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  1. We were at a Symphony Christmas concert last night and they closed with Fairytale of New York in honor of MacGowan. The conductor is Irish and really did a great job handling the lyrics. Not sure many people there had a clue what he was talking about as he explained what the song and the Pogues meant to him, but it was well done.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Gut Wagon said:

    Of course. They've not been good at all against the spread this year (4-7-1 vs. our 6-6), but they've still won every week. Were they not the 2X defending champs, I'm not sure this year's play would have earned them their current No. 1 ranking. But such a great track record going into 2023 reinforced the media and fans' perception that Georgia always will find a way to win, no matter what.

    Even in close games they aren't really seen as being in trouble. I mean, they had a game last night in a rival's stadium, but nobody seemed to be on "upset alert" even when the score was close. Few other teams (Bama among them) would get that same benefit of the doubt by the fans or media. Again, it's perception rooted as much in the past few years of history as in Georgia's performance so far this fall. I just don't know if such biases subconsciously enter into the committee's thinking, whether for or against a team.

    To be fair they started off at 2 and moved to 1 in week 3 when they throttled Mizzou and Ole Miss back to back. I would say 40-1 over 3 seasons and the current year performance earns them some benefit of the doubt, but seriously who are you ranking ahead of them right now? If you’re trying to argue them behind TX if they lose, then just go with the conference champ argument. To question their standing as of right now and argue media bias is just dumb based on any metric you look at.

  3. 2 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

    We haven't trailed much at all this year. Credit to our fast starts, as per usual with Sark scripting the attack. I think UGA tends to get a media mulligan for past achievements and will continue to until they finally lose. 

    It’s a very odd take with a team that has no losses that they are living on past achievements until they lose Wouldn't they also be living on current achievements by definition since they are undefeated?

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  4. Wife came into the bedroom last night a few minutes after 11 PM with her phone trying to buy something online. The online deal went live at 12 PM EST on 11/24. She couldn’t figure out why she couldn’t get it to work and had already tried her computer as well. I mean, I guess I’m impressed she knew that CST was an hour behind.

  5. Did a 12 pounder on the BGE. Brined all day yesterday in a Cajun brine mix, air dried overnight, attempted to smoke it this morning but temps got away from me so it cooked faster than planned. Don’t know if it was the brining or the BGE, but it far and away exceeded expectations. 

  6. 1 hour ago, BearSchlong said:

    Troph has me ready to trade the CC in for a skiff. Well done, ma’am.

    Today I got out there late - about 11 am. About 7 miles from the dock I came across a guy and his gal staring at their engine, cowl off, Power pole deployed. Towed them back to the ramp and headed back out.

    Ran all over Sabine Lake for the next few hours and then the birds started working at 3. Caught about 40 specks, and kept none even though they were big for schoolies and all Louisiana legal.

    Washed the boat and popped Tylenol. My arm is sore.

    It’s fun when you can get on some nice specks. We fished north of Tampa last week and even though conditions were terrible, both of us fishing ended up with the FL version of an inshore slam, a good run of dink reds, and a bunch of trout. We hit on a spot where we were catching them pretty much every cast. It’s the first time I’ve been out since selling my place down there and it had me ready to start shopping again.

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  7. 29 minutes ago, slorch said:

    Meh.  Only about 40% of the people would show up, if that many.  Then half of those would fire in the opposite direction.

    Tank still wins.

    The notion of all Americans aligning 100% on something is more preposterous than saving the planet with cars running on  magical batteries  that are delivered  from the earth fairies because of recycling offerings.

    and none of this even factoring in the vast majority of the world's population who pretty much contribute to put more armor on the tank while we fire our bb guns.

    This thread is basically a bunch of folks patting themselves on the back for drinking a diet coke while eating 7k calories a day.  "See.  We cut back a little..."   I'm just saying people aren't serious about making a real difference.  Then some of them even want to make me drink diet coke( use a 3 handed gas can) to support their futile struggle.  It's laughably insane.

    The “why bother” crowd is always interesting in these discussions. Of course we’re all doomed, but incremental improvement/change still makes some measure of difference. It’s too late to turn the faucet off, but I’m not sure that means that everyone should just say fuck it. There is some aspect of virtue signaling involved in there as well, but that still requires some amount of positive movement.

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  8. 22 hours ago, UTPhil2006 said:

    Scrapbook? Download a bunch of pictures and have them printed at Walgreens or wherever of all her grandkids and such.  Get a blank book and put the pictures of all that in there and then tell her she can help you write the captions together for all the pics. 

    That’s a pretty decent idea for any of these long-term anniversary’s especially as kids have gotten older, grandkids come into play, the realities of life kick in, etc. I’m probably not doing it (any time soon anyways), but I can recognize a good idea

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  9. Spa appointments are usually the easy go to.

    I suck at gifts though. We don’t buy gifts and just buy what we want which essentially means my wife buys what she wants and I usually buy her something as well. She informed me today that she was replacing her engagement/wedding rings for our 25th and had met with the jeweler to design what she wanted. I would rather be spending $100 on something she doesn’t want than what I found out this is going to cost me.

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  10. On 10/26/2023 at 2:49 PM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    ridiculous that UT has not kept up in growing the campus. Now with online classroom options, the enrollment should be growing at a fast pace. Instead UT wants to put a gate around the university so the professors can pat themselves on the back for educating the few.

    UT has forgotten their charter.

    I’m not sure any “known” college can keep up with growth needs in today’s environment especially for those that are on the lower side of the pricing spectrum if there is such a thing. Knoxville sent out information to high school counselors last week saying they had crossed 56k applications already for a class size of roughly 6000. Housing is terrible on campus there right now because they haven’t kept up. 
     

    The large state colleges appear to all be in the same boat. We toured UNC and Michigan and both campuses felt old. Georgia probably felt the most up to date of the state college campuses we have been on.

  11. I bought boots that I liked the fit of after trying on several pairs over a couple of trips before I found a pair that felt comfortable which is still relative in ski boots. For ski’s, I rented demo ski’s and traded them out several times over a couple of times until I found the length/style I liked. I went in knowing generally what length I wanted which made it easier because I ski a 174 which limited what places had available. Ultimately, my advice would be try a few things until you find the right fit.

  12. I would say that most everyone on the CPA side would support a free file system. We don’t deal with the filers impacted for the most part. It’s a much larger risk to H&R Block, TurboTax, and all the f-ing hacks out there that shouldn’t be doing tax returns then it is to me. There are a lot of things that still aren’t covered by an IRS submitted form, so you are really only dealing with people that have W-2’s, investments (not great because there are still plenty of 1099’s missing basis information), retirement payments, etc. Rentals, businesses, K-1’s, a number with kids under 5 or over 18, etc all would fall outside of a free file system.

    As far as the code, it’s complicated because it has always been a means for social engineering and that has been compounded the last 20 or so years. No one knows it front to back, so we’re all likely missing something at this point. 

  13. Similar story here, just the younger one. She’s not abusive or harming herself, but man can she find some deep holes to climb down. Phone/internet/school issues have compounded it so we hired an IT company to provide all the internal hardware in the house and monitor the traffic similar to what I have at the office. Her phone and kids at school have brought at the worst in her. Therapy hasn’t really helped either because it seems to us at least the therapist has spent most of the time being her friend and not enough time helping her cope. She has asked to make a change there which is a positive I think. If I could go back and change anything, it would have been how/when the internet/phone was introduced to her but her school required access earlier than what we preferred.

  14. 9 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    If there was a dumb tax question amnesty thread, I would post this there, but this will have to do.

    This is mostly irrelevant now that I don't even have the same job as the example I'm about to give, but it's just been bugging me and I want to see what I was doing wrong, if anything.

     

    Quick and dirty:

    Married, filing jointly.  Both with 0 exemptions, which I am of the understanding means the max tax amount should be taken out of each check, ideally to get us close to 0 owed at tax time, or even a refund.  Wife made $170k last year, I made like $75k.

    When I threw our W2s into Turbotax, hers by itself showed a refund of like a grand.  When I then throw my W2 in with hers, the refund vanishes and we owed like $4k.  This has been the case the last 3 years or so.  

    What have I been doing wrong?

    The new W-4’s are set to calculate your individual tax balance. There is no married 0 any more. You have to accurately fill it out with the combined incomes for the withholding to work properly because they have complicated it. Your individual withholdings are taking double advantage of the 10%/12% brackets and the combined income has some in the 24% bracket so you are short. Total tax is what it is so you pay it now or later, number is the same.

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  15. On 5/29/2023 at 4:42 PM, Redneck Mutha said:

    Mother in law passed away in March. Will was in place, my wife and her 2 siblings split everything equally.

    MIL owned a business and the family will liquidate it over the next few months. I'm assuming any profit realized after her passing (net of expenses), we'll need to report 1/3 of that on taxes on schedule C?

     

    Depends on the structure of the business for tax purpose and her will. Generally the estate would operate it until liquidation and they would get a K-1 for the estate, but if the business was specifically left in 1/3 interests then they answer would change.

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  16. On 5/27/2023 at 7:21 PM, ClubWhatever said:

    I've seen conflicting guidance on gift taxes.  One school of thought is that you (the donor) pay tax on the amount over the annual limit (say 17k) regardless of whether you've reached the lifetime limit.  Another school says you don't pay tax on any gift until you reach the lifetime limit.  Which is it?   By the way I am talking about gifts to an entity that has no special status, not a charity, not a blind person, just a Joe Schmo who needs a gift because he's poor.  I want to give this individual a large gift for purely selfish reasons.  

    Old question, but it’s $17k a year individual to individual with no requirement to file a gift tax return. Over $17k requires a gift tax return and uses up part of your lifetime estate exemption over the $17k annual exclusion. $17k basically works like the standard deduction in your individual return, it is deducted from total gifts to determine “taxable” portion offset by the exclusion.

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  17. Has Breitling made a change in their watches or am I off in thinking they were quite a bit more expensive several years back? Did they just come out with a cheaper automatic line? I’m looking for another white face / blue band and have looked at this SuperOcean a couple of times. The pricing seems less than what I remember from past looking.
     

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    Also, really like the looks of the Omega Speedmaster Chronoscope but I’m kind of looking for something other than another Omega I think.

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  18. 46 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Try not to get drugged and raped 

    One of my partners that works our office there was at a bar this past spring and got roofied. He’s in his 50’s. He doesn’t remember anything from the bar, woke up the next morning in his apartment beat up and everything of value gone. 

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  19. 2 hours ago, txduck87 said:

    Headed there for 4 days starting Friday. Staying in music row area.

    Any suggestions for a music studio to tour in that area.

    We are doing the Ryland/grand ole opry and city tour- 3 1/2 hours -get you entrance to both those places.

    Also restaurants in that area? Music row .

    Finally any live music venues that are off the beaten path of broadway? No interest in the jam packed redneck type places but love to see a more intimate singer/songwriter type show.

    I’m staying far away from broadway with the exception of the predators game Saturday night.

    The bars along Division usually have live music. It’s usually a younger crowd as it’s pulling from Vanderbilt and the new condo developments through there.

    The Chef and I and Patterson House are both in that area as well as Hattie B’s if you want to give it a try. There really isn’t much there outside the bars and quick service places though. You can easily take a 5 minute ride over to the Gulch and SoBro areas and open up other opportunities like Kayne Prime, Martin’s Biscuit Love, Etch, Milk and Honey, etc. The capital area also isn’t far and has Skull’s Rainbow Room (in Printer’s Alley) which usually has music along with excellent food, Puckett’s, etc.

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  20. 15 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:


    Public U’s aren’t growing to match the population growth, and that’s criminal 

    I looked at some numbers on some SEC schools. From 2016 it looks like enrollment is up roughly 10% on average. What has really changed is the apps and acceptance. Apps are up more than double, acceptance is up 50%, but first year enrollment was up 10-15%. Looks like most were enrolling half of accepted which is significantly less than past history.  Private schools I looked at were actually much closer with 10-15% growth in each category. There wasn’t the big anomaly in apps like with the publics.

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