So this happened earlier this evening during a text conversation / financial transaction between the spawn and myself:
At first I thought I’d just fix it without telling her. But the fucking app wouldn’t let me! And she was on her way to THE MALL!
Christ, that was a close shave with financial ruin. I’m having a glass or three of a nice Malbec to calm my nerves, sitting in the backyard, enjoying the weather that makes living cheek-by-jowl with armed lunatics mostly worthwhile.
What are you up to?
different-church-lady
And that’s one of the many many reasons I will never use my cell phone as my “wallet”.
Keith G
Adopt me!
Iowa Old Lady
Are you sure she didn’t say “Oh good” rather than “Oh god”?
Chris T.
This is why I use the computer, not the phone, to do transfers :-)
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
You do enjoy living dangerously, Mrs. Cracker. I just finished wrapping the gifts for my giving tree 4 year old (and her mother, for whom our own satby sold me a spa basket at cost). I’ll take them to the agency tomorrow. I’m sharing this:
C-Span justifies its existence
The visuals are terrific.
Villago Delenda Est
The Mall…where small fortunes become even smaller.
jurassicpork
Speaking of fund transference: Santa’s Drunk and Rudolph Just Shit on My Roof or Pottersville: It Ain’t Just the Movies Anymore.
burnspbesq
It’s especially nice to be able to move money by phone when you get a text at 7:00 p.m. Pacific on Friday (3:00 a.m. Saturday where he goes to school) from the kid that starts out “I got separated from my drunk friends and I’m lost. Need money for a cab.”
low-tech cyclist
Yeah, once you’ve transferred the money into someone else’s account, it’s out of your hands – there’s no takes back. The person you transferred the money to needs to agree to transfer it back.
A co-worker of my wife found this out the hard way about a year ago – he put an extra zero in the amount of his mortgage payment when he typed it in to his electronic billpay. Since he had the money in his account (just barely), his bank didn’t balk, and the mortgage lender was happy to get a payment that was (if I recall) on the order of $15,000 instead of $1500. But they weren’t letting him undo it, so he had to be very careful with his spending for awhile.
lamh36
ok, IDK who does Apple’s ad work, but damn if they aren’t good.
why are my eyes so misty?
Apple’s Holiday Spot About a Girl and Her Grandma Will Leave You in Tears http://creativity-online.com/work/apple-the-song/38208
different-church-lady
@burnspbesq: Wouldn’t it be much easier to just not have the kid?
lamh36
Damn, why are my eyes so misty?
Apple’s Holiday Spot About a Girl and Her Grandma Will Leave You in Tears
http://creativity-online.com/work/apple-the-song/38208
Steve in the ATL
Several thousand dollars???
Damn 1%er.
Betty Cracker
@low-tech cyclist: Holy shit, that would suck! Luckily for me (well, today anyway), my 16-year-old’s account is in my name too. But I did have to talk to a person to straighten it out.
lamh36
ok. I quit. please delete my 3 comments from moderation thx
dance around in your bones
I often dive into a thread w/o checking the author. But when I read this one I KNEW it was Betty Cracker.
Hope the kid doesn’t wipe you out, moneywise ;)
MomSense
All the talk of Bush and Clinton today had me thinking of Red State Update.
Here’s an oldie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL7xjhrXX80
David Fud
@Betty Cracker: You could use paypal’s student account. That allows complete control over the money and they get to use a debit card and can’t overdraft. I have used it often and it is easy, instantaneous, free, and wonderful.
El Cid
I am enjoying a new batch of British & Australian documentaries. Good lord, I don’t know how they manage to keep churning out such greats.
For fun & big screen watching, Richard Hammond’s 3 episode Wild Weather is the go-to, but BBC Channel 5’s Rome the World’s First Superpower is filling the history itis.
Looking forward to the BBC’s The Secrets of Quantum Physics.
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: Must’ve been the link?
lamh36
@Betty Cracker: cool thx
rikyrah
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Saw that this morning. It was hilarious.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Lawrence O’Donnell flat out losing his shit over the terror threats to the new Seth Rogen movie.
Betty Cracker
@El Cid: On what service are you viewing these wonders?
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: That is a cool ad. I’ll admit tearing up!
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “It’s easy to blow up a movie theater!!111”
Zooks.
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Gin & Tonic
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: How many times did he mention that he’d been a scriptwriter? More than a hundred, or less?
schrodinger's cat
@El Cid: What are they covering? Bohr Model, Photoelectric effect etc or Schrodinger’s Wave Equation?
Joseph Nobles
@low-tech cyclist: I wouldn’t expect a bank to act like that. They just lost a big chunk of interest! Plus, if he had had a big emergency, the bank might have had to foreclose and lost it all. The sensible thing for them to do would be to refund it. Banks are supposed to think long term. I hope it wasn’t mine.
mai naem
Joe Manchin the POS turd voted against Vivek Murthy’s nomination for Surgeon General. What a chickenshit.
Mike in NC
@mai naem: What a surprise!
Betty Cracker
@Gin & Tonic: I believe he wrote (and made cameo appearances as psycho dad) some West Wing scripts, no?
I have no opinion on the Rogen movie (except that it sounds like formulaic drivel), but didn’t wingnuts pop a ‘rhoid over some UK flick several years back that depicted a GWB assassination? I guess it comes down to whose Dear Leader is being gored.
Omnes Omnibus
@mai naem: A good caucus leader will okay people to voting against something, if they have the votes to win in hand and the individual caucus member will benefit by voting against. They needed 51 and they got enough.
lamh36
@Betty Cracker: IKR. At first I was like, what is this but by the end when the grandmother started listening to the music…I was a lil teary…
Violet
@burnspbesq: I cannot imagine ever having hit up my parents for money like that. They’d have laughed at me. And told me no.
Is this what kids do these days? Ask for money by text and parents give it to them? That’s totally foreign to me. Of course I never got any money from my parents by asking. Never worked once. Okay, maybe for required school things, but for gas money or because I needed to take a cab? They would have laughed at me. Suggested I budget and plan better. Maybe my parents were mean?
Tree With Water
“Adios” is what she she should have texted back, just to play with play.
Mike in NC
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The trailers make that movie look insanely bad and gross even by the low standards of other Franco/Logen collaborations.
Violet
@dance around in your bones: Hey, there! How’s the hip doing? Been wondering if you’ve had the surgery yet?
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I would be surprised. He would benefit if he could deliver the deciding vote on anything. He wouldn’t be in that position. What would the GOP offer him to switch? My guess is, very little.
Joseph Nobles
@efgoldman: That’s what I assumed happened as well: it was applied to principal. If it was against the payment, there would be no loss of interest to the bank, but the guy wouldn’t have needed to be so tight with the money. He wouldn’t have had a mortgage payment for a few months!
Omnes Omnibus
@dance around in your bones: @Violet: Co-sign and adding inquiry about status of book writing….
Violet
@efgoldman: Yes, it would surprise me. He’ll band together with other “moderates” and get to plaintively whine “Where has the comity of the Senate gone” and “Oh for the bi-partisanship days of yore,” all while being courted by Both Sides. Plenty of face time by media. Lots of attention from Both Sides. There’s no upside to him switching parties.
buster
O god, a zombie jurrassicpork.
I thought you quit the inter web blogs when you couldn’t spam TBogg’s place with your unfunny, off topic spam posts.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Omnes Omnibus: Yup. There were stories that Ted Kennedy (roughly) would wink and nod about southern Democrats attacking him as a liberal monster and then go out to have drinks with them. He understood how the game had to be played to get their help on things that he needed votes on.
Purity doesn’t get things done.
If Manchin needed to vote against Murthy to be able to vote for something else later, that’s a reasonable tradeoff (since he was confirmed after all).
Cheers,
Scott.
Betty Cracker
@Violet: Wasn’t Manchin the dumb prick who ran an ad of himself shooting a climate change bill with a rifle? Even in the shameful pantheon of Blue Dog desperation moves, that one stands out. Fuck him with an oxidized hay baler.
SatanicPanic
If that Franco/Rogen movie doesn’t come out then the terrorists win and Cheney will have an excuse to waterboard some people
Botsplainer
@jurassicpork:
Begging again?
Asshole.
At least the homeless guy on the bench outside my office sings nicely and is pleasant in demeanor. I probably toss him a hundred a month – he deserves it.
different-church-lady
@efgoldman:
Wouldn’t it be much easier to just not have the grandkids?
MomSense
@lamh36:
Grandma listening made me teary, too. That was a nice ad.
lamh36
So Taken 3 is basically the Fugitive with Liam Neeson as Richard “I Didn’t Kill My Wife” Kimble. Forest Whitaker is US Deputy Marshal Samuel “check every farmhouse, outhouse, henhouse, and doghouse” Gerard.
instead of Richard “oh a one armed man killed my wife, ya gotta believe me” Kimble, we have kick ass Richard Kimble, who’ll break your arm with his bare hands cause hels got like special ops like fighting skills.
http://youtu.be/HZaDbUofNgE
and still, I love Liam Neeson, so yeah I’ll be in theaters to watch it…LOL
Gin & Tonic
@Betty Cracker: Yes, yes he did. He may have mentioned it on the show, too. Did you know he also was on the Senate Finance Committee staff? He may have mentioned that about a million times as well.
I find him insufferable.
Felixmoronia
Betty, I don’t know what el cid may be using but I use hotspotshieldelite to watch and/or download from the beeb. $30 a year and you can fool netflix into thinking you are watching from the UK, Canuckistan, Germany and a few other places.
catclub
Anyone else read the Louis versus Rick website? The text messages looked just like it. Funny.
http://louisvsrick.com/
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: Hahaha! Right there with you, though I generally wait for the digital release. “Mis-Taken: In Which I Take Down the Wrong Motherfuckers!” I’m there!
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: What about “Par-Taken: In which We Recycle the Plot of Alive!”?
jibeaux
@lamh36: I would sell my soul for Rhiannon Giddens’ voice.
Omnes Omnibus
@jibeaux: Sam Cooke’s voice is my price.
jibeaux
Question: do people still pay for simple websites anymore or do they mostly just buy templates? I have a very bright, techy, self-taught 13 y.o. who would like to make some money. He knows some programming, arduino stuff, robotics. Does anyone know a marketable skill that can evolve out of that? He’s not at app-making ability yet, and he’s not built for hard labor.
jibeaux
@Omnes Omnibus: would sound a little weird on me, but yes, I think it would work on you.
I saw her live singing O Holy Night while 8 months pregnant, and if she had juggled chainsaws underwater I could not have been more impressed.
Omnes Omnibus
@jibeaux: Are you familiar with this?
burnspbesq
@different-church-lady:
If you can explain how yes I think this could be very easily done, I will be all ears.
P.S. Any of y’all who don’t get the reference should be ashamed.
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq: What does this have to do with filibuster rules?
burnspbesq
@Violet:
Oddly enough, the idea of my only child wandering aimlessly through potentially skeevy parts of a city I barely know (London) in the dead of night holds no particular appeal to me. I’ve invested a shit-ton of money in that little bastid’s professional training. Someday I’d like to be able to pay a substantial amount of money for a ticket to see him perform in some posh theatre somewhere.
burnspbesq
@Omnes Omnibus:
If you put some bleachers out in the sun, I will be glad to explain.
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq:
Won’t he have a couple of tickets to throw your way at that point?
burnspbesq
@Omnes Omnibus:
Grandparents get comped first.
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq: He can’t get six seats? You dream too small for him.
burnspbesq
@Omnes Omnibus:
Full-time permanent slots with modern dance companies that don’t bounce paychecks are easier to find in Europe than here, but there still aren’t all that many of them. If i hafta pay, i can pay.
NotMax
Please do post again later on to let us know how daughter likes Brazil.
:)
Xenos
@burnspbesq: where in Europe is he?
Eta… never mind., London, as you said. My reading comprehension ducks at 6:30 am.
? Martin
Trying to figure out how to get Betty to send me $50.
Mike J
@burnspbesq: If he ever wants to go to the skeeviest parts of London I can almost guarantee I can beat any place he’s ever imagined. There’s a mini-cab stand in soho that has a bar in the back where the drivers hang out and drink while waiting for fares. I got passed the biggest joint I’ve ever seen there, and I worked in the Netherlands.
London is much more parochial about late night entertainment than major cities in the US are. As a result, you can choose between nothing or places that are much, much scarier than they are here.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: I have stories about going with a friend to Brixton in ’84 in a mini-cab driven by a Jamaican driver who had connections to a guy with opium. Like I was going to be security. I looked like might have been an English guy named Crispin and my opium seeking friend looked like a vaguely rebellious Quentin. We lived though, but the opium deal didn’t work out.
bad Jim
I’m drinking Malbec, which puts me in mind of Gerald Dumas. Dumas was up at 2 AM, drinking beer and reading Twain recounting that he was up at 2 AM, drinking beer and reading Dumas.
J R in WV
@mai naem:
Poorest excuse for a government leader I have ever met. When he was a carpet salesman for a living he was over extended.
Will never forget the time shortly after he was elected Gov. a woman from up around where he was selling carpet said “Yes, we have had Mr, Manchin to our house. He was measuring for new carpet.”
Had to shake hands with him in public once, we were both against it but had no choices in the matter. Manners, don’t you know.
J R in WV
Betty, from the little you have said about your spawn I doubt she would have gone very crazy with your mis-spelled amount of money, really.
She seems to be a level headed person. For which you are to be congratulated.
Hunter
A slightly related topic: my problem is that I can’t get my ISP to establish an autopay and keep it running. I have now set it up four times (since May), and they keep cancelling it for somewhat dubious reasons (i.e., their system listed a refund as a “declined payment,” so they cancelled it; then they said they attempted to make a withdrawal and the bank declined it — bank says it didn’t happen).
And do you think they notify me about these things? It’s not like they don’t have my e-mail address.
What makes it so ludicrous is that I pay almost everything electronically — seriously, I write maybe — maybe — two checks a month — and they’re a damned tech company and they can’t get it together. Even my landlord sends an e-mail when they put through an autopay for my rent.
That said, just a stroke for Betty — I look forward to your posts. They remind me of me.
dance around in your bones
@Violet: You may not see this, but my hip surgery has been put on holg while I finidh the work on my teeth. My surgeon is very conservative and likes to minimize risks so he can have good stats.
Meanwhile, I need to find a place to live for 2 months while the dental work gets done. I have an appt with social services tomorrow, so fingers crossed they will be able to help me out.
Yes, I am sucking at the gov’t teat but only for a short time until I heal and can get a job. Thank you for asking :)
dance around in your bones
@Omnes Omnibus: Omnes, I have been so busy trying to keep my head above water that I’m afraid the book has not been started yet. Perhaps I need that figurative slap!
Hard to concentrate when things are so…..shaky. And thank YOU for asking, too :)