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RDCanecutter

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  1. Might even be smaller depending on how many 500Euro "Bin Ladens" they used in the mix. My only experience with hiding chunks of valuables was when my old girlfriend got gifted a 100 oz Silver ingot from her grammaw. She wrapped it in a towel and used it as a doorstop. Hope she didn't sell it back when it was $9/0z.
  2. Garrick Saito · Follow Lives in Los Angeles · 9y Originally Answered: How big would a metal box be to hold $250,000.000.00 of $100.00 dollar bills? It should fit comfortably into a cube-shaped metal box measuring 5' x 5' x 5'. $250M hundred dollars bills is 2.5 million pieces of paper. Our present currency measures 2.61 inches wide by 6.14 inches long, and the thickness is 0.0043 inches [1]. The height of 2.5M bills stacked one on top of each other would be 10,750 inches (2.5M x .0043 inches). The width and length of that stack would be 2.61 inches by 6.14. The volume of paper would be 172,273 cubic inches (10750 x 2.61 x 6.14). The cube root of 172,273 cubic inches is 55.64 inches (or 4.64 feet). [1] Source: Facts About U.S. Money
  3. I have a theory that whatever things cost when you're in your 20s is what down deep you think they should cost forever. So I'm stuck on 80s prices, as in, about 1/3 of now. Hey, it works when I go to Mexico.
  4. Speak for yourself. Personally I am suddenly filled with new emotions and questioning my life assumptions.
  5. I don't think there's enough money in the world to pay the one who looks like he goes dumpster-diving.
  6. As a Bham resident this is the first bowl game I've actually been excited about in years. Got a new stadium north of downtown that's within the shuttle-bus grid, somewhat airport loungish but still bar-crawly places within a block, and two interesting teams that have had their moments with players who theoretically read books. And I could watch option football all day. Word on the street is that tickets are still about 50 bucks to start out, or pay 100 and be a baller. It's not like old Legion field, where I would drop in on games with $20 loose cash in my pocket: $5 to park in somebody's driveway, another 5 to get a sammich, and the rest to finagle your way inside the Old Gray Lady.
  7. I used to crawl way out on the edge of the roof to clean the gutters. Two story drop to concrete, never a worry. Then one day The Fear came. Now I clean that gutter using a long-ass pole while climbing a ladder where if I fall, 6' drop to wooden deck. Probably equally dangerous, but The Fear doesn't reach me there. I am too hard-headed and cheap to hire some young dudes. Guess I might wanna get over that.
  8. HELL YEAH!
  9. Or not.
  10. Still have a huge amount to learn, but better than not having it. This diabetes was supposed to be a 3 hour cruise, but it's got the makings of a beloved multi-year show. Still not dead though. Rock on.
  11. What am I supposed to do with this yacht I bought?
  12. Old Testament is like a porno version of a Conan story. I was reading Book of Kings as a young spider monkey while the preacher would carry on about forgiveness.
  13. After a few days getting to know Insulin, it's my new best friend, my Elvin blade Sting. Shit works. It's like I suddenly have a brake pedal and steering wheel that work. I still let the sugar run a smidge high, because that's what I deal with best, but am learning how to slowwwly creep it down.
  14. They're Russians. Make them sail around enough, and they'll all find a way to sink.
  15. Come for the cancer, stay for the diabetes. I picked up some agitation in my kidney, maybe from the Keytruda. So we paused that, and doc gave my Prednisone to knock out the -itis. Except I could barely take it because my sugar would spike, like over 600. Is that bad? After a dance of wrong insulin, denied insulin, and actual prescribed insulin, I am on my second day of stabbing myself with it in the belly. Yesterday, fuck-all happened but it wasn't too high anyway so we were good. Took my Pred. Today, I decided to make the game interesting, so I rolled over to Taco Casa and got the #1 special w/enchilada, taco, rice, beans, and a few chips in case the carbs were too weak. Went home, it's like 380 sugar, I take 6 units (a tad under recs because I don't want to fish-tail it,) an hour later it's 400-something. I eat meatballs and my Inner British Army Sergeant says "Wait for it... wait for it..." Shortly after that Mrs. Canecutter cooks more low-carb food, I'm at 330-ish. Fuggit. Stab 6 more units in Mah Bellih. Right before midnight, blood sugar drops to 188. S'wut I'm talkin about. Throw down some Prednisone goodness. So why am I still awake? I've got an entry to the Shart 2024 Thread just waiting to jump slap out my ass but it's cagey, it's waiting for me to get up off the toilet.
  16. I dunno, over-education helped me waste some years when I could have been actually going to the places I studied maybe 20 years earlier than I did, have 3 or 4 wives who didn't know about each other kicking out babies on the reg, and of course I'd die young from stress so there's that too.
  17. When I was 15, I tagged along with my electrician father in Ft. Walton or Mary Esther or whatever slapped-together beach town. He had a whole side-gig repairing non-code shit inflicted on the homeowners by [insert narcotic]-head previous electricians. One job was so egregious, with wiring trailing off into damp sand, that he called me over, pointed it out, and said "RD, maybe you'll be an electrician, maybe you'll do something else, but whatever it is, promise me you'll never do shit work." I've tried to keep that in mind. But it would have saved a lot more money if he'd told it to whoever UT hired to build that patio.
  18. We usin pound/pounds, or kilogram/pounds?
  19. I descend from half the Confederate Army, and even I think that's weasely.
  20. Keep bribe money handy. Cash, not card.
  21. What part of Uvalde is that? Dudes all fat as hell. I'm talkin FAT as HELL.
  22. I don't know why you felt the need to make up the part about the wig.
  23. Ah yes. Same State but Different State. He's the guy I was thinking of.
  24. Just ordered a dozen tamales from local group ¡HICA! No habîa lengua, so I'm gettin chicken and queso fresco + jalapeño as a palate cleanser. Comes with chips, salsa, and (hopefully Mexican) Co-Cola.
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