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Author Topic: Massage Parlor Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 06-28-2006 09:46 PM                        I think she should have taken your cell phone and all the money. That would have at least have properly taught you. When you go out anywhere where it's not quite safe, you should keep most of your money in places which are very hard to access anyway.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-28-2006 09:48 PM                  Hahahahhahaha... OK Mike, while I'm 39, I owe you and will get even! That was funny!  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 06-28-2006 10:25 PM                        Richard.... Don't you have a gf...  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-28-2006 10:29 PM                  Heya The Jen... join us in chat... I'm SURE Rick would love to answer that...?  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-29-2006 05:02 PM                     Michael, that is why I leave all of my money at the apartment! She got about 100 bucks, and the hotel cost about 15 bucks. The nice thing is, she left a note apologizing for leaving, she had something to do! This was taken at about 2 a.m. After many beers!! Jen, it is hard to explain how the people here think. When I tell my girlfriend about this night, the only thing she will be pissed about is that I lost money!! 100 dollars is about the average monthly income here! If I had sex and paid this girl 100 dollars, then my girlfriend wouldn't care, as long as I wore a condom, because I got what I paid for. This experience was priceless! I got to party with a hooker, check into a sleazy hotel, and then have her rip me off! All with no sex involved! For the record, I was really at this bar on business. I had talked to the president of a factory, and this was the closest place that had the product that we are going to import. We wanted to see it in use, not just at the factory.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-29-2006 05:15 PM                  quote: Rick I was really at this bar on business...this was the closest place that had the product that we are going to import. We wanted to see it in use... I'm confused, Rick. Are you going to import hookers or condoms?  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-29-2006 05:49 PM                     Hehe, can you import hookers? Actually this was a dance club that had a wall about 50 feet wide and 15 or 20 feet tall covered with about 10,000 L.E.D.s that change color and move with the music. Kinda like windows media player when you play a music cd. We are dealing with the factory that makes the L.E.Ds and controller for this. I will try to find the hooker factory though and see if I can get some samples to bring back! Rick  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-29-2006 06:35 PM                        Why would you want to import anything from China, you cheap-o?  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-29-2006 07:03 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer Why would you want to import anything from China, you cheap-o? Hehe, joe, look around your house and look at where everything is made. I bet 90% of everything is made in China or Taiwan. Something that costs 5 dollars in America costs 50 cents from a retailer here. When I go to a factory and say I want that same item in a quantity of 10,000 then my cost becomes about 20 cents. When I bring that item back and sell it to you for 5 dollars, then I am a happy person!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-29-2006 07:10 PM                        Hey, Richard just discovered the Wal Mart business model!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-29-2006 07:11 PM                        The thing is, though, that I wouldn't buy it from you. Most of the stuff I have is made in Japan, with a few things from America, China and a few that are assembled in Mexico. If I wanted shoddy Chinese merchandise, I'd shop at Wal*Mart!  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-29-2006 07:38 PM                     Joe, thats cool. But the reason I am importing things is the profit margin is incredible. As far as "shoddy", I don't think so. Even some of your day to day consumables are imported. I am curious, because this interests me. Why do you think chinese merchandise is shoddy? I am only asking because I have been here so often and I don't see that. Is that just the stereotype of china, or have you had bad experiences with products that you have bought, and then look at the label and say "shit, no wonder! It was made in China!"  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-29-2006 07:57 PM                        A lot of the clothing that I have purchased at Wal*Mart (yes I admit I have done that) has fallen apart much sooner than it should have. China is probably better than Mexico, but they don't take extreme pride in their work like the Japanese seem to (or at least used to). Instead workers are barely paid anything which is how they get their prices so low. But if you're profiting from it then that's all that matters and all is right in the world, correct? They are not interested in being the best, they are interested in being the cheapest so that they can get the sale. I know a lot of Japanese companies outsource to China and the like so you don't have to inform me of that. Maybe we should all outsource everything to cheaper places and do nothing on our own? Sounds like a plan. Pretty soon the US will see Chinese cars. I can't wait!  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 06-29-2006 08:24 PM                     Don't know if this is real or not.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-29-2006 08:30 PM                     There are ten zillion people here wanting to work, and happy to be paid 100 bucks a month, so the labor rate here is next to nothing. Compare that to the States where a worker demands 50 bucks an hour and bitches if he has to work overtime, or doesn't get a cigarette break!! The 3d theater I did here has 6 people manning the booth every show. 1 person at both of the projectors, 1 at each platter,1 at the sound rack, and one supervising everything. A completely different work ethic. The pride in their work is better than I have witnessed any where else. If they fuck up, then they "lose face" I doubt if we will see chinese cars. Audi has plants here and most of the private cars are audi A4s or mercedes. I think all of the taxis are jettas. There is also a handful of Buicks driving around. Joe, Japan sucks! When I did some work there at a Minolta demo theater, they made me take me shoes off to enter the booth!!! Plus I couldn't find any hookers!!  |  IP: Logged

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