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Old 07-15-2022, 09:27 PM   #941
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This is why you never put a credit card on file for subscription services, if you can avoid it. I did the trick of buying 3 years worth of Xbox Gold gift cards and converting them to Gamepass for $1, but even if that trick doesn't work when my sub eventually expires I'll still just buy the Gamepass cards. Can't be any phantom billing if there's no card to bill it to
The amount of subscription services nowadays are endless; no one is going to buy gift cards for the 100s of various monthly services people use.
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Old 07-15-2022, 09:53 PM   #942
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I do but i just missed them.

we buy everything on our CC to collect points on brim. can miss stuff.
I just pay stuff off as I buy on a card it anything that doesn’t add up is pretty obvious.
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Old 07-15-2022, 10:15 PM   #943
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I do but i just missed them.

we buy everything on our CC to collect points on brim. can miss stuff.

But for 7 months? I mean, our typical credit card statement is usually one page of charges so it’s not a lot to just scan it and check, especially if I just cancelled a subscription service.
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Old 07-16-2022, 08:29 PM   #944
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‘Hosted’ a small gender reveal gathering for some friends. Sort of last minute, so it was pretty tame but wife does a good job covering the bases for sure.

The pregnant lady’s other friends didn’t show. Planned, prepped and expected, just never arrived. That’s gotta feel really ####ty.
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Old 07-17-2022, 12:03 AM   #945
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I grind my gears when I sometimes wonder how long Winnipeg has left in the NHL.
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Old 07-17-2022, 02:13 PM   #946
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I grind my gears when I sometimes wonder how long Winnipeg has left in the NHL.
Being from Winnipeg I understand.

I left Winnipeg in 1988 for Calgary. At the time Rick Bowness was one of the coaches.

34 years later Rick Bowness is the headcoach.

Do they not learn?
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Old 07-17-2022, 03:13 PM   #947
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‘Hosted’ a small gender reveal gathering for some friends. Sort of last minute, so it was pretty tame but wife does a good job covering the bases for sure.

The pregnant lady’s other friends didn’t show. Planned, prepped and expected, just never arrived. That’s gotta feel really ####ty.
What the hell is wrong with people? I know someone who’s dad just did this at their baby shower. Just ghosted.
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Old 07-17-2022, 03:26 PM   #948
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What the hell is wrong with people? I know someone who’s dad just did this at their baby shower. Just ghosted.
A baby shower is quite different than a gender reveal party. I'm all for gender reveal parties not being attended.
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A baby shower is quite different than a gender reveal party. I'm all for gender reveal parties not being attended.
Not attending is not the same as being an expected guest and no showing.
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Yep. I ain’t going to a gender reveal, but I ain’t saying I will either.
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A baby shower is quite different than a gender reveal party. I'm all for gender reveal parties not being attended.
I didn't know gender reveal parties were a thing.
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Old 07-18-2022, 07:32 AM   #952
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Gender reveals 20 years later.... "So, uh, mom, remember how you always tell the story of this gender reveal party you did for me before I was even born, and you cut the cake, and it was pink, but was supposed to be blue but the bakery got it wrong? And you all thought it was super funny? Well it turns out the cake was right. Haha."
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Old 07-18-2022, 08:23 AM   #953
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I didn't know gender reveal parties were a thing.
is this supposed to be green text?

i'm assuming your location is correct (san fernando valley).
you didn't know that in the summer of 2020 that a 22,000 acre wild fire that's less than 2 hours from where you are (san bernardo county) was caused by a gender reveal party?

**edit... EE... this question isn't meant to be 'snarky' or condescending - it would just surprise me that you wouldn't know of this wild fire assuming your location is accurate

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A smoke bomb set off by the couple in Yucaipa, California, on September 5 as part of a gender reveal sparked a fire that went on to burn more than 22,000 acres across two counties, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said during a news conference.
One firefighter was killed while battling the flames and two others were injured, according to Anderson. The fire destroyed several homes and burned more than 22,000 acres, his office said
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The charges were filed after a grand jury heard 34 witness interviews over four days, he said.
Ultimately 434 exhibits were presented to the grand jury, leading to the indictment that was unsealed Tuesday, which includes one felony count of involuntary manslaughter, three felony counts of recklessly causing a fire with great bodily injury, four felony counts of recklessly causing a fire to inhabited structures and 22 misdemeanor counts of recklessly causing fire to property of another, Anderson said.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/21/us/ge...ges/index.html

oh - and for the record, i think gender reveal parties are dumb.
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I didn't know gender reveal parties were a thing.
I reveal mine at parties all the time.
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Old 07-18-2022, 10:09 AM   #955
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Whenever people talk about baby showers I think of this.

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I reveal mine at parties all the time.
Reminds me of an anecdote about Graham Chapman:

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Old 07-18-2022, 06:03 PM   #958
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I don't understand why uncontrolled intersections exist within the city because they just create chaos where many people don't understand the right of way rules.
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Old 07-18-2022, 06:07 PM   #959
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I don't understand why uncontrolled intersections exist within the city because they just create chaos where many people don't understand the right of way rules.
Won't make a difference, they don't even understand the rules at a 4-way.
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Old 07-18-2022, 08:53 PM   #960
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I don't understand why uncontrolled intersections exist within the city because they just create chaos where many people don't understand the right of way rules.
There are all sorts of things that we make slower on purpose to placate strugglers. Adding a bunch of stop signs where they aren't necessary seems like a bad plan to me.
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