The Unofficial Badmovies.org Random Thought Thread!

[Rev. Powell]

Just made my first day trade ever. Cleared a quick $200. Probably a once-in-a-lifetime score.

[Newt]

Just made my first day trade ever. Cleared a quick $200. Probably a once-in-a-lifetime score.

The beer's on the Rev!   

[Alex]

Had two of my wifes nephews come over to visit for a week. One is 17 and the other 12. The 17 year old doesn't seem to like trying new things and I am sure would find accounting something too exciting for him and is the epitiny of a moody teenager. The younger one is the total opposite and was doing everything new he possibly could. Managed to get him into bad horror movies (thanks to Killer Tomatoes Eat France & Sharktopus) as well as getting him into reading HP Lovecraft stories (he is not someone who normally likes to read, and he'd mentioned his mum keeps trying to get him to read more so I hope I did a goodf thing there). I may get into trouble from his parents though if they find out I let him watch Alien and Predator. He is also working on plans to make his own glider / wings (researching whch materials would be best) and a grappling hook (both of which his dad won't let let him make, understandably).

Mostly took them places during the day, then played games and watched movies with them at night. There are a few ruined castles nearby as well as the shell of a cathedral that one of my ancestors burned to the ground when the local bishop upset him so we took them there. They seemed to have a good time and their family was amazed that we actually got the older son to smile in two or three of the photos.

Wish I'd had an uncle who was that cool.

If you and your family ever visit our corner of Scotland I promise I'll take you all round various old buildings, play boardgames and let you watch all the bad movies you want.

Just no calling me uncle.

That would sound way creepy.

[Rev. Powell]

Just made my first day trade ever. Cleared a quick $200. Probably a once-in-a-lifetime score.

The beer's on the Rev!   

As long as Sprite's cats aren't included. 

[javakoala]

Just made my first day trade ever. Cleared a quick $200. Probably a once-in-a-lifetime score.

The beer's on the Rev!   

As long as Sprite's cats aren't included. 

Sprite's cats are not pleased.

[LilCerberus]

With all this crap about rewriting the history of the American Civil War, It occurs to me that no one's ever really talked about how the Commonwealth Of Virginia became two completely different states...

[ER]

With all this crap about rewriting the history of the American Civil War, It occurs to me that no one's ever really talked about how the Commonwealth Of Virginia became two completely different states...

That's something that disturbs me about digital books, they are easily re-written, as opposed to a record in print, which is indelible unless destroyed. Maybe that's why I own three rooms full of printed books but only about sixty titles that are digital.

History is not the deeds of the participants, it is the record of the deeds as judged and written by posterity, and more than most arts, is vulnerable to time.

I have been shocked at how bad history books in schools are. Harriet Tubman got a longer biography page than Abraham Lincoln in a textbook my cousin's son let me read last spring, and there was a description of Robert E. Lee "living to regret" the choice he made in 1861.

Is that history, or opinionated commentary? I am not aware Lee ever expressed any such regret, despite paying a heavy price for his loyalty to his native land, so it was someone making a judgment and pretending it was history.

The formation of West Virginia is downright strange if you think about the fact it was actually allowed to happen. It's also a true that there were pro-Union counties in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina that wanted to break off from the original states as well, some seeking to revive the old idea that they truly belonged in a state called Franklin, which had very nearly come into being early in US history.

The unvarnished fact is we live in sad times when it comes to the accurate proliferation of truth.

[AoTFan]

Had two of my wifes nephews come over to visit for a week. One is 17 and the other 12. The 17 year old doesn't seem to like trying new things and I am sure would find accounting something too exciting for him and is the epitiny of a moody teenager. The younger one is the total opposite and was doing everything new he possibly could. Managed to get him into bad horror movies (thanks to Killer Tomatoes Eat France & Sharktopus) as well as getting him into reading HP Lovecraft stories (he is not someone who normally likes to read, and he'd mentioned his mum keeps trying to get him to read more so I hope I did a goodf thing there). I may get into trouble from his parents though if they find out I let him watch Alien and Predator. He is also working on plans to make his own glider / wings (researching whch materials would be best) and a grappling hook (both of which his dad won't let let him make, understandably).

Mostly took them places during the day, then played games and watched movies with them at night. There are a few ruined castles nearby as well as the shell of a cathedral that one of my ancestors burned to the ground when the local bishop upset him so we took them there. They seemed to have a good time and their family was amazed that we actually got the older son to smile in two or three of the photos.

That is SO awesome!  But yeah, teenagers can be a bit temperamental sometimes. Hopefully when he gets older he'll grow out of that and, also, hopefully the younger one will skip that phase. 

Anyway, keep being a good uncle!  :)

[AoTFan]

Just made my first day trade ever. Cleared a quick $200. Probably a once-in-a-lifetime score.

Dumb question but, how does that work anyway?

I mean, I'm assuming you get some money, of course, then what?  Load up like an e-trade program, buy some stocks somewhere, wait a bit, then sell 'em later for a profit before they tumble?  That or keep them for a good amount hoping they'll go even higher?  Or is there more to it than that?

[Rev. Powell]

Just made my first day trade ever. Cleared a quick $200. Probably a once-in-a-lifetime score.

Dumb question but, how does that work anyway?

I mean, I'm assuming you get some money, of course, then what?  Load up like an e-trade program, buy some stocks somewhere, wait a bit, then sell 'em later for a profit before they tumble?  That or keep them for a good amount hoping they'll go even higher?  Or is there more to it than that?

I usually but securities and hold them longer than a day. This one zoomed up a few hours after I bought it and I felt I had to sell it at this improbable peak before it crashed. I had never sold a stock the same day I bought it before and don't really want to go down that path.

I use a mobile app called Robinhood for commission-free trades. Yes, you can hold them for various lengths of time, but you pay higher tax rate on short term (less than a year). I can't consistently outperform the market, but I have fun trying.

I would not recommend people buy individual stocks unless you're doing it for fun. Buy a mix of indexed ETFs (SPY, IWN, EFV, & TLT) and hold them until retirement, preferably in an IRA or 401K with dividends reinvested. I use a small percentage of my overall investments as "mad money", betting on individual stocks. It's more fun, but you usually end up doing worse overall than if you had just bought and held.

[AoTFan]

I would not recommend people buy individual stocks unless you're doing it for fun. Buy a mix of indexed ETFs (SPY, IWN, EFV, & TLT)

I have no idea what any of those acronyms mean.

Don't get me wrong, I find investment stuff fascinating to learn about, but I've never had any extra money around to actually do it (except on computer games).  And, seeing how little money I make, unless Penny Stocks are literal I doubt I'll be able to make any significant investments anytime soon.

and hold them until retirement, preferably in an IRA or 401K with dividends reinvested. I use a small percentage of my overall investments as "mad money", betting on individual stocks. It's more fun, but you usually end up doing worse overall than if you had just bought and held.

[AoTFan]

There's a restaurant in Chicago called The Girl and Goat.

Sounds a bit like a children's book doesn't it?  (That or a REALLY horrible adult film.)

http://www.girlandthegoat.com/

No idea what they serve or how they came up with the name but just thought that was interesting.

[LilCerberus]

Ya ever notice how the authorities wanna take away the children of rednecks living in  "incomplete" houses out in the woods, Yet every summer, people in  the burbs send their kids off to 4H summer camps where they'll be living in the exact same conditions?

[AoTFan]

I just read somewhere the some women cry after an intense orgasm. 

The hell.

Can you imagine what a mind screw that would be to the poor guy they're having sex with?

I mean, I've always been told that if a woman's crying after sex you need to, at best, rethink your technique or, at worse, rethink your idea of what constitutes consent, but apparently for some women it's just a normal procedure.

[Chainsawmidget]

I have been shocked at how bad history books in schools are. Harriet Tubman got a longer biography page than Abraham Lincoln in a textbook my cousin's son let me read last spring, and there was a description of Robert E. Lee "living to regret" the choice he made in 1861.

Is that history, or opinionated commentary? I am not aware Lee ever expressed any such regret, despite paying a heavy price for his loyalty to his native land, so it was someone making a judgment and pretending it was history.

Don't even get me started on how bad the history books distort the Civil War. 

From the way they write it, you'd think Abe Lincoln was giving blacks free piggy back rides every day and every single person in the south spent the majority of their days brutally torturing the hundreds of slaves each of them owned.