Blowback is Killing Us. Just Come Home.

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Post by heydaralon » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:07 pm

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heydaralon wrote:If you are worried about "liquid"-ity, start buying milk. It has a decent shelf life, and will be an effective commodity to trade once society reverts back to a barter system. The man with the milk is the man with the real power.

Why not just buy some goats?
The temptation to eat them would be too great for me. I do like some goat cheese in moderation, but goat meat is delicious. Its not as good as lamb, but quite tasty. I would make a terrible farmer, because I would just eat my animals immediately before getting a return on my investment through milk, cheese or eggs. No one in the States eats goat, which is their loss. This Mexican restaurant in gainesville used to make these delicious goat tacos. I took a girl there and she said they made her sick. She said it tasted musky. Goats have some musk about them, but it gives them good flavor.
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Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:07 pm

heydaralon wrote:
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heydaralon wrote:If you are worried about "liquid"-ity, start buying milk. It has a decent shelf life, and will be an effective commodity to trade once society reverts back to a barter system. The man with the milk is the man with the real power.

Why not just buy some goats?
The temptation to eat them would be too great for me. I do like some goat cheese in moderation, but goat meat is delicious. Its not as good as lamb, but quite tasty. I would make a terrible farmer, because I would just eat my animals immediately before getting a return on my investment through milk, cheese or eggs. No one in the States eats goat, which is their loss. This Mexican restaurant in gainesville used to make these delicious goat tacos. I took a girl there and she said they made her sick. She said it tasted musky. Goats have some musk about them, but it gives them good flavor.

Just buy lots of goats, then, and pick a few each year to eat.

There's a guy down the street me with about a dozen goats. I don't think I could eat them if I had them. They are really cool when you get to know them.

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Post by heydaralon » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:11 pm

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heydaralon wrote:
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Why not just buy some goats?
The temptation to eat them would be too great for me. I do like some goat cheese in moderation, but goat meat is delicious. Its not as good as lamb, but quite tasty. I would make a terrible farmer, because I would just eat my animals immediately before getting a return on my investment through milk, cheese or eggs. No one in the States eats goat, which is their loss. This Mexican restaurant in gainesville used to make these delicious goat tacos. I took a girl there and she said they made her sick. She said it tasted musky. Goats have some musk about them, but it gives them good flavor.

Just buy lots of goats, then, and pick a few each year to eat.
That's what the Cyclops did, then Odysseus blinded him. Actually he had sheep I think. Either way, I'm not making that mistake. The lesson Homer was trying to tell us was that animal husbandry is potentially harmful for your vision. You have to eat the animals right away. Not really a second option here.
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Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:14 pm

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The temptation to eat them would be too great for me. I do like some goat cheese in moderation, but goat meat is delicious. Its not as good as lamb, but quite tasty. I would make a terrible farmer, because I would just eat my animals immediately before getting a return on my investment through milk, cheese or eggs. No one in the States eats goat, which is their loss. This Mexican restaurant in gainesville used to make these delicious goat tacos. I took a girl there and she said they made her sick. She said it tasted musky. Goats have some musk about them, but it gives them good flavor.

Just buy lots of goats, then, and pick a few each year to eat.
That's what the Cyclops did, then Odysseus blinded him. Actually he had sheep I think. Either way, I'm not making that mistake. The lesson Homer was trying to tell us was that animal husbandry is potentially harmful for your vision. You have to eat the animals right away. Not really a second option here.

What was the lesson of Calypso?

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Post by heydaralon » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:18 pm

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Just buy lots of goats, then, and pick a few each year to eat.
That's what the Cyclops did, then Odysseus blinded him. Actually he had sheep I think. Either way, I'm not making that mistake. The lesson Homer was trying to tell us was that animal husbandry is potentially harmful for your vision. You have to eat the animals right away. Not really a second option here.

What was the lesson of Calypso?
To detain someone you want to be with, you have to either be beautiful or use force. I think that guy in Cleveland Ariel Castro was like a modern day Calypso.
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Post by heydaralon » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:21 pm

Was she the one who had the sirens? I think that island she kept Odysseus on was on had a bunch of poppy plants and they just shot up all day. It might not have been that one but I swear in the Odyssey there was a Heroin Island. It was an Aegean sea trap house basically.
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Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:30 pm

heydaralon wrote:Was she the one who had the sirens? I think that island she kept Odysseus on was on had a bunch of poppy plants and they just shot up all day. It might not have been that one but I swear in the Odyssey there was a Heroin Island. It was an Aegean sea trap house basically.
The Sirens lived on a rock adjacent to the Charybdis monster (the origin of the saying caught between a rock and a hard place). The Lotus Eaters were a different stop on the journey. Calypso was a beautiful demigod who wanted Odysseus to marry her and choose immortality with her on the island. He still loved his good woman, though, and after a few years of sleeping with Calypso, he petitioned the gods to force her to let him go. Years later Suzanne Vega would write a song about it.

The moral of the story is that women can use their charms and vag to waylay men for years from their destiny and their ambitions. Think about all the men you knew who had ambitions and dreams while they were single who, after getting married, lost it all as the woman snuffed the life out of the ambitions one-by-one to make everything about her. That kind of woman is a calypso.

Decent women don't try to capture you and hold you back from your dreams. Calypso is like the personification of female selfishness, but she gets it eventually and overcomes the trap to let him go.
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Post by Fife » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:36 pm

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Roman Empire kept that shit up for a reaaaaallly long tme.

The market will stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid.
I'm already watching my liquidity go up in flames around me.

Am I supposed to go long on YETI coolers now?

I'm looking at a different path.

Yeti coolers seem a bit overpriced when I can get basically the same thing for twenty to forty dollars at Wallyworld.
Yeti coolers aren't just a "bit" overpriced. It's important to remember the distinction between fad and utility.

And it's also important to keep in mind what a mafia racket IP is.

They are grossly overpriced. The market will take care of it though, soon enough.

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Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:38 pm

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I'm already watching my liquidity go up in flames around me.

Am I supposed to go long on YETI coolers now?

I'm looking at a different path.

Yeti coolers seem a bit overpriced when I can get basically the same thing for twenty to forty dollars at Wallyworld.
Yeti coolers aren't just a "bit" overpriced. It's important to remember the distinction between fad and utility.

And it's also important to keep in mind what a mafia racket IP is.

They are grossly overpriced. The market will take care of it though, soon enough.

For the price of a yeti cooler, you'd think they'd extend robotic legs and follow you into the bush so you don't have to carry them.

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Post by Montegriffo » Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:39 pm

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heydaralon wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:

Why not just buy some goats?
The temptation to eat them would be too great for me. I do like some goat cheese in moderation, but goat meat is delicious. Its not as good as lamb, but quite tasty. I would make a terrible farmer, because I would just eat my animals immediately before getting a return on my investment through milk, cheese or eggs. No one in the States eats goat, which is their loss. This Mexican restaurant in gainesville used to make these delicious goat tacos. I took a girl there and she said they made her sick. She said it tasted musky. Goats have some musk about them, but it gives them good flavor.

Just buy lots of goats, then, and pick a few each year to eat.

There's a guy down the street me with about a dozen goats. I don't think I could eat them if I had them. They are really cool when you get to know them.
Two goats left the farm to go to the abattoir this week, they've been fattening up since spring. I deliberately didn't get to know them because it would have upset me. I'd be a rubbish livestock farmer.
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