Jump to content

alincoln

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    2374
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by alincoln

  1. 1 hour ago, Johnny Sack said:

    All I know is that Barry Bonds is one of the top 5-10 baseball players of all time.  As is Roger Clemens.

    And arguably the best pitcher and player since integration.  

  2. 1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

    Is American policing so shitty that this was a novel concept in 2020/21?

    Police in many (most?) large cities have intentionally reduced their presence in high crime areas since George Floyd to (1) reduce the opportunities for more cop killings and (2) increase crime and thereby hamper the defund the police movement.  Their efforts have been extremely successful.  Crime has increased rapidly in those areas and defund the police has become political suicide outside of one-party D locales.     

    • Hook 'Em 2
  3. Just now, Skipper said:

    I've go to say I have no idea what that work entails.  But it sounds awful.

    I honestly don't know how they do it.  We represent issuers on a few offerings a year and every time we close one I feel sorry for those Wall St associates who do nothing but those bond offerings over and over and over again while watching the partners walk home with $5 million a year.  

  4. 58 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    There may be a few NY firms that get something close to that but it's largely bullshit fluff.   

    Tell that to the corporate bond associates representing lead underwriters on 30 offerings in 2021.

  5. 3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    Yeah, this goes back to my point on perspective.  A lot of colleagues from my old firm, Vinson & Elkins, happily took in-house gigs where they were working the equivalent of 2200 hours a year, which was a significant improvement in quality of life.  But you take an associate at my current mid-size firm and put them into that same in-house gig, and it would be a shock to their system.  

    Yup.  The difference between 1800 and 2200 is massive and I can't even imagine the 2500+ that Wall Street associates are putting in these days.  

  6. 22 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:


    harvard about to be 90% Asian !

    Harvard's "incomplete" internal study stated that Asian's would comprise 43% of accepted students if the admission standard was "academics only".  

  7. It's entirely dependent on the specific opportunity and your personal goals.  You won't make as much as a law firm partner unless you are the GC or a direct report to the GC in a very large (generally public) company (outside of liquidity events that you won't control).  The job security also isn't as strong, particularly if you are the GC or a direct report to the GC.  Senior leadership changes (new CEO or GC) often trickle down to the management team which generally includes the GC and the GC's direct reports.  You may also have to be willing to relocate if you decide to leave your in-house position and there isn't a comparable opportunity with your experience and industry expertise in your market.  That consideration is extremely market dependent. Another current reality is that legal is an area corporate America utilizes to improve its management diversity (more of a public company consideration).  This trend is rapidly accelerating to the point where white males are not even considered in some candidate pools. 

    In any event, it's a better gig than AMLAW50 associate, who are now routinely billing 2500 - 3000 hours a year.

  8. Sargent's lack of productivity (0 G/A in 19 PL games before his brace) is glaring but he did just tie Jozy's career EPL goal tally and did so in 50 less appearances.  

    Glad he didn't get called up because he needs to focus on following up that performance and helping Norwich stay up.

     

    • Haha 2
  9. Just now, DougO said:

    It doesn't matter at this point, but shouldn't Tyreek have been flagged for taunting on that longass TD? It would have cost them some yardage that could have impacted the game. Again, it doesn't matter now, but if you have rules it pisses me off whan they are selectively enforced.

    They have swallowed the whistles 

  10. 17 hours ago, G650 said:

    My shirtmakers son worked for Chelsea, been a fan for decades now.

    Exactly!  Such an easy jaunt from Savile Row over to Stamford Bridge.  TEB -> LCY -> Savile Row -> Stamford Bridge and back again.  Easy peasy 

  11. On 1/3/2022 at 12:11 PM, G650 said:

    Nobody likes ManU because they are douchebags.

    No one likes United here because they were the Yankees when almost everyone on this board got into English football (2000-2010).  No one, particularly the stereotypical American who follows soccer, wants to be viewed as a bandwagon jumper. Hence why City still isn't very popular on this board despite dominating English football for a decade.  City was too shitty to support (other than Huck) before the takeover and almost immediately became too good to support after the takeover.  They were Villa and became United almost overnight.  

    Liverpool is popular because they have a very compelling history and supporting them would not be viewed as bandwagon jumping because at the time they weren't winning very much in relation to Arsenal, United and Chelsea who dominated English soccer in the 00s.  A calculated yet justifiable glory hunt. 

    Chelsea is popular here because they were the emerging London-based team with the better future compared to stale Arsenal (for those Chelsea fans who go back to the club's founding in 2003) and Pulisic (newish Chelsea supporters).  Plenty of cunts who frequently travel to London (West London, specifically) and name their message board handle after PJs chose Chelsea because of its convenient location.  They are basically City with better shopping and restaurants.  Easy to get to games from the US, will win plenty of trophies and don't have to deal with the riffraff elsewhere in London while doing it.  An extremely efficient glory hunt for the London tourist.

    Tottenham is popular for all the reasons Bill Simmons summarized when he was interested in soccer for about 15 minutes in 2005 or so.

    Arsenal is popular because they played a very attractive and cosmopolitan brand of football under Wenger and were the foil to United (again when most people originally selected their team).  They are now what Liverpool was (a team with a compelling history that will probably start winning trophies again at some point) and Liverpool is now what Arsenal was (the foil to the Yankees).  Accordingly, Liverpool and Arsenal continue to pick up new fans but for different reasons. 

    Again, to summarize, Liverpool (Tottenham with history then, Klopp fanbois now), City (Huck), Tottenham (see Simmons article), Arsenal (Wenger fanbois then, Tottenham with history now), Chelsea (loathsome cunts and newish USMNT fans).

    • Hook 'Em 4
×
×
  • Create New...