Originally posted by Lira
Developing countries FTW!!!
Teehee
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
Dec-12-2010 16:47
shaw
RIP
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Intergalactic Mimosa Station
Curse of Favre IMO.
Dec-12-2010 19:42
Lira
Ancient BassAddict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Brasília, Brazil
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
Dec-12-2010 20:44
Ian
Not dead yet.
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: UK
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
Dec-12-2010 22:52
Omega_Blue
Someone Changed My Custom
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Gone
so, fuckin,
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 motherfucking $2- not like that's a lot of money, but ffs, when you're a fucking PoS panhandler, asking for $2 is like asking for a hot meal and a place to live for a week. shit. 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.
Dec-13-2010 07:00
pkcRAISTLIN
arbiter's chief minion
Registered: Jul 2002
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by Omega_Blue
so, fuckin,
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 motherfucking $2- not like that's a lot of money, but ffs, when you're a fucking PoS panhandler, asking for $2 is like asking for a hot meal and a place to live for a week. shit. 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.
Dec-13-2010 07:12
Omega_Blue
Someone Changed My Custom
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Gone
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 fucking 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 fucking money ticker." i'm not gonna have some asshole 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 bullshit y'all do" and i was like, "what bullshit 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 bullshit, and YOU'RE the one who's full of shit, 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 asshole, 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 asshole, so he replied "you demandin' yo shit back before you give me a chance to explain myself" to which i didn't reply, and got the fuck out of there.
wtf was there to explain? dumb people piss me off. and that's the end of my story(s).
Dec-13-2010 07:13
Omega_Blue
Someone Changed My Custom
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Gone
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.
Dec-13-2010 07:15
Sushipunk
Flickering, I roam
Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Chateau Verdafloor
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 fucking 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 fucking money ticker." i'm not gonna have some asshole 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 bullshit y'all do" and i was like, "what bullshit 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 bullshit, and YOU'RE the one who's full of shit, 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 asshole, 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 asshole, so he replied "you demandin' yo shit back before you give me a chance to explain myself" to which i didn't reply, and got the fuck 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.
Dec-13-2010 07:18
pkcRAISTLIN
arbiter's chief minion
Registered: Jul 2002
Location:
quote:
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.
Dec-13-2010 07:18
Omega_Blue
Someone Changed My Custom
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Gone
quote:
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 bullshit- you gonna pay me or what?" literally like that. i suppose i should've clarified that in the original post. dude thought i was fuckin him because i asked to get a coffee at a fucking convenience store before i went to school. crazy black man.
quote:
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
edit- ESPECIALLY in detroit.
Dec-13-2010 07:24
Sushipunk
Flickering, I roam
Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Chateau Verdafloor
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 bullshit- you gonna pay me or what?" literally like that. i suppose i should've clarified that in the original post. dude thought i was fuckin him because i asked to get a coffee at a fucking 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