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America, Who Will Survive In America?

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Dubh you raise a fascinating counterpoint.

    Please tell me more.

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    protip: don't gsearch 'frats' with safesearch off

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    Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
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    look at that smile

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    Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    As for the stripper, Mecklenborg’s excuse was, “I understand the interest in the DUI part, I guess, but the rest is a personal matter.”

    That quote kills me.

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    godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I figure there'll be another catastrophic meteorite impact or world war before I'd have to worry about that

    I'm genuinely surprised that this hasn't happened yet. Though, I'm anxious to see who's involved in the next (and there will be a "next"), and what it will take to end it. Last time, it was two nuclear bombs. Shit's only going to get heavier.

    Personally, I'm buying some guns at soonest convenience.
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    hell global warming's still on track to devastate the world within thirty years, right

    Actually, I heard the thinning above Antarctica has been steadily shrinking.

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    MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Berk wrote: »
    I wonder how many people will be prepared to physically confront white supremacists? Because this is something that will need to happen if (once?) the situation worsens.

    this is something I think about.

    I am ready every day

    wait, no, first I need that BMW R75 with Nazi decorations. and a blonde. then I'd be ready

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    godmode wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I figure there'll be another catastrophic meteorite impact or world war before I'd have to worry about that

    I'm genuinely surprised that this hasn't happened yet. Though, I'm anxious to see who's involved in the next (and there will be a "next"), and what it will take to end it. Last time, it was two nuclear bombs. Shit's only going to get heavier.

    Personally, I'm buying some guns at soonest convenience.
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    hell global warming's still on track to devastate the world within thirty years, right

    Actually, I heard the thinning above Antarctica has been steadily shrinking.

    the way international economic ties work makes a world war immensely unlikely (everyone is codependent on each other, or at least the countries capable of having world wars) and it's the ozone hole above antarctica which is shrinking, which has basically nothing to do with global warming

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    MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    godmode wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I figure there'll be another catastrophic meteorite impact or world war before I'd have to worry about that

    I'm genuinely surprised that this hasn't happened yet. Though, I'm anxious to see who's involved in the next (and there will be a "next"), and what it will take to end it. Last time, it was two nuclear bombs. Shit's only going to get heavier.

    Personally, I'm buying some guns at soonest convenience.
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    hell global warming's still on track to devastate the world within thirty years, right

    Actually, I heard the thinning above Antarctica has been steadily shrinking.

    that's not global warming

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I'd love for a global warming explanation that isn't accompanied by a map of the world splashed in threatening shades of red

    just once


    had to get that out

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
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    101101 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Macro9 wrote: »
    As for the stripper, Mecklenborg’s excuse was, “I understand the interest in the DUI part, I guess, but the rest is a personal matter.”

    That quote kills me.

    ahahaha holy fuck

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    FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    greenhouse gasses trap heat, a lot of them means the earth heats up, then we're fucked for a variety of reasons

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Koshian wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    look if people wanna be healthy they should just find a good job

    you know whats double funny: employers are staring to do credit checks for elegbility to work now. can you even begin to imagine what the world will be like when that's the norm? ahahhsadhdsas

    this... has been fairly common for years, even in low-wage positions

    or at least it is fairly common practice for employers to secure a license to perform a credit check in something signed by the applicant

    I've been consenting to credit checks since before I had a credit score

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    my credit score really shouldn't matter to a potential employers

    they already have my state-issued id and social security card to prove I'm me

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    Koshian wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    look if people wanna be healthy they should just find a good job

    you know whats double funny: employers are staring to do credit checks for elegbility to work now. can you even begin to imagine what the world will be like when that's the norm? ahahhsadhdsas

    this... has been fairly common for years, even in low-wage positions

    or at least it is fairly common practice for employers to secure a license to perform a credit check in something signed by the applicant

    I've been consenting to credit checks since before I had a credit score

    Drug checks and credit checks are a rarer concept over here in Blighty

    I have never undergone either, although I hear MI5 etc. do it

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    My current employer is a branch of an English company and they didn't have any drug or credit checks for me

    my boss also leaves for like two hours at a time in the middle of the day to go to the gym maybe four days out of the week

    "micromanaging" is not a word in these people's vocabulary

    so mark that down on the "Lobsterbacks: Pros" column

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    the fun thing about casey anthony is that regardless of whether she serves time or not she will completely shunned from society

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    the unfun thing is that she gets demonized for murdering her young child while abortionists get off scott free? its clearly age discrimination at work here

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I wonder what the world would have been like if England had given the colonies seats in parliament

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    DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    i had to do three or maybe four background checks to get my current job
    i work in the store room of a health care system, i pick orders and do some other stuff

    i think a credit check
    state and federal background check with fingerprinting
    child abuse clearance

    the stte and federal ones may have been separate, i don't know
    it took forever to get the clearances to even be considered for the job

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    StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Dubh wrote: »
    my credit score really shouldn't matter to a potential employers

    they already have my state-issued id and social security card to prove I'm me

    It's in order to prove your responsibility


    I've had credit checks run on me for the last 3 positions.

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    a background check for criminality or past legal action is a pretty reasonable thing to do if you have any sort of responsibility

    you don't want a dude with a criminal record for drug distribution to be the one locking up the Oxy at the end of the day

    you don't want a lady who lost a 10b-5 suit that cost her employer $500,000,000 doing the strategy design for your IPO

    but a credit check is probably totally unrelated to the way you will do your job

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    StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    But if you're habitually late on paying your bills, have multiple accounts in collections, and have taken no action to rectify this, then it shows a pretty severe lack of personal responsibility

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    StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    This weighs a lot more heavily when working with or around finance

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    There's something deeply unpleasant about the notion of denying someone a job because they're deeply in debt

    Stay there and rot in your debt, unemployed person

    Combined with health insurance being tied to jobs in the first place it does, in fact, sound like something cooked up for a badly written dystopia novel

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    or it could be meaningless

    for instance:

    I was rejected for a credit card recently (I wanted 20% off at BR) and was very surprised. I have had moderately good credit despite my student loans

    turns out they decided that the notice on my credit score that read "PAST DUE - 120+ DAYS" wasn't a good sign, which I totally agree with!

    only, the account in question arises from a bill from a health provider, which my total joke insurance told me, specifically, on the phone, that they would cover

    only after they later rejected the transaction on the grounds that they "Could not identify" me, (seriously joke insurance) they didn't notify me and the provider didn't bother to notify me that I was back on the hook.

    so the payment just sat there from October 2010 until I found out about it a week ago when I went back to the doctor

    so if a potential employer does a credit check on me, I really want the opportunity to at least explain why this awful black mark is on my credit score

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    SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    i just got rejected for a nice rewards credit card for having 'too few revolving accounts'

    despite my great credit

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    the health provider probably didnt realize how much it would cost to make your face look more human than a tree HUHUHUHU

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    Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    destroy the credit establishment

    fight club

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    (i took up a sedcond job as a cyberbully to pay off student loans)

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    the health provider probably didnt realize how much it would cost to make your face look more human than a tree HUHUHUHU

    you wound me, madam

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    shut up nerd *stomps on mlp bodypillow* why dont you go repeat a popular phrase and call it humor *pockets all your bitcoins* dumb nerd

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    Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    kill all nerds

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    go be misogynistic ironically dumb nerd

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    MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    what if I want to be misogynistic genuinely? can I still be a nerd?

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    no then youre a ryan sohmer

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    CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    you can't physically pocket bitcoins

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    ArangArang HUEY LEWISRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    maybe you can't

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    CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    What are you gonna do, stuff the mining rigs in your pockets

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