Should I buy a 12 year old slave to watch movies with? And how much to spend on popcorn?

[Sava]

Should I buy a 12 year old slave to watch movies with? And how much to spend on popcorn?

Buster's Uncle? More like Buster's Creepy Uncle.




and I say $10 should be your food budget

[Lancer]

As for feeding people cheap, buy land (which will appreciate in value) and let them farm it for a share. Your land appreciates in value, they feed themselves, and you have some extra food from the deal.

Slavery is such a hassle in comparison ...

That's right. We bought an interest in a rice field for P100,000. The owner needed the money so he traded the interest to a friend's mother for P100,000. She needed the money so she sold it to us.

Here's the deal as I see it. The owner still works the field, we supply the fertilizer and half the rice from the field comes to us until the owner pays back our P100,000.

So far the rice has been coming in very well, and much cheaper than we could buy it.

So, is this a good thing?

[Aeson]

It's a better thing that the thing that would have been otherwise most likely. Still not the best thing though. Prenda kinda locks the land in limbo. The owner doesn't want to improve land they may never be able to buy back. The one who accepts the prenda doesn't want to improve or heavily invest in land that could be paid back after next harvest.

It's ok for rice fields that are going to be what they are ... or in cases where it'll be paid back quickly. Sometimes it just ends with the land stuck in that limbo where no one has incentive to work it well or improve it. Sometimes it just gets essentially abandoned by both parties even. So overall I'd say it's a bad system, if necessary or good in some specific cases.

(We have some prenda ... but generally only accept it if it's an emergency and there's no other way. I'd much rather buy the land outright or lease it for a set time, and/or employ the person who needs money, but those things are not always possible.)

[Sava]

wat does this have to do with sex tourism?

[molly bloom]

wat does this have to do with sex tourism?

The Eiffel Tower is a Transformers' dildo.

[Sava]

Now that I think about it, the Transformers franchise is part of the gay hollywood fagenda.

There are no female transformers. It's just one big giant robot man orgy. And the divide between autobots and deceptacons? probably an argument over which lube to use.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Buster's Uncle? More like Buster's Creepy Uncle.

I like your ass.

[Sava]

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Why yes; I would like to thumb it.

[Sava]

trim your goddamn nails this time

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Awwww.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Want to touch the hiney.

[Lancer]

It's a better thing that the thing that would have been otherwise most likely. Still not the best thing though. Prenda kinda locks the land in limbo. The owner doesn't want to improve land they may never be able to buy back. The one who accepts the prenda doesn't want to improve or heavily invest in land that could be paid back after next harvest.

It's ok for rice fields that are going to be what they are ... or in cases where it'll be paid back quickly. Sometimes it just ends with the land stuck in that limbo where no one has incentive to work it well or improve it. Sometimes it just gets essentially abandoned by both parties even. So overall I'd say it's a bad system, if necessary or good in some specific cases.

(We have some prenda ... but generally only accept it if it's an emergency and there's no other way. I'd much rather buy the land outright or lease it for a set time, and/or employ the person who needs money, but those things are not always possible.)

The guy whose land it is isn't poor. I tend to think he'll buy it back and keep it up until he does. Whatever caused him to let it out won't last and no matter what he does to the land the repayment won't increase.

I offered to give him more if he would sell it outright but he turning it down without a second thought.

During construction the rice came in really handy, a lot of mouths to feed. That cut expense for workers food to fish and veggies. To me a good meal equals a good day's work and happy, motivated workers. The thing about working the Mabini guys, great workers that they are and family too, was they were living here and that meant more than the traditional one meal a day. Because they are family it was okay, and the rice was enough combined with our own 2 small fields. Plus Pa Mente contributed rice. It all worked out. Now that the workers are gone I wouldn't mind if he he did pay off the debt...