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Apparently it is not so simple, as some still can't comprehend it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bite me
Watches "can" be an investment. Most aren't, but some "can" be. It has nothing to do with retirement portfolios, bling level, world hunger, et al. Those may affect the investment, but have nothing to do with the investment itself. Fucking Beanie Babies can be an investment, all be it a poor one in the long run, but some people made bank on those stupid things.
no actualy if you bought it wrong and lost money that would make it a money losing investment cuz you don't get to change horses in the middle of the stream maybe your boyfriend falls for that line but the fact you are rationalizing means it ain't an investmentQuote:
Originally Posted by bite me
In any case it's only a money losing investment if we assume that a rolex is at all an investment cuz you are just trading around expensive toys no real difference than the marbles we all used to trade at recess ... it doesn't count
I supose I could say your mom bemoaned the fact her son was a loser cuz he didn't really understand basic economics but thats cruel ... the mom part
are you an investment banker or one one of them other fellas who are responsible for the credit swap crisis... thats sad ?
and as the always doomsaying mr profane asks ... whats your real investment portfolio like ?
Hey, I'm not ALWAYS doomsaying. Just sayin'.
Do you think doom-sayers net do better than the everything-is-cool crowd?
y'hear the one about the stock broker and st peter ?
Why, no, I haven't.
This is an often asked question. Many people who wear watches just enjoy them, that and style never goes out of taste. That's why quartz didn't kill off automatic or hand wound watches. It's more than just a way to tell time, its jewelry to some, status to others, and to others it's a hobby. I've always dug watches, how they're assembled, how they look and what they do.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
That's funnyQuote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
It wasn't meant to be a joke.
I have $20 that says you're dead 18 months after retiring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
1) My degree is in Economics from Queens - yours? My Mom's actually pretty proud thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
2) Actually I'm VP Sales for an outfit that makes unfreakingbelievable "Modern Marvel" big fucking hardware type stuff. And what do you do? Just grovel for Joe Sawdust with the big lettering on his truck?
3) The Yacht-Master was a reward for a very good year, and taking a small part of the year-end bonus as a job-well-done to myself.
4) Saving's always been a big deal. 6 figures in the 401 / account was many years ago. Expect to hit a nice number in 2014, then I might buy another watch or maybe a (used) XKR-S as a reward. How about you?
Don't forget the penis! Tell him how glorious it is!
Isn't that what the watch is for?Quote:
Originally Posted by flatlander#2
Hey, I'm just answering Joe Dumptruck's questions, not a cockfight, but thanks for asking. The ol' swantz (sp?) has been capable of doing it's intended job as many years and $ in supporting two numbnuts attests to. Penis extensions are typically associated with boats. Don't have one anymore. Moneypit extrodinare. Actually, Ferrari's are also penis extension (particularly to those that are jealous). My wife got me a day with a 430 this summer as a present, and notwithstanding dipshits with sawdust all over them, if I ever get a chance (very, very remote) I would buy one. Fuck, what fun.
Looking forward to his answers to same questions. No doubt when an '86 4runner is your prized possession, and the size of the lettering on the side determines your status, it's hard to understand making a go of it and enjoying some of the good stuff you worked so hard for.
Wow, you know, you're really taking this watch thing a little (forefinger and thumb a quarter inch apart) too, um, seriously.
That is glorious. I'll bet sometimes you wear your fancy wrist jewelry and nothing else so people can bask in that glory.
Next time you're doing that work on your phonics a touch. Then you won't sound so new money stupid. As they say when you score, act like you've been there before.
Hey guys, I'm rich, suck my dick!! SUCK MY DIIIIICK I'MMMMM RIIIIIIIICH.
lol
I want a meal, not a snack.Quote:
Originally Posted by P_McPoser
I barely made it out of Burnaby North H-school, I was always a rebel without a clue at the school of not really that hard knocks but somehow I was fixing HW while you were balling frat girls, retired at 49, nowdays mostly I play an asshole on the internet, one who at least knows the difference between a investment that makes money vs an investment that doesn't ... all without an economics degreeQuote:
Originally Posted by bite me
Sounds like you believe yer own rhetoric and you answer to some one, I answer to no one and I do whatever I want
What I want is that in addition to playing at ski/kayaking/biking sometimes I CHOOSE to do the odd gig with the joe sawdust's I run around in the bush like a ski bum so come winter I am strong enough to ski like a ski bum and I always tell the joe sawdust's I don't need to be here but lets give er, IME working with the small guy sure beats the fuck out of any nebulous corporate BS
Fuck who hasn't got 6 figures in a retirement vehical?
hell it will be 7 figures if i can live long enough to collect it
I made good coin in the bush last year which I spent on mercury's/dynafits/stokes and a casio pathfinder, all I do in winter is ski so while you were fucking with yer watch and writing a list of reasons why ya think yer cock is bigger I was out pruning a side country run
the big goal this year is ski 30,000ft by fair means in one day ... lets see ya buy that ?
a stock broker walks up to the pearly gates and asks st Pete if he can get in, but he is told the quota of stock brokers in heaven is maxed, the stock broker asks if he can visit heaven to maybe get some stock brokers to leave, st Pete figures no harm so go ahead, 20 minutes later there are people streaming out of heaven thru them pearly gates, including buddy the stock broker , as he runs past st Pete asks how did get all them people to leave ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
"It was simple I started a rumor that gold was discovered gold in hell" sez the stock broker
"That was pretty smart you got more than enough folks to leave so you can stay, where you going?" sez st pete
" to hell ...it could be true!"
Here, just in case you're serious, I'll lay out the cold hard facts.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
As of 01/01/11, the Boomers started turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 a day. This will continue for twenty years (2031) until all 73 or so million of them pass that milestone, and then add another ten or so years before most are dead. Half of them have no savings. Zip, zero. Only SS as cash flow if out of work. The other half, on average, have 50,000, if they're lucky. That's not going far in a twenty five year retirement. One third of "homeowners" at age 65 have mortgage debt. My father spins in his grave at that one. The average net worth of a 65 year old is about 210,000, most, if not all of that, is home equity, which is hardly liquid, because you gotta live somewhere. What's really sad about all of the above is that Boomers control 80% of all personal financial assets, and account for half of all consumer spending. So, that doesn't say much for the younger ones, living in underwater houses and carrying massive student debt, huh? I mean, they ain't hiring at Goldman Sachs like they used to.
Oh, and lets not forget 1% bonds for those that actually saved.
well of course I know that most people don't have 6 figures I was just being uncharacteristically facetious, but they got 2 or 3 big screen TVs, 2 people living in a 2400sq ft house, sending money to the entitled little brats who are doing a 4 yr program in 6 just cuz they can, audi station wagons and of course 3 or 4 rolex watches when they only got 2 hands ... most folks don't want to admit they are slave to the $ eh?
The 7 figures in a retirement vehical is only if I keep breathing till around 80 which is pretty doable
So... six figures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
And so.....not liquid. Their kids will cash that in. To the parents, it's a fiction. Especially since they can't borrow on it anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tippster
OK, so shorthand translation = Unemployed / unemployable dickwad loser.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
30k in one day. Wow, oh wow. Gee, can I touch you :rolleyes2. 16th day at WB today, so right, you're the uber-gnar. Knock on door 420 (really) of a real nice hotel slopeside until Wednesday and say hello loser.
There's an old saying about "if you like what you do, it's not work" I love what I do, and get treated very well to do it. Intellectually stimulating, refined and intelligent competition, state-of-the-art technology and markets. Stuff that when comparing how many cord of wood you cut today substitutes for smarts, so I guess it's a bit beyond you.
Hope those new big gilt edged letters on the truck help get you laid :the_finge
Given your location shouldn't that be "YOU WAAANTTT MMAAAAASSSSSSAGGGGGEEEE?" or "Why you no fuck me tonight?"Quote:
Originally Posted by P_McPoser