If your old friend owed you a shit tonn of money.......

[devilsmile]

.... and you know he is never going to be able to pay it back, is always nagging you and giving you shit. Then tells you that you shouldn't have built a swimmng pool in your own backyard and starts to circle around your house threatening to do something if you decorate any more of your yard.

What would YOU do?

[The Scott]

Oh...I thought this was about Groink.  Carry on...

[keanu]

Don't let anyone know you have money, they will want to separate you from it. If my old friend pulled that I would cut my losses. The money will never come back. If he touches your property beat the shit out of him or pay someone to do the same.

[devilsmile]

Oh...I thought this was about Groink.  Carry on...

Almost.

China is building a military installation in the middle of south china sea and america is telling china hell no you won't, but china is politely telling america to fuck off.

This should be an interesting topic because trump has said it many times that america will not go to war against chAEna. Russia obviously protects chinas interests, but vietnam, taiwan, japan, indonesia are opposing china. And now everybody has war ships in the south china region ready to fuck shit up. In a nutshell.

What do getbiggers think?

[drkaje]

You're being too small picture: We're counting on China to invade Taiwan (for oil) so we can refuse to pay back billions in debt. It's how we're going to balance the budget and forgive all those student loans owned by China Navient.

[devilsmile]

You're being too small picture: We're counting on China to invade Taiwan (for oil) so we can refuse to pay back billions in debt. It's how we're going to balance the budget and forgive all those student loans owned by China Navient.

Even if that's true, america would still have the debt.

When I hustled and got some deceant cash, my friend who OWED me money who was present in this told me that "but look, you just got 5 hundred bucks in a small trade, what else do you need?". I just told him "my fucking money that you owe me"

[drkaje]

Even if that's true, america would still have the debt.

When I hustled and got some deceant cash, my friend who OWED me money who was present in this told me that "but look, you just got 5 hundred bucks in a small trade, what else do you need?". I just told him "my fucking money that you owe me"

We'd be able to strategically default once their status were changed. This has been coming since Clinton was allowed to restructure our Chinese debt so it would appear that his administration left a budgetary surplus.

[Tapeworm]

Even if that's true, america would still have the debt.

When I hustled and got some deceant cash, my friend who OWED me money who was present in this told me that "but look, you just got 5 hundred bucks in a small trade, what else do you need?". I just told him "my fucking money that you owe me"

Then he's not your friend and he will never change.  He has convinced himself that what's yours is also his and all debts are cancelled.  Drop this person.

Forget the money.  It's not gonna happen.  View it as your fault for giving money to a parasitic loser and don't make the same mistake in the future.

When someone asks me for a 'loan' I say, "I'm not going to loan you money."  No "I would/I'm sorry but..."  no examination of their circumstances and their hard-luck story and talk about when it can be paid back, etc.  Just no, I'm not going to loan you money.  

[HTexan]

depends, written loan or word of mouth?