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Quote: onenickelmiracleCringe. Sex dolls no way. Sex is a 2 player game, playing the computer is too easy and gets boring.
I'd buy one of those RealDolls in a second if I could afford it.
I'd buy a bar if I could afford it.
Don't think I'd buy a bordello or any of its "equipment", even if I could afford it.
But just maybe ...
Perhaps in the future they'll be comped by the casinos: use your comp, have a romp.
So maybe on a solo trip to Sin City, I'll be inclined to indulge, to do the nasty.
Fortified with newly legal recreational marijuana, my inhibitions could melt away like a New Years resolution.
I wonder if I'd order one up from room service, like a plate of bacon and eggs?
It wouldn't be "cheating," so I could grind away with a clear conscience, couldn't I?
I can see how many single, lonely men would enjoy having a robotic sex doll.
Why not?
Beats masturbating.
Quote: MrV
I can see how many single, lonely men would enjoy having a robotic sex doll.
Hell, I'm married and I would enjoy a robotic sex doll.
Give her an incentive.
Tatoo the picture of a hundred dollar bill on your johnson, and tell her:
"Next time you want to blow a hundred bucks ..."
Quote: MrVYou've got to work on training your wife.
Give her an incentive.
Tatoo the picture of a hundred dollar bill on your johnson, and tell her:
"Next time you want to blow a hundred bucks ..."
Knowing my wife, she would just say, "Put it towards the mortgage..."
...then I'd get arrested for exposing myself at the bank.
Quote: MrVSo maybe on a solo trip to Sin City, I'll be inclined to indulge, to do the nasty.
You can even have it hide under the bed, and it won't be that actual dead hooker under the bed everyone mentions.
Unless there's already a dead hooker under the bed.
Quote: djatc
I finished the two books I had available on the Puntland digital hawal, dahabshiil, intercepts. I've not a third one waiting at the library for me tomorrow, but right now I am shifting to Razor Girl by Carl Hiassen. Much more interesting and as usual very off beat.Quote: FleaStiffQuote: FleaStiff
Everyone thinks terrorists have to be massive to win, they don't. These uneducated brainwashed teenage suicide bombers are effective, that is all that counts. Its like the Jewish Lobby... they are effective in American elections and don't have to have massive numbers, just enough to tip the scales.
And its not really religion. Most of the yacht hijacking dhows were Islamic but some of them were Jewish financed. The NSA traced the hijacking coordination and ransom negotiations to Jews not Arabs.
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Quote: BBB
I realize you read an enormous amount of stuff on a large range of topics, but I think you need to either back that up with credible cites or retract it.
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Its a heat wave here and I can barely pump enough blood to cool myself much less stay alert and concentrate but I am indeed wading thru material on frankincense and myrrh (originally sourced to Punt now known at Puntland), as area of Somalia well known for hostage taking. Fading in and out of consciousness with this heat and my ticker doing constant battle, I would much rather be doing just about anything else but I do want everyone to know that I will eventually find the reference to NSA intercepts that traced the finances of one hijacking syndicate to Jews not Arabs.
Let's say I have a credit card where the statement is sent out on the 1st of the month. The payment is due on the 20th. I pay the card in full on the 15th, but I make additional charges on the 16th and 18th. Both charges clear by the 20th, but I don't make an additional payment towards them before the 20th.
Will I pay interest on the charges made on the 16th and 18th once the 20th hits?
Quote: TigerWuHere's maybe a dumb question because for some reason I can't wrap my head around how credit cards work:
Let's say I have a credit card where the statement is sent out on the 1st of the month. The payment is due on the 20th. I pay the card in full on the 15th, but I make additional charges on the 16th and 18th. Both charges clear by the 20th, but I don't make an additional payment towards them before the 20th.
Will I pay interest on the charges made on the 16th and 18th once the 20th hits?
Not if you paid off the previous balance in full... they are part of the next billing cycle and will be due the 20th of the following month.
Quote: TigerWuHere's maybe a dumb question because for some reason I can't wrap my head around how credit cards work:
Let's say I have a credit card where the statement is sent out on the 1st of the month. The payment is due on the 20th. I pay the card in full on the 15th, but I make additional charges on the 16th and 18th. Both charges clear by the 20th, but I don't make an additional payment towards them before the 20th.
Will I pay interest on the charges made on the 16th and 18th once the 20th hits?
It depends on the card, and the contract you sign. Some cards charge interest from day 1 of all charges (a fee of the lousy cards). Others charge day 1 on cash advances, but have a grace period on charges. Charges generally don't accrue interest until the cutoff date has passed and they weren't paid in full. Which is the general answer to your question; interest starts and accrues by statement period.
However, if you carry a balance, the amount of charges leftover sometimes revert to the initial purchase date; others begin accruing interest the day they aren't paid in full.
Also, cards have different ways of charging off amounts of less than the full balance paid. Most pay off oldest debts first (which allow the new charges to start accruing interest). Some cards will allow you to call and have your payment applied to new charges or particular charges first, but this is increasingly rare.
If you ever use your card for a cash advance, you REALLY need to know what's going on with that. Most cards charge a separate, higher interest rate, as well as no grace period, for cash. For example, my Amex charges 6.7% on purchases, with a 30 day grace period before that interest starts. But if I take a cash advanc3e, they charge 23.99%, starting the first day.
So, there is no one way to answer your question. Call the particular card and find out.
Quote: GWAEWe are currently in Atlantic City for our annual beach vacation. I have zero bankroll for gambling so I have not touched a machine other than my $40 a day free play. Anyways, I was checking ux for vultures and it appears that someone is vulturing at 1 credit per line. I will strangle said person if I see him.
Isn't that a pretty good way to burn any future offers?
Quote: GWAEWe are currently in Atlantic City for our annual beach vacation. I have zero bankroll for gambling so I have not touched a machine other than my $40 a day free play. Anyways, I was checking ux for vultures and it appears that someone is vulturing at 1 credit per line. I will strangle said person if I see him.
Thanks for the laugh. I'll just think of your last sentence today whenever I need a good chuckle.
Quote: billryanIsn't that a pretty good way to burn any future offers?
Years ago I never had a problem just ripping off the free play whenever I had it and played whenever I wanted. Nowadays it seems they don't like that very much anymore at some Casinos. You have to be more careful now and give them some play or you run the risk of getting no mailed.
Tittle should beQuote: GWAEWe are currently in Atlantic City for our annual beach vacation. I have zero bankroll for gambling so I have not touched a machine other than my $40 a day free play. Anyways, I was checking ux for vultures and it appears that someone is vulturing at 1 credit per line. I will strangle said person if I see him.
Jonesing in AC with GWAE.
NJ must be like Florida: illegal to sell plasma. Ain't it the pits.Quote: GWAE. I have zero bankroll for gambling . . . .
I can spot them 100 ft away. Any dark skinned(olive colored?) female with a kid is going to approach me and ask for money with some sob story(I'm out of gas and my child is sick or hungry).
After they strikeout or succeed, they will get into an old BMW or Benz and the driver drives away.
Isn't this a con and considered fraud?
Where is child welfare?
It's really starting to piss me off.
My son is in a business where he deals with Gypsies a lot, and he is quite clear when he tells me to watch them like a hawk and never turn your back, the women will steal whatever they can.
Meanwhile, the guys sit around and don't do much of anything.
Unfortunately it is not the kind of pink you all are thinking
Yes, its a con. Cops got enough to do with crimes that involve guns and knives. The little brats are not endangered any more than the brats that are in cars getting gas or cars with shoppers.Quote: AxelWolfIsn't this a con and considered fraud?
Where is child welfare?
They are bred for crime and schooled in crime. Gypsies use nick names because they go thru identities real fast. Shoplifting, counterfeit money, begging, its a life style. Men tend to work the bigger cons: insurance scams, teams of shoplifters, premises liability lawsuits, credit cards, etc.
By the way, it is very profitable. Doesn't matter how many say no, its how many say yes.
You are talking to a guy who lived downtown near the queen of hearts motel, Carson and 11th, in the Naked City and went to the hardhat bar.Quote: billryanThe real issue here is Axel shopping at Walmart. How Gauche.
I actually never stepped foot in Walmart until I meet my GF, she likes to save money and use coupons. Their one-stop shopping, low-cost, price matching and great return policy has me hooked.
I think you are going a bit far with the "Holier Than Thou" attitudes. I just said it was pissing me off they hassle me and my GF. A simple no before they start talking doesn't seem to work. They just have to make sure I hear their sob story. And I'm trapped when I'm standing there watching my GF pump gas or load the groceries (-; Now I have to sit there and see the sad face of a little girl as her mommy tries to con me. I keep thinking, damn it's too hot for that poor child out here. I going to have to start keeping some candy in the car to give to the little kids(That didn't sound good).Quote: monet0412Here we go again on this site with "Holier Than Thou" attitudes. Sometimes I am with someone who looks down on the Pan Handlers. I tell them... Hey everyone has to have a job. Sorta like a thief calling a murderer a bad person. How can you kill someone... that's wrong man!? The best are the people who work jobs and raise families go to church every Sunday and Wednesday and look like this model citizen. Meanwhile they are wrapped up in some sort of embezzlement, sleeping with the neighbors wife, thinking all sorts of unclean thoughts... etc etc. However they love to point the finger at some other person doing wrong in broad daylight. Some Gypsy scamming at Walmart is no different than some hooker hooking in the Casino or some Stripper Stripping at the Strip Club. This sort of behavior has only been legal or acceptable in the last 75 years or so. Heck they used to stone people for such things or cut hands off if you got caught stealing. Don't be so upset because we as a people or society have bred this type of behavior and allow it on our TVs, movies and or every day lifestyles. Trust me, I am just as bad or worse than any of these people and I know it. Were all in trouble when we have to face the man after dying!
Our local WalMart had a sign stating they no longer price match.Quote: AxelWolfYou are talking to a guy who lived downtown near the queen of hearts motel, Carson and 11th, in the Naked City and went to the hardhat bar.
I actually never stepped foot in Walmart until I meet my GF, she likes to save money and use coupons. Their one-stop shopping, low-cost, price matching and great return policy has me hooked.
Quote: AxelWolf. They just have to make sure I hear their sob story. And I'm trapped when I'm standing there ... [/q
No, you're not "trapped" at all!
As soon as you realize what's going on interrupt the scammer mid-spiel and say "I'm not interested," then turn your back on the unwanted interloper.
Extra points if you can punctuate your verbal rejection with a loud bit of flatulence immediately thereafter."What, me worry?"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40589631
Quote:A Texas man who found himself trapped inside a cash machine slipped "help me" notes through the receipt slot.
The man, who police say was working on a renovation of the bank, left his phone in his vehicle before getting stuck in the drive-thru ATM's vault.
The unnamed workman was freed after shouting to ATM users, who continued withdrawing cash throughout his ordeal on Wednesday in Corpus Christi.
Police thought it a hoax before kicking in a door to withdraw him.
What kind of ATM vault has a door that can be kicked down?
Just say, "I know you've got the money you old bag!"Quote: GWAEIt is so annoying to hear people say they are on a fixed income when on medicare. Wtf, my income is fixed too. It's not like I can go to my boss each month and ask for more money because I have bills. As a matter of fact, people on medicare have gotten more raises in the last 5 years than I have.
Quote: GWAEIt is so annoying to hear people say they are on a fixed income when on medicare. Wtf, my income is fixed too. It's not like I can go to my boss each month and ask for more money because I have bills. As a matter of fact, people on medicare have gotten more raises in the last 5 years than I have.
Medicare is not income, so I think you mean Social Security.
It is possible to be on fixed income, and not be getting much from SS. In fact it is possible to see your pension vanish altogether.
Quote: GWAEIt's not like I can go to my boss each month and ask for more money because I have bills. As a matter of fact, people on medicare have gotten more raises in the last 5 years than I have.
Haha... no kidding. I've had one raise in almost 6 years that was basically just a COLA increase, that I had to ask for to get. If you figure in inflation, I'm pretty sure I'm making less money now than when I started working here.
Quote: TigerWuHaha... no kidding. I've had one raise in almost 6 years that was basically just a COLA increase, that I had to ask for to get. If you figure in inflation, I'm pretty sure I'm making less money now than when I started working here.
Unlike a seventy year old, you can change your income by switching jobs or just by delivering pizzas or driving for uber a few hours a week. Most elderly don't have those options. It sucks you haven't gotten a raise but no one is forcing you to stay there.
Quote: GWAEIt is so annoying to hear people say they are on a fixed income when on medicare. Wtf, my income is fixed too. It's not like I can go to my boss each month and ask for more money because I have bills. As a matter of fact, people on medicare have gotten more raises in the last 5 years than I have.
I think you're conflating two problems here. Medical costs have gone up more than 3x the cost of living in the last 10 years, so yeah, the fixed-income crowd is seeing their money power diminish. If you include the assumption that they're all getting older and probably having to spend more of their money overall on health issues, the shrinkage has to be alarming.
A separate but even nastier problem is that, since the mid-70's, the buying power of the average salary (not even counting the lagging minimum wage) has steadily become less, until now it takes 2.5 jobs to equal what 1 ft job could provide.
My dad, in the late 60s-mid 70s, was a salesman on commission. His wages totaled from 55-65k/yr. We had a family of 6, mom never had to work, owned a large house, a lake cottage, 2 cars, a boat, could afford vacations, camps, all the little extras, as well as having healthy savings accounts, and they never bought "on time" except a mortgage in the house.
Now? A lot of people are lucky to find a job at that wage, and that was over 40 years ago, almost 50, and yet the cost of all the rest has gone waaaay up. The credit trap, where people DO try to live like that, depresses their options forever, or at least until they can get ahead of it one way or another.
This could easily turn into a super-long post so I'll stop there.
I don't know the percentile, but i would guess he would have been in the top 5-7% of wage earners.
Quote: HunterhillThat was a very good job your dad had.
I don't know the percentile, but i would guess he would have been in the top 5-7% of wage earners.
Yeah, you're right about that. He was the top - earning salesman nationwide in a Fortune 100 company most of those years. I would guess top 15% or so, though.
His commission was only .25-.50% per contract, but the contracts were multi-year worth millions each, so while he earned it, he was definitely making it, too.
Quote: billryanIt sucks you haven't gotten a raise but no one is forcing you to stay there.
I know. My job is super-duper easy and laid-back, though, so I shouldn't be complaining. Also, the 401k benefits here are awesome. And I actually get some decent paid vacation time which I know a lot of people don't (at least in America).
The only issue if I want a new job is I'd have to go back to school or something to learn a new trade. There are almost no jobs where I live that utilize my current skill set and training.
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This could easily turn into a super-long post so I'll stop there.
Pah. Let 'er rip, it feels good to get it out =)
Count me as a multi-jobber. I've got three, neither of which include the "I'm a dad" or the race car, both of which are the REAL jobs lol. But, man... you almost have to. Without it,... ah hell. I ain't even going there. I don't want to remember what that was like.
You are nearly forced into a pre-arranged life. You almost HAVE to buy on credit, almost HAVE to have a life partner, even if you're only interested in the basics. And I dunno about you, but I don't accept that. I should be neither slave to a wage or bound to another, but GOD DAMN it's a tough go on your own. Despite three jobs, one of which being a federal with a relatively choice benefits package, I only manage thanks to "family fortune", the fact that I live rent and mortgage free. If not for that, I'd be a three jobber just to survive. And I ain't even got no debt!
We've got and are getting f#$%ed over and out, which is why I'm interested in this social-gender weirdness going on now. If these otherkins gain traction, I'm changing my status to "squirrel" and living in the woods wherever the hell I want.
Not the exact revolution I was looking for, but any port in a storm, ya know?
Quote: FacePah. Let 'er rip, it feels good to get it out =)
Count me as a multi-jobber. I've got three, neither of which include the "I'm a dad" or the race car, both of which are the REAL jobs lol. But, man... you almost have to. Without it,... ah hell. I ain't even going there. I don't want to remember what that was like.
You are nearly forced into a pre-arranged life. You almost HAVE to buy on credit, almost HAVE to have a life partner, even if you're only interested in the basics. And I dunno about you, but I don't accept that. I should be neither slave to a wage or bound to another, but GOD DAMN it's a tough go on your own. Despite three jobs, one of which being a federal with a relatively choice benefits package, I only manage thanks to "family fortune", the fact that I live rent and mortgage free. If not for that, I'd be a three jobber just to survive. And I ain't even got no debt!
We've got and are getting f#$%ed over and out, which is why I'm interested in this social-gender weirdness going on now. If these otherkins gain traction, I'm changing my status to "squirrel" and living in the woods wherever the hell I want.
Not the exact revolution I was looking for, but any port in a storm, ya know?
I don't know anything about your lifestyle Face but with no mortgage or rent,I would think u could survive on your federal job.
If you have kids or child support i can understand.
Unless you have a new car,the max cable package,multiple cars,eat out all the time etc...
But from your posts you don't seem like that.
Quote: FaceDespite three jobs, one of which being a federal with a relatively choice benefits package, I only manage thanks to "family fortune", the fact that I live rent and mortgage free. If not for that, I'd be a three jobber just to survive. And I ain't even got no debt!
Wait a minute... you have three jobs, one of which is federal with great benefits, no mortgage or rent, no debt, a "family fortune," and yet you're still barely able to manage? Something doesn't add up here...
Now add in student loans as a lifetime millstone, jobs that pay minimum wage in the whole town, no hope of home ownership or any hope on the horizon.. and you know why opiods are booming.Quote: FaceNot the exact revolution I was looking for, but any port in a storm, ya know?
Quote: FleaStiffyou know why opiods are booming.
actually I lay this at the feet of the drug industry
for years kids, sons/daughters/grandkids would steal drugs from those who needed them and the thing that was going around was, well, "they still need their pain meds", leading to constant supply no matter what. They blamed the doctors but pressure was put on these docs to continue to supply the meds. Some version of this is still going on.
I'm saying that ultimately the pressure to keep the supply going was coming from the drug companies. Now that the death rate is unacceptable, there's a lot of finger-pointing.
Quote: TigerWuWait a minute... you have three jobs, one of which is federal with great benefits, no mortgage or rent, no debt, a "family fortune," and yet you're still barely able to manage? Something doesn't add up here...
He talks about a race car. How much time and money does that suck down?
A friend of mine loved to fish. At 16, he owned a small boat before he owned a car. By 20 he had a much bigger boat. By 25, he owned a thirty foot boat that he worked a second job to afford. According to him, his marriage was in turmoil because he spent so much money and time on the boat. One night, he had a huge fight when his wife suggested they were in such deep trouble they couldn't afford the boat. He stormed out and spend the night getting drunk on the boat.
Went home the next day, apologized and agreed to sell the boat. What he thought of as a hobby and a diversion was a millstone. He kept the second job but cut back his hours and in a few years they bought a house. That was almost thirty years ago. today, he is fairly happily married, takes his kids out on charter boats to fish and takes a fishing trip with our friends once or twice a year.
Which means you are focusing on SUPPLY channels, not DEMAND.Quote: odiousgambitactually I lay this at the feet of the drug industry.
Do you blame the County Commissioners who paved that almost mile long stretch of road in the middle of nowhere for building a runway with tax funds?
Do you blame the drug treatment centers in palm beach county that bill ten grand a week for treating drug addicts they recruit in New England and then dump in Florida when their insurance runs out?
