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  1. Does that vending machine charge a transaction fee to buy gold bars. think I paid $50 per ounce when I bought mine back when gold was ~860 or so. you would have to pay that transaction fee when selling / converting the bars back to $$$. that’s the big trade-off vs. gold ETF route which has a ton lower transaction fee and more convenient to buy/sell

  2. There’s definitely one in Frankfurt airport. Don’t know where else they are.

    The ones you get in the swiss banks are really nice. They come in a laminated plastic wallet with serial numbers and a hologram. I bought a bunch of them when I worked in zurich for a while – make great presents (although a bit pricey these days).

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    rob – Put your rant on the CL “seen on the subway” site. It’s most likely not a PLUSA.

    HA! i just told my friend kristy i think i should post it there! thanks! seriously, this guy pisses me off to no end. 1.) it’s SO easy to get a seat (or three) where he gets on.. i dont know why he rushes in and SHOVES peoples, it’s insane. im thinking about getting an accomplice and when he shoves someone, to conveniently get in his way so his Ipad falls out of his hands and then have my accomplice snatch it and get off the train. (i think the whitehall station is one of the stations without working cameras), or perhaps doing it on Dekalb, but dekalb does have working cameras.. i dont know, i kinda just wanna see it fall on the floor and smash. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    so yesterday i had to throw out the much beloved beanbags
    πŸ™ i put them in a courtyard with a note, i hope the note wasnt too weird. ah whatever, they were old and smelly anyway and now there’s a lot more room in the living room.

    *rob*

  4. Wow Chicken. They made it sound like these vending machines were new. I wonder if they are still around in Germany.

    Oh and sure… There’s lots of places to buy gold bars and coins. There are a few places in Manhattan you can roll up and get a nugget or two. I mean, couldn’t you just go to UBS on Park Avenue?

    But not in your hotel lobby!

  5. CMU, the dude was being a dick telling me all he got was $22 in his pocket, told me to take his $22 & be on his way, and that there’s no such thing as biker liability insurance like a car, blah blah blah. He thought he can have one over on the friendly looking Chinaman. He needed to pay and as I said yesterday, he was being a d*ck and ran into the bigger d*ck. If you dont mind people putting one over you, that’s you and you holier than I but that aint me nor am I telling people to do or not do what I did in that incident.

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