Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[OmCheeto]

My visa application was delayed because my bank statement showed that I had more funds in that account than was required. What the hell?

I had the most delightful conversation with myself, regarding your post.
At first, I thought you were moving from Greece, and were attempting to smuggle all your money out of the country.
Then, I saw that your profile said you lived in China, and thought about the stock market, and thought the same thing.
Then, I realized that you were talking about a credit card "Visa", vs a passporty type "Visa", which made me laugh at myself.

Perhaps the banks have figured out that too many people have figured out how to play the "rewards" game.
My friends were all bragging about that this last week.
One bought a $30k boat with 3 credit cards, made a bazillion dollars worth of "rewards" points, and then paid off all her credit cards at the end of the month, with the money from her savings account.
Ha!

 

[HomogenousCow]

I had the most delightful conversation with myself, regarding your post.
At first, I thought you were moving from Greece, and were attempting to smuggle all your money out of the country.
Then, I saw that your profile said you lived in China, and thought about the stock market, and thought the same thing.
Then, I realized that you were talking about a credit card "Visa", vs a passporty type "Visa", which made me laugh at myself.

Perhaps the banks have figured out that too many people have figured out how to play the "rewards" game.
My friends were all bragging about that this last week.
One bought a $30k boat with 3 credit cards, made a bazillion dollars worth of "rewards" points, and then paid off all her credit cards at the end of the month, with the money from her savings account.
Ha!

No I'm talking about a visa for immigration, going to college in a month.
The morons over at the British embassy apparently don't understand how money works.

EDIT: To anyone reading this out of context, I have nothing against the UK

 

[WWGD]

My visa application was delayed because my bank statement showed that I had more funds in that account than was required. What the hell?

I can help you. Send me all the extra, so you have the right amount.

 

[OmCheeto]

No I'm talking about a visa for immigration, going to college in a month.
The morons over at the British embassy apparently don't understand how money works.

This makes it even funnier!
It, um..., I can't even comment on how, um...

I have nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Yours is the magnum opus of a non sequitur.
You should be proud, and find a way to frame this moment.

 

[HomogenousCow]

This makes it even funnier!
It, um..., I can't even comment on how, um...

I have nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Yours is the magnum opus of a non sequitur.
You should be proud, and find a way to frame this moment.

Was that unintentionally funny?

 

[WWGD]

Was that unintentionally funny?

Cant you talk to someone there in person?

 

[OmCheeto]

Was that unintentionally funny?

Maybe not for you. But I don't know how much of a pain in the butt this is for you, so I'm not aware of how un-funny it really is.
It's just too absurd a situation.

"Too much money in your bank account delays your visa application?"

That's like one of those internet memes about maths:

Question: When do you know you have too much money in the bank?
Answer: Purple

 

[HomogenousCow]

Maybe not for you. But I don't know how much of a pain in the butt this is for you, so I'm not aware of how un-funny it really is.
It's just too absurd a situation.

"Too much money in your bank account delays your visa application?"

That's like one of those internet memes about maths:

Question: When do you know you have too much money in the bank?
Answer: Purple

I need to demonstrate that I have at least a certain amount of money in a bank account for living fees, somehow some clerk has taken that to mean i must have THAT exact amount of funds available, and no other.
This is absurd.

 

[lisab]

I need to demonstrate that I have at least a certain amount of money in a bank account for living fees, somehow some clerk has taken that to mean i must have THAT exact amount of funds available, and no other.
This is absurd.

I agree completely - I can imagine how you feel, bureaucratic screw-ups make me feel helpless and furious at the same time. I hope it all gets set straight, as soon as possible.

 

[nuuskur]

I'm back again, merry autumn everyone :D

 

[OmCheeto]

I need to demonstrate that I have at least a certain amount of money in a bank account for living fees, somehow some clerk has taken that to mean i must have THAT exact amount of funds available, and no other.
This is absurd.

I think that's what I was getting at.
Would transferring all of your spare money into a separate account solve the problem?

Your situation sounds like a scene out of the movie "Idiocracy".
Have you ever seen it?
It's set in the distant future, and everyone is as stupid as the person you are dealing with.

I've never had to get a visa, so I didn't know that the destination country issued them.
I don't get out much.

 

[HomogenousCow]

I think that's what I was getting at.
Would transferring all of your spare money into a separate account solve the problem?

Your situation sounds like a scene out of the movie "Idiocracy".
Have you ever seen it?
It's set in the distant future, and everyone is as stupid as the person you are dealing with.

I've never had to get a visa, so I didn't know that the destination country issued them.
I don't get out much.

I have. Well I called them and the problem seems to be sorted out, there was "some confusion" apparently.

 

[Borg]

Your situation sounds like a scene out of the movie "Idiocracy".
Have you ever seen it?

Would it be wrong to say I'm Not Sure?

 

[Lisa!]

 

[OmCheeto]

Would it be wrong to say I'm Not Sure?

I'll have to watch the movie again, as I'm not sure I understand your reference.

hmmm... Looking around the image for something I can comprehend.
Is this the maths that explains "baseball"?
I see a baseball diamond.
Girls and maths are beyond my comprehension.

 

[Borg]

I'll have to watch the movie again, as I'm not sure I understand your reference.

 

[Lisa!]

I'll have to watch the movie again, as I'm not sure I understand your reference.

hmmm... Looking around the image for something I can comprehend.
Is this the maths that explains "baseball"?
I see a baseball diamond.
Girls and maths are beyond my comprehension.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...black-hole-paradox.829394/page-2#post-5211652

 

[WWGD]

I was reading a report that many skateboarders are unwilling to wear helmets , because " helmets don't look cool".

Wow, looking cool seems more important to them than getting brain damage. Hard to understand.

 

[OmCheeto]

O.M.G.
I really do need to watch that movie again.

 

[Borg]

O.M.G.
I really do need to watch that movie again.

You forgot that the computers didn't get any smarter either.

 

[OmCheeto]

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...black-hole-paradox.829394/page-2#post-5211652

Ah ha! Physics Girl!

And she was explaining baseball.

Thanks!

 

[DiracPool]

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I think I love my husband to the moon.

 

[Astronuc]

Why rich political donors are wasting a lot of money
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-rich-political-donors-are-wasting-a-lot-of-money-200003712.html

 

[DiracPool]

Why rich political donors are wasting a lot of money

Speaking of which, my dad is a high powered stock broker in Santa Barbara and I think his new wife is trying to cut me out of the inheritance. This drives me nuts, he's such a spineless $%^@%. i don't know what to do. He's got a new kid with that %$6#&. And I think he's too spineless to give his first-born son his fair share. I'm not greedy, but if I don't get my fair share I'm going to feel like a chump. My grandma died 3 years ago and left a 250K estate that he was the governor of and I didn't see a dime. That's not a harbinger of great success with his legacy and the rest of the aging family. What should I do? I want to call him out on it but he'll put his tail between his legs and clam up. He's very sophisticated as playing dumb and playing poor and using his attorneys to cover his ass. I need a more clever approach.

 

[nuuskur]

I think I love my husband to the moon.

Sounds like a dangerous proposition.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Sounds like a dangerous proposition.

I'm missing him. And I realize so. Why is it dangerous ?

 

[lisab]

Beautiful !

 

[DiracPool]

Beautiful !

I agree. She's got that look like she's going to smack your knuckles with a ruler if you say you don't understand Dirac's "bra-ket" notation

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Speaking of which, my dad is a high powered stock broker in Santa Barbara and I think his new wife is trying to cut me out of the inheritance. This drives me nuts, he's such a spineless $%^@%. i don't know what to do. He's got a new kid with that %$6#&. And I think he's too spineless to give his first-born son his fair share. I'm not greedy, but if I don't get my fair share I'm going to feel like a chump. My grandma died 3 years ago and left a 250K estate that he was the governor of and I didn't see a dime. That's not a harbinger of great success with his legacy and the rest of the aging family. What should I do? I want to call him out on it but he'll put his tail between his legs and clam up. He's very sophisticated as playing dumb and playing poor and using his attorneys to cover his ass. I need a more clever approach.

It sounds like he is pretty mean to his own children. But you are meaner and greedier. How much do you expect to get from him beside part of the properties you have contributed to (if you have) that you claim he is keeping for his own ?
I was in a similar case to yours and my husband's relatives have always been thinking (they are still now) that I was married to him because I wanted to get all his and their things (How odd! He signed everything, they are all his). And several of his family members are still leading a traditional life. But I advised him to give all his money and properties to his children and relatives so that they would not get sad, as I only needed his love. Provided that I could always have jobs to do, I would definitely buy back all of them.
In your case, do you ever think if you find yourself relaxed and enjoyable for everything after you could get anything from your parents with your tricks ? If my husband had been like your father, I wouldn't be loving him this much.

 

[DiracPool]

But you are meaner and greedier. How much do you expect to get from him beside part of the properties you have contributed to (if you have) that you claim he is keeping for his own ?

Well, sorry about the rant, but it gets really frustrating when you can't connect with a loved one, a family member. As Pink Floyd puts it, "Beating your head against some mad bugger's wall." As I said in the original post, the only thing I'm really looking for is not feeling like a "chump" because I'm getting pacifically railroaded out of my inheritance. I really don't care about the money per se much at all, to be honest. In fact, I'd much rather he'd be a bum and be asking me for help. Not financial help because I'm not a bank, but maybe emotional help or something like that. Something so that I can feel like my existence means something in his life. He's never asked me for anything, ever. I think that's a terrible thing to do to a child. Everyone wants to feel like they are helping their loved ones in some capacity. To deny this is a real emotional infraction in my opinion. And that's the case with him.

Another case in point is my brother, or half-brother as is were. He's now in graduate school, I think he's 23 or something. But I never knew him. I think I met him 3 or 4 times in those 23 years. He's a good kid but he does have some emotional problems himself. You'd think my dad would say, hey (DiracPool), your brother is having a rough patch and I think he could use a talk with his big brother. But that never happened. He could have said that he wanted to send me and my brother on a trip somewhere so we could get to know each other better, but that never happened. Instead he took a divide and conquer approach and as far as I'm concerned everybody loses. So I'm not going to dwell on it, I'm at the age now where I really don't much care about it anymore. However, I do care about not feeling like I'm getting ripped off. It's just brass taxes, bottom line, that simple.

In any case, sorry again for whining, but it's fresh in my mind because I saw my "analyst" today. And I'm just answering your post

 

[DiracPool]

It's just brass taxes

I looked this up because I didn't know if I was using it correctly. I guess the correct form of the phrase is "brass tacks." The etymology of the term/phrase I guess is ambiguous and somewhat interesting:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070808163154AAFWGcS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Tacks

 

[nuuskur]

Gramps wanted to assemble a cupboard and put it in a room. The only entrance to the room had X meters in height, the smallest measurement of the cupboard relative to the door's height is exactly the same. Result, assemble cupboard outside of room only to discover it won't fit through the door (NO MEASUREMENTS WERE MADE BEFOREHAND !). Disassemble parts of it to get it through, but the parts that were removed supported the entire thing in the first place. Consequence: nigh everything is broken, most of the details are damaged beyond repair, especially the parts that connect details together. Facepalm...

Moral of the story: measure the damn thing and see if it will fit through somehow in the first place. Oh, but no, what do I know, I'm just a uni student (their exact words)..
god !#¤%#¤% damn it!

 

[dlgoff]

Like most young people, my daughter always wanted to see the world. Today she arrived at Ponce, Puerto Rico for the La Batalla De Los Leones, International Championship. Wish I was young again.

 

[Evo]

Like most young people, my daughter always wanted to see the world. Today she arrived at Ponce, Puerto Rico for the La Batalla De Los Leones, International Championship. Wish I was young again.

I made sure that Evo Child traveled the world before she became burdened by a job.

 

[nuuskur]

I made sure that Evo Child traveled the world before she became burdened by a job.

Wish there were more parents that share your opinion. I had to "escape" to see the world before uni and work.

 

[Evo]

Wish there were more parents that share your opinion. I had to "escape" to see the world before uni and work.

That's a shame.

 

[dlgoff]

I made sure that Evo Child traveled the world before she became burdened by a job.

You're a good lady. You've had you fair share of the world; more than me that is.

 

[Lisa!]

Neither me nor my parents were that rich to travel the world. We only traveled to Rome and Paris last year!

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I read PF using my very old hand phone and see all images/avatars in posts' quotes are mine. I don't want to change the phone because I don't have money and I'm still so much in love with the old one.

 

[JorisL]

How did I not know Iron Maiden released a new album today?

What an awesome year, Lamb of God, Disturbed and Muse already released an album.
Slayer is soon to come.
And I saw some awesome shows AC/DC for free even :-)

 

[nuuskur]

Lamb of God still rocking? Hell it was like 05 or so when I last heard from them.

 

[OmCheeto]

Neither me nor my parents were that rich to travel the world. We only traveled to Rome and Paris last year!

Sounds like my family. The only reason we got to go to Canada, was because my dad was in the Air Force. We were so poor, we had to drive all the way to Alaska.
Though I did get to visit Germany when I was eleven. My mother was born there, and went back to visit all of our relatives about every 3 or 4 years. It's quite a bit cheaper to travel when you have a place to stay for free.
I didn't care for the trip much. I didn't speak very many words of German, and whenever I would meet my relatives, they would look at me, mumble something, mother would say; "elf", and then they would stare at me, and mutter; "elf", and then go; "hmmm..." (probably where I picked up that habit...)

I was very sensitive about being a bit on the short side, and did not appreciate everyone referring to me as "an elf".

I hated them all...

Ok. A bit of hyperbole, on my part, as I didn't hate my cousin Klaus. We had fun playing Soccer. Or, as he called it; "Fussball".

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For all of you who do not speak German, "elf" is their word for "eleven". So, for all you English speakers, who may in the future, happen to travel to Germany, with a diminutive 11 year old, please advise them of that fact.

 

[Borg]

I was very sensitive about being a bit on the short side, and did not appreciate everyone referring to me as "an elf".

I hated them all...

Ok. A bit of hyperbole, on my part, as I didn't hate my cousin Klaus. We had fun playing Soccer. Or, as he called it; "Fussball".

I would have been surprised if Klaus didn't get along with an elf.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I have never been to Europe before. And I also don't like it.

 

[nuuskur]

I have never been to Europe before. And I also don't like it.

Heard the tap water over the pond sucks, not so here :)

E: Apologies for the confusion, I am from Europe and to my knowledge the tap water is crap over the pond, relative to my frame of reference. You may unlike my post now :D

 

[JorisL]

I have never been to Europe before. And I also don't like it.

If you like 'special' beers, come to Belgium.

I've tasted some beers England, Germany, the Netherlands and France and I don't like 'em.
I am however curious for the craft beers available in the US. Mainly because they are 'new' (in comparison to ours)

Our music is better as well

 

[thankz]

just bought some tuning forks, going to learn all I can about them at least down to the metal structures. PHYSICS!

 

[Astronuc]

I made sure that Evo Child traveled the world before she became burdened by a job.

One reason that I took my first job was that it required me to travel overseas. I've enjoyed all my trips to Europe and Asia, and I would love to see the rest of the world.

If you like 'special' beers, come to Belgium.

I've tasted some beers England, Germany, the Netherlands and France and I don't like 'em.
I am however curious for the craft beers available in the US. Mainly because they are 'new' (in compare son to ours)

I enjoy Trappiste ales, but my favorite beers are various Imperial Stouts (and to a lesser degree, Imperial Porters) aged in bourbon barrels. I also like certain Scottish ales aged in Whiskey or Rum barrels.

One will find a large variety of craft beers in the US, in addition to imported beers from UK and EU.

 

[Evo]

One reason that I took my first job was that it required me to travel overseas. I've enjoyed all my trips to Europe and Asia, and I would love to see the rest of the world.
I enjoy Trappiste ales, but my favorite beers are various Imperial Stouts (and to a lesser degree, Imperial Porters) aged in bourbon barrels. I also like certain Scottish ales aged in Whiskey or Rum barrels.

I'm glad that I allowed her to travel when she had the opportunity, who knows when she'll have the same opportunities. I was lucky that I was able travel in my 30's, thanks to winning trips as prizes at work. It's sad that the trip we won to the Middle East was canceled due to the Gulf War. From the information we were sent about the places we'd visit like the Blue Mosque, it would have been fascinating.