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ParticipantIs it time to sell yet?
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]Aqualung, my friend, don’t you start away uneasy
You poor old sod.[/quote]Damn liberal rockers
dog-end
/ˈdôɡ ˌend/
nounINFORMAL•BRITISH
a cigarette butt.
the last and least pleasing part of something.
“the dog-end of a hard day”ex. the final weeks leading up to the 2020 election were the dog end of Trump’s first term.
ParticipantAqualung’ by progressive rockers Jethro Tull gets to the heart of the matter, with singer Ian Anderson calling it a “guilt-ridden song of confusion about how you deal with beggars, [and] the homeless.” Inspired by photos of transient men shown to him by his first wife, Anderson’s ‘Aqualung’ character comes to life in Jethro Tull’s nearly 7-minute epic told from the perspective of a casual passerby who perceives Aqualung as a dirty, depraved pedophile – knowing that it’s likely not true, but needing a ‘valid’ excuse to justify not helping him.
Ian Anderson actually becomes Aqualung in Jethro Tull’s 1978 Madison Square Garden performance, thrashing about onstage and shouting his story to a captivated audience to both entertain and perhaps even hold them accountable for the Aqualungs in their own lives that they’ve refused to acknowledge.
Fun Fact: Anderson’s ex-wife Jennie Franks earned a songwriting credit for ‘Aqualung,’ so she receives half the royalties from the song. She and Anderson divorced in 1974.
Coupled with guitarist Martin Barre’s critically acclaimed guitar solo at 3:41, ‘Aqualung’ makes for a tremendous classic as well as a powerful social commentary – one that really draws you in and refuses to let you turn away!
+ Aqualung Lyrics +
Sitting on a park bench
Eying little girls
With bad intent.
Snot running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck
Spitting out pieces of his broken luck.Sun streaking cold
An old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
The only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
As he bends to pick a dog end
Goes down to a bog to
Warm his feet.Feeling alone
The army’s up the rode
Salvation a la mode and
A cup of tea.
Aqualung my friend
Don’t start away uneasy
You poor old sod
You see it’s only me.Do you still remember
December’s foggy freeze
When the ice that
Clings on to your beard is
Screaming agony.
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
With deep-sea diver sounds,
And the flowers bloom like
Madness in the spring.Sun streaking cold
An old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
The only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
As he bends to pick a dog end
Goes down to a bog to
Warm his feet.Feeling alone
The army’s up the rode
Salvation a la mode and
A cup of tea.
Aqualung my friend
Don’t start away uneasy
You poor old sod
You see it’s only me.Aqualung my friend
Don’t just start away uneasy
You poor old sod
You see it’s only me.Sitting on a park bench
Eying little girls
With bad intent.
Snot running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck
Spitting out pieces of his broken luck.ParticipantThe old rocker wore his hair too long
Wore his trouser cuffs too tight
Unfashionable to the end drank his ale too light
Death’s head belts buckle, yesterday’s dreams
The transport caf’ prophet of doom
Ringing no change in his double sewn seams
In his post-war babe gloomParticipant[quote=svelte]Love the let time work for you thing.
That’s something I discovered in my 20s…I sleep much better if I put myself on a course where every day gets a little better, a little less risk. I struggle when I’m on the opposite path. One of the reasons I never chose an adjustable rate mortgage, though in hindsight that would have been better. Who knew?[/quote]
i feel the same, but maybe this is just what being old and facing death is? there’s a little less risk every day because most of the days are in the past and decided.
When you are young, it is all risk, all possibility. Now, old, you know basically how the story turned out. so many fewer unknowns. you have arrived. you are here.
it’s beautiful, but oddly sad.
here is a word that someone made up from the dictionary of obscure sorrows, my favorite dictionary in the world. it is comprised entirely of words people constructed to express emotions we all have not currently covered by language.
énouement
n. the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, where you can finally get the answers to how things turn out in the real world—who your baby sister would become, what your friends would end up doing, where your choices would lead you, exactly when you’d lose the people you took for granted—which is priceless intel that you instinctively want to share with anybody who hadn’t already made the journey, as if there was some part of you who had volunteered to stay behind, who was still stationed at a forgotten outpost somewhere in the past, still eagerly awaiting news from the front.
https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/34300648208/%C3%A9nouement
and so part of me is now hankering for some extreme risk, that the story isn’t told, that scaredy isn’t fully decided, there is still a plot twist. i mean, not as risky as an ARM, but you know, something….unexpected.
too old for a midlife crisis, too young to die.
maybe i can sell that slogan as tshirts at senior centers…
cant even get an ARM nowadays. which is an odd sign in itself..
Participant[quote=sdrealtor]gzz,
Having exchanged some thoughts offline I know you have a background that gives you expereince to do things your way and goes beyond simply being a do-it-yourselfer at heart.[/quote]what’s the opposite of dunning kruger?
if you think youre not so smart, you are definitely smarter.
Participantmy mom’s buddy in brooklyn sold her house to a guy down the street for cash. a lot of cash. syrian guy. apparently, they buy houses on the same block for specific grandchildren, in expectation that when they grow up they will live there.
maybe she couldve got more with an agent, but the deal was lightning fast. like buying a big mac fast.
i dont know what racket that syrian guy’s in, but i should be in it.
Participant[quote=sdrealtor][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=sdrealtor]If you read back on the 2009 you’ll see I consider myself a very conservative investor particularly with the account that matters (my long term hold account). I think of my self as not being as smart or successful as most people. I cant afford to make mistakes which I cant recover from so I forego bigger gains for things I perceive having downside protection. Part of that means taking excess profits in my best working years to pay off debts or make long term investments (solar, drought tolerant landscape etc) to minimize my need for money when I cant or dont want to work anymore. My next and probably last big project will be building a really nice guest house out back to live in so I can generate income off my main home which while easily affordable is quite a bit more than I need. Of course that guest house will require a wine cellar too.[/quote]
If you really want to cut expenses, booze is a good place to start. I accepted the five mindfulness trainings in february in deerpark monastery in escondido, and part of that is a vow to abstain from booze. so far, so good. Not one drink. I send them $50 a month as a donation, and I figure I save 200 a month in booze; probably more, I was in denial. in my weird mind, as long as i send them $50.00, I wont be drinking. I definitely dont want to let Thich Nhat Hanh down! I made a vow!
Not bad. plus the tax deduction for the donation.
skip the wine cellar, the booze, drinkign in bars, restaurants. it’s very profitable.
Usually i would think, well then, why continue living? whats the point if i get to have zero alcohol. It’s a great pleasure of mine.
yeah, well….maybe. an hour of meditation a day can clear the mind much better than a bottle of wine. no cheaper hobby than meditation!
in my more lucid moments, i think how wonderful it would be to be completely disconnected from news, particularly financial news. imagine a life where you truly didn’t give a crap what was going on in the larger world. Paid off house, low expenses, super low risk investments…i wonder if such a lifestyle could extend ones lifespan.
it would be a nice way to live. out of the game, the rat race, the bullshit, the second guessing, the anxiety over decisionmaking….
also looking at leaving some money to the Thich Nhat Hanh foundation in my will (maybe total booze savings?). my last will didn’t have any tricky stuff like this, just family members.
feel like maybe i should spread some money around…[/quote]
I think I am even better at buying wine than real estate or stocks. My collection could easily be sold for a lot more than I paid for it. I occassionally sell bottles off when they get too valuable for me to comfortably drink.
And to paraphrase Freewheelin’ Franklin of the Fabulous Freak Brothers…Wine will get you through time of no money better than money will get you through times of no wine!
And I aim to find out if the lifestyle you described can extend ones lifespan so I get to drink it all[/quote]
the guys from workaholics are supposedly working ona freak brothers cartoon.
I am extremely excited about this. I loved workaholics. really really loved it; even adored it.
and im sure ill like the updated freak bros! i bet i’ll even like it stone cold sober!
in a way, workaholics is kind of an updated freak brothers, now that i think about it. 3 guys, a lot of drugs, dumbasses. reading the freak brothers at a young age really made me want to be like them; unemployed, chronically high, always hanging out. I failed to achieve all of those youthful goals.
Participant[quote=sdrealtor]If you read back on the 2009 you’ll see I consider myself a very conservative investor particularly with the account that matters (my long term hold account). I think of my self as not being as smart or successful as most people. I cant afford to make mistakes which I cant recover from so I forego bigger gains for things I perceive having downside protection. Part of that means taking excess profits in my best working years to pay off debts or make long term investments (solar, drought tolerant landscape etc) to minimize my need for money when I cant or dont want to work anymore. My next and probably last big project will be building a really nice guest house out back to live in so I can generate income off my main home which while easily affordable is quite a bit more than I need. Of course that guest house will require a wine cellar too.[/quote]
If you really want to cut expenses, booze is a good place to start. I accepted the five mindfulness trainings in february in deerpark monastery in escondido, and part of that is a vow to abstain from booze. so far, so good. Not one drink. I send them $50 a month as a donation, and I figure I save 200 a month in booze; probably more, I was in denial. in my weird mind, as long as i send them $50.00, I wont be drinking. I definitely dont want to let Thich Nhat Hanh down! I made a vow!
Not bad. plus the tax deduction for the donation.
skip the wine cellar, the booze, drinkign in bars, restaurants. it’s very profitable.
Usually i would think, well then, why continue living? whats the point if i get to have zero alcohol. It’s a great pleasure of mine.
yeah, well….maybe. an hour of meditation a day can clear the mind much better than a bottle of wine. no cheaper hobby than meditation!
in my more lucid moments, i think how wonderful it would be to be completely disconnected from news, particularly financial news. imagine a life where you truly didn’t give a crap what was going on in the larger world. Paid off house, low expenses, super low risk investments…i wonder if such a lifestyle could extend ones lifespan.
it would be a nice way to live. out of the game, the rat race, the bullshit, the second guessing, the anxiety over decisionmaking….
also looking at leaving some money to the Thich Nhat Hanh foundation in my will (maybe total booze savings?). my last will didn’t have any tricky stuff like this, just family members.
feel like maybe i should spread some money around…
Participant[quote=sdrealtor][quote=Reality][quote=plm]
Actually I think that selling and buying back later at a lower prices is a way to have even better returns but much riskier since you have to time the market properly. Isn’t it safest to buy and hold and just don’t sell when they market crashes?[/quote]What if when you need retirement income coincides with the crash?[/quote]
Thats why I buy for total return including growth and income. If they maintain/grow their dividends I’ll never have a need to sell anything. I also have solar (no electric bill), drought tolerant landscape (minimal water bill), house close to paid off (minimal housing expense), tesla (no gas bill) etc. Oh and I have a very full wine cellar:)[/quote]
this seems very right. how much is it worth to have a paid off house? not to worry about things going really wrong with investments?
that said, I’m trying to refi with a large cashout to dollar cost average into various funds. :0
still good to keep expenses low.
Participant[quote=Reality][quote=Rich Toscano]Are you guys also going to share your returns if davelj turns out to be right in the end? :-)[/quote]
Fat chance.[/quote]
Its painful to even look at longterm losses let alone discuss.
I held on to some in the red gold shares for 5 years before breaking even.
This hasnt happened with the normal indices.
.we alk think we could withstand 5 to 7 years down. That we have a longterm outlook.
If we had to look at our 401k balance at 30,40, 50 percent down, year after year, says its 2026, and your a third down and inflation is wild, no one would want to talk about whether they were 38 or 44 % down in terms of better performance.hell, no one, self included, is even sure of this is possible anymore, with the fed backstopping losses.
talk is cheap when things are good, painful in bad times. that’s why therapists charge so much.
Participant[quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]
i don’t trust germany, the whole nation.vw cheated on emissions.
their cars suck.
they were nazis.
sorry, just never would even consider a german car.
my wife bought the mini, bmw related, over my objection.
damn german cars.the mini sucks so bad
of course, i dont really trust the usa anymore either.
we are moving toward a strange unsettling authoritarianism.
ok, so no german cars. no u.s.cars.
no french cars, too awful.
italian, no.
volvo? swedes? too expensive.
japan? i guess, ok.[/quote]
Man you gotta lot of prejudices!
just saying that reminds me of the movie “The End” when Dom Deluise tells Burt Reynolds “you gotta lotta rules about peein’!”[/quote]
Rules is rules
Participant[quote=svelte][quote=Coronita]
Friends don’t let friends buy a Volkswagen product. Please don’t.
[/quote]Cars have come a long way in the last 20 years. There really aren’t many if any low quality cars for sale in the US any more.
Shoot, the worst of the cars now for sale score about as good as the best cars 20-30 years ago.
I have seriously considered VWs a few times but never pulled the trigger. Always found something that fit my personality better, but I certainly see how they appeal to other people.
My grandparents were big VW fans, owned a few beetles. My favorite was an early 60s black bug with a grey interior and grey cloth sunroof. My dad wanted to buy a Karmann Ghia but I talked him out of it and into a Sunbeam Alpine instead. Bet that ended up costing him more money while he owned it, but to me it was way more fun.[/quote]
i don’t trust germany, the whole nation.
vw cheated on emissions.
their cars suck.
they were nazis.
sorry, just never would even consider a german car.
my wife bought the mini, bmw related, over my objection.
damn german cars.the mini sucks so bad
of course, i dont really trust the usa anymore either.
we are moving toward a strange unsettling authoritarianism.
ok, so no german cars. no u.s.cars.
no french cars, too awful.
italian, no.
volvo? swedes? too expensive.
japan? i guess, ok.
Participant[quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic]my kid wrecked my car; i paid 18k for it after rebate in a well-negotiated sale. I got back 28k from the insurance company. jeez.[/quote]
They wrecked your Prius??? No!!!!!!!
That was such a cool car.
Part of the problem is there is an inventory shortage.of new cars simply because factories are closed and/or supply chain issues.People like me were hoping with the Covid downturn, dealerships would be selling cars at firesale prices..The opposite is happening…. People still need/want to buy cars, but inventory is low. So many cars that were deeply discounted are now selling at MSRP or in some cases above MSRP.[/quote]
prius prime is no more. i actually liked that car. a lot.
now I have 28,000 and my ebike.frankly, id rather have had the prius prime.
when you turn on the car, it lights up on the dash, PRIUS PRIME.
my wife would always say PRIUS PRIME! when the car started.
no more prius prime.
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