Where does one get a thousandth of a dollar? 
And see, the Swiss don’t even put their commas down there, they hide them where nobody else does. Typical!
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Das isch es Komma. 15 Stutz…
If you’re paying CHF 40.- for a burger, any burger I think you are part of the problem why prices are so damn high here. Either that or you’re eating way too much.
Here’s a menu of an ‘artisanal’ burger place in Zurich with a good reputation. There’s only one burger that’s more than CHF 40.- and it contains 3(!) cow flesh patties.
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40$ is a lot of money. I wonder why food in Switzerland is so expensive. I’ve been to Austria a few times (including Vienna), and the prices were reasonable.
I like the one in the Park Hyatt, with some additional stuff on it. Er isch wuerkli guet.
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It’s not just us Swiss who use the 15’000 convention of dividing thousands, it’s also done in Liechtenstein!
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Ah, but soon we’ll have all new game shows like “Treadmill to Bucks” or “How Hot Can You Take It?” (Credit to Stephen King for those. We’re not quite aligned with the timeline from The Running Man yet, but we’re damned close.)
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Mr. Beast is a media empire at this point. Giving away $100k as a promotion is really no biggie for his operation. It’s no different than Nike spending 100k on an ad buy (which is not a big ad buy at all). This is how marketing is done for channels like his. Stunts like this are what reach his demographic.
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So he’s stupidly stupidly rich to be able to do such things, and he uses his money to buy attention?
In the most basic sense, without all the baggage, he sounds like Trump, vain and rich, buying attention and friends for his ego
Same here, except priced per litre.
(PS. It’s ‘buy’.)
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Holy fucksocks, I hope we course correct before we get to that point.
I detested the Bachman books, so I sure as hell don’t want to live in one…
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I kind of liked the one about the long walk. Super depressing, though.
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Exactly.
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His “buying out” people for $5k for people who concede seems legitimate, but why give out 3 extra $20k first prizes? What he’s doing is saying: “I’m rich. I don’t care about money. Look how important I am. Here, have some money.”
I liked them, but I can absolutely see why they might not appeal to everyone. I found them much more bleak than most of his other work. That said, I found two of the four stories from that collection, The Running Man and The Long Walk to actually be much scarier than his supernatural stories specifically because I could see that kind of thing happening. No, sure don’t want to live in one, but I’m not enjoying the current remake of The Stand either.
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There’s no reason they couldn’t do a new round every time the previous one ends.
You seem to feel pretty strongly about this.
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