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re: So you are telling me - MSTY

Posted by slinger1317 on 6/13/25 at 11:37 am
I had never heard of this stock until this thread, did a little research and jumped in at $20.85 with about $10K. Hopefully the dividend stays around current levels.
Not Another Teen Movie is a fricking fantastic movie for people born in the mid-late 80's

Breakfast Club, 16 Candles were a little before my time, so American Pie, Road Trip, Varsity Blues and NATM were our equivalent. NATM hits so many stereotypes, pure comedy greatness
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They just did the entire world a huge favor.


I have to think other countries, especially in the Middle East, are secretly high fiving Israel for doing something that many have wanted to do for a long time.
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This wouldn't have happened if Trump hadn't pulled the USA out of the Iran Nuclear Deal back in 2018.

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Combine that with Israel having a blood thirsty, fascist leader, and we are where we're at today in this world.


You sound like a pussy

re: Israel is attacking Iran

Posted by slinger1317 on 6/12/25 at 8:07 pm
If Israel takes out the Ayotollah then they seriously aren’t fricking around

re: Thoughts on Wright Thompson?

Posted by slinger1317 on 6/12/25 at 1:26 pm
I have lived my entire life in the South, and for him to be some world-renowned writer, the only thing I know about him is the True South series.

I think he tries too hard to be an Old South Mark Twain
Eduardo Perez Bingo Card:

Overexplaining simple things like college baseball fans are too dumb to understand the game

Claiming that a pitcher is tipping his pitches

References to his father

Over-pronouncing spanish names
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All index funds/ETF's for me now.

VOO and VUG are my 2 best


Is this a good strategy for long term investing rather than picking individual stocks?


I have been in both for 5+ years and will hold for another 20 or so. My holdings in VOO and VUG are both mid 6 figures and up 45% and 53% respectively, so yes I think it is a good strategy
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Project Farm had a good comparison recently.

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I love nerdy shite like this, but I could only make 17 seconds of that high pitched dude yelling at me :lol:
Dumb Question:

I have the Sapphire Reserve and a few hundred thousand points. If I cancel the card, do I lose access to the Chase Rewards Portal?
All of this stemming from a few lip reading videos a few years ago

He's not my cup of tea, but props to him for making it big
Great catch but not an all timer IMHO

He was able to use the wall as a lever to help him adjust

Jim Edmunds laying out facing 180 degrees from the plate and catching it over his head is the best catch of all time. Better than Mays
I was in Spain back in April and people couldn't have been nicer

I follow a few travel groups online and the pearl clutchers are saying they are going to tell people they are from Canada while vacationing in Europe so people won't lump them in with Trump and his supporters. Such pussies

re: Sirens on Netflix

Posted by slinger1317 on 6/9/25 at 2:04 pm
In the last couple of weeks we have watched Sirens and Your Friends and Neighbors.

Both have been solid, entertaining, and just the right length.

Not too serious, but tied up all loose ends nicely.

Great entertainment for us middle age suburban white folk
There is a doc available on HBO (Max) that was produced by the Discovery channel

The Netflix one comes out this Wednesday, will be watching that one as well.
I watched this over the weekend and enjoyed learning the history of Ocean Gate. Rush was a typical eccentric billionaire. His attitude of "You don't have an explorer mentality" toward employees who blew the whistle was pretty telling.

I thought the footage from the unaired Expedition Unknown was a great look into the operation and how Mickey Mouse the whole thing really was. Rush had the host scribbling shite on a sticky note and showing it to the divers through the window. :lol:

All that being said, the doc glossed over the fact that he made 13 successful trips to the Titanic. I know they didn't want to glamorize it, but I assumed maybe it made 1 or 2 successful trips. I googled afterwards and saw where the implosion occurred on the 14th time it reached bottom. So I would think there is some good information that could be used for the next eccentric billionaire to build upon.
That dude is the definition of Louisiana. Sweaty ugly overweight but a die hard Tiger fan

Go Tigahs!

re: Northern California road trip.

Posted by slinger1317 on 6/6/25 at 1:46 pm
I did a very similar trip last summer

Flew into LA, drove to Sequoia and Kings Canyon. Spent 3 nights in Yosemite then on to Monterey for a few nights. Drove down to Big Sur and had lunch at Nepenthe. We took Hwy 1 as far as we could and passed through Santa Barbara, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and then ended with a few nights in LA. It was a great trip.

Yosemite is amazing, and Monterey/Carmel might be my favorite area to visit in the US

re: "We Got Action"!...

Posted by slinger1317 on 6/3/25 at 2:48 pm
This is when you realize the entire real estate market in America is based on "How far can I get away from these people without having a 3 hour commute to work"
Those people are not humans

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