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BK Lounge
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re: Do any retirees “miss” work?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/10/24 at 6:33 pm
[quote]I think you took me wrong. Or maybe I should have worded it better. Trust me, I don’t hate my job but I’m quitting the microsecond I don’t need to work anymore. I’m just saying we need something to drag our arse out of bed every morning. That doesn’t mean it has to or should be our 9-5, just...
re: Do any retirees “miss” work?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/10/24 at 4:33 pm
[quote]We are healthier when we have to get up everyday and do something we don’t necessarily want to do[/quote]
bullshite .
Decent post, but you lost me right there at the end.. if you are not one of the fortunate few who find something they love to do during their working years- then reti...
re: How do you feel about young NY investment bankers being worked 80-100 weeks?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/10/24 at 3:55 pm
[quote]Not true ... my daughter makes half that and lives in a luxury apartment in the financial district with one roommate.[/quote]
Sounds like ur daughter is a high-end escort .
Jk, sorry couldnt resist .. i doubt she’s high-end :rotflmao:...
re: Hair transplants, would you do it, or just go bald?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/10/24 at 1:37 pm
[quote]The pills he’s taking about can cause ED. I looked into the transplant but ultimately decided I wanted my dick to function.[/quote]
That’s the main question i have .. as a guy who’s mid-40s and has held onto most of my hair, it’s starting to thin out a little more than id like.. so ive l...
re: Do any retirees “miss” work?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/10/24 at 1:32 pm
The key is having the freedom to work because you *want* to work, not because you *have* to work.. Having that freedom means everything ; if the BS gets to be too much, you just walk away .. i can handle just about anything if i dont *have* to do it ....
re: Hair transplants, would you do it, or just go bald?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/10/24 at 12:43 pm
[quote]I'm 38, and my hair started thinking in my early 30's.[/quote]
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re: Happy 75th birthday to Billy Joel.....
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/10/24 at 6:29 am
[quote]Reginald Kenneth Dwight[/quote]
Cary Grant’s real name was Archibald Leach.. John Wayne’s real name was Marion Morrison.. Just since you brought up celebrities’ real names and all ....
re: How do you feel about young NY investment bankers being worked 80-100 weeks?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 8:58 pm
[quote]I work in the Mississippi heat from 4-5 am to 6-7pm 7 days a week. I’ve hit 100 hours many times, and that’s not “being on call” or doing phone calls, paperwork, etc. That’s being in the heat fixing equipment, treating ponds, feeding fish, bushhogging, seining, etc.[/quote]
I dont mean t...
re: Happy 75th birthday to Billy Joel.....
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 8:34 pm
Sorry, but We Didnt Start the Fire might be the worst song Billy Joel ever did…. Either that, or Pressure ....
re: Happy 75th birthday to Billy Joel.....
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 8:33 pm
The new song isnt bad.. it’s definitely growing on me.. the story of the kid who talked him into getting back into the studio to make new music after 30 yrs is pretty epic ....
re: How do you feel about young NY investment bankers being worked 80-100 weeks?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 8:10 pm
[quote]My cousin worked for Goldman Sachs in NYC the bonuses those guys get are absolutely insane like insane.We are talking like 2 mil bonuses.[/quote]
Take that with a huge bag of salt.. just know that “those guys” your cousin is talking about arent the rank and file, those are guys who pro...
re: Happy 75th birthday to Billy Joel.....
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 8:04 pm
[quote]Downeaster Alexa is criminally underrated[/quote]
From the same album (i think) And So It Goes is as good a tearjerker as youll ever find .
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re: How do you feel about young NY investment bankers being worked 80-100 weeks?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 8:01 pm
[quote]Different strokes for different folks. Everyone that goes into IB knows what it is about.[/quote]
Agreed.. im just saying that if every single person (at least in re to Med Device) has said to me ‘never do that, run far away’ and not one single person i know has ever said “Yeah it’s a gr...
re: Happy 75th birthday to Billy Joel.....
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 7:57 pm
[quote]Songs in the OP were tragically superficial. At least Scenes was added.[/quote]
Yeah that list in the OP isnt representative of Billy’s best work, though (along with Scenes) i do like Longest Time.. NY State of Mind isnt bad, but almost as played out as Piano Man.. apparently he has star...
re: How do you feel about young NY investment bankers being worked 80-100 weeks?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 7:48 pm
Ive known guys who worked in Med Device making $350k-$400k per year (back when that was worth way more than it is today) and on-call 24/7… To a man, they each said it wasn’t worth it, not even close to being worth it.. said it inevitably resulted in alcoholism, divorce etc for them… Now, ive never m...
re: Happy 75th birthday to Billy Joel.....
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 7:41 pm
Scenes From an Italian Restaurant is his magnum opus ....
re: Why is Business Report so woke?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 12:33 pm
[quote]What is woke in that article? I read some and didn't see anything.[/quote]
Louisiana is a shite show, no argument there .
But in 2024, everything the religious rightwing Maga ideology disagrees with is automatically labeled as “woke”, which is also fricking stupid ....
re: Most Underwater Mortgages in the US - Baton Rouge 1st, Nola 2nd WTF?
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/9/24 at 9:58 am
Maybe they mean like literally ‘under the water’, below sea level ….. :dunno:
Dammit got beat to it by a few seconds…
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Andy Cohen insists he is NOT sleeping with his good friend John Mayer !
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/8/24 at 8:53 pm
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re: No wonder Gisele is pissed!
Posted by BK Lounge on 5/8/24 at 2:58 pm
[quote]Tom agreed to it, yes…but she didn’t and now the kids will grow up having to deal with the fallout. To me, that makes Tom a horrible dad.[/quote]
The fallout from one televised roast ?? Naw bra.. the only ‘fallout’ those kids will ever have to deal with are the actual ACTIONS perpetrate...
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