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gargamon

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  1. You say that as if it's a plus. San Miguel beer, especially the light variety, is horrid. There was a Manila light that was actually pretty good last time I was there. It was hard to find. I guess San Miguel marketing has locked up the market through payoffs, etc. The payoffs have expanded to Thailand where you cannot get the palatable tiger light and singha light anymore also. Plus, the SM beer gives me a headache, while the others mentioned don't.
  2. Tagaytay. Can be expensive though. Easy to manila where there's the best pi hospitals and the airport. And elevated so it's cooler.
  3. How nice. You get to (hopefully) make money and not pay taxes on it. What country are you doing your transactions in? Of course, if it's in a retirement account you should be able to do as many transactions as you like without paying taxes, as long as you don't take any cash out. That's what I do. The S&P500 fund is not in a retirement account. Any trades I do are within retirement accounts so this applies to me also.
  4. Don't forget the taxes you would have to pay if you liquidated your fund to move it over. This is something many traders don't consider. My S&P 500 fund has been growing at over 10% a year since the 80's with no income tax paid yet. Taxes on the dividends, yes. Traders get taxed every time they move positions.
  5. I think that's a drinking club.
  6. Just buy a S&P 500 index fund and forget about it. I did just that 40 years ago and averaged over 10% a year ROI. No need to waste time monitoring and adjusting your investments. No broker commissions to pay, etc. Low fees too. The Vanguard index 500 admiral fund charges 0.04% a year.
  7. Russians, Euro trash... When will it end?
  8. Nope. The only answer is that they were charging lady drink prices for his companion who was not an employee of the bar.
  9. Do tell. What are “solids“? I've been a consumer off and on since the 70's and have never heard the term. Hashish would be my guess but that would contradict your statement that today's weed is stronger. I've smoked black Afghani hash in the 70's that was much stronger than any pot available now.
  10. Send him to the Ukrainian front. Looks like he'd be good cannon fodder.
  11. Only until the election in November with abortion rights being voted on. Florida turns blue and all this nonsense will go away.
  12. He didn't happen to be named Eugene, did he? Clue:you need to be a Pink Floyd fan to get it....
  13. There's a recent animated freak brothers series with Woody harelson(sp?) as one of the voices and also producer I think.
  14. Two plead guilty to insider trading related to Trump Media merger Two men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to insider trading in securities in the company that ultimately took former U.S. President Donald Trump's media business public. Michael Shvartsman, 53, head of Miami-based venture capital firm Rocket One Capital, and his brother Gerald Shvartsman, 46, each pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud before U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan. Rocket One's chief investment officer, Bruce Garelick, is scheduled to face trial on related charges on April 29. Prosecutors charged the trio last year with illegally trading on inside information about Trump Media & Technology Group's (TMTG) (DJT.O), opens new tab plan to go public through a merger with a blank-check company. TMTG operates Truth Social, Trump's main social media platform. Prosecutors said the trio signed confidentiality agreements in June 2021 when they were approached to become early investors in Digital World Acquisition, the blank-check company. The agreements required them to keep information they learned confidential and not trade the company's securities in the open market, prosecutors said. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/investor-company-that-took-trump-media-public-pleads-guilty-insider-trading-2024-04-03/
  15. Italian? Oh, no. I'm going to need a new column in my spreadsheet.
  16. He's gay. Trying to figure out if his boyfriend has been playing around.
  17. Master PDF Editor Get version 4.3.89, the last free one without watermarking. Pin it in synaptic so it doesn't get updated.
  18. At least with Madoff 90% of the “stolen“ funds were recovered. No chance of that with this crypto nonsense.
  19. Why would anyone need an ATM card these days? Get the app on your phone and do QR code payments almost everywhere in Thailand. Do cardless withdrawals at any of your bank's ATMs. Pay shopee or lazada with QR code. No hundreds of baht/year fee for the app either.
  20. Wasn't it immigration cattle class you were complaining about? Avoided if you fly business.
  21. More inaccurate bar stool info. Thanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
  22. Much more fulfilling to snipe than post useless topics that make me look a fool.
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