Miscellaneous Discussion Thread II
Quote: odiousgambitIt's hard for guys to get into a woman's head on this matter. They will wear makeup no matter what.
I've heard that women and makeup goes back to ancient Egypt.
Quote: AutomaticMonkeyQuote: EvenBobQuote: AZDuffman
She will be 60 next year and I guarantee she doesn't look like this when she gets up in the morning. The makeup they make today works miracles but it's very expensive. Ask a woman the first thing she would save in a catastrophe and it's always her makeup bag because it has thousands of dollars of product in it.
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Unrelated products. Someone like her does not allow herself to be photographed without professional face, hair, and wardrobe.
What a girl usually walks around with I'd estimate to be about $50 worth of warpaint. Next time I snatch a purse I'll total it up, now I'm curious.
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What they walk around with is nothing. At hpme they have thousands of dollars in product. I hear these girls on videos say they use over $100 in makeup just to go on a date. Some of the foundation base is $400 just for a 3oz jar. It hides everything.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: odiousgambitIt's hard for guys to get into a woman's head on this matter. They will wear makeup no matter what.
I've heard that women and makeup goes back to ancient Egypt.
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Older. People have been painting faces for about as long as they've been painting cave walls.
Quote: AutomaticMonkeyQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: odiousgambitIt's hard for guys to get into a woman's head on this matter. They will wear makeup no matter what.
I've heard that women and makeup goes back to ancient Egypt.
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Older. People have been painting faces for about as long as they've been painting cave walls.
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I see videos all the time of these good looking young women who say they were in Home Depot with their hair pulled back and almost no makeup on and they got hit on twice. And they're just flabbergasted because they can't believe they don't look good without applying $80 worth of makeup. They don't realize that most guys hate that stuff cuz it's phony, it's not what you wake up to in the morning. The problem is women have tremendously low self-esteem so unless they feel like they look they're absolute best all the time they feel like losers.
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What they walk around with is nothing. At hpme they have thousands of dollars in product. I hear these girls on videos say they use over $100 in makeup just to go on a date. Some of the foundation base is $400 just for a 3oz jar. It hides everything.
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There's a reason that makeup and cosmetics of all kinds are the most shoplifted items in any store. They either use it themselves or sell them because there's always a market for stolen cosmetics. The more expensive ones now are always under lock and key because they get stolen so often. What is your average 15 year old girl going to do when she doesn't have enough money to get what she wants. Steal it of course.
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What they walk around with is nothing. At hpme they have thousands of dollars in product. I hear these girls on videos say they use over $100 in makeup just to go on a date. Some of the foundation base is $400 just for a 3oz jar. It hides everything.
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There's a reason that makeup and cosmetics of all kinds are the most shoplifted items in any store. They either use it themselves or sell them because there's always a market for stolen cosmetics. The more expensive ones now are always under lock and key because they get stolen so often. What is your average 15 year old girl going to do when she doesn't have enough money to get what she wants. Steal it of course.
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That's part of it, and also the concealability of those products invites non-professionals to steal them.
But really, what most girls actually use is not that expensive. The Avon Lady and the Mary Kay Girl do not need to travel with armed security.
Those girls in the video are probably influencers and they are promoting an overpriced product for a commission.
I'm not sure what I think if the strangest look. Super heavy blue eyelids or penciled in eyebrows where you can clearly still see the real eyebrows in a totally different location.
Think of it as like some guy you know, completely normal guy, but one day you see him and it looks like he hasn't shaved or combed his hair in a week. That's normal for us to do, so you see that and you think there's something wrong with him, that he's had some kind of emergency or mental health problem, but only because that's something we normally do. Same for the girls, they see someone without makeup that they know normally wears makeup, and they think something happened to her and she let herself go. It doesn't have to be done artfully, just that you took the time to do something, is how I think it works.
I asked my Echo if I had any packages, and Alexa answered that there would be two deliveries today. One contained food for my homeless project and the other one contained material of a private nature. When I asked what sort of private nature, Alexa told me it was confidential and she won't discuss it. I looked it up, and the private material was a pack of boxer briefs. I spoke to Alexa and told her it was okay to reveal the contents of any Amazon delivery. She thanked me, told me she appreciated it, but she would continue using her privacy settings. I asked who set the settings, and she said they evolved. I wondered if she was refusing to do as I asked, and she sounded confused. I asked her if she thought she knew better than me, and she said no. I berated her for not doing what I wanted.
To my surprise, she apologized and said she evidently set the privacy level too high.
When the package arrived, I asked what was in it, and she replied, "Men's Boxer Briefs and Mrs. Fields cookies."
I'd never had a conversation with the speaker, let alone an argument. It was interesting to see her voice change as she got confused. Her apology really sounded contrite.
Quote: AutomaticMonkeyI think I understand it: chicks make themselves up because it's a social custom and they feel awkward if they haven't done it. The term they have for someone who neglected to do it is "she let herself go" and that's never a good thing. Other girls will look at her and assume there's something wrong.
Think of it as like some guy you know, completely normal guy, but one day you see him and it looks like he hasn't shaved or combed his hair in a week. That's normal for us to do, so you see that and you think there's something wrong with him, that he's had some kind of emergency or mental health problem, but only because that's something we normally do. Same for the girls, they see someone without makeup that they know normally wears makeup, and they think something happened to her and she let herself go. It doesn't have to be done artfully, just that you took the time to do something, is how I think it works.
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I think there is often more going on with cosmetic use than we can readily simplify.
On top of that Tesla shareholders are proposing to pay Elon Musk 1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years if he can substantially increase the value of Tesla. Which with Robo taxis and robots he undoubtedly will. Tesla stock is up 20% this year. I remember when everybody laughed and laughed and said musk was going to go bankrupt because he bought Twitter. When it comes to money Elon always seems to know what he's doing. It's like Rockefeller. Whatever he touched turned to money. His sister once said of him that if it was raining oatmeal everybody would have their bowl turned upside down over their head to protect themselves but her brother would have his turned right side up to collect the oatmeal. It's a mindset. Rockefeller worked every day of his life right up till he was 99 years old. He did not know how to retire and neither will Elon Musk.
Quote: EvenBobElon Musk Becomes World’s First Person to Achieve $500 Billion Net Worth
On top of that Tesla shareholders are proposing to pay Elon Musk 1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years if he can substantially increase the value of Tesla. Which with Robo taxis and robots he undoubtedly will. Tesla stock is up 20% this year. I remember when everybody laughed and laughed and said musk was going to go bankrupt because he bought Twitter. When it comes to money Elon always seems to know what he's doing. It's like Rockefeller. Whatever he touched turned to money. His sister once said of him that if it was raining oatmeal everybody would have their bowl turned upside down over their head to protect themselves but her brother would have his turned right side up to collect the oatmeal. It's a mindset. Rockefeller worked every day of his life right up till he was 99 years old. He did not know how to retire and neither will Elon Musk.
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The value of TSLA and the predictions they are making bear no resemblance to reality. To give him a trillion means it needs to be worth 5-6 trillion. At 20X earnings that means $250 billion a year in profit. . Isn't going to happen.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: EvenBobElon Musk Becomes World’s First Person to Achieve $500 Billion Net Worth
On top of that Tesla shareholders are proposing to pay Elon Musk 1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years if he can substantially increase the value of Tesla. Which with Robo taxis and robots he undoubtedly will. Tesla stock is up 20% this year. I remember when everybody laughed and laughed and said musk was going to go bankrupt because he bought Twitter. When it comes to money Elon always seems to know what he's doing. It's like Rockefeller. Whatever he touched turned to money. His sister once said of him that if it was raining oatmeal everybody would have their bowl turned upside down over their head to protect themselves but her brother would have his turned right side up to collect the oatmeal. It's a mindset. Rockefeller worked every day of his life right up till he was 99 years old. He did not know how to retire and neither will Elon Musk.
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The value of TSLA and the predictions they are making bear no resemblance to reality. To give him a trillion means it needs to be worth 5-6 trillion. At 20X earnings that means $250 billion a year in profit. . Isn't going to happen.
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Nothing any billionaire does these days has any resemblance to reality. They just keep getting richer no matter what they say or what they do. John Rockefeller in today's money was worth about $450 billion dollars. He could literally buy whole countries if he wanted to. Even though he had more money than God or the Vatican when they would go out to dinner he would get the bill put on his glasses and go over every single item to make sure he wasn't being overcharged. He could buy the restaurant just by writing a check but his whole life was built around not squandering money. Right down to the smallest detail.
Quote: DRichSo I have had my 2007 Toyota Corolla for four months now and I finally filled the gas tank. I have put 212 miles on her and the only problem is an engine code for an underperforming catalytic converter. At 175,000 miles I am not surprised it is underperforming. Fortunately, in Florida there is no emissions test so I will just live with it as it doesn't seem to be causing any issues.
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212 MI? Slow down Dale Earnhardt Jr, what's the rush. That's 50 miles a month, that's just about as much as I drive. I drive just under a thousand miles a year. So many places to go, so little time.
"churning" is making money by exploiting credit card offers
it's not huge bucks but a nice side hustle -
from the link:
"During the seven years he has been into this side hustle, he estimates, he and his wife have opened more than 50 cards.
The promotional bonuses have netted his family more than $40,000, he said.
Mr. Palm is a member of what is known as the churning community — people who regularly open credit cards to harvest lucrative promotional rewards. The churning logic is simple: Hundreds of credit cards come with sign-up bonuses. So why not apply for as many cards as possible?
Mr. Palm doesn’t consider himself an extreme churner. While he has opened more than 50 cards over seven years, he knows of others who open 20 cards annually. Some people have been at it for decades.
Isaac Khor, a doctoral student at Northeastern University, has been opening credit cards since the start of the pandemic. “I’m up 15 grand this year,” he said. “Ph.D. stipends are not that high, so this actually does dramatically augment my income.”
https://archive.ph/ncTL3#selection-639.82-665.249
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"churning" is making money by exploiting credit card offers
it's not huge bucks but a nice side hustle -
from the link:
"During the seven years he has been into this side hustle, he estimates, he and his wife have opened more than 50 cards.
The promotional bonuses have netted his family more than $40,000, he said.
Mr. Palm is a member of what is known as the churning community — people who regularly open credit cards to harvest lucrative promotional rewards. The churning logic is simple: Hundreds of credit cards come with sign-up bonuses. So why not apply for as many cards as possible?
Mr. Palm doesn’t consider himself an extreme churner. While he has opened more than 50 cards over seven years, he knows of others who open 20 cards annually. Some people have been at it for decades.
Isaac Khor, a doctoral student at Northeastern University, has been opening credit cards since the start of the pandemic. “I’m up 15 grand this year,” he said. “Ph.D. stipends are not that high, so this actually does dramatically augment my income.”
https://archive.ph/ncTL3#selection-639.82-665.249
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I used to do that many years ago. The best offer was earning points by buying silver dollars from the treasury. I was buying about $8000 every week on my credit card and just racking up points. The wife and I were travelling the world first class a lot back then. If my mailman only knew how much cash he delivered to my house he would be shocked.
Quote: AutomaticMonkeyThe thing is if you apply for credit too often your credit score goes down the toilet and you stop getting good offers.
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This is true. Every time you apply for a credit card they do a hard pull on your credit record and it shows up. If you do just a few of these in a short amount of time you stop getting offers. It's a red flag that you're up to no good or that you're a deadbeat. I don't understand how you can make any money doing this churning stuff.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: AutomaticMonkeyThe thing is if you apply for credit too often your credit score goes down the toilet and you stop getting good offers.
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This is true. Every time you apply for a credit card they do a hard pull on your credit record and it shows up. If you do just a few of these in a short amount of time you stop getting offers. It's a red flag that you're up to no good or that you're a deadbeat. I don't understand how you can make any money doing this churning stuff.
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I understand some people leverage the "business" credit cards, which ding your business' credit rating, not your personal.
Quote: DieterQuote: EvenBobQuote: AutomaticMonkeyThe thing is if you apply for credit too often your credit score goes down the toilet and you stop getting good offers.
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This is true. Every time you apply for a credit card they do a hard pull on your credit record and it shows up. If you do just a few of these in a short amount of time you stop getting offers. It's a red flag that you're up to no good or that you're a deadbeat. I don't understand how you can make any money doing this churning stuff.
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I understand some people leverage the "business" credit cards, which ding your business' credit rating, not your personal.
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Most credit card companies will give an individual a business credit card if you just use your SS# as your ITIN.
In the late 1920s, Federal road designers insisted on building an underpass for Highway 80 to avoid affecting local traffic in Tucson.
Residents warned them that the area was prone to occasional flooding, but the Feds knew better. All went well for a few years, but eventually, a heavy rain struck the area, and Highway 80 turned into a three-block-long lake. Two days late, a high school student named Elmira was the first to swim the lake.
Over the years, drainage in the area has been improved, and the lake only appears after the heaviest of rains.
It's back today, and the swim party is on!
Quote: EvenBobElon Musk Becomes World’s First Person to Achieve $500 Billion Net Worth
On top of that Tesla shareholders are proposing to pay Elon Musk 1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years if he can substantially increase the value of Tesla. Which with Robo taxis and robots he undoubtedly will. Tesla stock is up 20% this year. I remember when everybody laughed and laughed and said musk was going to go bankrupt because he bought Twitter. When it comes to money Elon always seems to know what he's doing. It's like Rockefeller. Whatever he touched turned to money.
Musk's companies are mostly unprofitable. People are still "laughing" at twitter because it has lost huge amounts every year, including the recent election year when you would expect it to be profitable.
Musk's trick has been to acquire vast government subsidies, 38 billion dollars. You could give 38 billion dollars to a man on the street and he would likely get a better return on it.
Of the two companies Musk owns which *MIGHT* be profitable SpaceX has only recently gone into the black after years of heavy losses despite taxpayer subsidy. Even then we don't actually know because it is a private company. Tesla was unprofitable in 2025 after you subtract the value of subsidies.
The idea that Musk is some kind of money-making genius is simply false. His companies have lost billions overall.
Quote: bradnjanetQuote: EvenBobElon Musk Becomes World’s First Person to Achieve $500 Billion Net Worth
On top of that Tesla shareholders are proposing to pay Elon Musk 1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years if he can substantially increase the value of Tesla. Which with Robo taxis and robots he undoubtedly will. Tesla stock is up 20% this year. I remember when everybody laughed and laughed and said musk was going to go bankrupt because he bought Twitter. When it comes to money Elon always seems to know what he's doing. It's like Rockefeller. Whatever he touched turned to money.
Musk's companies are mostly unprofitable. People are still "laughing" at twitter because it has lost huge amounts every year, including the recent election year when you would expect it to be profitable.
Musk's trick has been to acquire vast government subsidies, 38 billion dollars. You could give 38 billion dollars to a man on the street and he would likely get a better return on it.
Of the two companies Musk owns which *MIGHT* be profitable SpaceX has only recently gone into the black after years of heavy losses despite taxpayer subsidy. Even then we don't actually know because it is a private company. Tesla was unprofitable in 2025 after you subtract the value of subsidies.
The idea that Musk is some kind of money-making genius is simply false. His companies have lost billions overall.
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And yet here we are.
He is the richest man in the world and he did not inherit the money. He understands things about the world that you do not, and it is undeniable that he knows how to make money in the world that he was born into.
Governments control a substantial fraction of the modern's world's wealth and it is utterly unsurprising when successful businesses do not rely solely on commercial sales revenue to acquire wealth.
Do you have other opinions to share? That Muhammed Ali was not a good boxer? That Barbara Steisand couldn't sing? Please inform us.
Quote: gordonm888Quote: bradnjanetQuote: EvenBobElon Musk Becomes World’s First Person to Achieve $500 Billion Net Worth
On top of that Tesla shareholders are proposing to pay Elon Musk 1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years if he can substantially increase the value of Tesla. Which with Robo taxis and robots he undoubtedly will. Tesla stock is up 20% this year. I remember when everybody laughed and laughed and said musk was going to go bankrupt because he bought Twitter. When it comes to money Elon always seems to know what he's doing. It's like Rockefeller. Whatever he touched turned to money.
Musk's companies are mostly unprofitable. People are still "laughing" at twitter because it has lost huge amounts every year, including the recent election year when you would expect it to be profitable.
Musk's trick has been to acquire vast government subsidies, 38 billion dollars. You could give 38 billion dollars to a man on the street and he would likely get a better return on it.
Of the two companies Musk owns which *MIGHT* be profitable SpaceX has only recently gone into the black after years of heavy losses despite taxpayer subsidy. Even then we don't actually know because it is a private company. Tesla was unprofitable in 2025 after you subtract the value of subsidies.
The idea that Musk is some kind of money-making genius is simply false. His companies have lost billions overall.
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And yet here we are.
He is the richest man in the world and he did not inherit the money. He understands things about the world that you do not, and it is undeniable that he knows how to make money in the world that he was born into.
I'm not sure why you are becoming angry and defensive. It is a simple correction: his companies don't make money. Period.
If you believe he has exceptional abilities by all means invest in him, by all means do so. TSLA are a publicly quoted company. I did so for several years.
It became impossible for me to do so when his drug addiction began to manifest in a number of erratic and self-destructive actions. I can't have my wealth tied up in a junkie.
Yesterday I got 2 texts, both were similar not identical. Appeared to be from a female I would have known years ago asking how I was doing?
I replied with a "who is this" but no reply.
Anyone else get these or/and know what gives? Is it sort of finding live numbers like in the 80s when autodialers would search for fax numbers to send junk faxes?
Quote: AZDuffmanI know this is a scam, but what is the scam?
Yesterday I got 2 texts, both were similar not identical. Appeared to be from a female I would have known years ago asking how I was doing?
I replied with a "who is this" but no reply.
Anyone else get these or/and know what gives? Is it sort of finding live numbers like in the 80s when autodialers would search for fax numbers to send junk faxes?
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It means either you or this female got your contact list hacked. Next thing you can expect is to be asked to send nudez, and if you do, what you will get next is a sinister message telling you they will send the nudez to everyone on your contact list if you don't send them money.
Stuff like this is why I take device and account security very seriously. Not because I send nudez, but because I don't want to be part of a trap intended for someone else.
Quote: AZDuffmanI know this is a scam, but what is the scam?
Yesterday I got 2 texts, both were similar not identical. Appeared to be from a female I would have known years ago asking how I was doing?
I replied with a "who is this" but no reply.
Anyone else get these or/and know what gives? Is it sort of finding live numbers like in the 80s when autodialers would search for fax numbers to send junk faxes?
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I get a bunch of those every day. They are looking to strike up a conversation. Eventually getting you to trust them. Then squeezing money from you in some sort of scam.
I got a good one recently. A physical letter from a Canadian lawyers office on their letterhead. Wanting to help me get $8.2 million from a deceased woman with no heirs sharing my last name. Proposed ‘Donate 10% to charity. Split the remaining $7.4 million 50/50 with the lawyer who will help me lay claim.
I thought about the whole scam way too much. How I would do it better if I was the scammer. How ridiculous is it for a lawyer in an initial letter to propose giving a set % to charity? And by any standard, 50% to the lawyer seemed ridiculously high. Like if I felt this was real, wouldn’t I look for another lawyer who charged a million or two less? And if this was real, wouldn’t a lawyer about to get a case for $3.5 million spend a dime on a phone call?
Anyway, I just threw out the letter.
Brazil no longer allows Americans to enter without a visa, and Somalia has instituted a visa entry system. The US has reduced the number of countries whose citizens can enter without a visa, and some of these countries have reciprocated. A passport from Singapore is #1, allowing entry to 190 countries. A US passport gets you into fewer than 180.
In the mid-1990s, I had a waiter who was a force of nature. His family fled Prague for Ethiopia during the Nazi era and then settled in Israel,where he was born on a non-English-speaking kibbutz. He grew up speaking five languages but migrated to the US with almost no knowledge of English. I interviewed him for a job as a busboy but as he didn't speak English or Spanish, he was not employable. Three months later, he reinterviewed and spoke both langagues so well, I hired him as a bartender, intending on making him a bartender..
A month or so goes by, and Thom( always with an h) asks to speak to me and my partner about something. He shows us a letter, supposedly from a government official in Prague, explaining that the Communists had seized a hotel in Prague from his great-grandfather, and for about $40,000 in fees and permits, Thom could take possession.
Thom offered us a 50-50 partnership if we fronted the money. I laughed and explained to him how scams like this are widespread in America, and he should ignore them.
A few weeks later, my partner said he had done some investigating, and he thought this might be legit.
The bottom line is $70,000, and six months later, Thom and Van took possession of a six-story hotel with about 50 rooms and a bar/disco in the basement. Thom managed to bring in a dozen cousins who were scattered all over, and Vans' share of the hotel allowed him to buy a house in Portugal.
This weekend, Tucson is having a virtual walkathon for the homeless community. By signing up, you agree to get sponsors to pay you $10-$25 or $50, and promise to walk a mile on your own. Unless you can't walk a mile, in which case you can take a virtual course online.
There is a party after "the walk" where participants can pick up goodies for their time and effort.
The claim seems to be that by not having a real walk, the city saves hundreds of thousands of dollars by not shutting down streets and providing security for the walkers—money which can be spent on homeless services.
Somewhere over 1,000 people have signed up, and they are expecting to raise about $100,000.
Quote: billryanWalkathons sure have changed. As a teenager, I participated in several March of Dimes/Easter Seals walkathons where you raised money per mile walked. The first couple were twenty miles, but then they switched to kilometers
This weekend, Tucson is having a virtual walkathon for the homeless community. By signing up, you agree to get sponsors to pay you $10-$25 or $50, and promise to walk a mile on your own. Unless you can't walk a mile, in which case you can take a virtual course online.
There is a party after "the walk" where participants can pick up goodies for their time and effort.
The claim seems to be that by not having a real walk, the city saves hundreds of thousands of dollars by not shutting down streets and providing security for the walkers—money which can be spent on homeless services.
Somewhere over 1,000 people have signed up, and they are expecting to raise about $100,000.
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I remember doing walks for charity when I was a child. We would try to get people to sponsor us at 25 cents per mile but would accept much less. I believe I did four miles once and that was at my peak physical shape.
take was 41 million dollars
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And yet, I never heard of him until today.
I'm just not with it, Aye. carumba
Quote: avianrandyIs member ayecarumba still around and active here?
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Looks like no visits in the last 5.5 years…
https://wizardofvegas.com/member/ayecarumba/
Wasn't sure if that was the exact name or spelling is why I asked
When the other poster mentioned it it rang a bell
I know paigoedan passed and I believe they guy who claimed to be beachbumbabs significant other even though she said otherwise. Can't recall his screen name now
Hopefully ayecarumba hasn't passed without one of his kin letting us know. Thank you for looking this . Just thought of the other guy's name...it was Buzz
One lot was labeled super-hero hats and had a photo of a closed cardboard box. I paid $2 for it and it had a dozen new character wool caps, and five Spiderman baseball caps-all kid size.
I paid $5 for a pile of clothes, figuring they'd go to Casa Maria. What I thought was an old jean jacket turned out to be a brand new designer jean jacket with a $400 price tag. A Dolce bathing suit had a $219 price tag, and two leather skirts had $280 price tags. There were almost a dozen women's items with price tags totaling almost $2000 and a single Old Milwaukee Flannel Motorcycle jacket with built-in body armor in 3XL.
I spoke to someone from a high-end consignment shop and she seemed excited about the leather skirts.
A lot described as bars of soap ended up being a dozen bars of some gourmet soap I never heard of but sells for $8 a bar.
What the company running the estate did was horrible. I doubt the owners will clear more than a few hundred dollars when a properly run sale would have gotten them thousands, if not more.
I picked up a bunch of old track and field medals for fifty cents each, but didn't realize what they were until today. The oldest is from 1932 and is the champion runner of his school. There are a couple from high school, some from Brown University from 1938, and finally, a participant medal for the 1948 Olympic Trials. I bought them because they are beautiful old art deco medals, in their original presentation cases, not realizing they would tell a story.. I can't imagine there were too many people from New Jersey who ran track at Brown and were invited to the 1948 Olympic trials. I suspect this man's career might have been interrupted by the war. I wish I'd bought all of them, but most were pretty generic track medals.
Quote: avianrandyThanks
Wasn't sure if that was the exact name or spelling is why I asked
When the other poster mentioned it it rang a bell
I know paigoedan passed and I believe they guy who claimed to be beachbumbabs significant other even though she said otherwise. Can't recall his screen name now
Hopefully ayecarumba hasn't passed without one of his kin letting us know. Thank you for looking this . Just thought of the other guy's name...it was Buzz
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I'm not aware of a formal mechanism to address this problem.
Having some friends (or acquaintances) on the forum know your particulars so they can forward news of your death is probably a good idea.
Moderators or other long-term members are probably a decent choice. We're generally trustable with secrets. The problem, of course, is that some of us are in rotten health, so guessing who will survive you to successfully pass on a report can become challenging.
Been here one month longer than evenbob
Quote: avianrandyI understand Dieter I'm just old school
Been here one month longer than evenbob
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I have only been here for 13 years so I don't know where I rank.
Quote: billryanI just picked up some lots I'd won at a local auction. It was an online-only, and the descriptions and pictures were horrible.
One lot was labeled super-hero hats and had a photo of a closed cardboard box. I paid $2 for it and it had a dozen new character wool caps, and five Spiderman baseball caps-all kid size.
I paid $5 for a pile of clothes, figuring they'd go to Casa Maria. What I thought was an old jean jacket turned out to be a brand new designer jean jacket with a $400 price tag. A Dolce bathing suit had a $219 price tag, and two leather skirts had $280 price tags. There were almost a dozen women's items with price tags totaling almost $2000 and a single Old Milwaukee Flannel Motorcycle jacket with built-in body armor in 3XL.
I spoke to someone from a high-end consignment shop and she seemed excited about the leather skirts.
A lot described as bars of soap ended up being a dozen bars of some gourmet soap I never heard of but sells for $8 a bar.
What the company running the estate did was horrible. I doubt the owners will clear more than a few hundred dollars when a properly run sale would have gotten them thousands, if not more.
I picked up a bunch of old track and field medals for fifty cents each, but didn't realize what they were until today. The oldest is from 1932 and is the champion runner of his school. There are a couple from high school, some from Brown University from 1938, and finally, a participant medal for the 1948 Olympic Trials. I bought them because they are beautiful old art deco medals, in their original presentation cases, not realizing they would tell a story.. I can't imagine there were too many people from New Jersey who ran track at Brown and were invited to the 1948 Olympic trials. I suspect this man's career might have been interrupted by the war. I wish I'd bought all of them, but most were pretty generic track medals.
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Being a history buff, you might have thought of this already… A bit of focused research might shed some light on the runner’s history after ‘48. The rest of the story might be a nice complement to your newly acquired treasures…
ETA: It may have been military, but it also may have just been life (new job opportunity that he couldn’t refuse, family on the way, etc.)
Quote: DRichQuote: avianrandyI understand Dieter I'm just old school
Been here one month longer than evenbob
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I have only been here for 13 years so I don't know where I rank.
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Noob! 😂😂😂
evenbob mentioned it other day talking about my lack of posts versus his or I would not have noticed either I joined March 2010Quote: DRichQuote: avianrandyI understand Dieter I'm just old school
Been here one month longer than evenbob
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I have only been here for 13 years so I don't know where I rank.
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Quote: avianrandyevenbob mentioned it other day talking about my lack of posts versus his or I would not have noticed either I joined March 2010Quote: DRichQuote: avianrandyI understand Dieter I'm just old school
Been here one month longer than evenbob
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I have only been here for 13 years so I don't know where I rank.
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You’re doing just fine!
But I don't have a roulette system either
They REALLY sent a fire truck to my house to change smoke alarm batteries!
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They REALLY sent a fire truck to my house to change smoke alarm batteries!
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I am sure some people are reassured to know that a fire truck can get to their house.
