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@Maurice. Sooner or later, some things just seem destined to happen. If Tulsa hadn't taken that volunteer Deputy Sheriff out of commission, he'd have rushed to the scene, pulled out his trusty taser, and ended this argument before things got out-of-hand, just like he ended that problematic arrest the other day.
"that volunteer Deputy Sheriff "... seems that he's about 73, if I recall correctly. Struck me that maybe that's a bit long of tooth to be running around armed to the teeth.
I caught only a part of that story. Wasn't he a volunteer? Agree though. 73 is not a age to run after criminals or tackling etc. maybe this guy is in great shape?
@davidmoran Maybe that's not a cane; maybe that's a TASER in a cane! Yowza!
And isn't this special. Maurice posts a link, we all chime in with an opinion (based on nothing but the byline), and @VintageFreak is the only one to do the "due diligence" and show all of us up for chumps. So much for the power of the group--- and welcome back, VF!
Now, I'm not suggesting the need for a Kafkaesque regime or anything. However just like we wouldn't argue much about whether it is a good idea for child to have a gun (and regardless of whether the child knows how to shoot)...
Or whether it is necessary for one to get a driver's license before one should be allowed on the road (and regardless of whether one can drive)...
Perhaps we should not let people have Smart Phones until they pass an IQ test that proves they understand Android vs iPhone vs two mice fighting over the same piece of cheese (and regardless of whether they can use a phone)
An idiot driving a Geo Metro or a Merecedes is still an idiot. He shouldn't have a car, period. Maybe some people shouldn't have a phone. They can have cheese of their choice. They wouldn't keep carrying cheese in their pockets and show each other and argue over it. Society not evolving is one thing, but it sure does not have to degenerate. I
I'm not going to complain about SmartPhones being expensive anymore. I got through most of my life without a cell phone. If I really need it I will pay for it. Maybe Apple and Google can double prices of their phones and give half proceeds to charity. Some of which could be used for explaining to people the difference between Smartphones and cheese.
Thanks heezsafe. I'm having some excellent bad luck. Maybe the "car" reference above might be an indication of my psyche. I had dissappeared for some time several months back and again recently for same reason.
Last time. Idiot driving drunk at 8:30 in the morning on Saturday jumps the median and crashes onto oncoming traffic mostly me, on the other side of Loop 12 in Dallas (you could look it up). End result, yours truly has a fractured Sternum
Couple of months back, I am taking a protected left turn. This special kind of idiot is behind me but in such a hurry he accelerates behind me while taking the left turn and tries to squeeze past me on the left !!! Result - Fractured Shoulder.
Trivia. My 14th and 15th fractures of my life. First idiot driving Lexus. Second idiot driving Mercedes. But hey, its good to be alive. I was driving Honda Odyssey the first time and Toyota Sienna the next. If I had been driving (say) Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla respectively, both I and my ghost would be dead.
"I find the most aggressive drivers tend to drive German cars like BMW or Audi."
Interesting, @Maurice- so you notice patterns like that too. Out here, the pattern is a bit different, I think. Going back some 15 or 20 years, it was BMW's, primarily. Then, I'm guessing, many of those yuppies got married, and switched to Volvos. The Volvos were, if anything, even worse than the BMWs, and would deliberately take every chance they could to muscle in ahead of you with less than adequate clearance, forcing others to jam on their brakes, or closely tailgating trying literally to bully you out of their way. I remember upgrading my pickup truck from 4 to 6 cylinders specifically because of that.
That's the past, though, and the Volvos began behaving themselves quite a while ago. Now it's primarily Audis and Lexii, that are the a------s, followed by, of all things, Volkswagon Passats. Mercedes: a poor 4th place.
I've always found it interesting that the real sportscars generally behave themselves quite well, aside from an occasional exhibition of speed in passing. But even then they do it safely, and not really rudely... just showing off a little.
Well, there you go again with your one-dimensional, lonely rants directed at me. They are lonely because I don’t initiate them and I try to ignore them, mostly unsuccessfully. I find them tiresome; perhaps others at MFO share that feeling.
I must be constantly on your mind. Reciprocity does not exist here. You are never on my mind except when you instigate a need to reply.
I don’t hate you. I don’t want to duke it out with you. I simply don’t fritter away a single moment thinking about you. Apparently you find yourself in other circumstances. Too bad, what a useless waste!
A long, long time ago, my Mom, preaching a modern interpretation of Ephesians 4:29, cautioned that “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”. I generally apply that golden rule. I naively thought that all Moms taught that lesson. I guess you missed it from your Mom.
I’m not talking about carefully constructed criticism here; that’s warranted and fully encouraged. I’m talking about gratuitous, inflammatory comments.
And it goes even deeper since much of what you say is nonsensical and without merit. It’s often a non-sequitur that contains elements of sophistry. Perhaps it is designed to appeal to the hoi polloi.
I suspect that you offer it to either gather attention, to be specifically hateful, or to just be a clown. If it is meant to be funny, given the duration of your frequent jabs, it has long exceeded its humorous phase, and has morphed into an evil obsession. Regardless of your motivation, I wish you well in your recovery.
In the meantime, I’ll remain focused on my MFO postings that, hopefully, MFOers find useful when making investment decisions. That’s still the primary purpose of this website.
I sincerely extend Best Wishes to you and your family.
Every day seems like it's becoming more and more the reality.
From Wiki. Giggle. Oh, dear... "...The film was not screened for critics, and 20th Century Fox was accused of "abandoning" the film. Dan Mitchell of The New York Times argued that Fox might have avoided promoting a film about low-intelligence dysgenics so as to not offend its viewers..."
"...The film was not screened for critics, and 20th Century Fox was accused of "abandoning" the film. Dan Mitchell of The New York Times argued that Fox might have avoided promoting a film about low-intelligence dysgenics so as to not offend its viewers..."
This is the best joke of all time. As in from the beginning of existence of any kind, universe, whatever. It has so many dimensions. All the way from "Fox" even thinking about anything, to it giving a damn about its viewers or their intellectual capacities. And ironically NYT defending anything "Fox". This is almost unbelievable.
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Every day seems like it's becoming more and more the reality.
cane fights !
And isn't this special. Maurice posts a link, we all chime in with an opinion (based on nothing but the byline), and @VintageFreak is the only one to do the "due diligence" and show all of us up for chumps. So much for the power of the group--- and welcome back, VF!
Now, I'm not suggesting the need for a Kafkaesque regime or anything. However just like we wouldn't argue much about whether it is a good idea for child to have a gun (and regardless of whether the child knows how to shoot)...
Or whether it is necessary for one to get a driver's license before one should be allowed on the road (and regardless of whether one can drive)...
Perhaps we should not let people have Smart Phones until they pass an IQ test that proves they understand Android vs iPhone vs two mice fighting over the same piece of cheese (and regardless of whether they can use a phone)
An idiot driving a Geo Metro or a Merecedes is still an idiot. He shouldn't have a car, period. Maybe some people shouldn't have a phone. They can have cheese of their choice. They wouldn't keep carrying cheese in their pockets and show each other and argue over it. Society not evolving is one thing, but it sure does not have to degenerate. I
I'm not going to complain about SmartPhones being expensive anymore. I got through most of my life without a cell phone. If I really need it I will pay for it. Maybe Apple and Google can double prices of their phones and give half proceeds to charity. Some of which could be used for explaining to people the difference between Smartphones and cheese.
Last time. Idiot driving drunk at 8:30 in the morning on Saturday jumps the median and crashes onto oncoming traffic mostly me, on the other side of Loop 12 in Dallas (you could look it up). End result, yours truly has a fractured Sternum
Couple of months back, I am taking a protected left turn. This special kind of idiot is behind me but in such a hurry he accelerates behind me while taking the left turn and tries to squeeze past me on the left !!! Result - Fractured Shoulder.
Trivia. My 14th and 15th fractures of my life. First idiot driving Lexus. Second idiot driving Mercedes. But hey, its good to be alive. I was driving Honda Odyssey the first time and Toyota Sienna the next. If I had been driving (say) Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla respectively, both I and my ghost would be dead.
Interesting, @Maurice- so you notice patterns like that too. Out here, the pattern is a bit different, I think. Going back some 15 or 20 years, it was BMW's, primarily. Then, I'm guessing, many of those yuppies got married, and switched to Volvos. The Volvos were, if anything, even worse than the BMWs, and would deliberately take every chance they could to muscle in ahead of you with less than adequate clearance, forcing others to jam on their brakes, or closely tailgating trying literally to bully you out of their way. I remember upgrading my pickup truck from 4 to 6 cylinders specifically because of that.
That's the past, though, and the Volvos began behaving themselves quite a while ago. Now it's primarily Audis and Lexii, that are the a------s, followed by, of all things, Volkswagon Passats. Mercedes: a poor 4th place.
I've always found it interesting that the real sportscars generally behave themselves quite well, aside from an occasional exhibition of speed in passing. But even then they do it safely, and not really rudely... just showing off a little.
Well, there you go again with your one-dimensional, lonely rants directed at me. They are lonely because I don’t initiate them and I try to ignore them, mostly unsuccessfully. I find them tiresome; perhaps others at MFO share that feeling.
I must be constantly on your mind. Reciprocity does not exist here. You are never on my mind except when you instigate a need to reply.
I don’t hate you. I don’t want to duke it out with you. I simply don’t fritter away a single moment thinking about you. Apparently you find yourself in other circumstances. Too bad, what a useless waste!
A long, long time ago, my Mom, preaching a modern interpretation of Ephesians 4:29, cautioned that “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”. I generally apply that golden rule. I naively thought that all Moms taught that lesson. I guess you missed it from your Mom.
I’m not talking about carefully constructed criticism here; that’s warranted and fully encouraged. I’m talking about gratuitous, inflammatory comments.
And it goes even deeper since much of what you say is nonsensical and without merit. It’s often a non-sequitur that contains elements of sophistry. Perhaps it is designed to appeal to the hoi polloi.
I suspect that you offer it to either gather attention, to be specifically hateful, or to just be a clown. If it is meant to be funny, given the duration of your frequent jabs, it has long exceeded its humorous phase, and has morphed into an evil obsession. Regardless of your motivation, I wish you well in your recovery.
In the meantime, I’ll remain focused on my MFO postings that, hopefully, MFOers find useful when making investment decisions. That’s still the primary purpose of this website.
I sincerely extend Best Wishes to you and your family.
Sorry to hear of your misfortune but glad to see you back and to hear that you are recovering well.
Re your comment that "I must be constantly on your mind": Not bloody likely, mate.
"...The film was not screened for critics, and 20th Century Fox was accused of "abandoning" the film. Dan Mitchell of The New York Times argued that Fox might have avoided promoting a film about low-intelligence dysgenics so as to not offend its viewers..."
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/idiocracy/