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Rin says

Ok, I've just had some more gin

Actually, you don't like to be alone. You are socializing right here on Patnet.
Cheers Mate.

Strategist says

Actually, you don't like to be alone. You are socializing right here on Patnet.

Cheers Mate.

It's more that I'm evangelizing here.

If I were in Sydney Australia, this is exactly what you'd hear from me ...

'PatNeters ... Rin here in Sydney Down Under, getting ready to party with some mates Down Under. Will talk again on Sunday'

But being here in New England, I can't order a bunch of hoes to my place, legally, under the statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Thus, I'm talking to you while sipping away.

Rin you need this in your life.

www.youtube.com/embed/y5XHRo5y5FE

Dude, upload it to Youtube and tell everyone they get 10 seconds of Blankfein Facial Expression Footage for every $10,000 you get via Patreon.

Become a millionaire and do the world a good turn.

I've had a bit more to drink, some more classic rock, from the Boston area, The Cars ...

www.youtube.com/embed/G3G36leNfp8

I'm on the train with my wife off to see the big short, very relevant to how I wasted 4 years on Patrick.net

Then we're going to see a cover band of the grateful dead in redwood city.

Entertaining enough for tonight.

I'm on the train with my wife off to see the big short, very relevant to how I wasted 4 years on Patrick.net

Then we're going to see a cover band of the grateful dead in redwood city.

That sounds great! I'm going to end up downtown crammed back to belly into a Cha-Cha-Cha parlour, trying to get attention of the bartender to buy a round of drinks. So I can squish my way back to our back to belly possition somewhere in the crowd.

What town? SF?

Some more music ...

www.youtube.com/embed/U1vTZp1cqZE

This is the successful version of Bad Company's "Shooting Star", where the subject lives and prospers.

DieBankOfAmericaPhukkingDie says

I've got Lloyd Blankfein tied up in the living room next to a tank of piranhas.

Every once in a while I toss in a chicken wing and take a picture of his reaction.

If you leave the room, you'll probably be shocked to come back and find Blankfein picking his teeth with piranha bones. Selling video streaming shots of his facial tics should gather quite an internet crowd.

DieBankOfAmericaPhukkingDie says

Please, enough twinkrock. Time for something to celebrate the burning cities of the past and future.

Why this, as oppose to let's say "Dominance & Submission" or "Flaming Telepaths" from the same CD?

www.youtube.com/embed/kpKJUa6IoBs

www.youtube.com/embed/qttI6oytqpw

I'm on the train with my wife off to see the big short, very relevant to how I wasted 4 years on Patrick.net

Then we're going to see a cover band of the grateful dead in redwood city.

Entertaining enough for tonight.

what's the name of the cover band?

my guess:
the wharf rats

Ok, I'm now losing count of the number of gin shots... I think I'm wobbly.

Time to get back to some Boston rock basics ...

www.youtube.com/embed/wHo43B6nu60

I don't drink often enough, so I forget... All wines aren't equal. This stuff was much stronger. I'm kind of drunk. I had to backspace a bunch of times just to get the typing right, which is not normal for me. Anyway...

Happy New Year!!!!! to you east coasters. We still have a few hours on the other coast. I don't know what it is about you all. You're a motley crew, for sure. But you've become people I really enjoy spending time with. I started as a lurker about eight years ago... joined about six years ago... and now there's rarely a day that goes by that I don't feel compelled to check on my patnet "friends." You all are amazing people. Thank you for the good conversations, the entertainment, and even the arguments. I wish you all the very best for 2016.

Same to you! I've been much more of a lurker than a poster over the past couple of years, mostly due to a few people who hijack nearly every thread with their whiny-ass high school drama. But I still lurk, meaning that the draw is still there.

Here's a toast to my friend Patrick, who IMHO hasn't wasted the past four years. But I have.... and am proud to say it.

...and here's a toast to those who have stuck around a long time - who remember bearmarket (a kid who lived with his parents in Florida and dreamed of moving to Pennsatucky. Those who were so freakin' hilarious I would laugh out loud and snort diet pop out my nose....

...and here's a toast to being able to type after a joint and a couple of glasses of wine. To all of you out there, Happy New Year & I wish you the best.

Here is my ex-GF, the whacked out Canadian. The one I'd broken up with... now, almost 5 years circa Mar/Apr of 2016. And yes, she's a lot like her compatriot, Alanis Morrisette ...

www.youtube.com/embed/4iuO49jbovg

Now tell me, does this person above look like she's got her act together or perhaps, a little f'cked up?

In contrast, here's Matchbox 20, Rob Thomas's band from the same mid-90s era. Notice that despite the fact that he's not very pleased with his topic of discussion, he's very rational and down to earth with his responses.

www.youtube.com/embed/2X5Dr-uFVGw

Rin says

Here is my ex-GF, the whacked out Canadian. I one I'd broken up with... now, almost 5 years circa Mar/Apr of 2016. And yes, she's a lot like her compatriot, Alanis Morrisette ...

This might be the wine talking, but... FIVE YEARS?!

If I kick her ass, do you think you could forget about her once and for all? Now, I mean really knock the shit out of her... beat her unconscious, shove a kosher dill up her ass, cut her eyelashes and shave her eyebrows and head? Could you release her from your consciousness once and for all and never let her back in.... thus allowing yourself to move on completely?

The Big Short was good. I recommend it. Walked over to the Fox Club just in time for the opening band to finish. The grateful dead cover band is the China Cats. I plan to drink right up to the hangover line but not past it. Too much experience.

Tomorrow night we'll have dinner at Hakkasan in sf with some friends and just stay the night in the city at a hotel.

Very happy to have this virtual community in addition to meatspace. Thanks you all for hanging out over the years. Happy new year!

Now laugh at the image of skinny little turtledove opening up a can of whoopass on your ex-girlfriend... and forget about her, already!

turtledove says

Now, I mean really knock the shit out of her... beat her unconscious, shove a kosher dill up her ass, cut her eyelashes and shave her eyebrows and head?

That would just make her look like Sinead O'Connor.

turtledove says

Rin says

Here is my ex-GF, the whacked out Canadian. I one I'd broken up with... now, almost 5 years circa Mar/Apr of 2016. And yes, she's a lot like her compatriot, Alanis Morrisette ...

This might be the wine talking, but... FIVE YEARS?!

I see the two of you have been drinking together. I'm so jealous.

turtledove says

If I kick her ass, do you think you could forget about her once and for all? Now, I mean really knock the shit out of her... beat her unconscious, shove a kosher dill up her ass, cut her eyelashes and shave her eyebrows and head? Could you release her from your consciousness once and for all and never let her back in.... thus allowing yourself to move on completely?

If Rin does not get over her, and keeps taking refuge with alcohol and hookers, he will be jumping off a 30 story building.
A Psychiatrist should be able to help.

Ceffer says

her look like Sinead O'Connor.

Now there's a scary thought; this is New Year's not Halloween.

Strategist says

keeps taking refuge with alcohol and hookers

And don't forget Rock 'n Roll :-)!

turtledove says

but... FIVE YEARS?!

It takes five years to fully establish a habit. So if person, who'd never worked out earlier, started exercising 5 days per week ... if he took a break during the first few years, he may go back to his original sedentary lifestyle. On the other hand, if he perseveres into that fifth year, no matter what, he'll always want to exercise, even if the opportunity to take time off, comes up. I notice this at hotels w/o a gym. I do squats and pushups in my room even w/o any prompting.

Thus, given the cultural pressure to date, if a person can hold out with whores and/or perhaps, a RealDoll for that period of time, chances are, there'll be no incentive to date upon the fifth year. And then, a lifelong habit is formed.

Rin says

You guys are struggling too hard, to fit society's motif onto a man who doesn't really care for them.

Since it's New Year's Eve, I'll just imbibe some more gin, w/o getting into the usual hard core debate. Bottom's up mate ... sorry, make that fellas, since we're in America and not Australia, where seeing hoes is legal.

It's legal in Vegas too. didn't work out too well for that Basketball player Lamar Odom though.

The grateful dead cover band is the China Cats

oh man i was close.

Happy new year, everyone.

I see I missed quite a party. Here's to everyone for a little more cowbell in 2016!

What town? SF?

Downtown Hollywood. The Spice Lounge and Tekila I felt like Died and went to douchebag heaven. I finally broke away and hit the Irish Pub accross the street for a bit will the wife and her sisters danced and talked it out at the club.

FortWayne says

It's legal in Vegas too. didn't work out too well for that Basketball player Lamar Odom though.

Actually, it's the deserts of Nevada. I believe the nearest to Vegas is Pahrump.

And Odom was also doing drugs and that's something which I'll never indulge.

DieBankOfAmericaPhukkingDie says

to be Astronomy. Saw the band play this a few years after the release when Buck had time to live with the cadence and he showed up at the show in good form, did a ten-minute solo complete with, get this, a heavy metal flamenco rave-up that should have inspired a genre of new bands. The drummer was on that night, too, at some points in the show standing up what sounded like a John McLaughlin meets Billy Cobham incarnation of the BOC.

www.youtube.com/embed/7xXEtO3bEe0

BOC, being an underground act, is a bit hard to define, however, if anything, 'Astronomy' is their equivalent of a 'Hotel California' or 'Dream On', in terms of relative greatness.

I'd even say that Metallica's cover of it, while a valiant attempt, was just Hetfield and company, putting a hard rock spin on a superior earlier track.

www.youtube.com/embed/n3ZfeG_2wRc

I hope everyone is recovering well from last night. Anyone have any particularly interesting 2016 resolutions?

With starting our own practice last year, let's just say, "all work and no play make turtledove a dull girl." So, my resolution for 2016 is to make more time for my husband and to lose the attitude I've been sporting all year because my life took an unexpected and unplanned turn.... and to remember that, no matter how hard it might be to believe, it isn't really all about me... More like a 80/20 split ;-)

Cheers!

turtledove says

Anyone have any particularly interesting 2016 resolutions?

I'm just grateful what ever I'm doing is working. I might muck it up if I thought about how to make it even better.
I'm not really as smart as luck.

I always found it odd the two conflicting holidays are just a few months apart.
Thanksgiving where you're grateful about all of the wonderful stuff in your life.
Then a few months later you're supposed to soul search and determine where you've gone wrong.
No wonder people get bipolar around the holidays.

During 2016, I will be cashing out my equity in the firm and thus, be theoretically free.

On the other hand, this new role of being an evangelist for philanthropy has really gotten the senior partners excited and thus, I'll be retained as a consultant, and probably be for a very long time, including after I get into a US medical school, as they'd like to have a consulting medical expert showing up from time to time, to once again, make themselves look good.

I had no idea that a career in bullshit could be so viable. No wonder why the White House press secretaries always seem to have work. I would have imagined that by now, George Stephanopoulos would be semi-retired and simply editing journals instead on national TV.

Rin says

On the other hand, this new role of being an evangelist for philanthropy has really gotten the senior partners excited

What's in it for them?

justme says

Rin says

On the other hand, this new role of being an evangelist for philanthropy has really gotten the senior partners excited

What's in it for them?

Do you have any idea, how many stupid rich ppl there are?

The fact that these idiots can show up at one place, park/invest their monies, but then, put the excess into philanthropies, etc, and thus, while making money, can feel that the excess is going into charities, hospitals, medical research, etc?

Rin says

Do you have any idea, how many stupid rich ppl there are?

This could be the tagline for your marketing brochure.

Rin says

Do you have any idea, how many stupid rich ppl there are?

The fact that these idiots can show up at one place, park/invest their monies, but then, put the excess into philanthropies, etc, and thus, while making money, can feel that the excess is going into charities, hospitals, medical research, etc?

I think we are getting closer to answering my question, but I feel like we are not quite there yet.

So basically you are saying that stupid rich ppl like to use your firm, because the firm also is a one-stop-shop that includes streamlined feel-good philantrophy and associated tax benefits?

justme says

So basically you are saying that stupid rich ppl like to use your firm, because the firm also is a one-stop-shop that includes streamlined feel-good philantrophy and associated tax benefits?

I think for the first time, Patnet-ers are understanding the real world out there.

Okay, so it is just a marketing+tax gimmick to attract clients. Got anything interesting insights into that new Zuckerberg Foundation thing? My guess is that it is mostly tax avoidance, but what can you tell us? Thx.

Hookers should be tax deductible, just like religion.

Rin says

I'd even say that Metallica's cover of it, while a valiant attempt, was just Hetfield and company, putting a hard rock spin on a superior earlier track.

That's a difficult call. If you like the old hard rock style then sure. It is unkempt and messy and "cult". Some may prefer Hetfield's voice and esp. rhythm riffs which IMO are superior. The drawback is that it may sound a bit boring with Ulrich's typical arrangements (which worked really well for Metallica songs though). I'd say they are even but it's just a decent cover so if they wanted to make it stand out compared to the original then it really doesn't do that.

mell says

That's a difficult call.

Had another wonderful New Year's Eve at the sold-out Kessler Theater:

www.youtube.com/embed/3vmu_Jpt2cw