Are you as fed up as me?

[WatchmanOnTheWall]

- with posters who don't bother reading the OP. Some here seem to just read the title or even only see one word and proceed to react like some verbal knee jerk, jerk. God I find that annoying.

:bang:K::hammer::sibbie::reals::nuke::sozo::argue::box::drum::angrymob::kookoo::dizzy::maxi::idunno::smack::denver::Letsargu::AoO:

 

[chair]

I am fed up with posters who think their OP was given to them by God, and refuse to look at any other evidence. That goes double when the OP consists completely of a link to a (long ) video by a self-proclaimed expert.

 

[WatchmanOnTheWall]

I am fed up with posters who think their OP was given to them by God, and refuse to look at any other evidence. That goes double when the OP consists completely of a link to a (long ) video by a self-proclaimed expert.

That's not what the OP is about.:noid:

 

[Danoh]

That's not what the OP is about.:noid:

:rotfl:

 

[Tambora]

- with posters who don't bother reading the OP. Some here seem to just read the title or even only see one word and proceed to react like some verbal knee jerk, jerk. God I find that annoying.

:bang:K::hammer::sibbie::reals::nuke::sozo::argue::box::drum::angrymob::kookoo::dizzy::maxi::idunno::smack::denver::Letsargu::AoO:

Sure, I get fed up sometimes.
And sometimes I don't.

 

[Town Heretic]

[h=2]Are you as fed up as me?[/h]
I sure am. Never go shopping in December. The lines are ridiculous. lain:

 

[Ktoyou]

[h=2]Are you as fed up as me?[/h]
I sure am. Never go shopping in December. The lines are ridiculous. lain:

You should shop at Walmart; you would be doing me a favor. Use the online app, I never did, but many use that and like it
Kat

 

[Ktoyou]

I am fed up with posters who think their OP was given to them by God, and refuse to look at any other evidence. That goes double when the OP consists completely of a link to a (long ) video by a self-proclaimed expert.

People use the net rather than get out and do tings with people.

It has been very cold here; I get sick when out in weather below 60 degrees. I went out to Walmart yesterday and walked around shopping a few items, just ti get out and now I have a mild cold. :sigh:

Tomorrow that cold spell, which has lasted long is going away and I will be out at church and then out for dinner. The rest of the month looks like it will be warmer.

This spring I am moving down towards Naples Florida because it has fewer days below 60 degrees.

 

[Town Heretic]

You should shop at Walmart; you would be doing me a favor. Use the online app, I never did, but many use that and like it
Kat

Reminds me of my bit about The Waffle House. You can go to Subway in our local Walmart, sit in a booth and watch the shoppers milling about, half of them dragging their feet and shuffling like zombies. It's like dinner and a show...albeit a very poorly written one.

 

[Ktoyou]

Reminds me of my bit about The Waffle House. You can go to Subway in our local Walmart, sit in a booth and watch the shoppers milling about, half of them dragging their feet and shuffling like zombies. It's like dinner and a show...albeit a very poorly written one.

Well, you know I can be silly at times. The reason I said Wallmart is I hold lots of Wallmart stock.

After this years I am getting out of trading and just going to keep some investments. At my age all this keep up in the market is too much work and worry. As to these investments, I will never spend the money anyway, and my kids are all doing fine in their careers. They will have plenty of money to take care of their families.

My home in Alabama is nice, but there is little to do in winter, and my place in Clearwater is sort of a dump. I do not think there is anything so wrong with having a better place to live.

Where you live is nice for Alabama, but why should I live were there is any cold when I hate winter. The east coast of Florida is even warmer, but I would not be able to handle the traffic.
Kat

 

[Town Heretic]

Well, you know I can be silly at times. The reason I said Wallmart is I hold lots of Wallmart stock. After this years I am getting out of trading and just going to keep some investments. At my age all this keep up in the market is too much work and worry. As to these investments, I will never spend the money anyway, and my kids are all doing fine in their careers. They will have plenty of money to take care of their families.

I hear it's addictive. My brother started off as a trader then flew up the ladder. Wharton and that sort of nonsense. Dad treats the market like I do the betting lines on football. It's good to know that everyone is well provided for. I'm the black/poor sheep of an affluent family. So is my wife. Can't complain though.

My home in Alabama is nice, but there is little to do in winter, and my place in Clearwater is sort of a dump. I do not think there is anything so wrong with having a better place to live. Where you live is nice for Alabama

Agreed, being around an hours drive from sticking my feet in the Gulf and about double that from coffee and beignets at Du Monde, I think I'm right where any sane person should want to be, though we do get the odd cold snaps and less frequent snow in winter. And by less frequent I mean, of course, a bit like hurricanes and no more warmly greeted on the whole.

I actually enjoy cold weather. When we were in New York last year I was walking about with a light jacket over one arm after being nearly incinerated in their public library. Two policemen who had those neck warmers that look like oddly done cravats, jacketed and in gloves, asked me where I was from. You should have seen their eyes when I told them Alabama by way of Florida.

why should I live were there is any cold when I hate winter. The east coast of Florida is even warmer, but I would not be able to handle the traffic.
Kat

St. Augustine was always a pleasant place to winter a bit. Haven't been in years. It's probably like nearly everywhere you go these days with a view, sadly. San Diego was like that. Wonderful place, but now you have to allow for that ungodly traffic on the Five.

 

[Ktoyou]

I hear it's addictive. My brother started off as a trader then flew up the ladder. Wharton and that sort of nonsense. Dad treats the market like I do the betting lines on football. It's good to know that everyone is well provided for. I'm the black/poor sheep of an affluent family. So is my wife. Can't complain though.


Agreed, being around an hours drive from sticking my feet in the Gulf and about double that from coffee and beignets at Du Monde, I think I'm right where any sane person should want to be, though we do get the odd cold snaps and less frequent snow in winter. And by less frequent I mean, of course, a bit like hurricanes and no more warmly greeted on the whole.

I actually enjoy cold weather.

Money is not everything, as you well know. When you have it, then speeding a half a mil on a place in Naples might make sense? :idunno:

Here is my problem, I grew y=up with well off but very tight farm parents. They went through the depression, so, I was raised like I was poor, and had to hunt rabbits and kept pigs. I never felt good spending money, so, my job, psychologist, was still civil service pay, but I liked the same as I was raised, so did Bob, who came from a Texas Ranch family.

We always saved and I used knowing what very smart egghead young people knew would be the future. They like Apple and I bought into the company, so is the same with the rest of the story.

It is not so much I hate the cold as much as it makes me sick. I do not see living much longer thorough winter months, and Naples seems the only way to live past this age.

As to trading stocks; when an old woman trades against the best minded 50-year old brains, it means she is over the hill. Man too. I am getting out after January 2018!

Best to just go long with have some S&P 500, or Total Stock Market fund and for bonds, it was best to have bought individual bonds, live off the interest and allow them to mature. This is what I spend.

As to bond funds, funds like DODIX, and BCOIX are better than the Vanguard Total Bond Market, no mater what those bogleheads may think!

 

[Ask Mr. Religion]

- with posters who don't bother reading the OP. Some here seem to just read the title or even only see one word and proceed to react like some verbal knee jerk, jerk. God I find that annoying.

What annoys me (and apparently, the site owner, too, see below) is folks that create thread titles that are click bait snippets, apparently the beginning phrase of a sentence to be completed in a post. You end up pages into the thread quoting their OP (as herein) and you have to wonder, "what is this thread about?"

http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4461319#post4461319
http://web.archive.org/web/20060508021435/http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/announcement.php?f=9

An OP should stand alone and provide all the context necessary to understand the purpose of the thread. An OP is not just a continuation of a starting sentence in the thread title.

AMR

 

[Lon]

Reminds me of my bit about The Waffle House. You can go to Subway in our local Walmart, sit in a booth and watch the shoppers milling about, half of them dragging their feet and shuffling like zombies. It's like dinner and a show...albeit a very poorly written one.

ONE DAY, I'll come and twirl fire batons or something with a yo-yo.

 

[Danoh]

ONE DAY, I'll come and twirl fire batons or something with a yo-yo.

Or...you can just enjoy posts about people with battery acid personalities :chuckle:

Nothing cracks me up more than an individual either way too serious, or ever taking a ribbing as a personal offense.

Really cracks me up.

Life for such must ever feel like being on the receiving end of this frying pan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGTDE9ftyIg&app=desktop

 

[The Barbarian]

Well, you know I can be silly at times. The reason I said Wallmart is I hold lots of Wallmart stock.

My wife has a lot of Wal-Mart stock, but she hates going to Wal-mart, because the customer service is so bad.

Apparently, a lot of people don't care.

But Costco is eating their lunch.

 

[Ktoyou]

My wife has a lot of Wal-Mart stock, but she hates going to Wal-mart, because the customer service is so bad.

Apparently, a lot of people don't care.

But Costco is eating their lunch.

Walmart appeals more to the common working-class people where prices means more than service.
Better Buy: Costco Wholesale vs. Wal-Mart
A look at two of the biggest retailers in the country reveals a similar set of challenges facing both.
Jeremy Bowman
(TMFHobo)
Jun 24, 2017 at 4:39PM

For decades, Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) have defined the opposing poles of American retail.

Costco Wholesale has concentrated its business on the coasts, favoring higher-income markets with its membership model, which charges customers $60/year for the privilege of shopping in its cavernous, bargain-bin warehouse. Wal-Mart, on the other hand, has been most successful in the rural interior of the country in regions like the South and the Midwest, where its everyday low prices model has made it the dominant retailer.

The two have also embodied different approaches to human resources. Costco is regarded as one of the best retailers to work for in the country. Wages start at $13/hour, and the average hourly worker earns $21/hour. Wal-Mart, by contrast, has long been embroiled in controversy around its hiring practices and has developed a reputation for abusive employment tactics and union-busting, though in recent years CEO Doug McMillon has tried to make amends. He raised the base wage to $10/hour, setting off a wave of wage hikes in retail, and has implemented better training practices in order to boost employee retention. Over the past five years, Costco has outperformed Wal-Mart by a considerable margin, but even it has fallen short of the S&P 500, which may be a sign of the broader struggles in retail. The average investor would be better off holding one of the S&P index funds.