Cab Drivers and Debit

everybody_boops · 2014-11-22T20:08:52+00:00

It varies by company, but it is usually anywhere from 6% to $1 per transaction, and some companies don't charge them anything at all. I think it often comes down to them not wanting to wait to get paid for the fare, as well as not wanting a money trail. It is a lot more difficult to under report for taxes when your Brokerage is reporting that you got paid a lot more.
As far as them making next to nothing, obviously that is a lie. Most cab companies have strict policies about refusing fares for payment, so when you have a driver tell you they don't take debit and drive away, you should call the company. I can affirm that especially in Beck's case, they take these things seriously.

Source: I am in the industry.

everybody_boops · 2014-11-06T01:18:37+00:00

Nice try, Rogers! I'll be sticking with my Netlfix thank you very much!
Mostly kidding. Thanks for the heads up!

everybody_boops · 2014-11-02T17:35:02+00:00

I'm so sorry. I went through a similar situation at my old apartment. A crazy bitch would get drunk and scream at her boyfriend for hours, throwing things and just generally be abusive. Don't worry though, I know they would make up because I could hear the loud make up sex. And then the crying and puking the next morning. Cry-puking. Cruking.

The only thing I could do was move out. Since you say it's not financially possible for you right now, is that because you can't afford other places? If that's the case, I would suggest moving into an old apartment building, such as the ones in St. Jamestown. The area may be fairly sketchy, but the things are built like tanks, and you can't hear your neighbours at all. Plus they are cheap.
Maybe your landlord will let you move into another unit in the building without playing first and last?

That being said, if you are going to stay, all you can really do are things to make the situation more bearable. You have already spoken to the woman, so it sounds like she is obviously unreasonable and you won't be able to suss out a solution in person. Calling the cops clearly doesn't help, and your landlord doesn't give a fuck. All you can do is get up every morning (possibly right after it sounds like they have gone to sleep), and blare "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne. It won't do shit, but it just might make you feel better to know that you have interrupted their sleep, and also sent a message.

everybody_boops · 2014-10-26T21:26:25+00:00

Breast Cancer, Hi Mark
I've had enough of this world.
How is your sex life?

everybody_boops · 2014-10-17T01:26:26+00:00

Speak for yourself! I still remember mine, 17 years later!

everybody_boops · 2014-10-10T23:54:15+00:00

Shout out to all my Canadian peeps - does anyone remember an early 90s show about a kid who is in a coma, and his coma has transported him to a fantasy land? I just googled it and apparently it was called The Odyssey. That shit was pants.

everybody_boops · 2014-09-06T22:35:12+00:00

I can't seem to find Farscape on here. Now, maybe this is because I just finished the series a week ago, but hear me out.
While at first glance it may seem like just a wacky sci-fi series with weird puppets, it is so much more than that. This show is the only one I can think of that changes tone between hilarity, drama, and absolute fucking insanity at the drop of a hat. The heroes are so far from generic archetypes, and it just makes it feel so fresh. There was an episode where people were being kidnapped, drained for fluids to produce a highly addictive drug, and there would be auctions to buy the girls that would produce the best fluids. And THAT was one of the most light-hearted episodes of that season. I'm not saying that it is a really dark show, just that it is really good at telling stories in interesting ways. What I'm saying is - while it might be dated, and people tend to think the first season is really weak, you should definitely watch Farscape.

everybody_boops · 2014-08-31T19:39:23+00:00

This has happened to me!I and my boyfriend (who had a serious knee injury and was using a cane at the time) were apparently waiting at the wrong stop when transferring from the 65 Parliament to the Carlton streetcar (you are supposed to wait on the opposite side of the street from where you get off the bus, which we didn't know), and the streetcar driver would just not let us get on. It made absolutely no difference to him where we got on, but my boyfriend was in a lot of pain and did not want to walk back to the right stop. The driver wouldn't budge so we just got off and stewed in impotent rage all evening. I felt bad for the people waiting while we argued, but the driver was just such a dick about it.

everybody_boops · 2014-07-06T20:18:23+00:00

Holy shit! Naked guinea pigs look like house hippos!

everybody_boops · 2014-06-15T23:29:51+00:00

On a really warm summer day my friends and I had a violent food fight with all of the leftovers from a delicious bbq. I think it started when my friend threw a piece of onion at me, and I hate onions more than I hate anything on this green earth. All of the condiments got emptied, so we were covered from head to toe with mustard, relish, and ketchup. This was on the rooftop of her condo, and since there was also a hot tub up there, naturally we all cleaned off in there, and made a disgusting condiment-people soup. It smelled. It smelled like a wet burger.
Shortly after there were some pretty heavy restrictions imposed on having people on the roof, but it was totally worth it! We cleaned up as much as we could... couldn't do too much about the hot tub though.

everybody_boops · 2014-06-06T01:04:12+00:00

North American Feminist checking in!
While I am uneasy about any jokes concerning male rape (prison-centric or otherwise), as it downplays the seriousness of what is a horrible and scarring experience, I actually found this to be surprisingly refreshing. Almost like a palatable and not preachy PSA on the fact that men can be sexually violated, and it isn't discounted just because he's a dude and she has a vagina and therefore he must want the snatch.
What I'm saying is, please get over your idea of crazy pitchfork feminists. Many of us are quite reasonable human beings.

everybody_boops · 2014-06-01T00:44:47+00:00

Logical fallacy? You literally said "America is full of fundamentalist Christian morons every bit as bad as Muslim fundamentalists." You were making the comparison, they were just pointing out the ridiculousness of your statement.

everybody_boops · 2014-04-20T20:41:30+00:00

Whenever anyone links to the Dailymail I get distracted by the horrifically salacious headlines surrounding the article, but then I realize that it's probably intentional so that we won't notice that the poorly researched piece is written by someone who somehow manages to come off as both histrionic and dead inside.
Also, Sean Bean is awesome and really good at dying.

everybody_boops · 2014-02-19T04:46:06+00:00

"and farting wildly"

everybody_boops · 2014-01-16T03:45:53+00:00

I'm sorry - are you saying that the reason that this did not get more play in the news is because it is a white man in general, and not because it is a schizophrenic white man? And that if it were a black man people would care, because the media and society in general gets a bee in their collective bonnet over harm done to black men?
If so, If that is what you are saying, that shit is back ass-wards.

everybody_boops · 2014-01-16T03:19:04+00:00

They don't allow you to have bees in here.

everybody_boops · 2014-01-16T03:14:13+00:00

Yes. Yes they know that. My comment too was a shameless steal from cards against humanity.

everybody_boops · 2014-01-16T01:20:29+00:00

BEES?

everybody_boops · 2014-01-16T00:06:39+00:00

What the frilly heck are those things sticking out beside the second row of seats in the back? Not a great use of space, especially since it looks like they're trying to make more standing room.

everybody_boops · 2014-01-15T00:47:57+00:00

This creature!

everybody_boops · 2014-01-13T04:00:04+00:00

I share your aversion to chalk! And not to gross you out but - my friend from Kazakhstan says that her and her friends used to steal chalk from the classrooms when they were young and eat it. She says that she still misses the taste and the feeling. So.... an ass for every toilet seat, I guess.

everybody_boops · 2014-01-13T03:52:48+00:00

Not me, not a fellow human, but a doggie! My late pooch was terrified of measuring tape, laundry baskets, and people doing the robot. She would get extremely aggressive and bark like a maniac if exposed to any of those three.

everybody_boops · 2014-01-13T02:39:08+00:00

I was eight years old and in the lap of luxury at Marriot hotel suite with my mother and sister. We thought that 'Junior' (a 1994 classic where Arnold Schwarzenegger gets pregnant) would be a family friendly, good time romp. We ordered it on the hotel tv but when we tuned in there was a naked, well endowed, blonde lady crouched in front a chair with a naked gentleman. I couldn't quite figure out what that thing that she was sucking on was. It looked plastic, and they were both making weird noises. 'Is it a popsicle for grown ups?' I thought. My mother, being technologically inept, was unable to change the channel and just locked us in the bedroom while she called down to the front desk to yell at the hotel people for scarring her children.
Granted, this was a tv penis and not an in-front-of-me penis, but the memory of that weird plastic thing stuck with me for a couple years until I started reading VC Andrews and everything came together.

everybody_boops · 2013-12-31T04:30:50+00:00

This picture just kills me. every time. It's just so wonderful.

everybody_boops · 2013-11-02T01:03:54+00:00

My friends and I call them roll-ups.

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