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Late Night Thought

Yoga is for asshats.

What, you want to live forever?

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34 comments

  1. Q4

    LULU made my week! I live by the sword.

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  2. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    Yoga is for pussies, man up and play some fucking war games.

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  3. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    By the way Asia set to take a shit tonight, aka FXP will be on its way to zero.

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  4. mrkcbill

    Downward Dog

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  5. Juice

    If Asia takes a shit, FXP will be on its way to 100.

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  6. punyandy

    Juice

    Your sarcasm detector is on the fritz.

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  7. Aris

    my body is falling apart. i should just try to separate all the arsenic from ant poison and end myself.

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  8. jeff

    942 thought

    the market is taking too long to go down:

    you ask why

    stay tuned…

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  9. Woodshedder

    Gapping and Juice, read my latest post. It will explain WTF has been going on with FXP vs. FXI.

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  10. boca

    I keep getting all these catalogs in the mail for yoga-style clothes (and they’re damn expensive). I blame LULU for this mess. I don’t want yoga clothes, dammit. BTW that stock has the highest short interest I think I’ve ever seen, somewhere around 75%. Unbelievable.

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  11. PharmPhucker

    YOGA? Which stock is that? I called up the ticker and nothing comes to screen. LOL.

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  12. Woodshedder

    Baseball pratice is winding down, and since the Fly’s coaching duties are almost finished, Mrs. Fly wants him to start taking the kiddos to Yoga. I feel for ya buddy. Convince her that Tae Kwon Do won’t turn them into pussies and yet still has a meditative component.

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  13. calvino

    Did not even check Lulu results. I have nothing but disdain for this issue. They went up three, must have beat numbers by a penny and squeezed some shorts. Admittedly my short position is small now since I took profit at about twenty seven. However the shares have been unavailable to borrow, tempering my interest. If you can get shares to borrow, sell them.

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  14. The Fly

    No yoga for me. I’m not old yet.

    Our baseball season is just beginning. I’ll be busy for some time. Keep in mind, “The Fly” is quite busy with the matters of tennis too.

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  15. Woodshedder

    Fly, I’m fine with you on a diamond, kicking dust and spitting, for good measure.

    I am absolutely not okay with you in an izod shirt, reeboks, and some gay ass shorts, on the tennis court.

    I know that all sounds homo, but I think you get my point. So, never tell us anything about your “tennis lifestyle.”

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  16. The Fly

    Not me, dipshit.

    Tennis is for the kids.

    “The Fly” is too busy banking coin for tennis.

    I prefer swimming.

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  17. Juice

    I took one yoga class in my life. I liked it a lot, felt fantastic the next day. I think that stuff is probably pretty good for you if you don’t get all obsessive about it. I always thought I should do it once or twice a week. Never did get to another class.

    Like Fly, I guess I’d rather do something else.

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  18. Michelle B

    Like Juice said, yoga (Hatha, that is, just the postures and basic breathing, without the woo woo aspect) non-obsessively practiced (sans specialized clothes for instance) is fine.

    Most important aspect is to keep your buttocks muscles tight and contracted when bending your body one way, and then the other way, otherwise you will put too much strain on your back. With that bit of knowledge, most people do not need a teacher, but can learn from a book with good photos. Yoga gives you similar benefits like a massage does, except you can do it for yourself at no cost with no special equipment just about anywhere.

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  19. boca

    I’m not even going to say a word about the “tight buttocks muscles” comment.

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  20. Juice

    I posted this under Sahibs PG post but this story is a MUST read for anyone playing these markets.

    http://www.minyanville.com/articles/MER-GS-P-lehman-CFC-countrywide/index/a/17398

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  21. nullpointer

    gapping-

    in response to your question in a previous thread…

    i am not an oil expert by any means; i spent about a week doing a crash course in the refiners, reading conference calls, 10Q’s, etc. if crude broker disagrees with anything below, i defer to him

    ———————————————————–

    no, i am not short TSO. i ~almost~ got long at $23, because at $23 you are paying for the oil they have sitting in their inventory (you are ~basically~ getting the business for free…not entirely accurate, but you get the idea…i am a value guy).

    ….but then i started to do some further analysis; the independent refiners are just fucked. their input costs are screaming out of control, and they cant even pass half of it onto the consumer.

    on the other hand, the integrateds can make $$ in other areas, and can afford to take a loss on the refining side….i could see the integrateds waiting for WNR, TSO etc to violate all their loan covenants, then swoop in and buy the assets for a song.

    also, just an FYI: the refiners are not currently running at 100%; they cut back in an effort to increase demand ( and limit their losses)…..and i am not an expert (ask crude broker), but from what i have read in multiple places, the world has more than enough refining capacity.

    dont get me wrong – if you are talking about a ~trade~, you might be able to juice a couple bucks out of TSO….but i would be very nervous holding it for long.

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  22. Juice

    The commercial real estate sector is looking precarious on the charts.

    short at will : SPG SLG TCO PLD BXP GGP ESS KIM

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  23. The Fox

    Fly,

    You countered the tennis insult with “swimming”. Good Lord. How does a swimming buff proclaim to kick old ladies down elevator shafts? When I think of swimming, Greg Louganis comes to mind (which ain’t the most masculine dude walking the planet). In the future just lie and say you walk on hot coals or something when you feel like working out.

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  24. nullpointer

    juice-

    that minyanville article articulates what i have been thinking since last august, when the details started becoming public.

    excellent article, thanks. i needed it. i was started to doubt myself (and my thesis).

    i will repeat it here, for those that may have missed it:

    http://www.minyanville.com/articles/MER-GS-P-lehman-CFC-countrywide/index/a/17398

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  25. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    Thanks for the clarification Nullpointer, good analysis too.

    My time machine says you need to sell this gap open this morning, if the market runs up then its full of asshats and should meet with Iran.

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  26. TraderCaddy

    Not sure about yoga but the male yoga instructors seem to have alot of fun teaching the ladies.

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  27. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    Jakey: I took a position in JEF.

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  28. ottnott

    When I think of swimming, Greg Louganis comes to mind

    That’s like saying that when you think of Nascar, Willie Shoemaker comes to mind. You need a Google injection, Mr. The Fox…if that is your real name.

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  29. ottnott

    I’m very fond of Yoga. Don’t do it myself, but the walkway to the campus gym is outside my window…

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  30. The Fox

    No google injection needed, sir. I was just messing around and completely realize that Louganis was a diver and not a swimmer. It was, after all, a joke. Good day.

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  31. larry

    Alias: BPOE

    Yoga is known to decrease life span. Just take growth hormones. I like to enjoy like and just die normal. Fuck the search for youth. Very stupid in my book!!!

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  32. Jakegint

    Ottnot — are you a cranky academic??

    Just came back from an FEI panel discussion. The one academic on the panel was relatively optimistic.

    Odd, no?

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  33. FilterlessLuckyStrikeMan
    FilterlessLuckyStrikeMan

    Real men cuss like fucking sailors, smoke like muthafucking chimneys, and drink rotgut whiskey until our goddam liver dies.

    Live hard. Die young. Fuck yoga. Fuck LULU.

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  34. ottnottt

    Jake – the wife is the academic, but I work on campus.

    Re: FEI. Yes, very odd that you would be at a panel discussion of this org: http://www.fei.org/

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