Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Eddie Dingle]

What... The... ****...
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Why do I read FB comments.

#eckertsperts

 

[Dylan8]

What... The... ****...
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Why do I read FB comments.

read da stats bro

 

[Steve Dore]

Poor internet, I hope it feels better soon.

 

[PatientMental]

read da stats bro

oh my god, he's started making less sense.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

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Poor internet, I hope it feels better soon.

Right on.

Kids having a bad taste party?

What will they think of next?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Anyone remember this?



I liked it back in the day.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Watched The Big Short today - great movie. Different to the book, changing the names of a lot of, but not all of the main players confused me at the start as I read the book 2 or 3 years ago, but the combo drama and black comedy was well done without destroying the essence of what happened in the 3 years leading up to the financial crisis in USA which hit crisis point when Lehman Brothers crashed in September 2008. (Apparently several of the main players wanted their name changed, especially as a few of them arent that nice. Dr Michael Burry a neurologist turned hedge fund manager, the guy that first found the potential for carnage, a went to Goldman Sachs to make the first bet against mortgage securitization market, and Asperger sufferer is play as Dr Michael Burry).

Another great book by Michael Lewis who wrote sports non fiction books Moneyball and The Blind Side which both got turned into movies as well as his business books Liar's Poker written a couple years after the stock mmarket crash of October 1987 where he worked as young bond trader for Salomon Brothers, The New New Thing A Silicon Valley thing about the tech boom in 1999, Panic - Modern Financial Insanity, Boomerang and end of 2014 Flash Boys - A wall Street Revolt where he looks at how technology and high frequency trading has rigged the equity markets. I reckon there is another film in that last book.

I love how they used real people to explain the basic working of some of the complex securities, to show that Wall Street banks aren't that much smarter that the average person that they couldn't understand how they worked, it showed just how devious they are about using them. They would stop cut into the film and the celebrities would do their explaining. Very clever way to get the average punter to understand what's going on.

Actress Margot Robbie in a bubble bath drinking champagne explains how Sub Prime loans work




Celebrity Chief Anthony Bourdain explaining how a Collateralized Debt Obligation was made of shitty sub prime loans were packaged up to make a new security that was given a AAA rating.



They then uses another sexy actress Selena Gomez and a professor of economics to explain how a synthetic Collatrized Debt Obligation works whilst playing Blackjack in a casino.



But the best scene to explain it all ie Credit Default Swaps - swapping the 3 products above and betting the system would collapse, was by Ryan Gosling's character, Jared Vennett, who does the narration thru the film and is based on the real life Deutsche Bank trader Greg Lippmann. The movie shows he made about $50m out of the collapse, but in the real world he made about 100 times that.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Excuse me REH but can you please write Good Movie or Shit Movie for those of us with short attention spans?

Thanks in advance.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Excuse me REH but can you please write Good Movie or Shit Movie for those of us with short attention spans?

Thanks in advance.

I wrote "great movie" 6th and 7th word in for the T20 version watchers.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I wrote "great movie" 6th and 7th word in for the T20 version watchers.

See what I mean?

 

[Grave Danger]

Hull City ftw. My grandparents are from there and I have no better reason to pick an English side, so they'll do.

I remember taking Hull to the Champions League on FIFA 14 with Andy Carroll as my Golden Boot winning star striker. Top quality realism.

They were the only team in the EPL that didn't have any letters in their name that you could fill in. There's relevance!

 

[I Dont Care]

My wife likes Organza

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The bottle is far more stylish than an AU Falcon

If it had a boot, I would drive it

 

[foxport]

Leicester because thats where i was born,
also the old mans team.He was a regular
at Filbert street in the fifties.

 

[bomberclifford]

Well it is fact that the Apollo 11 astronauts saw aliens on the moon.

Stay away from the Conspiracy board wharfie_1870, it'll make your brain mush.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

I follow Arsenal... Do Bergkamp and Overmars still play?

 

[raman]

This thread has scarcely ever been worse than it has been today.

 

[Doctor Feel]

This thread has scarcely ever been worse than it has been today.

I blame Edgie, aside from me that is.

 

[Jonts]

Picked Tottenham because once brother goes for Chelsea and another arsenal i figured what club could i pick to annoy them the most as we follow the same team in every other competition

 

[Doctor Feel]

The internet.

 

[Byrons Firen]

oops if already posted
http://www.theage.com.au/video/vide...s-it-up-from-penalty-spot-20160215-4ajk9.html

 

[BIG BILLY F]

omg OMG OMG OMG.......









the walking dead

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

There's a nugget rees abc special on now

 

[Byrons Firen]

Seriously you couldn't make this up. No-one would believe you, yet here it is.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...m-aliens-shane-warne-casts-doubt-on-evolution
An L Ron Hub devoutee?

 

[raman]

Seriously you couldn't make this up. No-one would believe you, yet here it is.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...m-aliens-shane-warne-casts-doubt-on-evolution
An L Ron Hub devoutee?

Have you heard Warnie talk before?

 

[Byrons Firen]

nup......has he got a toilet paper scarf to soak up what falls out of his mouth?