What topic could you talk about for hours?
My personal choices are: Basketball, Horror movies, Cars, Music, Travel and The story of Humanity. Nothing like it.
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Cars, or some types of sales/business/does he have an idea or not if around guys. when I get a gf I would just talk to her about her and take her to Knicks games, that old soda place in ny. etc hold her hand guide her around
How much do you hate trae young
Cooking, grilling, smoking, and working a cast iron skillet. Spent more time then I care to admit back in a kitchen, even part time on the evenings and weekends after undergrad to one, stay out of trouble, and two, pay off those loans.
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how did you like that? I, like many people, have fantasized about it, but I understand that it is backbreaking work (with thin margins on top of that). One of my close friends went to CIA and has worked at some top of the line places, it looks badass but definitely is intense. iirc, there was a guy here who posted about working in a restaurant group and it sounded wild.
Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
How much time do you have brother?!
You gave me a trip down memory lane asking how did I like it. The day I turned 15 I applied to work at the grocery store in town. At the time, minimum wage was over $5/hr and I graciously accepted the job as a union grocery bagger. On my one year anniversary, I got a 5 cent raise. When I inquired about this, I was told it had to do with the union. Meanwhile, I knew people who worked at this dining hall in town that had a bar and grill and banquet hall. I was 16 and showed up to see if they were hiring. In fact, stupid me showed up after school in my hoodie and ballcap (what a fool I was, but considering I'm in a hoodie and ballcap now, some things never change). I met this blond banquet coordinator who said, "You know, we could use some help with setting up and taking things down for events, I could have you help out now and get you on the payroll." So I accepted and off to work I went setting up tables and chairs. Then, she comes to me and says, "Wolf, I absolutely hate to even ask, but can you help me? It looks like someone didn't clean out the kegerator from the last event and it stinks!! I promise this will be the last time you'll ever be asked to do something like this." Looking back, I recall she liked looking good for fancy banquets, but didn't like getting her hands dirty or lifting heavy objects (hence young buck me, ha!). I barely worked here as setting up and taking down took 1 day a week tops. Then, I got a call one Friday, "Dishwasher's social security number came back with some questions, are you up for learning how to wash dishes? We will bump your pay $1/hr." This brought me to about $9/hr as a 16 year old which felt like the big time!" I worked hard washing dishes and generally didn't mind the work. I am an introvert (and clean freak) by nature and it was largely working by myself cleaning dishes and organizing kitchen dishes, utensils, and other items.
You didn't ask about this, but I'm painting the picture of how I got to the kitchen. People in the kitchen are different. Many use drugs (almost openly), many have done time, and many live a lifestyle on the fringe of society. There are exceptions yes, but many times the exceptions went to the front of the house to earn gratuities and earn more per hour than in the kitchen. Dinner line cooks often work from 4PM to midnight or later and then sleep in until 11-12 the next day. It's a different way of earning a living. In any case, a sous chef took me under his wing and taught me to cook. The man was from Brooklyn, NY and ended up near Chicago under some crazy circumstances. I learned the basics around the kitchen, how to use a knife safely and quickly, cooking to temp, food safety, and so forth.
I'll admit, I didn't really 'make it' as a dinner line cook. It is the definition of insanity, vulgarity, and stress. I saw a grown man out of a fancy culinary school come to tears while he was new to the dinner rush. He didn't quite make it either and became a kitchen manager focusing on inventory, food costs, and pricing. It's just different. What you see on a show like Hell's kitchen is kind of a fake reality show. A real kitchen is WORSE in my limited view. One of the best line cooks I met was also quite kind to me and said it was the same no matter where you went. He did quite well as a high school drop out as he could cook phenomenally while managing the stressful rush with ease, jokes, laughs, and even singing classic rock. He said knowing how to cook is a valuable skill. Everyone needs to eat, so no matter where you are in the country, you have the skills to get a job and earn a living. We can't say that about investment banking or management consulting skills to the same degree.
To answer your question did I like it? Looking back, I loved it. I worked with some unique individuals, learned my way around a kitchen, can use a knife like a professional, and can work a stove/oven/smoker/grill like someone who's not a noob (not great, but not a noob). I made it on the breakfast, brunch, and lunch line. I became good at making eggs, skillet meals, sandwiches, wraps, and so forth. To this day a good chicken wrap or sandwich melts are my go to and something I can whip up during my lunch break at home.
To those young in your career, I'd encourage you to look at a side hustle/hobby like this. One, it'll keep you occupied after hours so you're not bored or watching Beavis and Butthead reruns (or worse, blowing money on dumb stuff). Second, you'll learn a cool set of skills that can aid you in life. I can't tell you how many times women would light up after I mentioned I was a phenomenal cook and would be delighted to make them a healthy delicious salmon on rice pilaf meal.
Cheers.
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Agree - cooking, grilling and smoking 420 is the best.
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
Spaghetti Westerns, architecture, real estate, tax law, celestial navigation, the history of 1st century AD Rome…
Favorite Western?
Il grande silenzio. Corbucci > Leone. It's very different because it's a snow Western. Score is hauntingly beautiful. Klaus Kinski as Loco is the most evil villain of all Westerns, and is purely procedural and banal in everything.
I think my username gives away one subject. Otherwise, it'd be cars, computers and computer tech, NFL or college football (I hope KC smacks the Eagles around in the Superbowl), if it's me and Stonks1990, The Wire lol. Can't forget economics either.
Edit: I could also probably spend hours talking with kellycriterion about Roman history too.
Ha! Can attest to that. You and I could also go on for a while about cars, maybe adding [Deal Team Six] into that one.
If anyone wants to talk about infrastructure and modern engineering-intensive heavy civil products for hours, I'm your man. Anything regarding multimodal transit systems to hydraulic manufacturing powerhouses just fascinates me. So much goes on behind the scenes to make our society function, I had no idea.
Modern Marvels - Megastuctures - or WELT Documentary - love those shows for the same reasons.
multimodal transit is my passion too. I loved taking cross-country and international train trips as a kid, and was always fascinated by airports. Being in that greater space now is very exciting, especially with all that BIL money.
Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
Just finished The Wire a week ago. I now get the hype of it being considered better than the sopranos
not better than the Sopranos, but it is very very good.
Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
I really hope they do, I cried myself to sleep after that niners loss.
Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
If that's the case, go ahead and cry me a river because my Cowboys could've/should've won that game if Dak and Maher had've actually played properly. Two picks and five missed kicks? I mean, c'mon people...! Rush had a spectacular record and Purdy also proved a true rookie can make it happen, but nooooooo...
But hey, what else should I have expected? It's the Cowboys, playoffs and Jerry. AKA trying to mix oil and water for the last 25+ years.
Cars. Oil industry
Art
architecture, theology, urban design (housing, transit, civic uses, etc.), cooking, travel
Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
Finance, Politics, History, Philosophy
a classic Oxbridge education
Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
Talk to me. Why the Bourbons and not the Orleanists? Or the Bonapartists, for that matter? If the question is simply one of dynastic "right" then you arguably have to dismember France, since huge portions of it don't actually belong by dynastic right to the Bourbon (or for that matter, Valois or Capetian) dynasties but rather to various Angevin/Plantagenet/etc English monarchs. The French conquered... but so did Napoleon.
You make some good points, my friend, far better than anyone I've met in person. It's clear to me that you're an intelligent figure and that you understand this much more than other people, which certainly makes me think highly of you. I'll detail certain reasons as to why I support the Legitimist cause over its Bonapartist or Orléanist counterparts.
I should also mention that, due to the self-renunciation of the rights to the Spanish crown by Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, known to Legitimists such as myself as Henri VI/Jacques II, Roi de France, my personal opinions on the heir to the Carlist succession are less founded than those on Legitimism. Had the good duke not twice renounced his rights to the Spanish crown, the latter time by request of his eldest son Alfonso, Duke of Cádiz, I would have a secure idea of whom I would believe to be king. If anything, I know that neither Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma nor his eldest son Prince Carlos would garner my support due to their shared socialist political standpoint, but I wouldn't consider Sixtus Henry, Duke of Aranjuez as a good monarch due to his far-right political views and his friendship with Marcel Lefebvre.
In the end, I'd rather have Louis XX/Luis II on the French and Spanish thrones over Henri d'Orléans, Jean-Christophe Napoléon, Juan Carlos, Felipe, or anyone else that tries to claim them.
I don't follow. Are you talking about the supposed English claim to the French throne via Isabella of France (mother to Edward III)? Because under Salic law, which is upheld in France, the throne cannot be inherited through the female line. The throne therefore passed on to the Valois cousins via patrilineal succession when the senior Capetian line died out.
Even the English monarchs renounced their claim to the French throne around 1815.
The movie Whiplash
Yes yes yes one of the best movies of all time.
Sorry, wrong person...
Fashion (men's), restaurants/food, architecture, 20th century lit (mostly), and music (folk and proto/hardcore/post-punk are my favorite)
lets hear your favorite menswear brands?
I'm a fan of British and American tailoring. So I wear a mix of more English (inspired) suits from Paul Stuart/Spier & Mackay and Southwick/Brooks Brothers for my America stuff. Ideally I'll eventually move towards bespoke, though, since I have a good relationship with my tailor here in the city and he is English, so it would be cool to work with him on something.
Really like the Ivy/Trad look on the weekend too, so I like J. Press, O' Connell's, and vintage eBay stuff.
I also wear Charles Tyrwhitt shirts, almost exclusively, for business ware as they just really hold up and are cost effective. I think I talk about them to much on here, but they make up my entire shirt collection aside from Brooks OCBDs and polo shirts from my company.
I don't talk much IRL, I just ask the right questions to let the other person be spurred on even more in their talk. I do have some stories though.
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
Go on.
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haha well one story is when someone sucker punched me in alphabet city and stole my military school ring off of me and I chased him down and beat the shit out of him and he got arrested. It's a longer story, but that's the executive summary. There is great pride in a military school ring. My sister actually had hers stolen too.
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
Movies, movies, movies.
Surprised no one has said prestige
I reuse to grow up, so I can talk for weeks about the first Dark Souls game, Lateralus by Tool and Moby Dick (Mastodon's Leviathan as well)
Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Business, Travel, History, Education
BB rankings
finance vs. tech
most prestigious haircut
Corporate debt
Can u talk more about what interests you specifically?
It was a joke
My job at EB FTP (140k base) (paradise)
WWII history
World of Warcraft pre 2011. I put close to 500+ days of accumulated play time in 4 years. Which meant i spend about 20-25% of my time in 4 years playing the game in one way or another.
Not the proudest topic to talk about but even after i completely stopped playing in 2015, i still follow the game and occasionally write my experience and 2c in some obscure forums.
I would think that i am an expert of the game but after Classic launched, i definitely am not the expert as so much more theory and efficiency gains than what would we know back then.
Pre 2011, is that Cata?
Yes, i completely quit retail just before the launch of Firelands.
Tried a bit of pvp but those early TSG combo put me off. Then most of my friend stopped playing, then my guild became someone's personal bank. That's the final straw for me.
Still play a bit of private server here and there.
I'm probably really boring but:
Any kinds of book, investment philosophy (mainly value), basketball, podcasting (I podcast), literature, and for my previous self, Dota 2.
Music for sure :)
Prog metal
grateful dead! fascinated by how they operated and their crew with the merry pranksters. honestly takes the edge off after a stressful day / week to read some of the books i have on them. helps me just chill out and not get worked up about little shit reading / listening to the crazy lifestyle these guys lived lol. Unfortunately wasnt around for jerry but have seen dead and co a bunch, unreal vibes
Bob at the capital theater this week. Good time to come up with an excuse to miss some work..
Bummed i didn't plan better homie, took some time off in the back half of this week to hit colorado for a few days to ski. Couldn't swing Tuesday night on top of it
Pizzagate and the media/google memory hole of all evidence.
meaning of life
self improvement
UFC
surfing
philosophy
What is the meaning of life?
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
literal answer - the meaning of life is to produce, reproduce, die, and decompose
philosophical answer - how I find meaning may not be meaningful to you. I think in simple terms, the meaning lies in the search for meaning. I find meaning in big things like caring for loved ones as well as in little hedonistic pleasures like the first sip of an expertly made negroni after a long day of meetings, and everything in between. but I think the point for me is to always be searching, and at the same time be OK with never knowing the answer, it's a helluva lot of fun, which is why I could talk about it for hours, because if you embarked on the same inward journey I've been on for years, you may find meaning in completely different things, but it doesn't make them any less meaningful.
Your interests align VERY closely to mine. Emphasis on surfing though. What are your favorite breaks?
Won't name home breaks for anonymity purposes, but that's where I'm most comfortable and have scored the best, even though not the biggest waves of my life (somewhere between Bethany beach and Miami)
Costa Rica is awesome, love marbella
blacks
have unfinished business in portugal but enjoyed carcavelos, ericeira was too big when I was there
You?
Personally could talk about cars, watches, science fiction, Star Wars, metal, video games, or astronomy for hours
Star Wars huh? What about their move to scuttle the entire EU after Kennedy took over? I mean 7-9 should've been the Thrawn trilogy, but they bastardized that and took a little here, a little there just to try and string us along. Instead of The Mandalorian, why not make a series or extended movie out of Tales of the Bounty Hunters? Sure, one IG shows up in the Mandalorian, but thanks to ripping off the EU that a lot of us grew up with they take the one copy as a bit of fan service like sprinkling seed out for chicken feed and ignore the entire backstory that there was no IG-11, it was IG-88 and there's actually four of them. And ignore the entire backstory of why THAT ONE is the one that shows up at all. Or that all the bounty hunters were there in Ep5 on the bridge, which is where the EU stories were drawn from, but made 4-LOM into a bitch, and there was no Zuckus to go with him. Not to mention the whole sarlacc escape in the Boba series where in the EU it was DENGAR who saved his butt. And he's nowhere to be found...Can't wait to see how they fuck up the Mara Jade story arc too since they've already done it with Thrawn. They should write their own story called "How to ruin a franchise: What happened to Star Wars?"
STOP TRYING TO MAKE FETCH HAPPEN KATHLEEN! Next thing you know they're going to try and buy up the rights to Legends of the Galactic Heroes for a live-action remake and ruin the shit out of that epic space opera too.
Cars, bikes, sports, video games. I am a 13 year old trapped in the body of a 30 year old.
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
Pretty much me too. I was playing with my Traxxas the other day and this Karen walking her dog just gave me a look like, it's just you and not some kid out here? Yes, I am a grown man playing with RC cars during my lunch break some times.
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It doesn't get more niche than this but when I was 8-11 i was an elite rc racer. 1/10th scale electric truck and buggy, then 1/8th scale nitro buggy. Used to travel to races. Then I started to get good at sports lol.
are you into vintage cars ?
Lyricism and witty writing. Buddhist and Stoic Philosophies.
Sitcoms.
Cars, driving, music, travel.
Whisk(e)y, movie quotes, philosophy, logic, my early 20s, Italy, UES, watches, shooting clays, old Land Rover defenders, Chevy Chase films, botany, New York pre 2011, Cezanne
UFC, Middle Eastern Politics, Real Estate
Who you got? Jon Jones or Ciryl Gane?
Tax Evasion.
Books.
One of the best things I did in recent years was join a book club. Reading is always something I've enjoyed and I've generally found it to be a great way to take my mind off work. I was fortunate enough to be able to meet a number of people in different industries through it and have even developed a number of close friendships as a result. Too often do I find myself talking about work with people in my free time, and nothing takes my mind away like discussing a great book. Furthermore, finding common ground over something you've read is also a great icebreaker, and can honestly say being well read has helped me out on more than few dates
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