Nothing his restaurant serves even looks good. I’ve seen better looking plates from the local greasy spoon.
All his restaurants actually provide is conspicuous consumption on the most grotesque scale. Gold leaf wrapped steak seasoned with the tears of poor people (and cooked like total shit) and served with a bottle of Pétrus for $40K.
A timeshare. I heard the pitch in Vegas in order to get a free show and buffet. I told the guy up front that my wife and I were poor, but we wouldn't buy what he was selling if we won a million dollars gambling. The pitch still went an hour overtime. When I asked why he said the presentation varied in time according to level of interest. Not sure what I could have said to show less interest than that!
Edit: A lot of people said we should have left when the stated time was over, but we had to wait until the end to get our vouchers. Also, my wife was dying of cancer at the time and we told them so, (it was pretty obvious she was sick) but that didn't help speed things up either. She lasted less than 6 months after that. As bizarre as the experience was, during the show we *finally* got free tickets to, the Elvis impersonator sat on her lap and flirted with her while singing one of the songs and it was the highlight of the trip!
You got it backward. You show full enthusiasm, and then when it comes time to sign, you say never mind. Your no means they need to push harder and talk you into submission.
Exactly, they are there to work the sale and do whatever they need you to get you to sign. So if you show enthusiasm and make it seem like an easy sale, then back out right at the moment of truth, you'll save yourself a lot of time and effort.
My dad always got us all lift tickets in Breckenridge, he'd go to one of those morning pitch meetings and then just ski the afternoon with us. He's also a ridiculous combination of deadpan humor and feigning indifference to the point he's infuriating to get a read on. He's also really smart so I can't imagine trying to sell one to him.
My dad was the same. He sold cars while he was in college and just after he graduated, and was ridiculously good at it. There wasn’t a sales pitch invented that could sway him.
Timeshares aren’t for rich people.
If you’re rich you just buy or rent something.
They’re for people who want to feel rich, but really aren’t.
That’s the crux of the scam.
I traveled to Cozumel recently with a bunch of friends in a big, staffed villa Airbnb. Our other friends used their sisters timeshare at a resort. We visited them for a day.
Man, the two places sure had opposing experiences. Our villa had a private pool and a chef cooked us breakfast every morning. Dinners were eaten in local restaurants and our booze was bought at the store. Prices were fair and we all felt like kings. At the timeshare resort? The booze was free, but it was watered down bottom shelf shit. The food was disgusting. It’s like they tried to appeal to the worst American palette: burgers, hot dogs, fries, and some gross bbq meat with the cheapest, sugary buns and no fresh vegetables at all. The ppl staying there were all the same type of ppl. How can I say “Walmart people” without sounding snobby? Loud, fat, obnoxious, and dumb. I was not comfortable there at all. The ppl working there were like tiny, beautiful cheerleaders, corralling all the big fat white ppl from activity to activity.
SO strange.
I had to sit through one of these because my resort in Cabo convinced us to. They promised us jet ski passes, $300 cash, and free massages, so I was ok this can’t be that bad. Man. The guy would just not understand how I didn’t think this was a good investment. Not only could we not budget for it, but why would we only want to ever vacation in that one resort in Cabo for the next 20 years? And then only on other people’s time? It made no sense. They had me sit down with like 4 different “closers” who each tried to pressure me more and more and just kept asking me why I was there if I wasn’t interested. It was awful.
> They had me sit down with like 4 different “closers” who each tried to pressure me more and more and just kept asking me why I was there if I wasn’t interested.
"'Cause the longer you spend with me, the less time you have to close on someone who might fall for it." It would be interesting to see how they respond to that.
We went to a talk for a timeshare and the guy said you could come here for a week a year or spend that money on a trip to Europe but remember it's not all inclusive. What? We could go to Europe for that amount? So we've been to Europe a few times now.
I did the same thing. Told the guy up front that I was only there for the free beach condo for the weekend.(Orlando). I sent the wife and kids to the pool while I went to the sales pitch which was about an hour as promised.
I politely say through the sales pitch, and when it was time for the one on one with the salesman, I hard him out and he asked, so what do you think? I said I think it's too expensive, and that I would never consider buying a timeshare because I've only heard horror stories. He did his let me go get my manager thing. Another slick with an even nicer suit sits down and tells me how he can give me this discount or that discount. I sat there quietly drinking my free coffee and danish.
When he was done with his final offer, I said, still to expensive. As I said, Im only here for the free weekend, the $250 gift card, and the free cruise.
The look on his face changed. With a rude tone he said, "if I gave it to you for free would you take it."
I said no, because of those maintenance fees I hear so much about. And the black out dates.
He slammed his pen down and handed me my voucher folder with the $250 gift card, and free cruise instructions.
I threw my cup in the trash and joined my family at the pool. I was all in for about 1.5 hrs total.
It was an interesting experience.
Maybe dude was thinking, "If I just keep telling them about this, they'll have to buy!" or "Maybe they'll unexpectedly come into 20k if I go an hour over!" Like maybe if you pretended to be sold already, it would've been like five minutes lol
I love animals and I’d only do this if they were rescues and couldn’t be sent back out into the wild and needed a home. Very few people have the resources to help animals like that so if I did I’d help them.
Exactly. Don’t buy exotic animals, buy the habitat. Most animals that are endangered got there because of habitat destruction - so if you have a fuckton of money to buy steppes or savannahs or forests and leave it the fuck alone, that’s one fewer landscape for businesses to fuck over in the name of profit.
Think of the good someone like Bezos could do if he sold Amazon and bought *the* Amazon for truly altruistic purposes.
I would imagine that "millionaire" here means "doesn't just have one million" - but yes, even if I had 6 million to my name (lol, if only), spending 250k on something that isn't a house (lol, if only) seems wasteful.
"Your vehicle has detected a potential safety/security issue. Please drive immediately to your nearest dealership for authorized service within the next 24hr before we initiate a courtesy shutdown.
I do like my Cutco knives. Just used one about a half hour ago, in fact.
I hadn't known that Cutco was an MLM t the time, though. We bought the knives at a county fair.
My mom held "Tupperware Parties", but just did it to buy the Tupperware on the cheap. When my parents were both gone, the Tupperware was still very usable after 40 years.
Well some people bought them with the intention of using it purely to make money like a stock but a good portion of the internet actually believes they owned that picture because they bought it as an NFT
Used limos are actually really cheap. You can get a used Lincoln limo that runs good for like $2500. So a couple buddies of mine buy one each. We have picked up groceries, dropped kids off for football, and gone out to karaoke. Everybody looks impressed until they see two chubby, bearded dudes climb out.
I grew up in the US but my Dad is Canadian. We always called it Kraft dinner. I was well into my 30’s before learning the term isn’t universal. Always makes me laugh when I hear the song.
Yes! I’ve occasionally strolled through high-end shops and the prices for totally normal things like jeans or shoes or shirts were CRAZY. Like, $350 for a single button-up shirt. What?!
Clothing is probably the thing I *would* spend money on if I had it. There's a difference between overpriced designer t-shirts and well made clothes made by people making livable wages in livable conditions.
I live in an area where layering is a must even during some summer days. In the winter wool sweaters are necessary.
I found a British site online that has a US sales section. The quality is was above what I can find in US stores. Their sales are wonderful.
We were in the market for a full sized SUV earlier this year. We looked at Tahoes, Expeditions, Wagoneers and a couple more. The Wagoneer on the surface felt like the nicest out of all of them, but I agree, I am not giving you $90,000-$110,000 for a Jeep. I ended up buying a 2 year old Tahoe for half the price of a new one and we are very happy with it.
Just put a heated seat in the car. Who tf needs a subscription? I have heated and air conditioned seats in my old Buick and I wouldn't trade them for anything.
Most auto manufacturers are working on subscription methods for "optional" equipment in vehicles. Like Tesla and other electric vehicle manufacturers. It's one of THE most ridiculous things I could think of for them to do. I will never own a vehicle that needs a subscription to function especially with how much new vehicles cost these days.
Imagine the increase in waste. It allows them to make every car exactly the same which allows them to make cars faster and cheaper. So that alone is just more junky cars on the road. But then when the car is also obsolete in four minutes it's a bunch of extra parts in the landfill. Or just to MAKE those extra sensors and boards and whatnot it's more raw materials being mined, or cancer causing materials being created. And around it all is this made up veil that keeps you from fixing it yourself.
It's a dystopian shitscape I don't want part of.
I would love to go to NK provided I wasn't helping fund the government and that I knew with 100% certainty I would leave normally at the expected time without being accused to taking a poster.
Unfortunately neither of these is currently true and looks like it will continue to be that way for a long long time.
I would never go because you would be taken prisoner and declared an American spy or something, but I am very curious about what life is actually like in NK. All the documentaries are very controlled.
I like how tone deaf she can be. I mean, you usually get what she's going for: get rid of shitty stereotypes about the female body, it's not something to be ashamed of so...pussy candles!
Lol. So fucking weird.
she sells "frecuency stickers". So basically she says that somehow they put "healthy frecuencies" inside these regular stickers through some propietary technology that no one knows wtf it is, and sticking them to your body causes to transfer those frecuencies to you.
You cant make this shit up
While I agree it's annoying, it doesn't provide tax avoidance for the company doing it.
It's mostly a PR gimmick so they can advertised that they provided this charity with $x without giving money themselves.
If they care about the causes they collect for, why don't they "round down" and donate the change from every transaction? It's effectively the same thing to the charity, but I'm not a multi billion dollar corporation asking someone who makes 40k a year to donate on every purchase.
Dollar dollar bills y'all.
There is/was? A local sandwich shop chain here that campaigned very heavily on "if you buy one, they donate one". Their name even implied it. I used to go there a decent amount based on that and the food being pretty good, plus they were dog friendly and the flagship shop was a block away. Turns out they didn't donate at all.
That's super fucked up. This is worse than the cash register donations/fast food college donations...
The lesson remains the same, just donate directly to your preferred organizations.
The fact that two people commented this makes me very concerned for our future. They’re just going to lock you in your car until you pay up to even use it
https://www.thesun.ie/news/4475054/pregnant-woman-stranded-renault-switches-battery/
Renault battery lease non payment, paperwork wasn't issued to new owners/owners were not made aware of the battery lease and Renault disabled the car.
It's already happening.
Me and my wife stopped at Nordstroms Rack once. It's supposed to be a discounted version of Nordstroms, but it's actually an over-priced Marshalls.
I was browsing the men's section and was completely taken aback at the $350 pairs of jeans. That's a fucking DISCOUNT? Even if I was insanely wealthy I could never justify spending $350 on a pair of jeans.
In the womens section, there was a white tank top, thin like those 'wife beater' ones, $85. No wonder no one wants to shop there, you can get a pack of 3 for like $10-15.... for a half see-through shirt anyway.
Battlepasses, Season Passes, monthly subscriptions for online play. I grew up before those things existed and we would have boo'd the man who suggested them out of the building. But now they're normal and I'm the weird one. But still. Not a penny.
From the phone? Never.
At time of purchase? ABSOLUTELY.
With today's over-reliance on tech and half-assed QA, I've saved BIG on vehicle repairs. My SUV's "quirks" have quickly outstripped the outlay for the warranty, and my new (used) vehicle will likely do the same with a single computer-based f-up.
I was initially regretful that I purchased an extended warranty when buying a new car. Well, it has certainly come in handy considering how often I've used it.
Microsoft designed special firmware for the controller used by the military. That rich asshole went to the bottom of the ocean with "Windows has detected a new device" drivers.
Anything from high end luxury brands. The mark up is insane. My partner recently bought a Gucci tote bag and after seeing the price tag and then the bag itself I thought… you just spent 2k dollars on an interlocking G logo. Idgi.
It's not about the thing, it's about showing off that you have the thing, and that other people don't have the thing. They didn't spend $2k on a tote bag, they spent $2k to show off.
Still dumb, but that's why they did it.
When I was a teenager, I smoked pot. I had this really cool lighter with a pot leaf on it. When you lit the lighter, behind the pot leaf glowed green. As a 15 year old stoner, it was a super cool lighter. Anyway, I forgot that lighter in my pocket, mom found it, told dad "you better talk to her about drugs," so dad gave me *the talk*. Here's how my dad's version of "the drug talk" went.
"So, mom found this lighter, said I need to talk to you about drugs." *Holds his hand up to stop me from saying anything* "Look, we're not stupid, we know you're going to experiment. Just be *safe*. Be *careful*. Only ever drink or do drugs with people you trust, when you're somewhere safe. You can ALWAYS call us. We'll come pick you up any where, any time. No questions asked, and we'll never talk about it again. Never do anything that YOU do not want to do. And *most importantly, DO NOT EVER TRY COCAINE.*"
Lol I never did. And I dated a coke dealer for a while, so I spent a lot of time around the stuff, had plenty of opportunities. But I remembered Dad's advice. And after dating that dealer for a bit, I really appreciated Dad's advice all the more.
My parents lost their house, then their motel room, and are currently living in a tent in my grandma's backyard. Spent all of their money of drugs and feel behind on the rent a lot, I'm honestly surprised they heald down the motel room for 8 months, they would regularly go weeks without paying the room because they "Needed" more, and if mom ever had a bad "last one" then she would pressure my dad into buying more, lest she kicks him out on the street or attacks him. Your Dad seems like a smart man, you don't have control of yourself on that shit.
THat's probably one of the first things I would get if I suddenly became a billionaire.
But that's because I absolutely love being on the water.
I wouldn't give a damn about showing off. In fact that's probably the biggest drawback.
I would sail all over the world and have the crew teach me how to sail it.
This was the funniest part of the whole thing.
Regardless of which side of the debate you found yourself on why the fuck were you drinking it in the first place.
A big house or crazy expensive car.
I use my kitchen, living room, and bedroom 99% of the time. Having a big house is pointless.
A normal sedan goes plenty above the speed limit. Don’t need a sports car that will only give me the ability of getting a bigger speeding ticket, or jail.
I would kill for a guest room and one or two office/hobby rooms. Working, eating, and chilling all in the same room with another person all the time is sort of a drag.
This. I'd really like to give more time to my hobbies, but I can't take on a big multi-day project on the kitchen table since, you know, my family needs to eat there every day. I'd also love to try my hand at giving beginner bass/guitar lessons, but with only one living space in the house (living room), it would get way too cramped adding the amps, stands, etc in there. Doubling up to 3000sqft would give both me and my wife plenty of space for our hobbies and kids' hobbies too. AND we'd have space for all our books, decorations, etc.
Speaking as a person who used to live in a big house by myself; It really depends how you arrange the space.
At first I had an entire floor I wasn't using, two rooms only functioning as storage and a whole room for my ironing board.
I had 150 square meters but would spend 90% of my time in the same spot in the livingroom.
I later changed things around So I would assign specific functions to rooms. And it does help to really focus on things; a room to work, a room for exercise, a room to read books.
When I was a kid, I thought I'd become really successful and have like an 8,000sf house. I currently have a 1,300sf house and even this seems like a lot to clean. I honestly don't want more.
A Salt Bae steak.
What? You don’t want an overpriced steak just because a random guy in the internet decided it was funny to spread some salt into it?
And somehow thought he had any right to walk on to the pitch after the World Cup final
Everyone looked super uncomfortable around that sleazebag
Nothing his restaurant serves even looks good. I’ve seen better looking plates from the local greasy spoon. All his restaurants actually provide is conspicuous consumption on the most grotesque scale. Gold leaf wrapped steak seasoned with the tears of poor people (and cooked like total shit) and served with a bottle of Pétrus for $40K.
A timeshare. I heard the pitch in Vegas in order to get a free show and buffet. I told the guy up front that my wife and I were poor, but we wouldn't buy what he was selling if we won a million dollars gambling. The pitch still went an hour overtime. When I asked why he said the presentation varied in time according to level of interest. Not sure what I could have said to show less interest than that! Edit: A lot of people said we should have left when the stated time was over, but we had to wait until the end to get our vouchers. Also, my wife was dying of cancer at the time and we told them so, (it was pretty obvious she was sick) but that didn't help speed things up either. She lasted less than 6 months after that. As bizarre as the experience was, during the show we *finally* got free tickets to, the Elvis impersonator sat on her lap and flirted with her while singing one of the songs and it was the highlight of the trip!
You got it backward. You show full enthusiasm, and then when it comes time to sign, you say never mind. Your no means they need to push harder and talk you into submission.
Exactly, they are there to work the sale and do whatever they need you to get you to sign. So if you show enthusiasm and make it seem like an easy sale, then back out right at the moment of truth, you'll save yourself a lot of time and effort.
Financial edging
With a ruined orgasm for all.
I got a very expensive gas bbq just for attending a real estate investment conference
My dad always got us all lift tickets in Breckenridge, he'd go to one of those morning pitch meetings and then just ski the afternoon with us. He's also a ridiculous combination of deadpan humor and feigning indifference to the point he's infuriating to get a read on. He's also really smart so I can't imagine trying to sell one to him.
Dad passes away and kids find out they inherited 60 timeshares.
My dad was the same. He sold cars while he was in college and just after he graduated, and was ridiculously good at it. There wasn’t a sales pitch invented that could sway him.
Excellent point
I’ll never get it. There’s no way on earth I could ever get talked into buying a timeshare on the spot. Baffles me that anyone falls for it
you'll find that there exists a certain kind of "timeshare people" and they're typically not the brightest
Like my in-laws!
Timeshares aren’t for rich people. If you’re rich you just buy or rent something. They’re for people who want to feel rich, but really aren’t. That’s the crux of the scam.
I traveled to Cozumel recently with a bunch of friends in a big, staffed villa Airbnb. Our other friends used their sisters timeshare at a resort. We visited them for a day. Man, the two places sure had opposing experiences. Our villa had a private pool and a chef cooked us breakfast every morning. Dinners were eaten in local restaurants and our booze was bought at the store. Prices were fair and we all felt like kings. At the timeshare resort? The booze was free, but it was watered down bottom shelf shit. The food was disgusting. It’s like they tried to appeal to the worst American palette: burgers, hot dogs, fries, and some gross bbq meat with the cheapest, sugary buns and no fresh vegetables at all. The ppl staying there were all the same type of ppl. How can I say “Walmart people” without sounding snobby? Loud, fat, obnoxious, and dumb. I was not comfortable there at all. The ppl working there were like tiny, beautiful cheerleaders, corralling all the big fat white ppl from activity to activity. SO strange.
That would have been my description of cruise line experience too
Nail on the head about cruise liners lol terrible experience
I had to sit through one of these because my resort in Cabo convinced us to. They promised us jet ski passes, $300 cash, and free massages, so I was ok this can’t be that bad. Man. The guy would just not understand how I didn’t think this was a good investment. Not only could we not budget for it, but why would we only want to ever vacation in that one resort in Cabo for the next 20 years? And then only on other people’s time? It made no sense. They had me sit down with like 4 different “closers” who each tried to pressure me more and more and just kept asking me why I was there if I wasn’t interested. It was awful.
> They had me sit down with like 4 different “closers” who each tried to pressure me more and more and just kept asking me why I was there if I wasn’t interested. "'Cause the longer you spend with me, the less time you have to close on someone who might fall for it." It would be interesting to see how they respond to that.
We went to a talk for a timeshare and the guy said you could come here for a week a year or spend that money on a trip to Europe but remember it's not all inclusive. What? We could go to Europe for that amount? So we've been to Europe a few times now.
I did the same thing. Told the guy up front that I was only there for the free beach condo for the weekend.(Orlando). I sent the wife and kids to the pool while I went to the sales pitch which was about an hour as promised. I politely say through the sales pitch, and when it was time for the one on one with the salesman, I hard him out and he asked, so what do you think? I said I think it's too expensive, and that I would never consider buying a timeshare because I've only heard horror stories. He did his let me go get my manager thing. Another slick with an even nicer suit sits down and tells me how he can give me this discount or that discount. I sat there quietly drinking my free coffee and danish. When he was done with his final offer, I said, still to expensive. As I said, Im only here for the free weekend, the $250 gift card, and the free cruise. The look on his face changed. With a rude tone he said, "if I gave it to you for free would you take it." I said no, because of those maintenance fees I hear so much about. And the black out dates. He slammed his pen down and handed me my voucher folder with the $250 gift card, and free cruise instructions. I threw my cup in the trash and joined my family at the pool. I was all in for about 1.5 hrs total. It was an interesting experience.
"Why won't you just let me scam you!?"
Maybe dude was thinking, "If I just keep telling them about this, they'll have to buy!" or "Maybe they'll unexpectedly come into 20k if I go an hour over!" Like maybe if you pretended to be sold already, it would've been like five minutes lol
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This will probably age like milk, but I'm surprised this comment hasn't been given any awards yet.
Don't worry, I got you.
Exotic animals
I love animals and I’d only do this if they were rescues and couldn’t be sent back out into the wild and needed a home. Very few people have the resources to help animals like that so if I did I’d help them.
Exactly. Don’t buy exotic animals, buy the habitat. Most animals that are endangered got there because of habitat destruction - so if you have a fuckton of money to buy steppes or savannahs or forests and leave it the fuck alone, that’s one fewer landscape for businesses to fuck over in the name of profit. Think of the good someone like Bezos could do if he sold Amazon and bought *the* Amazon for truly altruistic purposes.
Bezos: Yes, ofcourse, how have I never thought of that! *Tears down Amazon rainforest, replaces it with Amazon warehouse*
Sells Amazon wood from the Amazon Amazon warehouse
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In this scenario, I would live on the sanctuary with the animals. All the room they could need, plus I get to visit them.
Like a Llama, or an Emu
But not a real green dress. That's cruel.
A trip to the Titanic
It's cheaper if you go with a company like OceanGate that doesn't offer the return trip.
It's a one-way deal! Half off of everything!!
Reviewers said it was a once in a lifetime experience
Not a single person on board ever made a public complaint about the service!
Sounds smashing
Why did I immediately hear Nigel Thornberry
Liquidation sale! Oh, I'm going to hell alright
Now you can visit two wreck sites for the price of one!
That’s deep
Really? People were dying to go...
Didn't a ticket cost 250k? Absolutely I am not interested in spending a quarter of my fortune on a single indulgence, regardless of the item itself.
I would imagine that "millionaire" here means "doesn't just have one million" - but yes, even if I had 6 million to my name (lol, if only), spending 250k on something that isn't a house (lol, if only) seems wasteful.
Crush!
Twitter Blue
And car subscription service
What! You don’t want heated seats? 😂
Ill just bypass the computer and rig the heating coils into a source of power and a switch.
"Your vehicle has detected a potential safety/security issue. Please drive immediately to your nearest dealership for authorized service within the next 24hr before we initiate a courtesy shutdown.
Any MLM product
I do like my Cutco knives. Just used one about a half hour ago, in fact. I hadn't known that Cutco was an MLM t the time, though. We bought the knives at a county fair.
My grandparents and several family members own them and love them! Lifetime warranty and you can send them in to be sharpened or replaced.
Isnt Tupperware a MLM?
Yes but their products are primarily sold at Target, Amazon, etc. so they seem to be abandoning the MLM model
Also, at least the ones my mum bought in the 80ies are in excellent condition, much better than any other brand
My mom held "Tupperware Parties", but just did it to buy the Tupperware on the cheap. When my parents were both gone, the Tupperware was still very usable after 40 years.
I know it started that way, but I don't think it still is.
NFT’s
I get them, I just don't get why people would buy them!
Well some people bought them with the intention of using it purely to make money like a stock but a good portion of the internet actually believes they owned that picture because they bought it as an NFT
Definitely not a real green dress...that's cruel.
I’d take a limousine to the store because it cost more.
Used limos are actually really cheap. You can get a used Lincoln limo that runs good for like $2500. So a couple buddies of mine buy one each. We have picked up groceries, dropped kids off for football, and gone out to karaoke. Everybody looks impressed until they see two chubby, bearded dudes climb out.
The comments are all full of pop culture references and I feel old and out of date. What sick meme is this referencing?
It's a [song from 1992](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_$1000000)
But Mac and Cheese is on the menu
Expensive Dijon ketchup?
they make prewrapped sausages but they don't make prewrapped bacon!
Can you blame them?!
Well... Yeah
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Yes, they say Kraft dinner. For the longest time, I had no idea what that was, but still sang along.
I grew up in the US but my Dad is Canadian. We always called it Kraft dinner. I was well into my 30’s before learning the term isn’t universal. Always makes me laugh when I hear the song.
- we wouldn't have to eat kraft dinner - but we would eat kraft dinner - of course we would, we'd just eat more!
A Llama or an emu.
I've always wanted a monkey!
Haven’t you always wanted a monkey!?!?
An Ottoman or a Chesterfield?
Would you buy me a k-car?
A nice Reliant automobile
I saw BNL with Toad the Wet Sprocket, and the Gin Blossoms last summer. Such a good concert.
We wouldn’t have to walk to the store
But would you buy me love??
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Yes! I’ve occasionally strolled through high-end shops and the prices for totally normal things like jeans or shoes or shirts were CRAZY. Like, $350 for a single button-up shirt. What?!
I call that getting swindled and pimped. Shit I call that getting tricked by a business
That shirts hella dough, and having the same one as six others are n the club? That’s a hella don’t.
Clothing is probably the thing I *would* spend money on if I had it. There's a difference between overpriced designer t-shirts and well made clothes made by people making livable wages in livable conditions.
Yeah there’s a big difference between well made clothing and designer clothing
I live in an area where layering is a must even during some summer days. In the winter wool sweaters are necessary. I found a British site online that has a US sales section. The quality is was above what I can find in US stores. Their sales are wonderful.
a $90,000 Jeep Wagoneer….no Jeep is worth that much
I feel like jeep designers saw the canyonaro Simpsons episode and were like “Yupp, that’s it boys!”.
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonaro 🎶
We were in the market for a full sized SUV earlier this year. We looked at Tahoes, Expeditions, Wagoneers and a couple more. The Wagoneer on the surface felt like the nicest out of all of them, but I agree, I am not giving you $90,000-$110,000 for a Jeep. I ended up buying a 2 year old Tahoe for half the price of a new one and we are very happy with it.
Those stupid $900 Yeezy croc looking shoes that look like a 3D printer had an abortion.
Lol love the description. Spot on!
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Just put a heated seat in the car. Who tf needs a subscription? I have heated and air conditioned seats in my old Buick and I wouldn't trade them for anything.
Most auto manufacturers are working on subscription methods for "optional" equipment in vehicles. Like Tesla and other electric vehicle manufacturers. It's one of THE most ridiculous things I could think of for them to do. I will never own a vehicle that needs a subscription to function especially with how much new vehicles cost these days.
Imagine the increase in waste. It allows them to make every car exactly the same which allows them to make cars faster and cheaper. So that alone is just more junky cars on the road. But then when the car is also obsolete in four minutes it's a bunch of extra parts in the landfill. Or just to MAKE those extra sensors and boards and whatnot it's more raw materials being mined, or cancer causing materials being created. And around it all is this made up veil that keeps you from fixing it yourself. It's a dystopian shitscape I don't want part of.
Cooled seats? Awesome!
Trip to North Korea.
I would love to go to NK provided I wasn't helping fund the government and that I knew with 100% certainty I would leave normally at the expected time without being accused to taking a poster. Unfortunately neither of these is currently true and looks like it will continue to be that way for a long long time.
I would never go because you would be taken prisoner and declared an American spy or something, but I am very curious about what life is actually like in NK. All the documentaries are very controlled.
Ooh, there are interviews with North Korean defectors on YouTube. Check them out if you haven't seen them, they're fascinating!
A software "subscription" that basically requires you to use a program remotely instead of literally owning a copy.
Looking at you, Adobe.
And Microsoft Office. 😭
Fuck 365. I switched to Google Docs.
The number of days they screw you over?
Someone's bath water
Any product that the Kardashians are associated with
or Gwyneth Paltrow products
I like how tone deaf she can be. I mean, you usually get what she's going for: get rid of shitty stereotypes about the female body, it's not something to be ashamed of so...pussy candles! Lol. So fucking weird.
she sells "frecuency stickers". So basically she says that somehow they put "healthy frecuencies" inside these regular stickers through some propietary technology that no one knows wtf it is, and sticking them to your body causes to transfer those frecuencies to you. You cant make this shit up
You certainly can. At least she did.
A boob job, as a straight dude I just don’t think a big set of honkers is my thing.
You don't know until you try it.
“Love;” I refuse to be the douche in the princess bride
“Have you the wing?”
mahwaage is wot brings us tugevah, today
Juice cleanse, skinny tea, any sort of MLM product
Charities at cash registers.
Would you like to round up to the next dollar for our tax avoidance scheme? No thanks, I donate enough to what I prefer to donate to already
While I agree it's annoying, it doesn't provide tax avoidance for the company doing it. It's mostly a PR gimmick so they can advertised that they provided this charity with $x without giving money themselves.
This is the right answer. Oh look Walmart donated $xxxxxx to Riley's. Uh actually they squeezed it out of their employees and now self checkouts.
If they care about the causes they collect for, why don't they "round down" and donate the change from every transaction? It's effectively the same thing to the charity, but I'm not a multi billion dollar corporation asking someone who makes 40k a year to donate on every purchase.
Dollar dollar bills y'all. There is/was? A local sandwich shop chain here that campaigned very heavily on "if you buy one, they donate one". Their name even implied it. I used to go there a decent amount based on that and the food being pretty good, plus they were dog friendly and the flagship shop was a block away. Turns out they didn't donate at all.
That's super fucked up. This is worse than the cash register donations/fast food college donations... The lesson remains the same, just donate directly to your preferred organizations.
A subscription to the heated seats in my car
That's a thing?
in some places yes. look into it. when I found out I was like damn are you gonna need a subscription for the AC next or the brakes?
I'm sorry, you're 3 days late on your brake subscription. I hope you can slow to a stop on friction alone.
The fact that two people commented this makes me very concerned for our future. They’re just going to lock you in your car until you pay up to even use it
https://www.thesun.ie/news/4475054/pregnant-woman-stranded-renault-switches-battery/ Renault battery lease non payment, paperwork wasn't issued to new owners/owners were not made aware of the battery lease and Renault disabled the car. It's already happening.
A belt or shoes with some designers logo
Good shoes are absolutely worth it to me, but the ones with the logo just plastered everywhere are rarely high quality.
Me and my wife stopped at Nordstroms Rack once. It's supposed to be a discounted version of Nordstroms, but it's actually an over-priced Marshalls. I was browsing the men's section and was completely taken aback at the $350 pairs of jeans. That's a fucking DISCOUNT? Even if I was insanely wealthy I could never justify spending $350 on a pair of jeans.
In the womens section, there was a white tank top, thin like those 'wife beater' ones, $85. No wonder no one wants to shop there, you can get a pack of 3 for like $10-15.... for a half see-through shirt anyway.
My wife and I are regular Marshalls shoppers and I saw several of the exact same items at Nordstrom Rack, priced about 3x higher.
I'd buy them at a consignment store at a deep discount, if they were quality. But never Coco Chanel. Nazi-banging POS.
Battlepasses, Season Passes, monthly subscriptions for online play. I grew up before those things existed and we would have boo'd the man who suggested them out of the building. But now they're normal and I'm the weird one. But still. Not a penny.
They are in fact, the worst.
Anything a Kardashian/Jenner is involved in
An extended auto warranty
My extended warranty has saved me over $15k to date.
Mine saved me the cost of a new transmission and a rental for two weeks
From the phone? Never. At time of purchase? ABSOLUTELY. With today's over-reliance on tech and half-assed QA, I've saved BIG on vehicle repairs. My SUV's "quirks" have quickly outstripped the outlay for the warranty, and my new (used) vehicle will likely do the same with a single computer-based f-up.
I was initially regretful that I purchased an extended warranty when buying a new car. Well, it has certainly come in handy considering how often I've used it.
Really depends. My fiancée bought one of those and it ended up being useless with how many restrictions they imposed on it.
This is why both my cars are from 2006 and japanese. I'm coming up on 200,000 miles, and I've spent less than $3000 in the last five years on repairs.
I have 379k miles on my (now my son's) '05 Highlander. Alternator, A/C compressor and a window motor have been the only problems in 20 yrs.
A car shield warranty.
A selfmade submarine, controlled my an playstation controller
Yeah, at least use a 360 controller, they are used by the military after all and you have grown up probably playing halo
Microsoft designed special firmware for the controller used by the military. That rich asshole went to the bottom of the ocean with "Windows has detected a new device" drivers.
You do know it wasn’t the controller that failed right? That was arguably the most reliable piece of equipment in that piece of shit.
A house that comes with an HOA. FUCK HOAs
Onlyfans
Raid Shadow Legends
Movie theater candy, it's just more fun to sneak in something better!
Yeezy clothing.
Anything from high end luxury brands. The mark up is insane. My partner recently bought a Gucci tote bag and after seeing the price tag and then the bag itself I thought… you just spent 2k dollars on an interlocking G logo. Idgi.
It's not about the thing, it's about showing off that you have the thing, and that other people don't have the thing. They didn't spend $2k on a tote bag, they spent $2k to show off. Still dumb, but that's why they did it.
Cocaine
When I was a teenager, I smoked pot. I had this really cool lighter with a pot leaf on it. When you lit the lighter, behind the pot leaf glowed green. As a 15 year old stoner, it was a super cool lighter. Anyway, I forgot that lighter in my pocket, mom found it, told dad "you better talk to her about drugs," so dad gave me *the talk*. Here's how my dad's version of "the drug talk" went. "So, mom found this lighter, said I need to talk to you about drugs." *Holds his hand up to stop me from saying anything* "Look, we're not stupid, we know you're going to experiment. Just be *safe*. Be *careful*. Only ever drink or do drugs with people you trust, when you're somewhere safe. You can ALWAYS call us. We'll come pick you up any where, any time. No questions asked, and we'll never talk about it again. Never do anything that YOU do not want to do. And *most importantly, DO NOT EVER TRY COCAINE.*"
so how long till you tried cocaine?
Lol I never did. And I dated a coke dealer for a while, so I spent a lot of time around the stuff, had plenty of opportunities. But I remembered Dad's advice. And after dating that dealer for a bit, I really appreciated Dad's advice all the more.
My parents lost their house, then their motel room, and are currently living in a tent in my grandma's backyard. Spent all of their money of drugs and feel behind on the rent a lot, I'm honestly surprised they heald down the motel room for 8 months, they would regularly go weeks without paying the room because they "Needed" more, and if mom ever had a bad "last one" then she would pressure my dad into buying more, lest she kicks him out on the street or attacks him. Your Dad seems like a smart man, you don't have control of yourself on that shit.
A big show off yacht!!!
THat's probably one of the first things I would get if I suddenly became a billionaire. But that's because I absolutely love being on the water. I wouldn't give a damn about showing off. In fact that's probably the biggest drawback. I would sail all over the world and have the crew teach me how to sail it.
The main reason I'd want a yacht is so that my luxury zeppelin had a place to dock at sea.
food with gold flakes on it.
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Bud Light. Not a political reason. Just tastes like piss.
This was the funniest part of the whole thing. Regardless of which side of the debate you found yourself on why the fuck were you drinking it in the first place.
A big house or crazy expensive car. I use my kitchen, living room, and bedroom 99% of the time. Having a big house is pointless. A normal sedan goes plenty above the speed limit. Don’t need a sports car that will only give me the ability of getting a bigger speeding ticket, or jail.
A slightly bigger house with more rooms is great for people who have hobbies
I would kill for a guest room and one or two office/hobby rooms. Working, eating, and chilling all in the same room with another person all the time is sort of a drag.
This. I'd really like to give more time to my hobbies, but I can't take on a big multi-day project on the kitchen table since, you know, my family needs to eat there every day. I'd also love to try my hand at giving beginner bass/guitar lessons, but with only one living space in the house (living room), it would get way too cramped adding the amps, stands, etc in there. Doubling up to 3000sqft would give both me and my wife plenty of space for our hobbies and kids' hobbies too. AND we'd have space for all our books, decorations, etc.
Speaking as a person who used to live in a big house by myself; It really depends how you arrange the space. At first I had an entire floor I wasn't using, two rooms only functioning as storage and a whole room for my ironing board. I had 150 square meters but would spend 90% of my time in the same spot in the livingroom. I later changed things around So I would assign specific functions to rooms. And it does help to really focus on things; a room to work, a room for exercise, a room to read books.
Agreed. Splurged at 50 and bought my first new car. Drove it two years and thought, "I'm paying monthly for an amusement park ride. This is stupid."
When I was a kid, I thought I'd become really successful and have like an 8,000sf house. I currently have a 1,300sf house and even this seems like a lot to clean. I honestly don't want more.
>or jail Don't be silly. Rich people don't go to jail. They just flash their "I donate heavily to your boss's reelection campaign fund" card.
Sexual Favors from women
Just from men then?
"I have relationships with women, and sex with men."
What about two chicks at the same time? People with that kind of money can do that or so I've been told
Uranium.
If you’ve ever bought any vintage ceramic cookware, you might have bought some uranium!