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Zero One posted:I'm sure this will become BWM at some point: Horse Discrimination. GWM: Charging Christians to take care of their pets after the Rapture When I tried Googling it I found that some actual Christians had set up a real one after getting the idea from the original satirical site. 
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Aren't you supposed to make the sherpas bring cans of oxygen specifically so that doesn't happen though? The oxygen mask doesn't give you 21% oxygen at sea level pressure though; it's an augmentation, not a replacement. Seriously check out the Everest thread, it's like a yearly celebration of human sacrifice to the BWM Gods.
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Hummus hubris was my favorite comment in the everest thread about militant vegan couple who didn't think they even needed sherpas.
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Nail Rat posted:Hummus hubris was my favorite comment in the everest thread about Fixed the redundancy.
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blugu64 posted:They literally use a dump truck with a winch for cows. Think flatbed tow truck with dump truck bed. Which they then take to landfills in a lot of states. It is loving magical when you drill through a horse, let me tell you.
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:To be fair there is no especially practical way to remove an injured or dead horse from a trail. I have to express great appreciation for the effort someone went through to post that sign, though Depends on your definition of practical, but if its a trail far enough up in the backcountry, they use dynamite to get rid of the carcass. Apparently there is a pretty fine art to blowing up animals, too little you just turned one big mess into multiple smaller ones, and too much you blow up your trail but at least scattered the horse to the upper levels of the atmosphere.
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CitizenKain posted:Depends on your definition of practical, but if its a trail far enough up in the backcountry, they use dynamite to get rid of the carcass. Apparently there is a pretty fine art to blowing up animals, too little you just turned one big mess into multiple smaller ones, and too much you blow up your trail but at least scattered the horse to the upper levels of the atmosphere. The resulting pink mist made the sunset so beautiful.
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May 31, 2016 19:45
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Krispy Kareem posted:The resulting pink mist made the sunset so beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmnq5dBF7Y
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CitizenKain posted:Depends on your definition of practical, but if its a trail far enough up in the backcountry, they use dynamite to get rid of the carcass. Apparently there is a pretty fine art to blowing up animals, too little you just turned one big mess into multiple smaller ones, and too much you blow up your trail but at least scattered the horse to the upper levels of the atmosphere. I'll never regret paying  to join
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I know some air force guys who went on a work trip to Thailand for a couple weeks some years back. They said a local offered to let them blow up a cow with an RPG-7 for 500 USD. Blowing up dead horses is probably a pretty niche industry, but having other people pay you to blow up their dumb livestock is pretty GWM is what I'm trying to get at.
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Is anyone here familiar with Peak Prosperity? My wife has been introduced to the book Prosper! through some podcasts and is starting to get hooked in. It talks a lot about how we are at peak everything and the only way is down. On one hand it seems to focus on being financially healthy and being ready with emergency funds etc, but on the other hand the forward to their book is by the Rich Dad guy, and they seem to think that we all need to buy land and become farmers. I am thinking that going back to manual labor in my 40s would be BWM.
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Guest2553 posted:I know some air force guys who went on a work trip to Thailand for a couple weeks some years back. They said a local offered to let them blow up a cow with an RPG-7 for 500 USD. While in Cambodia, my brother was told that for $100 USD a couple ex-Khmer Rouge dudes would take him into the jungle and let him shoot a cow with an RPG. He wisely declined the offer, which was GWM because our family never had to make any ransom payments.
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SubjectVerbObject posted:Is anyone here familiar with Peak Prosperity? My wife has been introduced to the book Prosper! through some podcasts and is starting to get hooked in. It talks a lot about how we are at peak everything and the only way is down. On one hand it seems to focus on being financially healthy and being ready with emergency funds etc, but on the other hand the forward to their book is by the Rich Dad guy, and they seem to think that we all need to buy land and become farmers. I am thinking that going back to manual labor in my 40s would be BWM. Bolding mine: the Peak Prosperity site posted:Mission: Building understanding so that effective solutions can be created and promoted. That doesn't mean his stuff about financial health and emergency funds is bad, but I'd take the rest of it with a big grain of salt. Haifisch fucked around with this message at 22:39 on May 31, 2016 |
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Haifisch posted:
Yeah. I am thinking that everyone I knew that did Primerica came out of the first couple meetings talking about financial responsibility and budgets and etc, but that was the bait and the hook was not the education, but what they really were selling.
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Going back to AI chat briefly, I just got into a huge argument with my sister over the fact that her car mechanic told her to come back in 3 months to get her brake pads replaced, when she was in having her brake rotors replaced. Apparently "pads are cheap, they could have put the new ones in when reassembling everything" and "now you'll have to just pay more for extra labor" is totally crazy how dare I question the mechanic and we don't have the kind of money you do Sirotan!! Spending $20 to save $60 three months in the future is just to hard a concept to grasp I guess. Then my mom chimes in about how her premium luxury car costs premium dollars to repair and how she just "doesn't get why". This all came about while I was telling them I was gonna buy a jack, jack stands, and a creeper this week to do my brakes. My mom: "Couldn't you just take it in instead?" Meanwhile, sister's boyfriend is off buying a used car. He calls after we're done arguing and says the dealership told him if he wanted it today he had to lock in his 9% ARP rate by signing right now otherwise it would go up tomorrow. Oh and he asks my sister if he should buy the warranty, on the 10yo minivan, at 9%. ayyyyy Sirotan fucked around with this message at 23:58 on May 31, 2016 |
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BWM: having more than one car. If neither person lives near work then it's time to move.
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Haifisch posted:Bolding mine: OMG she just asked me what the current price of gold was and how we can buy it.
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cowofwar posted:BWM: having more than one car. If neither person lives near work then it's time to move. I own 3 cars one of which is an anagram of BWM and my wife walks to work. 
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cowofwar posted:BWM: having more than one car. If neither person lives near work then it's time to move. My partner has a job that's not stationary. He can be posted downtown, in Boulder, at the airport, etc. He also does security and strongly believes in not living too close to where you patrol. Living within walking distance of my work would require the purchase of an 500K house (a bit of a stretch on 85K combined income), or rental payments of 1400+ a month for a miniscule one bedroom, to live in a neighborhood I kind of hate (it's sterile, boring, pretentious, and populated by a mixture of Republicans with small children and insufferable tech and finance bros). I hate my commute, but workplaces can change. I'd rather live somewhere I like that won't cost me an arm and a leg and keep driving fuel efficient cars.
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In all fairness that comment could be interpreted as suggestion to find a job closer to where you live.
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And both are very dumb comments without qualification. Cars are fixed expenses and people with good jobs can easily afford multiple and choose a good location to live.
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Zo posted:Cars are fixed expenses Wait what 
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Fixed probably as the jump in cost from "no car" to "has a car" is bigger than "car driven rarely" to "car driven often"
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SubjectVerbObject posted:OMG she just asked me what the current price of gold was and how we can buy it.
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My car expenses feel fixed to me. I have an adequate repair budget that I rarely go over. Only cost I wouldn't consider fixed would be an engine or transmission failure which would hit the e-fund. Cross my fingers and always keep my three reliable cars well maintained. That doesn't mean its good with money of course. Just a life style decision based on ones priorities and circumstances.
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I have a motorcycle, a V8 convertible Mustang, and a Kia Rio. All paid off. Yeah, the Kia is the car I need. The rest are things I want. But I bought them with cash and I loving love them. The point is that money is a tender you exhange for various goods and services, and it's okay to buy poo poo you like. If someone wants to have a BMW for riding with his three girlfriends, that's fine. I like life, and I like my job, and I like driving to work with the pony or the bike. It's not bad with money, but yoy know what's good with life? Driving the same commute everyday, yet enjoying the roar of your engine and havig daily fun with your clutch. I don't curse in traffic, I have fun. This thread has a tendency to shun material goods and earthly joya, which is kinda funny since most people post from 1000$ entertainment gaming machines.
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Vahakyla posted:it's okay to buy poo poo you like BURN THE WITCH
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Vahakyla posted:I have a motorcycle, a V8 convertible Mustang, and a Kia Rio. All paid off. Yeah, the Kia is the car I need. The rest are things I want. But I bought them with cash and I loving love them. Nah I'd say 2/3 of the thread is pretty reasonable. It's the other 1/3 that thinks anyone with a washing machine is BWM because you can just wear your clothes into the shower everyday!
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Zo posted:Nah I'd say 2/3 of the thread is pretty reasonable. I've been spending way too much money on laundry detergent every 3 months, so thanks to this post, I can now save some extra cash. Thanks, Zo.
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Zo posted:Nah I'd say 2/3 of the thread is pretty reasonable. Hahahahahaha no one has actually said that, right?  ... Right?
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Dawncloack posted:Hahahahahaha no one has actually said that, right? You can also save on toilet paper through a little process I like to call wafflestomping.
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Breetai posted:You can also save on toilet paper through a little process I like to call wafflestomping. go on
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JohnGalt posted:go on no don't he's australian
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Cars are always going to be bwm. My wife's camry and my corolla variant are in the shop nonstop but it's cheaper to sink thousands a year into repairs than buy a new car. I think. Rust belt and city driving seems to kick the poo poo out of vehicles. And living close to transit just means you pay another hundred grand or more to walk, it's probably more expensive to do that than have a beater car to drive to parking near transit.
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It's absolutely cheaper in the long run to live near transit when you factor in insurance, cost of buying a car, annual permits, repairs, and parking costs. Plus your car is a thing you have to worry about in more ways than one which sucks. But everyone can't do it especially in America where we build suburbs in a way that makes cars necessary. Living my whole life needing a car every day and then moving to the city where I go weeks without needing to drive it showed me that cars really are the worst. I still keep mine around for rare occasions though, I'm not going to drive around town with a bike trailer like that lunatic MMM. Nail Rat fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Jun 1, 2016 |
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Vahakyla posted:I have a motorcycle, a V8 convertible Mustang, and a Kia Rio. All paid off. Yeah, the Kia is the car I need. The rest are things I want. But I bought them with cash and I loving love them. while I agree with you and am a Car Person, we can all agree that a decade-old minivan at 10% is BWM.
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SubjectVerbObject posted:OMG she just asked me what the current price of gold was and how we can buy it. 
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Wait until you have a kid who starts driving. I guess it's kind of like electronics. You get a bright shiny new thing and your kid gets the old one. I was just hoping to use the old one a bit longer.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Wait until you have a kid who starts driving. I'm not poor but there are so many better things on which to spend my money.
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