The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

Is it normal to shove the coffin into the oven?  I thought they were usually burned in a cardboard box or something.

[The Brain]

Is it normal to shove the coffin into the oven?  I thought they were usually burned in a cardboard box or something.

Burning the living would be barbarous.

[grumbler]

Is it normal to shove the coffin into the oven?  I thought they were usually burned in a cardboard box or something.

Burning the living would be barbarous.

I didn't expect a sort of Spanish Inquisition!

[11B4V]

Grumbles, have you been following the "Fat Leonard" debacle?

[grumbler]

Grumbles, have you been following the "Fat Leonard" debacle?

Yeah.  I'm kinda surprised people were so brazen about it, but this kind of corruption differs only in scale from what I saw on deployment.  It was traditional for the winner of the services contractor in Thailand to give a free brothel visit to the officers and chiefs of the visiting ship.

[crazy canuck]

Renewed my subscription to the Guardian and subscribed to their weekly magazine.  Thinking about resubscribing to the Economist. 

[Tamas]

Renewed my subscription to the Guardian and subscribed to their weekly magazine.

Ugh. I mean, I read the Guardian for daily UK news but that's more a negative on the rest of the English press, and not a positive on the Guardian. Their online editorials are really horrible clikbait shit.

[Syt]

Working part time I cancelled New Yorker and Wired, but I stick with the NY Times.

[crazy canuck]

Renewed my subscription to the Guardian and subscribed to their weekly magazine.

Ugh. I mean, I read the Guardian for daily UK news but that's more a negative on the rest of the English press, and not a positive on the Guardian. Their online editorials are really horrible clikbait shit.

It find it to be one of the best non American sources of world news.

edit: I should explain that in Canada we are already inundated with American news so I like to get a different perspective.

[Josquius]

As an adult person I should have a credit card for buying stuff even if I've no intention of ever needing to buy something on credit right?

[Syt]

As an adult person I should have a credit card for buying stuff even if I've no intention of ever needing to buy something on credit right?

Hardly anyone here uses their credit cards for buying on credit. You use it for purchases, usually online, and pay your bill every month.

[Tamas]

As an adult person I should have a credit card for buying stuff even if I've no intention of ever needing to buy something on credit right?

Hardly anyone here uses their credit cards for buying on credit. You use it for purchases, usually online, and pay your bill every month.

This.

Use if to do everyday purchases, but make ABSOLUTELY SURE you pay it back in full every month. That's very important. This way, you'll build up a great credit score in no time. I am at like 97 out of 100 or something.

[Maladict]

As an adult person I should have a credit card for buying stuff even if I've no intention of ever needing to buy something on credit right?

Hardly anyone here uses their credit cards for buying on credit. You use it for purchases, usually online, and pay your bill every month.

I use mine for the occasional online purchase, or when outsie the EU. Otherwise it's completely useless.

[Tamas]

As an adult person I should have a credit card for buying stuff even if I've no intention of ever needing to buy something on credit right?

Hardly anyone here uses their credit cards for buying on credit. You use it for purchases, usually online, and pay your bill every month.

I use mine for the occasional online purchase, or when outisde the EU. Otherwise it's completely useless.

Not if you want to build a credit score, at least in the UK.

But of course, paying with a credit card and then letting the debt on it linger is a horrible, horrible idea.

[Grey Fox]

I buy everything with a credit card, obviously, like Tamas mentions, I pay the balance entirely every month. My credit score is a cool 900.