Swedishguy
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So, don't do it! Or what was the reason you ranted about it?
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GinandTonic
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Well since you believe there should be no social security you had better knuckle under. Got to pull your own weight old man, got to pull your own weight.
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
I'm having a bad day today.
Why?
That "Tycoon" jerk banned me from #fiftychat simply because I like the (former) planet Pluto, and thinks i shouldn't be allowed on there simply because my username is "PlutonianEmpire."
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PlutonianEmpire
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PlutonianEmpire
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no-ones listening to me.
Masquerouge
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So I just bought a can of coke. On it it says, "Save $29...when you buy a $49 ticket for 6 Flags".
Now exactly how is paying cheaper for something you didn't want to buy in the first place "saving money"? Last time I checked, saving money happens when you pay less for something you need. If I buy gas at the station where the gallon is 5 cents cheaper, I'm saving money. If I hear an ad on the radio saying I can save $10 if I buy two sets of Ginzu knives for $25.99, and I buy them, I lost $25.99 - I certainly did not save $10. Are there really people thinking they're actually saving money here? I guess yes...
http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci13-4/ci13-4.html
Of course, the article goes on to say that this negative saving rate is actually a good thing and that households are getting richer - and that's obvious, since when you save $20 when you buy a $49 ticket that you did not need you end up with +$20, and certainly not the -$29 like the communist grinches out there are saying. Plus, I mean, all of these Europeans and Japanese are saving like crazy, certainly they must be doing something wrong!
It's something that I hear constantly on the radio, on TV, etc. "everybody loves to save money!" Another example: "Call Koit for a carpet cleaning and save 35%!" Save 35% of what? Of an inflated-by-35% price on something I do not need? Again, thanks to the magic of a negative saving rate making people richer, if I pay $65 instead of $100 for a carpet cleaning I did not need and that costs $50 actually, I just earned $35, I certainly did not spend $65
Now exactly how is paying cheaper for something you didn't want to buy in the first place "saving money"? Last time I checked, saving money happens when you pay less for something you need. If I buy gas at the station where the gallon is 5 cents cheaper, I'm saving money. If I hear an ad on the radio saying I can save $10 if I buy two sets of Ginzu knives for $25.99, and I buy them, I lost $25.99 - I certainly did not save $10. Are there really people thinking they're actually saving money here? I guess yes...
http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci13-4/ci13-4.html
Of course, the article goes on to say that this negative saving rate is actually a good thing and that households are getting richer - and that's obvious, since when you save $20 when you buy a $49 ticket that you did not need you end up with +$20, and certainly not the -$29 like the communist grinches out there are saying. Plus, I mean, all of these Europeans and Japanese are saving like crazy, certainly they must be doing something wrong!
It's something that I hear constantly on the radio, on TV, etc. "everybody loves to save money!" Another example: "Call Koit for a carpet cleaning and save 35%!" Save 35% of what? Of an inflated-by-35% price on something I do not need? Again, thanks to the magic of a negative saving rate making people richer, if I pay $65 instead of $100 for a carpet cleaning I did not need and that costs $50 actually, I just earned $35, I certainly did not spend $65
So many boxes, so much cleaning to do. At least I'll chill here during my (many) breaks.
Mas - All advertising, though if you do need a carpet cleaning, paying $65 instead of a competitor's price of, I don't know, $80, would be savings.
But yeah, we can't keep up this negative savings rate forever....
(Not that I'm helping with my nearly $25,000 of debt I'm in, the near-totality of which are student loans and things related to getting my way through college.)
Mas - All advertising, though if you do need a carpet cleaning, paying $65 instead of a competitor's price of, I don't know, $80, would be savings.
But yeah, we can't keep up this negative savings rate forever....
(Not that I'm helping with my nearly $25,000 of debt I'm in, the near-totality of which are student loans and things related to getting my way through college.)
Masquerouge
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I totally agree. If you need a carpet cleaning, then by all means go for the cheapest one. But the ad just says "save 35%", and that's ridiculous. If their price is $200 and the competitor's price is $100, saving 35% does me a fat lot of nothing...
Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
So I go to buy some sandwiches at the gas station. Junior Cheeseburgers are 2 for $2 (or $1.39 for one), and roast beef was 2 for $3 (or $1.99 for one).
Ok, so get one of each and it should be the average of the two, which is $2.50 (plus tax). WRONG! Over three and a half bucks because I wasn't buying two of the exact same thing.
I can understand when the two products are made by different companies as they are giving you the discount for buying more than one of their products. But these were both made by the workers at the store, so all of the profit was going to them.
It's because they don't have their registers set up to make that kind of calculation, but c'mon it shouldn't be that hard to do!
Ok, so get one of each and it should be the average of the two, which is $2.50 (plus tax). WRONG! Over three and a half bucks because I wasn't buying two of the exact same thing.
I can understand when the two products are made by different companies as they are giving you the discount for buying more than one of their products. But these were both made by the workers at the store, so all of the profit was going to them.
It's because they don't have their registers set up to make that kind of calculation, but c'mon it shouldn't be that hard to do!
Gr3yL3gion
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The lifts at my work place had malfunction and I have to climb 19 floors to my office for a week.
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Eukaryote
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Every math problem ever created is either ridiculously easy or I have no idea how to do it at all. Can't we create some that actully have a challage but are do-able? So then when I do my hour of daily math homework I'm actully thinking instead of just writing down awnsers on a sheet of paper for most of them and the ocasinal "I don't know."
MadScotsMan
The Ruler of Cattle
I wrote that on my Algebra 2 final. Yeah, on a bubbel test. Maybe thats the reason I didnt get my high school diploma. While we are on math, it is a pointless subjest that I will only use when in college. I don't understand it at all, and the school does something like this: 10th grade: Algebra 1. 11th grade: Geometry, fail. 12th: Geometry, Algebra 2. I had all of my other credits except for one, and this credit I just had to be one of the 12% that needed it because I was on the college path. Actually, I was 2 credits over the requirement! Gah. I saw this was a rant thread, so I just had too
If we want to get really technical, then it would cost them more since they had to perform two separate operations (making the cheeseburger and making the roast beef). But I hear ya...I wish there wouldn't be technicalities or some kind of "buy 2 of whatever, get 10% off the total" deal.
Perfection
The Great Head.
My father left the microwave beeping and went to sleep nearby. I have no clue how he couldn't have realized, it was annoying me and I was farther away not trying to sleep with a door shut.
Somewhat personal and perhaps parts of it mentioned elsewhere sometime, but:
Amazingly angry at not just this apartment building, its superintendent, and the company's owner, but also at the lawyer that was to be handling my father's personal injury case. When the banister snapped off and had him fall down the stairs to the floor as a person already retired 20 years on disability, this lawyer had him lie about having no preexisting injuries and no Medicare coverage to his lousy doctors that wanted him to get MRIs on the Upper East Side and in Flushing without providing for his transportation. They'd let him be on rush-hour subways for 4 hours (round trip) each time. On top of that, they told him he'd have to stay in New York instead of being able to carry out his already existing plans to move to North Carolina to finally be with his wife/my mother. Since it took a year just to settle my amazingly easy injury case in 2002 (even though the NYPD called it a "no fault" accident, which severely limited the settlement that could be made, nevermind the other guy hit us as we were pulled over and then fled the scene, a felony in New York), that'd probably be at least as long as it took for this case to happen.
The company's owner, that owns this building, lives in Israel and as such, they were stalling forever in the three months since the fall. My father finally had it with the lawyer's lies and the fact that he couldn't go south until at least May 2008, he terminated the lawsuit. I get the feeling the lawyer will then try to shove all sorts of phony charges at us on the bill to pay for his discharges. I hope it doesn't come to that, the pain has to end.
Oh, and as for the stairs.....the banister still isn't replaced. WE still have it, it came off right from the wall and I was carrying it around in the emergency room that night. And now, the lights are out! I don't live in a slum, but the superintendent is nowhere to be found and nothing ever gets done.
This, plus other things, including classes, were responsible for my bout of inactivity from December onwards. This is why I want to move the night of my graduation next year, if possible. I may be more able than my father to get around this mess, but our doorbells haven't worked for years, someone's broken the bell system downstairs, the mailmen here love to steal or just leave packages in the middle of hallways, and the bored teenagers/20-somethings are off fighting each other in front of the building on some nights. Or just acting like general idiots that would likely harm another person on the sidewalk.
Not even mentioning the psycho neighbor that's also a former cop (this explains why she has a firearm, though I don't trust her at all with it) and dragged me into mediation over her own behavior. It led me to call the cops on her and she just plain hated it. Since then, she's tried to tell my father that I'm a drug and alcohol abuser and put words in my girlfriend's mouth by saying that I actually threatened her when I was defending her from this maniac. And for kicks, she let me know that she keeps a gun in her apartment at mediation, in front of the mediator! And the mediator told ME to calm down! (Edit: If I were as agitated as I was with this rant, the mediator would probably be right. But when I have to, I know how to keep my cool. That whole mediation thing was a waste of time and a 2-hour round trip by bus (trains would be standing room only) with my father.) With the neighbor yelling over me every time I said a word.
I've had it!
Rant over....You may now erase all that from your minds.
There...I'm calm now. That helped.........why are you staring at me like that? You told me to rant!
Ultraedit: On something unrelated, I'm hungry and I'm too awake, even at 2:40 AM. But, being the starving 20-something (even if my gut doesn't agree), pasta was made!
Amazingly angry at not just this apartment building, its superintendent, and the company's owner, but also at the lawyer that was to be handling my father's personal injury case. When the banister snapped off and had him fall down the stairs to the floor as a person already retired 20 years on disability, this lawyer had him lie about having no preexisting injuries and no Medicare coverage to his lousy doctors that wanted him to get MRIs on the Upper East Side and in Flushing without providing for his transportation. They'd let him be on rush-hour subways for 4 hours (round trip) each time. On top of that, they told him he'd have to stay in New York instead of being able to carry out his already existing plans to move to North Carolina to finally be with his wife/my mother. Since it took a year just to settle my amazingly easy injury case in 2002 (even though the NYPD called it a "no fault" accident, which severely limited the settlement that could be made, nevermind the other guy hit us as we were pulled over and then fled the scene, a felony in New York), that'd probably be at least as long as it took for this case to happen.
The company's owner, that owns this building, lives in Israel and as such, they were stalling forever in the three months since the fall. My father finally had it with the lawyer's lies and the fact that he couldn't go south until at least May 2008, he terminated the lawsuit. I get the feeling the lawyer will then try to shove all sorts of phony charges at us on the bill to pay for his discharges. I hope it doesn't come to that, the pain has to end.
Oh, and as for the stairs.....the banister still isn't replaced. WE still have it, it came off right from the wall and I was carrying it around in the emergency room that night. And now, the lights are out! I don't live in a slum, but the superintendent is nowhere to be found and nothing ever gets done.
This, plus other things, including classes, were responsible for my bout of inactivity from December onwards. This is why I want to move the night of my graduation next year, if possible. I may be more able than my father to get around this mess, but our doorbells haven't worked for years, someone's broken the bell system downstairs, the mailmen here love to steal or just leave packages in the middle of hallways, and the bored teenagers/20-somethings are off fighting each other in front of the building on some nights. Or just acting like general idiots that would likely harm another person on the sidewalk.
Not even mentioning the psycho neighbor that's also a former cop (this explains why she has a firearm, though I don't trust her at all with it) and dragged me into mediation over her own behavior. It led me to call the cops on her and she just plain hated it. Since then, she's tried to tell my father that I'm a drug and alcohol abuser and put words in my girlfriend's mouth by saying that I actually threatened her when I was defending her from this maniac. And for kicks, she let me know that she keeps a gun in her apartment at mediation, in front of the mediator! And the mediator told ME to calm down! (Edit: If I were as agitated as I was with this rant, the mediator would probably be right. But when I have to, I know how to keep my cool. That whole mediation thing was a waste of time and a 2-hour round trip by bus (trains would be standing room only) with my father.) With the neighbor yelling over me every time I said a word.
I've had it!
Rant over....You may now erase all that from your minds.
There...I'm calm now. That helped.........why are you staring at me like that? You told me to rant!
Ultraedit: On something unrelated, I'm hungry and I'm too awake, even at 2:40 AM. But, being the starving 20-something (even if my gut doesn't agree), pasta was made!
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