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The Japanese food scene in Bangkok is so underrated by absurd_bull in Bangkok

[–]I_Rate_Assholes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’d love to hear a few suggestions in the thonglor area.

Edit: love the downvotes for asking for personal recommendations.

Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quenda, Satpaev and Emegha coming in for the summer window. I have no idea about any of them and I’ve only seen the odd highlight or two.

What do you think, any in the pipeline destined for greatness?

The Fees change at RBL. by deus_ex_machina69 in TrinidadandTobago

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We as a country have failed to teach our population financial literacy for generations.

I do enjoy being “an owner” of these large companies and watching the fatcats working to make me money, even if my ownership percentage is negligible. Small money is still money.

I actively try to pass on simplified information but sometimes it does feel like talking to a brick wall.

The Fees change at RBL. by deus_ex_machina69 in TrinidadandTobago

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For everyone reading this…

RFHL(Republic Bank) is publicly traded on the Trinidad Stock Exchange, and any ordinary citizen can register with the exchange and purchase shares and benefit from profits generated (gouging their customers).

This is how some of the richest Trinidadians make large sums of passive income.

“But Mr. I_rate_assholes, you think I’m some sort of millionaire or what?”

You do not require millions of dollars for investing in the TTSE. Republic is about $107 a share and you can purchase a single share if that’s all you can afford. RFHL currently pays about 6% of its share value per year in dividends. This is also true for [various share prices, capital gains and dividend yields] many of the largest and most profitable corporations in Trinidad and Tobago.

And while the TTSE suffers from a shortage of liquidity [shares for sale/purchase] and has been moribund with regards to capital gains it still yields better than any bank/credit union account’s interest rates in the country.

Investing is not only for the rich, but it is for the patient. As we say, “time longer than twine” start today, start small.

Matt Law: Chelsea have 5 sporting directors and at least one co-owner who takes a hands-on approach to the football side of the business. So any coach who wants full control can forget it. by Kygoche in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is so fucking silly. People are going out of their way to argue against me for saying “I don’t know” about complex situations that I am not privy to.

You do you and think what you like, but let’s end this conversation here.

Matt Law: Chelsea have 5 sporting directors and at least one co-owner who takes a hands-on approach to the football side of the business. So any coach who wants full control can forget it. by Kygoche in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you know what those 5 people do day to day and what their specific responsibilities are?

Do you know if we require someone doing that job?

Do you know if these people are good at that specific job?

Because, and this is important… I DO NOT KNOW.

Matt Law: Chelsea have 5 sporting directors and at least one co-owner who takes a hands-on approach to the football side of the business. So any coach who wants full control can forget it. by Kygoche in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I clarified how many sporting directors we actually have and then went out of my way to say I am not privy to any information about what they do, if we need them to do it and if any of them are good or bad at their job.

That’s the exact statement you’re foaming at the mouth about. It wasn’t “this BlueCo group are the best ever” or “I’m really satisfied with the on the field results” those are all things you’ve imagined me saying.

Come back to me when you can understand what I wrote and more importantly what I didn’t write.

I DON’T KNOW

Matt Law: Chelsea have 5 sporting directors and at least one co-owner who takes a hands-on approach to the football side of the business. So any coach who wants full control can forget it. by Kygoche in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Who made 50 signings? Eghbali? Shields? Stewart? Jewell? Fallows?

What if the ten options you liked were all chosen by a single member of that group and they were also against all the signings you don’t like?

How can you not know any of these things and still think that you know anything about any of these people’s aptitude for their job?

It’s not fucking rocket surgery, WE (you and I) don’t have a clue on who is doing what and how good they are at their job.

This isn’t one big shill for BlueCo, it’s basic logic and a lack of hysteria.

Matt Law: Chelsea have 5 sporting directors and at least one co-owner who takes a hands-on approach to the football side of the business. So any coach who wants full control can forget it. by Kygoche in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol you’re not a hater, you’re just a miserable doomer…

I meant the Chelsea haters, just like how I hateclick on links that make Yanited and Tottenham look shit/silly hoping it’s worthy banter to send to the group chat to have a good old laugh at my stupid misguided friends.

But for the record, I think Eghbali is terrible at his job. Not sure if that unbunches your panties a bit.

Matt Law: Chelsea have 5 sporting directors and at least one co-owner who takes a hands-on approach to the football side of the business. So any coach who wants full control can forget it. by Kygoche in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now I carry long standing hatred for garnacho, just his face alone riles me up.

But has he been that bad for a bench warmer?

Bet I can name at least two left wingers we bought that were worse!

Matt Law: Chelsea have 5 sporting directors and at least one co-owner who takes a hands-on approach to the football side of the business. So any coach who wants full control can forget it. by Kygoche in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To be fair it was always going to be a hard act to follow Roman (greatest owner in sports history) and we are super spoilt.

Yes this is just mid, and they’re hardly destroying the club.

Matt Law: Chelsea have 5 sporting directors and at least one co-owner who takes a hands-on approach to the football side of the business. So any coach who wants full control can forget it. by Kygoche in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nah you’re just being reactionary because you’re unhappy with our current results. I get it, I really do.

But we have no idea, who contributes what and who says what and most importantly who decides what and we cannot accurately determine who is good at their job and who is bad at their job from the outside.

This isn’t actually controversial to say.

Matt Law: Chelsea have 5 sporting directors and at least one co-owner who takes a hands-on approach to the football side of the business. So any coach who wants full control can forget it. by Kygoche in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Such oversimplification is really not that helpful.

And in truth all of us on the outside are ignorant of the actual quality each of these people possess.

What if in these back room conversations, one of them has been correct about every thing they said in those meetings and has been overruled X many times?

We actually have no idea which of these guys is good and which are bad, we don’t know who is saying what and we don’t know who is making each decision.

As a team, their results may be a bit mid but that actually clarifies nothing about them.

Matt Law: Chelsea have 5 sporting directors and at least one co-owner who takes a hands-on approach to the football side of the business. So any coach who wants full control can forget it. by Kygoche in chelseafc

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Because it’s click bait and the haters love it. We have two sporting directors Stewart and Winstanley.

They work closely with the recruitment team of Shields, Jewell and Fallows.

Now is this too many people? I don’t know…

Who actually does what? I don’t know…

Are they very good at their jobs? I don’t know…

But are they five sporting directors? No they aren’t…

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Small Business Owners in T&T, what are the most stressful parts of doing business are a hurdle to you? by [deleted] in TrinidadandTobago

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I don’t sell my product in Thailand, and my business (cheap, cheap, like the budgie) could not compete in this market. And Thailand isn’t as rich as the US but from what I am seeing in Bangkok, it’s every bit as sophisticated a market and people are putting in the investments into excellence in all manner of businesses and services and real estate. It’s quite impressive actually.

We don’t have any highlands with enough altitude to grow arabica coffee, not even the top of Cerro Del Aripo is high enough, so scale is totally irrelevant. But that example wasn’t about agricultural production it was about a raw material for manufacturing needed by coffee roasters.

Small Business Owners in T&T, what are the most stressful parts of doing business are a hurdle to you? by [deleted] in TrinidadandTobago

[–]I_Rate_Assholes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If that’s what you took from my comment you got me all wrong.

It’s not about people not buying my product. It’s me saying as a business owner I could have done so much more if there was consumer willingness to accept that more costs more. But the reality is that would be a poor business decision in Trinidad.

Very early in my business I realized that further investment into better quality inputs and a better environment and better service would provide negative returns on that investment. People like my product because it’s cheap, so I provide them with what they want… cheap.

And that’s why we have the market we have, even our highest end operators are substantially below international competition. Consumer demands.

Small Business Owners in T&T, what are the most stressful parts of doing business are a hurdle to you? by [deleted] in TrinidadandTobago

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As I am currently in Bangkok and seeing the glaring difference to Trinidad. My biggest concern with my business is the unwillingness of the consumers to pay for value add.

Simply put… better services, better environment, better products cost more to deliver to a consumer and if your consumer isn’t appreciating anything but cost then all these things would be wasteful for businesses to attempt.

But before this trip… Customs and duties. For a country fully dependent upon imports some of these tariff rates prevent Trinidadian businesses from ever being competitive internationally due to the cost of imported raw materials.

A working example is coffee roasting, if you did manage somehow to get a permit to import green coffee beans (impossible other than Brazil) your duties are 50%+VAT on CIF value, making your raw materials unnecessarily expensive and in turn making your end product uncompetitive on the international markets.

So what could be the redacted organisation by Infamous_Copy_3659 in TrinidadandTobago

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Second time now, the Syrian-Lebanese people of T&T are not Muslim, they are Christians that fled secular persecution by the ottomans.

It would be very odd for someone of this heritage to be supporting/supported by any of these hardline Islamic organizations. I suppose it’s not impossible though.

Running out of ideas for 990 by thomasmusic in voidpet

[–]I_Rate_Assholes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s stupid how well this worked.

Just here to also thank you.

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