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George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





If I ever want to get a masters I absolutely have to take more classes to raise my GPA. Or I can go to WGU or some other online degree. It sucks because 20 year old me was a mega shithead at school and 30 year old me would be far better.

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George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





If the guy is in the rehab program then he defaulted.

He probably was in forbearance and the interest was capitalized hence why it ballooned so much. Happened to me when I was younger and was actually able to do the settlement in a lump sum thing for less than the original principal.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





My former coworkers got an amazing tres leches cake at a local Mexican bakery and BBQ for when I left. Totally unexpected and it made me feel real good. It’s cool to be liked around the office.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Do we still care that Leon edits the stories to make them more outrageous? I thought that was a thing he did in the last thread.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





I wonder how many people saw the movie Chef and thought they could pull it off as easily

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Twerk from Home posted:

All cities that aren't dying are like this. Rents in Houston and other historically affordable cities are also really drat high now.

I was really excited to come back to Houston after traveling for 9 months and be welcomed with tons of new apartments finishing being built and their abundance of "3 months free" deals. Then Harvey went and hosed that one all up. I came back at the worst time.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Page 501 is the good poo poo

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Namely bitcoin

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Dude who got his kids taken away cleaned up his act I believe and got them back. It’s an :unsmith: ending to a :stonk: story.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





I know a lot of dudes that went for Advocare. Only one turned out to be successful with it because he opened a crossfit gym and all his people buy from him. GWM if you are the leader of a cult.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Polka King on Netflix staring Jack Black running a Ponzi scheme was a pretty good GWM/BWM movie. Olds and greed are a deadly combo.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Elysium posted:

http://www.tampabay.com/sold-everything-to-sail-the-world-boat-sank-next-day

Sell everything, buy a boat, sail the world! Insurance? Who needs that! What could go wrong...

Alternatively this documentary is similar with extremely GWL results

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibP5IQxId34

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Blinkman987 posted:

Lularoe needs to do lootboxes. People expect trash out of lootboxes so it all works out.

They already do. You have no idea what you’re getting when you buy inventory

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





If they want savings without interest just open a checking account?

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





22 Eargesplitten posted:

Future dystopia will be when rich people can afford carefully administered treatments to make them effectively immortal, while normal people have to get the equivalent of back alley abortions and end up as mutated monstrosities half of the time.

So more or less Altered Carbon yea

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





poisonpill posted:

:same:

And mattresses cost like $100 to make so buy the floor model or the closest-looking one from whatever shady site pops up on google for that brand.

You want to go nuts? There are $10,000+ mattress makers, complete with boutique shops in Manhattan.

Check out Hastens mattresses. Known for their horsehair stuffing. Can run up to 100,000 very easily.

George H.W. Cunt fucked around with this message at 01:17 on May 13, 2018

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





blackmet posted:

Also, draining my mom's waterbed when she passed away, we discovered she put out cigarettes by opening the cap and sticking them in the waterbed. Gag.

Hell yea bachelor thread is back

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Krispy Wafer posted:

But then you end up with that one guy who spent a few months cutting onions and doing the absolute least he could do before opening his own restaurant. The kind of person who isn't already working in food service, but who wants to run a restaurant - isn't the kind who is going to go into another guy's restaurant and learn anything.

THAT was a good story. I can't remember all the details, but it's the one where they finally make a profit and then close the restaurant and give everyone 2 weeks paid vacation in celebration, completely ruining any sales momentum they had going.

I was just looking for that story and I can’t remember what it was called. Great story and the dudes investor made out amazingly after he was forced to sell a semi successful business for pennies.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Fuzzy Mammal posted:

Lol. Please don't make me look up what all those people did.

Roseanne got her extremely popular show canceled this morning after a racist tweet.

Talk about BWM

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Getting fired and not having enough money to live is one of my biggest fears. Since I got a new job 2 months ago I’ve been frantically trying to get back up to 6 months of living expenses at my current standard and it’s looking like it’s going to take a year at this rate to get to it. Ugh

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Lol at ethical companies in a capitalist society.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





canyoneer posted:

From 2 weeks in Spain I have observed that the majority of cars have rash on at at least one quarter panel from themselves or others parallel parking crappily

When I was in Italy I could count on one hand the amount of cars that didn’t have a gash on the doors or mirrors. The super tight streets and how those buses drive is harrowing.

GWM is treating your car as a tool and not a status symbol that needs to be immaculate looking.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Nephzinho posted:

Unless you can go infinite drafting on MTGO, or close enough, MTG is incredibly BWM.

and I've been playing it for twenty years

My brother judges and runs his local comic shops FNM games and thus gets free entry and drafts in return. He has somehow made magic extremely GWM by not paying a cent for his hobby.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010






I want to know what that "serious" crime was. I bet he was a total scum bag and these people took him for a ride.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





22 Eargesplitten posted:

Is that smiley with the guy walking in the door, looking around awkwardly, and walking back out gone? I was looking for it but the smile page is terrible.

:yikes:

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





SiGmA_X posted:

But a year off?!?

(I'd get bored... Plus possibly less employable)

Took a year off to travel and hike in nature. Landed with a higher paying job than when I left. If what you take off for is cool or useful you can almost certainly leverage that experience come interview time.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





My favorite soldier BWM story from a friend was one of his privates used his entire monthly paycheck for a Ford Raptor. He couldn't even pay for gas on the thing so he had to beg his friends to ride with him and pay for gas when he carted them around town. Enlisted soldiers are an absolute treasure trove of BWM stories.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Ixian posted:

Payday loans, double-digit car loans, pawn shops, and strippers - military towns are chock-full of every BWM nightmare.

It's been a long while since I was in the Army, but I remember marriage, even more than cars, being the BWM sweet spot:

The stereotypical "marry the stripper" which does happen and never, ever, ever goes well but can often be entertaining if you don't care too much for the person in question, in much the same way car wrecks that don't result in permanent injury or death do.

On practically the same level, "marry the local town girl (aka "not a stripper....yet" ) who's looking for a way out - you".

If you are woke and this offends you please feel free to substitute "boy" for "girl" or append cis or whatever - I don't judge or care. BWM is non-discriminatory.

Then there is "The military business marriage". This is a fun one, and I actually abetted one of these once by driving the couple in question across state lines so they could be married that day in a state that allowed it (SC as I recall). They were already pretty BWM, hence me driving - not BWM because they didn't own a car (in the military that can be GWM) but BWM because the guy had his car repossessed a few months before.

These arrangements happen because being a single enlisted grunt who has to live in the barracks sucks - you pretty much need to GTFO of there as often as possible, particularly weekends, before some rear end in a top hat a rank or three up the ladder from you comes around forming work parties to mow the common areas, etc.

If you are married you get an allowance and can live off post in a lovely apartment or trailer where no one bothers you but your drug-dealing neighbors. So, in addition to the "stripper" and "might as well be a stripper" options that your average teenaged fuckstick who probably shouldn't be trusted with a water pistol chooses, the slightly more sophisticated grunt will pair up with a fellow soldier (of the opposite sex unless based in a state that allows same-sex, maybe? don't know how the US military handles that these days) and hitch the knot so they can live off post and get lovely benefits. Some of the time they aren't even dating, or rather, aren't dating each other.

In addition to the expected emotional trainwreck that usually erupts out of this it's a true treasure trove of BWM situations because you are now legally bound to someone financially who you may not even really like, almost certainly don't know well, and now jointly share every bad financial decision made by either party.

The couple I helped (I never said I was smart back then, though I was smart enough not to do this poo poo personally) ended up in a fantastically tangled web of terrible credit, emotional blackmail, and eventually an adultery charge - which is serious business in the military, who will also beat your rear end like a rented mule if you try to claim it wasn't a real marriage in the first place and thus you had intent to defraud - which is exactly what happened in the end to this couple.

This was 25+ years ago and though I haven't kept up with them I wouldn't be surprised if they were still completely hosed, financially. Without self-posting too much I am glad I got out relatively intact with the GI bill paying for school - the military can actually be really GWM long term, if you keep your head halfway straight.

That’s the good stuff.

My dad did 22 in the Air Force as a meteorologist officer. Enlisted to avoid being drafted. Eventually they sent him to get his Bachelors and become an officer. Sent to get a Masters at MIT. Left the service and used his GI Bill to get a MBA from UT and is sitting pretty with lifetime medical and pension. All without getting shot at.

Pretty solid deal I’d say if you play it smart.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





CitizenKain posted:

I don't understand how someone's dream must own car is a Mini. Unless you are a huge fan of The Italian Job or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50JeC8igR8

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





More of a US problem

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





What is this side business that is not making any sort of returns?

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





I knew a guy who played female characters because “I don’t want to look at a dudes rear end all day”

Ugh

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





My dudes have you been to an equinox though? Those eucalyptus towels get people in the door

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Becoming a doctor sounds annoying as hell

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





The military healthcare Tricare is also hilariously inept supposedly and a good chunk of military folk will reference it as to why govt healthcare wouldn’t work.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





The dentists at the jail I worked at seemed to have a pretty good gig. X-rays and pulling teeth was the name of the game. On off days go to their regular practice.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





God drat I love those absolutely terrible takes on things.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Yea but bad choices deserve consequences despite law breaking duh

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Ah to believe the US govt and its people wouldn’t just let you die in the gutter again.

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George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





FAUXTON posted:

I wonder if there's a perception (common or not) that humanities degrees are desirable for unrelated fields due to the amount of research and writing work that's inherent to most of those degrees. You may not end up going through any math more complicated than trigonometry or possibly calculus, but being able to process vast amounts of unstructured information into a well-written report goes a hell of a long way, especially when your education is heavily focused on identifying gaps in the available information and seeking sources to fill those gaps.

It probably boils down to a left-brain/right-brain beep boop kind of thing. STEM fields thrive on working within a structured set of boundaries (rules/laws/permissions, etc) humanities thrive where the boundaries are largely in defining your end product and not guiding your work in producing it.

This is pretty much how I spin my English degree when asked during interviews. “Wow you work in IT but have an English degree how’d that happen????”

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