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Werepandas - lurking in your shadows
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: In the Deep South
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It sounds like you need a taser. If you lit a few folks up, I bet they wouldn't be as rowdy in the shop. Or, I do have a double barrel 12 ga with rubber buckshot
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#377 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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I watched Loopers last night and the guys were being paid in silver ingots, would you guys re-smelt that sort of thing or are there restrictions?
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#378 |
Makes some feel uncomfortable
Join Date: Dec 2005
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On one of those shows where people buy the contents of unpaid storage "rooms", the buyer melted down all the silver and gold to resell it.
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#379 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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We would happily buy it in and melt it. I've made loans on them before. How big were the ingots?
But we don't have to actually melt anything personally. That would be a pain in the ass. We just sell it to the smelters. |
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#380 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
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Maybe 2 1/2 x 5 x 3/4?
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#381 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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How much value was that supposed to represent?
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#382 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
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One life. It appears to be a literary reference to Judas' thirty pieces of silver. The Loopers live a very fashionable existence in a fallen society. The Loopers execute folks from the future who get in trouble with the mob and are sent back in time for disposal. Those targeted for execution are bound and packaged with an unspecified number of bars (maybe thirty) and sent to a specified time/place for execution. Very interesting movie with (as always) some logical holes created by the timeline alterations. Spoiler: The real fun starts when the Looper pulls gold off the body rather than silver. That means he has just executed himself.
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#383 |
amnesic-confabulatory opsimath
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Between my ears
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#384 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
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~ Some (about half) of the stuff we turned down today ~
Ladies watch, possibly antique, but nothing to us DVD player, not a brand we deal in Gold, but you don't have your ID, we need proper state ID Tool kit w/cordless drill, cheap ass kit of no-name brand, too shitty for us even if it's new HP Deskjet 1000 new in box, too low-end of a printer for us Bracelet, alleged silver, but not stamped DVD player, another brand we don't deal in Blackberry phone, too old, we only buy iPhones and the newest of other brands Playstation 2 games, too old, we only buy PS3 Ring, fake, stamped 14K but not actually gold DVDs, we have stopped buying them because we have too many White XBox 360 - we don't take the white ones, they are too old and tend to die Gold-plated silver rings - not enough weight in silver for a pawn Xbox 360 games - too scratched |
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#385 |
To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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I know the Salvation Army store in Old Greenwich, CT are a great place to pick up extremely valuable antiques for a song, I wonder if there are pawn shops that cater to a better class of pawners?
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#386 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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My theory currently is, if the people of the neighborhood can eBay, it will not support a pawn shop.
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#387 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
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C'mon UT, how can you deprive these poor people their anti-freeze in this weather.
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#388 |
Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Chicago suburbs
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How did you know the ring wasn't gold?
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#389 |
Larger than life and twice as ugly.
Join Date: Apr 2004
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The sellers finger had a green stripe around it.
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#390 |
a beautiful fool
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: 39.939705
Posts: 4,504
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Pete, google acid test gold
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