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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 20 (2025)

The island of Malé looks like something straight out of Sim City:

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I have something stuck in my teeth and I can't get it out with floss it's driving me craaaaaaaazzzzyyyyyyyy.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
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I feel like I'm watching a European cable access channel. It probably has to do with the accents from two of the presenters. I'm sure they're extremely qualified. Four planners and a planter.
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My claim to fame, I met the lady in the red jacket at our last state conference. Nice lady, heavy accent.

I think the show should be called between 4 planners and we all listen to what the plant says.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
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I feel like I'm watching a European cable access channel. It probably has to do with the accents from two of the presenters. I'm sure they're extremely qualified. Four planners and a planter.
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The plant completes the set. Subtle, yet impacts the soul in a very deep way.

luckless pedestrian said:
However gross it may be, but your business card works in a pinch
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WSU MUP Student said:
Phew! I knew I wasn't the only one to do that!
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I've folded up a receipt more than once.
 
I’ve never understood the point of wanting a big tax refund. It’s not “free money”—you are just getting your own money back. All these places adverse “Maximum refund!”

Our bottom line is always close to $0, but sometimes with my 1099 income we do get a small refund or owe a bit.

Just like golf—low score wins. (And I do our taxes manually with paper and calculator. Haven’t been audited in 30 years, so I know what I’m doing.)
 
jumbach said:
I’ve never understood the point of wanting a big tax refund. It’s not “free money”—you are just getting your own money back. All these places adverse “Maximum refund!”

Our bottom line is always close to $0, but sometimes with my 1099 income we do get a small refund or owe a bit.

Just like golf—low score wins. (And I do our taxes manually with paper and calculator. Haven’t been audited in 30 years, so I know what I’m doing.)
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This is 100% the way to view taxes. My goal is to have as little a refund or owe as little as possible. I think I'm better with my money than others and I do my best to keep track of it. That said, unfortunately financial literacy in this country is a myth and so many people are unwilling or unable to save that they view their refund as just that; a savings account.
 
How many different color Sharpies do you have ?

I only have a Black Sharpie.
 
jumbach said:
I’ve never understood the point of wanting a big tax refund. It’s not “free money”—you are just getting your own money back. All these places adverse “Maximum refund!”

Our bottom line is always close to $0, but sometimes with my 1099 income we do get a small refund or owe a bit.

Just like golf—low score wins. (And I do our taxes manually with paper and calculator. Haven’t been audited in 30 years, so I know what I’m doing.)
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Yep, I usually get a couple bucks back, but I think this year I owe a little. I'm not the most financially savvy person, but I just ask my CPA what I should adjust my deduction to and do that.
JNA said:
How many different color Sharpies do you have ?

I only have a Black Sharpie.
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Aren't you retired? Why would you need more than just a black sharpie. I have the usual red, black, blue, and even green. My wife has the multi-color pack hidden away from the children who will still steal them if they knew they existed.
 
a Prismacolor 24 pack & a Sharpie 12-color pack with both ultra and fine tips - I like to color render
 
The Progressive insurance commercial where the dude keeps yelling "High Tide!" as UofA players exit a bus planted a seed in my brain to download The Outlaws "Green Grass and High Tides". I worry about my elderly brain, sometimes.:what:
 
Planit said:
a Prismacolor 24 pack & a Sharpie 12-color pack with both ultra and fine tips - I like to color render
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I have a problem. When I see markers on sale at Office Depot I compulsively buy them. Most recently I picked up the Sharpie Creative markers. They're water based acrylic and look work better for rendering. Now if I could only draw.
 
michaelskis said:
I am trying to understand that in this day and age, how a military helicopter can collide with a commercial airplane. With the level of technology that we have today, something like this should not happen.
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I'm guessing the ego of the helicopter pilot. It does happen. B-52 crash at Fairchild AFB in the 1990s. Hot-dogging pilot that had a reputation of pushing the boundaries. My brother was a CH-53D Marine pilot so not trying shed any negative light on the military.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
I'm guessing the ego of the helicopter pilot. It does happen. B-52 crash at Fairchild AFB in the 1990s. Hot-dogging pilot that had a reputation of pushing the boundaries. My brother was a CH-53D Marine pilot so not trying shed any negative light on the military.
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There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots! (Common witticism)

luckless pedestrian said:
Today is also National Croissant Day if that is helpful
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Can we draw a dinosaur eating a croissant?
 
JNA said:
AIB lp posting a gif of CBS's show Ghosts, who likes that show ?
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We love "Ghosts." Strangest show on television.

But we think the character Nancy is incredibly annoying. She needs to be sucked off or written out.

Jim
 
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