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Evening Folks. Chilli I sure am glad you were not S+KY DIVING !!!
 
Well the silver craziness has hit the sales, I Can't believe what they're paying for the silver now.
Probably the Chinese washing money again. It seems to be happening more and more at he sales, pay with pre loaded credit cards.
Oh well i walked away with a 10.5 in Eaton cast iron frying pan (The Mrs smiled ) :icon_scratch:
6 Pieces of gold
1 Sterling pocket watch
Get to go pick it up in a blizzard on Sunday. :laughing7:
 
Well the silver craziness has hit the sales, I Can't believe what they're paying for the silver now.
Probably the Chinese washing money again.
Do you mean the Chinese in China or Mr Fong and his family at the local Chinese restaurant?
 
Do you mean the Chinese in China or Mr Fong and his family at the local Chinese restaurant?
:dontknow:Probably the Chinese syndicate.
A scrap guy I knew got a contract to rip off the Chinese mob. ( gambling ring) He did for the Greeks. They said he could have everything over $300k that was in a car trunk.
Happens there was $372K
My foreman asked him why didn't keep the $370?
"Oh you don't do that if you want to see the sunshine "

The Chinese are noted for washing the money. In the casinos out in BC they'd bring in large bags, play, cash out getting a cashier check.Laundry all done up nicely.

"Tens of millions of dollars in large cash-transactions (many transactions well over $100,000, much of it in $20 bills) are funneled-through several of the larger casinos in B.C on an annual basis,” the case summary goes on to say"
B.C. casinos used foreign high rollers as money-laundering ‘pawns,’ inquiry hears | Globalnews.ca https://share.google/TSe5tupXNHcFuV25r
 
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:dontknow:Probably the Chinese syndicate.
A scrap guy I knew got a contract to rip off the Chinese mob. ( gambling ring) He did for the Greeks. They said he could have everything over $300k that was in a car trunk.
Happens there was $372K
My foreman asked him why didn't keep the $370?
"Oh you don't do that if you want to see the sunshine "

The Chinese are noted for washing the money. In the casinos out in BC they'd bring in large bags, play, cash out getting a cashier check.Laundry all done up nicely.

"Tens of millions of dollars in large cash-transactions (many transactions well over $100,000, much of it in $20 bills) are funneled-through several of the larger casinos in B.C on an annual basis,” the case summary goes on to say"
B.C. casinos used foreign high rollers as money-laundering ‘pawns,’ inquiry hears | Globalnews.ca https://share.google/TSe5tupXNHcFuV25r
Ah. Im pretty sure Crown Casino here was caught allowing that to happen.
Yeah, go in with dirty money, blow several thou and walk out with clean.
I think if I remember right it was crime syndicates from a number of places doing it.
One case I heard of was money laundering going to terrorist organisations.
Gambling and crime go hand in hand don't they.
 
Hows this. I always have vivid dreams as soon as my eyes close and im asleep. Even as a little kid.
So last night I dream im a passenger in an suv and the guy driving keeps giving it to it. Guy in the back says "hey slow down". Im "I think he knows what he's doing" then in front is a rise/bump in the road, we hit it and go airborne, and it starts rolling sideways in the air. We crash into the scrub on the roadside. I come to and we all survived but were a beat up. I check myself and I say "Iv got a broken wrist" I squeeze it and feel it and say "yep, I can feel the broken bone". So we set off to get help, but my arms really hurting as I walk so I grab my wrist and hold it tight as I walk.
I wake up to this. The wrist that was broken and I grabbed in my dream squeezing it.
This must have been from me actually grabbing it and squeezing it during the dream.
Bizarre or what!
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DURN!!!

You better hope you don't ever dream you have a bad case of jock itch, you would wake up with the voice of a tenor!!!
 
As a teen I had a dream I got in a fight and kneed a guy in the head. I woke up and had kneed a hole in the plaster of the bedroom wall.
I know, there's nothing funny about it. A few times over the years I have woken up and the misses had gone out to sleep in another room saying "you started to tell someone off so I thought I better go and sleep on the couch".
There's no answer for it that I know of. :dontknow:

answer is obvious. 'misses' B smart :D
 
The band? the food? throw me a life ring here !
She's full blood Calabrese. Her entire family came to Australia in the 1950s. She was born in 1963. I think about 20 came here then. But in 1980 when we met as teens her 17 me 19 her family still couldn't speak hardly any English. I remember going to their home and it was a struggle her parents understanding me and me them.
They had only socialised with other Italians. Mate, my misses was a stunner and I was not going to bail. Being hard a$$ traditional Calabrese at first they didn't like me one bit. How hard? Once when she came to my place when she was supposed to be home and was doing a hair dressing course and late, her uncle, thank goodness my family was out Friday night shopping, friday's then were the only times shops stayed open till I think it was 9pm where we were. Her uncle rocked up with someone else at my family home and got out of the car with a shotgun and I kid you not. We of course didn't answer the door and didn't make a sound.
Everyone hated me because I was Aussie.
Fast forward they saw who I was and in that time I think me going there for meals and helping at salami making time, whole live pig killed and everything used from making every traditional Italian meats you can think of with pork, and soap from the fat, I was accepted. My misses father and I became absolute best friends in the end and he loved when we went there and we'd take wine and other things. He'd say "come on ......... let's go out the back and see the vegetables, he grew everything. The vegetable thing was a ruse to get away from the others and have a drink 😄We'd be out there for hours having beer and scotch. Loved it when he'd say "ahh you understand, not like those stupid idiotas" referring to most of the other relatives 😂
He was a top guy. So were the grandparents, golden.
So there's how I married a mad Calabrese. 😂
To this day now n then I have to explain some Aussie saying to her she doesn't get.
Arms go into the air and I get "ahh stupid Aussie sayings" tailing off into Italian with stupida and other things here and there I know. Potato head in Italian is a common thing. 😂
 
Good morning all. The cold front has definitely arrived, though I'm feeling pretty warm compared to @pepperj . It's a balmy 2 degrees F, or -16 C. Wind chill is ten degrees lower. Light snow falling at the moment, but nothing too bad yet.
 
Good morning all. The cold front has definitely arrived, though I'm feeling pretty warm compared to @pepperj . It's a balmy 2 degrees F, or -16 C. Wind chill is ten degrees lower. Light snow falling at the moment, but nothing too bad yet.
I haven't really looked too hard but are you track for a major storm (snow)? Just saw a headline of huge winter blizzard tracking through the states.
I looked at our weather and we start getting snow later tomorrow, which means a good drive in the morning to pick up my gold wins from the auction.
 
I haven't really looked too hard but are you track for a major storm (snow)?
Depends on your point of view. They’re calling for a few days of single digit temperatures and six to twelve inches of snow. People are freaking out about it. Panic shoppers emptying Walmart of water, eggs, and toilet paper. The Missouri governor even declared a state of emergency (yes, really) based on the forecast. Im not sure what the big deal is. I guess people have just gotten used to the milder winters in recent years. So far this just looks like what I’d expect from winter.
 

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