John Hjorth

@whatstheofficerproblem, Have you thought about what Mr. Buffett thinks about the work and reporting of Fitch? [He does not care - at all.]

Are you really serious here about that?, @changegonnacome? If 'yes', you'll need to elaborate the [war] logic behind this to [at least] me.

I personally have a hard time thinking about such a screnario, it is just so deeply unpleasant to think about. Where would you try to go, if this sceninario eventually would end to get real?

@whatstheofficerproblem & @Parsad, Yeah, I see now what Sanjeev [ @Parsad ] was posting about my posting here related to the orinal post by @whatstheofficerproblem referring to, using basically my own personal language applied here on CoBF other place, ref. "Johns kinks', based on my own behavior with direct reference in another topic to me calling the concept of having and enjoying a winther BBQ 'kinky'. So this was not about calling me kinky, and personally I should have abstained from the original basis calling winther BBQ kinky, because everyone naturally can BBQ as they feel inclined to and finds appropriate. So, I apologize for that comment of mine above, to all!

It's a bitch being quoted or mentioned here on CoBF before deleting own posts [Get used to that condition! ] You are here beyond the point of no return, @whatstheofficerproblem. It's not your game to judge what should be allowed posted here on CoBF.

@Xerxes, Pretty hard to compete with a customer assessment as yours!

Awesome!, thank you for sharing, @Xerxes, Just by a quick glance at the website for VisionGrill, have I understood it correctly, that a part of the product palette are 'convertibles', where you are able to swich energy souce between gas and charcoal? - Thank you in advance.

@cameronfen, Certainly not! Talk about food, cooking, BBQ, weather, drought, grill types and brands, accessories, CoBF members BBQ experiences, preferences and habits - I like reading all the stuff in this topic, and actually feel I learn something from it. So slapping a listed company on top of all that I think that is just fine for all of us! To me, the topic has got a cultural shade and dimension by all that, which I personally appreciate much. - - - o 0 o - - - Now talking about businesses, pricing of these products - the seven versions of Big Green Eggs - has been mentioned as being steep. It must be a fantastic family owned business, looked at through our lens as investors!

To me, the horizon widening effect of the discussion in this topic so far has been amazing to me, with regard to both products and BBQ activities. Thank you. Please continue with your contributions in this topic. Great to read your stuff here.

There is nothing wrong with investing in bonds, as so and such. The issue here is the mere topic title : "Where are you getting high yields on cash?", In the meaning confusing "high yields on cash" [related to risk] with investing in bonds [related to risk]. Like being invited to a BBQ, asking the host : "What are we having?" - Answer from the host : "You."

Then there is the Copycat Contender and Competitor : Kamado Joe. - - - o 0 o - - - Any comments from my fellow CoBF members? -A big thank you so far to all CoBF contributors in this topic.

Thank you very much to all participants so far in this topic for your contributions. Your posts are the contrary to scaring me away from these products! Interesting read across cultures, I think! -Please keep them coming, thank you!

I got this reply from the Fintweetosphere,- I'm surprised by reading of a quality issue with products from this brand and company, actual pricing taken into consideration :

So much for that, @Saluki - the trade off / alternative between showing off with a grill or [even] larger stock positions [- without showing off -] among CoBF members. We both know the answers to that. But then there is also the element of passion to BBQ [that to me trespasses every limit of rationality]. My late little brother was an avid hunter, also devoted to fishing, he allways had a grill handy when he was out hunting or fishing. Also a niece of mine is married to a man, who actually grills [coal based only, Weber tools only] all year around. A bit kinky, if you ask me, but this is not about my personal sexual preferences. Only one place to order these thingies / products here in Denmark according to the website, and really expensive, verging to obscene. Here, I'm just trying to get some sense of the utility of the products. As also @gfp has implied above, there is an element of culture to grilling and BBQ, that I suppose varies wildly, as with food in general.

Somehow, you're my kind of guy here, @gfp, Here is a screen shot of the Weber Smokey Joe - from the Danish part of the Weber website today, that we have in our front garden yard, to use, when we are nobody but the two of us BBQing - It resides on a small wooden table normally used as a pot plant stand, to get it up in operational height : I'm not an engineer, but I think I can acknowledge when I have something truly outstanding in my hands related to engineering. The number of components, including screews and wingbolts are optimized the heck out of this product to the absolute minimum! It's so fascininating! Several components then have dual purposes / functions.

Thank you, @gfp, much appreciated. Here in our household, we already have two grills, that actually works fine for us. One - a tiny one - in our front garden yard [the front garden yard fairly good shielded, to keep it private], and a bigger one at the patio in the back yard and main garden]. Brand Weber - and those actually fulfill our needs. So to me, it reads so I perceive it as the concept of "luxury" has hit BBQ, too - if I'm not totally mistaken here. - - - o 0 o - - - Edit: Whoa!, Was posting without seeing all posts after @gfps above. Will get back here in this topic.

Anyone here on CoBF with experience, comments, recommendations etc. about products from this company? Big Green Egg.

On weaponizing food : The Conversation [June 21st 2022] : Starving civilians is an ancient military tactic, but today it’s a war crime in Ukraine, Yemen, Tigray and elsewhere, & The Conversation [July 19th 2023] : Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system.

Many years ago - but a few years after leaving university - I met again with an acquaintance from the university years, at a party, set up by our common friend, to have a good time together with a lot of folks, where we all knew each other, more or less, based on speciality. So I asked him - openly - to start a conversation with him - how and what he was doing. He was then the Danish head af sales for CompaQ. [Much to my surprice, I spend more time at the university, while he left with a B.Sc., while I continued to get the M.Sc., to become a Danish CPA [M.Sc. in auditing mandatory here locally]. I still remember him at certain written exams [those were always on Mondays] meeting in timely, but sleeping out major hangovers the first hour or so - taking a power nap! - before starting to do something! I was a bit baffled about his career progress compared to mine at that time, so I asked him : "What do you actually do in your job?" He answered me [semi-drunk, at the party, like me] : "Not much. I keep close track on all the sales reps. referring to me. From time to time, I'm in the field, too, - selling a bit." Then he told me he as part of his job description he also had these regularly not so pleasant conversations with his subordinate reps that were lagging on performance. He told me he had basically and only two alternatives under these talks : 1. Firing the employeé. 2. To put a part of his own personal orders on top of the [lagging ] orders of the employeé, with the comment : " For me to have success, you need to have success!" - - - o 0 o - - - The first name of your personal sales reps. may be Warren, Charles, Prem, Jorge, or whatever, the last name may be Wallenberg or Lundberg, or whatever. We have the privilege to fire them all immediately - without even giving notice. To continue to do nothing successfully, we need to choose our reps. wisely. Easy to say, hard to do.

Gents, Pardon me, but projecting the actual situation here in Europe with regard to Russia and Ukraine as of now into a discussion of a comparative analysis of past and incumbent US Presidential stupidity is actually to me a bit entertaining, to say the least. The majority of the fools, not reacting timely, sufficent and with measured and appropriate responses, are on the other side of the Atlantic pond, I would say. Thank you for your support in these times.

Is this consideration gravity related?

Tweet by Kevin Carperter about it [I haven't checked if the observation is correct, while I certainly expect it to be so, based on the identity of the author].

The way I personally perceive the total situation as of now from all my steady ongoing reading here, there and everywhere, is that the above is about right. And from a Western politics point of view, it's a disgrace, a scandal and just so embarrassing. The perils of democracy [yes, democracy also has a back of the coin, perhaps several more, - one of them being it's inefficient, slow, and cumbersome!], perhaps combined with bureaucracy, again combined with NATO organizational bloat makes efficicient execution almost impossible. It's so frustrating to be an observer to this. *shaking head* The long range Cruise missiles made available to Ukraine will be a game changer going forward, if used intelligently. The next step to up the ante I speculate will be to include donated F16 fighters from the West to Ukraine in the the combat actions - oh wait ! : Training of Ukrainian pilots in flying this has not started yet!

@MCR, It's basically about geriatric-related loss of functional capacity - here, the loss of muscle mass and strength in your legs. According to @gfp [upsteam in this very topic] Mr. Buffett has been training to keep going / walking - literaly. This geriatric decline is a fact for all of us - one can postpone it by physical exercise - eventually, it will get us all, for the majority of us, likely before we each individually pass away. If you start using a golf cart to do the 18 holes on a golf court, it will take short time, and you'll never be able again to walk the whole playground again, because walking the 18 holes is what keeps you able to walk the 18 holes. Stop doing something like that at high age, and you'll never be able to do it again, because the struggle to get to 'the path to getting back to past greatness' increases with your age, and is gradually verging to becoming impossible. The tear of time is relentless for us human beings. It must be of female gender, I think, because it's a bitch, without exceptions.

So much for retaliation for international seizure of Russian oligarchs assets - naturally it has political consequences, that seem to hit - more or less - to misfire, by logic based on actual opportunity, not in any way based on logic : Reuters [July 16th 2023] : Moscow takes control of Russian subsidiary of Danone and Carlsberg's stake in brewer.