Please remember NOT to pay off all your credit card debt at once

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Because doing so means you are a terrorist.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

In America, your debt is your identity.

― All Is Wub (kate), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. My wife is about to do this!

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

eeeew

― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's your identity

And your dues-paying membership card in the tribe, I guess. It used to be (in WWII movies) knowing who won the Series in 1938.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

$6500 on a JCPenney card? What is the interest expense on that? Damn.

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Phew. Glad I'm safe from ever doing that, then

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I've done that before, paid off my credit card with a large check...but not that large. They sure spent a lot at Penney's -- maybe it was appliances?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

"appliances"

― Dan ("Massager") Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

You would think that being Texans would provide them with some sort of terrorism immunity card.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

I got upset when I was told that you can't buy a house in cash in America anymore.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

ned posts so that i do not have to. besides, not being a debt slave to credit card companies is "economic terrorism" i suppose.

and i was getting ready to pay off one huge credit card bill at the end of this month ... oh well, it's guantanamo time for me!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Paying off your bills is unAmerican, don't you know? Next you'll be asking the US to pay off its Deficit or something else totally unpatriotic!

― All Is Wub (kate), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I got upset when I was told that you can't buy a house in cash in America anymore

this one's been like this for a while, now, hasn't it? It was to stop all the really shady money/drug/kickback/laundering deals that were going on.

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

In the UK, too. In fact, even if people want to pay their fees for our services (financial advisors/mortgage brokers) in cash, we're supposed to refer it to fraud detection agencies.

― All Is Wub (kate), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, there's a MASSIVE amount of fraud going on in the U.S. housing market and has been for years. They've been working on several different things to correct this for a long while.

thank god i'm not an underwriter anymore.

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Still. Today it's houses, tomorrow it'll be cars.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

then... gum.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

No more paper currency. Exactly.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Rise of the Machines.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Not the best pinball game

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

wait me when the replicants show up

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

and wake me, too

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

With home mortgage rates rising, it'll be sooner than you think.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

wake me up before the reps show
'Cause I'm not plannin' on that pinball oh no
Where'd all my folding money go-go?
'Cause I can't use visa in pinball machines.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Enh, then the u.s. property market will crash. oh well.

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

that's pretty weird, that it's based on a percentage and not an amount. obv. a lot of transactions of $10,000 and over are pretty scrutinized these days.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. My wife is about to do this!

-- Adam Rice Lacucaracha

yes but you are terrorists so it just proves their point

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, she married an ALIEN, too. You're so flagging up every alarm bell they have.

― All Is Wub (kate), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have been to the Genteleman Farmer restaurant in Scituate, RI mentioned in the article. My moms lives like 5 miles away.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

got upset when I was told that you can't buy a house in cash in America anymore

I thought for a minute you didn't mean banknotes cash and were actually saying you had to get a mortgage even if you didn't need one.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Mom emailed me --

XXXX, you got a call today from a Macy Jones from LTD
Financial Services. I googled it, and it's a
collection agency. She left a # for you to call:
1-800-741-2100 ext. 2935
Be careful. May not be legit.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago)

I'm guessing they're trying to collect on a debt for someone with my name by cold calling every old phone record for me?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago)

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