Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.

'War Stories'


Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Apr 09, 2008 8:57:14 am PDT #622 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

On the up side, however, men's jeans usually do have a longer rise than women's jeans in the same size.

Except, when you do have a waist/hip/ass situation, the men's jeans that fit, sit lower than your waist, so the longer rise is more of a downside.


§ ita § - Apr 09, 2008 8:58:37 am PDT #623 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sox, I'm not even done reading the article yet. I have more clicking to do, and more googling and wikipediaing.


msbelle - Apr 09, 2008 8:59:07 am PDT #624 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

ballroom!

sorry, I just went back to highschool for a second there.


Polter-Cow - Apr 09, 2008 9:00:36 am PDT #625 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Polter, did you buy the shares or were you given them?

I was given them. Well, it's a same-day sale: essentially, you buy the shares at your strike price and then immediately sell at the current stock price, and you keep the difference.

It appears that two of the programs are assuming you bought them (cost) and the other is assuming the options were additional income. In my IANYTL view, it is likely that you should be declaring both the income of the options and the gain.

Oooh. Hm, I see what you are saying. But that doesn't seem to work out since the number that shows up on my W-2 is the gain, not the income of the options. And none of the programs asks me about the income of the options. That is, there's nothing different about the way any of them asks me, so I don't see what HRBlock is doing that's making the tax so much lower. Is the income of the options really income if I technically paid for them myself by selling the stock?


shrift - Apr 09, 2008 9:07:58 am PDT #626 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I am irritated that people are telling me to try the men's section just on principle. Why aren't women allowed to have cargo pants anymore?


lori - Apr 09, 2008 9:10:29 am PDT #627 of 10001

All my cargo pants are Old Navy men's. I like the schlumpy fit.


Allyson - Apr 09, 2008 9:11:09 am PDT #628 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Man. Lately I have no sense of scale when it comes to problems. Everything seems equally as horrible and and enormous, and rational thought isn't at all helping. Like, I got an email from sears with the delivery date for my appliances, and I have to call to reschedule the date, and that seems like, "OH GOD HUGE PROBLEM NO ENERGY CANT DEAL." Ridic.

Completely unrelated, my therapist had this awesome nugget: You know, part of the problem is that you're actually too smart for your job.

Which I of course took as a platitude because that's what I do.


msbelle - Apr 09, 2008 9:11:13 am PDT #629 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

pretty basic cargo: [link]


hippocampus - Apr 09, 2008 9:11:24 am PDT #630 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

Sox, I'm not even done reading the article yet. I have more clicking to do, and more googling and wikipediaing.

see. this is reading. old-school. What I did? speedy x 2 passes, with a couple of click throughs and a few 'ooh pretty's plus a thought or two about what bolero would be like as a villainelle. interspersed with getting juice, taking temperatures, and being generally snotted all over by cra-N-ky toddler. this last must be done with soon or I am running away to mexico.


lisah - Apr 09, 2008 9:12:27 am PDT #631 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Why aren't women allowed to have cargo pants anymore?

Because of this?

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