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.
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:
Helium Rhenium Titanium Carbon
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
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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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:
Helium Rhenium Titanium Carbon
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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.
Helium Rhenium Titanium Carbon
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Ooh, I'm doing a comedy show at a Senior Citizens' center next week. Might have to steal that one!
My oh my. http://craptasticnation.blogspot.com/[^]
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Chris Austin wrote:
He was one of the big trash talkers going back and forth with heinz that led to Chris M's intervention.
Yeah. He didn't seem to appreciate my mentioning that. :(
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
And you're a 2 faced bastard.
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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.
Now you are giving American politics a worse name than it deserves :rolleyes: I can't see what prompted the lounge comments, but either I've actually grown older, or the soapbox has become bvery kindergarden-childish in the last years.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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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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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
DemonPossessed wrote:
I never felt that way, those were all in good fun, I guess I should have worded that post better.
Don't worry about it. I posted this late at night, so I should probably have worded it better myself.
DemonPossessed wrote:
Seems like the lounge is much more cliquish and uptight compared to the soapbox
I couldn't agree more - it's a disturbing trend, and means I'm spending a lot less time there (and I've noticed that some of the regulars seem to feel the same).
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
it's just a little too American Politics for my taste
Well, it is a Presidential election year, sorry about that but the Constitution requires it every 4 years.
Helium Rhenium Titanium Carbon
Tim Craig wrote:
Well, it is a Presidential election year, sorry about that but the Constitution requires it every 4 years.
It's not the election - I'm enjoying that; it's much more entertaining than the politics here in the UK, it's the bits between elections.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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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
There is no such thing in SA. In fact, it's probably not even legal. Do you mean they charge no interest on transferred balance, only on new charges, since you switch to their card?
Semicolons: The number one seller of ostomy bags world wide. - dan neely
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norm .net wrote:
My Reply http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=2585648#xx2585648xx\[^\]
No, that's your reply to someone else. And there you go again whining to the Lounge about things going on in The Soapbox. Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
Helium Rhenium Titanium Carbon
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norm .net wrote:
My Reply http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=2585648#xx2585648xx\[^\]
No, that's your reply to someone else. And there you go again whining to the Lounge about things going on in The Soapbox. Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
Helium Rhenium Titanium Carbon
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Ooh, I'm doing a comedy show at a Senior Citizens' center next week. Might have to steal that one!
My oh my. http://craptasticnation.blogspot.com/[^]