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CalStateTempe wrote:Who is she and why is she famous and where do you see her to get a sense of her “hotness”

CalStateTempe wrote:I like paying for everyday purchase with cash.

Gas, groceries, coffee, restaurants, take out, etc etc.

Fuck it, i love it!

It gives me control of my purchases and my budget in a way that my debit card never could. For me something about physically seeing myself pay paper money for items has made me a more discerning shopper and values my hard earned paycheck a bit more. Sure i still splurge on some items (European preserves) and it makes me appreciate them that much more. It makes me appreciate the stuff I have more. It makes me limit my gas spend on errands, been riding the bike more to the local market for stuff.

And we are spending so much less over the week saving that for other longer term goals.

I thought my wife was crazy when she suggested this idea, but so far one month it it’s working really well and sustainable.

I guess this is my one throwback hipster rage against the machine thing that I do these days. Lol real rebel, I know.

dovecanyoncat wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:I like paying for everyday purchase with cash.

Gas, groceries, coffee, restaurants, take out, etc etc.

Fuck it, i love it!

It gives me control of my purchases and my budget in a way that my debit card never could. For me something about physically seeing myself pay paper money for items has made me a more discerning shopper and values my hard earned paycheck a bit more. Sure i still splurge on some items (European preserves) and it makes me appreciate them that much more. It makes me appreciate the stuff I have more. It makes me limit my gas spend on errands, been riding the bike more to the local market for stuff.

And we are spending so much less over the week saving that for other longer term goals.

I thought my wife was crazy when she suggested this idea, but so far one month it it’s working really well and sustainable.

I guess this is my one throwback hipster rage against the machine thing that I do these days. Lol real rebel, I know.

There's a reason it's called currency. Use of treasury notes of immediate maturity is an intimate transaction and a more holistic reckoning than the use of revolving credit. The system hates you, of course, because it can't attach you digitally and charge you for the privilege of making errors while using them as short term loans while you fight with it about them. If you use currency you're a scofflaw, a burden, an asshole ... unless it's in the form of a tip, then you're a man of the world!

We recently joined a heath club and once again had to go through the whole fucking song and dance about refusing to allow automatic monthly debits. It's a dealbreaker, go fuck yourself, you fucking clone, no one is going to have access to my accounts but me and mine. What? a check for the entire year befuddles you? Does your mother know you have a job that requires you to ask me for my birthdate?

Even though they're not anywhere as bad as Wells Fargo I'm starting to get pissed at BOA. No, BOA, I don't want a debit card and even if you make it a required form of customer ID. Here's my passport, if that don't fly I'll go find some place that doesn't require it.

Payment by check is next: No, HOA, Ute, Telecom, Insurance, your bean counters are board certified imbeciles and your sites get hacked, so I'll pay in the form that suits me, thank you very much, now fuck off.

There should be a tax credit for being a curmudgeon.

dovecanyoncat wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:I like paying for everyday purchase with cash.

Gas, groceries, coffee, restaurants, take out, etc etc.

Fuck it, i love it!

It gives me control of my purchases and my budget in a way that my debit card never could. For me something about physically seeing myself pay paper money for items has made me a more discerning shopper and values my hard earned paycheck a bit more. Sure i still splurge on some items (European preserves) and it makes me appreciate them that much more. It makes me appreciate the stuff I have more. It makes me limit my gas spend on errands, been riding the bike more to the local market for stuff.

And we are spending so much less over the week saving that for other longer term goals.

I thought my wife was crazy when she suggested this idea, but so far one month it it’s working really well and sustainable.

I guess this is my one throwback hipster rage against the machine thing that I do these days. Lol real rebel, I know.

There's a reason it's called currency. Use of treasury notes of immediate maturity is an intimate transaction and a more holistic reckoning than the use of revolving credit. The system hates you, of course, because it can't attach you digitally and charge you for the privilege of making errors while using them as short term loans while you fight with it about them. If you use currency you're a scofflaw, a burden, an asshole ... unless it's in the form of a tip, then you're a man of the world!

We recently joined a heath club and once again had to go through the whole fucking song and dance about refusing to allow automatic monthly debits. It's a dealbreaker, go fuck yourself, you fucking clone, no one is going to have access to my accounts but me and mine. What? a check for the entire year befuddles you? Does your mother know you have a job that requires you to ask me for my birthdate?

Even though they're not anywhere as bad as Wells Fargo I'm starting to get pissed at BOA. No, BOA, I don't want a debit card and even if you make it a required form of customer ID. Here's my passport, if that don't fly I'll go find some place that doesn't require it.

Payment by check is next: No, HOA, Ute, Telecom, Insurance, your bean counters are board certified imbeciles and your sites get hacked, so I'll pay in the form that suits me, thank you very much, now fuck off.

There should be a tax credit for being a curmudgeon.

scumdevils86 wrote: As someone who works in retail digital banking you're the guy that makes everyone I work with roll their eyes!

ASUHATER! wrote: Checks are far far far far less safe than debit/online banking/ACH payment. Checks are probably worse than cash even and are the worst and least secure form of payment to use in today's world.

dovecanyoncat wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote: Checks are far far far far less safe than debit/online banking/ACH payment. Checks are probably worse than cash even and are the worst and least secure form of payment to use in today's world.

I'm certain there are stats to prove you correct. But I've never had even a minuscule security issue with them.

CalStateTempe wrote:Dove, You are awesome and I mean that in the most platonic Middle Aged male drinking camping fishing buddy kind of way. Spot on curmudgeon!

Wife loves her checks, she’s old world like that.

dovecanyoncat wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote: As someone who works in retail digital banking you're the guy that makes everyone I work with roll their eyes!

Like I said: I'm an asshole.

dovecanyoncat wrote:
IIRC every single issue I've ever had was the fault of the vendor, the bank, the website, the software, moron #1 and moron #2. With a few god habits, all the risks posed by the postal service or check washing seem to accrue to other people who don't have much sense. But people are generally irresponsible. Curmudgeons never make mistakes, noooo.

dovecanyoncat wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:Dove, You are awesome and I mean that in the most platonic Middle Aged male drinking camping fishing buddy kind of way. Spot on curmudgeon!

Wife loves her checks, she’s old world like that.

IIRC every single issue I've ever had was the fault of the vendor, the bank, the website, the software, moron #1 and moron #2. With a few god habits, all the risks posed by the postal service or check washing seem to accrue to other people who don't have much sense. But people are generally irresponsible. Curmudgeons never make mistakes, noooo.

You married well.

ASUHATER! wrote:

dovecanyoncat wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote: Checks are far far far far less safe than debit/online banking/ACH payment. Checks are probably worse than cash even and are the worst and least secure form of payment to use in today's world.

I'm certain there are stats to prove you correct. But I've never had even a minuscule security issue with them.

Other than you inconveniencing the hell out of everyone you give them to haha.

UAEebs86 wrote:

dovecanyoncat wrote:
IIRC every single issue I've ever had was the fault of the vendor, the bank, the website, the software, moron #1 and moron #2. With a few god habits, all the risks posed by the postal service or check washing seem to accrue to other people who don't have much sense. But people are generally irresponsible. Curmudgeons never make mistakes, noooo.

I love a good Midnight Run reference. Bravo!

CatsbyAZ wrote:Too many micro breweries are push their worn out IPAs well past their welcoming. Particularly out West. The drinking era of self-congratulatory IPA prowess is well past its prime. You are not any more interesting as a person because of you tried five new IPAs last week.

CatsbyAZ wrote:Too many micro breweries are push their worn out IPAs well past their welcoming. Particularly out West. The drinking era of self-congratulatory IPA prowess is well past its prime. You are not any more interesting as a person because of you tried five new IPAs last week.

ByJoveByJingle wrote:I much prefer good craft beer over any large brewery, but . . . IPA just tastes awful to me. Much like Scotch, which started out life as a horse liniment, IPA wasn’t invented to taste good.

ByJoveByJingle wrote:I much prefer good craft beer over any large brewery, but . . . IPA just tastes awful to me. Much like Scotch, which started out life as a horse liniment, IPA wasn’t invented to taste good.

CalStateTempe wrote:That’s me merkin, late thirty’s and rarely drink beer, prefer red wine or a good cocktail.

dovecanyoncat wrote:pilsner>any other beer
red wine>pilsner
single malt whisky>red wine/water/breath/sex/life itself

azgreg wrote:Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

azgreg wrote:Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Longhorned wrote:

azgreg wrote:Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Give them a job to do. Walk toward the door with your wiener still hanging out of your fly.

SCCats wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

azgreg wrote:Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Give them a job to do. Walk toward the door with your wiener still hanging out of your fly.

And THEN what?

azgreg wrote:

SCCats wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

azgreg wrote:Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Give them a job to do. Walk toward the door with your wiener still hanging out of your fly.

And THEN what?

Have them wax my balls?

Longhorned wrote:

azgreg wrote:Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Give them a job to do. Walk toward the door with your wiener still hanging out of your fly.

azgreg wrote:Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

CatsbyAZ wrote:If you live with only your pets, and you die in your home, your corpse is fair game as food for your cats and dogs during the weeks or months it might take extended family and authorities to discover your body.

CalStateTempe wrote:I don’t care how fresh, I will not eat bananas with brown spots.

And if I get into the banana and it’s brown down the core even in one small spot and the rest of ok...into the trash with you.

azgreg wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:I don’t care how fresh, I will not eat bananas with brown spots.

And if I get into the banana and it’s brown down the core even in one small spot and the rest of ok...into the trash with you.

Those are prefect for smoothies.

Merkin wrote:

azgreg wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:I don’t care how fresh, I will not eat bananas with brown spots.

And if I get into the banana and it’s brown down the core even in one small spot and the rest of ok...into the trash with you.

Those are prefect for smoothies.

and banana bread!