# God-Damned mother-effing coward investors. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 16, 2004, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610 "2004-03-16T10:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/1 "2004-03-16T10:39:37Z")
[Terror nerves batter Wall Street](http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3514726.stm) > [@](#): > > Further fears of al-Qaeda involvement in last week’s Madrid terror attacks have battered Wall Street once again. > > The Dow Jones share index, which last week lost more than 3% of its value, closed down 1.3% at 10,102.89 points. [Bomb attack hits stocks worldwide](http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3504148.stm) > [@](#): > > The Dow Jones share index, which last week lost more than 3% of its value, closed down 1.3% at 10,102.89 points. [This morning’s snapshot of the markets](http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/default.stm) > [@](#): > > **FTSE 100** 4400.90 -12.00 > **Dax** 3787.62 -23.14 > **Cac 40** 3552.58 -21.26 > **Dow Jones** 10102.89 -137.19 > **Nasdaq** 1939.20 -45.53 > **S&P 500** 1104.49 -16.08 You disgusting, sniveling little cowards. Yeah, capitulating to the monsters that just killed hundreds of people is the right thing to do. You have played into their hands. You have acted just as they desired. Yes, the terrorists have won, because investors lack the fucking balls to stand up for themselves. You are a spineless excuse for human beings, and after an act like this you deserve nothing but the scorn and hatred of any future victims of terrorist slaughter. _Spits in the face of all those who aided Al Qaeda financiers by allowing them to sell short in a market that is **guaranteed to fall** because of chickenshit investors and fund managers trying to protect their own asses_ Yes this is a [parody](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=245065). But it has a point, I think you’ll agree. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/2 "2004-03-16T10:46:54Z")
Geez **jjimm** , I’m glad I read the fine print in your ‘prospectus’. I had a horrid feeling that you’d gone all bloody righteously cappo on us. Sweet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/3 "2004-03-16T10:51:09Z")
_wipes away a tear_ Bravo, bravo… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/4 "2004-03-16T10:55:08Z")
If the market’s guaranteed to fall, then what are you doing here posting? You should be pawning off your wedding ring (after you get it out of your nostril, of course) in order to buy more put options, ya spineless Limey git. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/5 "2004-03-16T11:01:54Z")
There is growing evidence, that I just made up, which shows that most of these investors are Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/6 "2004-03-16T11:04:17Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > If the market’s guaranteed to fall, then what are you doing here posting? You should be pawning off your wedding ring (after you get it out of your nostril, of course) in order to buy more put options, ya spineless Limey git. 😉 Well of course I mean it was guaranteed to fall in between Wednesday and Thursday. It’s not necessarily guaranteed to keep on falling (though it clearly is). And my wedding ring’s only worth €100. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/7 "2004-03-16T11:05:23Z")
Capitalism over Democracy. Investor’s rights are not to be questioned. Unlike voters. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/8 "2004-03-16T11:25:49Z")
American investors are all whining, snivelling fucking cowards who’ll do anything, anything at all to appease the terrorists. Who needs the fuckers? They’ve probably got money invested in France anyway. Go Bush! ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/9 "2004-03-16T12:04:42Z")
Ironically, investors actually _are_ swayed significantly by events such as bombings. (Just witness the downturn post 9/11.) As such this OP is actually more valid than the one it parodies. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/10 "2004-03-16T12:04:50Z")
_stuffing notes under my mattress_ Couldn’t agree more jjimm, filthy traitors! ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damned-mother-effing-coward-investors/234610/11 "2004-03-16T14:29:06Z")
I bought stocks yesterday. _glances left and right_