Random Thoughts....

^ If your Canon has shipped, doesn't that mean it's just left the origin?
 
Shawn said:
^ If your Canon has shipped, doesn't that mean it's just left the origin?
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Meant to say "arrived", fixed.

Still doesn't advance the clock to 4:00pm, though.
 
you know, i seriously dont understand people who think stuff like this is some how awesome....

a few people i know talk about getting so blotto that they pass out and they talk about it with pride, like it was something good and like it was some kind of awesome achievement. my brothers one of these people, but there are definately a couple more.

dont get me wrong getting drunk is enjoyable....but so drunk you actually cant stand up right or stay concious anymore? how is that fun?

to me all they succeeded in doing is wasting more money than was necessary to get themselves practically one stage away from A&E.

not to mention they'll probably require a new liver at some point in their lives.


then again i dont really understand why people willingly go to clubs rammed to over capacity so you can barely move and theres sweat dripping from the ceiling and crap music and you gotta shout yourself to death just to communicate..... and paying for the priviledge to do so!

doesnt seem too clever to me... paying money so you can enjoy a few hours packed into a jock filled sweat fest? hardly the deal of the week
 
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^ I've always said that myself. I like drinking and getting pretty drunk, but I understand neither the need to be uberdrunk nor the idea that any fun and relaxation has to involve drinking.

Seriously, I look at my peers around me and I see that their only form of entertainment is getting drunk. Sure the venue varies between different bars, restaurants, clubs and lounges but the 2-3 nights a week that people get out to enjoy themselves, it always has to involve copious amounts of alcohol. I don't understand how so many people are content with the routine of going to work and then getting drunk at nights and the weekends. How about some variety?

I also hate how loud and annoying drunk people are. I got really drunk one time myself and got into some pointless altercation with a parking attendant (no, I wasn't driving). Ever since then I have been of the belief that annoying rowdy drunks are annoying and a nuisance.
 
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^ I've always said that myself. I like drinking and getting pretty drunk, but I understand neither the need to be uberdrunk nor the idea that any fun and relaxation has to involve drinking.

Seriously, I look at my peers around me and I see that their only form of entertainment is getting drunk. Sure the venue varies between different bars, restaurants, clubs and lounges but the 2-3 nights a week that people get out to enjoy themselves, it always has to involve copious amounts of alcohol. I don't understand how so many people are content with the routine of going to work and then getting drunk at nights and the weekends. How about some variety?

I also hate how loud and annoying drunk people are. I got really drunk one time myself and got into some pointless altercation with a parking attendant (no, I wasn't driving). Ever since then I have been of the belief that annoying rowdy drunks are annoying and a nuisance.
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getting drunk occasionally is a right giggle, it has to be done

ill go out fairly often, but only for a few pints in the local....its arguably more enjoyable from a socialising stand point, seeing as you can actually hold conversation.

but yeah, people need to be a bit more imaginative...you dont need copious volumes of loopy juice to have fun. though u can defo have fun with the loopy juice. hows this....

my bro was asked if he'd been on holiday and he proudly stated that his holiday was passing out in a tent at leeds fest..... i was like wow great achievement there. wish he'd put as much effort into things that mattered as he does stuff like that.

also..2nd random thought.... banking/trading

i was reading in a broadsheet about a pub chain in the UK struggling abit in this current economic climate. and it was talking about traders Short-Selling.

it explained short selling as traders selling shares they do not own, so that they can buy them back at cheaper prices at later dates....

im sorry but how the fuck does that work? selling something you dont own? eh?..... further reason why im weary of these people and the work they do! it seems like black magic at times.
 
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otispunkmeyer said:
2nd random thought.... banking/trading

i was reading in a broadsheet about a pub chain in the UK struggling abit in this current economic climate. and it was talking about traders Short-Selling.

it explained short selling as traders selling shares they do not own, so that they can buy them back at cheaper prices at later dates....

im sorry but how the fuck does that work? selling something you dont own? eh?..... further reason why im weary of these people and the work they do! it seems like black magic at times.
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You promise to furnish the share at a date in the future for the price you agreed. You are betting the price will go down, the purchaser is more interested in getting the shares for the agreed price than betting, or they mauy have a different view to you that the shares will increase in price so can make a profit with an immediate sell.

Generically its called "hedging" or removing risk, the risk obviously being bourn by the short seller. There is also a market wide view which equates and that is the Bulls (market is going up) and Bears (market is going down).
 
Shawn said:
^ I've always said that myself. I like drinking and getting pretty drunk, but I understand neither the need to be uberdrunk nor the idea that any fun and relaxation has to involve drinking.

Seriously, I look at my peers around me and I see that their only form of entertainment is getting drunk. Sure the venue varies between different bars, restaurants, clubs and lounges but the 2-3 nights a week that people get out to enjoy themselves, it always has to involve copious amounts of alcohol. I don't understand how so many people are content with the routine of going to work and then getting drunk at nights and the weekends. How about some variety?

I also hate how loud and annoying drunk people are. I got really drunk one time myself and got into some pointless altercation with a parking attendant (no, I wasn't driving). Ever since then I have been of the belief that annoying rowdy drunks are annoying and a nuisance.
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Agreed. I'm currently drinking my 5th beer for the evening (wiesn tonight), and I love being drunk, but there's more reason to be proud if you DONT pass out....
 
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Cut me in to the hedge fund, boys
Jeremy Clarkson

I have no idea what a hedge fund is, but after a day trip to Mustique last week I think I need to plant one.

At first I couldn?t quite work out whether this privately owned island in the Caribbean is heaven on earth or a small piece of hell. Certainly it?s the first country I?ve ever been to which is completed mowed, from end to end, in nice neat strips. Honestly, I?ve been to dirtier, messier nuclear laboratories.

It seems sanitised somehow, but then I thought, what?s wrong with that? A lot of very rich people have come here and built a world where there is no crime, no disease and no unpleasant working-class people on the beaches. Not unless they?re in an apron and they?re toiling over a barbecue, roasting yams.

After a day drinking wine, and swimming in the preposterously turquoise sea, going back to Barbados felt like going back to Birmingham. As our little plane took off from the freshly mowed airfield, I looked back and thought: ?No. Mustique is more than all right. It?s living, breathing proof that the resurrection?s a load of nonsense.?

Because if Jesus really had come back from the dead, he?d still be alive today. And if he were still alive, it?s sensible to assume he?d be living in the best place on earth. So he?d be in Mustique. And he wasn?t.

Of course, some of the 90 or so houses that sit like big wedding cakes on the newly mown hillsides belong to high-profile stars such as Mick Jagger, Tommy Hilfiger and Stewart Copeland ? the second of only two policemen on the island. But the vast majority belong, it seems, to hedge fund managers.

Now I can describe these people to you very easily. They are all quite young, and they all appear to be super-fit. None smokes. Few drink. All have swept-back hair and dazzling teeth, and all, you imagine, would quite like to murder someone, to see what it?s like. You?re thinking Bret Easton Ellis. So am I.

They are also lip-slobberingly rich. There are estimated to be 9,000 funds worldwide which, between them, have assets of $1,500 billion. So they?re not really hedges at all. They?re bloody great leylandii.

What?s more, a whopping 78% of all the hedges in Europe are grown and nurtured in London. That?s $255 billion. And that?s great, but before we get too excited, we must first of all try to work out what a hedge fund is.

According to a friend in the City, they?re brilliant because whether the stock market goes up or down, you still make pots of money. Great. Sounds like my kind of gambling. But what are they exactly?

?Ah well,? she said. ?You rent shares from someone who has a lot of them and then you sell what you?ve rented.? Now this, so far as I can tell, is actually called ?theft?. Small wonder they?ve all got houses on Mustique. They?re all burglars.

?No,? said my friend, ?because you always pay back the person you?ve rented them from, plus interest.? I see, so you rent some shares, sell them, and then give the profit (if you?ve made any) to the person from whom you did the renting. That seems like a lot of effort and risk for no gain at all.

My friend became exasperated and told me to stop thinking so literally because the money never actually exists. ?It?s like a house of straw then?? I asked. ?No,? she tutted. ?It?s like a house of straw that?s a hologram. It isn?t there.?

On the world wide internet, a hedge fund is described thus: ?A fund, usually used by wealthy individuals and institutions, which is allowed to use aggressive strategies that are unavailable to mutual funds, including selling short, leverage, programme trading, swaps, arbitrage, and derivatives.?

Gibberish. And galling, too, because I?m not a stupid man. I?m able to grasp the most complicated concepts, especially if it means I can walk away from the table six years later with ?100 billion in my back pocket, a Gulfstream V and a house on Mustique. But this hedge fund business was eluding me.

One thing I did note was that hedge funds are not regulated like normal share dealings. I?m not surprised. How could a flat-footed policeman possibly be expected to investigate a house of straw that doesn?t exist? And there?s something else. While hedge funds operate outside the law, don?t exist, and always make money whether the market rises or falls, 85% fail. How?s that possible? That would be like losing money at the races whether your horse came in first, third, or in a big tube of Evo-Stik.

To find out, I turned to a publication called Money Week which, in a lengthy and indescribably boring article, explained why hedges are starting to crumble. There are many reasons, apparently, none of which I could understand. But all of which are wrong.

I?ve given it a moment?s thought and I know exactly why the business is in trouble. It?s obvious. In order to function, hedge funds need wealthy investors. But as my recent trip to Mustique demonstrated, all the world?s richest people these days are hedge fund managers. This, then, has become a business that can only invest in itself.

Soon these guys are going to have to forget about the super-rich and chase down those who are simply well off. That?d be me, and that?s great. Lend me your house on Mustique for two weeks next Easter, and we?ll talk.
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Fattest, ugliest ass I have ever seen:
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I hate the Sebring and think of Michael Scott whenever I see one, but there's car with much uglier asses than that. The forthcoming Panamera for starters.
 
otispunkmeyer said:
you know, i seriously dont understand people who think stuff like this is some how awesome....

a few people i know talk about getting so blotto that they pass out and they talk about it with pride, like it was something good and like it was some kind of awesome achievement. my brothers one of these people, but there are definately a couple more.

dont get me wrong getting drunk is enjoyable....but so drunk you actually cant stand up right or stay concious anymore? how is that fun?

to me all they succeeded in doing is wasting more money than was necessary to get themselves practically one stage away from A&E.

not to mention they'll probably require a new liver at some point in their lives.
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I don't get that either, here in Holland it's called comadrinking and there was talk about it that people in the future will need to pay the costs of being admitted to hospital because of drinking way to much. I totally agree on that.

I'm not a huge drinker myself, i think people who get really drunk just have a problem finding their own limits :|
 
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Somebody from Sask just sent this to me and it cracks me up. And yes, I live around Toronto and I go to school there.
Don't worry, if you're not Canadian you won't get it.

EDIT: Oh, and .... Edmonton sucks. Go Leafs!!
 
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I just saw it again i think it's really funny. it's part of a dutch campaign against STD's, but mainly aids.
 
IMO.... Jason Statham would have made a better James Bond than Daniel Craig...
 
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thats exactly my point.... these guys seem to get mega rich by manipulating things that dont exist, they just move numbers around screens and bosh money comes out the other end. it just seems odd, as im of engineering background we're used to seeing raw material get manipulated into product then money....this banking is just like magic!

the whole stocks and shares thing to me seems like a game someone invented with the sole purpose of getting rich....it doesnt actually help anyone at all but themselves.
 
otispunkmeyer said:
thats exactly my point.... these guys seem to get mega rich by manipulating things that dont exist, they just move numbers around screens and bosh money comes out the other end. it just seems odd, as im of engineering background we're used to seeing raw material get manipulated into product then money....this banking is just like magic!

the whole stocks and shares thing to me seems like a game someone invented with the sole purpose of getting rich....it doesnt actually help anyone at all but themselves.
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Investors aren't even that good at their own game, see the Great Depression and the current bank closures. Not all investors are the same, the smart ones go in for the long term and weather out temporary downs. The dumb and sadly more numerous ones buy and sell constantly trying to make a quick buck. The latter don't see reason and fuck themselves and everyone else with their myopic decisions.
 
Got a scifag banner ad on the front page of fg.com today. Reminded me how much of a nut tom cruise is.
 
I woke up today wanting to buy one of these... but they're just too damn much at $4,000 plus other costs.

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