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Chat Thread 59: You can choose to be anything on the thread, so why not choose to be nice.

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Yeah gs cookies are a total racket. Also disappointing that our area added a fall sale of other products. I’m not buying that shit or making my kids sell it.
 
there are no fundraisers that aren't a racket; that margin is where the fundraising is! i just bought $100 of overpriced wrapping paper to support a school chorus when they'd probably be better off if i just gave them $50.
 
DeacDiggler said:
there are no fundraisers that aren't a racket; that margin is where the fundraising is! i just bought $100 of overpriced wrapping paper to support a school chorus when they'd probably be better off if i just gave them $50.
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Yeah this is what we do. We generally don’t want whatever shitty quality things are being sold, so we just make a donation.
 
I went to a golf tournament for the HS baseball team that included a silent auction and it was not a racket. The parents got sick of the kids having to sell carwash tickets and coupon books so they put the golf tournament together and raised more money in a single day than they did with the sales.
 
06deacon said:
Boy Scout popcorn costs $25 for microwave butter popcorn now. Fuck you, scouts.
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My son's troop doesn't bother with that nonsense. We sell and deliver mulch. It's a long f ing day (and last spring it rained the entire day) but it covers nearly all expense for the year for the troop. Basically, the only expenses are some of the pricier events like a week up at camp Bayshore.
 
Kory said:
can you ELI5 i don't know anything about this
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SoftBank is a huge Japanese conglomerate that raised a $100B investment vehicle pretty much at the peak of tech mania and high valuations. The leader of SoftBank more or less had total autonomy over a lot of investment decisions. They wrote a huge check that valued WeWork at $47B and have continued pumping billions into it in the form of debt and equity. WeWork declared bankruptcy this week so any remaining equity value they are holding will likely be wiped out completely. A total of $14B down the drain.
 
deaconson said:
My son's troop doesn't bother with that nonsense. We sell and deliver mulch. It's a long f ing day (and last spring it rained the entire day) but it covers nearly all expense for the year for the troop. Basically, the only expenses are some of the pricier events like a week up at camp Bayshore.
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Yeah, the troopmy oldest was in sold barbecue and barbecue sauce, and made a lot of money. They also did apples for a while b/c one of the scout’s families owned an apple orchard in the western part of the state.
 
IamThunderbolt said:
@DeacInVermont - submitted for your approval:

I’m a not very prominent poster that occasionally has a good run, but would never challenge the elite. Have a narrow lane of posts/style that sometimes works, often doesn’t. Generally well liked/respected, but not often thought of except for the occasional small run during the tournament. Tend to over-intellectualize, but overshadowed by truly great thinkers on the boards - I’m calling Princeton.
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IaT- Happy to assign you Princeton's Ivy League rival Harvard. A solid program for years. If you can look past success with a coach with a duke background, it's a program easy to pull for. Now you can start beefin' with grrl, if you're so inclined.
 
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