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Jastiger posted:You have to adapt to the economy man, and if you do'nt have a car you're not likely to do well in any kind of professional capacity outside of major metro areas. You just aren't. You can't go in to cover that shift, you can't work OT because you don't have your own wheels, you have to bum rides to go to company functions etc. Its just not doable outside of major urban centers for most people. If there was a serious movement towards taking public transport seriously then this would be less of an issue. More people using PT would mean that services would be able to run more regularly and go to more places outside of urban centres. You wouldn't have to wait 40 minutes if you miss your bus because they would be able to afford to run every 15 or whatever. I mean I get your points; I play music (which is it's own spectacular brand of bad with money) and without a car I would seriously struggle to move my gear around, but I also recognise that most of the issues people have with PT would not be an issue in a culture where it was the norm. The services would be better funded, able to cover more areas, there would be less traffic on the roads and people would probably be more accepting of you being ten minutes late because they get on the bus same as you do and it happens sometimes. There's no reason to think that if PT was the majority form of transport it would still be clunky greyhounds and trains only on the hour.
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egoslicer posted:http://www.buzzfeed.com/sapna/how-to-run-out-of-cash-while-owning-half-of-american-apparel The AA guy is notoriously scummy. Most famously jacked off several times in front of a reporter during interviews and has multiple sexual harassment cases against him. No wonder they won't let him near the money anymore.
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OldMemes posted:Then they all put the money they made doing music in offshore tax havens, so the UK government didn't get a penny back! While everything you said is true so is the dole-artists thing. I know at least four or five in my small town alone who openly spent the eighties claiming while working on their art and music. Yes everyone hated them, no they didn't give a poo poo because hey free dope money. Nearly everyone else in our pit town was on the dole at the same time anyway. There was another arts funding initiative in the mid-Thatcher years which basically promised a grand no string attached to anyone with a business proposal. A lot of musicians got their start from that, some you'd recognise like The Specials.
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Speaking as someone who works in libraries and information management, albeit as an unqualified member of staff, STAY THE gently caress AWAY. It's a dead man's boots industry and rapidly sinking under the weight of cutbacks in a lot of places. Also in the middle of a long transitional period wherein everyone tries to work out what will happen when the core of elderly readers finally dies off, and then what services we will need to be providing to remain on top of the ensuing pile of rubble. I've moved over into corporate records management thanks to an old manager poaching me, it's a bit more stable but gently caress me is it boring.
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pathetic little tramp posted:It is everything I thought it would be and more I think the best option for that poor innocent soul is either joining the armed services or suicide. Either way they are not in a position to make decisions greater than what to eat for dinner at any point in the near future. Some people are just too sensitive to function on their own in society. I once had two customers come into my library asking for assistance scanning their passports to send to an incredibly sketchy looking financial company via email. Apparently they were offering incredible returns on your initial investment, without ever explaining how or why. They had wired hundreds of pounds each to an address somewhere in China, and their 'account' said they were now worth thousands and doubling weekly! To get their money out they just needed to send scans of their passport, bank and national insurance details and two forms of photo ID... I spent a long time trying to persuade them it was absolutely a scam but they just weren't able to cope with the idea. Apparently this was the third or fourth time they'd gone through this process with different companies and had never got any money back from it. In the end I refused to scan it and put them in touch with the local credit support agency but loving hell how do these people make it through life? I felt so bad not being able to help them more.
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SkunkDuster posted:Is joining the military considered to be the second to last resort for people who have hit rock bottom and have nowhere else to go? If more than about 10% of the stories from the GiP Idiots thread are true, yes. I meant it more in the sense of never having to make a decision about their own lives again.
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I feel like random toddler posting could only improve the overall standard of the forums. We should allow a certain percentage of toddler posts; perhaps offering Slowmo financial advice, E/N relationships, TCC life advice etc.
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Mantle posted:Lol is this real? What is the story behind it? E/N poster removed their partial hymen with a pair of scissors. Supplied MS Paint illustrations to demonstrate.
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Honestly didn't think it would get that kind of reaction, I was around for GE Cafe so might have a different bar for horrendous medical confessions in E/N. It really wasn't that bad the way she phrased it, but apologies for the derail. My friend and bandmate is probably a thread candidate. He inherited 20 grand GBP and blew threw most of it in a year staying at hotels and drinking. He'd go out of town for dinner, spend a couple of hundred a night on food and beer and then book a hotel because he didn't fancy getting the train home. At least he didn't go into debt and had fun, but he could have put it to much better use.
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I donated a bit of spare change during the Japanese Tsunami and haven't heard a peep since apart from a letter about a week afterwards thanking me for donating. Don't know what the difference is there; I was thinking maybe I'm too poor to solicit but there's clearly no such thing.
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Barry posted:Hey Switchback how about you start your own thread before this gets excessively derailed. Bankruptcy or suicide, and I'm not convinced she could afford the bullet right now. $400,000 since March! How do you even manage that?
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pig slut lisa posted:Didn't some goon have a goldmined thread like 4 years (maybe more, I dunno) about building a houseboat himself and moving onto it? There was some lunatic in GBS who built a two-story borg cube on a raft thing with a group of friends a few years back. I want to say they were Scandinavian but could be wrong. He'd done some really nice work on it.
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Dear financial advice column, we earn ₤190,000 a year and spunk it up the wall. Please advise.quote:By most measures Adam and Megan Brownson would be considered very affluent. We own ₤1 million in property and somehow have had to put ₤8,000 onto a credit card to pay for our lifestyles. quote:Having both been privately educated themselves, Adam and Megan are keen for the girls to have the same experience, and have signed them up to two private primary schools nearby. Hm quote:Their dilemma is how to fund the cost of the girls’ education without sacrificing their lifestyle. candlebudget.jpg quote:Megan, who is currently on maternity leave, usually works four days a week but she could increase her salary considerably if she goes back to work full time. I would say do tha quote:With two small children she’s reluctant to do this. Nevermind quote:The couple could, alternatively, sell their buy-to-let to pay the school fees I would say do th quote:but they don't want to miss out if the property rockets in value in the future. They also see it as a long-term nest egg to boost their pension. Of course you don't. Good job the housing bubble only happened that one time! quote:They only have a few hundred pounds in cash savings and have a very limited knowledge of investment - but are willing to take on some risk. You don't say.
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Golluk posted:Meh, I suppose I got lucky then. I dabbled in mining for a few days years ago when they were about 7 bucks a coin. Realized at best I was going to make 30 bucks a month, but would cost me 7 bucks to withdraw, and be a pita. So I forgot about it and my 6/10th of a coin. There was a brief period where it was possible to squeak out a bit of cash if you'd been an early adopter and not sunk too much in between buying out. Genuine congratulations on being one of the lucky ones.
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VitalSigns posted:No, but if this becomes my own bad with money story, I will continue to post for your schadenfreude. Please break up with your sucker boyfriend before he trades your good cow for a packet of magic beans, thanks.
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, but not before he paid $180 for the right to convince other people to pay $180 (plus $50/month) to sell the scam to yet other people 
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Monday_ posted:I live paycheck to paycheck, have no savings whatsoever, a 401k with about 3 grand in it that I don't contribute to anymore, and I'll have to take out a cash advance from my credit card just to pay my rent this month. Welcome home, friend.
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blugu64 posted:I want to know more about that Porsche Fish. That would probably be Bluefin Tuna. There is an auction for the first catch of the season and that can go into 7 figure prices. In US Dollars, not yen.
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