after which point I see no prices listed anywhere.
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They probably bucket Uber rides and Uber eats in one category.
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Gaius Marius posted:Why the gently caress am I spending $23 on left furthermore, why is left on the right
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Sundae posted:While not as bad as that rich-people spa, the town I used to live in has a place called "StretchLab" which is not a massage place or a physical therapist or anything actually licensed, but is just people helping you stretch. Introductory assessment with an expert "flexologist" is $59 for 50 min, after which point I see no prices listed anywhere. Because people don’t know how to stretch effectively or safely, and feel that such a place is a better way to learn than by googling? (Massage and stretching are almost entirely unrelated, I’m not sure what you’re saying there.) Also, at least up here, $59 for 50 minutes is a lot cheaper than working with a physio, and not everyone who would benefit from stretching (a very commonly recommended activity, if not also intervention, for the elderly) has insurance that covers PT in the first place. As far as I know from quickly asking a physiotherapist and a PT assistant, nobody goes to a PT clinic to get advice on stretching unless they have an acute condition or are seeing them for another reason already. This thread has a darkly hilarious habit of posts that are basically “I don’t immediately see how this could be useful/desireable to someone because it does not apply to me, and I will not engage curiously with it, and it costs money—FIFTY NINE DOLLARS—so it must be a sign of someone making a stupid financial decision”.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:furthermore, why is left on the right
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Splicer posted:First past the post elections 
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Admiralty Flag posted:Tag yourself. I'm the $0 spent on food & drink. They've got food. The $23 for "Left" is just shorthand for None pizza, left beef
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Guy Axlerod posted:They probably bucket Uber rides and Uber eats in one category. Or it is literally an advertisement for a budgeting app that is doing the same trick as those "can you save the princess in 3 moves???" ads for lovely mobile games. Subjunctive posted:Because people don’t know how to stretch effectively or safely, and feel that such a place is a better way to learn than by googling? (Massage and stretching are almost entirely unrelated, I’m not sure what you’re saying there.) Yeah, as someone who spends a fair amount of cash on gym/trainers/various other physical fitness-related expenses, throwing down $60 for an hour-long assisted stretching session seems perfectly fine. It's certainly a luxury expense, but probably less BWM than spending the same amount on a piece of fast fashion.
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Splicer posted:First past the post elections Oof
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Stretching is probably more useful than massage for a lot of musculoskeletal issues.
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Splicer posted:First past the post elections 
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I tried that whole "search for . turns up weird poo poo on YouTube " thing and it turned up an awful lot of "yoga" videos that involved a lot of stretching while wearing not very much clothing and it was completely free. Stretching is the new avocado toast, get it together millennials!
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