Man goes on an all meat-and-dairy “carnivore diet” promoted online, winds up with such high cholesterol that it started oozing out of his hands.
Allow me to present Geoff Young, a finalist in the Schadenfreude Sweepstakes.
This dipwad won the Democratic nomination for Congress in 2022 in my Kentucky district, losing to the incumbent in the general election in a squeaker, 63-34%. His bizarre views didn’t help.
Now Young is in the news again, suing a currency exchange outfit after taking a bath on an investment in 22 million Russian rubles that cost him a big chunk of his life savings.
Great timing there, Geoff!
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article299234054.html
Perhaps the money he has left can buy a very teeny violin so we can all play a sad song for him while he cries into his straight vodka-tequila cocktail.
What’s the deal with his allegation that FOREX forced him to sell his rubles? The article doesn’t offer any more detail. Why would they force him to sell?
That was a month after the war started.
There may have been some sort of sanction placed by the USA on US people or businesses owning or trading rubles. Which would have forced forex.com to divest all the positions they were holding on behalf of their customers. I reiterate may; I do not know for sure & am disinclined to research right now.
If my surmise is accurate, he may have been able to sidestep that by transferring his holdings to a non-US trading firm. The e.g. Indians definitely were disinclined to play along with any Western sanctions from the git-go. If he wasn’t smart enough to do that, well, …, maybe he should not be trading FOREX with his “life savings”.
Gym teacher gets into a car accident on the way to work but leaves the scene so he can drop his kid off at school and get to his teaching job.
He blew a 0.40. 5 times the limit.
Drunk School bus driver. Won’t let the kids off the bus so they call 911.
Another possibility would be a straight-up margin call. If he was leveraged long in rubles and the ruble-dollar exchange rate took a dive, he might have had a margin call from his broker to force him to either put up more collateral or take a forced sale.
That’s pretty much true of everyone, but doubly so in this case.
In court on Monday, the court Commissioner could not believe Randall Villarreal was drunk before 8 o’clock in the morning.
Clearly the Commissioner just moved to Waukesha over the weekend.
About a decade ago, there was a Wisconsin state legislator who killed a woman and injured another while driving with a .20 BAC. He was not convicted of anything because “they shouldn’t have been walking in the street”, and, in Wisconsin, .20 BAC is Wednesday afternoon, 3pm.
Wednesday at 3 in the afternoon? They were probably business drunk, totally legal to drive.
Looking at the exchange rates when he bought and sold, it looks like he lost 30%. That stings, but it’s not like he was bankrupted.
Depends on how much leverage he was running.
People too smart to make mistakes tend to make doozies. See also “Mr. Inconceivable” from Princess Bride.
The legendary LSD maker Augustus Owsley Stanley followed such a diet. He swore off all plant foods forever. Lived on nothing but meat, milk, butter, and eggs. Gross immoderation.
I’ve heard of other people on an animal products-only diet, but I’ve never before heard of anyone eating sticks of butter.
Given some of the things I’ve seen these nutbags eat, an entire stick of butter is downright normal.
I’ve heard tell of state fair fry booths offering deep-fried sticks of butter. Excuse me while I go vomit.
Also, a coworkers young child was on chemo and I think she was practically feeding him entire sticks of butter to keep his weight up.
When I was young, dinner was often an entire large pizza washed down with calorie dense protein shakes in a desperate attempt to gain weight. When I first got to 6’3", I was 135 lbs. 28" waist, 36" inseams. It wasn’t until my 30s that I broke 160. All of that and no chemo.
I wish I could still eat like that at times!
That can also explain why he was “forced to sell”, if he got margin called.