ExiledInIllinois

Was just gonna say. Murray on MTM... Right?

By no means I feel bad... The check I write just goes to pay my wage. Think of it like working for free for a week or two. I got nothing to complain except what the heck is going on in my wife's payroll office? Do they hold that money, then send lump payments to IRS?... I can kinda see why they don't want a lot of money? Does it make their government grants, etc... Go away if they are holding too much? Have big bank accounts until they make payments? OR do they withhold right to the IRS every two weeks... I can't see why they wouldn't... We are in electronic age! She's in the public sector, local government too! /smh Crazy... They simply aren't withholding enough of her pay. She claims 0 exemptions. You should be able to claim at least yourself, 1 and still be pretty spot on with the withholding. They (I am not going to say who, that's politix) in the early 1990s did same... Then people bumped to 0 exemptions... Just so they can get a refund and not owe. Pure convenience for me. I'd rather overpay then underpay, under withhold... You don't wanna get yourself in a trick bag with the IRS... And that's why an interest free loan is worth it with me. AND... They get more money every two weeks to spend. All going in the General Fund, they can use it every two weeks, AND people don't end up pissing away a small amount every two weeks... Over paying, getting a refund gets them to sink into into the economy on bigger ticket items... OR gasp... Pay down debt, or double-gasp....SAVE! They are all definitely playing games! There's a "war" with withholding.

Yes. I understand. I just got lazy... Wife says she did, claimed 0 and an extra $100-$150 every two weeks... I knew it wasn't coming out with her employer, so I withheld it. Didn't want to argue. What bugs me... We are very simple, clean return... If she claims 0 through year and then claim 4 at tax time... Why isn't her employer withholding at least the right amount in the ballpark. Few hundred each way... NOT owe 1,000s. And yes the Fed is playing games... I work for them. She makes more than me. They withhold only $300 more from her than me. We both withhold zero... OR maybe it's her employer (the village) that's playing games?

Why? I filed my son's return the Wednesday before 5/17. He got his refund in under 7 days. Fed is fast. File midweek all the time. It's the state that is slow. Yet. My Illinois refund is in my bank account as of this week... I filed same day as my son. AND I didn't realize if you owe, you can file early and have it debited on the tax deadline. If I would have known that, realized you can schedule the payment, I would have filed back on when the 5/17 was set. /wallbash I am slow on the uptake!

In fear of sounding old... But here goes: Yet! What the heck is going on out there... It seems a lot aren't following rules. YEAH, I know, rules for the sake of rules are dumb.. Same thing said about "power" and what it does to people can be deconstructed and flipped 180° the other way. Give people an inch of freedom and they take a mile. Everyone wants to be an individual, special, get noticed. This uber-competiton is only getting worse with subsequent generations coming of age. It's what they were bred into. Everyone is special, unique snowflake, everyone is a victim. Like I said early. Don't enforce any rules. On the road, in the park, at school... That's what it seems like people want. Enforce nothing. OR: Let's just act humble. Humility is a virtue. Pride the vice. It's a power trip both ways. Like battling with a 2 year old.

Dude! That's NOT a polo shirt! It's a HENLEY from the late 50's, early 60's! There's clearly no collar there! A long-sleeved henley! Ever see a long-sleeved polo? NOT sure which country club you were raised at! KnowYourHenleysPlease! Do I have to school you on everything! 🙃😏. Don't even get me started on "Golf Shirt" OR "Tennis Shirt" with a little polo dude, penguin, or alligator on it! Your WISH has been my command, danke... https://www.realmenrealstyle.com/henley-polo-shirts/ "Here's a little backstory before we start the henley vs. polo battle. Both our fighters have LONG careers behind them… the polo just under 100 years old and the henley nearly 200. Have they still got what it takes?" Now, take a backseat, let the big boys analyze the nature of the very important thread! A lost youth is at stake here! 😉

Joe Verses the The Volcano 2. Never heard of it, you ask? The first one was so awful, they never finished shooting the second one! Heck, I am not even sure how the first one ended, I left the theater early too...

It's always the college educated hikers! Didn't the Dude hear of the "buddy system." I hate to pass judgement, but the defense attorneys for the two grizzlies that jumped him will have a heyday with this case. The lawyers always make bank! PROBABLY two trust fund frat-Bears with rich parents from Jackson, Wyoming. They will buy them "nice bears" some "justice." Play all summer long and sleep all winter. Some life! I bet the hiker had a half-opened "Nature Valley" granola bar hanging out of his The North Face too! Hey... I am not here to pass social commentary, but you'll most certainly get un-woke fellas like @Gugny saying that hikers like that "were just asking for it!" Things like: "Just look at that pack hip belt hiked up so seductively high over his hips with M&M crumbs all over it. What a slob! Betcha he took a sponge bath on the trail with strawberry scented WetOnes too! If I was a bear or other critter, I'd jump him too! I'd hit it, fo sure!" OR: "What a hikingslut!, why do guys go out in the woods like that! Where was his friend!" /smdh... Let the debate rage. If Mods here were smart. @Chandler#81 should shut this thread down immediately! ASAP! No good will come from it. And @BringBackFergy wants TrailCams/Trap Boxes Federally mandated HikerBodyCams for his live action enjoyment... Sick, very, VERY SICK! 😕😞

They should have never built the 190 in Buffalo where it is. Should have never been right on the water... Should have been further east. They knew it then, and they know it now the destruction it would bring... There were studies 60 years ago. Just nobody to advocate. During Boom Times people tend to sell each other out, till it comes crashing down... Check this article out. About Tulsa. 100 years since the massacre. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1268455

No. X went from 1965-1980. Millennial 1980-1995. Give or take a few years either way. The meat of the Boomer years coincided exactly with their echo children in the mid-1980s I am Gen X, yet my parents were Silent Generation... 1925-45. My children are post-Millennial, Gen Z.

Hey @Doc... I just read this. Now YOU know why old wives tales like that got started! Fight strep with strep? Crazy... But people believe the strangest things! "Despite rumors to the contrary, urine is not sterile . It can contain dozens of different types of bacteria, including Staphylococcus and Streptococcus, which are associated with staph infections and strep throat, respectively." @Johnny Hammersticks... Hope this scares you off you mad man!

It's not... Must have been an old wive's tale? My mother thinking it was true, supposedly took a pissy diaper to my older sister's strep when she was a baby. 😆... NOW WE know why she's so pissy all the time! 😆 That's child abuse today! Glad she got her old wive's tales squared away before I was born 5 years later! 😉

You know urine is sterile when it first comes out! 😆... @Johnny Hammersticks is in the know.... Hey buddy, don't let it sit around too long and go rancid! 😉 😆

Mine begins with "0". I was before the mandatory 1973. My father DAV, so we had ours in 1960s. I THINK 1973 is when they started going low-high, east-west. People born out here are 3s. Yet, old timer at work's father was a 0 born in Illinois. Again, I think the 1973 is the mandatory year. Wife if older than me, her's starts with 1. But she got after 1973. A guy from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 I work with his starts with a 5. My 0 stands out like a sore thumb in a sea of 3s here....

I owe. No. Last few years the first time in 30+ years I had to owe. Fed playing games withholding. Not withholding enough from wife, even know she claims 0 through year and we file 4 at end of year. Crazy. I can imagine those tactics get people in tax jeopardy. Not sure what's going on. I just withhold the $150 every two weeks. /smdh But... Now Illinois, yes... Just got a fat refund. Took a few weeks after I get in with Fed deadline. Go figure.

You know what the other name for "Millennial" is, right? Yup... "Echo Boomer" because they echo their Boomer parents. 😆🤣... 😉😜

AND maybe best we don't know. BUT we do know! From '88... https://buffalonews.com/news/tampa-bays-marve-happy-the-bills-are-winning/article_f076a24d-f9a0-5530-bca9-03c3f65209a7.html Interesting... It can also be viewed conversely. Maybe Marve wasn't part of the new process? "...The Bills began their turnaround last year with the hiring of a top-flight defensive coordinator, Walt Corey, and the acquisition of two of the top young linebackers in the National Football League -- Shane Conlan and Cornelius Bennett. But Corey's system, which required inside linebackers to have greater mobility than Marve could generate, and the infusion sion of youth suddenly caused Marve to go from Mr. Steady to Mr. Obsolete. As a result, he was shipped to the Buccaneers in exchange for an eighth-round draft pick. ..." Bills did do better after he was traded... Don't interpret this as speaking ill of him, your point is still very well taken. Just looking at it from both sides of the coin. There was a culture & talent shift right when he left. May he RIP... ...And no microfiche @ the PL needed. 😉😉

How football should be played. Players have become over-coached. Just eliminate the coaching and take it right back to the sand lot. You'd see better football. Less synchronized swimming.

It doesn't matter, this season's a fraud just like a lot of other NHL seasons. Bush League coupled with a pandemic... So many seasons need an asterisk. This one's top of list.

Wow! Ann-Margret (The Swinger, 1966)... As one comment said: "That's still illegal in most States." 😆 I concur! 😆

Gonna take a stab in the dark. Pia Zadora?

I come in peace. I meant no harm. ***** @Gugnyif he can't comprehend basic English. 😁😉

You two need to take it to Grindr... 😆🤣

They wear full body coverings in the Sahara Desert... Are you saying Georgia in August is hotter than the Sahara Desert? OH! Those poor Bedouins! 😉

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