FTA: He dressed the part. His first day at work he wore a gray Theory suit he had just bought for $950, a pair of Ferragamo loafers ($425) and a light blue BCBG button-down he'd had custom fitted.

Douche thread? I need to finish reading it, but it's already starting to make me think, "This was better when it was called 'American Psycho' and actually made me laugh".

just read the whole thing. waiting for the story to start. never did

Maybe it's just me but I thought that sucked.

That was a long-ass rambling story about how some guy wasted a few years in Buenos Aires because he was pouting about losing his job. And then a bunch more guys came in and did a whole bunch of blow. And then he went home. Woo.

Around October, when the economy went into free fall, a bunch of out-of-work finance guys in their 20s descended on Buenos Aires, where you can have the penthouse, the steak dinners and the bottle service at ridiculous nightclubs and still save money renting out your apartment in New York or London.

I skimmed the rest of the article looking for something uplifting, like the untimely and/or made-for-TV deaths of these guys, but it wasn't there. Not a good story.

Another vote for suckage.

Here's the Cliff Notes:

Guy loses banking job, goes to South America where he blows lots of money on hookers and coke. Then he goes home.

So let me get this straight. He got laid off, and the first thing he did was drop $1500 on three pair of shoes?

I wish I had come here for the Cliff's notes version before I started reading that.

It's an interesting glimpse into the finance culture.

Sarcastica75: FTA: He dressed the part. His first day at work he wore a gray Theory suit he had just bought for $950, a pair of Ferragamo loafers ($425) and a light blue BCBG button-down he'd had custom fitted.

Douche thread? I need to finish reading it, but it's already starting to make me think, "This was better when it was called 'American Psycho' and actually made me laugh".

You sound bitter

Masters of the Universe.

This is why the Free Market fails at every test.

Keep the pipe dream alive, Randians. God knows it's all you have.

Bored Horde: It's an interesting completely made-up glimpse into the finance culture. world of Playboy's horrible attempts at maintaining a fraction of their previous market share.

Fixed that for you.

/Dear Penthouse: I never thought this would happen to me, but...

meh....fiction

Complete waste of time. Don't bother.

WTF? That was the biggest waste of time.

Where the hell was the point?

I've read a few playboy articles and have been impressed... this one, however, sucked limp monkey dick...

Bored Horde: It's an interesting glimpse into the finance culture.

Sarcastica75: FTA: He dressed the part. His first day at work he wore a gray Theory suit he had just bought for $950, a pair of Ferragamo loafers ($425) and a light blue BCBG button-down he'd had custom fitted.

Douche thread? I need to finish reading it, but it's already starting to make me think, "This was better when it was called 'American Psycho' and actually made me laugh".

You sound bitter

Fail. The correct insult was "You sound fat".

/thanks for playing.

daychilde: WTF? That was the biggest waste of time.

Where the hell was the point?

I've read a few playboy articles and have been impressed... this one, however, sucked limp monkey dick...

I read this when it was first submitted, then have been off catching up on Daily Shows on Hulu. The only reason you didn't see your pretty much exact post at the top of this thread is I didn't want to push this crap to commented.

You know, I had a subscription to Playboy from 1975-2004; canceled it because the last few years the excellent writing and timely articles/interviews they had just turned to pure crap-and this is even crappier.

-5 votes and green lit..... meh..another Friday night for the Mods on Fark

/no really

I don't get it. This guy claims to love the "entrepreneurial spirit" of investment banking (forgiving, for the moment that there's nothing entrepreneurial about working for a huge farking mega-finance firm), loses his job, and all he can think to do is whine and escape to some banana republic where he can live out his adolescent fantasy of partying like it's 1989? I don't believe his cover story for a second-- "emerging markets" my arse. If there's no credit, there's no emerging market-- especially for snot-nosed ex-pats.

My wife actually hit it on the head. She said, "It's a Hemmingway story."

BlankReg: My wife actually hit it on the head. She said, "It's a Hemmingway story."

Minus any action.

BlankReg: I don't get it. This guy claims to love the "entrepreneurial spirit" of investment banking (forgiving, for the moment that there's nothing entrepreneurial about working for a huge farking mega-finance firm), loses his job, and all he can think to do is whine and escape to some banana republic where he can live out his adolescent fantasy of partying like it's 1989? I don't believe his cover story for a second-- "emerging markets" my arse. If there's no credit, there's no emerging market-- especially for snot-nosed ex-pats.

My wife actually hit it on the head. She said, "It's a Hemmingway story."

I actually felt sympathy for Hemingway's characters.

robmilmel: BlankReg: My wife actually hit it on the head. She said, "It's a Hemmingway story."

Minus any action.

Minus a real man.

Darth_Lukecash: robmilmel: BlankReg: My wife actually hit it on the head. She said, "It's a Hemmingway story."

Minus any action.

Minus a real man.

Okay, a hack Playboy writer writing about some tool who wants to live a Hemingway story, but only ever read the Cliff's notes.

/and minus the bullfighting
//where were the bulls mentioned in the title anyways?
///lots of bulls**t, but no bulls

" They all enjoyed a few snorts of coke, then had a threesome. "

meh.

Thanks for the bullet point and underwhelming story.

Can I get my time back for reading that shiat? Sounds like a whiny little biatch is having a hard time dealing with reality to me.

I think you guys are missing the point. The assholes who ruined the US economy are getting their asses kicked in Buenos Aires.

Hasta la vista, baby.

///Oh and you know who else ran to Buenos Aires after a gotterdammerung?

The main character of the story (and I'm using that term loosely) seems like a completely empty, soulless manchild. Cowboy the fark up and get on with your life, buddy.

Zzzzzz... no boobies. Me no likey.

Soulless scum.

"You're in Uruguay," they told him. "Medical care is free."

Ah, well... I would have enjoyed the story more hand this former MOTU met his timely demise for lack of medical insurance.

/ No, not really.

GAT_00: That was a long-ass rambling story about how some guy wasted a few years in Buenos Aires because he was pouting about losing his job. And then a bunch more guys came in and did a whole bunch of blow. And then he went home. Woo.

And poorly written to boot.

Donald_McRonald: BlankReg: I don't get it. This guy claims to love the "entrepreneurial spirit" of investment banking (forgiving, for the moment that there's nothing entrepreneurial about working for a huge farking mega-finance firm), loses his job, and all he can think to do is whine and escape to some banana republic where he can live out his adolescent fantasy of partying like it's 1989? I don't believe his cover story for a second-- "emerging markets" my arse. If there's no credit, there's no emerging market-- especially for snot-nosed ex-pats.

My wife actually hit it on the head. She said, "It's a Hemmingway story."

I actually felt sympathy for Hemingway's characters.

Especially that guy who lost his arms in the war.

That might be the worst article Playboy has ever published. What utter pointless bullshiat. Sounded like a terrible short story by the Bright Lights Big City author.

Reminds me of Kuwaitis dancing in Cairo during Gulf War I.

wait, no "tits or gtfo"?

And yeah. Poor wall street business men. Banished to Buenos Aires by their own collective stupidity.

the_be_sharps: So let me get this straight. He got laid off, and the first thing he did was drop $1500 on three pair of shoes?

And that is the mentality of the people on Wall St.? No wonder we are so farked

NYZooMan: Soulless scum.

God help me, but I agree with you here. That's no way for a human to live.

iron_city_ap: the_be_sharps: So let me get this straight. He got laid off, and the first thing he did was drop $1500 on three pair of shoes?

And that is the mentality of the people on Wall St.? No wonder we are so farked

They act like manic depressives with narcissistic personality disorder and the market runs on their mood swings. Might as well have Britney Spears in charge of the free market.

If anyone wonders why Playboy is going under, we have your answer.

The sad part of the story?

The rugby-and-coke farksticks managed to find their way back to the US in the end.

NewportBarGuy: Masters of the Universe.

This is why the Free Market fails at every test.

Keep the pipe dream alive, Randians. God knows it's all you have.

*shrugs*

Now I know why they have naked women in Playboy. The articles Farking suck.

TFA was written like the author was the one on coke.

Am I supposed to feel sorry for 20-somethings that make $200k+ their first year moving virtual piles of nothing around and pretending that each time the virtual nothing is moved, it gets larger and more valuable?

because I don't

The barbecue article was better.

First year post-bachelor's analysts don't make $200k. They make pretty stupid amounts of money, but not that much.

I thought there was going to be a happy part of the story when the useless, vile, worthless douchebag was poisoned and was going to left for dead but unfortunately he got better. Couldn't he have done the human race a favour and kindly expired thus relieving us all of the burden of his innate worthlessness.

Clock Spider Jerusalem: iron_city_ap: the_be_sharps: So let me get this straight. He got laid off, and the first thing he did was drop $1500 on three pair of shoes?

And that is the mentality of the people on Wall St.? No wonder we are so farked

They act like manic depressives with narcissistic personality disorder and the market runs on their mood swings. Might as well have Britney Spears in charge of the free market.

Oh gods, you have no idea. Try interviewing at b-schools and you'll likely vomit at the smarmy sense of entitlement and the "ends justifies the means" ideology. Most of these people have no redeeming qualities and are just parasites gleefully burning up other people's money.

daychilde 2009-07-04 01:18:12 AM
I've read a few playboy articles and have been impressed... this one, however, sucked limp monkey dick...

Yuck. That's a lot worse than hard monkey dick.

First playboy article i read. probably last one too.
meandering. must have been written by dude's high school friend, who is also a loser that has no real job.

Hau Ruck: I skimmed the rest of the article looking for something uplifting, like the untimely and/or made-for-TV deaths of these guys, but it wasn't there. Not a good story.

FTA: Batman would point a flashlight at a lucky lady, illuminating her shadow against the wall before the romance ensued; Spider-Man would jerk off in his hand and cast out his progeny in a fashion similar to the way his namesake unleashes his web.

At least these tools are out of the country.

Gave up after page two.

wow. what a craptastical load of fail. reads like one of those fake letters in Hustler.
oh, and by the way, Buenos Aires sites on the shores of the Rio de la Plata and is miles and miles away from the ocean. the farking thing is so wide you cant see the other side. if they had bothered to pull their heads out of their coke sodden asses they might have noticed BA is a pretty cool town full of really wonderful people.

What he wrote is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in his rambling, incoherent writings did he approach anything even close to an interesting story. Everyone in this thread is now dumber for having read it. He is awarded no points, and may God have mercy on his soul.

Hmm, all these farkers commenting seem to be either blue collar or low paying IT.

hnlzero: Hmm, all these farkers commenting seem to be either blue collar or low paying IT.

You draw this conclusion because everybody has been noting how TFA was a pile of incoherent crap?

Having been visting FARK for 5+ years I have never read anything here more pointless than this link.

Subby? What's the point of it? Some rich young guy gets fired and pisses away money in Argentina?

bfd.

Sherry Bobbins approves.

If there was ever a time to actually read a Playboy article, this is it

So then there's never a time to actually read a Playboy article.

Haven't been to Argentina. Have been to a lot of other places, including several where the dollar goes a long, long way (or did when I was there). Here's my take-away:

This guy was very invested in the US economy, and when it started falling apart, he was smart enough to look at emerging economies, developing countries, and so on. Seriously, I've thought of doing something similar.

However, he wasn't smart enough to rein in his spending. If you're burning through 10K a month, and you all of a sudden only need to burn, say, 2K a month, the correct answer is NOT to spend the other 8K on hookers and blow.

I'm more at the 2K a month level in the US, and even so I know friends other places who, on one quarter as much, have a nice apartment, car, etc. Hell, one girl I know just told be she's saved up and bought land - and she makes as much in a month as I make in 2-3 days.

Seems to me he got what he had coming.

Great article. I kinda disliked all those wall street financial guys before. Now I farking hate them. Get some real problems and don't cry to me about partying in South America for 2 years while not doing a damned thing to retrain yourself. Get a goddamned electrician degree you useless twat and actually work for a living.

The headline is a lie.

Man, I was wondering if it was just me who hated this article. I couldn't make any sense out of it, or understand why I should care.

Apparently, no one else cares, either. I feel better now.

hnlzero: Hmm, all these farkers commenting seem to be either blue collar or low paying IT.

Yeah, strangely enough there are still some people left in the states with some sort of unwholesome obsession with making stuff and being useful. Doancha just hate farkers like that? I guess they haven't heard the news that the world is "post-industrial" now. Cuz food and stuff just manifests itself out of the aether.

I feel like I've been rickrolled.

SupremeLeader: The same idiots who think than Gordon Gekko and Patrick Bateman are role models to emulate got fired due to the free market forces?

Funny stuff. Funny stuff.

It reminds me of an engineer at work who described himself as a "Republican with libertarian leanings" and who was fanatically for the free market, Ayn Rand, and all that jazz.

When the inevitable layoffs came, he was the first to be fired and security escorted him out.

Those who live by "Atlas Shrugged", die by "Atlas Shrugged."

I worked for an engineer who said that every problem could be solved by the market, but that government muddled everything.

The company received lots of local taxpayer money and rent subsidies, as well as state grants.

(That's different.)

hnlzero: Hmm, all these farkers commenting seem to be either blue collar or low paying IT.

Worse: pink collar.

I would happily cut the subject of the article.

I think subby was the author.

That story said things but never really went anywhere. I still don't know how babby is formed.

The story went better when I read the first couple paragraphs then added "I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "Fresh" and there were dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought, naw, forget it, yo holmes to Bel-Air. I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and said to the cabbie "Yo holmes smell ya later." Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air."

General Motors makes cars. They may be crappy, but at least they actually make something. Nobody on Wall Street ever made anything, fark them.

So happy that douchebags are now our main export to Argentina.

/not really

Douche and his douche friends spend tons of money they don't have and really douche it up. He searches in vain for his soul but quickly realizes that he doesn't have one--and never will. Essentially confirming what everyone already knows about New Yorkers and/or any banker anywhere.

I remember taking a writing class 10 years ago, where the professor said "If you want to write a story that will keep people's attention, your character has to be either sympathetic or fascinating"

Clearly, the writer of this story did not have the same professor.

atomic-age: hnlzero: Hmm, all these farkers commenting seem to be either blue collar or low paying IT.

Worse: pink collar.


And you can tell this how?

BlankReg: I don't get it. This guy claims to love the "entrepreneurial spirit" of investment banking (forgiving, for the moment that there's nothing entrepreneurial about working for a huge farking mega-finance firm), loses his job, and all he can think to do is whine and escape to some banana republic where he can live out his adolescent fantasy of partying like it's 1989? I don't believe his cover story for a second-- "emerging markets" my arse. If there's no credit, there's no emerging market-- especially for snot-nosed ex-pats.

My wife actually hit it on the head. She said, "It's a Hemmingway story."

I-banking actually is rather entrepreneurial. Unless you're in the business, it's difficult to explain.

/institutional salesman