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I had a friend from highschool who got really into doTERRA and smelled like oils all the time. But what's really sad is her baby got sick and she tried to completely fix him with oils. The baby lived but ended up having to go to the hospital and pretty nearly died. I think scams and grifts like this should be a crime. I thought Cutco was annoying but I've heard their knives are ok and don't kill babies. Uh, don't kill babies accidentally? Maybe that's a bad example because you could hypothetically kill babies with a good knife. Okay, I've heard Kirby vaccuums are good but just overpriced, and you can't kill---poo poo. Okay, let's set that aside for a second. doTERRA is gross and makes people think they're doctors. Also lularoe is like marked up Wal-Mart grade leggings but with loot box characteristics?
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Pick posted:Cutco was annoying but I've heard their knives are ok and don't kill babies. I think you're either grossly underestimating the cutting power of Cutco knives, or greatly overestimating the tensile strength of babies.
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Jan 11, 2020 22:57
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lmao, Reform, AL. Is that Doobies wife?
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Jan 11, 2020 22:59
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On Becoming A God in Central Florida is really good
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Jan 11, 2020 23:00
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make the baby smell good and it will live
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Jan 11, 2020 23:06
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my father got roped into two separate MLMs. one selling "high end" christmas decorations and one that was selling "personal alarm systems" (little electric boxes that made a loud noise). he bragged to me once that the MLM people called him a "sales godzilla" and he was going to make a fortune. all i could think was how dumb he sounded and he was definitely being scammed. i didn't tell my father my opinion because i was 10 years old at the time and he didnt like smart-aleck talk back from kids my father is an idiot
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Someone I went to school with is married to this lady deeply marred in what I can only assume is some sort of life coaching MLM. Every month or so I see her posting about how her marriage was failing and they were stressing out over CC debt but she learned to love herself and contribute to the household with this miracle life coaching program and you can too (pretend I put clapping emojis in between each of those last words to picture how she writes it). The funniest part is though the pictures of her on exotic trips and retreats always change the message for like the past 5 years is basically identical each time, recently struggling with finances and marriage, recently turned things around with this program. So from a casual observer it looks like their marriage has been failing for 5 years straight and they’re constantly swimming in debt to fund her trips to advertise this MLM and I’m just left wondering when he’s gonna be done with it and divorce her.
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Julius CSAR posted:lmao, Reform, AL. Is that Doobies wife? It sure is
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ArbitraryC posted:Someone I went to school with is married to this lady deeply marred in what I can only assume is some sort of life coaching MLM. Every month or so I see her posting about how her marriage was failing and they were stressing out over CC debt but she learned to love herself and contribute to the household with this miracle life coaching program and you can too (pretend I put clapping emojis in between each of those last words to picture how she writes it). The funniest part is though the pictures of her on exotic trips and retreats always change the message for like the past 5 years is basically identical each time, recently struggling with finances and marriage, recently turned things around with this program. Inertia is such an incredible thing
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Jan 11, 2020 23:17
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That cbd crap don’t do poo poo for me. 
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MLMs are horrible but they have friends in really high places. (The current Secretary of Education is from the family that runs Amway, for example.) 99% of people entering in them will lose a shitload of money, at best they'll break even. For a fascinating look at the industry, check out Season One of the podcast The Dream. The whole industry preys on people with promises to get rich quickly, and when they fail it was their fault because they didn't go to all of the seminars and pay for extra training.
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:That cbd crap don’t do poo poo for me. It's a scam. Placebo to the max. Maybe if you've never smoked a weed before it works better, but probably not It's the 90s Ginseng Craze all over again
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precision posted:It's a scam. Placebo to the max. Maybe if you've never smoked a weed before it works better, but probably not Really? I thought CBD had some good parts. My grandmother takes it and it helps her fall asleep.
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roarpower posted:Really? I thought CBD had some good parts. My grandmother takes it and it helps her fall asleep. Probably has benefits and stuff, probably not harmful. But probably not as great as people think. My grandmother actually ordered some too a few months ago but she didn't like it. At the very least, cbd stuff is hideously expensive Edit: ginseng has legit health benefits too, mind you, just saying it got exaggerated to hell
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precision posted:Probably has benefits and stuff, probably not harmful. But probably not as great as people think. My grandmother actually ordered some too a few months ago but she didn't like it. ginseng was never made illegal because of Mexicans, tho
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Frankenstyle posted:I think you're either grossly underestimating the cutting power of Cutco knives, or greatly overestimating the tensile strength of babies. I think if you have a knife that you couldn't use to kill a baby if you tried, then it's not a very good knife, but I can't come up with a way of expressing that without sounding like a serial killer
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roarpower posted:ginseng was never made illegal because of Mexicans, tho Neither was weed, it was the paper and oil companies being pissed at hemp. Also racism against black musicians. But IIRC mostly the oil companies.
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Rutibex posted:my father got roped into two separate MLMs. one selling "high end" christmas decorations extra shiny going round to see your relatives on boxing day and looking down your nose at their tree's pleb baubles
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Hammerite posted:I think if you have a knife that you couldn't use to kill a baby if you tried, then it's not a very good knife, but I can't come up with a way of expressing that without sounding like a serial killer My parents have a set of Cutco knives. They could easily cut through a baby, plus they could be sharpened for free
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Hammerite posted:extra shiny shinny
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roarpower posted:My parents have a set of Cutco knives. They could easily cut through a baby, plus they could be sharpened for free Babies are not naturally very sharp
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precision posted:Neither was weed, it was the paper and oil companies being pissed at hemp. Also racism against black musicians. But IIRC mostly the oil companies. http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/how-did-marijuana-become-illegal-first-place
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Pick posted:Babies are not naturally very sharp yeah. thats why it was a good deal
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Little bit of column A, little bit of column B: quote:Many experts surmise, with substantial circumstantial evidence, that the petrochemical industry, and DuPont in particular, was the force behind the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. DuPont had invented cellophane, made with petroleum, which was about to become standard packaging for most American goods. DuPont feared competition from hemp as a fiber (the first plastics used plant oils), and competition to synthetic nylon and rayon, other cellulose based products. William Randolph Hearst, who owned most of the newspapers of the time, also owned paper mills and viewed hemp paper, which requires 75 percent less sulfides than making paper out of wood pulp and can be grown annually, as competition. The Rockefeller family, of Standard Oil, viewed hemp-sourced ethanol as competition— Henry Ford’s first Model T was made with a hemp acrylic skin, hemp upholstery and ran on hemp ethanol.
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precision posted:Neither was weed, it was the paper and oil companies being pissed at hemp. Also racism against black musicians. But IIRC mostly the oil companies. Sure... if you completely ignore the Nixon administration's role in criminalization as a way to attack "hippie" culture.
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I used to have a roommate that was apparently really into Amway. I say apparently because he just had all this Amway branded poo poo lying around, he never talked to anyone so I don't really know what his deal was. Kind of a weirdo. Week before I moved out, I caught him coming out of his bedroom with a strange large bag, that was seemingly made of very stiff clear plastic. Inside the bag was crumpled toilet paper. An insane amount of it. Like the bag was twice as large as him in volume, all of it filled with supposedly used toilet paper, that he kept in his room and I just caught him at the one moment in the year when he'd empty it. Needless to say I was quite disturbed and went back to my room and pretended it didn't happen. Don't do MLM kids
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marxismftw posted:Sure... if you completely ignore the Nixon administration's role in criminalization as a way to attack "hippie" culture. Read what I just posted. We're referring to the original criminalization. Not ignoring what Nixon did at all! 
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Why would anyone know anything about them  I did meet a magician MLM salesman though. It still makes me shudder thinking about it and the fate of my poor pedicurist who was positively charmed by him.
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I have an aunt who will buy into anything anyone even vaguely charismatic will sell her, as long as it's not mainstream science. It's pretty sad and there's nothing anyone's ever been able to do about it. I don't think she's stupid necessarily, but she's had a lot of personal trauma/tragedy that has fostered distrust in medical science and she's spent the last 20 years clinging to just about every homeopathic remedy fad that's come and gone. It's not like she doesn't also go see the doctor when she needs to, but she's really happy to pour money into this poo poo and tries to get everyone else to buy in as well. She's bought into a couple of MLMs that are now defunct, but they were very "wellness"-oriented poo poo. Nothing these scammers love more than a mark who is mentally ill or naive. It's just really disgusting.
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Yes I think they're vile.
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One of my roommates left behind some of her cutco demo set when she moved out and I loving love the kitchen shears. That is all I guess
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Hey Ladies And Gals..... ready for another Tupperware Party?!!!!! Snacks provided!!!! (one veggie tray, none crackers, Dr. Shasta liter bottle) The EsSeNtIaL OiLs poo poo is mega depressing, I know American healthcare system and long term dismissal and apathy from doctors/nurses can really gently caress a person up, I get that, but children shouldn't be getting caught in the crossfire 
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Personally I prefer the brand none crackers. It's what my grandma used to buy
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weed essential oil is great for my back
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Hardawn posted:Personally I prefer the brand none crackers. It's what my grandma used to buy Dollar Tree tier None Crackers
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More like Lame Stream Media is you ask me lol
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When I was a younger man I went to a MLM meeting. Basically they advertised 'FREE PIZZA!' and I wanted some free pizza. But before you got the pizza you had to sit through their drat spiel, some website that whenever someone bought something using your code you got a cut that I don't remember, and an hour later they started a 1 on 1 session with people interested in signing up and if you weren't interested you could gtfo. The free pizza was going to be after sign-ups and for the idiots who paid the $200 fee to join. I didn't get free pizza.
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Blackchamber posted:When I was a younger man I went to a MLM meeting. Basically they advertised 'FREE PIZZA!' and I wanted some free pizza. But before you got the pizza you had to sit through their drat spiel, some website that whenever someone bought something using your code you got a cut that I don't remember, and an hour later they started a 1 on 1 session with people interested in signing up and if you weren't interested you could gtfo. The free pizza was going to be after sign-ups and for the idiots who paid the $200 fee to join. no one got free pizza that day
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