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I made $100K from a dick joke
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#12Perhaps I missed it, but at what point the author sets an LLC or something similar? For me, that’s the main blocker: in Europe it costs money to start a business, some paperwork and taxes is involved, even if you don’t make a single sale. Also, for selling online you kinda have to show in your website your “business id” (or tax id or similar)… otherwise how do people know you are a legit business? For example, I’m not giving my credit card details to any random website to buy silly stuff unless they are properly identified
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#13I feel like the origin of this joke is a Louis CK stand up routine IIRC but I’m unable to locate the source.
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#14As featured in the The Ballad of the Malheur Patriots (Song of the Oregon Wildlife Refuge Standoff) @3:25 The perfect treat to storm a building surrounded by ducks . . .
Bundy apologists in the wild? Insane.
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#15Isn't this the premise of Silicon Valley (the show)?
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#16Glitter, poop, and now a bag of dicks can be easily sent anonymously. What other similar services exist? Asking for a friend.
Found this: https://prankpackage.com/collections/all
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#17Sometimes I think about the years of hard work that I put into building a SaaS business and wondered whether I should've just done something silly like this instead.
About 10 years ago it was possible to make a living from silly Android apps. I made several of farts, meme sounds, and even politicians that were funny to laugh at. One of my fondest memories as dev is making apps for little kids and getting back long strings of hearts, kisses and smiles in the reviews.
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#18A guy I worked with was fired for sending this to a woman we worked with that he had a grudge against for some reason or another. Apparently he sent it from his work computer, which wasn’t the brightest idea. He sat in the next cube over from me and I wasn’t surprised in the slightest when I heard about it.
> sending this to a woman we worked with that he had a grudge against for some reason or another
Sometimes I wonder what the hell is going on in people's head.
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#19I sold a laptop on eBay once long, long ago. Someone did the "Buy it now" option but never paid. I'm trying to remember the exact situation (probably more than 10 years ago), but I had exchanged messages with him several times and he always had an excuse to not pay.
Then I noticed he was selling the exact same model of laptop so it was easy for me to realize that he had just "bought" my laptop to remove the listing so it wouldn't compete against his. I messaged ebay support to accuse him but they didn't do anything about it.
Since he had made the order, eBay did show me his shipping information so I ordered a "glitter bomb" which was basically glitter in a tube with a spring. I got a very nasty accusatory email from him, but it was very vague. He wouldn't specify what he received, but that he was smart enough to not open it. That's how I knew he got the full effect.
I just replied something to the effect of "You never paid me. Why would I send something to you?"
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#20A guy I worked with was fired for sending this to a woman we worked with that he had a grudge against for some reason or another. Apparently he sent it from his work computer, which wasn’t the brightest idea. He sat in the next cube over from me and I wasn’t surprised in the slightest when I heard about it.
> sending this to a woman we worked with that he had a grudge against for some reason or another Sometimes I wonder what the hell is going on in people's head.
A happy person and an upset person meet. Their emotional statuses are wildly different, therefore drama ensues.