Author: ontheball1

Korean Young Men

There’s Demons Outside My Front Door I’m going to make a 10,000-piece puzzle that when you finish it, it says, “Go Outside” Comedian Dmitri Martin Someone should think about making this type of puzzle in East Asia, it should sell. Why? The disease of extreme social reclusiveness known as hikikomori is taking over to the […]

Scary Movies

The Creepiest Movies You Haven’t Seen When I’m not writing, investing or reading I like to unwind by watching a movie, but every time trying to find a movie it’s always 45 minutes of searching. Movies seem to fall into the categories of I’ve seen it, I’m not in the mood or that looks stupid. […]

ALNY

In The Laboratory, Studying Bubbles There is a lot of effort to find the next big stock to buy now or get in while it’s still hot but it’s quite difficult to find people to find people advocating to sell short now. Of course, it’s a such a game of timing and with the market […]

Silver Play

The Production Problem: A Silver Set up Silver production has a unique trait that many may not be familiar. It’s that it’s majority production are not done by silver miners. Instead, the silver that comes about is a byproduct of lead or zinc mining, which accounts for 65-70% of the amount of silver produced yearly. […]

Nova Scotia

78 years old & Back to School I have a relative by marriage who is from Nova Scotia and is excited to be deriving from the Nova Scotia Teachers Pension. They seemed so confident that they are secure & set for life and arrogantly I figured I’d take a look (already knowing that pensions around […]

Jokes Vol 4.

Jokes Volume 4 Joke #1: The Soviet A Russian, a Frenchman, and an Englishman are in an art museum admiring a painting of Adam and Eve in the gardens of Eden. The Englishman takes a look at the painting and says “They look so calm, they must be British!” The Frenchmen responds “no no! They’re […]

Serbia

OnTheBall Travels (Serbia) It’s an old place, covered in graffiti and it’s falling apart–but I like it Serbia… always something going on. We travelled here for over a week by bus from Hungary. Serbia has become an interesting place to get a flavour of Europe without spending your entire savings account. Read about our Hungary […]

Pok a Tok

Soccer or Football? Neither! You may have thought this article is a pissing contest on whether it should be named soccer or football–some have tried extensively to argue one name over the other. Although none of them go far as back as the similar game of Pok-a-Tok. It sounds like a Chinese microwaveable meal, but […]

Now, Jokes Require Certification

Digital Gulag for me… It is stuff like this that have motivated me to launch On The Ball. There is an immense amount of censorship on the internet and the space where we share information. I’m well aware I’m not the only person who had been censored on Twitter daily, it seems to be a […]