The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVII

[Zelig]

I've never heard of either.

 

[madviking]

TIL there is a baseball player named Corey Hart. Hope that helps answer your question

yes it does

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Is this wishful thinking on your part, Mr Empire?

I seem to remember you've a hankering after catastrophes of all types.

Not really. Just sky-related catastrophes (weather, outer space, etc). The rest I'm more paranoid and terrified of since they have a bigger basis in reality. Most of them, anyway.

 

[Hygro]

as I read today
You are a ghost possessing a skeleton wearing a meatsuit made of stardust, what do you have to be afraid of?

 

[SouthernKing]

Other ghosts possessing similar skeletons wearing meatsuits made of stardust, for one.

 

[Takhisis]

Nothing but the truth.

 

[cardgame]

as I read today
You are a ghost possessing a skeleton wearing a meatsuit made of stardust, what do you have to be afraid of?

I'm sure I've heard that one before, as well, but I can't recall where.

 

[Cutlass]

Consumery in the sense that you consume a product then have no further use for it save disposal. Minimalist living conditions work quite nicely with consumption. My grandparents that farmed through the Great Depression saved everything. You'd think hoarding could be associated with consumerism, but it was really rather the opposite. You never know what when you'll have a use for that that rusty spooled metal in the barn. Or that old cast iron sledge, etc. My dad still scoops fertilizer with a shovel with a shaped wooden handle. You just don't find those anymore much, it's ridiculously cool and I'm convinced I'm going to break it one of these years when I drop it. It's gotta be a minimum of 75 years old.

The joke I used to use is that my father was a teenager during the Great Depression, and never threw out anything after that.

 

[Rashiminos]

Do you subscribe to the "more than 2 shakes" rule?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/n...uthority-bus-terminal.html?smid=pl-share&_r=1

...
At least a dozen of those arrested are represented by the Legal Aid Society, whose lawyers say their clients — some of whom say they were merely urinating — were victims of aggressive and intrusive police tactics.

...

 

[Yeekim]

Do you subscribe to the "more than 2 shakes" rule?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/n...uthority-bus-terminal.html?smid=pl-share&_r=1

Tell me this is a prank article! It has to be! Right? RIGHT?!

 

[Farm Boy]

Tell me this is a prank article! It has to be! Right? RIGHT?!

As you get older and the hereditary prostate starts to catch up with you a whole lot of people think you're playing around. So not entirely. You get to choose between an "appropriately quick" trip to the urinal and wandering out of the bathroom with piss all over your pants.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

How much are bonds and stocks you own tied to your specific bank and the currency in which you bought it? For example - what if you were living in Argentina and had invested in bonds and stocks in some Argentinian bank before the crash? Would this pose a problem?

Is the any official economic advice thread here?

 

[Cutlass]

How much are bonds and stocks you own tied to your specific bank and the currency in which you bought it? For example - what if you were living in Argentina and had invested in bonds and stocks in some Argentinian bank before the crash? Would this pose a problem?

Is the any official economic advice thread here?

If you buy a stock or bond that is denominated in the Argentinian currency, then it remains so. You may be able to purchase that stock or bond with a different currency, but the controlling factor of what it is after that is what it was created in.

 

[Flying Pig]

Purchasing it with a different currency may, of course, be a much better (or worse) deal if you had said currency to begin with and the exchange rate changed.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Okay. Thanks. Maybe it's obvious, but I've more or less just started looking at these things. There are fees involved in most and in the end it's not that secure way of investing or saving money either.

 

[Hygro]

Okay. Thanks. Maybe it's obvious, but I've more or less just started looking at these things. There are fees involved in most and in the end it's not that secure way of investing or saving money either.

Sometimes the same company listed on two different exchanges will have two different prices when measured in the same currency, for extended periods. (And no it doesn't always arbitrage!)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

There's a tree outside my window and sometimes birds. I just watched a bird crash into my window but he flew back up so I guess he's fine. How do I prevent that from happening again to avoid needless bird injuries?

 

[Farm Boy]

You probably can't all the way, but stand at your window and look into the room, if you have a clean sight line to another window birds will think they have a passage through the house they can traverse. Obscure the sight line if you can.

 

[Ajidica]

There's a tree outside my window and sometimes birds. I just watched a bird crash into my window but he flew back up so I guess he's fine. How do I prevent that from happening again to avoid needless bird injuries?

Also, birds aren't particularly smart.
(Not saying that people are much better. I've walked into a glass door at least twice when I didn't have my glasses on.)

 

[Borachio]

There's a tree outside my window and sometimes birds. I just watched a bird crash into my window but he flew back up so I guess he's fine. How do I prevent that from happening again to avoid needless bird injuries?

This happens to me a lot. The birds (invariably pigeons) see the reflected sky in the window and think it's OK to fly, bang, straight into the window. And then lie stunned on the ground for a bit. One or two have even managed to break their own necks on my windows. But these are pigeons! We don't encourage them. They peck the bejeebus out of the lilac bushes.

Net curtains seem to do the trick, though.