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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He got really into aquariums and bought a fish that had be flown in from China and died a few days after he got it. The fish was several hundred dollars. I don't even know how much his 4 aquariums were, but they were likely a lot. An arowana?  He got off lightly if so, the one in the picture is apparently $500,000. Generally if you want to spend a lot of money and have all your fish die for no reason, salt water is the way to go.
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quote:Can I get arrested accomplice to prostitution for being a bodyguard for a friend who getting paid to piss on a guy?
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Dik Hz posted:This one sounds like GWM. $500 and helping out a friend. I imagine it's nice being her number 1 go-to. This dude is totally golden in her eyes. Stop taking the piss this is serious. Urine trouble if you keep this stream of thought going.
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Dik Hz posted:This one sounds like GWM. $500 and helping out a friend. I imagine it's nice being her number 1 go-to. This dude is totally golden in her eyes. She'll probably shower him with love and affection.
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Sounds like trickle down economics in action.
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Jul 30, 2020 05:03
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The revenue stream seem like a golden opportunity; the guy’s a real whiz. Sprinkle in getting soaked on some piddly PP&E, though, and you’ll be looking to evacuate immediately. If your bottom line is leaky due to debt, #1: aim to discharge and flush through the P&L.
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I've been making it rain all wrong..
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The most recent BWM example of this was when a department store - I think it was JCPenney - decided to end sales and coupons and instead sell everything at the discounted price with no gimmicks or requirements. But at the same time, Bed Bath and Beyond is in deep financial trouble and one of the reasons cited for it is the loving coupons.
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Phanatic posted:But at the same time, Bed Bath and Beyond is in deep financial trouble and one of the reasons cited for it is the loving coupons. Wait, how are coupons a factor?
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Soylent Pudding posted:Wait, how are coupons a factor? BBB routinely offers coupons good for 20% off a single item, and their coupons also work at Buy Buy Baby (and vice versa). If you're buying a high ticket item without one of these coupons, you've screwed up. Also people put tons of expensive poo poo on their wedding registries because they offer a "registry completion" coupon that is like 20% off everything you buy from your registry after the wedding is over. So whenever you see a couple asking for a $500 blender on their wedding registry, it's not because they expect you to buy it, it's because they're going to buy it themselves later.
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Soylent Pudding posted:Wait, how are coupons a factor? Their business model is to charge a high price and blast people with free coupons for 10% off your total bill or 20% off a single item and honor those coupons in perpetuity even though they have expiration dates printed on them. Because as stated upthread, people love to feel like they're getting a bargain even if they're really not. This works until a bunch of online retailers pop up that charge lower prices for all the stuff you sell without coupons. And BBB isn't one of those stores that sells a lot of stuff you really need to see in person to decide whether or not you want it. Now they've got huge numbers of coupons out there that, if they start enforcing the expiration date, will piss people the hell off.
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Kid who wants to become gunsmith is at least interesting as hobbies go, but sounds like a great way to eventually blow your fingers off.
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it's a shame this won't fit as a thread title:quote:however I know how credit cards work and know this cannot be possible and is simply a mind game. leon is doing God's work as always. Gunsmith is good work that pays fairly well, but then you have to deal with Gun People all the time.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:An arowana? I have no idea what kind of fish it was. I never saw it alive. It was a $700-$1,000 fish. Definitely not $500,000. It was a salt-water fish, though. He got a bunch of different fish shipped from China for around $3,000 total. The most expensive one was the $700-$1,000, it died within days of him getting it, and there was no way to get the sketchy Chinese fish company to refund him. Ghost Leviathan posted:Kid who wants to become gunsmith is at least interesting as hobbies go, but sounds like a great way to eventually blow your fingers off. That's totally fine. Did you not read the rest of his post? He does not want any muscles. Fingers are just bone-shaped muscle holders.
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"Who's a Good (with money) boy?"quote:According to BBC News, Gunther III, a German shepherd, inherited $65 million when his owner, the late German countess Karlotta Liebenstein died. The humans who managed his doggy estate eventually invested Gunther's money and turned it into $375 million which was passed onto Gunther’s son, Gunther IV.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:"Who's a Good (with money) boy?" wait so a monkey who takes a selfie doesn't own the copyright, but a dog can be a beneficiary of a trust? edit: so how the hell does the trust end? What happens if the dog dies without heirs? Who sues on behalf of the dogs if the handlers mismanage the money? So many questions... DaveSauce fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Jul 31, 2020 |
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DaveSauce posted:wait According to a 2017 study, there are roughly 1.1 million wills in the United States that list a dog as the primary beneficiary. All 50 states allow pet trusts. Only three of them have limited pet trust laws that can be challenged by other heirs. https://www.animallaw.info/article/detailed-discussion-pet-trusts DaveSauce posted:wait Ask and ye shall receive: quote:Gunther’s reputation as the richest dog in the world is partly a question of definition: dogs cannot hold bank accounts, so all of Gunther’s purchases would be made by a trust. quote:Upon termination of the trust, or if the court determines the trust has excess funds, the trustee shall transfer the unexpended or excess trust property pursuant to the terms of the trust instrument or, if there is no provision in the trust instrument, then the trust passes to the settlor's heirs-at-law determined as if the settlor died intestate domiciled in this state at the time of distribution. The world's richest cat is way poorer than the world's richest dog. Also, that will from his owner is hilariously harsh. quote:According to Guinness World Records, the richest cat in the world is a black cat named Blackie who inherited £7 million (about $12.5 million) in 1988 when his owner Ben Rea — an antiques dealer — left a good portion of his fortune to his beloved pet. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jul 31, 2020 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:According to a 2017 study, there are roughly 1.1 million wills in the United States that list a dog as the primary beneficiary. Well poo poo, wish I'd known that before. I'm having a will formally drawn up on Monday, wonder if I can change it to become the first person to leave their estate to guinea pigs.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What should a young person do? This reads like a Dril tweet. In a good way.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:it's a shame this won't fit as a thread title: There's a gunsmith in my town that is a high end boutique place, by appointment only, and no published pricing (if you have to ask, you can't afford it sweetie). They do business selling/customizing five figure dollar value rifles and shotguns so orthodontists can go shoot water buffalo and grizzly bears from helicopters or something. I have my suspicions that it's a money-losing or break-even vanity business run by someone who is already rich from something else.
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canyoneer posted:There's a gunsmith in my town that is a high end boutique place, by appointment only, and no published pricing (if you have to ask, you can't afford it sweetie). They do business selling/customizing five figure dollar value rifles and shotguns so orthodontists can go shoot water buffalo and grizzly bears from helicopters or something. I know a guy like that. It's a hobby business, but he seems to do okay with it. The reason it works is because he was ALREADY doing this hobby so he had the machine tools and specific smithing tools to pull it of. He still complains about "making nothing" on oddball or newer stuff when he has to buy tools. And I believe that. The barrier to entry is high, not only because of the tools and knowledge but also you have to be zoned commercial so unless your home/workshop in in a place that is mixed usage you're out of luck on the ATF licensing. And really, the contacts are key. You need to live in an area with a bunch of people who can afford to go on hunting safaris or somehow get one hell of a reputation otherwise so people will come to you from further away.
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canyoneer posted:There's a gunsmith in my town that is a high end boutique place, by appointment only, and no published pricing (if you have to ask, you can't afford it sweetie). They do business selling/customizing five figure dollar value rifles and shotguns so orthodontists can go shoot water buffalo and grizzly bears from helicopters or something. According to the 16-year old aspiring gunsmith, it is not very lucrative. quote:What should a young person do?
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That sixteen-year-old is already more financially/career-savvy than a whole fuckton of adults. 
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What you do is make a youtube channel about pipe guns, get rekt by youtube's anti-gun policies, and then ragequit youtube
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My wife and I just spent a week at a boutique-y hotel. From talking to a local guy, 1. Woman inherited/sold a company and made close to a billion. 2. She bought up all of the commercial real estate/old houses in her small hometown on a lake. 3. Spent $100M+ renovating the properties, furnishing them, buying art, turning them in to hotels, etc. 4. They're losing money hand over fist. Hotel was nice though.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:According to the 16-year old aspiring gunsmith, it is not very lucrative. There's two ends of the spectrum with almost no middle ground, unfortunately. The working poor gunsmiths and the fabulously wealthy gunsmiths. The problem is that a ton of people call themselves gunsmiths that can't do anything more than install a scope or maybe assemble an AR15. So the one-in-a-hundred gunsmith that actually knows machining and other practical skills gets under valued and has to take up side jobs doing general machining and other tasks that further devalues their title as "Gunsmith". The opposite end of the spectrum is the high-end gunsmiths that build custom firearms from more-or-less scratch, work on luxury guns, and have built a name for themselves over time. They might operate out of their garage as a boutique-type operation or at a specialized small-business that they are usually owner or co-owner of. Every aspect of the Firearms industry sucks and I can't even imagine wanting to be in it if you're not a straight white male. But kudos to that guy for trying to follow his dream.
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Don't we have like 300 million guns in this country? I think we would be ok without the "gunsmith" skillset.
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Residency Evil posted:My wife and I just spent a week at a boutique-y hotel. From talking to a local guy, At least the Mexican Drug Cartel won't kill her family, now
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Nocheez posted:Don't we have like 300 million guns in this country? I think we would be ok without the "gunsmith" skillset. Are you under the impression that having more cars would mean we would need less mechanics?
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gunsmith is a structurally bad with brainmeats industry cuz they make bullets out of lead notwithstanding that this actually applies to the entire practice of dealing with guns
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:At least the Mexican Drug Cartel won't kill her family, now I too get this reference
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bob dobbs is dead posted:gunsmith is a structurally bad with brainmeats industry cuz they make bullets out of lead It's also the primers, which emit lead into the air when fired
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bob dobbs is dead posted:gunsmith is a structurally bad with brainmeats industry cuz they make bullets out of lead
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SpartanIvy posted:You vastly over estimate the dangers of occasionally handling lead. As long as you don't eat, breath, or drink water from pipes made of it, it's pretty easy to avoid any dangerous amount of contamination. i have bad news about what happens to lead when it gets fired from a gun (some of it evaporates) (also the primers, yeah)
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i have bad news about what happens to lead when it gets fired from a gun I have some good news. Being a gunsmith doesn't mean you actually have to shoot guns all that often as part of your work.
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some of the evaporated lead condenses back into dust that then gets in the gun presumably as a gunsmith you gotta open guns up and clean them a lot it may not be as bad for your brainmeats as being a gun range peep or something like that, but it is a pronounced phenomena that strong exposure to guns is materially correlated w organic brain damage bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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Did you also know that vaccines contain MERCURY?!?!
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they banned mercury and it was like 0.001% of the vaccine anyways lead bullets are 95% lead, primer is 40% a lead compound, both are still legal and easy to get the dose is the poison lol
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