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By the way, from what I understand, "mansplaining" is when a man talks down to a woman as if they don't know the subject matter. I have no idea if you are a man or a woman...and from the username, I would have bet a man...so I certainly wasn't trying to "mansplain" anything. Cheers!

Wow! That was some reaction...or perhaps over-reaction. Not sure why you feel it was mansplaining. I was just commenting on his pre-serve ritual...I found the video funny as well. I used to and still tape the blade and grip of my hockey stick the same way I did when I was a kid. I bounce the basket ball exactly 4 times before taking a free throw. It's just habit and comfort. In terms of my mansplaining explanation, I'll leave it to a higher authority...The Mirror: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/wimbledon-rafael-nadals-quirky-rituals-27346077 And throughout a career of highs and lows that has spanned more than two decades, Nadal has developed a drawn-out ritual that he insists on completing before and during each game. The routine involves 12 steps, and sees him towel-dry his face, bounce the ball 10 to 12 times, adjust his underwear, adjust the shoulders of his T-shirt, wipe the side of his nose, tuck his hair behind his ears and wipe his nose again. It can take anywhere up to 30 seconds for his pre-serve procedure to be carried out, often to the annoyance of his opponents. Cheers!

FFH after the whole 2003 NY-listing debacle...alongside stock, I think he bought $60 USD FFH call options at $2.00 that went up like over 50 times. Then ORH going private. The second massive one was buying BAC stock and $5.00 call options when it was around $5.00. Can't remember now what the 4th and 5th ones were...been a long time! Cheers!

You have to include the $2.5B in cash they have in the holding company, as well as the roughly $9B in debt owed by the holding company and insurance subs. Cheers!

That's fantastic! I'm happy for your success. I was just pointing out that Eric's results were fact...several of us saw his statements. Cheers!

See that's not correct. I own the site, have a public record (the good, the bad and the ugly), and have made many posts similar to yours...yet my posts are no more important than Blake's...or yours. That's what makes us different than other sites, for better or worse, we're a community first. People make their contributions in various ways...some with brilliant ideas...some with thoughts that may make us think...and others simply with their friendship. We fight, we bicker, like any community...but at the end of the day, no one's post or opinion is more important than another's. Cheers!

LULU didn't trade today...that's Friday's close. LULU's only listed on the Nasdaq as far as I know. Cheers!

That being said, I think he would have the #1 rated late night talk show if he chose to. Can you imagine the interviews? "I used to fire a lot of people, lot of people...and then I became President...the greatest President the world has ever seen. With mel-ANIA...what a beautiful first lady she was...kind of like a cross between Jackie O and Cruella DeVille...hated dogs, that's why we didn't have any in the White House. Oh, I was so powerful...and funny...everyone loved me...even the Air-Abs and Putin...yes, Putin even loved me except when he started bombing Ukraine again, and I said he's gone crazy...crazy like a fox! But he eventually listened to me when I threatened him with sanctions and tariffs...finally gave in when I said I would send Eric over there. Eric's tall and scary, not as tall as Barron, but tall like a Redwood...oh, we're going to cut a lot of Redwoods...America has so much wood...so much...even the Bunny Ranch in Nevada hasn't seen that much wood! Oh, sorry, what was your name again...Matt Damon? Borne Identity...love that movie...you were an assassin, America needs more assassins. Less liberal media...more tough assassins!" Cheers!

Still on here, but rarely ever posts anymore. Last time I checked, he was surfing every morning...not sure what he's doing now. The sizing conviction was the amazing part. A lot of people had the same investments (either on their own or copied him), but the sizing is what turned $80K into $20M in less than 10 years. He was all in on each idea with common and LEAPs up the ying-yang! Not 3,000 stocks like Peter Lynch...one stock each time with extreme conviction. More like Charlie Munger actually. Cheers!

The whole underwear thing is superstition/OCD. He pulls the underwear out, moves his fingers over each ear and makes sure his hair is behind his ears, and then wipes each side of his nose for sweat. He would do this every single time he served or was preparing to receive a serve. Athlete's repetition or OCD like Steph Curry running to the basket post right before tip-off, LeBron clapping the powder in his hands before stepping on court, goalies in hockey touching the goal posts, using their skate blades to clear the ice from side to side in front of the net, etc. Cheers!

Not so much be the bad guy. Tony was taking on other top players...Nadal felt that he needed more of Tony's time to evolve against Federer and Joker. They had a modest falling out and went different ways. Federer almost constantly kept losing to Nadal later in his career, but then Nadal would almost constantly lose to Joker as he also aged. But Joker would struggle and lose to Federer in several big majors. So how do you decide who was the greatest since each of them were more vulnerable to the style of one of the other three! Because of that, Nadal felt he needed Tony's full attention and wasn't getting it. Cheers!

Not to doubt you James, but on a forum like this...there's no actual public record proving any of this. The best proven record by far is still Ericopoly's...something like 80%+ annualized over ten years on five huge, massive bets. So your numbers are as meaningless as if Blake threw out his numbers. Cheers!

One, is that luck or brilliance? Two, to discount Blake today is like discounting James a decade ago. Cheers!

Mobland on Paramount has been amazing! Some of Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and Paddy Considine's best work. Cheers!

My favorite player all-time, and probably one of my favorite athletes in any sport all-time. Just an amazing, balls out player and fine human being...like Federer. I've been fortunate to watch this era right from the beginning of Federer's career and now as we approach Joker's end. So lucky to have lived through this period where these three players just pushed each other to levels of greatness we will never, ever see again! I'm also a huge tennis fan, and after being spoiled by such great tennis for so many years...even before that with the Agassi/Sampras era, Graff/Williams eras, and Borg/McEnroe/Everett eras...I've kind of lost heart in the game. Today, the women's game has tons of young great players coming up, but the men's side is relatively thin still outside of Alcaraz/Sinner/etc. That type of tenacity and drive is missing on the men's side...to become complete players...to become the best ever! Miss you Rafa! Cheers!

LOL! Cheers!

You will get zero responses to this, since it is indefensible and none of the supporters will admit that. Even if it is his own words...they just won't say anything. Cheers!

+1! Cheers!

Prem has probably made more shots than most people in insurance and investment history...certainly not perfect and certainly missed many...but he's made more than 99% of the people out there. Yet, regardless of age, I've seen plenty of people criticize him on here over the years...under anonymity, with no proven record in 99% of those cases, and with the same swagger that you describe in Blake. So he's certainly not the first, not the youngest, nor the only one! We have no fucking clue about James or anything he's done. Could be sheer bravado...could be a fucking superstar...but we know nothing about him. How is that any different than Blake or most people on here? So age is probably the very last quantifier or character to judge by! Cheers!

I hate to say it, but the guy sounds like a total "twat". He seems to be just as "sketchy" as the descriptor he used for the rest of the attendees. Not one favorable comment about Trump...seems as though many of Trump's supporters are behind him to see only their personal interests furthered, and if they aren't, they become critical pretty fast! Cheers!

Not impossible, but unlikely that the Knicks come back and take this. I think you are looking at a Pacers/OKC final. I agree...great basketball in the playoffs this year. A lot of wonderful stars that have taken over the league and it only bodes well for the NBA for the next decade. Also very proud of the Canadian National development program that has helped make many Canadian players some of the up and coming young talent dominating the NBA...SGA being one of them! Cheers!

Not sure it's fair to discount what he has to say because of his age. There a lot of things that 40, 50 and 60 year olds forget about life as they age as well. My 10 year old nephew teaches me a lot of things about life that I had left behind or put aside as I aged and focused on life. He doesn't really have this sense of pessimism or self-righteousness that all of us show by our posts on this message board. There's a lot younger people can learn from their elders and a lot older people can learn from those younger than them! Cheers!

That's kind of why I wish that NBC reporter would have told Trump to "just go fuck himself!" after that tongue lashing. Even if it cost me my job as a reporter. Somebody needs to embarrass this asshole! That's when he shuts up and in his little mind starts planning how he's going to get back at someone! Cheers!

Exactly what did Canada, Greenland and Denmark do? You will justify anything. Would you sell out your family for him? If Trump went after your family for some reason...say your kid was a journalist or worked for Harvard or disagreed with his politics...would you be ok with him being fired...or worse? Cheers!

Yup! Watching the President berate an NBC reporter for asking a question and then rip into him in front of everyone with the glee of a schoolyard bully was just so wearisome and disappointing. His people support this type of behavior as long as their mandate is achieved. Yet if their neighbor spoke to one of their family members like that, they certainly wouldn't be entertained and would knock the block off the fucker! Cheers!