Post Race!

[dday9]

[homer13j]

I often wonder about that myself.

[dongtay1001]

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[dday9]

Lol worst place for spam.

[szlamany]

I wonder if that was the first spam to hit this thread - I'm not sure I recall it happening before.

Or do those bot-spammers hit all the latest threads?

[FunkyDexter]

Most of them just scatter gun a whole bunch of threads and we usually just do a blanket delete. It's kinda funny that DD left that one in place though. It fits right in to the weird stream of consciousness that is the Post Race.

[brad jones]

There were actually 3 posts written by dongtay1001 that were left live.... Now there is just the one above in this thread.

With a ban in place, that ID won't be posting here again, so someone will have to cover race posts for him/her/it.

[dday9]

I was on my cell phone when I removed the link and said "Oh when I get home I'll ban him/her/it" but when I got home... I forgot

[brad jones]

That's okay, it provided a nice distraction from the 'standard' post race posts.....

[Gruff]

Never could see where the name for Cheerios came from.
Nothing cheery about it.

Sad lumps of soggy dough with round eyes staring back at you.

[szlamany]

Back to the standard post race posts...

[brad jones]

Nothing cheery about it.

Oh!! Good point.

Cheers!

Brad!

[FunkyDexter]

In polite society we don't call them Cheerios. We call them Toodle-Pips.

[Gruff]

Cold breakfast cereal is always tricky.
Optimal soaking time is everything.

Too dry and you lacerate your gums. Too wet... Blech!

Toodle Pips. Sounds like something your poodle leaves behind.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I wonder if that was the first spam to hit this thread - I'm not sure I recall it happening before.

Or do those bot-spammers hit all the latest threads?

No, it wasn't...at least I don't think it was. Those binary posts were right up there.

[dday9]

I was curious about how Target's stock is doing considering I see a lot of negativity surrounding the company through Facebook since their policy clarification on bathroom use and transgenders.

On April 19th, which is when they announced the clarification of the policy, their stock closed at $83.29. As of right now the stock is $67.93, this represents a drop of %18.44 in the matter of only 52 days.

I really don't have an opinion on the policy itself, but as a businessman this tells me that Target needs to be doing some kind of brand rebuilding because they're losing it... and fast!

[dday9]

Don't get me wrong, a $67.93 stock price is a solid stock, however if it continues to trend downward its investors are likely to pull out.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I was curious about how Target's stock is doing considering I see a lot of negativity surrounding the company through Facebook since their policy clarification on bathroom use and transgenders.

Would you say that put a target on them?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Target has had a mix of issues, lately. There was that credit card breach which HAMMERED them a year ago, then just recently they launched some initiative regarding the food side of their business and some other moves on the retain side. I don't even know what policy you are talking about, yet I've seen articles in the Economist that would suggest that Target is trying to change course in some retail areas, which is enough to cause a stock drop without any other issues.

Therefore, I'm not sure whether you can attribute the stock flux to any single cause. They have a few of them going on, at the moment.

[dday9]

I wouldn't take the credit card breach into consideration as the drop associated with it had already occurred and they were on the rebound which was largely pushed by their food initiative.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, the credit card thing was a ways back. The article I was reading had to do with some other floundering. The food initiative was a response to that, but do investors pay more attention to the initiative or the driver for the initiative?

[dday9]

Good investors will sell stock when a company does something so polarizing like Target did, OK investors will see the trend in downward stock prices early and sell their stock, bad investors will sell their stock too late when the company is likely to start rebounding while the good investors will reinvest.

That is why stocks act a lot like waves in the ocean. However, when you see stocks plummet and investors deciding not to reinvest even when the stock is down... then you have a problem.

I think that Target needs to burn their "ace in the hole" marketing technique to reverse the serious downward trend they've been having.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Good investors will stick with a broad based fund. Great investors have insider information.

[dday9]

Good investors will stick with a broad based fund. Great investors have insider information.

I'm stealing that.

[FunkyDexter]

The article I was reading had to do with some other floundering. The food initiative was a response to that

They've started selling fresh fish?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well...not so fresh...hence the problem.

The flounder is a funny fish.
Eyes on one side, and round as a dish.
They spend their days buried in sand
Cause all'n all they taste so grand.
Well they should hide, if that's their wish,
Since one on my plate would be delish!

[dday9]

I love fishing for flounder, they put up the best fight. That and they taste good too!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Really? I didn't think they fought very well at all. We were fishing for them with hand lines and double hooks. Even if you caught one on each hook it didn't seem like much of a fight. That was almost certainly a different species of flounder, and in much colder water, so it may well be different down south. I never caught a southern flounder.

[FunkyDexter]

It's the fight or flounder reaction. You never can tell.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It's very fishy that this post was the last one for so long.

[brad jones]

It's very fishy that this post was the last one for so long.

We are talking fish, so how long it has been is not likely as long as you say.....

[dday9]

Since my son has been obsessed with the minions:

[dday9]

I just had a friend die as the result of a motorcycle accident. He was hit going to work yesterday when somebody was turning and didn't see him. He was pronounced brain dead late last night and his heart stopped at 12:09AM this morning as a result of life support being discontinued.

[dday9]

There is a silver lining though... his liver and 2 kidneys were donated to other patients.

[szlamany]

David - that is so sad! My prayers go out...

[FunkyDexter]

Sorry to hear that DD.

[homer13j]

I just had a friend die as the result of a motorcycle accident. He was hit going to work yesterday when somebody was turning and didn't see him. He was pronounced brain dead late last night and his heart stopped at 12:09AM this morning as a result of life support being discontinued.

Sorry for your loss.

I don't ride much on public roads anymore except to get to the trails but people turn left or pull out in front of me all the time. You have to ride like you're invisible, because you are.

A couple of years ago I pulled up to a light next to a car in a right turn only lane. Of course the obliviot driver went straight when the light changed and suddenly realized she was running out of road so she merged into my lane forcing me into oncoming traffic! Fortunately I was wearing steel toe boots and put a nice big dent in her car door. That was a lot more satisfying that it should have been.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I was biking to work a couple years back, but decided that the risks were just too great. Most days, nothing much happened, of course, but about once a week, somebody would do something that wasn't good. In one case, a large SUV tried to pass me at the one point where a curb had been built out into the road for decorative purposes...mostly. I would have been passed there in about one second, but they couldn't wait. I noticed that their mirror missed my hand by a couple inches.

Trouble was always in the afternoon, though. People seemed in a rush to get home, but not in much of a rush in the morning.

[dday9]

Of course I feel like it shouldn't've happened, but it really shouldn't've happened to him... He was in the same crowd that I was some years back, which to say the least is a very bad crowd, but he had just started to turn his life around. He was completely off drugs, he had stopped drinking(mostly), and he had just gotten that job that he was driving to.

[brad jones]

It is cool that you can remember him being at a time in his life when things were good. I'd rather be able to remember a friend in that light than remember them at a point when things were dark. Nobody said life was fair, which is why we have to appreciate the time and the days we have.