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Forum ยป What's a scam that most people don't realize is a scam? (srs)
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Thread: What's a scam that most people don't realize is a scam? (srs)

post 1505539101 05-21-2017, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted By mischman⏩
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fake news
post 1505539141 05-21-2017, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted By mischman⏩
You do realize that a mortgage is just you renting from a bank on a 30 year lease.....Right?

Skip payments for 3 months and see what happens
no **** sherlock. paying a mortgage is still better then paying rent
post 1505651651 05-22-2017, 09:36 AM
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post 1505725321 05-22-2017, 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted By TMaC828⏩
Wouldn't stretch it and say college is a scam "for the most part". The majority of college students aren't majoring in gender studies or English. And the average earnings over a lifetime for someone who has earned a bachelors degree vs a high school degree is pretty significant. We're talking about a million over a lifetime... add another million for a Doctoral degree. I'm talking averages... the likelihood of success. Obviously there are anomalies, but I'd say there are much more successful college graduates than successful non-college graduates, or drop outs.
These studies were conducted based on people who went to University in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s... you know, when you actually had to have a high IQ to get into University. So what is being measured in those studies is the earnings power of people with high IQs vs. those with lower IQs. It doesn't measure the "value" of a University degree.

Paying tens of thousands of dollars and wasting 4+ years of your life for something that is virtually worthless is the very definition of a scam.
post 1505746801 05-23-2017, 12:19 AM
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Natural bodybuilding is the biggest scam of them all
post 1505870021 05-24-2017, 02:49 AM
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Originally Posted By ironicinori⏩
Any gambling done on a machine and most gambling done at a table.
Its not a scam
You can read the rules and the odds that explicitly show that you'll lose long term, but idiots decide to still play it

Except if you owe $10000 to the mafia but only have $2500 then you should bet all on black twice
post 1505871031 05-24-2017, 03:20 AM
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post 1505871171 05-24-2017, 03:22 AM
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post 1505871251 05-24-2017, 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted By Zerafian⏩
been playing for 10 years, $20/week...Won $5k but you know, still out that other $5k to break even
Get a coinbase account
post 1505871661 05-24-2017, 03:37 AM
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post 1505872511 05-24-2017, 04:00 AM
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post 1506089461 05-25-2017, 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted By aekest⏩
i used to eat oatmeal as a staple for breakfast, and once I stopped, I lost two inches off my waist. (32 down to 30)

****ing shocked by the revelation, but learned a lot from the experience.
This.


Brocoolli, oatmeal, green/black tea, soy anything = all scams.
post 1506089781 05-25-2017, 09:01 PM
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ANy kind of membership is a scam srs
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post 1506091641 05-25-2017, 09:22 PM
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College outside of the training for your actual job is a scam for sure

If I could just take my prerequisites for my graduate program, and then do the graduate curriculum, it would only take 4 years total. But no, I have to go through an entire 4 year degree, a ton of bullchit, THEN I actually get into the meat and potatoes of my profession.

This is why tradies have it made sometimes; the schooling shows you how to do the job, and then you fukking do it.
post 1506092211 05-25-2017, 09:30 PM
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post 1506115731 05-26-2017, 04:15 AM
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Originally Posted By moofthedog⏩
College outside of the training for your actual job is a scam for sure

If I could just take my prerequisites for my graduate program, and then do the graduate curriculum, it would only take 4 years total. But no, I have to go through an entire 4 year degree, a ton of bullchit, THEN I actually get into the meat and potatoes of my profession.

This is why tradies have it made sometimes; the schooling shows you how to do the job, and then you fukking do it.
yea realistically everyone should be done in 2 years - however 4 years makes them 2x as money
OFC jobs play into this because most places won't let you through the door w.o bachelors
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Wisdom teeth removal (srs)
post 1506117561 05-26-2017, 05:04 AM
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Meal plans.

Lol at paying some gymrat without a degree in nutrition hundreds of dollars to come up with a generic list of produce you should eat. Literally takes the guy 2 minutes to make that 100 bucks. Fuking morons.
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post 1506117911 05-26-2017, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted By BrocepCurls⏩
Wisdom teeth removal (srs)
Greedy dentist told me I needed to have them removed 5 years ago and I never did, probably never will
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Originally Posted By deft0nes⏩
ANy kind of membership is a scam srs
Gym? Netflix? Costco?
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post 1506118411 05-26-2017, 05:21 AM
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Originally Posted By blckndyllw⏩
Greedy dentist told me I needed to have them removed 5 years ago and I never did, probably never will
Obviously there are good reasons for taking them out, but this practice of prophylactic removal of all four wisdom teeth without any good clinical justification, which seems to be commonplace in the US, is a straight forward scam. You likely did the right thing there
post 1506118671 05-26-2017, 05:29 AM
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The fitness/bodybuilding industry

brb Kai Greene and co. earning hundreds of thousands from promoting bull**** supplements which they claim help them get huge then spend said hundreds of thousands on every anabolic drug under the sun to actually make them huge. If people just stopped falling for this **** these bodybuilders would not make enough money for it to be a viable "job" and we'd stop getting massive bodybuilders existing at all, or at least much, much less of them.


also a disturbingly high percentage of orthopaedic procedures (the kind that you don't need, but we do anyway because it's considered best practice despite not being backed up by evidence, and leave you crippled for months, sometimes for life, unless you get a DVT and die in the mean time)
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Originally Posted By TheJediBrah⏩
The fitness/bodybuilding industry

brb Kai Greene and co. earning hundreds of thousands from promoting bull**** supplements which they claim help them get huge then spend said hundreds of thousands on every anabolic drug under the sun to actually make them huge. If people just stopped falling for this **** these bodybuilders would not make enough money for it to be a viable "job" and we'd stop getting massive bodybuilders existing at all, or at least much, much less of them.


also a disturbingly high percentage of orthopaedic procedures (the kind that you don't need, but we do anyway because it's considered best practice despite not being backed up by evidence, and leave you crippled for months, sometimes for life, unless you get a DVT and die in the mean time)
Shredz is legit though.
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"career" -> worker drone
"patriot" -> pawn
supplements -> snake oil
marriage -> signing up to lose half your chit
college -> $50k+ piece of paper
health insurance -> pay a chit ton so other people can get free medical care
dr visits -> "I'm not gonna do anything, just go home and rest, that'll be $200"
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Originally Posted By moofthedog⏩
College outside of the training for your actual job is a scam for sure

If I could just take my prerequisites for my graduate program, and then do the graduate curriculum, it would only take 4 years total. But no, I have to go through an entire 4 year degree, a ton of bullchit, THEN I actually get into the meat and potatoes of my profession.

This is why tradies have it made sometimes; the schooling shows you how to do the job, and then you fukking do it.
just the potato for you

you potato
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Originally Posted By Omnivium⏩
college -> $50k+ piece of paper
surely that pays itself off in the long run right?
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