Lounge Lizards
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Chris Austin wrote:
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
Shit, I'm single and this applies more than anything, I have to seriously wonder how it must be when married. I just paid my last +- USD 1.8k on the last of two credit cards that were seriously in arrears, that I had to pay off over two years. In total, including extortionary 'collection commission', interest, and principle, I probably paid about USD 17k over the two years.
Anyone wanting my sympathy need not ask.
When I asked my wife to marry me she said "Yes, but first you have to pay off your loan for your Jeep and credit cards." Since then she and I have lived credit card and auto-loan debt free since 1999. It's really powerful to not have to pay for the car or a credit card at the beginning of the month.
Brady Kelly wrote:
have to seriously wonder how it must be when married.
I've seen marriages fold over credit card debt. A friend /neighbor of mine saw the writing on the wall and took on two extra contracts and paid off ~$30K in credit card debt in about two years. It seemed like he never slept during that period and I was concerned about his health. Now, he and his wife are credit card debt free and giddy about it.
Brady Kelly wrote:
In total, including extortionary 'collection commission', interest, and principle, I probably paid about USD 17k over the two years.
Sure, and when you think about how you could have put that money to work for you rather than the credit company it's even more annoying.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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The lounge is laughable, say anything that remotely offends the favorite members like Christian Graus, leckey, or Pete O'Hanlon and instantly get attacked and one voted, but attacks on people like "The Developer" are applauded and 5 voted. Most of the people who frequent the lounge seem like brown nosers.
I'm a Christian: I *know* that I'm perverted. - Ilion
To be honest - I'm not sure why the SoapBox got attacked the other day. I stayed well away from it, and (to be honest) I rather enjoyed our little spats - but it's a shame you feel you were under attack. Oh well.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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It seems that we denizens of The Soapbox have drawn the ire of some of the Lounge Lizards[^]. Obviously, they spend time here but then run back there and act superior while criticizing us. Personally, I don't spend much time in the Lounge since it seems superfluous and short on any sense of humor. And what's with the kid sister safe rule for posting, as if kid sisters are some golden creatures with heightened sensibilities?
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Now I don't spend much time here in the Soap Box, but I wasn't impressed by the attack on it. I think the Soap Box has a large part to play in Code Project - it's just a little too American Politics for my taste; however I don't think it deserved the attack - so fair play to it, and I'll hope over onto that thread now and put a defence in - not that you'll care one way or the other.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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When I asked my wife to marry me she said "Yes, but first you have to pay off your loan for your Jeep and credit cards." Since then she and I have lived credit card and auto-loan debt free since 1999. It's really powerful to not have to pay for the car or a credit card at the beginning of the month.
Brady Kelly wrote:
have to seriously wonder how it must be when married.
I've seen marriages fold over credit card debt. A friend /neighbor of mine saw the writing on the wall and took on two extra contracts and paid off ~$30K in credit card debt in about two years. It seemed like he never slept during that period and I was concerned about his health. Now, he and his wife are credit card debt free and giddy about it.
Brady Kelly wrote:
In total, including extortionary 'collection commission', interest, and principle, I probably paid about USD 17k over the two years.
Sure, and when you think about how you could have put that money to work for you rather than the credit company it's even more annoying.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
Chris Austin wrote:
Sure, and when you think about how you could have put that money to work for you rather than the credit company it's even more annoying.
It was working for me; teaching me how to live without it. Until this experience, I used to live by seeing how much I could get out of my money. Now I live by what I can keep of my money.
Anyone wanting my sympathy need not ask.
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To be honest - I'm not sure why the SoapBox got attacked the other day. I stayed well away from it, and (to be honest) I rather enjoyed our little spats - but it's a shame you feel you were under attack. Oh well.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
and (to be honest) I rather enjoyed our little spats - but it's a shame you feel you were under attack. Oh well.
I never felt that way, those were all in good fun, I guess I should have worded that post better. I was referring more to people who seem to be shunned from the lounge after insults to regulars when they have received more insults, i.e. Julia4u/"The Developer". Seems like the lounge is much more cliquish and uptight compared to the soapbox.
I'm a Christian: I *know* that I'm perverted. - Ilion
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It seems that we denizens of The Soapbox have drawn the ire of some of the Lounge Lizards[^]. Obviously, they spend time here but then run back there and act superior while criticizing us. Personally, I don't spend much time in the Lounge since it seems superfluous and short on any sense of humor. And what's with the kid sister safe rule for posting, as if kid sisters are some golden creatures with heightened sensibilities?
Helium Rhenium Titanium Carbon
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Funny that it was initiated by norm.net. He was one of the big trash talkers going back and forth with heinz that led to Chris M's intervention. We really need an irony smiley.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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I don't get this voting thang, why does anyone care? It doesn't increase my pay, It doesn't decrease it either. No reprocussions really... You don't win a prize if you get 5's.
MrPlankton
MrPlankton wrote:
I don't get this voting thang, why does anyone care?
It's just a way of knowing someone actually read your post and agrees or disagrees. I treat 1 votes here the same as 5 votes. I reached out and pissed someone off. :cool:
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The lounge is laughable, say anything that remotely offends the favorite members like Christian Graus, leckey, or Pete O'Hanlon and instantly get attacked and one voted, but attacks on people like "The Developer" are applauded and 5 voted. Most of the people who frequent the lounge seem like brown nosers.
I'm a Christian: I *know* that I'm perverted. - Ilion
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You make an interesting point. I had wanted to write a longer reply, but found myself fascinated by my belly-button and wasted all the time i might have otherwise spent here in quiet contemplation of that odd little part of my anatomy. So instead, i wish you good luck in your quest for answers and bid you good day! :-\
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Shog9 wrote:
quiet contemplation of that odd little part of my anatomy.
Now don't you feel better for being able to talk about that without having to worry about whether someone's kid sister has had You show me yours and I'll show you mine 101 yet? :omg:
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Chris Austin wrote:
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
Shit, I'm single and this applies more than anything, I have to seriously wonder how it must be when married. I just paid my last +- USD 1.8k on the last of two credit cards that were seriously in arrears, that I had to pay off over two years. In total, including extortionary 'collection commission', interest, and principle, I probably paid about USD 17k over the two years.
Anyone wanting my sympathy need not ask.
Brady Kelly wrote:
total, including extortionary 'collection commission', interest, and principle, I probably paid about USD 17k over the two years.
Here's a bit of advice for the next time you find yourself in over your head, re: creidt cards Go to creditcard.com and search for a card that has a zero interest rate for balance transfers. Get the card, transfer the balance(s) from your high rate cards and you can dig yourself out of debt a whole lot quicker.
Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist. Forever is now one day less
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I don't get this voting thang, why does anyone care? It doesn't increase my pay, It doesn't decrease it either. No reprocussions really... You don't win a prize if you get 5's.
MrPlankton
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You make an interesting point. I had wanted to write a longer reply, but found myself fascinated by my belly-button and wasted all the time i might have otherwise spent here in quiet contemplation of that odd little part of my anatomy. So instead, i wish you good luck in your quest for answers and bid you good day! :-\
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Funny that it was initiated by norm.net. He was one of the big trash talkers going back and forth with heinz that led to Chris M's intervention. We really need an irony smiley.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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Shog9 wrote:
quiet contemplation of that odd little part of my anatomy.
Now don't you feel better for being able to talk about that without having to worry about whether someone's kid sister has had You show me yours and I'll show you mine 101 yet? :omg:
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Naw. Both forums have their own vaguely-defined lists of things than can't be mentioned without complaint, things that will always be up-voted, things that will always be down-voted, and things that will always get roughly the same set of boring, thoughtless, replies. As far as i'm concerned, any real difference between them is likely to change with the phase of the moon.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Bookmarked - and I'm gonna steal it from time to time. ^5
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MrPlankton wrote:
I don't get this voting thang, why does anyone care?
It's just a way of knowing someone actually read your post and agrees or disagrees. I treat 1 votes here the same as 5 votes. I reached out and pissed someone off. :cool:
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Tim Craig wrote:
I treat 1 votes here the same as 5 votes. I reached out and pissed someone off. :cool:
Haven't you just said, in essence, that you are a "troll?"
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Now I don't spend much time here in the Soap Box, but I wasn't impressed by the attack on it. I think the Soap Box has a large part to play in Code Project - it's just a little too American Politics for my taste; however I don't think it deserved the attack - so fair play to it, and I'll hope over onto that thread now and put a defence in - not that you'll care one way or the other.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Thank you for replying but if I'd wanted to hear from an asshole, I'd have farted.
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