2014 Forum posters Awards

[Nox]

********. Guy is dumb as dirt. Has a ton of trouble with da Engrish. Really bad at forming a logical argument. And statistics is supposed to be his wheelhouse, but he totally f***ed up applying them to the world of finance, in a way I'd expect from a high school kid with no exposure to statistics. He's the most obnoxious, but not even in the top 20 of brightest intellects on the board.

 

Not too sure why I'm responding to this as it's obviously just an attempt to bait me into some long drawn-out thing where you can get off crafting 2,000 word responses that nobody reads.

 

Regardless, I'm pretty sure you're alluding to a couple of posts I made months ago where I said something like "risk management is more philosophy than math in complex domains" and how things like the Gaussian-Copula, Black-Scholes (+ extensions), VaR and others are destructive examples of trying to shoehorn reality into a model rather than vice-versa. Given that you're an MBA with insecurity issues, this offended you greatly as such pseudo-intellectual tools made up the majority of your "technical" Bschool education. The resulting tirade was for the most part not even wrong. If the first sentence of this paragraph still reads as nonsense, I sincerely feel for anybody you may be running money for.

 

Speaking of physics, I'm still wondering if you could clarify for us why the term "General Theory of Relativity" was invalid despite it's common usage among subject matter experts (ie people who do real science). I'm guessing it's closely related to your insistence that the general theory has nothing to do with the speed of light and how it's completely unrelated to special relativity.

 

And if you want to talk about statistics, expand upon why you think JFAS' preseason projections were so awful (something you've been rattling on like a lunatic for the past month or so). What testing did you do to come to that conclusion? Do you even know how you would test his projections? How do they compare to the yet to be linked to Moogy projections?

[Dr. Dinger]

********. Guy is dumb as dirt. Has a ton of trouble with da Engrish. Really bad at forming a logical argument. And statistics is supposed to be his wheelhouse, but he totally f***ed up applying them to the world of finance, in a way I'd expect from a high school kid with no exposure to statistics. He's the most obnoxious, but not even in the top 20 of brightest intellects on the board.

 

This is why I voted you best troll. Keep up the incredible work.

[jays4life19]

Ah f***. Here we go...

[Deadpool]

Ah f***. Here we go...

 

http://media.tumblr.com/a21cbb0bdfcf1ec027dfa32541d28bf2/tumblr_inline_mvwsguyX2r1r9ixyz.gif

[Dylan]

Categories.

Best overall poster: NorthOf49

Funniest poster: BBBB

Best foreign poster: o2ui2i

Best rookie/new poster: burlingtonbandit

Comeback poster of the year: orgfiller

Best looking/Most attractive poster: na

Best troll: metalijay

Best poster to get banned: Spanky

Best infrequent poster: Nox

Thread of the year: RIP Kirksaw & Blue Jays State of the Franchise 2014

Worst overall poster: Trouba95

[Nox]

Categories.

Best overall poster: Darrell

Funniest poster: Sivergun

Best foreign poster: Orgfiller, Boxy (Tie)

Best rookie/new poster: Not sure

Comeback poster of the year: Not sure

Best looking/Most attractive poster: Hurl, not even close.

Best troll: CHP (For entertainment purposes), Moogy (for effectiveness)

Best poster to get banned: NJH

Best infrequent poster: NJH

Thread of the year: The one where they thought a poster was dead

[BTS]

Most annoying poster: Tie between King and GD (also anyone who quotes Moogy)

 

lol

[The Cats Ass]

Not enough cats

 

http://www.cats.com/

[G-Snarls]

http://www.cats.com/

 

http://www.lolcats.com/

[Arkadium]

Not too sure why I'm responding to this as it's obviously just an attempt to bait me into some long drawn-out thing where you can get off crafting 2,000 word responses that nobody reads.

 

Pretty sure this is actually his primary goal in life right now.

[The Cats Ass]

Best overall poster: The whole DDL group.(Doesn't include co-managers)

Funniest poster: Spanky

Best foreign poster: Angrioter or Boxy

Best rookie/new poster: LongTimeReader

Comeback poster of the year: Ace

Best looking/Most attractive poster: I keep hearing good things about this RandyRobot guy

Best troll: Moogy (He's just so damn good at it)

Best poster to get banned: NJH

Best infrequent poster: Bautista's Beard

Thread of the year: The one where Ace died (You guys scare me)

 

Also...

Worst overall poster: A Kalfus peoples

Most annoying poster: CHP

[Deadpool]

Do do that doodoo that you do so well.

 

This, right here, is some excellent wordsmithery!

[Deadpool]

Borrowed from Mr. Cole Porter (with the noted change of "voodoo" to "doodoo")

 

That's what made it wordsmithery (I got the original reference and appreciated the appropriate, yet subtle, alteration...)

[TRM]

Thrilled to get nominated.

[Boxcar]

Can you guys stop voting for me? I'm not foreign and Ang's funny pictures and accidental jokes due to broken English make him a way better poster anyway.

[kcjaysfan]

It has its pros and cons like any city. Im usually there 5 or 6 times a year but from my experiences the pros are:

Downtown everything is close

Some pretty good bars

Down by the lake is really nice in the summer

 

Cons:

Winter is terrible, seems they get the most snow of any city outside Ottawa

Besdies Frontenac and Queens games there are no sports.

Nothing to do really

 

I agree with all the pros, but everything being close is really just a byproduct of a small downtown. I do appreciate that I'm a 15-minute walk from my building on campus, less than 10 minutes away from a handful of great restaurants and bars, and a block away from the grocery store. But like I was saying, it just has that small college-town feel about it, and it's not for me. The last ~6 years I was living in Kansas City were spent in the urban core, so I'm just used to much, much more density, in both architecture, and people. The lack of tall buildings here really throws me off, which I know is a byproduct of a small city (granted, one apparently filled with yokels who hate anything tall and/or modern). The tallest building in Kingston wouldn't even crack the top 40 in Kansas City, a city not exactly known for having a large number of tall buildings. There's even a roller coaster in KC that's taller. And a World War I memorial. And a f***ing flag pole.

 

I lived in Ottawa until I was 15, so I was pretty young, but I don't remember any winter as bad as the one we just had in Kingston, except when we had the ice storm in (February, I think) 1998.

[The Cats Ass]

Can you guys stop voting for me? I'm not foreign and Ang's funny pictures and accidental jokes due to broken English make him a way better poster anyway.

 

We just feel you should get the recognition you deserve. You're a quality poster and we all love you.

[Boxcar]

We just feel you should get the recognition you deserve. You're a quality poster and we all love you.

 

Uh huh...

[TheHurl]

Thrilled to get nominated.

 

was there a most likely to disappear category...which you'd lose to Grant anyway

[burlingtonbandit]

I agree with all the pros, but everything being close is really just a byproduct of a small downtown. I do appreciate that I'm a 15-minute walk from my building on campus, less than 10 minutes away from a handful of great restaurants and bars, and a block away from the grocery store. But like I was saying, it just has that small college-town feel about it, and it's not for me. The last ~6 years I was living in Kansas City were spent in the urban core, so I'm just used to much, much more density, in both architecture, and people. The lack of tall buildings here really throws me off, which I know is a byproduct of a small city (granted, one apparently filled with yokels who hate anything tall and/or modern). The tallest building in Kingston wouldn't even crack the top 40 in Kansas City, a city not exactly known for having a large number of tall buildings. There's even a roller coaster in KC that's taller. And a World War I memorial. And a f***ing flag pole.

 

I lived in Ottawa until I was 15, so I was pretty young, but I don't remember any winter as bad as the one we just had in Kingston, except when we had the ice storm in (February, I think) 1998.

 

Last year's winter everywhere was pretty terrible so it wasn't really just Kingston. Like Ottawa's winter last year was worse than Kingston's. Kingston's tallest building is what 12 stories? Just the culture shock of going from KC to Kingston must be huge.

[Sammy225]

Best overall poster: Hurl

Funniest poster: BTS (Thinks he is good and that is funny to me)

Best foreign poster: Angrioter (Default win does not count)

Best rookie/new poster: Burlington

Comeback poster of the year: No Clue

Best looking/Most attractive poster: Boxy (I have a thing for Asians)

Best troll: Moogy

Best poster to get banned: Spanky

Best infrequent poster: Dunno

Thread of the year: The DDL Dynasty Thread Obviously

 

Also...

Worst overall poster: King (Can't forgive him for being the head of the Kalfus Klan)

Most annoying poster: DH (If he is still around)

[Inklink]

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/headshots/mlb/players/full/31048.png&w=350&h=254

 

Oh, and I completely forgot McGuire got traded. #forgettable

 

Black James Duthie??

[CHRIS]

was there a most likely to disappear category...which you'd lose to Grant anyway

 

I think Grant's waiting to watch the results of this poll come in on the radio.

[kcjaysfan]

Last year's winter everywhere was pretty terrible so it wasn't really just Kingston. Like Ottawa's winter last year was worse than Kingston's. Kingston's tallest building is what 12 stories? Just the culture shock of going from KC to Kingston must be huge.

 

Yeah, that's what I heard. I'd kind of gotten used to fairly mild winters in KC, so to come here and have to endure Kingston's winter from hell was not much fun. I think the tallest is around 16 or 17 stories, but that's still pretty short to me. I'd spend a couple years in a smaller college town in Missouri, so I thought I had an idea of what I was getting into. But while I had a lot of friends there, I knew no one when I moved here, so it was a pretty rough time.

[LongTimeReader]

Mine's a bit sketchy:

 

Best overall poster: Undecided... TBA

Funniest poster: G-Snarls / Ang / jaysblue / ECJF (lots of funny characters here)

Best foreign poster: Ang (don't know who else is foreign)

Best rookie/new poster: Governator / burlingtonbandit (not really sure though)

Comeback poster of the year: Dunno

Best looking/Most attractive poster: Jonn (avatar)

Best troll: FireAlexAnthopoulos / Moogy

Best poster to get banned: Me (what slimeball votes for themself?... too late)

Best infrequent poster: JFaS

Thread of the year: AL Wild Card | Oakland @ Kansas City

 

Also...

Worst overall poster: RealAccountant

Most annoying poster: comeon sense

[eastcoastjaysfan]

Grant posted some picture of himself with a tuba in the woods on Facebook a few months back so I'm pretty sure he's still alive.

[KingKat]

Best overall poster: G-Snarls (CatsAss gets honourable mention for being the poster I'm most likely to think is G-Snarls)

Hall of Fame: TheHurl, his charisma is how this whole community got started

Funniest poster: NJH isn't the funniest per say but I like his sens of humour, Ang has all the counting stats in this category

Best foreign poster: o2cui2i (Sweden counts right?)

Best rookie/new poster: burlingtonbandit

Comeback poster of the year: Ace3313 (thinking he was dead sucked). Honourable mention to Deadpool for coming back from a rather embarrassing meltdown)

Best looking/Most attractive poster: BTS

Best troll: FireAlexAnthopoulos (probably the board's truest troll)

Best poster to get banned: NJH

Best infrequent poster: RealMin

Worst thread of the year: The consolidated deadline thread because for awhile it was just TwistedLogic complaining that there was a consolidated deadline thread

Best thread: the Minor Leagues/Prospect is just a ridiculous fount of information

Poster most likely to make a knee jerk reaction to something: four way tie between Boxy, ECJF, Gruber92 and TwistedLogic

Poster I'd like to see return: Blurnandez (second year in a row)

 

[Boxcar]

Oh please. I make one knee jerk thread and now it haunts me. Jon Heyman does that kind of s*** all the time and he makes a good living.

[RealAccountant]

One day I will win poster of the year. One day.

 

First you get the poty

Then you get the respect

Then you get the female posters

;-)

[AdamGreenwood]

Oh please. I make one knee jerk thread and now it haunts me. Jon Heyman does that kind of s*** all the time and he makes a good living.

 

That's nothing. You should have seen the fallout I got from saying that Mark Teahen could play second base. Had to delete my account and start over.