Obtuse1
| Favorite team: | Wofford |
| Location: | Westside Bodymore Yo |
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| Number of Posts: | 25910 |
| Registered on: | 9/25/2016 |
| Online Status: | Online |
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/3/24 at 7:50 pm
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/3/24 at 6:35 pm
[quote]Pedo Ritter claims his passport was taken from him ahead of traveling to St. Petersburg for a conference.[/quote]
The children of St. Petersburg rejoice because they won't get molested....
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/3/24 at 4:11 pm
[quote]And what are the executives paid?[/quote]
I thought tOT didn't care how much C-suite denizens were paid.
In the end, Procter & Gamble makes more money than the Big 5 defense contractors combined. Big Toothpaste putting in work. ...
re: LNST 2 day was not nearly gay enough
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/2/24 at 10:04 pm
Just Diet Coke
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re: Thoughts on Tissot watches?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/2/24 at 6:08 pm
Tissot makes solid watches and a reasonable value when you get them from a discounter like Joma. There are no objective reasons not to get one if you like the particular style. They really made a splash jumping into the integrated bracelet arena with their PRX line. I admit to really liking the o...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/2/24 at 4:59 pm
[quote]You're just a scared vagina boy.
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Chicken Little with a Paranoid Personality Disorder supercharged by mainlining estrogen and amphetamines. Some people's brain chemistry craves catastrophe and chaos. ...
re: Random thought on a rainy day
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/2/24 at 8:55 am
[quote]"the devil beating his wife"[/quote]
I always heard this referring to a shower in the daytime with no visible clouds. The rain was supposed to be her tears....
re: So who are the likely suspects in the $200,000 Led Zeppelin robbery?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/2/24 at 1:26 am
[quote]Usual Suspect[/quote]
[quote]Col Mustard in the library with the candlestick[/quote]
That is a pretty clumsy way to throw us off the scent....
re: Anything good to do in Bogalusa ?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/2/24 at 12:07 am
[quote]Anything good to do in Bogalusa[/quote]
I hear the meth is the best of all the Florida parishes which is like saying the best wine in Bordeaux....
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 11:50 pm
Ryan McBeth put out an interesting video on the MIC earlier today:
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re: Flash Flood Emergency for Breaux Bridge Cecilia Henderson LA
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 11:19 pm
[quote]I’ve never used them prior to today. The reason I looked and found them was I was glad other had them on. Otherwise, I could not see them in front of me.[/quote]
It is illegal in maybe half the states to use hazards while the car is moving. I happened to be driving in Dallas Thursday duri...
re: We should tax Fast Food like cigarettes to help deter consumption.
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 10:04 pm
[quote]but I agree they should pay a "fat tax"[/quote]
IMO it should be within the health insurance industry even within a group. I have a partner that has been in the same firm with me for over three decades. He is a smoker and has been morbidly obese since we both started. He pays the same f...
re: LNST upvote if you think chickm should go rainbow logo for a month
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 9:33 pm
I don't know how to put this but I'm kinda a big deal...people know me...I'm very important I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
Scotch scotchy scotch scotch and some lemon cookies. ...
re: Why did the website creators give you the option of upvoting your own posts?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 8:59 pm
[quote]What does full privileges to start threads mean though? Was a limit put on his acct due to over abuse?[/quote]
The last time he was unbanned the mod(s) told him he couldn't start threads mainly because he started one for every thought that came into his head. It isn't a function of the fo...
re: How many Lawyers in Lake Charles or Lafayette would you say pull in $1,000,000+ a year?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 8:40 pm
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My bill for back surgery was over 100,000.
I don't remember how it all broke down.[/quote]
The total bill on a CAB* will top $200k but the surgeon sees a tiny fraction of that. My wife does 10-12 procedures a week if she averaged realizing $10k a procedure that would be over $5 milli...
re: How many Lawyers in Lake Charles or Lafayette would you say pull in $1,000,000+ a year?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 6:21 pm
[quote]ETA: doctor's definitely make more on average imo. They can make 5 sometimes 6 figures on a single surgery.[/quote]
WTF procedures are those? My wife, a CT surgeon, damn near laughed herself silly when I repeated that. She noted total physician related billing for something like a heart ...
re: Any vintage Starter jacket aficionados here?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 5:00 pm
I have a thing for vintage clothes but can't really wear them now. On a younger person it is clear they made a conscious choice to wear vintage clothes, now on me it just looks like a guy that couldn't be bothered to buy new clothes since high school. ...
re: How many Lawyers in Lake Charles or Lafayette would you say pull in $1,000,000+ a year?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 4:56 pm
[quote]As for the $1.4 million, maybe it depends how you define Biglaw. [/quote]
AFAIK there is no hard definition of Biglaw, I personally consider it to be the AM100 firms but there are other definitions. The 1.4m PPEP comes from AM100 but keep in mind it is an average and shops like Craveth, K...
re: Who here (beside me) has a serial down voter...
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 4:25 pm
[quote]I do, and it's awesome. I've hurt someone's fee fee's so bad they've followed me around for years. That's some pretty hurt feelings[/quote]
If you post on tOT for more than a few months and don't garner at least one chronic DVer you are doing it wrong.
BTW I will be my first DV for th...
re: How important is location for a data center?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/1/24 at 4:23 pm
[quote]How important is location for a data center?[/quote]
I know the proximity to Wall Street the Northern NJ data centers had was paramount back in the height of high-frequency trading.
I don't know how important it is now but Chicago has Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchang...
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