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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152205 on: July 08, 2020, 02:57:45 pm »

why yes.

a better question would be if I trade regularly.
Then, uh, do you trade regularly?
Or are you part of the BUY AND HOLD society?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152206 on: July 08, 2020, 02:59:57 pm »

I have some long term stocks, and I vaguely follow the market but wont claim to do it seriously.

One of my goals is to get more involved, but I dont make enough to seriously play.

though the key word here is play.  Ask me again in 5-7 years.
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« Reply #152207 on: July 08, 2020, 03:37:43 pm »

Do any of you around here actually hold any stocks?

Funny story... when I was a kid, I and my brother were given a sizable chunk of money (for a kid) from a relative, on the condition that we invest it.

Being simple kids, he and I each plopped our entire sum into different companies in the video game console business. About a dozen years later, I'm lucky enough to pay for most of my undergraduate college by looking to sell right as it was spiking, while my brother's stock basically dwindled to effectively nothing over the same time period even as the company did well enough (at least didn't crash and burn). As an adult looking back, I would think I picked the wrong company, but that's just how it goes sometimes.

After my experience with that I wouldn't want to risk it again. My employer retirement plan has some mutual funds, but that's it. I like to read up on market trends and the like, but mainly out of personal curiosity.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152208 on: July 08, 2020, 08:38:25 pm »

so . .  .

Got pulled over today.  For passing a car going under the limit in a zone not marked for such passing.  My fault, in theory and what not.

I pulled into a starbucks, hoping theyd lose interest, but no.  They said I was speeding when passing that fellow.  fair.  Anyway, leaving some details out, I got a hefty $150 fine.  They gave me a speal, and said a thing or two about pulling into a lot, but overall I'd say it was civil.

Doesnt stop my heart from pumping.  Christ, set aside the frankly irrelevant monetary fine.  That was way more stress than I want.
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« Reply #152209 on: July 08, 2020, 08:45:59 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152210 on: July 08, 2020, 11:00:05 pm »

I thought it was spelled spell too. Maybe it’s just one of those words that can be spelled differently but mean the same thing, like reverse homophones (that’s probably definitely not the correct term for this)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152211 on: July 08, 2020, 11:18:11 pm »

my wtf: I thought it was spiel (game) and yiddish. Now I'm not that sure anymore. Urban dictionary has the word but not the definition, what is there even to hesitate about? Yet, I'm still as unsure.

It can also mean "performance" (in German, at least,) which is probably where the definition relating to a long speech comes from. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spiel
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152212 on: July 09, 2020, 12:43:15 am »

Yeah in Sweden when somebody goes tantrum or other hyateric behaviour we say they "get a spiel" ("få spel").

Similarly acting (as in an actor acting in a play/movie) is called "skådespel", "viewing performance".

I've always spelled spiel like spiel because of presumed Yiddish spreading it.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152213 on: July 09, 2020, 04:11:30 am »

Presumed Yiddish spieling it*

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152214 on: July 10, 2020, 06:59:48 pm »

TIL thst 'ivory cosst' is the name of a country.

Paradox had taught me it was a trade region.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152215 on: July 10, 2020, 11:29:59 pm »

TIL thst 'ivory cosst' is the name of a country.

Paradox had taught me it was a trade region.
It's somewhat more known as "Cote d'Ivoire", its French name.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152216 on: July 11, 2020, 05:38:11 am »

I remember from Geography that Coast of Ivory is on the southern coast of North-Western Africa. (Though we spoke about it in czech, so "Pobřeží slonoviny")
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« Reply #152217 on: July 11, 2020, 06:03:46 am »

It looks like the whole area was called Guinea back then, and they called areas the X Coast depending on what you could trade for in that region. Ivory Coast is the only one that stuck as a country name once the area got split up into independent colonies. Originally it was just part of French Guinea. Just be grateful that Nigeria didn't get stuck as the nation of "Slave Coast".

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« Reply #152218 on: July 11, 2020, 06:37:18 am »

Gold coast?
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« Reply #152219 on: July 11, 2020, 06:49:02 am »

Gold coast?
Literal hell on Earth. Every time a news story inexplicably breaks about someone getting stabbed to death there it's like "oh good for them, they escaped".       
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