The New Coffee Room

@jon-nyc said:

The hell with all that. Tell us about the chicks.

The hell with telling us about chick--post pics!

^^^^--The Thread---

"Into each life a little rain must fall."

Maybe I'm a Cool-Ade drinker but I believe those Iranian Ayatollah are BS crazy and they will destroy the world if they aren't stopped. I think Trump's doing the right thing--not perfect and in his own self serving way. (And in this case--mostly I think he's a psychopath.) But in the end he's making the world a better and safer place.

Who are you people?????

On tap. That's it.

@mark said:

@jon-nyc said:

@mark

Tom says he’ll fly up for your piano party. He’s now met two forumites in person and is ready for more.

Cool! Looking forward to meeting you Tom!

It would be wonderful to meet another guitarists in this Sargasso Sea of pianist!

I want to see sex with old Italian ladies!!!!

Well that's the world of "hanging on in quiet desperation" of 21st century American capitalism. There's was the kind of hope of "if you work hard enough you can make it." at the end of the last century. that's gone now so all the workers now are just rats fighting for the last scrap of cheese. It's a meritocracy of the smartest and those just not up to it (smart but just not smart enough) are left behind. There was a place for them in the past--not so much today and so they are desperate and behave a desperate people behave. Kind of sad what America has turned into. We little band of brothers (and sisters) here on TNCR are a lucky few in the grand scheme of things. We're all "piano" kind of people--not to many people can discuss Chopin of Schubert at the drop of a hat. As we all know I just met Jon, as many of you have--can anyone doubt he's one of the most intelligent people we've ever met. We're all just lucky. Lots of other's aren't so much and can't quite cope. It's a little but sad that the American dream isn't for us all the way it used to be.

^^^^A rant!

@taiwan_girl said:

• PROtest/proTEST

I dont get this one. What are the two different words?

Either way--when you are over 70 yo. it sounds like something that Quest Diagnostics offers for a slight upcharge.

@Andrea-B said:

So, how many justices will Trump appoint?

All of them! And knowing Trump he'll appoint a gaggle of gifted teenagers to preside per saecula saeculorum, Amen.

Hopkins is on of the greatest character acters ever--so great that his "characters" become the leading protagonists in his movies he's in. To make that magic happen is an act of genius in itself.

@Mik said:

@jon-nyc said:

Hey! Where's the eyepatch???

I'll actually be wearing it soon! I have a touch of ptosis and and am getting it fixed--requiring the obligatory eyepatch.

(I look like a hunchback in the picture.) And Jon made us hide the liquor for posterity sake.

15 minuets in town not only can Jon find the freakin' hottest women but when I drove up the hooker and pushers standing in little corners and Jon was handing out $100 bills to the Orlando vice squad. Every body knows when Jon-NYC rolls into Orlando!

I'm meeting Jon for cocktails!

Bada BING!

or,

I always ran to my mother's call,
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
(He never thought of thinking for himself at all.)
I thought so little, they rewarded me
By making me the Ruler of my Mom's Navee!
(He thought so little, they rewarded him
By making him the Ruler of his Mom's Navee!)

The face that launched 63 ships.

I don't have any objection to a black woman being Helen, just that particular black woman is a bit rough around the edges. There are some pretty good looking ones that could have done the job.

Here's a poem by Asclepiades of Samos (around 320 BC):

Didyme waved her wand at me
I am utterly enchanted.
The sight of her beauty makes me
Melt like wax before the fire. What
Is the difference if she is black?
So is coal, but alight, it shines like roses.

Actually the ancient Greeks had three different races: White, Black and Blonde.

Farage/Starmer, meh ---- We had Biden-Harris/Trump.

I thought it must be the most cool job in the universe.

Sigh. I miss New England. All the food trucks here are Mexican (though very good) or fusion something or other. Irish meat and potatoes sounds absolutely exotic.

My advice on AI stocks (and who the hell am I?) leave it alone for 4-5 years and then buy the winners culled out from the herd. They will grow. I think.