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Chat Thread - Make BiffTannen Great Again

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That guy Whittaker should have moved away. First mistake.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
sure there could be - but having a moral problem with the existence of large jackpots is not the same as being afraid of handling $100 million
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My problem isn't necessarily with their existence, though I do think that there are tendencies for the design of the product to promote addictive tendencies (see: Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas for more about how casino & machine design promotes addiction in Vegas) but how state gov. and individuals enable their function as a trope in capitalist fantasy. The "would you rather" posted earlier is a weird fantasy construct that tries to foreclose on any negative outcome from a $100m windfall, when that is demonstrably false.
 
so to be ethical, if someone handed you a winning lottery ticket, is the appropriate response to destroy it?
 
Marshall McLuhan said:
Fun fact: Nearly one third of multi-million dollar jackpot winners eventually declare bankruptcy.

70 percent of lottery winners at large end up bankrupt.
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Lots of them begin poor with no money skills. Give me $100MM and my family will be set for generations. I won’t buy a solid gold house in West Virginia or whatever these morons do.
 
I’d stage a press conference where I gave a big ass fake check to St Jude’s for all 315mm but in reality I’d give them like 50mm and have them swear to secrecy.
 
Do you guys remember Tech Decks?

My son got a knock-off version as a Valentine and it reminded me of those suckers.
 
deacondamo said:
Lots of them begin poor with no money skills. Give me $100MM and my family will be set for generations. I won’t buy a solid gold house in West Virginia or whatever these morons do.
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I'll confess that I'd pay probably half my winnings to eat a lot of 10/10 butt and use my nose to try new and fun things. After establishing trusts for my chillin's chillin's chillin's, of course.
 
BiffTannen said:
I'd call up that hot chick from the Ricky Martin video.
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Who wouldn't?

ALso, obligatory:

Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Lawrence: Well what about you now? what would you do?
Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Well yeah.
Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
Peter Gibbons: I'd relax, I would sit on my ass all day, I would do nothing.
Lawrence: Well you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit.
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NC apparently laying some groundwork to crackdown on CBD now. So backwards. They're also trying to basically freeze out any local craft spirit production because of weird ABC laws. What a state.
 
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El Chupacabra said:
NC apparently laying some groundwork to crackdown on CBD now. So backwards. They're also trying to basically freeze out any local craft spirit production because of weird ABC laws. What a state.
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yeah those places are popping up like crazy around here. one just opened in an abandoned gas station they've now painted lime green. has about the worst sign I've ever seen, though. tons of words, small font, very hard to read. but the big leaf on the sign at least tells you what they got.
 
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