Originally posted by Lira
Developing countries FTW!!!
Teehee :D
Does Brasil still count as a "developing country"? Don't you guys have one of the fastest growing economies in the world right now?
edit // I guess that's the definition of "developing" lulz
shaw
Curse of Favre IMO.
Lira
quote:
Originally posted by bas
Does Brasil still count as a "developing country"? Don't you guys have one of the fastest growing economies in the world right now?
edit // I guess that's the definition of "developing" lulz
Hehe, yeah, we do. It's just that people often joke here about Brazil being a third world/developing country, so I decided to make fun of it as well :D
Ian
in trance, vocals usually suck, however this chilled d&b tune has male & female in and imo works beautifully. thoughts?
edit- sorry for the huge embed size
Omega_Blue
so, in,
earlier today i was in this lobby of a big public building in downtown milwaukee, and this guy was walking around from person to person asking for change. every person. he came up to me, i waved him by before he could finish his sentence. i knew where it was going.
so ten minutes later, ANOTHER guy starts approaching everyone asking for not change, but mothering $2- not like that's a lot of money, but ffs, when you're a ing PoS panhandler, asking for $2 is like asking for a hot meal and a place to live for a week. . so again, i waved the guy by before he could finish his sentence. and again, i knew where it was going.
but this guy goes, "DON'T YOU SHOO ME AWAY LIKE THAT! DON'T YOU SHOO ME AWAY! YOU'RE LIKE A DOG! THAT'S WHY I HATE ASIANS!" to which i replied by continually making the "shooing" motion with my hand until he stopped bothering everybody and left the building in an obviously perturbed mood. wtf. i love his logic though; i'm shooing away the annoyance, yet I'M the dog i guess. not the other way around.
needless to say, i was glad i didn't give him any money.
pkcRAISTLIN
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Originally posted by Omega_Blue
so, in,
earlier today i was in this lobby of a big public building in downtown milwaukee, and this guy was walking around from person to person asking for change. every person. he came up to me, i waved him by before he could finish his sentence. i knew where it was going.
so ten minutes later, ANOTHER guy starts approaching everyone asking for not change, but mothering $2- not like that's a lot of money, but ffs, when you're a ing PoS panhandler, asking for $2 is like asking for a hot meal and a place to live for a week. . so again, i waved the guy by before he could finish his sentence. and again, i knew where it was going.
but this guy goes, "DON'T YOU SHOO ME AWAY LIKE THAT! DON'T YOU SHOO ME AWAY! YOU'RE LIKE A DOG! THAT'S WHY I HATE ASIANS!" to which i replied by continually making the "shooing" motion with my hand until he stopped bothering everybody and left the building in an obviously perturbed mood. wtf. i love his logic though; i'm shooing away the annoyance, yet I'M the dog i guess. not the other way around.
needless to say, i was glad i didn't give him any money.
one of my mates was in the US a few years ago, and there was a similar character haunting the entrance to a shopping centre. so my mate went up to him and asked him for a dollar. the bum didn't see the funny side.
Omega_Blue
also,
so i'm running late to the library to do my homework and study for finals, so i get this cab to pick me up instead of waiting an hour for the bus, right? so i get in, and i tell the guy "take me to UWM, but we gotta go to a convenience store so i can get a coffee real quick"- it's gonna be a long night tonight. so he takes me to a nearby open pantry (it's basically a 7-eleven) and i go inside, pour myself a coffee, microwave a tiny sandwich, and head back to the cab. before we left though, this frickin driver says "you gonna give me some money before i drive you all over town??" so i was like, "what, do you think i'm not gonna pay you or something? the fare is just ing 10 bucks man. i'm not gonna dick you."
so he continued to demand getting paid up-front for a cab ride that hadn't even gotten me to my destination yet, refusing to budge until i did, so i said, "well if you're gonna waste my time by waiting until i show you that i have money in my wallet, then turn off the ing money ticker." i'm not gonna have some charge me extra money for wasting my time and being a dick. so i showed him i had twenty bucks and we headed down the street to school.
so on the way there, he goes "man i've had it with all the bull y'all do" and i was like, "what bull dude? who is "y'all"?" he goes "ah i ain't gotta explain it to you" so i replied "well actually you do, and if you can't, then it's obvious that there IS no bull, and YOU'RE the one who's full of , freaking out on a customer for no reason."
so we finally get there, and he shorts me two bucks out of my change, like he expected that for tip money or something. so i said, "hey , i want ALL of my change. including the $.50" (as the total was like, 17.50) so he got all pissed off, gave me an extra dollar back instead, and said "you always think you're right, i'm never right" so i said i would've tipped him (as i ALWAYS do) if he wasn't such an , so he replied "you demandin' yo back before you give me a chance to explain myself" to which i didn't reply, and got the out of there.
wtf was there to explain? dumb people piss me off. and that's the end of my story(s).
Omega_Blue
quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
one of my mates was in the US a few years ago, and there was a similar character haunting the entrance to a shopping centre. so my mate went up to him and asked him for a dollar. the bum didn't see the funny side.
i did that in detroit and almost got my ass kicked. i wouldn't recommend it. lol. you can always tell when a bum wants money, because he'll attempt to give you eye-contact first, and then they make a bee-line directly towards your wallet. so i saw this guy coming a mile away and before he could say a word i yelled "excuse me sir! you got a quarter??" i'd explain the whole story but really, that moment was probably the apex of humorousness of that particular situation. it went downhill pretty quickly after that.
Sushipunk
quote:
Originally posted by Omega_Blue
also,
so i'm running late to the library to do my homework and study for finals, so i get this cab to pick me up instead of waiting an hour for the bus, right? so i get in, and i tell the guy "take me to UWM, but we gotta go to a convenience store so i can get a coffee real quick"- it's gonna be a long night tonight. so he takes me to a nearby open pantry (it's basically a 7-eleven) and i go inside, pour myself a coffee, microwave a tiny sandwich, and head back to the cab. before we left though, this frickin driver says "you gonna give me some money before i drive you all over town??" so i was like, "what, do you think i'm not gonna pay you or something? the fare is just ing 10 bucks man. i'm not gonna dick you."
so he continued to demand getting paid up-front for a cab ride that hadn't even gotten me to my destination yet, refusing to budge until i did, so i said, "well if you're gonna waste my time by waiting until i show you that i have money in my wallet, then turn off the ing money ticker." i'm not gonna have some charge me extra money for wasting my time and being a dick. so i showed him i had twenty bucks and we headed down the street to school.
so on the way there, he goes "man i've had it with all the bull y'all do" and i was like, "what bull dude? who is "y'all"?" he goes "ah i ain't gotta explain it to you" so i replied "well actually you do, and if you can't, then it's obvious that there IS no bull, and YOU'RE the one who's full of , freaking out on a customer for no reason."
so we finally get there, and he shorts me two bucks out of my change, like he expected that for tip money or something. so i said, "hey , i want ALL of my change. including the $.50" (as the total was like, 17.50) so he got all pissed off, gave me an extra dollar back instead, and said "you always think you're right, i'm never right" so i said i would've tipped him (as i ALWAYS do) if he wasn't such an , so he replied "you demandin' yo back before you give me a chance to explain myself" to which i didn't reply, and got the out of there.
wtf was there to explain? dumb people piss me off. and that's the end of my story(s).
To be fair though, cab drivers get ripped off all the time by people just doing a runner. It's the law here, that a driver can ask for a certain amount of the fare (50% I think? Could be more?) before you even leave the pick-up point.
pkcRAISTLIN
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Originally posted by Omega_Blue
i did that in detroit and almost got my ass kicked. i wouldn't recommend it. lol. you can always tell when a bum wants money, because he'll attempt to give you eye-contact first, and then they make a bee-line directly towards your wallet. so i saw this guy coming a mile away and before he could say a word i yelled "excuse me sir! you got a quarter??" i'd explain the whole story but really, that moment was probably the apex of humorousness of that particular situation. it went downhill pretty quickly after that.
hahaha. getting beaten up by a bum wouldnt be a good look.
Omega_Blue
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Originally posted by Sushipunk
To be fair though, cab drivers get ripped off all the time by people just doing a runner. It's the law here, that a driver can ask for a certain amount of the fare (50% I think? Could be more?) before you even leave the pick-up point.
of course, it's the law here too. a cabbie can ask for the money up front. sure dude. but don't be an ass about it. like, he didn't go, "may i please have your fare up-front?" he just said, "ok man, quit the bull- you gonna pay me or what?" literally like that. i suppose i should've clarified that in the original post. dude thought i was in him because i asked to get a coffee at a ing convenience store before i went to school. crazy black man.
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
hahaha. getting beaten up by a bum wouldnt be a good look.
nah. a real good friend of mine (and a regular in MWTA) used to live in detroit, got mugged, and now he has fake front teeth because of it. i tend to leave bums alone for the most part :p
edit- ESPECIALLY in detroit.
Sushipunk
quote:
Originally posted by Omega_Blue
of course, it's the law here too. a cabbie can ask for the money up front. sure dude. but don't be an ass about it. like, he didn't go, "may i please have your fare up-front?" he just said, "ok man, quit the bull- you gonna pay me or what?" literally like that. i suppose i should've clarified that in the original post. dude thought i was in him because i asked to get a coffee at a ing convenience store before i went to school. crazy black man.
Yeah ok, that's poor form indeed.
Well, at least the guy could speak English. Nearly all the cabbies here are fresh from India and can't even spell the name of your street on their sat-navs :p
