@GM: a time or two, but it's always worth repeating.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-10T14:12:26-05:00
Can I mention it too? Because it's worth mentioning twice. Even if you already know the fact, you tend to forget it until you hate somebody again.
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LZ, I don't need bottles, just travel money, remember? Perfect business model! You sit on your kan, I travel and make videos out of it to put on youtube and make more money.
I even knew something would go wrong. Said so last night. Knew it was coming, but didn't expect it to be this soon....or for me to be this tired when it hit(everything seems a lot worse when you are tired).
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-10T15:11:42-05:00
It's looking, so far, like I'll need to raise about $10k.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-10T15:26:09-05:00
LZ, for the business plan? I can make that work. I could live a full year off of that much, travel included if I can find really cheap tickets to somewhere nice. However, you don't really get to see all that much interesting stuff for that little money, so I hope we can make more so I can go to... er, I mean we can show the people some really cool, expensive things.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-10T16:32:49-05:00
@LZ: You mean you'll need that much raised on your KS campaign?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-10T16:51:51-05:00
That might be a bit high for a hot sauce campaign from an unknown creator.
Preston Taylor 2015-11-10T17:22:38-05:00
Wanted to determine how we can chart where we are in the shipping queue. I have still not received my pack of EK.
Thanks
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-10T17:29:22-05:00
@Preston Taylor: Check out the last update. You'll find your answer there.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-10T18:27:11-05:00
Yes, it's looking like I'll need that much for the KS campaign. That is, if I want to do 4 flavors.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-10T18:28:15-05:00
I could start with one and have the other three as SG's, but I don't know if that's how I want to do it.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-10T18:48:55-05:00
That's not how I would do it either, but that's still quite a bit of money. Why that much? Minimum production costs? Because that's going to take a heck of alot of marketing and prayers to every god we do and don't believe in.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-10T18:55:43-05:00
Yes, it's production costs. We're talking about a minimum order of 100 gallons per recipe
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-10T18:59:56-05:00
Jeez. Yeah, unless we tour some huge hot sauce conventions, I don't think it'll be very easy to hit 10,000. Might have to rethink some plans.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-10T19:21:22-05:00
I could do three flavors and have the 4th as a stretch goal...
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-10T19:40:03-05:00
That could work. I mean, 7,500 is still alot, but quite a bit less than otherwise. I'll definitely buy at least one of each, possibly and probably 2. I'd give as much as I could, but nobody here is in a good position to support the majority of this. We'll just hope to be lucky and find someone who loves helping entrepreneurs in return for amazing hot sauce.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-10T20:22:45-05:00
I'm sure my old boss will contribute a lot
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-10T21:08:30-05:00
Hiya cats.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-10T22:20:24-05:00
Hi, PoT!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-11T00:50:41-05:00
Hey, PoT!
And with that, off to bed. Good thing I realized I should look at the time not too long after I should have gone to bed. Fallout 4 is actually pretty cool.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-11T09:13:51-05:00
Morning! To all the veterans out there, I solute you.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-11T09:14:33-05:00
@GM: It's a new day so you can take back all of your bad luck work cooties.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-11T09:57:38-05:00
Dang it Geist, not me! I don't want them! I woke up and my back was hurting incredibly bad, causing all sorts of problems again. Work on your bad luck cootie aim!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-11T14:31:25-05:00
Wait, really? Nothing all morning on a weekday? Am I just not getting the messages or has nobody really checked in all day?!
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-11T15:09:14-05:00
It's the apocalypse. Everyone is busy fighting off the zombie hordes.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-11T15:55:53-05:00
Except for me, of course. For obvious reasons.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-11T16:03:34-05:00
Actually I was busy putting together a voodoo doll that I would use on GM in case his work cooties didn't go back to Canada.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-11T16:36:54-05:00
Well you accidentally hit me with them this morning, but now I think I'll do a voodoo nap to ward them off.
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LZ, that's hilarious! I can see you starting the apocalypse and reigning over a new breed of man, the zombie, commanding entire wars against the last shreds of humanity.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-11T16:37:21-05:00
Unless they come to your side and support your hot sauce kickstarter, of course.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-11T17:27:01-05:00
That's right!
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-11T17:35:17-05:00
Good afternoon all.
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-11T17:39:37-05:00
Sorry I haven't been around much lately. Between having the flu, working a job and getting out to the house as often as possible I haven't had a lot of time for surfing Kickstarter.
Have you started your Kickstarter yet LZ?
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-11T18:05:56-05:00
Not yet. I still need to gather a little more information.
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-11T18:08:49-05:00
Ah! He lives! How ya doin' LZ?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-11T18:25:51-05:00
Howdy, PoT, and welcome back to not having a life!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-11T18:26:42-05:00
Kickstarter: not having a life, together.
Or as I like to call it: Together alone.
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-11T18:41:37-05:00
Hiya Zem. Good to see you. : )
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-11-11T18:53:10-05:00
Hey PoT!
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-11T19:17:56-05:00
Howdy Doc! Good to see you.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-11T19:54:26-05:00
I'm doing well
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-11T20:06:36-05:00
Hey Doc! Nobody all morning, 2 people on for the first time in awhile at night. And LZ and I, of course.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-11T20:21:10-05:00
Of course. Without Zem and me (mostly Zem), this place would be a ghost town.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-11T21:26:39-05:00
Kinda sad everyone else left. I just wish there were a way to invite them back. Kittencorps Kickstarter, anyone?! Then try to find them on random other kickstarters to remind them of us and bring them back, and then use any money to have a get-together or something.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-11T22:02:36-05:00
I think they all followed KC on FB and twitter. I'm planning on using those when I get my KS going.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-11T23:09:45-05:00
Good idea! Forgot about those. Are they still used?
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-11-11T23:51:16-05:00
Idk about the twitter but I have seen a few KC FB posts since the end of this.....
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-12T08:48:45-05:00
good, frosty morning. Supposedly it snowed a little yesterday evening, but it was hard to tell because it rained at the same time.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-12T09:13:56-05:00
Good Morning Corps!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T10:05:32-05:00
Soggy Morning Corps.
@LZ: I think you are forgetting BaKhan, GM and myself. Otherwise, even with the two of you, this would be a ghost town.
Having a mid week holiday really is a drag...makes the rest of the week either longer, or so crammed with stuff that needs to get done you wish it was longer.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T10:24:02-05:00
Morning GM. Your work cooties bit my computer when I came in today. Clearly my voodoo doll isn't working enough.
Well, I can't do anything about that. The internet is infested with bad-luck-cooties.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-12T10:42:13-05:00
Well, I just googled it and Mercury is not in retrograde, so it must be something else... I am seriously getting tired of these overly entitled wealthy people. I know we completely changed your design, but we don't want to pay more! Wah! Try telling that to someone who makes less working per year, than you do off of intrest... Yep, hard to feel bad for them, also hard to feel good about working on their project...
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T10:45:37-05:00
Okay, retired hockey player can damned well pay for it all. Plus a nice bonus check to the guy who designed the stupid thing in the first place.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-12T11:07:40-05:00
Bonus check, yeah right! I got a 1.8% raise this year, what was the cost of living increase again? So basically I'm worth less than I was last year... yeah...
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T12:03:54-05:00
Why does a rich hockey player need to work? Heck, he can volunteer at a charity program if he is looking for something to do.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-12T12:17:42-05:00
@Geist, he wants more money! He owns at least two car dealerships, and a few other businesses, he is a multi millionaire. I don't begrudge his success, I begrudge the fact that he is being unreasonable, and has changed the design perametres and now doesn't want to pay for the changes. I had one day to prepare a budget quote for him, which they accepted, then the came back and made changes to the preliminary design. Now those changes have increased the original budget by a few thousand dollars, and he doesn't want to pay. Its hard to explain, but basically, everything is now further away then I had designed it to be, and therefore there are more materials required. A-b-c is now a-b and because of that, it costs more. I told the builder, if they don't want to pay the extra, I am more than willing to just burn what I have and walk away from it. We will see what happens...
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T12:39:15-05:00
I think that sometimes rich people are more stingy than poor people by a long shot.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-12T12:51:17-05:00
@Geist, in my experience that definitely applies to the nouveau rich. I find that there is a big difference between new money and old. The new money people think they have to act a certain way (a-holes), the old money rich are used to the cost of getting things done. They both want the same things, my way, now, however the old money rich are willing to pay for it. Thats the difference. Actually, most of the old money rich people, you would never know they're rich, they don't dress fancy normally, they don't drive flashy cars, basically they don't show off. New rich, make sure everyone knows just how important they are... aren't we lucky?
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-12T13:02:07-05:00
I want to be old rich. No point in having money if you don't use it to make yourself and others comfortable and happy. Obviously, you have to use good judgement when using it, but having money just to have it is pointless!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T13:08:09-05:00
old money rich people, you would never know they're rich, they don't dress fancy normally, they don't drive flashy cars, basically they don't show off
And that is how you build and hold onto wealth. There is a documentary on Netflix called "Broke". It's about some of the athletes that were rich but squandered their money away buying houses they couldn't afford, multiple fancy cars and strip club visits. A few of the lucky ones were able to find work after using their savings to get a degree but most barely get by on their small sports pension.
Talking about old rich and new rich...pretty sure the Chinese billionaire I read about just today is new rich. $48.5m on a diamond(blue moon, whatever that means) for his 7(SEVEN!!!) year old daughter.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-12T13:22:21-05:00
Geist, without all of you, this would be a boring-town. But I defer to any time you guys have all been gone (i.e. weekends, holidays, etc). I'm the only one here the entire day, with LZ making frequent checks-in and random cameos at irregular times from others on occasion and scheduled call-ins from you guys. It's not a ghost town without you, but take it from me, it's not very fun either. But I mean, it's the same 5 people every day now: me, LZ, you, BaKhan, and GM. Not very exciting now unless something interesting happens or Creeper checks in.
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Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-12T13:31:16-05:00
Why, if there's a tipping custom in america for food service, isn't there one for other similar jobs like that? Then multi-millionaire hockey players could chip in a little to your retirement fund. Or vacation fund. BaKhan, you sound like you need to visit http://clientsfromhell.net/ . You're not alone.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-12T13:31:30-05:00
As for new rich and old rich, avoiding the entire perfect analogy of the Great Gatsby, I like old money. The families teach their children how to be good with their money, and most of the time they're generous to charity and community. Not to say newly rich people can't act like that. Take Warren Buffet; fellow Nebraskan and the single greatest investor in history. He made all the money himself and became at times the richest man on earth, only competing with Bill Gates who's similar with his money, but he owns a modest mansion (yes, there is such a thing) which he's had for like 50 years and just one or two cars. He eats at fast food places all the time. He's just like a normal person, really, with tons of money, which is how he kept all that money in the first place. He's wiser with it than most old-money families, which is why his family will stay rich probably as long as it's around.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T13:40:14-05:00
@GM: I just saw that article on the MSN website. Reminds me of the rumor that Beyonce gifted her then 1 year old daughter an $80,000 Barbie doll for her birthday. Because, you know, 1 year olds really want a doll draped in diamonds.
@Geist: That doll would probably sit on a shelf until the kid is 15, and then MAYBE, if she wears a full body has mat style suit, she can glance at it.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T14:05:32-05:00
@GM: Actually, at 15 they will probably gift Blue Ivy a $200,000 car.
And don't get me started on that Kim & Kanye will gift their two children.
I was happy with a book. Still am! Books never grow old(I've read the Sword of Truth series and the Wheel of Time series probably 3 times each by now, then add in Dragonlance and we have endless years of reading).
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-12T14:07:49-05:00
Good afternoon everyone!
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-12T14:08:14-05:00
Geist, that's what I mean with using good judgement. Old rich typically used that good judgement, but still lived comfortably. None of this excessive extravagance. If I made a million dollars, I'd pay off my mortgage, but I'd stay in the house I'm in. I'd also step up the timeline on getting my car restored, and I would drive that baby and no other car. The car in question is a 1984 Honda CRX.
I also want to help my friends get out of debt, but that would require a lot of money because I wouldn't want to put my own financial situation at risk for the sake of helping others.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T14:36:37-05:00
A 1984 Honda? I was still in high school that year. Wow, you must really like that car.
I'm surprised you didn't say "Get my hot sauce business off the ground". A million would help you do that. Then there is the college money for the kids. (If they go to a community college, you could save lots of money but Ivy league ones will gouge you silly)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T14:36:46-05:00
Howdy PoT! How is the knee?
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-12T15:01:54-05:00
Well, my thought process was that if I had that kind of money, it was from the hot sauce.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T15:08:27-05:00
Ah. I was thinking it would be from winning the lottery then you get the hot sauce business running.
Shows how my thought process works. *tosses out old lottery tickets*
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T15:09:38-05:00
Anyone hear from Cheetah Butt? I clicked on his campaign and it seems he has been away from KS for awhile. I hope he is alright.
@Zem: My friend spent 3 hours just building a town. He says it's good...but I don't know. I never liked the Fallout games...I might give it a try(if someone lets me play their copy...not spending $80 just to try a game I might never play).
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-12T15:48:00-05:00
Lottery could work, if it were an option. Utah is dumb that way.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T15:48:03-05:00
The Sims 2. *crickets*
What! It's a fun game! Like creating your own soap opera.
I've been playing, and I know it's not the best, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Been pissing loads of people off too! Rarely do I go below a 1.30 K/D per match. Best one recently, Monday night 18/1, and wasn't even the top score.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-12T16:50:47-05:00
Quitting time in 10 minutes!
I will say this for having no home internet service: I get a lot of stuff done that I normally wouldn't because I'm glued to Netflix and such.
@Geist: I'm constantly socializing when I'm at home. Gaming with people I've met YEARS ago that I've actually visited, a few I went to high school with(one lives 15mins away from my house). Without internet at home, I wouldn't be able to keep in touch with most of them since it's always in the evenings we are all free(most of the time)
This. All of it. This is why I hope I can make it on my kan.
*own! Damn autocorrect!
Your "kan"?
lol
I'm sure your sauce will be successful and you'll be living large when every restaurant is using it. Move over Sriracha.
Yes! And then I'll just sit around on my kan and let the money flow into my account!
And letting all of your fellow KC members have free bottles for life!
*crickets*
*crickets*
Yeah....
We'll....discuss....that.....
*crickets*
LOL!
Have I mentioned how much people annoy me?
@GM: a time or two, but it's always worth repeating.
Can I mention it too? Because it's worth mentioning twice. Even if you already know the fact, you tend to forget it until you hate somebody again.
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LZ, I don't need bottles, just travel money, remember? Perfect business model! You sit on your kan, I travel and make videos out of it to put on youtube and make more money.
I even knew something would go wrong. Said so last night. Knew it was coming, but didn't expect it to be this soon....or for me to be this tired when it hit(everything seems a lot worse when you are tired).
It's looking, so far, like I'll need to raise about $10k.
LZ, for the business plan? I can make that work. I could live a full year off of that much, travel included if I can find really cheap tickets to somewhere nice. However, you don't really get to see all that much interesting stuff for that little money, so I hope we can make more so I can go to... er, I mean we can show the people some really cool, expensive things.
@LZ: You mean you'll need that much raised on your KS campaign?
That might be a bit high for a hot sauce campaign from an unknown creator.
Wanted to determine how we can chart where we are in the shipping queue. I have still not received my pack of EK.
Thanks
@Preston Taylor: Check out the last update. You'll find your answer there.
Yes, it's looking like I'll need that much for the KS campaign. That is, if I want to do 4 flavors.
I could start with one and have the other three as SG's, but I don't know if that's how I want to do it.
That's not how I would do it either, but that's still quite a bit of money. Why that much? Minimum production costs? Because that's going to take a heck of alot of marketing and prayers to every god we do and don't believe in.
Yes, it's production costs. We're talking about a minimum order of 100 gallons per recipe
Jeez. Yeah, unless we tour some huge hot sauce conventions, I don't think it'll be very easy to hit 10,000. Might have to rethink some plans.
I could do three flavors and have the 4th as a stretch goal...
That could work. I mean, 7,500 is still alot, but quite a bit less than otherwise. I'll definitely buy at least one of each, possibly and probably 2. I'd give as much as I could, but nobody here is in a good position to support the majority of this. We'll just hope to be lucky and find someone who loves helping entrepreneurs in return for amazing hot sauce.
I'm sure my old boss will contribute a lot
Hiya cats.
Hi, PoT!
Hey, PoT!
And with that, off to bed. Good thing I realized I should look at the time not too long after I should have gone to bed. Fallout 4 is actually pretty cool.
Morning! To all the veterans out there, I solute you.
@GM: It's a new day so you can take back all of your bad luck work cooties.
Dang it Geist, not me! I don't want them! I woke up and my back was hurting incredibly bad, causing all sorts of problems again. Work on your bad luck cootie aim!
Wait, really? Nothing all morning on a weekday? Am I just not getting the messages or has nobody really checked in all day?!
It's the apocalypse. Everyone is busy fighting off the zombie hordes.
Except for me, of course. For obvious reasons.
Actually I was busy putting together a voodoo doll that I would use on GM in case his work cooties didn't go back to Canada.
Well you accidentally hit me with them this morning, but now I think I'll do a voodoo nap to ward them off.
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LZ, that's hilarious! I can see you starting the apocalypse and reigning over a new breed of man, the zombie, commanding entire wars against the last shreds of humanity.
Unless they come to your side and support your hot sauce kickstarter, of course.
That's right!
Good afternoon all.
Sorry I haven't been around much lately. Between having the flu, working a job and getting out to the house as often as possible I haven't had a lot of time for surfing Kickstarter.
Have you started your Kickstarter yet LZ?
Not yet. I still need to gather a little more information.
Ah! He lives! How ya doin' LZ?
Howdy, PoT, and welcome back to not having a life!
Kickstarter: not having a life, together.
Or as I like to call it: Together alone.
Hiya Zem. Good to see you. : )
Hey PoT!
Howdy Doc! Good to see you.
I'm doing well
Hey Doc! Nobody all morning, 2 people on for the first time in awhile at night. And LZ and I, of course.
Of course. Without Zem and me (mostly Zem), this place would be a ghost town.
Kinda sad everyone else left. I just wish there were a way to invite them back. Kittencorps Kickstarter, anyone?! Then try to find them on random other kickstarters to remind them of us and bring them back, and then use any money to have a get-together or something.
I think they all followed KC on FB and twitter. I'm planning on using those when I get my KS going.
Good idea! Forgot about those. Are they still used?
Idk about the twitter but I have seen a few KC FB posts since the end of this.....
good, frosty morning. Supposedly it snowed a little yesterday evening, but it was hard to tell because it rained at the same time.
Good Morning Corps!
Soggy Morning Corps.
@LZ: I think you are forgetting BaKhan, GM and myself. Otherwise, even with the two of you, this would be a ghost town.
Morning kittens!
Having a mid week holiday really is a drag...makes the rest of the week either longer, or so crammed with stuff that needs to get done you wish it was longer.
Morning GM. Your work cooties bit my computer when I came in today. Clearly my voodoo doll isn't working enough.
Well, I can't do anything about that. The internet is infested with bad-luck-cooties.
Well, I just googled it and Mercury is not in retrograde, so it must be something else... I am seriously getting tired of these overly entitled wealthy people. I know we completely changed your design, but we don't want to pay more! Wah! Try telling that to someone who makes less working per year, than you do off of intrest... Yep, hard to feel bad for them, also hard to feel good about working on their project...
Mercury? I'm confused.
@BaKhan: Don't forget, the did "hard work" to get where they are. That silver spoon doesn't lift itself. The nanny had to do it.
@Geist, its an astrology thing. I usually try to find the least plausible answer for bs problems... ;)
@GM, yeah the guy I'm currently bitching about is a retired hockey player... uh huh. He made more in one season then I will in my entire career...
Geist, you're right. I'm sorry.
Okay, retired hockey player can damned well pay for it all. Plus a nice bonus check to the guy who designed the stupid thing in the first place.
Bonus check, yeah right! I got a 1.8% raise this year, what was the cost of living increase again? So basically I'm worth less than I was last year... yeah...
Why does a rich hockey player need to work? Heck, he can volunteer at a charity program if he is looking for something to do.
@Geist, he wants more money! He owns at least two car dealerships, and a few other businesses, he is a multi millionaire. I don't begrudge his success, I begrudge the fact that he is being unreasonable, and has changed the design perametres and now doesn't want to pay for the changes. I had one day to prepare a budget quote for him, which they accepted, then the came back and made changes to the preliminary design. Now those changes have increased the original budget by a few thousand dollars, and he doesn't want to pay. Its hard to explain, but basically, everything is now further away then I had designed it to be, and therefore there are more materials required. A-b-c is now a-b and because of that, it costs more. I told the builder, if they don't want to pay the extra, I am more than willing to just burn what I have and walk away from it. We will see what happens...
I think that sometimes rich people are more stingy than poor people by a long shot.
@Geist, in my experience that definitely applies to the nouveau rich. I find that there is a big difference between new money and old. The new money people think they have to act a certain way (a-holes), the old money rich are used to the cost of getting things done. They both want the same things, my way, now, however the old money rich are willing to pay for it. Thats the difference. Actually, most of the old money rich people, you would never know they're rich, they don't dress fancy normally, they don't drive flashy cars, basically they don't show off. New rich, make sure everyone knows just how important they are... aren't we lucky?
I want to be old rich. No point in having money if you don't use it to make yourself and others comfortable and happy. Obviously, you have to use good judgement when using it, but having money just to have it is pointless!
old money rich people, you would never know they're rich, they don't dress fancy normally, they don't drive flashy cars, basically they don't show off
And that is how you build and hold onto wealth. There is a documentary on Netflix called "Broke". It's about some of the athletes that were rich but squandered their money away buying houses they couldn't afford, multiple fancy cars and strip club visits. A few of the lucky ones were able to find work after using their savings to get a degree but most barely get by on their small sports pension.
Talking about old rich and new rich...pretty sure the Chinese billionaire I read about just today is new rich. $48.5m on a diamond(blue moon, whatever that means) for his 7(SEVEN!!!) year old daughter.
Geist, without all of you, this would be a boring-town. But I defer to any time you guys have all been gone (i.e. weekends, holidays, etc). I'm the only one here the entire day, with LZ making frequent checks-in and random cameos at irregular times from others on occasion and scheduled call-ins from you guys. It's not a ghost town without you, but take it from me, it's not very fun either. But I mean, it's the same 5 people every day now: me, LZ, you, BaKhan, and GM. Not very exciting now unless something interesting happens or Creeper checks in.
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Why, if there's a tipping custom in america for food service, isn't there one for other similar jobs like that? Then multi-millionaire hockey players could chip in a little to your retirement fund. Or vacation fund. BaKhan, you sound like you need to visit http://clientsfromhell.net/ . You're not alone.
As for new rich and old rich, avoiding the entire perfect analogy of the Great Gatsby, I like old money. The families teach their children how to be good with their money, and most of the time they're generous to charity and community. Not to say newly rich people can't act like that. Take Warren Buffet; fellow Nebraskan and the single greatest investor in history. He made all the money himself and became at times the richest man on earth, only competing with Bill Gates who's similar with his money, but he owns a modest mansion (yes, there is such a thing) which he's had for like 50 years and just one or two cars. He eats at fast food places all the time. He's just like a normal person, really, with tons of money, which is how he kept all that money in the first place. He's wiser with it than most old-money families, which is why his family will stay rich probably as long as it's around.
@GM: I just saw that article on the MSN website. Reminds me of the rumor that Beyonce gifted her then 1 year old daughter an $80,000 Barbie doll for her birthday. Because, you know, 1 year olds really want a doll draped in diamonds.
@Geist: That doll would probably sit on a shelf until the kid is 15, and then MAYBE, if she wears a full body has mat style suit, she can glance at it.
@GM: Actually, at 15 they will probably gift Blue Ivy a $200,000 car.
And don't get me started on that Kim & Kanye will gift their two children.
I was happy with a book. Still am! Books never grow old(I've read the Sword of Truth series and the Wheel of Time series probably 3 times each by now, then add in Dragonlance and we have endless years of reading).
Good afternoon everyone!
Geist, that's what I mean with using good judgement. Old rich typically used that good judgement, but still lived comfortably. None of this excessive extravagance. If I made a million dollars, I'd pay off my mortgage, but I'd stay in the house I'm in. I'd also step up the timeline on getting my car restored, and I would drive that baby and no other car. The car in question is a 1984 Honda CRX.
I also want to help my friends get out of debt, but that would require a lot of money because I wouldn't want to put my own financial situation at risk for the sake of helping others.
A 1984 Honda? I was still in high school that year. Wow, you must really like that car.
I'm surprised you didn't say "Get my hot sauce business off the ground". A million would help you do that. Then there is the college money for the kids. (If they go to a community college, you could save lots of money but Ivy league ones will gouge you silly)
Howdy PoT! How is the knee?
Well, my thought process was that if I had that kind of money, it was from the hot sauce.
Ah. I was thinking it would be from winning the lottery then you get the hot sauce business running.
Shows how my thought process works. *tosses out old lottery tickets*
Anyone hear from Cheetah Butt? I clicked on his campaign and it seems he has been away from KS for awhile. I hope he is alright.
@Geist: He has a campaign?! Why am I just learning this!
@GM, had... had one. Its over now. They were cool little wooden puzzle boxes.
I remember that. Sorry, I may be sporadically on and off. Fallout is so much fun.
Hi Geist. I had to run out for a bit. The knee is good.
@Zem: My friend spent 3 hours just building a town. He says it's good...but I don't know. I never liked the Fallout games...I might give it a try(if someone lets me play their copy...not spending $80 just to try a game I might never play).
Lottery could work, if it were an option. Utah is dumb that way.
The Sims 2. *crickets*
What! It's a fun game! Like creating your own soap opera.
I've been playing, and I know it's not the best, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Been pissing loads of people off too! Rarely do I go below a 1.30 K/D per match. Best one recently, Monday night 18/1, and wasn't even the top score.
Quitting time in 10 minutes!
I will say this for having no home internet service: I get a lot of stuff done that I normally wouldn't because I'm glued to Netflix and such.
@Geist: I'm constantly socializing when I'm at home. Gaming with people I've met YEARS ago that I've actually visited, a few I went to high school with(one lives 15mins away from my house). Without internet at home, I wouldn't be able to keep in touch with most of them since it's always in the evenings we are all free(most of the time)