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Papa John Misty posted:To be fair to her, her live-in boyfriend of 3 years disappeared while she was out of town so maybe freaking out and trying to find him is reasonable Not an empty quote. Suspicious Lump, if that's what you took away from the story then I think you've got some issues that need examining. Weatherman fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Aug 23, 2017 |
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Yeah that's much more likely than "they're both expat teacher types and their paths crossed again in their relatively small field"  They were living together in a third country and all that
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blackmet posted:Did the house just flood from water (not covered), or was the initial cause due to wind damage (often covered)? Regardless of the actual sequence of events, it is always (until a judge forces them to admit otherwise) the former, because that allows the insurance companies to foist the flood claims on to the federal government.
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Put TB on ignore for fucks sake. Hell, put me on ignore too if it makes you feel better. Just stop responding to them so this thread (too) stops getting clogged up with slap fights.
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H110Hawk posted:Content: Patent troll agrees to pay the person they sued to allow them to drop the case: https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2017/08/30/the-best-defense-is-attack-and-that-now-includes-when-fighting-patent-trolls/ You should post that in the Schadenfreude thread. That's weapons-grade schadenfreude that I can shoot directly into my veins.
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potatoducks posted:I laughed. Reported for selfposting  
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I think you need to ask the buttcoin thread in YOSPOS rather than here OP
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:This is by all estimates a pretty clear edge case so let's get back to bashing lower middle class whites spending beyond their means and "budgeting" revolving around horse equity. Sure! How about you go and replace your "sup guys, i've diversified into craptocurrency" selfpost with "Sorry, didn't mean to derail!" and then perhaps we can drop it. Because as it is, you're just pulling a "I've had the last word so now it's time for you all to stop dunking on me for owning buttcoin, can we please think about the point of this thread now?"
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I should have guessed. No, you should have googled 
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Fil5000 posted:I love the idea of someone's failed dreams involving two hours a week of jumping over a quarter horse
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ohgodwhat posted:$100k is a massive amount of money now? Congratulations, your  worked
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Uhh actually it's called a "Smart Buy" and at least one goon has decided it's a good idea
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:There's a really great smart buy thread here, but I'm strictly a phone poster these days so hopefully the post under this is someone linking it. Under but one! here ya go sailor I don't know which part is funnier: how he wanted to whip goons into a righteous fury to help him get the story in the media, or how it only took six minutes after his post for someone to look at his contract and realize he was a loving moron who didn't read what he was signing. Weatherman fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Moneyball posted:Self-posting here, What happens when one reports a mod in their own forum? Let's find out
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Good lord, if you've all got hardons for buttcoin then there's a perfectly fine gibbis thread you can all circlejerk in. Touching buttcoin is inherently BWM and anyone saying "gee I wish I'd bought some/gee I guess I should buy some" automatically qualifies for being posted in this thread but from the looks of it that would spawn pages and pages of no-content, so can Leon Trotsky just find another rich vein to tap or someone post about beanie babies or something?
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brugroffil posted:Heel toe motherfucker What? No, use the handbrake.
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FrozenVent posted:Where do you live that only the "lower classes" lease cars? Bhodi posted:How can one man be so consistently wrong, about everything, all the time? Krispy Wafer posted:I have no idea how prevalent those were, but they existed and totally preyed on poor people and I just agreed with John Smith kill me now.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:What's the bet his "other businesses" are MLM schemes he bought into? Fil5000 posted:I believe the part where he says he has no friends. The first would certainly lead to the second. I would also hazard the guess "craptocurrency """"""trader""""""" who tried shilling to his friends and acquaintances one too many times.
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KingSlime posted:That's for sure. It's a very snobbish and out of touch generalization. I see what you did there
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:I don't know anything about bitcoin other than I guess it is digital money that you data mine for or some poo poo and tbh I don't care how it works but how are people so sure it will crash? Autism Kroners.
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MisterOblivious posted:It used to be goon-owned but one of the buttcoin companies offered him way too much money for the site. No, that was buttcoin.org, which is now an asset of the US government 
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escalator dropdown posted:Dude, not the preferred nomenclature. Dunning-Krugerrands, please. What's the exchange rate between those and Pounds Spergling?
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Now I feel sad. Hello I am a psychic that can help you with your depression. Payments through PayPal only please.
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No Butt Stuff posted:he is middle class. hope this helps.
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hailthefish posted:Yeah, the fact "middle class" means "makes more than 90% of people in the US" is... Oh no I totally agree with you. Reddit dude is definitely not middle class, and no butt stuff was most likely trolling. I meant that posts about "is 250k middle class" or "is 100k a high income" always draw pages of angry replies.
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Seriously that isn't that much money to start out with. I had that much saved up from internships before I was out of college and I didn't do anything impressive with it. People will tell themselves anything to avoid dealing with the fact that they can't afford to go out to eat every day and buy a car that's half their salary when they make $30k. We live in the most prosperous society in human history, you can afford to sock away 10% of your salary if you have even the tiniest amount of responsibility. It's funny how in arguments like these, everyone on every side fixates on particular details and beats at them for dear life with the expectation that destroying (sorry, "DESTROYING 😡", for the youtube superstars among us) that one point will win them the argument. 34 grand might not be a huge amount of money compared to this or that, but there's also the fact that if his grandfather was able to give him that then his family was obviously not hurting for cash, so they could afford a stable lifestyle, keep him properly housed and clothed and fed and educated, etc. It's like how people go HURR BILL GATES DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE SO COLLEGE IS OBVIOUSLY FOR CUCKS WHO CAN'T and miss the same point: It's much easier when you have parents who can afford to further your interests and connect you with those who have power. And don't forget how "the most prosperous society in human history" doesn't mean "every person in that society has a full belly and a good education and hope for the future". Seriously Octavius that's a pretty glaring oversight. You'd have to be fairly stupid or sociopathic to think "welp, I guess Joe Sixthofeightkids from Detroit has no one to blame but himself for not being able to find a job that pays more than 110% of his living expenses", especially when your society is furiously masturbating itself dry as it removes more and more of its already threadbare safety net. Hey Octavius, tell us more about your living situation growing up. Did you ever go to school hungry because your parents couldn't afford to feed you? Was your school in an underfunded district in a town with significant social problems, so that most of your day was spent getting through the day rather than learning? Who supported you when you were doing those internships? Who paid for your living expenses and education? What did you think you would do if you lost your job--depend on family or hit the streets? Off on a tangent but I love how the "well I got where I was entirely on my own two feet and through absolutely no help at all from anyone else" crowd make such a hue and cry when you suggest setting the inheritance tax rate at 100%. I mean, come on, you wouldn't want anyone else getting something for nothing, would you? Why should someone get hundreds of thousands of dollars in welfare just because they happened to be born to someone with money? That'll just encourage them to become lazy and shiftless.
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Panfilo posted:Good point. My brother and I received some inheritances, and I thought very carefully what I should do with the money. I told my brother that it was his money and he was free to do whatever he wanted with it, but try to use it on something he would still have 10 years from now, be it a reliable vehicle, contributing toward the down payment of a house, or being free of some outstanding debt X years sooner. I don't see what this has to do with what I was saying except that we both had the word "inheritance" in our posts.
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Cicero posted:13k/month guy is WAY less well off, in terms of lifestyle, than most goons here are acting. This'll be good. Cicero posted:
So far, we're in agreement. Cicero posted:
Since when do we make this kind of comparison when it comes to household income? Cicero posted:
I'd like to know your own situation so that I can try to grasp your perspective. Dude makes around 150k a year and his kids are all in private schools and his wife doesn't have to work and they are saving for retirement and they have a house and at least one reliable car. He's doing superbly compared to a significant portion of the US population. Cicero posted:
Forgive me if I don't shed any tears for him on this point. I'm sure that if he's making 150k a year now then he'll be on significantly more than that 10 or 20 years from now and these years of 401k-induced poverty will be a blessedly forgotten memory. Cicero posted:A single person making 50k/year living with roommates probably has a roughly equivalent lifestyle in terms of financial security, space, spending money, etc. Are you serious. You think a single person making 50k and having to live with roommates is going to be as satisfied with their lifestyle as a father living in his own house with his own (plus another) family. Have you shared a house as an adult? How long would you keep doing it for? Cicero posted:Of course many families get by on way, way less, so he's certainly privileged compared to them. Not "many", "most". Most families get by, or struggle to get by, on way way less. Dude has privilege and financial security coming out the wazoo and still he thinks "poo poo I've only got enough for two decent hobbies after the entirety of my needs and my families needs and our future needs are taken care of. Woe is me!" I'll get my tiny violin out of its case. Now you might be thinking "but hell, Weatherman, you're just a butthurt socialist snowflake who wants to tax me out of house and home just because you aren't making enough to upgrade to the latest iPhone every three months" and you'd be right on two of those five points, but the thing is, it's not people like you or Welloff McBuckFifty who should be paying more taxes, necessarily—it's the crowd making half a million or more in investment income and then reading that HENRY cartoon in their complimentary copy of the New York Times and thinking "finally, an artist who gets us and our plight!" We might sit here and argue about what six-figure number stating with 1 makes you middle class or upper class or whatnot until the cows come home, but the ones who really need to start paying their fair share for drawing on the benefits of a stable, educated, and healthy (well, in the meantime, anyway) society are those for whom 100k is a rounding error and "middle class" means "can't afford to buy a second yacht to keep in my third marina this year". After all, if 150k is an acceptable income for a family, they should be able to deal with tax rates dropping their own from 10 million to 2 million. As an extreme example. Weatherman fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:Do you think millionaires who live like middle class people are middle class? Because they exist. Warren Buffett being a prime example. Oh no, his salary is only 100k and he lives in a modest house in Omaha! Hell, my boss earns more and lives bigger than that, so he must be better off!  There's a big difference between living a middle-class existence because you choose to (and because you and your children and their children will be able to do the same for several hundred years) and living a middle-class existence because you've worked seventy hours a week and forgone every single minor luxury for your entire adult life so that your kids have the chance to continue doing so.
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jjack229 posted:Not the point of the article, but : Yeah, I noticed that too and wondered how the gently caress they could possibly guarantee* those kinds of returns. * Guarantee limited to first 0.0001% of investment and does not cover events such as #include dictionary.txt
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"What if." What if I were taking a shower, and I slipped on a bar of soap?
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You are living in an area where it is prohibitive to save 20% for a down payment for a house. Do you: (a) Buy a house for 1% or 5% down (b) Give up on the idea of buying a house there, and continue to rent (c) Move to an area where you could save 20% for a down payment, and buy a house there instead inb4 HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST PEOPLE SHOULD SACRIFICE ONE THING THEY WANT IN ORDER TO GET ANOTHER THING THEY WANT 
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Foma posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3839928&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post478189404 I would pay  a year to post here since the entertainment and research value I get is worth at least that. I'm not going to just buy an avatar every year though because I want to make sure I'm not just pissing money away while the forums continue to run at a loss.jpg. If Lowtax moves to a yearly subscription model for all users, I'll sign up today. Also this post is a prime example of why taxes are needed instead of depending on charity to provide the needful.
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:Stop volunteering ways for other people to spend money, fuckos TENBUX CURES NUKES CURE NORKS
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rotaryfun posted:It always amuses me when people talk about privilege. They talk like these are things that were handed out. As if people of "privilege" didn't work for the things they have. Strive hard in school or work their way up from an entry level position to ensure a level of comfort later in life. As if they didn't set themselves up for success. As if they don't work an extra job to maintain their lifestyle choices when they and their partner decide to stay home with the kids instead of work. Hoo boy. If you're trolling then you are hitting all the right notes spot-on. Bravo, brave shitposter 
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rotaryfun posted:I am a white male who is the son of a retired enlisted navy man and stay at home mother. Life included moving every 3 years to military bases in Corpus Christi TX, Pensacola FL, Norfolk VA, and Annapolis MD (this place is definitely a place of privilege). Eh, you blew your load with this one, too early IMHO. 6/10 would put straight on ignore list next time
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Krispy Wafer posted:Well yeah, I think the unemployment rate for White men has been well below the national rates for awhile. And there's always exceptions (it took me 4 months to find a job this year). But for the most part if you're straight, White, and male you don't have a whole lot of excuses. Why do you keep writing white men with a capital W?
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Elephanthead posted:It is the high taxes costing the US jobs not gross incompetence of upper management. It would be hilarious though if the mine was abandoned because no one had an address for it. You have wild emus in the US now? Or was this just a MAGA shitpost?
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