[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
I don’t care if their pussy shoots lightening[/quote]
She should probably go get that checked…
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Yea I have treated a lot of VD and helped with a few births.
But lightening? Dont know how to fix that. [/quote]
Benjamin Franklin knew how to fix that!
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
When people make filing their returns like pulling teeth.
I fucking asked for Real Estate Taxes paid, not your god damn life insurance premium. [/quote]
I just got (today) my last batch of K-1s in for various partnerships I am in. Complicated stuff, with drilling intangibles, bonus depreciation, etc. I think there were 12. Plus mineral interests, a company that went public, etc.
My accountant just kind of stared at me with a mixture of loathing and disgust.[/quote]
The worst, lol. That’s “missing dinner and bedtime with the kids” in our world.
I feel so bad for that bastard.
Watched a very young girl driving a new Maserati - Her attempt to back out of a perpendicular parking space became a 9-point turn driving fail. Why buy that car for a kid who can’t drive? Let her do that in an old Camry, or maybe a Focus. We see this all the time here.
Seeing the elementary school science fair projects that look like they’ve been completed by a PhD. What is the point of that? Everybody knows that wasn’t completed by your sixth-grader.
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Seeing the elementary school science fair projects that look like they’ve been completed by a PhD. What is the point of that? Everybody knows that wasn’t completed by your sixth-grader.
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This in particular has grinded my gears over and over again.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
When people make filing their returns like pulling teeth.
I fucking asked for Real Estate Taxes paid, not your god damn life insurance premium. [/quote]
I just got (today) my last batch of K-1s in for various partnerships I am in. Complicated stuff, with drilling intangibles, bonus depreciation, etc. I think there were 12. Plus mineral interests, a company that went public, etc.
My accountant just kind of stared at me with a mixture of loathing and disgust.[/quote]
The worst, lol. That’s “missing dinner and bedtime with the kids” in our world.
I feel so bad for that bastard. [/quote]
Aren’t there computer programs like Turbo Tax that can do all that for you?
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Watched a very young girl driving a new Maserati - Her attempt to back out of a perpendicular parking space became a 9-point turn driving fail. Why buy that car for a kid who can’t drive? Let her do that in an old Camry, or maybe a Focus. We see this all the time here.
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I know a guy who is an absolute car nut.
According to him, some Maseratis are almost undriveable.
Now this guy owned an Audi RS 4 for the longest time that had 350 or so horses under the hood without ze spezials kicking in, but Maseratis…
No…
[quote]doogie wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
When people make filing their returns like pulling teeth.
I fucking asked for Real Estate Taxes paid, not your god damn life insurance premium. [/quote]
I just got (today) my last batch of K-1s in for various partnerships I am in. Complicated stuff, with drilling intangibles, bonus depreciation, etc. I think there were 12. Plus mineral interests, a company that went public, etc.
My accountant just kind of stared at me with a mixture of loathing and disgust.[/quote]
The worst, lol. That’s “missing dinner and bedtime with the kids” in our world.
I feel so bad for that bastard. [/quote]
Aren’t there computer programs like Turbo Tax that can do all that for you?[/quote]
Yes and no.
Like just about anything, whether it be Turbo Tax or professional tax prep software that costs tens of thousands a year… Garbage in, garbage out.
You have to know what you are looking at, and how to handle it.
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Watched a very young girl driving a new Maserati. We see this all the time here.
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Wow, what part of the country are you in? Here in south Mississippi I never see Maserati’s at all. I certainly don’t see young people driving them. In the rural area I live in a “spoiled” kid gets a jacked up four-wheel drive.
[quote]Dr J wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Watched a very young girl driving a new Maserati. We see this all the time here.
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Wow, what part of the country are you in? Here in south Mississippi I never see Maserati’s at all. I certainly don’t see young people driving them. In the rural area I live in a “spoiled” kid gets a jacked up four-wheel drive.[/quote]
Yeah, your experience sounds a bit more like where I grew up in rural New Mexico.
I’m in coastal Orange County, CA. We get a lot of really wealthy people from Asia and the Middle East who buy condos and homes here so their kids can go to high school and college in the US. They tend to buy their kids luxury cars even though they are just learning to drive. Some of these kids have a lot of money. For example, I taught a group of the top science and math scholars from Qatar this summer. If they can get accepted to college here, their country will pay for their education AND give them $100,000 per year in spending money for maintaining a B average. That’s a lot of cash for an 18-year-old college kid. About Maserati, they seem to be the new Acura or BMW here. For some reason, they seem to have become really popular over the past year or so.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Watched a very young girl driving a new Maserati
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Reminded me of something I witnessed a couple years ago. We were doing a job on the north side of Lake Mead near Vegas for the National Park Service.
Twisting two lane road through the desert.
Rock slide had dumped a basketball sized rock on road. A caravan of Lamborghinis were headed down the hill to marina. First one smacks that rock at about 45 mph – whole car heaves with terrific, sickening thump as it hits the rock with front end. Wasn’t pretty. [/quote]
Oh, I bet that was a sickening thing to see. Wow. That could have killed someone. We saw someone wreck one a few weeks ago. When the light turned green he accelerated into a left-hand turn, lost control of it and the rear-end of his car started swinging around. He macked the front end into a median full or shrubbery. Those things are so low to the ground, it dented up pretty bad.
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Seeing the elementary school science fair projects that look like they’ve been completed by a PhD. What is the point of that? Everybody knows that wasn’t completed by your sixth-grader.
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This in particular has grinded my gears over and over again.[/quote]
Then we feel suckered into helping our kids more so their project doesn’t stand out as the lamest one because they actually did it themselves. It’s part of the race to nowhere I tell ya!
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Watched a very young girl driving a new Maserati - Her attempt to back out of a perpendicular parking space became a 9-point turn driving fail. Why buy that car for a kid who can’t drive? Let her do that in an old Camry, or maybe a Focus. We see this all the time here.
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I know a guy who is an absolute car nut.
According to him, some Maseratis are almost undriveable.
Now this guy owned an Audi RS 4 for the longest time that had 350 or so horses under the hood without ze spezials kicking in, but Maseratis…
No…[/quote]
Well… At least the girl was just slowly lurching around the parking lot slowing down traffic. Here’s a local crash. Young man who just started driving, didn’t have a license…Overconfidence. Car vs. tree. Abdulrahman Alyahyan: Driver in fiery crash that killed 4 teens had no driver's license | Daily Mail Online
Losing a contract on a house sale you’re already taking a $20K loss on because some nit picky home inspector notes a bunch of dumb shit the buyer wanted fixed that there was no fucking way I was fixing. They would of had a built in $20K gain + a 3 year old $10K roof + a brand new re-modeled bath room. People are so fucking stupid.
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Watched a very young girl driving a new Maserati - Her attempt to back out of a perpendicular parking space became a 9-point turn driving fail. Why buy that car for a kid who can’t drive? Let her do that in an old Camry, or maybe a Focus. We see this all the time here.
[/quote]
I know a guy who is an absolute car nut.
According to him, some Maseratis are almost undriveable.
Now this guy owned an Audi RS 4 for the longest time that had 350 or so horses under the hood without ze spezials kicking in, but Maseratis…
No…[/quote]
Well… At least the girl was just slowly lurching around the parking lot slowing down traffic. Here’s a local crash. Young man who just started driving, didn’t have a license…Overconfidence. Car vs. tree. Abdulrahman Alyahyan: Driver in fiery crash that killed 4 teens had no driver's license | Daily Mail Online
Trees can take serious punishment.
Even rather young trees take a head on collision quite well.
The cars, not so much.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Losing a contract on a house sale you’re already taking a $20K loss on because some nit picky home inspector notes a bunch of dumb shit the buyer wanted fixed that there was no fucking way I was fixing. They would of had a built in $20K gain + a 3 year old $10K roof + a brand new re-modeled bath room. People are so fucking stupid. [/quote]
You must not forget, people do not know what they do not know.
Could be all kinds of nasty surprises under the hood.
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Losing a contract on a house sale you’re already taking a $20K loss on because some nit picky home inspector notes a bunch of dumb shit the buyer wanted fixed that there was no fucking way I was fixing. They would of had a built in $20K gain + a 3 year old $10K roof + a brand new re-modeled bath room. People are so fucking stupid. [/quote]
You must not forget, people do not know what they do not know.
Could be all kinds of nasty surprises under the hood.
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No, it’s a deal!
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]doogie wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
When people make filing their returns like pulling teeth.
I fucking asked for Real Estate Taxes paid, not your god damn life insurance premium. [/quote]
I just got (today) my last batch of K-1s in for various partnerships I am in. Complicated stuff, with drilling intangibles, bonus depreciation, etc. I think there were 12. Plus mineral interests, a company that went public, etc.
My accountant just kind of stared at me with a mixture of loathing and disgust.[/quote]
The worst, lol. That’s “missing dinner and bedtime with the kids” in our world.
I feel so bad for that bastard. [/quote]
Aren’t there computer programs like Turbo Tax that can do all that for you?[/quote]
Yes and no.
Like just about anything, whether it be Turbo Tax or professional tax prep software that costs tens of thousands a year… Garbage in, garbage out.
You have to know what you are looking at, and how to handle it. [/quote]
Just fucking with you.
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
It is interesting how some women will feel perfectly justified in ignoring or shutting down physical affection from their husbands, but they would never think of withholding physical affection from their kids. Weird how that works. There’s a total disconnect. [/quote]
That’s because it seems to me a lot of couples become parents who are married, rather than a married couple who are parents.
There is a difference
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For sure.
This got me thinking about bonding both with our kids, which any mom can completely relate to, and bonding with our spouse. I teach my psychology students about oxytocin and how so much of what we think of as emotional behavior is related to our hormones. There’s a biology to it. Interesting that it’s really important in mother/baby bonding, but also in marital bonding and fidelity. I saw a study where men in relationships, when given oxytocin as a nasal spray, stood further away from an attractive woman. That’s cool, right? Like cuddling with your spouse helps insulate you from infidelity. It’s reinforced by a biological mechanism there. As relates to the issue Pat brought up, oxytocin it’s sometimes called the “love hormone.” If physical intimacy gives married people a hit of oxytocin, it’s more evidence that sex is “the glue.”
Just another thought here. I think we often assume that this stuff should be effortless when that’s rarely the case. Couples who have awesome food at home spend some time planning and shopping and preparing it. My hubs wishes I’d spend more time on this! People who are really organized, spend some time and mental energy on that. People who have a really great physique, or even just maintain their weight as they age, spend some time and mental energy on that.
Similarly, couples who are still HOT for each other, or have strong, healthy relationships after 10, 15, 20 years - They spend some time and mental energy on that. As far as taking advantage of oxytocin, you could do an experiment where you tried just climbing into bed together and spooning and talking a few times a week. Doing that naked would be better because there’s something magical about skin to skin contact for human bonding, and it’s a reminder that physical intimacy is the ONE thing that separates your marriage relationship from all the other relationships in your life. That alone would probably keep most couples from feeling physically disconnected. I think there’s some power in just saying “You know those couples who are still HOT for each other? Lets be like that.”
Anyway, those are my thoughts on it this morning. Problem solving this might be different for everybody, depending on how healthy the relationship is.
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You know, we should clone you and hook your clones up with every single guy out there. You’re just a whole nother level of awesome 
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Seeing the elementary school science fair projects that look like they’ve been completed by a PhD. What is the point of that? Everybody knows that wasn’t completed by your sixth-grader.
[/quote]
This in particular has grinded my gears over and over again.[/quote]
Oooo, that drives me nuts. It’s not even that the parents did it; it’s that the teacher knows there is no possible way a kid can do the project so they are grading the kid on what their parents do. Then there’s the one poor kid who actually did it himself and he gets a worse grade than his counter parts whose parents did the project.
How does giving parents a project teach the kids anything?