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55 minutes ago, TBayXXXVII said:

Wow, platinum?  No crap?  I never really followed metals, so I literally have ZERO frame of reference.  

Platinum is still higher per ounce than silver but since they use it in alloys I guess it can end up cheaper for the jeweler to use it. 

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How many hispanics play in the NFL?  

And I'm talking real hombres, not the mixed variety ... so, how many? 

Hazard to guess maybe a handful?  Hell, there are prolly more Samoans/Pacific Islanders in that sh1tshow league than Hispanics, but ... well, guess their culture is relegated moot - I mean, is Don Ho still alive? Ya follow? 

Hispanics are not even voracious fans of the NFL ... they are predominantly Soccer/Baseball/Boxing - they MAY give a hang about the NFL, but nowhere near as passionate as they are about the other three sports I listed. 

Why do we need to kowtow like this?  Goodell and his fruitcake flunkies are so desperate to prove that they're "down with the brown!!" ... like the cucked suburbanite white boys who sold out their culture in the 90s & beyond by patronizing rap & hip-hop, the most vile cultural shitstain to ever trouble daylight, that. 

We are a-slippin' and a-slidin' ... careening straight into the demonic clutches of Third World-ism. 

I'm sure FBGs loved it. 

This is all that needs be said. 

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Posted
18 minutes ago, NEWPOSTERGUY! said:

How many hispanics play in the NFL?  

And I'm talking real hombres, not the mixed variety ... so, how many? 

Hazard to guess maybe a handful?  Hell, there are prolly more Samoans/Pacific Islanders in that sh1tshow league than Hispanics, but ... well, guess their culture is relegated moot - I mean, is Don Ho still alive? Ya follow? 

Hispanics are not even voracious fans of the NFL ... they are predominantly Soccer/Baseball/Boxing - they MAY give a hang about the NFL, but nowhere near as passionate as they are about the other three sports I listed. 

Why do we need to kowtow like this?  Goodell and his fruitcake flunkies are so desperate to prove that they're "down with the brown!!" ... like the cucked suburbanite white boys who sold out their culture in the 90s & beyond by patronizing rap & hip-hop, the most vile cultural shitstain to ever trouble daylight, that. 

We are a-slippin' and a-slidin' ... careening straight into the demonic clutches of Third World-ism. 

I'm sure FBGs loved it. 

This is all that needs be said. 

🖕

I am amused at how triggered some of you are. 😂 

Posted
1 hour ago, NEWPOSTERGUY! said:

How many hispanics play in the NFL?  

Hispanics are not even voracious fans of the NFL ... they are predominantly Soccer/Baseball/Boxing - they MAY give a hang about the NFL,  

Irrelevant. Goodell and the NFL brass are looking at future potential fans and Latinos/Hispanics represent an untapped potential market that could be worth billions in additional revenue. Note that Goodell has opened discussed the possibility of an NFL franchise for Mexico City in the next NFL league expansion of teams. 

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1 hour ago, NEWPOSTERGUY! said:

How many hispanics play in the NFL?  

And I'm talking real hombres, not the mixed variety ... so, how many? 

Hazard to guess maybe a handful?  Hell, there are prolly more Samoans/Pacific Islanders in that sh1tshow league than Hispanics, but ... well, guess their culture is relegated moot - I mean, is Don Ho still alive? Ya follow? 

Hispanics are not even voracious fans of the NFL ... they are predominantly Soccer/Baseball/Boxing - they MAY give a hang about the NFL, but nowhere near as passionate as they are about the other three sports I listed. 

Why do we need to kowtow like this?  Goodell and his fruitcake flunkies are so desperate to prove that they're "down with the brown!!" ... like the cucked suburbanite white boys who sold out their culture in the 90s & beyond by patronizing rap & hip-hop, the most vile cultural shitstain to ever trouble daylight, that. 

We are a-slippin' and a-slidin' ... careening straight into the demonic clutches of Third World-ism. 

I'm sure FBGs loved it. 

This is all that needs be said. 

🖕

A popular American artist singing in Spanish is going to relegate the USA to third-world status?

Must be the weakest country in the world then?

What a take… 🤦‍♂️

Posted
17 minutes ago, squistion said:

Irrelevant. Goodell and the NFL brass are looking at future potential fans and Latinos/Hispanics represent an untapped potential market that could be worth billions in additional revenue. Note that Goodell has opened discussed the possibility of an NFL franchise for Mexico City in the next NFL league expansion of teams. 

Great. Rich NFL players. Easy pickings for the cartels to kidnap. 

Posted
2 hours ago, NEWPOSTERGUY! said:

How many hispanics play in the NFL?  

And I'm talking real hombres, not the mixed variety ... so, how many? 

Hazard to guess maybe a handful?  Hell, there are prolly more Samoans/Pacific Islanders in that sh1tshow league than Hispanics, but ... well, guess their culture is relegated moot - I mean, is Don Ho still alive? Ya follow? 

Hispanics are not even voracious fans of the NFL ... they are predominantly Soccer/Baseball/Boxing - they MAY give a hang about the NFL, but nowhere near as passionate as they are about the other three sports I listed. 

Why do we need to kowtow like this?  Goodell and his fruitcake flunkies are so desperate to prove that they're "down with the brown!!" ... like the cucked suburbanite white boys who sold out their culture in the 90s & beyond by patronizing rap & hip-hop, the most vile cultural shitstain to ever trouble daylight, that. 

We are a-slippin' and a-slidin' ... careening straight into the demonic clutches of Third World-ism. 

I'm sure FBGs loved it. 

This is all that needs be said. 

🖕

I don’t give a shet who played in the halftime show. Watching you nitwits meltdown over this is hilarious however. Focking morons 😂

Posted
20 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

Why does Bad Bunny only perform in Spanish but his name is in English 

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is an English language name?

Posted
17 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

Thanks. Did you panic and pull out 

No I actually bought leveraged longs during the downturn.  Had some stocks that never recovered.  Was only like a 30% loss.

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2 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

No I actually bought leveraged longs during the downturn.  Had some stocks that never recovered.  Was only like a 30% loss.

Sorry to hear that. Its one thing we have in common. I also got wrecked about the same time when the Chinese government destroyed the private school sector.

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4 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Sorry to hear that. Its one thing we have in common. I also got wrecked about the same time when the Chinese government destroyed the private school sector.

It's all good, taught me some good life lessons. I'm fine.

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Just now, Ron_Artest said:

It's all good, taught me some good life lessons. I'm fine.

I was in a really comfortable niche over there, half retired, working two days a week. 

The silver lining for me is that it brought my kids to the US to experience what its like and while here, all three have excelled at everything. Unfortunately, I got a red-pill inside view to see just how dysfunctional the US public school system has become and how it compares extremely unfavorably to Chinese schools. 

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18 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

I was in a really comfortable niche over there, half retired, working two days a week. 

The silver lining for me is that it brought my kids to the US to experience what its like and while here, all three have excelled at everything. Unfortunately, I got a red-pill inside view to see just how dysfunctional the US public school system has become and how it compares extremely unfavorably to Chinese schools. 

Wow you lived in China . Must have been a real interesting experience 

Posted
11 hours ago, dogcows said:

Nobody on this forum of any political persuasion had any effect on the SB halftime show. 

Interestingly, my daughter who lives in NYC has been a paid Nielsen TV watcher for a few years.  So theoretically, she could have an influence on future shows at least.  I haven't asked her if she watched it, because it never occurred to me until I had this thought reading your post.  :cheers: 

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1 hour ago, HellToupee said:

Wow you lived in China . Must have been a real interesting experience 

I'd made some bad choices in life. I'd picked an Army MOS that didn't translate to much of anything in the civilian world, then took the college money I earned to study history, and thus wasted a large amount of time in my 20s getting credentialed and picking up skills that no employer needed.

So then I went to China, where round eyes, a pulse, and a Michigan accent landed me a teaching job teaching kids the language I knew well because I grew up speaking it. I had my own apartment, respectable job, disposable income, a pretty girlfriend and it turned out I had an aptitude to do it well. I was a lot better off than I'd been before, so I stayed... for 21 years.

Now I teach remedial eighth grade math in a sh*tty, fourth-rate public school that I have made arrangements that ensured my youngest daughter attends somewhere else via Florida school vouchers. I already have another teaching job lined up for when school lets out in May.

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7 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

I'd made some bad choices in life. I'd picked an Army MOS that didn't translate to much of anything in the civilian world, then took the college money I earned to study history, and thus wasted a large amount of time in my 20s getting credentialed and picking up skills that no employer needed.

So then I went to China, where round eyes, a pulse, and a Michigan accent landed me a teaching job teaching kids the language I knew well because I grew up speaking it. I had my own apartment, respectable job, disposable income, a pretty girlfriend and it turned out I had an aptitude to do it well. I was a lot better off than I'd been before, so I stayed... for 21 years.

Now I teach remedial eighth grade math in a sh*tty, fourth-rate public school that I have made arrangements that ensured my youngest daughter attends somewhere else via Florida school vouchers. I already have another teaching job lined up for when school lets out in May.

Bleeding money from public schools for voucher programs has been a huge failure.

Or a success… if you’re in the private school business. The more money they take from public schools, the more money these private and charter schools pocket. It’s a racket. The “promise” of vouchers was nothing but propaganda for, profit-seekers.

That’s how I’ve seen it play out anyway.

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8 minutes ago, dogcows said:

Bleeding money from public schools for voucher programs has been a huge failure.

Or a success… if you’re in the private school business. The more money they take from public schools, the more money these private and charter schools pocket. It’s a racket. The “promise” of vouchers was nothing but propaganda for, profit-seekers.

That’s how I’ve seen it play out anyway.

So no kids are benefiting? 

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13 minutes ago, dogcows said:

Bleeding money from public schools for voucher programs has been a huge failure.

Or a success… if you’re in the private school business. The more money they take from public schools, the more money these private and charter schools pocket. It’s a racket. The “promise” of vouchers was nothing but propaganda for, profit-seekers.

That’s how I’ve seen it play out anyway.

Its so very not. From discipline to academics, my daughter's private school is far superior to mine. All these private schools are and Its not close. We do offer bus services, better after school activities,  and everything is free wheras I have to cough up extra money for anything my daughter does. The Florida Step Up scholarship only covers tuition, but that's 90% of it, and I'm happy to eat both the other 10% as well as the extra 20 + 20 = 40 minute commute time every day to keep her out of the public school system.

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31 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Is legal immigration bad?

Nope but you guys are the last advocates of that. 
 

And I would say the lyrics, naming all the countries and saying we’re still here definitely had open borders type dog whistles. Dan

Posted
16 hours ago, Ron_Artest said:

I booked a ~400k loss in 2008.  I have about 100k left.

So you're applying $20kish of loss per year to your income?  Does that push you down a bracket or something?  I guess I don't see the logic of stringing it out like that.  To save like 5k a year when you're probably paying like what? $80k - $150k in taxes each year?

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2 minutes ago, nobody said:

So you're applying $20kish of loss per year to your income?  Does that push you down a bracket or something?  I guess I don't see the logic of stringing it out like that.  To save like 5k a year when you're probably paying like what? $80k - $150k in taxes each year?

You are allowed to take a loss of $3k per year.  Anything beyond the $3k you roll over to the next year.  So over the years since I've booked about $300k in gains and offset them with my carryover.  Get it?

Posted
4 hours ago, peenie said:

This is my favorite Bad Bunny song! It’s so much fun! 

I will say the lyrics translated make it as trash or more trash than most of everything else we hear lately. But the beat is okay 

Posted
2 hours ago, Ron_Artest said:

You are allowed to take a loss of $3k per year.  Anything beyond the $3k you roll over to the next year.  So over the years since I've booked about $300k in gains and offset them with my carryover.  Get it?

So if you're allowed to only take $3k per year, how did you burn down $300k of losses since 2008?  

Oh wait.  I think I get it.  You probably claimed like $240k of loss the first year to offset most of your earnings that year, and saved the rest.  Then you've been claiming $3k ever since.

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