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Bose makes some very good wireless bluetooth speakers. I have a SoundSport rechargeable that goes all over the place with me. I also have a Bose Compact L1 PA which needs an AC power source, but provides a lot more sound. This system also has 1/4 inch TS & XLR connections to hook up guitars, pianos & microphones.

I don’t think Thai people haggle about the price of street food. The reason you could feed 3 locals for the price of one farang alone is that they raised the prices for you. I never minded paying the Farang tax because the food was usually very good. If you eat at a regular restaurant, the menu price is the same for everyone. Bangkok has a lot of great Indian restaurants as well. One notable place with a huge selection of outdoor food vendors is the Suan Lum night bazaar, near Lumpini stadium. You buy tickets & trade them for food at the various stalls. They always had big musical stage shows going on & if it started raining, there was a huge cover that would roll over the seating area. I kind of miss the smells & sounds.

Keith Moon & John Bonham are most definitely very, very skilled drummers, but my vote has got to be for Neil Peart. As for investing, what percentage of the general population was selling stocks at or near the lows of 2008/2009? I had several associates who would tell me that they were down 40%, and now was the time to be getting out! They were going to take their lumps and get out.... What really has me spooked is that some of these same people are now looking to get back in the market. Speaking of great drummers, we just lost one, Ginger Baker. https://www.npr.org/2019/10/06/765781758/ginger-baker-cream-drummer-and-force-of-nature-dies-at-80 Dude was a human metronome & absolutely nuts. RIP Sunday night I am going to see The Who, well half The Who, at the Hollywood Bowl. Zak Starkey, Ringo's son, will be playing the part of Keith Moon. That is if Roger Daltry's voice recovers. He had to quit midway through their show in Houston on Sept 25 and then canceled a couple of shows. Their next scheduled shows are Oct 11 & 13 at the Hollywood Bowl. Nice!

It was a weird experience for me haggling in Bangkok. For something like a T-shirt that was $6-8, it was already cheaper than what I would pay at home, but it's expected that you haggle. So I would ask for a better price and the guy would give me a small discount and I would quickly cave in and we both feel good about it. A thai friend said I should take him with me because he could get better prices on souvenirs, but that extra dollar or two I wouldn't even notice and although it won't matter to me, in a poor country it's a very big deal, so why do it? One of those vendors did math in his head better than me (and definitely works harder than me), so what separates us other than I was lucky enough to have parents that emigrated to a rich country? I bought a couple of handmade monk bowls there, made by brazing pieces of metal together over a flame, in a country where it's 95 degrees outside. They were pricey for souvenirs, but it's hard work in a poor country to do that kind of stuff so I don't get a good feeling when I see tourists trying to beat them up on price about it. I found that the Indian guys in Thailand would start with a ridiculously high price & bargain hard all the way to the close. The Thai guys usually cut to the chase very quickly. Have you been recently & is it still as nice as before all the red shirt, yellow shirt stuff? I haven't been in a decade & used to eat a lot of street food. I never haggled with street vendors as the price seemed super cheap for Thom Yum, etc. Then I met some Thai women & started rolling around town with them & suddenly I could feed 3 for not much more than 1. I continued to pay Farang prices if dining alone, rather than try & hammer a guy slaving over a hot brazier in what felt like an equally hot climate. I recommend eating close to a police station for the best food. Bangkok is one of the few mega cities that I've ever really liked. The people are wonderful.

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Wise observation. I drive relatively slow in comparison to other traffic. It's a holdover from a DUI (over a decade ago) & me driving on a suspended license & not wanting to get pulled over. I noticed that I was a lot calmer in traffic as a result, so it stuck with me. I get tailgated a LOT, even though I'm usually doing 3 to 5 mph over the speed limit. Many times, the tailgater will furiously whip around me & the vast majority of the time I pull up behind or beside them at the next traffic light. I'm an asshole, I'm an asshole, yes, yes I'm an asshole, I'm an asshole, that's right. See you at the next light ;D -- I fold. :-X

Everyone appears to be an asshole to someone else. There's plenty of opportunities to be an asshole. Everyone knows at least one asshole. Wealthy assholes get more visibility. -- Some parting thoughts on the subject from Zappa. Ram it, Ram it, Ram it, Ram it up your poop shoot. Don't fool yourself girl, it's going right up your poop chute. (Frank sure knew how to write lyrics, huh?) --- If your lucky, and enjoy this classic all the way to the end, Wynona's Big Brown Beaver by Primus might play. --- edit: Oh snap, speaking of assholes, "Too Many Puppies" played right after BBB. Les Claypool's got me thinking about taking up the bass.

Keith Moon & John Bonham are most definitely very, very skilled drummers, but my vote has got to be for Neil Peart. As for investing, what percentage of the general population was selling stocks at or near the lows of 2008/2009? I had several associates who would tell me that they were down 40%, and now was the time to be getting out! They were going to take their lumps and get out.... What really has me spooked is that some of these same people are now looking to get back in the market. Speaking of great drummers, we just lost one, Ginger Baker. https://www.npr.org/2019/10/06/765781758/ginger-baker-cream-drummer-and-force-of-nature-dies-at-80 Dude was a human metronome & absolutely nuts. RIP

An ass from any other financial class would smell as shit.

Also, will the charges for selling order flow go down & will legislation be introduced that makes it illegal?

Ya think? ;)

I was at the Chatuchak market in Bangkok & had stopped in a stall to buy some wind chimes. They were nice little ceramic designs & came wrapped in paper with handwritten Thai messages. Simple & elegant gifts. There was a sign stating the price for one, with a discount for three. I was getting a couple of dozen & the guy tried to give a bigger discount but I politely refused because they were already cheap as hell. Thai merchants often offer discounts without even being asked, if you're kind & are buying in quantity or if they recognize you from before. While the guy was bagging up my chimes, a woman stopped in & was all irate that she didn't get immediate attention. Then she proceeded to hammer the guy over the purchase of one chime. I told her she was chiseling the guy for the equivalent of about $0.25 & she acted like I was a liar. I've seen this over & over, especially with hotel receptionists where the rich "farang" isn't getting their way & resorts to being a twat. These are the times we live in & it's probably been the same throughout history with relatively wealthy individuals. I'd be willing to bet these types are non-existent on cobf.

:o IDK, airlines kill people by accident, occasionally, but Altria does it on purpose every day. --- I still think Bucees would be a nice little purchase that could be expanded on. The one that just opened at the Baldwin Beach Express, near Loxley, AL, is huge. They prohibit 18 wheelers & they're mobbed up every time I've stopped in. https://www.buc-ees.com/index.php --- Too bad he didn't get WhatABurger. I never see discount coupons for them. They don't need to run specials. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/texas-whataburger-chicago.html https://fortune.com/2014/12/29/byron-trott-billionaires-banker/ But you own MO? (I just bought 1.5% positions of MO last week) I do & as it says in my signature "I trumpet my ignorance" :D

:o IDK, airlines kill people by accident, occasionally, but Altria does it on purpose every day. --- I still think Bucees would be a nice little purchase that could be expanded on. The one that just opened at the Baldwin Beach Express, near Loxley, AL, is huge. They prohibit 18 wheelers & they're mobbed up every time I've stopped in. https://www.buc-ees.com/index.php --- Too bad he didn't get WhatABurger. I never see discount coupons for them. They don't need to run specials. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/texas-whataburger-chicago.html https://fortune.com/2014/12/29/byron-trott-billionaires-banker/

Yeah & although day trading doesn't fit my temperament, BRK seems to be a safe bet to do this with. Only problem is that when I buy under $200, with the intention of doing this, it goes up & I don't want to cut loose of any shares. Maybe if I got rid of the $200 anchor (and blind trust in management) & just started pulling the handle every day? Not really much stress in that.

So the consensus is "trade around core positions that you'd be OK owning in an extended downturn".

The new price of freedom. We are entitled to nothing.

You're not following the right people and/or muting the right keywords, then. Twitter is whatever you make of it, very maleable. I agree with you re: Twitter malleability. The problem comes when someone comments on a Trump Tweet, or one posted by a sycophant of his. I can't resist the urge to troll him (I know, grow up). I'd just love to be the guy who pushed him over the edge & I expect to be 1 of the 1st doors to get kicked in if the purges come about. Other than that, nearly all of the people I follow are very gracious & patient with my questionable contributions on financial discussions. The problem is with you, not them. You can't control others, but you can control yourself. Work on self-control skill. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's something to aim for (goals are more directions than destinations). And/or, mute the word "Trump". Problem solved. You are right. edit: I went through my muted keywords & found that they were all set to "From people you don’t follow" & that might be why I was still getting nonsense in my feed. I changed all muted keywords to "From anyone".

You're not following the right people and/or muting the right keywords, then. Twitter is whatever you make of it, very maleable. I agree with you re: Twitter malleability. The problem comes when someone comments on a Trump Tweet, or one posted by a sycophant of his. I can't resist the urge to troll him (I know, grow up). I'd just love to be the guy who pushed him over the edge & I expect to be 1 of the 1st doors to get kicked in if the purges come about. Other than that, nearly all of the people I follow are very gracious & patient with my questionable contributions on financial discussions.

Yep. This is where the adults have conversations. Twitter is for childish spats & I get sucked in over there a lot.

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LOL edit: I probably deserve a big horse laugh at some of my suggestions too.

I was working for Petrol Marine at the time. They were owned by the Hunt Brothers, along with Penrod, Placid, Pumpkin Air & others. We were breaking depth records for setting anchors on semi-submersibles that were drilling in Green Canyon (that's where I trained on both the Kodiak I & II for deep water anchor work) & the Hunt Brothers were breaking the bank. I can't remember, but they must have had 6 or more of these things working (fishing the bouy spreads for Mahi Mahi was amazing). It took 4 boats to set & retrieve 8 anchors per semi (now you could do it with 2, but everyone uses dynamic positioning drill ships). It took 2 boats per anchor with 1 acting as chase boat (holding the anchor) & the other adding or removing extension wires to the chain (the rigs lacked enough storage capacity in their legs). At the time we only had one set of shark jaws & no pop-up pins. Now a boat will usually have 2 sets of shark jaws & 1 set of pop-ups with top locking pins which is way safer for the anchor crew. A lot of deep water technology came out of this project & they burnt up all of Daddy's cash to do it. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/27/magazine/the-hunt-brothers-battling-a-billion-dollar-debt.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-02-05-9001100692-story.html --- Will the Son implode in such spectacular fashion?

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schmessisism?