SudsyFist

Things like this make me sad.

SPLITTER!

Hey, you weren't even on the load! Were you?

What am I supposed to do With a childhood tragedy?

I get so scared inside And I don't really understand

Love's as good as soma.

Sound and fury signifying nothing. They took the flag out, and they were hitting.

I don't think it's illegal, at least here in California; however, it *is* against Visa/MC's merchant policies. Think about it: if the merchants all charged surcharges for credit cards, consumers would be that much more motivated not to use the credit cards for purchases. That's obviously not in the credit card companies' best interests, particularly if you notice all the incentives (air miles, rebates, etc.) they throw our way to use them for just about everything. "Cash Discount" is a semantic workaround. Some states and countries, however, have laws that prevent enforcement of the no-surcharge policy, so you'll see this vary by region. Losing money? The only time a sale is losing money is when the product is sold for less than cost. Accepting credit cards allows for an increase in revenues thanks to sales which would not have occurred otherwise. That's *additional revenue*. The surcharge is simply expensed as cost-of-sales, a nicely predictable cost at that. And most successful retail merchants with whom I've interacted have seamlessly accounted for this cost of sale within their pricing model, making it imperceptible to (and rather convenient with regard to payment options for) the consumer. And anyone paying 3-5% for credit card transactions is getting fucked. Costco resells Nova merchant services for 1.67% + $.20 per transaction for card-present transactions: a pittance compared to other marketing and sales costs.

I live in Southern California. Aside from dress clothes and a pair of BDU trousers for jumping, I don't even own pants.

SPLITTER!!!

Would you have said the same thing about the issue of interracial marriage at its time? Why or why not?

Raisins and turds, buttboy.

That's it. You're permanently inducted into my spank bank now, missie. HOT!!!

That's what we're here for. No, no need to thank us. Just smile and feel loved.

I'm a lights-on kinda guy. That being said, I've quite often found asshole dead-center between my eyes, not to mention somewhere prominent within my field of view. Doesn't qualify as an inspection, but you just get to know the lass's spoke-count if you pay any attention at all. Clean? Fuckin' A. Bleached? Well, the girls I fancy tend to be of the type who don't accumulate much pigment in those bunched up places.

Perhaps he's addressing your general I-ain't-gonna-change-my-mind-for-nuthin' approach. It's not very conducive to personal growth, much less learning from the experiences of others.

Probably because the definition of marriage you know today is different than that which was common at the time that the issue of interracial marriages was coming to a head. At that time and in those regions, the definition of marriage had to be changed in order to accommodate interracial marriage. And a lot of people were really steamed up by that, for all of the reasons you've described. But we, today, feel that it was justified, for the sake of equality (not for the sake of special treatments or requests). It's a similar situation here, really. Remarkably similar.

Ya know, for a Texan, you're pretty fucking hot.

I hope you realize that your very same arguments were used in the case of interracial marriages. Reread them and substitute, and you'll see the, "Whoa." To many at the time, a black man wasn't really a man (more on par with an animal); therefore, how on Earth could we legally recognize his marriage to a good white woman? Do we also let dogs and steer marry our daughters? God wouldn't have it: it's just not right! Seriously. Sounds way fucked up today, but that was one of the prevailing attitudes back then. And they justified it by saying that's how marriage (and man) was defined. Can you see the parallel? Open your mind a bit, and you'll see just how amazingly closely they correlate. EDIT: Adjective -> Adverb.

Can you deflect bullets, too?

Psssst... I'm at FLESH.

Just so that I better understand your position, would you then also consider the push many moons ago to allow black men to marry white women a special request? After all, using your same logic, they had the same right as white men at the time, to marry within their own race. EDIT: Fucking jinx.

I take it you're a missionary type...

Yeah!

I had no sexual relations with that puppet.