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  1. If he's actually making the suits, you must know his ethnic background if for no reason other than certain races aren't suited to suitmaking and you don't have the time to sit there and manage his every stitch. The optimal genetic balance between cold-weather precision and warm-weather creativity seems to be in white Mediterranean persons, with Orientals being an OK cut rate choice. You need a tailor with the capacity for totally flawless execution, but able to comprehend stylistic elements that come from the DNA of rhythm-oriented peoples. A really, really white Turk might be OK but anyth
  2. I am many times fatter than the fattest person here, yet I have bespoke suits. They're kind of required in life. The only pain in the ass is all the taking in and letting out as my weight fluctuates. Good thing I have a mean Serbian tailor who looks at me with disgust the instant I walk through the door. You can get them in SE Asia for way cheap, relative to what the same thing would cost if a white guy was doing it. Little precise measurements and handwork is the kind of thing that Orientals do well, so its an acceptable alternative to paying the full monty for an Italian to do it.
  3. That's the right card. Perosh for value because of subs, although he's a KO liability, Villante has KO's and hasn't shown much sub liability. The old man's going to need to slap a choke on to win. That's for sure, but with the cap ****ed up by Rousey and JJ, Perosh is the play, since Villante fights dumb, although coming from Serra/Longo, you have to assume he's going to be informed enough to at least know to not rely on his wrestling (because of Perosh's subs) and keep it standing (where he has the clear advantage). Perosh in this spot is a pick you make when you must, not because you want t
  4. Hall has the raw tools to beat anyone at 185, his lines now reflect this. Whittaker is a bad dude and very well might be made of the right stuff to emotionally break Hall (which is how you beat him), but in the meantime, he has to endure a lot of dangerous leaping-negroness that can put you to sleep might quick. I wouldn't bet on the Hunt/Silva fight. There is no way to have any insight into it. I'd rather play blackjack than bet fights like that.
  5. Do you think if I didn't sincerely believe every single thing I said I *wouldn't* be a fat slob? I'd be right there working cardo with the rest of the bros, worrying about my 401k and retirement savings since I'd be so totally sure I'd need that passive income for my 128th birthday.
  6. Just what are you people planning on doing in your retirement years? Is the theoretical concept that you've maximized your return on savings (at the cost of depriving yourself while young) really worth more than enjoying life when you're still vibrant and enchanted with the world? I'm pretty confident that old, jaded, bored 68 year old me would tell me, now, that 68 years old ****ing sucks and to have as much fun as you can at this age, while there's still a chance in hell of actually enjoying the things you encounter, rather than being 'financially comfortable' in your old age but at a st
  7. It was meh. Not good, not bad. Guida, Hendo both need to hang them up. I wish I knew Fabio Maldonado had planned on not striking at all. That was *still* not a +450 fight but he didn't do much to prove it totally wrong. I ate shit on Draftkings since I had Guida and Souza on all my cards.
  8. I think Anderson wins too but at pushing 5-1 on moneyline? I'll lose that with a smile on my face.
  9. Have you ever seen someone with shitty insight defend a dumb position with a bad narration? Ala: http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306 Just having an argument with someone about why health care in the United States is the 'best in the world' because if you're a Dubai sultan who can write a check for $6,000,000, NYC is the place to get your cancer treated.
  10. There's probably worse things you could do with a few bucks than light them on fire with a bet on Fabio Maldonado in the +4XX range.... or by decision in the +8XX range... I think he is a rightful dog but against Anderson, I don't think he's an over 4-1 dog and you occasionally have to bite down and make these bets knowing you're probably gonna get paid in Sklansky Dollars only.
  11. Could it possibly be that for the first time in human history, we've discovered a woman who *doesn't* keep a room at 92 ****ing degrees?
  12. The last woman I dated, I brought her a maple, aluminum and carbon fiber lamp. The lesson I learned is, the reason men give flowers is because flowers eventually get thrown in the garbage and it isn't any kind of a commitment. With Lamps, they get ****ing clingy.
  13. If he intends to live one of those half-in/half-out shady shitbag (but with plausible deniability) lifestyles, he needs to understand that from this point forward, if he gets jammed up again, he'll be sentenced as though he's been living an all-in criminal lifestyle. People don't understand just how massively the stakes raise when you go to court on a SECOND serious offense. You almost always go to jail. The guy needs to leave Vegas and apply whatever talents he has to whatever businesses pay, leave the gray area shit behind. Doing 2, 4, 7 years in protective custody (where he would h
  14. So the GoFundMe was just jews a'jewing, he was liquid all along? BTC has been retardo over the past week. Almost doubling.
  15. He didn't win a 'stupid soft judgement'. They had a gray area case, he had no meaningful criminal record (that I've heard about) and you don't understand how 'the system' works in the real world as opposed to Law and Order. People thinking he would do time were naive. Was it possible? Of course. It always is, but it was never likely. It was a guy with no record in a regulatory thing, in a gray area. The point I'm making is that the system may give you a 'pass' on those kinds of things, but only once. People who get sentenced to probation for small potatoes federal tax evasion, the gun stor
  16. He won't be much longer, or if he stays that way, he's a lock to do time eventually. Everyone's a world-changing idealist willing to live by their own thesis until your door gets kicked and you see your name printed across the top of the charge sheet, versus the State of, or the United States of... Doesn't he have a kid now? And isn't he a winning low to mid stakes player? That's the rest of his life, right there. Either that or aliyah and start over.
  17. He's now 'on the radar'. As far as gray area shit goes, you get one wave-by. He just used his.
  18. Sanchez would probably be the other one.
  19. Kinda. I mean, events like this are massively disruptive in ones life. They all but guarantee he can never enter the 'mainstream world' again which might not have been much of a consideration for him to begin with, but definitely will be if he can't provide for his family at some point. He played his hand well (left prior to being charged, negotiated his own return, benefited from voluntarily returning) but its not a spot you ever want to be in.
  20. Brown is one of my top favorites. If a card is a buy/no-buy tossup and he's on it, it instantly tilts into the buy camp. Old school beat-your-****ing-face-in fighters are pretty much gone at the UFC level, he's kinda among the very last.
  21. Does Dana say that too? I was just going by everything we can observe, according to their injury record.
  22. When corksniffing pomp goes mainstream, it totally loses its entire purpose.
  23. AKA horseshit. They're known for encouraging injury-prone training regimes.
  24. Get used to it because the current trend among rich people under the age of 50 who actually commission stuff is exactly that.
  25. What's the hardest part about being a Cubs fan?
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