Gambling Probs

[Brill]

I bet you could have got the stereo for $300, Simon.

 

[simon482]

And yet from the post below
"hit people up for money on a constant basis and no one ever got anything back from him."

You never mentioned the next day thing, but I would consider it kinda dumb to trust someone like that to make with the stereo the day after he got 600 bucks from me, especially when he was so pissed off with me.

those guys would have only broken a few fingers over the 600$ that he would not have been able to pay them had i not forked over, i on the other had would have gone for knee caps.

 

[simon482]

I bet you could have got the stereo for $300, Simon.

i like how you think.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Simon, is the $3000 stereo install in your FREBIE car? What a life. Freebie cars and expensive stereos. BTW - Is it a Blaupunct?

 

[simon482]

Simon, is the $3000 stereo install in your FREBIE car? What a life. Freebie cars and expensive stereos. BTW - Is it a Blaupunct?

if i remember right it was a pioneer. he said he paid 3k for it installed at some car stereo place. i don't know shit about the stuff other than it was loud and i liked it.

 

[HOF]

i was a t a friends house and he asked me to borrow 600$ and i said no, cuz i knew he was a loser and i would never see it again. he was all weird and jumpy and couldn't sit still, figured he was railed up on coke or something. then i see a car pull in the driveway and he starts really freaking so i get the story out of him. owes 2k to a guy and they want to break some fingers cuz he been fucking them around and he is 600$ short. so i told him i would buy his car stereo off him for 600$, he bought it for close to 3k a few months before. he got really angry at me and called me every name in the book for a min or 2, then when the guys were walking down the path to his house he got real nervous and told me okay, i told him he had to install it and he got really fucking mad but said okay.

they came to the door and he told them what he had and i said to come with me to the bank for the rest. 1 guy came with me, 1 guy stayed there. i got the cash gave it to the guy and we went back. i was laughing with the dude al the way there and back, told him about buying the stereo and thanked him lol. get back and my buddy has a black eye, i got told that was for him being dumb and making them come look.

he never gambled after that but did get beat down on a drug debt.

Simon,

You said friend and loser in the same sentence. He should have given them the stereo and told you to beat it.

 

[HOF]

this was the kind of guy that played sob stories and woe is me all the fucking time and hit people up for money on a constant basis and no one ever got anything back from him. i only stopped there on my way to somewhere else when all this shit went down. i didn't consider him a friend, just a guy i hung out with when i was needing to kill time to go somewhere else. he is not the kind of person you want to be around for long cuz you would start hearing his woe is me crap.

everyone knows the kind of guy i am talking about and has a person they know like this guy. he is not a person i would help out and after years of him showing up at parties and never bringing beer and always showing up in the line when the party favours came out i saw a way to hit the guy back the way he always hit us.

it was a moment of opportunity and i took it, now before you all judge me and say i am a bad guy for fucking this loser over there are things about me you don't know and should be considered. not that i need to share them with you or anything, you all think i am a bad guy for fucking over someone that fucked over everyone he knew. anyway, there have been times i have taken serious hits for good friends, there are times i have had bones broken sticking up for people, in high school i would knock the fuck out of the guys that picked on the retarded kids (fast eddie was a good friend of mine), the other thread i said i pulled out stitches and staples in my legs with pliers was from kicking a guy in the face that hit his girlfriend.

so yeah i fucked a guy that deserved it, who gives a fuck, life lesson for him, don't be a fuck up and bad shit won't happen but i have done way more on the good said of the line.

Simon,

Now, you say that he wasn't a friend; he was just some guy that you killed time with. Which is it, post 2 or post 30? You hung out with him until it was time to go elsewhere. Why bother with this guy at all? Unless you are in the same chapter of the loser club.

 

[afterhours]

I think it was a fraud perpetrated by friend and 'mobsters' on simon who ended up paying $600 for allegedly 'hot' stereo which was actually worth $99 with installation.

compare with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam - and I know a guy who was cheated in this exact way and he is so dumb that he still proud of his lousy speakers

 

[simon482]

Simon,

Now, you say that he wasn't a friend; he was just some guy that you killed time with. Which is it, post 2 or post 30? You hung out with him until it was time to go elsewhere. Why bother with this guy at all? Unless you are in the same chapter of the loser club.

it's just how i talk, i get on a roll with typing and i type. the dude was someone i killed time with, considered maybe an outskirts kind of friend at best. he was a loser and not someone that i would call to go hang with and i would not have ever called him to go to a bar. i wouldn't be annoyed if he showed up where i was but i sure as fuck wouldn't call him and tell him to come out.

 

[Moraff]

Simon,
. Why bother with this guy at all? Unless you are in the same chapter of the loser club.

Well theoretically he saved $2400 on his car stero by doing so.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Gee Simon,

Are you ascending to the throne after Cueball abdicated, from which he vanquished Zardoz from?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Simon,

Your crony just chimed in for you.

 

[Hip]

saw a situation, took advantage. if the dude wasn't a pussy he would have taken the broken finger or 2 and considered the debt paid, but no. he is afraid of pain like a fag.

Afraid of pain like a fag? Spoken like a 14 year old in 1957. You're obviously so deep in the closet you're finding old christmas presents.

 

[james t kirk]

i was a t a friends house and he asked me to borrow 600$ and i said no, cuz i knew he was a loser and i would never see it again. he was all weird and jumpy and couldn't sit still, figured he was railed up on coke or something. then i see a car pull in the driveway and he starts really freaking so i get the story out of him. owes 2k to a guy and they want to break some fingers cuz he been fucking them around and he is 600$ short. so i told him i would buy his car stereo off him for 600$, he bought it for close to 3k a few months before. he got really angry at me and called me every name in the book for a min or 2, then when the guys were walking down the path to his house he got real nervous and told me okay, i told him he had to install it and he got really fucking mad but said okay.

they came to the door and he told them what he had and i said to come with me to the bank for the rest. 1 guy came with me, 1 guy stayed there. i got the cash gave it to the guy and we went back. i was laughing with the dude al the way there and back, told him about buying the stereo and thanked him lol. get back and my buddy has a black eye, i got told that was for him being dumb and making them come look.

he never gambled after that but did get beat down on a drug debt.

Nice.

I read this and thought, "what the fuck" and then I saw who posted it and it all makes sense.

 

[bobistheowl]

The guy should have pawned his car stereo before the collectors arrived, then he might have gotten 40 cents on the dollar, instead of 20. In addition to the $600, the loser friend was also able to keep his fingers intact, which has a certain value, as well. It doesn't sound like Simon was at the guy's house for the purpose of buying a car stereo. Simon could have offered to give the guy say, $800, instead of $600, but the guy would probably have used the other $200 to place a bet.

Note that the guy did give up gambling after that incident. He replaced it with a different addiction, but that's beside the point.

Was Simon a Good Samaritan? No. Did his actions help the guy? Yes. Could he have helped the guy more? Probably not. The guy seems to be hooked on partying on someone else's dime. Helping him do that will only prolong the addiction.

I like playing Poker, and I used to play regularly. I always treated the stake as being no different than any other night's entertainment that has a price tag attached. If I broke even, it was a fun evening that cost nothing. If I won money, it was a bonus, and if I lost, it meant that I might have to wait a while before playing again. Gambling isn't fun when you have to win, or else.

 

[simon482]

Afraid of pain like a fag? Spoken like a 14 year old in 1957. You're obviously so deep in the closet you're finding old christmas presents.

nah, i got lots of gay friends and i call them all fags as well, to their face no less. they know i don't say it out of harm or hate, it's just the way i say it.

 

[milehigh]

One comment I have to make is there are way too many people with gambling issues, and everywhere you go nowadays, there is way too much enticement for them.

 

[simon482]

One comment I have to make is there are way too many people with gambling issues, and everywhere you go nowadays, there is way too much enticement for them.

i just drove through vegas on my way to cali. fucked up how small that town is and how much money gets lost there. took me 20 mins to drive by, wonder how many people lost their house in that short span.

 

[simon482]

Wonder how many people you made offers to buy their houses for pennies on the dollar.

none of them have fucked me over or given me a chance to get payback if they had. i never fucked anyone that didn't deserve it.

 

[simon482]

And your friend deserved it because...

because he was the guy that showed up with nothing every time and expected to party for free and took advantage of everyone that came near him. always waiting for the big payoff, drug addict and gambler. had no future.