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Just Offscreen posted:Then...then what the gently caress DO they do?! Nothing. They're closed. edit: Aren't I clever
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Hopefully after they clean the podium. No. 6 doesn't look like somebody with high standards. He'll be fine.
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New Leaf posted:The sign on the window seems to be for a different business. I wonder if they rebranded or something. It also looks like there is another sign above those two which explains they are a new store and not that Cheque N Cash
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Chard posted:please no more  I saw that for sale at an antique store/flea market. It's a cigar ashtray. Edit: Just Offscreen posted:Then...then what the gently caress DO they do?! Maybe the give people checks for their cash...then, um, stick the cash immediately into a chute that takes the cash to an undisclosed location. Bored has a new favorite as of 00:29 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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Just Offscreen posted:Then...then what the gently caress DO they do?! They probably sell Just Bulbs.
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Apr 5, 2014 00:30
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They most likely provide loan services.
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Just Offscreen posted:Then...then what the gently caress DO they do?! That's the beauty of it, they don't DO anything!
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they rob poor people
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DiverTwig posted:That's the beauty of it, they don't DO anything! What is that from?
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Shuffle posted:they rob poor people I used to work for a payday loan place, and I can confirm that the underlying goal of these places is purely to take poor peoples money. There wasn't even a veneer of "oh, were trying to help those that need cash to help with an unexpected bill" or something, it was pure "get these rubes into our system, and then bilk them with insane interest fees until they go bankrupt". Not sure of the situation in the states, but here in Canada the government had to legislate these companies to reduce their interest rates because they were criminally high. (Most of our clients were criminally high too  )
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Every now and then you can catch a commercial for a loan agency based on an Indian reservation called Western Sky or something like that. They advertise the standard payday loans, but if you pause it at the end and read the fine print closely, the APR is something outrageous like 20,000%. They can do this because they're on an Indian reservation and federal loan laws don't apply there.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I used to work for a payday loan place, and I can confirm that the underlying goal of these places is purely to take poor peoples money. There wasn't even a veneer of "oh, were trying to help those that need cash to help with an unexpected bill" or something, it was pure "get these rubes into our system, and then bilk them with insane interest fees until they go bankrupt". There are interest limits, but like Captain Trips said, there are companies like Western Skies that are incorporated on Native American land and those laws don't apply to them, so you see hilarious interest rates iirc it's usually around 93-212% interest per day
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Apr 5, 2014 01:42
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They're working on fixing that.
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There's nothing funny about the Tax Bureau  .
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Well if you know of some other way to get some booty I'd love to hear it. 
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Captain Trips posted:Every now and then you can catch a commercial for a loan agency based on an Indian reservation called Western Sky or something like that. They advertise the standard payday loans, but if you pause it at the end and read the fine print closely, the APR is something outrageous like 20,000%. They can do this because they're on an Indian reservation and federal loan laws don't apply there. They got told to knock it off, then closed down and complained white people put them out of an honest living.
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 from some Barbados politics blog...
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Trig Discipline posted:Well if you know of some other way to get some booty I'd love to hear it. Craigslist.
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Stevie Lee posted:What is that from? That's the beauty of it - it's not from anything. No, seriously. Nobody has any idea where this line is from, but everyone is positive they heard it from a movie or a TV show.
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Hydrolith posted:That's the beauty of it - it's not from anything. The best explanation I've read is that it's from an unused script or cut from a script for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I keep wanting to say it's from The Hudsucker Proxy but it's not.
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syscall girl posted:The best explanation I've read is that it's from an unused script or cut from a script for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Googled, found this: 
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This would be a lot funnier if it were Jaden Smith's face.
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pik_d posted:Googled, found this: Awesome. Mystery solved. All my googling turned up was people saying "I have no loving idea".
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Shrapnig posted:This would be a lot funnier if it were Jaden Smith's face. It would be funnier if it was funny.
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Hydrolith posted:That's the beauty of it - it's not from anything. Hydrolith posted:Awesome. Mystery solved. All my googling turned up was people saying "I have no loving idea". pik_d posted:Googled, found this: That got solved for reals a while back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWlMNltHIYI Then again pik d has a whole 'nother source for it so who knows!
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Shrapnig posted:This would be a lot funnier if it were Jaden Smith's face. 
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That is easily the most punchable face on the planet.
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I Might Be Adam posted:That is easily the most punchable face on the planet. 
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pik_d posted:Googled, found this: It's a generic set-up to whacky comic hijinks and I suspect that's why people feel like it's something they've heard before but can't quite place. It may have actually occurred in a few obscure places but I doubt that many of the people who are sure they heard it somewhere heard from Apocalyptic Butterflies.
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I forget which comedian it is but they have this great bit about pirates. They were obviously some of the worst people on the planet rapists/murderers/slave owners etc and we portray them as lovable rogues and have our kids dress up as them. Do you think in 40 years our kids will dress up as suicide bombers (and no not ironic hipster college kids or prince harry).
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Jippa posted:I forget which comedian it is but they have this great bit about pirates. They were obviously some of the worst people on the planet rapists/murderers/slave owners etc and we portray them as lovable rogues and have our kids dress up as them. It's David Mitchell. No, seriously. David Mitchell's Soapbox did a bit about this. e: Just watched it. It's about Vikings, not pirates. (Here for anyone who wants to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJqEKYbh-LU). Lady Disdain has a new favorite as of 11:32 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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Istari posted:It's David Mitchell. The bit about pirates I remember now is sean lock on mock the week but I can't find it on youtube.
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Jippa posted:Do you think in 40 years our kids will dress up as suicide bombers (and no not ironic hipster college kids or prince harry). 
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Jippa posted:I forget which comedian it is but they have this great bit about pirates. They were obviously some of the worst people on the planet rapists/murderers/slave owners etc and we portray them as lovable rogues and have our kids dress up as them. Did they own slaves, like ever? I've understood that it's far more likely that a pirate was essentially a freed slave himself, because the "recruitment procedure" for many sailors looked an awful lot like being kidnapped off a dock somewhere to work on a ship in horrible conditions for next to nothing. So they'd escape to join pirates instead, often during a pirate attack on their ship. Rapists is kind of weird label to put on pirates specifically too, considering the ships they targeted would have hardly ever had women on them anyway. And most of them would have avoided unnecessary cruelty to their prisoners, as they wanted to incentivize surrenders. In addition to risking their own crew and damage to their ship, even if a pirate ship won the battle they'd still be likely to lose their bounty in the process.
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