24 replies to this topic

[Big_Willie_Styles]

I'm new here.  My name here is my typical handle Internet-wide (although I have a few random ones for Twitter and Blogger,) so if you've seen a Big_Willie_Styles in another place, it was probably me.

 

I got the name at a summer program.  Didn't find out until months later it was a nickname Will Smith gave himself.  I just thought it was cool.  I was a big dude named William.  Didn't realize the sexual joke until later.  But you can call me Mista Styles if yo' nasty.

 

I'm the Resident Pokemon Super Nerd, political and economic wonk extraordinaire, Zelda fanboy, and overall Knower-Of-Things.

 

Glad to be here.

[Akiyo]

Whaa~ You're so many things all at once! 

 

I'm very glad to meet you Mista Styles!

[ageekygirllikeme]

Welcome Hope you have fun here.

[Big_Willie_Styles]

Thanks and plan to, respectively.

[fae]

Welcome
So what kind of things do you know?

[Sethre]

Welcome to the forums.

[Big_Willie_Styles]

Welcome
So what kind of things do you know?

Anything that interests me, which is a lot of things.

 

I'm a general pop culture buff outside of sports (can never watch something so similar over and over again and stats bore me but I know some things about it.)

 

I'm deeply ingrained in current events and philosophical economic theory.  People like F. A. Hayek.

 

I debate economic policy and theory for fun.  It's my anti-drug.  I get high off it, basically.

[fae]

Anything that interests me, which is a lot of things.

 

I'm a general pop culture buff outside of sports (can never watch something so similar over and over again and stats bore me but I know some things about it.)

 

I'm deeply ingrained in current events and philosophical economic theory.  People like F. A. Hayek.

 

I debate economic policy and theory for fun.  It's my anti-drug.  I get high off it, basically.

oookay.. I mean I know things too but I'm not at all up to date on most things. so what is pop culture? I won't even ask about the rest xD

[Rejected]

Haha, NERD

[Calvary]

Milton is where it's at, yo. Milton, Friedman and Keynes are the big three.

 

Love to see a political nut! Welcome.

[SpleenBeGone]

Welcome to the forum.

[Big_Willie_Styles]

Milton is where it's at, yo. Milton, Friedman and Keynes are the big three.

 

Love to see a political nut! Welcome.

Hayek turned out to be right.  Friedman rode his coat-tails, saying the exact same things as him only three decades later.  He got all the credit that Hayek deserved for destroying Keynes (which he did while Keynes was actually still alive, so there.)  Hayek lived to see the fail of the Soviet Union, something he predicted for the precise reason it fell back in the '40s.  He's a BAMF is what I'm saying.

 

And the Chicago school made a lot of errors in judgment.  They differed with the Austrian school on the Federal Reserve.  The Austrians hated that the Federal Reserve controls the interest rate and not the free market.  And the housing boom and bust proved the Austrians right on that point.  Unfortunately, those who hold the Austrian torch today are all of the "uncle you only see during family get-togethers" crazy.
 

I noticed there doesn't seem to be a "politics" section on this forum.  Might you point me in the right direction?

[Big_Willie_Styles]

oookay.. I mean I know things too but I'm not at all up to date on most things. so what is pop culture? I won't even ask about the rest xD

Movies, music, TV, the Internet, YouTube, politics, etc.

 

Also, you a fan of "Lost Girl"?  I suspect with a name like "fae" you'd have to be.

[Akiyo]

Hayek turned out to be right.  Friedman rode his coat-tails, saying the exact same things as him only three decades later.  He got all the credit that Hayek deserved for destroying Keynes (which he did while Keynes was actually still alive, so there.)  Hayek lived to see the fail of the Soviet Union, something he predicted for the precise reason it fell back in the '40s.  He's a BAMF is what I'm saying.

 

And the Chicago school made a lot of errors in judgment.  They differed with the Austrian school on the Federal Reserve.  The Austrians hated that the Federal Reserve controls the interest rate and not the free market.  And the housing boom and bust proved the Austrians right on that point.  Unfortunately, those who hold the Austrian torch today are all of the "uncle you only see during family get-togethers" crazy.
 

I noticed there doesn't seem to be a "politics" section on this forum.  Might you point me in the right direction?

Whaaat was that. Perhaps there really should be a section for politics and debates xD I didn't understand anything you just said! I'm gonna blame it on my norwegianess.

[Big_Willie_Styles]

Whaaat was that. Perhaps there really should be a section for politics and debates xD I didn't understand anything you just said! I'm gonna blame it on my norwegianess.

I crafted my debating skills over years of being in minority opinion, taking on groups of five at once.  And kicking their asses just the same.

[Affray]

Welcome.

I too am a knower of things, generally in varied and dissimilar topics.

[fae]

Movies, music, TV, the Internet, YouTube, politics, etc.

 

Also, you a fan of "Lost Girl"?  I suspect with a name like "fae" you'd have to be.

Ok I know some things about that as well

 

I like the series I guess but I used that name long before that series

[Big_Willie_Styles]

Ok I know some things about that as well

 

I like the series I guess but I used that name long before that series

Hale was in the "RoboCop" reboot by the way (which I thought was better than the original.)

[twa]

I will never tire of this image. Welcome aboard. 

[Calvary]

There's no politics section as of yet dude, potentially raucous topics tend to be suppressed but now and again something pops up in Everything Else and it's usually pretty fun.