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Well, when they outlaw superglue, only ______ will have _______.

The answer to this is left as an exercise to the reader.

As of when I just surfed that link, YouTube has suspended that user.

Gone-wa.

I love Caffiene Free Diet Pepsi.

It's better than Cats.

I'm going to drink it again and again.

"Saaaaay .... that style is a little young for you, innit?"

Oh, yah, before we move on from this one:

The only really suprising thing is how unsurprising this all is. It's almost like they don't care who knows about it anymore.

I often wonder if anyone involved in these things sometimes looks to another one of thier fellows and says something like "Hey, dude ... this thing we're doing ... it's kind of evil and wrong, isn't it?" before going along with it anyway.

You're kidding! You mean in the USA corporations with dogs in certain fight spend extra money to get ringers in to tilt hearings thier direction?

Next thing you know, people will come up with electronic voting machines that deliver the results they want.

Oh, wait ...

Here in Oregon we recently had some laws passed that capped Payday loan stores. Frankly I don't think they went far enough.

The discouraging thing about debate over these things is that the first stop on the no-clue train is that it's important, first and foremost, to harp on the fact that the debtors always had a choice. They should have known better than to sign on that dotted line.

Do we really know that they had a choice? This economy has created desperate, desperate people. And no matter how much financial smarts you have, these payday lenders will P.R. you into submssion convincing you that they are really providing a service.

And yes, as we have seen, they will go after the not-too-bright and convince them to sign, knowing that they don't know what it is they are signing.

Once we have blame sufficiently pinned on the poor sap who signed (out of desperation, lack of intellect, or whatever), then the payday loan company gets a free pass on pretty much everything else. Embarrassingly usurious loan rates? Hey, ain't no problem, it's the poor sap's fault! If he only wouldn't have signed!

The fact is if you're bellying up to the Payday Loan counter to get some cash, you're out of options. Your out of choices ... or at least it seems that way. How many well-dressed, Prius-driving consumers do you see in the parking lots? Chances are, they came there on the city bus – if they had that much money - or they're driving older used cars (that's pretty much the case around these parts).

The next time you look on the average "check-cashing-store" user, remember, there but for the grace of God goes you. Next thing you know, your lifestyle might not be working out and the only place you can get a lifeline is ... guess where?

I'll bet the lack of available and repayable credit will become real important to you then.

@Alaninsane:
This easily reminded me of my favorite Kids in the Hall skit: "Things To Do."

And remember you can't fix the car without a whole, lotta, milka.

(yes, different skit, I know)

He was just all so efficient about it.

@ Lightfoote:

But... but... if he does that at the end, how is he going to cross it off the list?

Remember that phone call? Someone's coming over to check that thing off the list for him.

Or something.

The Skeptic's Guide to The Universe:

http://thesepkticsguide.org

Meaty information, cool characters, well paced – I hardly believe it's unscripted.

If you're a smart person, then you'll subscribe. It's as simple as that.

I also must second This American Life

Yeah. That guy is one of my cow-orkers!

Except when he drives his Saturn to work. Then he has a real face.

Weird

But I thought that Britain was this ultra-surveilled "nanny-state" where nobody gets away with anything without it going on CCTV. And all this dude had to do to hide the construction of a gorram huge buidling is put it all behind some hay bales?

Brother Cadfael, were are you when we need you?

Parts of that right-hand list are postively adult...

Fecund ... canyon ... orgy ...

FNARR.

I call unfair.

This is supposed to be a directory of wonderful things.

This is so not wonderful.