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Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Social Entropy++
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So pyramid schemes. And other forms of business. Whether they're legitimate or not, I want to hear about all the great business ideas/plans everyone has brewing in their heads... their get rich quick schemes, and grand master-plans for multinational corporate empires.

If you could run any sort of business, what would it be?

Me personally? The other day, we drove past a crematorium on a Sunday, and it was fucking packed with cars and people, and it hit me, like a brick to the face: What a fucking great business idea! I mean, it's not like you'll ever run out of business, people are always gonna be dying! Flawless! Hell, you could run a cafe off the back of it, you know, wood fired pizzas etc. You'd make a killing!

So let me hear it! What are your best methods for scamming money off senior citizens etc etc?

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Open a hospital.

    Because people are always sick.

    Of you.

    Because you suck.

    CHA CHING.

    Porn sites seem pretty profitable as well.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Funeral homes seem to be legally allowed to rape people. In the wallet.

    So, you want a simple pine box because he's going to be cremated, and the ashes spread in the rose garden at the cemetary. Okay, that'll be $11,000."

    Also, anything to do with weddings.

    $15,000 for catering, $10,000 for photography, $5,000 for a few bunches of flowers whatwhat. Around here the photographers are the worst, because you don't even get the negatives, or legal ownership of the photos afterwards! If you want a 6x4 reprint of a picture to mail to a relative, that'll be $100 please.

    The limo hire and the celebrant are the only bits that don't seem to have an extra zero thrown on the end of the price just for fun.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Your sig is disgusting.

    My screen is all slimed up.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Open a hospital.

    Because people are always sick.

    Of you.

    Because you suck.

    CHA CHING.

    Porn sites seem pretty profitable as well.

    Ice-burn dude.

    A Porn site could be profitable, Chico, but the problem is, it's so easy to get good free porn these days. You'd really need to be bringing something new to the table. What can you offer us that is new and different?

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Funeral homes seem to be legally allowed to rape people. In the wallet.

    So, you want a simple pine box because he's going to be cremated, and the ashes spread in the rose garden at the cemetary. Okay, that'll be $11,000."

    I know. That's why it's so amazing!

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Anything Wedding related.
    Most people go fucking insane when in wedding mode.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Open a hospital.

    Because people are always sick.

    Of you.

    Because you suck.

    CHA CHING.

    Porn sites seem pretty profitable as well.

    Ice-burn dude.

    A Porn site could be profitable, Chico, but the problem is, it's so easy to get good free porn these days. You'd really need to be bringing something new to the table. What can you offer us that is new and different?

    It'll be called The Sex Pad.

    And it will be videos of artists drawing naughty things, only they wont know that they are being filmed. There will be one camera on the face of the artist, one camera on the pad, and one full body camera.

    There will also be some non-voyeur chatroom camartist tease things.

    Platinum Pad Patrons get access to live shows where they get to suggest the naughty pictures to be drawn.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I forget which show it was, but one of Australias truly terrible 'current affairs' television programs did a little investigation into the price-gouging involved with weddings.

    They rang up a catering place and ordered I think it was 100 places of one of their standard menus for a business conference at an unrelated venue and got a reasonable quote. Then they rang back a week later and ordered everything exactly the same for a wedding, and the price was more than double.

    How is that legal?

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Open a hospital.

    Because people are always sick.

    Of you.

    Because you suck.

    CHA CHING.

    Porn sites seem pretty profitable as well.

    Ice-burn dude.

    A Porn site could be profitable, Chico, but the problem is, it's so easy to get good free porn these days. You'd really need to be bringing something new to the table. What can you offer us that is new and different?

    It'll be called The Sex Pad.

    And it will be videos of artists drawing naughty things, only they wont know that they are being filmed. There will be one camera on the face of the artist, one camera on the pad, and one full body camera.

    There will also be some non-voyeur chatroom camartist tease things.

    Platinum Pad Patrons get access to live shows where they get to suggest the naughty pictures to be drawn.

    That's hot.

    You could go places with that.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    It's not a question of legality

    it's just that people keep paying that much for wedding shit, so the people providing the services can keep charging that much

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm definitely gonna get rich with this scheme

    and quick!

    #pipe on
  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    my fall back is to take over my mafia dad's empire.

    you know... if the art thing doesn't pan out
    but that's so improbable! :lol::lol::lol::cry:

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I forget which show it was, but one of Australias truly terrible 'current affairs' television programs did a little investigation into the price-gouging involved with weddings.

    They rang up a catering place and ordered I think it was 100 places of one of their standard menus for a business conference at an unrelated venue and got a reasonable quote. Then they rang back a week later and ordered everything exactly the same for a wedding, and the price was more than double.

    How is that legal?

    Yeah pretty much. That's why, where possible, you don't mention it's for a wedding. Some things can't be avoided though. This is also why I'm reluctant to ever have what is considered a "normal" wedding. I see/hear of them being organised all the time, and I just think "ugh, I'm in the wrong business here".

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    beavotron wrote: »
    my fall back is to take over my mafia dad's empire.

    you know... if the art thing doesn't pan out
    but that's so improbable! :lol::lol::lol::cry:

    Doesn't he run a pizza place as a legitimate business front / money-laundering operation?

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Beavo, do you want to be a performer on The Sex Pad?

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Captain K wrote: »
    beavotron wrote: »
    my fall back is to take over my mafia dad's empire.

    you know... if the art thing doesn't pan out
    but that's so improbable! :lol::lol::lol::cry:

    Doesn't he run a pizza place as a legitimate business front / money-laundering operation?

    front?
    what front?

    What do you think about horses, K?

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Beavo, do you want to be a performer on The Sex Pad?

    i always knew it would come to this.
    so, yes.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Man, I would just order up the food and then, when they showed up, "Oh yeah, it's a wedding."

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm thinking of investing in this sub-prime mortgages malarky. I hear it's a real winner.

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    Anything Wedding related.
    Most people go fucking insane when in wedding mode.

    Girlfriend and I have already decided that if/when we get married we're spending as little as possible on the wedding and then going nuts for the honeymoon.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    beavotron wrote: »
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Beavo, do you want to be a performer on The Sex Pad?

    i always knew it would come to this.
    so, yes.

    Plenty of people are going to be coming to you!

    While they watch you draw the Campbell's Soup Twins mutually masturbate.

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    My wife is starting up a hand made wedding stationery business. She's already had enquiries based purely on the quality of her handwriting.

    I'm just going to bide my time and wait for the wedding cash to start rolling in.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Just to let you know maximum zero, this really confused me just now when i looked at my screen after scrolling down...
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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    How come your docks look better than mine?

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  • ZombotZombot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    My friend and I always say we're gonna sell weed for money, but we never do it.
    The real cash is in heroin.
    First one's always free, then you have a customer for life.

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    And speaking of pyramid schemes, when is secret satans getting organised this year?

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  • IskanderIskander Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    And speaking of pyramid schemes, when is secret satans getting organised this year?

    fuckin' aye this year i'm participatin'

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Open a hospital.

    Because people are always sick.

    Of you.

    Because you suck.

    CHA CHING.

    Porn sites seem pretty profitable as well.

    obvious conclusion: make hospital porn

    alternatively, open a porn hospital

    or both, so that when people get AIDS or burst their breast implants making your hospital porn, you can treat them in your porn hospital. and then they can make hospital porn there and continue the cycle.

    god, i'm so fucking brilliant

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  • NickleNickle Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    You know those birthday candles what have the numbers so you can spell out people's ages?

    I'm gonna make some of them for the letters "O" "L" and "D."

    It spells "OLD."

    8-)

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  • RocketScienceRocketScience Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Nickle wrote: »
    You know those birthday candles what have the numbers so you can spell out people's ages?

    I'm gonna make some of them for the letters "O" "L" and "D."

    It spells "OLD."

    8-)

    You could also use the same letters to spell "DOL" or "LOD".

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  • skinny87skinny87 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Nickle wrote: »
    You know those birthday candles what have the numbers so you can spell out people's ages?

    I'm gonna make some of them for the letters "O" "L" and "D."

    It spells "OLD."

    8-)

    You could also use the same letters to spell "DOL" or "LOD".

    "OOO"

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i once spent a week convincing my friend that Primerica is a pyramid scheme

    i even went with him to one of their open houses and the entire time i was going "dude how are you not getting that these people are crooks, how?"

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i would open up a hookah bar/coffee shop/little performance stage/used bookstore type place and only hire hot hipster ladies to work for me. it would be like hooters for people who want to simulate their brain (and also their dongs)

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    lostwords wrote: »
    i would open up a hookah bar/coffee shop/little performance stage/used bookstore type place and only hire hot hipster ladies to work for me. it would be like hooters for people who want to simulate their brain (and also their dongs)

    That sounds like a brilliant way to shit away what little money you have.

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I always thought investing in a condom producing company would be a sure-fire bet

    does the demand for condoms ever go down?

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    Meissnerd wrote: »
    I always thought investing in a condom producing company would be a sure-fire bet

    does the demand for condoms ever go down?

    If they ever discovered a cure for AIDs you'd be sunk.

    Luckily the companies who own the condom factories are also the giant pharmaceutical companies, so they can keep that sort of bad business suppressed.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    Funeral homes seem to be legally allowed to rape people. In the wallet.

    So, you want a simple pine box because he's going to be cremated, and the ashes spread in the rose garden at the cemetary. Okay, that'll be $11,000."

    Also, anything to do with weddings.

    $15,000 for catering, $10,000 for photography, $5,000 for a few bunches of flowers whatwhat. Around here the photographers are the worst, because you don't even get the negatives, or legal ownership of the photos afterwards! If you want a 6x4 reprint of a picture to mail to a relative, that'll be $100 please.

    The limo hire and the celebrant are the only bits that don't seem to have an extra zero thrown on the end of the price just for fun.

    certainly many aspects of the wedding industry seem bloated in their pricing structure, but it always surprises me when people bitch about stuff like the cost of funerals, or wedding photographers as if these people must be rolling in cash simply because their costs aren't obvious to you

    the simple observation that they're not taking their private helicopter everywhere should kind of tip you off that they probably aren't making as much mad cash as you think they are

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    Just to let you know maximum zero, this really confused me just now when i looked at my screen after scrolling down...
    dockdock.png

    Then my plan is working perfectly!

    *rubs hands together*

    Muahahahahaha...

    ...ha.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    Nickle wrote: »
    You know those birthday candles what have the numbers so you can spell out people's ages?

    I'm gonna make some of them for the letters "O" "L" and "D."

    It spells "OLD."

    8-)

    You could also use the same letters to spell "DOL" or "LOD".

    Great for birthday cakes at the Department of Licensing or for Road Warrior Animal.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    I'd sell drugs

    People will always need medicine

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