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Hello This made me laugh. hopefully it will do the same for some of you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fbMZxnNvhA
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The only options are he's an anti-semite, a pedophile, a hypocritical champagne socialist or Nice But Dim, they've been doing the latter already and I don't think he's advocated for post-capitalist economic systems so get set for some character assassination coincidentally appearing lads.
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Somebody under that replied "well it'll be hard to damage a genuinely decent person I hope". Yeah definitely haven't seen that happen in any recent events at all.
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Guavanaut posted:
I remember checking a while ago and being amazed he was still alive. to the big man.
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This is more on brand for the thread I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hcYrtQPOvw
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If Rashford doesn't win SPOTY then we riot
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sebzilla posted:If Rashford doesn't win SPOTY then we riot What is SPOTY?
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jabby posted:Any currency movements that were definitely going to happen are always already baked into the market by traders before the likes of us know about them. So trying to play the market for profit is a gamble, you might win or you might lose. If you're after security for your cash I don't think it's really that useful. I'm kind of iffy on this. Like you trust the honesty and or capability of these people? A few years ago I had some interest in the pound euro rate and was advised all sorts of things, followed it quite closely and as you say they claimed it was all baked in and wouldn't make a difference and this was definitely what would happen. Without fail after every significant thing that happened they reassessed and said unforeseen circumstances had wobbled the hippo more than expected or whatever and yeah, thing had had the effect. baked in is bollocks. Take a long term view, even then its a mugs game. Buy woodland.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What is SPOTY? I assume "sports personality of the year" or similar.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What is SPOTY? SuperTed's friend.
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^^^ Nooooo gently caress youJaeluni Asjil posted:What is SPOTY? 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What is SPOTY? Sports Personality of the Year. Its a BBC show that got very popular back in the 70s/80s that is still going.
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So, I've heard that Boris and the Tories started calling a No Deal Brexit "Australian style deal" to make the awful but almost inevitable outcome sort of easier to swallow. Honestly, I expect that they even fail at setting up this "deal" and somehow end up with an international trade embargo. Just wait until December when they claim that they might reach a North Korean deal. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Oct 21, 2020 |
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Woah! Does wikipedia cut off stuff thats too old? Looking at the superted wikipedia page the oldest recorded version is from 2005. I know for a fact my friend and I edited that page like 4 years before that, I'm not sure we didn't even start it from a stub. Looking at the page for frog that goes back to 2003. Theres something weird going on.
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Your ten thousand word screed that superted did 9/11 did not meet the quality standards of wikipedia.
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OwlFancier posted:Your ten thousand word screed that superted did 9/11 did not meet the quality standards of wikipedia. Wikipedia did not meet the standards of the truth!
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OwlFancier posted:I remember checking a while ago and being amazed he was still alive. He only retired a few years ago, well into his eighties, and after cancer treatment that was successful. I remember he said at the time something like "I know I'll die some day, probably fairly soon, and I don't mind making room, I take up an awful lot of oxygen". It was probably a bit more profound than that but it pretty much summed him up, he was always so cranky without ever seeming bitter or angry, he just enjoyed what he did and kept doing it until it was time to rest. Anyway you can never talk about Randi without one of his best TV appearances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CASghTzNhc It should surprise nobody that Hydrick later turned out to be a nonce.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:he was always so cranky without ever seeming bitter or angry, he just enjoyed what he did and kept doing it until it was time to rest. Perhaps his greatest trick of all was not doubling down forever when the whole of reddit would have supported him. That and the salt shaker one.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'm kind of iffy on this. Like you trust the honesty and or capability of these people? A few years ago I had some interest in the pound euro rate and was advised all sorts of things, followed it quite closely and as you say they claimed it was all baked in and wouldn't make a difference and this was definitely what would happen. Without fail after every significant thing that happened they reassessed and said unforeseen circumstances had wobbled the hippo more than expected or whatever and yeah, thing had had the effect. baked in is bollocks. Take a long term view, even then its a mugs game. Buy woodland. Think of it more that in a market like currencies where there are lots of players and trillions of pounds worth of transactions each day, more or less everything that can be known gets built into the price rapidly. So when people talk about "baked in", they mean the human knowledge. The chaotic nature of the real world also weighs heavily on things though, and its effects cannot be known except as they happen. Point is- you can't consistently beat the market unless you have access to information the market doesn't and even then it's helpful if you can predict the future too.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'm kind of iffy on this. Like you trust the honesty and or capability of these people? A few years ago I had some interest in the pound euro rate and was advised all sorts of things, followed it quite closely and as you say they claimed it was all baked in and wouldn't make a difference and this was definitely what would happen. Without fail after every significant thing that happened they reassessed and said unforeseen circumstances had wobbled the hippo more than expected or whatever and yeah, thing had had the effect. baked in is bollocks. Take a long term view, even then its a mugs game. Buy woodland. Baked in doesn't mean currency won't shift in response to political happenings. It means that it's already shifted to take into account everything we know now. If we do end up leaving without a brexit deal, the pound will no doubt tank. But currency traders have already calculated the risk of that happening, using all the insider knowledge they can, and the current price reflects that risk. So will it still go down if we leave without a deal? Yes, because that's the risk becoming reality. Does that mean you should buy Euros because the pound will definitely go down? No, because we might still get a deal and if we do the pound will probably rise. The currency market is basically like the odds a bookie gives you. The current price of pounds reflects both the risk that we won't get a deal and the chance that we will, along with all the other risks facing the UK. And it will change on a daily basis as the risks change. If you think we definitely won't get a deal, then put all your money in Euros and make a great return. But the principle is the same as you 'knowing' Spurs are going to win and putting all your money on them. You might win, you might lose, but the risk of both is 'baked in' to the odds the bookie offered you in the first place. I.E the current price of pounds.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'm kind of iffy on this. Like you trust the honesty and or capability of these people? A few years ago I had some interest in the pound euro rate and was advised all sorts of things, followed it quite closely and as you say they claimed it was all baked in and wouldn't make a difference and this was definitely what would happen. Without fail after every significant thing that happened they reassessed and said unforeseen circumstances had wobbled the hippo more than expected or whatever and yeah, thing had had the effect. baked in is bollocks. Take a long term view, even then its a mugs game. Buy woodland. if Brexit is worse than the markets currently belief (which given lack of understanding of no deal is likely) then the pound will drop further. If you believe that the market underestimates boris's stupidity it's a bet you can take. The current odds include those of who think it'll be a disaster and those who think it'll be fine. Given one of those groups is divorced from reality, it's reasonable to think the odds do not line up with probabilities of reality. Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:So, I've heard that Boris and the Tories started calling a No Deal Brexit "Australian style deal" to make the awful but almost inevitable outcome sort of easier to swallow. Have seen people point out on Twitter that this "Australian style deal" is also the same deal that many other countries, e.g. Mongolia have with the EU, but a "Mongolian style deal" doesn't sound so great. "Australian style deal" isn't great in the first place - Australia doesn't need a great deal with the EU, of course, because by my judging, the nearest point in Australia to the nearest point in the EU is roughly 10,000 loving kilometres away.
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Sanford posted:If someone was expecting a reasonably sized chunk of cash, say from being made redundant after fifteen years, would it be wise to convert it to euros? Or am I too poor to worry about such things? Convert it into a bit of woodland up in Scotland, buy a camper van and see out Brexit the proper way. or premium bonds
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biglads posted:Tito was a top lad One of my friends from one of the former Yugoslavian countries, said to me: "It was great living under a dictatorship, underTito, we all had a free house, free education. So he killed 100000 people, but most of us were ok. I don't care about having freedom so long as I get a nice house and good healthcare." (Friend is 42 and would have been 2 years old when he died, so this is all received wisdom).
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More on the now deleted tweet from the young conservatives: source: graun/politics/2020/oct/21/manchester-young-tory-hits-out-at-boris-johnson-over-covid-restrictions quote:Manchester young Tory hits out at Boris Johnson over Covid restrictions
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Anyway you can never talk about Randi without one of his best TV appearances: Endjinneer posted:Think of it more that in a market like currencies where there are lots of players and trillions of pounds worth of transactions each day, more or less everything that can be known gets built into the price rapidly. 
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Whenever I think of investment advice I remember a line from Scrubs, where Turk asks an investment banker friend where he should put $500 and gets the reply "a wallet or a money-clip". For most of us the amount you'd need to risk to make a decent return is more than we can afford to risk. Most people making good money from investing either started with a huge amount (in which case just stick it in a tracker fund and make bank) or they're gambling with other people's money. The one exception is investing over literally decades for a pension fund or similar, in which case again just stick it in a tracker fund.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:More on the now deleted tweet from the young conservatives: https://twitter.com/MancTories/status/1300783582886146048?s=20
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Imagine being a Labour voter that doesn't think that the Government should provide food to hungry children. it was 17% previously too: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/education/survey-results/daily/2020/06/16/0c101/1 again - sadly no crosstabs, though
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Eararaldor posted:It's put Laura Pidcock on my list. Isn't she one with bad views on trans rights or am I getting her mixed up with someone? https://twitter.com/Torr_ro/status/1319026815890001922 pidcock has made her views clear enough too with her talk of "protecting single-sex spaces" even if she hasn't been as blatant about it as henderson
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WhatEvil posted:Have seen people point out on Twitter that this "Australian style deal" is also the same deal that many other countries, e.g. Mongolia have with the EU, but a "Mongolian style deal" doesn't sound so great. Well, Europe put together as one block is their second largest export target, which is more than all of North America. (It's absolutely meaningless compared to the total Asian market. China alone imports more than Europe.) https://oec.world/en/profile/country/aus/ By comparison: The UK does half their trade with the rest of Europe. And this doesn't even include stock markets. https://oec.world/en/profile/country/gbr Those graphs are fun.
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Communist Thoughts posted:they found the mythical handsome young tory but his choice in drink is loving apalling Handsome in a Ted Bundy way, sure.
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