flyingpylon wrote: ↑Tue Nov 25, 2025 6:25 am What the hell has happened to this forum?

Just trying to squeeze out value where we find it.

Some think an income fund is inferior to total return funds,
but you know what they say about, ahem, a bird in the hand.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 23, 2025 6:58 pm There's an ETF in Canada with the ticker symbol FAP.... hehehe.
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Institutions don’t buy it,
but for those who like to go solo…

{ My Dad used to go to that restaurant }

Consumer Discretionary, anyway

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 9:48 am man flesh...

...Lord of the Rings?

I miss gyros. I should go back to a street vendor one of these days.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 18, 2025 10:22 am Pluribus is friggin' awesssssooooome. The hand grenade scene hahahaha.

I’ll watching anything from “Villigan”

Seems like a bunch of websites are down due to Cloudflare maintenance.

Nor, yep

ochotona wrote: ↑Sat Nov 15, 2025 7:56 am Good idea to completely ditch the stocks at these times... trendfollowing works for this.

I would never fully abandon stocks. Never.

Jeff Sica on Fox Biz said, “Owning bitcoin is like having a tiger as a pet. It’s cool to tell people about it until it eats you.”

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 14, 2025 1:30 pm Watching myself experience the gamut of emotions as the price swings occurred in real time was particularly informative.

Should’ve filmed it.

I always thought it was a little ‘out there’ that you devised the all-terrain portfolio but had a an all-in-bitcoin portfolio. But you’re young, and experience is the best teacher. Glad you can put that behind you!

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 13, 2025 1:45 pm I am REALLY glad I sold those MicroStrategy shares when I did....
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My stocks aren’t doing so hot lately either.
I took some profits earlier, but now I’m feeling the pain.

Of course not.

There are a lot of basketball fans who still worship Kobe Bryant. After what he did I had no use for him. Great basketball player but terrible person. His actions regarding that woman is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear his name. The other thing I forgot to mention is that only one th...

All comics evolve into Carlin with political clapter rants. Holy moly, I thought I was the only one that seemed to notice this. I used to love the Iliza Shlesinger stuff from like the 2013 era. Now everything she does is either politics or feminism. Same thing with Chappelle: why is he so obsessed ...

What did he do? He kind of offended me with two topics and I cringed when I heard them. Cringe is the right word. I suppose I wasn’t offended. Do I find his other material less funny because of the the not-funny, cringey material? I suppose not. I'm curious about what offended you, if you don't min...

It’s really her choice

Well, if I had to choose between Kobe and Cosby marrying my daughter, I’d choose Kobe.

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