Last post wins!!!!!

[perfect_pitch]

Think again, Kangaroo Jack.

The names not Jack... Although, I could go for a Jack Daniels.

Damn, it's 6:15 in the morning... a little too early.

[j_tour]

The names not Jack... Although, I could go for a Jack Daniels.

Damn, it's 6:15 in the morning... a little too early.

Well, you've got a a few hours to wait for the NYSE to open, so might as well crack open a cold one and salute your kind King Charles.

[gasplamey]

Sorry Scotland lsot, p_p.
I just want Brail france and argentina out sow e get a winner who hasnt' alreayd won multiple times. Uruguay and germany are already out os tha'ts good and brazil loosk pretty weak.

[j_tour]

Sorry Scotland lsot, p_p. I just want Brail france and argentina out sow e get a winner who hasnt' alreayd won multiple times. Uruguay and germany are already out os tha'ts good and brazil loosk pretty weak.

SoccerTard is here!

With the flopping ability of ten girls still wearing training bras.

[perfect_pitch]

Well, you've got a a few hours to wait for the NYSE to open, so might as well crack open a cold one and salute your kind King Charles.

I don't game with stocks... one can lose money very quickly overnight without realising it. Look at BitCoin - that's had more ups and downs than a rollercoaster.

Sorry Scotland lsot, p_p.

I wasn't - when it comes to Scotland vs Brazil - I knew who the winners were going to be from the get-go... and it sure as hell wasn't Scotland.

Hell, practically any country who is versing Brazil is just destined to lose.

[j_tour]

I don't game with stocks... one can lose money very quickly overnight without realising it. Look at BitCoin - that's had more ups and downs than a rollercoaster.

Yeah, no sh!t.....you are aware that there are extremely conservative mutual index funds which happen to contain stocks as well as bonds as part of their portfolio, right?

IMHO people who gamble on things, like individual stock performance, are idiots.

I do gamble on myself when shooting pool, but no way in hell would I bet anything on somebody or something out of my control.  A mobbed-up horse-jockey, or a few members of a basketball team shaving points, or if some Association Football player is fouled intentionally, or even prop bets.

Actually I try to gamble at pool/billiards even when I'm not playing, but rather watching the game from a few feet away....at least in my town, people are a bunch of nits who probably don't even have enough cash to cover, even if I give odds on the game.

[perfect_pitch]

Yeah, no sh!t.....you are aware that there are extremely conservative mutual index funds which happen to contain stocks as well as bonds as part of their portfolio, right?

IMHO people who gamble on things, like individual stock performance, are idiots.

I do gamble on myself when shooting pool, but no way in hell would I bet anything on somebody or something out of my control.  A mobbed-up horse-jockey, or a few members of a basketball team shaving points, or if some Association Football player is fouled intentionally, or even prop bets.

Actually I try to gamble at pool/billiards even when I'm not playing, but rather watching the game from a few feet away....at least in my town, people are a bunch of nits who probably don't even have enough cash to cover, even if I give odds on the game.

I loved Texas Hold'em Poker. I love calculating the odds of potential winning hands, studying people and their behaviourisms. That was the only time I bet. I remember suckering everyone to go all in, because everyone thought I was holding nothing, but I was holding a 4 of a kind. Only time I've ever had it, but I won about $120 between friends. This was back in my university days though... miss the freedom I had.

[j_tour]

I loved Texas Hold'em Poker. I love calculating the odds of potential winning hands, studying people and their behaviourisms. That was the only time I bet. I remember suckering everyone to go all in, because everyone thought I was holding nothing, but I was holding a 4 of a kind. Only time I've ever had it, but I won about $120 between friends. This was back in my university days though... miss the freedom I had.

Fascinating.  You do know that real card players who value skill play Contract or Duplicate Bridge, or Gin Rummy, right?[

And/or hustle pocket billiards on the side, right?

Poker's for numbnuts....except if you're platying 7-card high-low-split and you aim to not split the pot.  That's a man's game.

[lostinidlewonder]

I don't game with stocks... one can lose money very quickly overnight without realising it. Look at BitCoin - that's had more ups and downs than a rollercoaster.

Conflating stocks with crypto is lol. You might as well compare pianists to prostitutes. Most Australians do own stock, if you have superannuation you own stocks.

[perfect_pitch]

Poker's for numbnuts....except if you're platying 7-card high-low-split and you aim to not split the pot.  That's a man's game.

Yet, it's all the rage in Vegas, other major casinos and is very popular (TV). Never seen Gin Rummy ever being televised.

[j_tour]

Never seen Gin Rummy ever being televised.

It's not that interesting to watch vast sums of money being exchanged wordlessly, in a game driven by skill especially without peeping at someone's hole cards.

At least chess or tennis is interesting to watch as a mere spectator.

Stu Ungar had to quit gin rummy for poker, since no one in the world would bet him after he dominated the game so thoroughly.

Personally, I think it's more exciting to do than to watch, but you do you.

Conflating stocks with crypto is lol. You might as well compare pianists to prostitutes. Most Australians do own stock, if you have superannuation you own stocks.

Yes, exactly.  Who *doesn't* own stocks as part of a portolio? 

That's right. 

No one. 

Every single pension plan or investment portfolio includes stocks.  It's just not avoidable if you want more than 6% annual return rate. 

[gasplamey]

Hell, practically any country who is versing Brazil is just destined to lose.

Croatai had sometihgn to say about thta four eaysr ago and japasn almost did a fwe days ago. Brazil seems weak i think they lose england in quarters.
Also that portugal croatai game was fxcking rigged should have goen to extra time.

[j_tour]

Croatai had sometihgn to say about thta four eaysr ago and japasn almost did a fwe days ago. Brazil seems weak i think they lose england in quarters.
Also that portugal croatai game was fxcking rigged should have goen to extra time.

You sound dumb.  Are you retarded?

[gasplamey]

You sound dumb.  Are you retarded?

[j_tour]

Yes, but like physical, or mental?

[perfect_pitch]

Croatai had sometihgn to say about thta four eaysr ago and japasn almost did a fwe days ago. Brazil seems weak i think they lose england in quarters.
Also that portugal croatai game was fxcking rigged should have goen to extra time.

Have you ever considered that maybe:

...his keyboard is broken?
...English might not be his first language?
...he may have been having a stroke when he wrote that?
...he may have been having a wank, and that's the best he can do with one hand?

[j_tour]

...his keyboard is broken?
...English might not be his first language?
...he may have been having a stroke when he wrote that?
...he may have been having a wank, and that's the best he can do with one hand?

Sure.

I speak, write, and understand six modern languages, and understand several more, including ancient dead languages.  Try any of them.

And I'm sure some limp-dick nerd can translate using some defective "translation" tool online.

Which one is this retard's excuse for living?

Maybe his mother didn't give him enough attention as a baby?

OR.....maybe....just maybe.....that little ghoul just doesn't know enough about rock, flag and eagle.

Just a theory.

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[gasplamey]

Have you ever considered that maybe:

...his keyboard is broken?
...English might not be his first language?
...he may have been having a stroke when he wrote that?
...he may have been having a wank, and that's the best he can do with one hand?

...he was tyhping with his nose?
...his tyepos are for cumedic effect?

[j_tour]

...he was tyhping with his nose?
...his tyepos are for cumedic effect?

...it's a failed abortion that survived?
...it's a stunted child?
...it's got the retardation?
...the innoculations didn't take so now it's an autistic retarded?

[perfect_pitch]

OR.....maybe....just maybe.....that little ghoul just doesn't know enough about rock, flag and eagle.

Just a theory.

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No one knows Rock Flag & Eagle... maybe it's just an American thing. I do think Charlie Day is a comedic actor though, and he was great in Horrible Bosses.

...he was tyhping with his nose?
...his tyepos are for cumedic effect?

Was trying to give you more excuses to use...

...the innoculations didn't take so now it's an autistic retarded?

I think they've done multiple studies now and found... (believe it or not) that Vaccines do NOT cause autism.

That's just the meth-cooking nutjob in you trying to escape.

[j_tour]

I think they've done multiple studies now and found... (believe it or not) that Vaccines do NOT cause autism.

How's being paid off by Big Russian Pharma to spread lies working out for you?

You must feel proud and good, just like a young man coming in for a quickie.

Comrade.



And where's the transpose button on this, anyway? 

No one knows Rock Flag & Eagle... maybe it's just an American thing. I do think Charlie Day is a comedic actor though, and he was great in Horrible Bosses.

Agreed, even Dear Leader former hero of KGB, shirtless and brave, does not to be knowing of the rocks, and flag, which we salute, and the eagle, which is also known to exist nearer the Northern of the poles.

I also do think that that nose-picking, fart-smelling cretin gasplamtard is a "comedic actor," as is Jack Benny, and celebrated beloveds like Paul Hogan and others, including Yahoo Serious, Pauly Shore, Paul Hogan, Vladimir Putin, and Paul Hogan.

[perfect_pitch]

I also do think that that nose-picking, fart-smelling cretin gasplamtard is a "comedic actor," as is Jack Benny, and celebrated beloveds like Paul Hogan and others, including Yahoo Serious, Pauly Shore, Paul Hogan, Vladimir Putin, and Paul Hogan.

Really??? I just thought he was your other alter-ego in your schizophrenic brain.

And where's the transpose button on this, anyway? 

Real pianists don't need a transpose button. Work it out yourself, you lazy bastard. It's good for the brain.

[j_tour]

Real pianists don't need a transpose button. Work it out yourself, you lazy bastard. It's good for the brain.

It was a joke, Paul Hogan.

Even the low-downednest, gut-bucket-est piano player just improvising or following a singer knows all keys.

It's f*** or walk....not saying it's easy, but I can do it, and I'm retarded.

Although it's probable that some of the new "keyboard" players need some flashing lights or an app to tell them how to do in some of the more fancy keys.

[perfect_pitch]

Even the low-downednest, gut-bucket-est piano player just improvising or following a singer knows all keys.

It's f*** or walk....not saying it's easy, but I can do it, and I'm retarded.

Although it's probable that some of the new "keyboard" players need some flashing lights or an app to tell them how to do in some of the more fancy keys.

I'm not saying they know all keys, but playing a piece that's normally in C Major, and having to transpose it to C# major requires an on the fly knowledge of fingering and the ability to manipulate ones fingers in not having to rely on muscle memory.

It's not as easy as it sounds... but I do have students who will try and learn songs from those terrible synthesia videos where they watch the falling blocks and try and play in time. It never goes well for them.

[j_tour]

It's not as easy as it sounds... but I do have students who will try and learn songs from those terrible synthesia videos where they watch the falling blocks and try and play in time. It never goes well for them.

Well, then they kind of suck.

Yes, it takes years of practice to play in all keys.  At least it did for me.

And I don't mean things where everything is notated for you, as in Bach or whatever, where you can work out the fingerings ahead of time.

Being truly comfortable within any given key.  It's not as though one can just slide one's hands up and down the neck, as on a guitar or a bass.

[perfect_pitch]

Yes, it takes years of practice to play in all keys.  At least it did for me.

And I don't mean things where everything is notated for you, as in Bach or whatever, where you can work out the fingerings ahead of time.

Being truly comfortable within any given key.  It's not as though one can just slide one's hands up and down the neck, as on a guitar or a bass.

I know - handy for mass, when the psalmist comes up to you and says... can you play this... down a minor 3rd. I sometimes wonder if I should be cruel and just transpose it down a Major 2nd and see if they can tell the difference...

[j_tour]

I know - handy for mass, when the psalmist comes up to you and says... can you play this... down a minor 3rd. I sometimes wonder if I should be cruel and just transpose it down a Major 2nd and see if they can tell the difference...

Yeah, in 99% of cases it's just some singer trying to sound cool.  "Okay, but can we play this one in F#?  It's kind of my key!"  No doubt encouraged by various producers who are trying to convince them that they are real musicians.

But sight-transposing from a score is a different skill than what I was talking about, really.

Anyone can do it, at least among strong sight-readers, but IME it's *always* going to be a bit slower.

I was talking about improvising including harmonies, melodies, not reading off a score.

Some players of transposing instruments claim to be able to read as quickly as a pre-transposed score, but I've never seen it happen as quickly as someone reading a score as such.

Translation?  Musicians generally are full of sh!t, especially when it comes to overvaluing their abilities.

[perfect_pitch]

Yeah, in 99% of cases it's just some singer trying to sound cool.  "Okay, but can we play this one in F#?  It's kind of my key!"  No doubt encouraged by various producers who are trying to convince them that they are real musicians.

Yeah... look at the music industry now. So many people who lip-synch to pitch-corrected auto-tuned audio tracks, and charge $300 a ticket to watch them flail and dance and do the same moves a 70's aerobics instructor would have done in a fitness class.

Now we have AI generated music, which is just the next insult to music.

[j_tour]

Yeah... look at the music industry now. So many people who lip-synch to pitch-corrected auto-tuned audio tracks, and charge $300 a ticket to watch them flail and dance and do the same moves a 70's aerobics instructor would have done in a fitness class.

No kidding.

And yet your dream girl is Britney Spears.

Hey, power to you.

I hope also that Paul Hogan can become my Commander in Chief.

Dreams can come true.

[lostinidlewonder]

Now we have AI generated music, which is just the next insult to music.

Shh shh shh you will become obsolete soon. Shh shh shh..... *chloroforms pp*.

[perfect_pitch]

No kidding.

And yet your dream girl is Britney Spears.

Hey, power to you.

I hope also that Paul Hogan can become my Commander in Chief.

Dreams can come true.

Let's get one thing straight... I was 15 when 'Hit me baby one more time came out', and she was dressed in a school uniform. What teenage boy WOULDN'T love her music at that time.

2) Paul Hogan won't be doing anything... I think he's close to 90 years of age if I'm not mistaken (can't be bothered googling). Why would you want a senile tax-avoiding twat like him as your Commander in Chief???

You've already got Trump... he's going to "save America", or profit from it while it goes down the shitter.

[j_tour]

Let's get one thing straight... I was 15 when 'Hit me baby one more time came out', and she was dressed in a school uniform. What teenage boy WOULDN'T love her music at that time.

2) Paul Hogan won't be doing anything... I think he's close to 90 years of age if I'm not mistaken (can't be bothered googling). Why would you want a senile tax-avoiding twat like him as your Commander in Chief???

You've already got Trump... he's going to "save America", or profit from it while it goes down the shitter

Yeah, that's a really good points you did.

In case you haven't heard, the US has a senile, deranged, serial felon who wears adult undergarments and still cannot control his bowels as Commander in Chief.

Why he is still alive is more a testament to the Putin-loving imbeciles who surround it.  It's way beyond explosive vest time for a specimen such as that.  You know, Allah akhbar or whatever.

Lick me, boner.

[perfect_pitch]

In case you haven't heard, the US has a senile, deranged, serial felon who wears adult undergarments and still cannot control his bowels as Commander in Chief.

Why he is still alive is more a testament to the Putin-loving imbeciles who surround it.  It's way beyond explosive vest time for a specimen such as that.  You know, Allah akhbar or whatever.

So why would you want to replace some senile old git with ANOTHER senile old git. Trump is younger than bloody Hogan.

Lick me, boner.

Lick your own boner... or get your dog to do it. Smear a little peanut butter on it or something.

[j_tour]

So why would you want to replace some senile old git with ANOTHER senile old git. Trump is younger than bloody Hogan.

They both have a duty to die.

One more than the other, IMHO.

[perfect_pitch]

To die, is to have lived.

The goal is not to leave the world worse off than it was when we were born.

[j_tour]

To die, is to have lived.

OK Sartre, that'll be enough of that.

That presumes one of those characters was ever alive.

More like a hideous flesh golem constructed of rotting flesh.

Ygor put the brain of a retarded serial rapist in instead of a functioning one.

But there is some justice, since Ygor gave it the micro-penis to match its tiny little hands.



Now *this* is a stage piano.  No extra crappy voices (just acoustic piano, Rhodes and Wurlitzer pianos, and Clavinet), and it is heavy, hard, and stiff, just the way I like it.

I'd dare some little snot-dribbling child to play on this action anything non-trivial.

And of course it has the sostenuto, una corda, and damper pedals.

Of course it weighs eighty pounds without a case, so I'll keep the Yamaha around in case I'm forced to perform someplace.

[perfect_pitch]

I'd dare some little snot-dribbling child to play on this action anything non-trivial.

And of course it has the sostenuto, una corda, and damper pedals.

Of course it weighs eighty pounds without a case, so I'll keep the Yamaha around in case I'm forced to perform someplace.

I guarantee you it won't be long till some idiot comes along and repeats the first 4 chords of 'Still Dre' on it...

Play Fur Elise on piano and people go... that's good. What else can you play.
You play the first 4 bars of that 'other piece' and people think you're a genius.

The world is slowly falling apart.

[j_tour]

I guarantee you it won't be long till some idiot comes along and repeats the first 4 chords of 'Still Dre' on it... The world is slowly falling apart.

You forget....I am licensed to own and carry firearms.

And the shotgun stays by the piano.

A 45 handgun is on top of the organ.

All loaded and ready to go.

Bust a cap in someone's arse!

Not sure if I'd be ready to do time for outright murder, however justifiable.....but I do have blank cartridges for the shotgun....likely make someone soil themselves while running for the door.

[eee-_-]

Mozart hard

[perfect_pitch]

Mozart hard

Well, that's ALMOST a complete sentence... if you're 5 years old. Want to try again?