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How do you rationalize selling an item for less than what you paid?
The issue we’re talking about is emotional; for most people losses aren’t really felt until they’re realized. By hanging onto an item, whatever it may be, we avoid facing the reality of a loss. By selling we have to acknowledge it. This perspective isn’t universal but it’s pretty damn common...- jguss
- Post #17
- Forum: General Discussion
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I'm Bloody Livid: Amazon Refuse to Sell Me a Set of Kitchen Knives.
I've often wished Pilate had stuck around to hear the answer.- jguss
- Post #176
- Forum: General Discussion
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I'm Bloody Livid: Amazon Refuse to Sell Me a Set of Kitchen Knives.
I think she they resisted arrest and died during the shootout. They’d never have caught her them if her their crimes hadn’t had a pattern. Is that better?- jguss
- Post #175
- Forum: General Discussion
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
Agreed. I’ve always assumed it’s a function of limited real estate to place stampings.- jguss
- Post #4,571
- Forum: British Pipes
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What Was The Worst School Meal You Ever Ate?
My school served soylent gray; we couldn’t afford the green. Tasted like chicken, or at least what we imagined chicken would taste like. None of us had ever eaten carbon based food.- jguss
- Post #44
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Jack The Ripper Identity Revealed After DNA Match 😳🔪
That’s pretty dark! But no, the link is that in 1881, some seven years before the Ripper was active, Charatan was living at the same address as Albert Bachert. Both men lived at 13 Newnham Street in Whitechapel, a short walk from the sites of the various murders. Bachert was an eccentric...- jguss
- Post #14
- Forum: General Discussion
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Jack The Ripper Identity Revealed After DNA Match 😳🔪
Oddly enough there is a slight but real link between Frederick Charatan and the Ripper case.- jguss
- Post #9
- Forum: General Discussion
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Las Vegas Intl Pipe Show 2025!
Now spectator sports are something I do understand. So I gather this is like watching the lighting of a Christmas tree, only instead of standing still the tree moves around in serious agitation? Are there sounds to accompany the visuals?- jguss
- Post #22
- Forum: Pipe Events
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Las Vegas Intl Pipe Show 2025!
So I'm not very knowledgeable about subcultures unless I'm a participant, but isn't being covered with fur and being around matches or lighters a bad idea?- jguss
- Post #17
- Forum: Pipe Events
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"This Member Limits Who May View Their Full Profile. "
I guess now is as good a time as any to divulge that I’m woodsroad too- jguss
- Post #5
- Forum: PipesMagazine.com
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
More like fleecing the sheep.- jguss
- Post #4,553
- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
The buyer makes it up on volume.- jguss
- Post #4,552
- Forum: British Pipes
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Former Pipes
Why else did God give you two perfectly good kidneys? System redundancy is His way of saying "stop bitching and buy a damn Former if you want one".- jguss
- Post #3
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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PSA: Check Your Hearth & Home 8 oz Tins For Rust.
The angel's share in action. The blackening you see is the impact of evaporation on tombstones in the cemetery next to the Glenrothes distillery. I took this on a visit to the Speyside with friends almost a decade ago.- jguss
- Post #12
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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1% Chance of Asteroid Impact
What exactly were you pissing your money away on before? Organic grapefruit, yoga classes and donations to Habitat for Humanity?- jguss
- Post #25
- Forum: General Discussion
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Fisherman With Cutty a Van Gough?
So you only paid what, $20 million?- jguss
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
Wow dude, synchronicity!- jguss
- Post #4,537
- Forum: British Pipes
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Is it true? My dear War Horse is dead?
Yes, in those days we lived amidst a forest of Space Needles. After decades of development and deforestation alas only one remains.- jguss
- Post #31
- Forum: General Discussion