Back in a prior life I was working for JNJ around 2007 or 2008 I sat through a presentation from some consultant in a room full of old school traditional culture folks and she dropped “sexy” with flair probably a dozen times. The cringe in the room was so painful I still have it on recall.
Remember when jobs where done by humans? Good times, good times
tailwind/headwind
The most depressing thing about this thread is the number of terms I’ve probably used at some point over the years
Are you becoming an Americanized bozo like the rest of us?
^ I think I have. I recently ended a sentence with “real quick”
Although waiters/waitresses still occasionally circle the 20% suggested gratuity on the bill so I’ve not gone full yank yet.
^ If someone says that, it almost never is…
Presumably as opposed to artificial quick.
Honestly, I hate “correlation”, simply because it’s typically used ambiguously.
Finance people talk about the “correlation of assets”. What does that mean? The correlation of their returns? The correlation of their prices? The correlation of their latitudes (or longitudes)?
The problem, of course, is that the speaker has no idea what he or she means, and it morphs into whatever they want.
Idiots!
lol why complicate it. correlation is about a direct relationship, an inverse relationship, or no relationships.
but if ur single and ready to mingle then you should be down for the british pound! amirite?
I also can’t stand “correlation” because, invariably, those that say it (even if they specify the two variables) often confuse the word for the either the magnitude and/or time series sequence concentration effects they are really trying to describe. A similar complaint is people that say “volatility” when what they’re really trying to describe is drawdown or some other measure.
Circle back…
circle jerk
I’ve heard a few talking about snacking recently. for example, I’ll send round the analysis and we can all snack on it.
I actually quite like it.
Having an appetite for something.
There is a bonds salesman sitting behind me at work and he says at least once a day “I’ll check with my manager if we have appetite for this kind of risk”. And at least once a day I want to punch him square in the face.
Because this is a forum for finance types, and finance types get this wrong a lot, to the detriment of their clients.
Here’s an idea:
When I was in the 8th grade I had just moved and was the new kid at school. In math class one day one of the bigger kids was constantly pestering me, and when I told him to stop he stood up, pointed to his chin, and said, “C’mon! Hit me right here!”
I whipped around and slapped him as hard as I could. You could hear it at the far end of campus.
He walked around school the rest of the day with the whole left side of his face bright red.
Lets take this offline
You can take the boy out of Scotland but you can’t take Scotland out of the boy.
Having said that, a headbutt would have been the more traditional response.