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[Dg8787]

As well as acceptance, you also need to consider the obscene fees that can be applied with Amex transactions.

*It's not obscene fees to the elite.

Some like to get their rocks off using an elite card.

*disclosure. I am not an AMEX card holder.

[Dg8787]

Hi guys not sure if this is in the right spot but I'm looking at a new credit card and was wondering if Amex is accepted across the board in Philippines or if I'm better off just going with Visa?

Sure. The Platinum card is accepted world wide, which would include Philippines and other countries you have asked about. The problem is it might only be accepted in more expensive places. Of course you would know that being an AMEX card holder.

[Stykler]

Hi guys not sure if this is in the right spot but I'm looking at a new credit card and was wondering if Amex is accepted across the board in Philippines or if I'm better off just going with Visa?

As well as acceptance, you also need to consider the obscene fees that can be applied with Amex transactions.

[AussieGaigin]

I am amazed how decent, smart folks, keep getting taken by this marriage crap. It's the biggest fool's trap. A philosopher once said "marriage as an institution has been a failure". I would add that it has been an abject failure.

Not those vampires with vaginas (or the divorce attys, vampires with JD degrees).

https://stricturism.wordpress.com/20...21st-birthday/

Another philosopher, or maybe a stand-up comedian, once said "marriage is an institution, and who wants to spend the rest of their life living in an institution?

[DeepXliv]

Hi guys not sure if this is in the right spot but I'm looking at a new credit card and was wondering if Amex is accepted across the board in Philippines or if I'm better off just going with Visa?

[Goferring]

I'm a divorce attorney myself. I love getting paid $400 an hour to fight clients' petty squabbles over the wagon-wheel coffee table or who gets an extra couple of hours with the rug rats. Is it a great country or what? LOL.

RG.

In my country at least, divorce proceedings can be so expensive because who gets what is largely predetermined by the courts, regardless of who cheated on who, who worked 3 jobs while the other stayed at home or who was a CEO while the other was 'writing a novel' for 10 years.

Whomever decides that they are entitled to anything besides these predetermined allowances or that they should be compensated for the other's misdeeds has to pay through the nose. Here it's very rare to have an at-fault divorce recognized at all, let alone compensated.

Cheers. G.

[CzarNicholas]

He should have prefaced it with, "In ordinary circumstances" and then changed "can derive no benefit" to "believes she can derive no benefit".

I say this because in the cases of pimping and playing you can sell a chick dreams all day long. An extraordinary male can lead the female to believe she can and is deriving benefit, when in actuality she is getting nothing (well nothing tanglible anyway.) Maybe there is some emotional or educational benefit she is receiving.

I call this "hustle inversion".

Flip that shit, "mongering Aikido".

I nominate this post for the ISG Hall of Fame!

[Radical Guy]

I am amazed how decent, smart folks, keep getting taken by this marriage crap. It's the biggest fool's trap. A philosopher once said "marriage as an institution has been a failure". I would add that it has been an abject failure.

Not those vampires with vaginas (or the divorce attys, vampires with JD degrees).

https://stricturism.wordpress.com/20...21st-birthday/

I'm a divorce attorney myself. I love getting paid $400 an hour to fight clients' petty squabbles over the wagon-wheel coffee table or who gets an extra couple of hours with the rug rats. Is it a great country or what? LOL.

RG.

[Engine Driver]

For mongers who are interested in Flip history and have time on their hands, there's a fascinating documentary called "The Kingmaker". It's largely about Imelda's unchecked abuse of power over a thirty year period. Her insatiable thirst for power, wealth and influence has not waned one bit despite her advancing years. What's particularly alarming is a bunch of current school kids who weren't even around at the time of the Marcoses think that life under the conjugal dictatorship (and martial law) was fabulous and that the Philippines was very wealthy at the time. Even more alarming is that Imee and BongBong can almost smell the Presidential seat. They just have to wait for Du30 to step aside, as he rules very much under their patronage.

Nixon was a regular visitor to Imelda's suite at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC. You can be assured that BBFSCIP and BBBJCIM were very much on the agenda. Stuff that Patty would never have provided. Hahahaha.

Another interesting tidbit not in the film is that Imelda and Marcos were very keen for Prince Charles to marry their daughter Imee. They lobbied through various intermediaries. I don't know if they actually ever met, but the fact they actually thought this was appropriate and achievable tells us just what an inflated opinion they had of themselves. Prince Philip would have seriously thought Imee was the laundry girl. Hahahaha.

[CzarNicholas]

I am amazed how decent, smart folks, keep getting taken by this marriage crap. It's the biggest fool's trap. A philosopher once said "marriage as an institution has been a failure". I would add that it has been an abject failure.

Not those vampires with vaginas (or the divorce attys, vampires with JD degrees).

https://stricturism.wordpress.com/20...21st-birthday/

[The Cane]

Catch the story from Stephen Jackson's own mouth. https://youtu.be/mPOdN1F8UCg. It looks to me like he just barely escaped a total disaster. Ha Ha. I mean what was he thinking in the first place getting engaged? And take a look at Imani Showalter his once upon a time fiance. Yikes! Apparently he is alright now, but still another casualty of American sexual prison/suffragette. Free your mind of all that feminist crap Stephen and fly to SE Asia via private jet as soon as possible. Treat all your new sexy Asian friends nice. You will never look back. Marriage is a plain vanilla financial contract. Even with the most iron clad prenup it is still a financial arrangement and self inflicted homicide. 555.

He still screwed up by spending $400,000 of his money on that BS! Now, I was thinking why in the hell did he think that she was still going to sign? Why did he wait that long to be virtually at the alter? Well before then he should have known she had no intention to sign, and he should have called the whole thing off long before ponying up $400 grand! These players wives and girlfriends are just like all the rest of the tutes. When the money is gone, so are they! And thank God hahaha! Like we mongers know, we're paying them to leave LOL! But, we want to make sure that they leave with what we agreed to give them, which isn't half of what we spent our lives earning and building, plus alimony and child support. Damn straight! I understand that when it was all over, this is the first song they played at the party hehehe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY.

[Lefeu]

...Marriage is a plain vanilla financial contract. Even with the most iron clad prenup it is still a financial arrangement and self inflicted homicide.

I am amazed how decent, smart folks, keep getting taken by this marriage crap. It's the biggest fool's trap. A philosopher once said "marriage as an institution has been a failure". I would add that it has been an abject failure.

[Mr Enternational]

Briffaults Law:

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

He should have prefaced it with, "In ordinary circumstances" and then changed "can derive no benefit" to "believes she can derive no benefit".

I say this because in the cases of pimping and playing you can sell a chick dreams all day long. An extraordinary male can lead the female to believe she can and is deriving benefit, when in actuality she is getting nothing (well nothing tanglible anyway.) Maybe there is some emotional or educational benefit she is receiving.

[Member #4698]

Catch the story from Stephen Jackson's own mouth. https://youtu.be/mPOdN1F8UCg. It looks to me like he just barely escaped a total disaster. Ha Ha. I mean what was he thinking in the first place getting engaged? And take a look at Imani Showalter his once upon a time fiance. Yikes! Apparently he is alright now, but still another casualty of American sexual prison/suffragette. Free your mind of all that feminist crap Stephen and fly to SE Asia or Africa, if you prefer black girls, via private jet as soon as possible. Treat all your sexy new friends nice. You will never look back.

Marriage is a plain vanilla financial contract. Even with the most iron clad prenup it is still a financial arrangement and self inflicted homicide. 555.

On Briffaults Law: I don't subscribe. Take a look at how Lions behave in the wild. The pride is composed of related females and their offspring, but the male Lion is the King. He defends his pride against all and contributes his alpha DNA to future generations. When a male Lion is deposed by another male Lion, the new King kills all the young nursing cubs in the pride so he can begin sowing his seed amongst the females as soon as possible. Were primitive Homo Sapiens significantly different?

[Roll Aides]

Yup, I was specifically referring to a fairly well-known post on Stickman's forums from a while back.

https://www.stickmanbangkok.com/read...mens-behavior/

As XXL has pointed out, there's a lot more to it than the original formulation by Briffault.

Briffaults Law:

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

Corollaries:

1. Past benefit provided by the male does not provide for continued or future association.

2. Any agreement where the male provides a current benefit in return for a promise of future association is null and void as soon as the male has provided the benefit (see corollary 1).

3. A promise of future benefit has limited influence on current / future association, with the influence inversely proportionate to the length of time until the benefit will be given and directly proportionate to the degree to which the female trusts the male (which is not bloody likely).