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Royalfan5

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  1. 4 hours ago, choripan said:

    For a real ass-puckering bridge adventure, may I suggest taking an iced-over Mackinaw Bridge on a cold, windy day?

    200 feet above the water and 5 miles in total with a longest span around 3/4 of a mile long.

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    I drove over that on a normal summer day and can say riding on a Lao Air Dash8 loaded like a flatbed into Luang Pangbang was more enjoyable for me.

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  2. 26 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    I have a pretty sound survival plan.

    I have a recent copy of a prepper real estate sales magazine.  I have weapons and enough gas and food to go to drive to one of those. Very cost efficient. 

    If shit really falls apart, what does putting a bunch of effort into surviving get me? Probably not a goddamn thing 

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  3. 5 hours ago, nnm said:

    I haven’t seen a second of corn basketball this year, but I’m looking forward to see TexAgs reaction to this dude. 

     

    He played a year for Billy Gillespie at Ranger too

  4. 4 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

    Poor Trev is gonna be so cornfused and cornflicted next week.

    Also probably the first time an AD one side, and the coach on the other are co-defendants in a lawsuit. 

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  5. I hope the ongoing NU women's basketball lawsuit that Trev is named in blows up in Aggy's face like Les Miles's LSU stuff got him canned at KU. Also even by our standards the dumbfucks we elected to the Board of Regents and Gov.. have managed to fuck up what was a reasonably cromulent land grant system for a state of our size. 

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  6. 9 hours ago, BearSchlong said:

    My best friend from High School invited me to come to the Berkshire Hathaway meeting in May. I might go, as Warren is getting long in the tooth.

    Anybody ever been?

    I accidentally went to Nebraska Furniture Mart during the Berkshire Hathaway meeting which was a mistake. 

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  7. For me I keep finding it an increasing turnoff. (I had a front row seat for an Uncles horrendous gambling problem, and I’ve never placed sports bets because of that and almost no other gambling) I’ve always been a big sports in general guy, but with gambling stuff seeping into all levels of the coverage and I hear my coworkers keep talking about their increasing bets,(and none them bet two years ago at all) it just makes me feel like something bad is going to evolve out of the spread. 

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  8. 35 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    Deere sells you the hardware (cast iron, tires, pistons, etc.) but retains the software you need for the engine and transmission.

    No problem until it’s time to fix it.  Your service guy needs to fix plug his laptop into it and read the problem codes.  Deere got real uppity about who they’d license that software too.  Only wanted their dealers to have it.  Royal might correct me, but I think Deere has walked that back some?  Letting farmers and independent mechanics license the repair software?

    It's been walked back, Farm Bureau really latched on to that. It's kind of a weird divide because the guys shelling out for a bunch on new green paint are absolutely not doing anything beyond basic maintenance themselves anyway, but it's the guy running at 8410 and 9660 that's worried he's going to pay for the mega-dealership building if something is beyond him. Also you a bit of this probably has to do with all the stolen RTK receivers and such floating around too.  

  9. 2 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    I know nothing about tractors, so im not gonna plant my flag there with an opinion. Do people even buy them outright?

    For now just have to watch my doors for the evil men from hewlett packard

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    While there is some leasing, most of those tractors are going to be owned by a farmer within 3 years of being built, and will be in service for decades. 

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  10. I'll be there first day to see this. I watch Twister probably twice a year already, and I will give this all sorts of the benefit of the doubt. This and Furiosa are about the only two things I'm excited about this year. 

  11. 6 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

    Kinda depends on what you inherited.

    Stocks get a step-up in basis, so you will want to figure out what they were worth on the day of her death.

    An IRA account or a Roth IRA account becomes an inherited account.  You have 10 years to take the money out.  You have to take some required minimum distributions each year.  You will be taxed on the normal IRA distributions, but anything from a Roth is tax free.

    Real estate should also get a step up in basis, so you need guess of what it was worth on the day of death and you''l have to figure out what you want to do with it.  Real estate is tough to split if you end up sharing it with someone else and they want to sell and you don't.

    Some stuff may have to go through probate, but other accounts where you are named beneficiary can be transferred pretty fast.

    The first stuff is checking account cash, the balance of an investment account at Edward Jones that I do not know the current composition of, an annuity with Thrivent and life insurance money. The house will be sold later, and the Uncle currently farming will buying the rest of us out on the farm ground later on under the terms set by the will, after they figure out the cell phone tower buyout. I also got a pocket knife, a painting and some dish towels and will get to go through the recipe box. 

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  12. What are good resources for managing a surprise inheritance? My dad died when I was very young, and this past week my grandmother passed after my grandfather passed in 2009. I never really thought about that I’d inherit my dads share of the estate, and nobody really said much about it to me until we were at the funeral home, so I need to figure out what I’m going to do with it.

  13. 8 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Shit, that's right.  I forgot in my middle-age.  There was the Firebird with the V6, and then the V8 was the same body basically but called the Trans-Am.  And the weird thing was the Firebird didn't have the bird painted on it, but the Trans-Am did (which looked cool as fuck in the aspirated venting on the hood).  Like there was the Camaro and the Z28, (V6 & V8 respectively).  We had a running joke in Chicago, where there were apparently a few Italian fellows (or one million), that the IROC-Z shoulda been called the IWOP-Z.  It was the first mass-production car that had that batshit stupid drag kit that had the front/back ends and side rails that barely stayed off the ground.  And you'd see those things get stuck in the snow all the time because there wasn't enough clearance.  But light a cigarette, pop your leather jacket collar, and you were still good to go.  I can see that metallic purple paint job in my head still.  /nohomo

    To keep in thread track, I don't care for this Trump fellow one bit...

    The levels of Firebird were Espirit which is what Rockford invented the J turn in, then the Formula was the next level up. (I’m here because my Mom liked my dad’s two tone blue 79 Formula Firebird, then the Trans-Am at the top for beer to Atlanta from Texarkana. (I get that is been covered but Firebirds are an important part of our culture)

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  14. 2 hours ago, Atticus said:

    He wasn't going against the same level athletes while at Sioux Falls either.

    He also wasn't managing high level talent over there either.

    He definitely wasn't dealing with SEC recruiting while over there.

    As an alum as a school that was in the same league as Sioux Falls was then, USF was playing with about a 1/3 more scholarships than the rest of the GPAC, and were generally big on getting drop down transfers. That being said they used their advantage to absolutely beat the shit out of everyone the way they should have.

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  15. 31 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

    Where are you seeing that? Oil dropping sharply today because KSA slashed prices on crude for February delivery, but I haven't seen anything regarding production cuts.

    General rumor and innuendo 

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