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5/24/2011 5:01 pm
The stupidest shit you've ever seen.
When you get outside the bubble that is America, there are a number of views on why the rich world is rich and the poor world is poor. You can imagine that many of them have to do with structural/conspiracy arguments that the rich world keeps the poor poor. It's hard to refute those arguments in all cases, they might even be true in some cases, but once in a while there is an example of glaring stupidity that shows why "stupid is poor".
On the toll road from the airport into the city, they have erected a wall of concrete dividers, to channel traffic away from the center lanes and into peripheral lanes. A solid wall of concrete, many hundreds of yards long. OK. Now, their plan is to paint the wall yellow, with black arrows every 10 feet or so. So, what did they do? They painted the black arrows FIRST, and then had a team of guys with yellow paint and rollers, trying diligently to paint around the carefully spray painted black arrows. WTF?!? Why not paint the whole wall yellow with rollers FIRST, and THEN spray paint on the black arrows???
5/23/2011 5:39 am
i thought the bush administration did away with the estate tax, and thus you can give any amount tax free. i recall there was talk about letting that tax break expire at the end of last year (thereby reinstating the estate tax). not sure what the situation is, and rarely face the prospect of giving, or being given, gifts of money in excess of $10,000.
5/20/2011 4:48 pm
alz wrote:
"he's on the hook for taxes on this."
I'm sure the IRS will let him slide.Can't tell if that's serious, or sarcasm.
I can easily see an IRS rep say something like, "Just because you like giving money away, doesn't mean we all do."
No tax on the money. The new homeowner is taking the position that the money wasn't his (i.e., it wasn't abandoned).
Returning "found property" doesn't constitute a gift because title to the property never passed to the person who found it.
5/20/2011 4:01 pm
Unless I've read this wrong... Isn't the IRS limit for a gift $10,000.00? Since he bought the $45,000.00 with the house (covered by the abandoned property clause), and gave the property to the kids of the previous owner, he's on the hook for taxes on this.
That will teach you "honorable" man... Dumbass.
When I bought my house the place was stripped clean. Nothing left but some ragged curtains and a built in stove that didnt work. There were no boxes of cash or WWII bullets laying around. I assume the son of the previous owner thought enough of them to remove the property. In this case if the son was to lazy to do it that for his father then I wouldnt feel like I need to give him the money. I would have held it back in a fire proof safe and used it as needed. I wouldnt have dumped it in saving and have the bank wondering how I came up with 50 grand.
I take that back. There was something left in my house for me. I was removing the suspended ceiling tiles in the basement awhile back to run the cable wire to a different area. While doing so I spoted a 6x12 inch caulk board. On it was writen "fuck you dickhead". So I got that.
5/20/2011 2:40 pm
"he's on the hook for taxes on this."
I'm sure the IRS will let him slide.
Can't tell if that's serious, or sarcasm.
I can easily see an IRS rep say something like, "Just because you like giving money away, doesn't mean we all do."
5/20/2011 2:09 pm
"he's on the hook for taxes on this."
I'm sure the IRS will let him slide.
5/20/2011 12:53 pm
Unless I've read this wrong... Isn't the IRS limit for a gift $10,000.00? Since he bought the $45,000.00 with the house (covered by the abandoned property clause), and gave the property to the kids of the previous owner, he's on the hook for taxes on this.
That will teach you "honorable" man... Dumbass.
5/20/2011 11:42 am
boy the genius just keeps coming
People herald this man as a man of honor, a man of integrity. I consider him a moron, and if my wife ever pulls some stupid shit like this I'm filing for divorce and sueing her for half of this.
I would have never gave that back. The contents were bought with the home.
5/20/2011 10:30 am
boy the genius just keeps coming
People herald this man as a man of honor, a man of integrity. I consider him a moron, and if my wife ever pulls some stupid shit like this I'm filing for divorce and sueing her for half of this.
5/18/2011 12:08 pm
"She had sued Walt Disney Parks and Resorts last year claiming a costumed park employee grabbed her breast during a May 2008 visit to the Florida park.
The Upper Darby woman claimed she had nightmares, digestive problems and other permanent injuries."
Good thing she wasn't from Beaver Creek.
5/18/2011 9:20 am
Sorry for the long link... but .... yeah
5/17/2011 9:19 pm
"anyway, in LA 1985-1990, the two hottest tickets in town were neil diamond and babs."
This show was Babs-less. If she had been on the bill, I probably would have had to line up two days prior to the tickets going on sale.
I don't know if there's ever been an entertainer with a more loyal fan base than Streisand. She could to this day put on a show at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday, charge $1,000 a ticket, come out an fart into the mic for 45 minutes, and her fans would go home still thinking they've gotten entertainment value.
5/17/2011 7:32 am
i recall the days of waiting in line at ticketron, but 8 am is pretty lame. you get there about 4 am if you want a chance at decent seats. before i could drive i remember walking about 5 miles to the nearest ticketron--leaving about midnight, or so.
anyway, in LA 1985-1990, the two hottest tickets in town were neil diamond and babs. scalping is legal, as long as its not at the venue. i worked part-time in a used record store, and most of the people there made side money by scoring tickets to hot events (one of them coincidentally wrote a biography of neil diamond). i quickly learned about neil diamond. any old ticket sold for $200, which was an enormous amount of money for a concert back then. i once scored 4 seats for sting on his 'soul cages' tour, 3rd row center orchestra pit. i sold a pair for several hundred dollars, sold a single to a lady who flew down from the bay area, and sat on aisle myself. funny thing, i was mid 20's, she was mid 30's, well-kept and decent looking. i met her at her hotel to give her the ticket, we went to the show together, we went back to her hotel together, she bought me some drinks . . . i didn't go up to her room with her. i was a weird guy back then. i remember my friends saying, 'didn't you feel obligated to sleep with her after you sold her a ticket for 200 bucks and she bought you drinks." funny things i'll remember when i am old, too old to score chicks.
5/17/2011 7:24 am
In Indonesia there is some quirk of language or culture that leads to exchanges like this:
Me: Hi, do you have cheeseburgers?
McD's employee: Yes, we do!
Me: OK, then I'll have a cheeseburger.
McD's employee: I'm sorry, we're all out of cheeseburgers.
Me: But I thought you said you have them.
McD's employee: Yes, we do. We do have them.
Me: But you just said you're all out.
McD's employee: Yes, we're all out.
Same thing with chicken at KFC.I think I'd be more worried about what Indonesian cheeseburgers are made from.
probably the same Amazonian rainforest, recycled through the gut of large-bodied herbivore, that the american McD burgers are made from.
5/15/2011 10:24 am
"Neil Diamond has an ironic coolness about him these days"
Unfortunately, all of this happened about 1985, when Neil Diamond was about as cool as a pair of wingtips.