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It sounds it. There aren't a whole lot of reasons someone would carry around a big pile of physical cash with them in a world with credit cards, checks, and the internet. Banks have to report deposits in excess of $10k or more but my guess would be that most don't want to know, as a matter of course, what's in their safe deposit boxes.
I have seen that people that keep a bunch of large bills in their box. I don't specifically know why, but I suspect it's because they want to appear to have less money for some reason. Tax evasion, qualifying for some sort of government assistance, maybe hiding it from a spouse, maybe drug money. I'm not really sure, but it seems sketchy to me.
From what I gathered in conversation, a fair few cases were, ironically, distrust of banks. People felt the safe deposit box was safer than their mattress, which was in turn safer than an account. Dumb. Money in a bank account is insured. Money in a safe deposit box is uninsured and unknown to anybody but you. When I worked there, another branch experienced a flood that destroyed a lot of people's stuff in the vault. (Not cash, which is fine if it gets wet, but what if it had been a fire or burglary?)
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That said, if I were a rich man (Daidle deedle daidle Daidle daidle deedle daidle dum), I'd definitely be walking around with large sums simply because I happen to prefer using cash when possible.It sounds it. There aren't a whole lot of reasons someone would carry around a big pile of physical cash with them in a world with credit cards, checks, and the internet. Banks have to report deposits in excess of $10k or more but my guess would be that most don't want to know, as a matter of course, what's in their safe deposit boxes.
I have seen that people that keep a bunch of large bills in their box. I don't specifically know why, but I suspect it's because they want to appear to have less money for some reason. Tax evasion, qualifying for some sort of government assistance, maybe hiding it from a spouse, maybe drug money. I'm not really sure, but it seems sketchy to me.
Thus is... TRADITION.
Money in a bank account is insured.
By the government, which these types tend not to trust.
The 'Dingo fence' in Australia is the longest fence in the world and is about twice as long as the great wall of china!
Less scenic, though.
Less scenic, though.
True, though the Aussie outback is beautiful in its own way :)
The Prefab Sprout song Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone) is called like that because the songwriter, Paddy McAloon, wanted the words of the title to spell out the name of the city his ex-girlfriend had gone to work as an au pair in when she broke up with him.
Holy crap, someone else on these boards has heard of Prefab Sprout!!!!
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque!
-Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world, just after oil.
-During the Middle Ages in Europe, it was customary for kids to drink watered-down beer. Monks originally started advising people to do it, as they found out the alcohol helped avoid diseases contracted from dirty water.
-It is estimated that about half the modern Spanish territory was completely devoid of human population during most of the Moorish occupation of the peninsula, as both Christians and Muslims retreated into their respective domains, leaving entire towns and cities abandoned, which were in perfect state and rarely damaged by sieges, in the process.
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That said, if I were a rich man (Daidle deedle daidle Daidle daidle deedle daidle dum), I'd definitely be walking around with large sums simply because I happen to prefer using cash when possible.
...Until someone gets wind of this and hits you over the head with a brick and takes it.
Kaj, Not that I think you fall into this category, but you reminded me of something.
There is a documentary called "Curse of the Lottery." Basically it's about people whose lives were ruined by the lottery. More accurately it's about people whose lives were ruinded after making monumentally stupid decisions after winning the lottery. Such as "grandpa" getting a briefcase with 100K in it and leaving it in his truck as he went into a country honkey tonk and brag about it. Guess what? When he came out to his truck the window had been broken and the briefcase was gone. Also he facilitated his grandaughter becoming a raging meth head by giving her dumbass a bunch of expensive crap.
Basically, with or without money people will be both very bright and very stupid.
/end rant
-Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world, just after oil.
Better recanize!!
Edit: That's "Better Recognize" in hip hop language. Clearly I'm not fluent in that particular dialect. Specifically when typing.
Money in a bank account is insured.By the government, which these types tend not to trust.
FDIC insurance only insures up to 250,000. I think that's per person, but it may be per account. I'm not really sure.
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If you're reading this you're probably older than the internet. Tell that to some kid and watch their reaction.
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That said, if I were a rich man (Daidle deedle daidle Daidle daidle deedle daidle dum), I'd definitely be walking around with large sums simply because I happen to prefer using cash when possible....Until someone gets wind of this and hits you over the head with a brick and takes it.
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Juan Garcia Esquivel won the Mexican lottery twice.
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That said, if I were a rich man (Daidle deedle daidle Daidle daidle deedle daidle dum), I'd definitely be walking around with large sums simply because I happen to prefer using cash when possible....Until someone gets wind of this and hits you over the head with a brick and takes it.
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Yeah, by large money I didn't really mean more than I can fit in my wallet without it being hard to fold. :D (I'm guessing... 8-10 thousand in Swedish money, or 1-2000 in US or Canadian ones). Enough to make me feel I could walk into a store and get a new dishwasher if I needed to, but not so much that it'd be showing off.
Stewart Francis' joke "You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks," was voted funniest joke at this year's Edinburgh Festival.
Personally I'd say the rest of the top ten were all funnier. But, as we say here in Sweden, "taste is like your butt: divided."
Yeah, by large money I didn't really mean more than I can fit in my wallet without it being hard to fold. :D (I'm guessing... 8-10 thousand in Swedish money, or 1-2000 in US or Canadian ones). Enough to make me feel I could walk into a store and get a new dishwasher if I needed to, but not so much that it'd be showing off.**stuff**
That said, if I were a rich man (Daidle deedle daidle Daidle daidle deedle daidle dum), I'd definitely be walking around with large sums simply because I happen to prefer using cash when possible....Until someone gets wind of this and hits you over the head with a brick and takes it.
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1,000-2,000 isn't so bad. I've seen people walk out of the bank with 20k+ in cash and I just think to myself "You stupid F***." Though, some of that may be rooted in jealousy.
Stewart Francis' joke "You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks," was voted funniest joke at this year's Edinburgh Festival.
Personally I'd say the rest of the top ten were all funnier. But, as we say here in Sweden, "taste is like your butt: divided."
This:
"taste is like your butt: divided."is far funnier than this:
"You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks."
Just saying.
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I'm guessing there's some kind of social or local context to it, 'cause I don't get the joke.
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Well, you see, Orthos, your butt has two halves...
*Gibbs smack* The other one, goofy goblin =P
I'm guessing there's some kind of social or local context to it, 'cause I don't get the joke.
Me either. I assumed it was a cultural thing.
I'm guessing there's some kind of social or local context to it, 'cause I don't get the joke.
Their kids have silly names. Brooklyn (cause that's where he was made ["thanks for telling everyone, mum and dad!"]), Romeo, Cruz, and Harper Seven.
I once saw an ID registry for a kid named "Haleksanndheer".
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You know I find that the conversations around here are coming off like this Cracked article. On the one had it has gotten a bit silly on the other hand I am very guilty of #1 on this list. Well complaining about it anyway.
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Did you know...
that Superman has never won a race against any version of the Flash?
Less scenic, though.True, though the Aussie outback is beautiful in its own way :)
In defence of the Aussie outback, I was thinking more of the two constructions. :)
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I'm guessing there's some kind of social or local context to it, 'cause I don't get the joke.Their kids have silly names.
... Posh and Becks are people? That explains it. I didn't realize those were supposed to be names.
... Posh and Becks are people? That explains it. I didn't realize those were supposed to be names.I'm guessing there's some kind of social or local context to it, 'cause I don't get the joke.Their kids have silly names.
Posh Spice
Bend It Like Beckham
*reference flies over head* Yeah I know jack squat about most popular culture....
She were in Spice Girls, and he's a Calvin Klein model.
Edit: And at one point he was a pretty decent footballer too.
Sporty Spice has topped the British singles charts as part of a quintet, a quartet, a duo and solo.
I always thought Brits were supposed to have better taste than Americans.
I always thought Brits were supposed to have better taste than Americans.
???
Their idea of cuisine is to boil beef until it turns to string. And, seriously, any culture that volunatrily eats anything called "Spotted Dick" cannot be commended for taste!
They brew some phenomenally good ale, though, got to give them that.
FDIC insurance only insures up to 250,000. I think that's per person, but it may be per account. I'm not really sure.Money in a bank account is insured.By the government, which these types tend not to trust.
I think it's per person per institution. If you have 500k you could have it all protected by splitting the wad in two and depositing at two different banks.
But the really rich ones that have millions to squirrel away don't bother. They officially negotiate a private insurance plan or, in the real world, commit tax evasion.
I think he meant taste in music.
I'd have to concur, in general. They also have a much faster paced popular music cycle; things come in and go out of fashion rather quickly.
Since probably 90% of my favorite bands are British or have British members, on the music front, I definitely agree.
Also British television is much better, they have freaking panel shows, why don't we?
Did you know...?
The Ice Cream Sundae was invented in Two Rivers, Wisconsin?
-And the romans had icecreams as well! Rather, snowcones would be the modern equivalent, since it was made with snow and fruit juice.
-In Gladiator, in the scene where the Emperor returns to Rome and is greeted by the senators, you can see the Praetorian Guard in the background (the guys in black). One of them is very evidently sleeping and barely standing on his feet.
-In the same movie (which is one of my all-times favourites, I might add), during the "Barbarian Hordes" fight in the colisseum, in the part where the gladiators cut off the horses from one of the chariots and it turns over, you can see the pressurised gas tank used to cause the effect right inside the vehicle.
-Also, if you check carefully, you can see a guy sporting blue jeans behind a horse when Maximus is preparing his troops for battle against the Germans in the opening scenes.
Marco Polo returned from Asia with a cream based fruit ice recipe, at which point the recipe became a jealously guarded secret of the aristocracy. It was not until the Chicago World's Faire of 1893, that ice cream became available to the common citizen.
I love you, America.
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Marco Polo returned from Asia with a cream based fruit ice recipe, at which point the recipe became a jealously guarded secret of the aristocracy. It was not until the Chicago World's Faire of 1893, that ice cream became available to the common citizen.
I love you, America.
Yet another ploy by the bolsheviks to take away our exclusive and proper right to enjoy pistaccio & chocolate banana blast!
Each vein and artery has a lining of muscle that can contract when a foreign object invades the vein or artery...such as an IV. Ouch.
In defence of the Aussie outback, I was thinking more of the two constructions. :)Less scenic, though.True, though the Aussie outback is beautiful in its own way :)
Yes I doubt anyone plans a trip to see the dingo fence :)
In 1954 Bob Hawke made it into the Guinness Record Book: he sculled 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Bob Hawke went on to become the Prime Minister of Australia.
In 1954 Bob Hawke made it into the Guinness Record Book: he sculled 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Bob Hawke went on to become the Prime Minister of Australia.
This reminded me of Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia from January of 1966 to December of 1967. That's not because his government fell in a scandal or something. He went to take a swim and never came back, literally.
I wish Julia would go for a swim :O
(not really but I can't wait till the next election)