retired property developer and warehouse odd-job. semi retired small cap trader and wheeler dealer. well travelled Reborn NFFC fan.
East Midlands, England
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Stockpickginge😇 retweeted
“The fuel prices are high due to the war”
Shell profits: £14.3 billion
BP profits: £5.8 billion
A combined 52% rise from the previous year
Government takes: £31 billion
It’s not the war it’s greed
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My wife crashed her car this morning.
When the police came she said the man involved was on his mobile phone and eating a sandwich at the time.
The police advised her the man was entitled to do whatever he wanted in his own conservatory.
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this quote from Carl Jung is truly great:
"The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. 1/2
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On July 2, 1982, a 33-year-old truck driver named Larry Walters tied 42 helium weather balloons to a Sears lawn chair, strapped on a parachute, packed a BB gun, sandwiches, and a six-pack… and cut the rope.
He expected to float a few hundred feet over his San Pedro backyard.
Instead he shot up like a rocket to 16,000 feet — straight into the main approach path for LAX.
Two airline pilots radioed the tower: they had just passed a man in a lawn chair holding a gun at 16,000 feet.
For 45 minutes he floated over Los Angeles, freezing, too scared to shoot more balloons. Finally he started popping them one by one and came down tangled in power lines in Long Beach, blacking out part of the neighborhood.
When police asked why he did it, he said:
“A man can’t just sit around.”
FAA fined him $4,000. America turned him into a folk hero — Lawnchair Larry.
True story.
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Stockpickginge😇 retweeted
Strategic Petroleum Reserve just fell below 298.7 MB—that’s only 46 MB above the congressional legal minimum. This isn’t alarmism: the safety margin is effectively gone.
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10 MILLION HITS OF LSD.
That's how much Harvard chemist Leonard Pickard absorbed through his skin one night in 1998.
He was on a ladder in his Santa Fe lab, decanting a flask of pure LSD at 2 AM.
He slipped.
The flask shattered.
He was drenched head to toe.
Now, if this were just normal LSD, he would have been fine. But the flask contained:
𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝘆𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲.
Within seconds, the solvent drove every drop of LSD through his skin & into his blood.
He stripped naked, blasted himself in the emergency shower, then stumbled into a field and collapsed.
He heard cosmic choirs of angels.
Saw every version of himself dissolve.
Time and identity fell apart into pure light.
And through the peak of the largest LSD dose in human history, one message rang out:
𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗸𝗮𝘆.
He woke up the next morning.
No brain damage. No lingering effects.
Cleaned up the lab & went back to work.
(probably had the best day of his life)
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This did not happen. Pickard testified in a court of law that there was no effect from the LSD exposure. See pp. 84-85: gwern.net/doc/darknet-ma…
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Hot take:
The UK has a strange attitude:
Investing £500 in the stock market is “risky.”
Spending £500 on a weekend away is “self care.”
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My wife and I have made a list of five people we can sleep with if we ever get the chance.
She picked Brad Pitt, Sam Elliott, Tom Hardy, Kevin Costner, and Jon Hamm.
I’ve gone for her sister, her cousin, her best friend, the blonde UPS driver and the girl with big boobs at Dunkin’. Now I’m sleeping on the sofa because apparently she is not happy with my choices.
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It’s all over. World Cup over , Wimbledon over. Nothing to distract you but the terrifying reality of your own thoughts now. Never mind, it’ll be autumn soon where everything dies.
Stockpickginge😇 retweeted
#FPP just around 200k shares left under 0.5p
#FPP Barry going big over 3% holdings 💪🏻
investegate.co.uk/announceme…
Stockpickginge😇 retweeted
#FPP Added 2 million over the previous 10 days price strongly above the 50dma and in bullish territory
Stockpickginge😇 retweeted
Jess Phillips Has Just Launched Her Most Savage Attack Yet On “Cockroach” Keir Starmer 😳
Asked by Robert Peston: “What is the probability that Starmer can actually survive?”
Jess Phillips brutally described the Prime Minister as something like a “ cockroach in a nuclear war” as he desperately clings to power.
And astonishingly, she says he actually “manifests” crises every week to galvanise his team and rally around him like some kind of crisis conjurer.
Wow. I like the new found honesty. I’m actually starting to warm to her. 😂
A government in permanent survival mode… led by a cockroach PM who allegedly creates disasters to stay alive.
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Sunday Roast - Paul Welch CEO Buccaneer Energy #BUCE
High Oil Price ✅ Last Month Free Cash Flow £200,000 This Month £275,000 - (NPV) Net Present Value over £10 million - Market Cap only £1.31m
youtu.be/YC4R8VbMkEs?si=7YT5… via @YouTube
