Mark Lansing wrote:

John George Peppers wrote:However, the scam artists are bullshit. I see it everyday in Chicago. Some person with $200 gym shoes asking me if I have a dollar so they can ride the bus.

How do you know they're $200 gym shoes? My brother in law runs an athletic shoe store, and from looking at them I can never tell the $175 "only idiots with too much money buy these" kicks from the $40 bargain rack jobs. Seriously, how do you tell?

Peppers takes fashion very seriously

Rick Reuben wrote:Everyone knows this shit from a lifetime of buying things for oneself, and knowing which brands cost what price.

These kinds of generalizations don't help your argument.

First person who takes a picture of themselves with a homeless person wearing $200 shoes (based on, say, Foot Looker and Niketown prices) gets a burger at Kuma's on me.

Rick Reuben wrote:

Flaneur wrote:

Rick Reuben wrote:Everyone knows this shit from a lifetime of buying things for oneself, and knowing which brands cost what price.

These kinds of generalizations don't help your argument.

Oh, and the generalization that Lansing makes ( "nobody knows what things cost" ) is more valid?

Is this what he said above?

Rick Reuben wrote:Go fuck yourself. I've fought tougher battles than you've ever faced, and I speak out against the greatest creator of poverty on Earth: the central bank matrix of fiat and debt. What have you done? Voted Obama and bought Colt 45 for a street drunk?

How do you know what I have or haven't done? You don't know who I am or the first thing about me -- or most of the other people on the Forum for that matter. And I've read literally dozens of people on the internet who rant on the same Libertarian claptrap that you spew forth on a regular basis. That doesn't make you the least bit special.

And as I've said on this forum in the past, I voted for Dennis Kucinich in the Michigan primary. Do your fucking homework, putz.

Rick Reuben wrote:

Flaneur wrote:Is this what he said above?

He said that his inability to tell gym shoes apart was not uncommon. If he believed his inability to be uncommon, he would not have challenged Peppers to tell him how he did it.

lansing wrote:How do you know they're $200 gym shoes? My brother in law runs an athletic shoe store, and from looking at them I can never tell the $175 "only idiots with too much money buy these" kicks from the $40 bargain rack jobs. Seriously, how do you tell?

Instead of Lansing admitting that he is a freak for not knowing prices, he put up a lame argument against judging panhandlers by their wardrobes. It was a shitty counterargument that only appealed to Flaneur.

What do you think he meant by "you"?

You guys are Scrooge McDuck fucking tightwads.

Asking strangers for change is not pan-handling. Give the fucker his bus fare.

Man Kuma's sounds good right now

Flaneur wrote:

Rick Reuben wrote:

Flaneur wrote:

Rick Reuben wrote:Everyone knows this shit from a lifetime of buying things for oneself, and knowing which brands cost what price.

These kinds of generalizations don't help your argument.

Oh, and the generalization that Lansing makes ( "nobody knows what things cost" ) is more valid?

Is this what he said above?

That's NOT what I said above. A Mercedes and a Kia look different enough that one can tell one from the other. But I really don't think that most athletic shoes manufactured today look that strikingly different. The basic outer design of the pair of Asics running shoes that cost me about a hundred bucks isn't all that different from the Dr. Sholls' shoes that I bought for $25 for bumming around the house, and I've mistaken one for the other in dim light. My question is, is your knowledge of shoes so keen that you really know the expensive running shoes from the cheaper ones? And while we're at it, how do you know the person in question didn't buy the shoes at a blowout clearance sale? I know for a fact that sometimes my above-mentioned brother in law will clear out shoes at more than half price if they've been around long enough. Or maybe someone picked them up at the Salvation Army after some wealthy jogger got flattened by a bus and their family dropped off much of their old wardrobe?

And why the fuck are we arguing about something so silly?

Rick Reuben wrote:

Mark Lansing wrote:I voted for Dennis Kucinich in the Michigan primary.

And now you'll be voting for Obama or Clinton in the general election, both candidates of Wall Street and the MIC.

Actually, there's a good chance I'll vote third party. Perhaps the notion that there are other possibilities hasn't entered your narrow world view.

big_dave wrote:You guys are Scrooge McDuck fucking tightwads.

Asking strangers for change is not pan-handling. Give the fucker his bus fare.

Oh man, you gotta come to the states some time. Gold like this shouldn't be solely kept in Wales.