That was an excellent chuckle for a Sunday morning, No1! Reminds me of the film "Brazil" and its Ministry of Information, or any old episode of the Simpsons. Circular reasoning, indeed! Thanks.
Just a little bizarre that all the metals; gold, silver, palladium, and platinum all dropped like rocks at the same time. Just a coinkidink I guess!
If I did not just occur over $7,000 in dental bills and will need to replace my 16 year old HVAC that is getting a big workout (heat pump) in this cold I would probably keep stacking!
Great stuff! I'll admit that for the first few lines it had me wondering whether or not to actually believe it until I read a bit further.
As an aside, this caused me to again observe that certain aspects of our world are becoming so wacky that the formerly "unbelievable" now has to be taken at least semi-seriously. How many times these days do we find ourselves repeating the mantra "you can't make this stuff up"?
All of this makes me grateful that I completed the move to 100% physical quite some time ago. It should now be clear to all but the rubes that the paper markets are completely broken for the retail investor. Never has it been more obvious that there are two classes of participants in these markets: those at the table, and those on the menu.
Why? “When in doubt take the piss” is a something that runs through us like a stick of Brighton Rock. Quite often new salespeople would join The Firm. They would get hosed down with insults and piss taking. So effective was this onslaught, many never returned from lunch on the first day. A scalp was claimed. The office erupted into howls of laughter. Anyone who made it till Friday had promise. The fall-out rate was horrific. After 3 months of door-to-door selling only 1 in a 100 was still “punching doorbells & wearing out shoe leather”. The only thing that kept our spirts elevated was the banter, the camaraderie and the relentless piss-taking.
Yours is one of the few blogs I heart check before actually reading it
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Me as well so I don’t overlook it!
Hysterical! Love the whole thing. Wish I knew more than one person that I could forward it to that would get the humor LOL
I thought the same exact thing! Forwarded it to my PM dealer.
It's pretty obvious to even a casual observer that "the front fell off" the Silver Medina last Friday.
For further clarity <<link>>
https://youtube.com/shorts/e7SLa-hn7Bs?si=EkoK1bTWSdfldBEc
💯 Exactly! I tried to capture that kind of spirit.
Pure gold, paper gold actually since physical gold may not exist.
One of the best Substack articles EVER !!!
That was an excellent chuckle for a Sunday morning, No1! Reminds me of the film "Brazil" and its Ministry of Information, or any old episode of the Simpsons. Circular reasoning, indeed! Thanks.
Hint for those that don't know that movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNnRBksvOU
Just a little bizarre that all the metals; gold, silver, palladium, and platinum all dropped like rocks at the same time. Just a coinkidink I guess!
If I did not just occur over $7,000 in dental bills and will need to replace my 16 year old HVAC that is getting a big workout (heat pump) in this cold I would probably keep stacking!
No1 - Bravo, sir. Your uncle Monty would be proud of you, bless his soul.
I can only aim to walk in His Shadow.
Masterpiece, 😂😂😂😂
Great stuff! I'll admit that for the first few lines it had me wondering whether or not to actually believe it until I read a bit further.
As an aside, this caused me to again observe that certain aspects of our world are becoming so wacky that the formerly "unbelievable" now has to be taken at least semi-seriously. How many times these days do we find ourselves repeating the mantra "you can't make this stuff up"?
All of this makes me grateful that I completed the move to 100% physical quite some time ago. It should now be clear to all but the rubes that the paper markets are completely broken for the retail investor. Never has it been more obvious that there are two classes of participants in these markets: those at the table, and those on the menu.
Next week should be interesting!
Couldn't agree more!
"Robust vocabulary deployment" aka "Flavorful word list use"
Was this FAQ published by Reuters?
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Who knows 😉. Maybe for once they might start to report the news, and nothing but the news.
This is sarcasm, right?
Absolutely not. I would *never* use sarcasm on the internet.
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Delightful. Thank you. One is also brought to recall Mr. Bond's words regarding the intersection of happenstance, coincidence, and ...enemy action.
Hilarious. Fake but accurate as Dan Blather would say.
Oh, I love that "fake but accurate".🤣 Thanks for the laugh!
Only English people can produce this.
Why? “When in doubt take the piss” is a something that runs through us like a stick of Brighton Rock. Quite often new salespeople would join The Firm. They would get hosed down with insults and piss taking. So effective was this onslaught, many never returned from lunch on the first day. A scalp was claimed. The office erupted into howls of laughter. Anyone who made it till Friday had promise. The fall-out rate was horrific. After 3 months of door-to-door selling only 1 in a 100 was still “punching doorbells & wearing out shoe leather”. The only thing that kept our spirts elevated was the banter, the camaraderie and the relentless piss-taking.
"Yes, Minister" :D If you're not a fan, I'll eat my hat! Rapier sharp wit :D