Tactical Bear
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Well, glad you're not dead wang. Though the car business is pretty damned close. How is it you ended up in Myrtle Beach? What happened with your baby mama, etc....
I sold the car to a guy in Myrtle Beach. It's probably a broker. Anytime somebody calls on a specialty vehicle, he somehow ends up owning a crappy apartment in South Carolina somewhere. Sales tax on car purchases is a flat $300 in SC.
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nice sale. welcome back. whats up in general with you?
I sell cars for a living and spend 3 hours a day trying to figure out when I can take a two week vacation so I can write a book about my experience in the car business. It's... it's just so... for every horrible story you hear about the business, you're missing at least two more.
Some of them are kind of funny, though. I was trying to get a guy with terrible credit a used F-250 the other day. With his credit, the only bank that would buy his loan was one of our special finance banks. He had a truck he'd bought a year previously he wanted to trade in, but he was tipped about 6K, and even if he kicked the trade, he just didn't have enough money to put down on the new vehicle. We were in a really good spot on the car -- I think we bought it for 65% of book -- so if we sold it at NADA, we would make good money. Sadly, there was just no way to get them to finance without him putting at least 2,000 down, even though we were grossing closer to 4500 on the front end alone.
So we bought an ice scraper from him. For 2000.
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Creating a being explicitly to cause it infinite pain is not, as Graham Greene might put it, an act of appallingly strange mercy, but rather an act of such extreme, twisted, and boundless cruelty that the perpetrator should be worshiped only as ants worship a teenager with a magnifying glass.Even though I wouldn't agree with the wording... (that God "created existence just to arbitrarily assign some people to eternal suffering")... Romans 9 basically says, who are we to question God? Some people are not going to choose God, and since God knows that in advance, logically speaking, they were made for destruction. While this might not "sit well" with humans, it might still be reality. I personally think it's pretty awesome that such a deep philosophical, logic based question would even be addressed in the Bible. -
Probably because I'm a masochist, I have a modest position on the Rangers tonight.I hit the Cardinals when they opened last night, because (a) I decided to gamble that Carpenter would start (and that this would affect the number) and (b) I decided to gamble that the books would grossly underestimate the power of the public's perception of "momentum."When I woke up this morning, the line had moved enough such that I could buy-back my entire position and show a profit, but the new line seemed way out of whack, and I liked the Rangers to begin with, so I hit it hard enough to end up with a pretty solid position on the Rangers, now. I might sell it back, but probably not. This will be painful.
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If everything is predestined, what is the point of God and belief and faith and salvation (from our perspective)? If God knew that some would be saved and some would be damned, he created existence just to arbitrarily assign some people to eternal suffering.This is an important question, and one that I can't begin to answer satisfactorily, but I always view it as a family deciding to have kids. You know that there is a possibility that some of your kids will be awesome and there is a chance that one of your kids will be Gary Busey, and yet you still take that chance, because kids are awesome. You do everything in your power to help them and guide them to have a good life, but sometimes it doesn't work. YET! You still love them, even if they screw up. In God's case, creation is a blessing to him and might make him "happy"... if that's even an emotion he can feel. In His case, he just happens to know before hand which kids are going to screw up, but he loves them anyway. He also knows who will eventually seek him. He doesn't force anyone's hand, he just already knows their choices.Obviously, this doesn't prove anything about God existing, but is within the hypothetical that He does exist. -
That was one of the most amazing games I have ever seen. I hate Tony "The Genius" Larussa, but I'm pulling for the Cardinals, now. That ball Freise hit was annihilated.
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If I didn't post here for a full year, and if I met with Chrozzo in the opening round, I know there is absolutely no way you would ever advance him past me, so let's stop kidding ourselves, okay?Tough luck on losing your first round match-up to chrozzo. Nobody saw that coming.Hmm, that might be what you prefer anyway...so maybe...Congrats on winning it all!I don't know what my play is here. -
Burn!I didn't realize caring was a prerequisite to voting.Edit: I'm putting both of you against each other in the first round of the next KOOT. -
Come to think of it, that's a substantial leak. I've probably got 1500 in microdebts floating around that I'll never collect. I'm bad at my job, apparently.
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Yeah, I just completely forgot. My usual settle number with people is 250ish, so whenever I owe someone (or someone owes me) less than that, it drops right out of my head. I don't have your contact info any more -- I'm currently, dead serious, using an LG Chocolate from like 2007 -- but you can text me your address/balance, too, if you want. It might take me a few hours to respond, though, as I don't have a keyboard, or T9I want to say all and all around $100 between NFL/NBA but I'll have to check out my spreadsheet at home to be sure. I'll send you a pm later or something. Probabaly what I should have done originally. Thanks, man. -
Oh hey, what do I owe you? You had a few futures that I never got to grade or anything, so just let me know how those turned out and I'll ship you a Money Order or Western Union thing tomorrow or Mon. It's like, what, 200 or something?Hey now that Wang is back posting, can I bring up settling our gambling balance or is this in bad taste and I need to drop it? -
Greatest scene in movie history.I quit reading here -
Are you sue you don't mean "we?"This may be like the one thing they got right. (not counting Battlefield Earth) -
Whatever, Tom Cruise
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Yeah, same with me.But those are definitely pink dots, right?Also, when I stare at the dots it looks like they're blinking off, but when I stare at the center it looks like a green dot traveling around the circle. -
Stare at the center, and eventually the red dots will start to fade. UNRELATED: most people just pick the color red and the tool hammerThen I don't get it. -
They are totally unrelatedBut why? Is it supposed to be something about that pattern? Obviously the color is because of the pattern, but what's with the hammer? Would most people say hammer if you just asked them for a tool without any weird animated pattern coming first? I HAVE TO KNOW. -
I used to have a Shalhoub/Bluftumi ally, but I can't remember who it was. Dammit.
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He's on a blufftoney!
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It's a great read.There's an entire chapter on sacrificing. My copies are at my parents' house, but you should buy it and read it. Or give me your address and I will ship you a copy.Until Theraflu mentioned it recently, I hadn't even heard of it. Or, at least, I hadn't heard of it since I forgot having heard of it. But I have seen it referenced all over the place since I started looking into this sacrifice bunt question this morning. -
Have you read The Book? EDIT: Mitchell Litchman, the guy who wrote that article you linked at Fangraphs, helped co-write it with Tom Tango
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This is what the animal said to us! He says to Ms. Cochran here: "Baby! Up your butt with a coconut!" I think he was prepared to do it! Except I saw no coconut. He, uh, he had no coconut to my knowledge.
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I was talking to a former Marine today -- a man we shall call Barry, a man who plays in my poker room, a man I know well, and a man who respects me -- and we were talking about gays in the military. He claimed that, in a country where "In God We Trust" is written on every piece of currency, allowing homosexuals into the Marines is absurd and dangerous.I'm not trying to set anyone up, and I'm not giving you much information, but I'd like to hear what Brv and BG have to say on the issue, as well as anyone who's served in the military.(Barry and I actually talked for 45 minutes, so I'll probably throw more of his stuff at y'all. It was an interesting conversation for me, and I'm simply curious as to what Brv and BG [in my head that sounds like "berv and beej"] think about the issue. I put some words in Christians' mouths while talking to Barry, and a few times I thought both, "Brv would say..." and "God, I feel like Brv never would have said that." I was, for the most part, proud of myself. I tried not to rely on rhetoric or cleverness, but rather to actually have an honest discussion, not trying to win the discussion, but simply to have it. I respect Barry; he's a fucking Marine. I like him, too, but we're different as fuuuuuuck. He's got ten years on me, an ex-wife, two daughters, a wildly successful business, and no idea how to use a computer*. By the end of the conversation, he knew I was an Atheist and an Irresponsible Liberal, but we parted on good terms.)*- He has 200+ accounts and something like 400K in revenue, and he tracks it ALL BY HAND ON PAPER
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Everything Shake has written in the past 30ish hours has been awesome
I Called In Sick Today
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The new layout is like the Quiznos baby. I... now have to leave for another few years.