Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Kapture1]

Looks as if he triggered all of you snowflakes

with 68,000 likes, seems like way more are living in a fantasy land... a delusion, cognitive dissonance if you will

[AlabamAlum]

Interesting. How does it perform in Wiz prevention?

Always carry a firearm when camping.

[AlabamAlum]

Looks like this. It's neat. Padded tent bed and the overhang part isn't shaky like you would think it would be:

[hack]

Those DO look friggin cool. No need for a tarp if it rains. Though Wiz' mom is gonna have to lose some weight if we're gonna do it in one of those.

[Kapture1]

it's why Jeeps are the shit.

[AlabamAlum]

Those DO look friggin cool. No need for a tarp if it rains. Though Wiz' mom is gonna have to lose some weight if we're gonna do it in one of those.

It is very cool. Guess who is now pricing Jeeps with pop-up rooftop tents?

[froot loops]

My wife went to a financial aid meeting for college, my son is graduating this year. Man this is going to be stressful.

[Wild Hoss]

Seems vulnerable to eagles.

[AlabamAlum]

Seems vulnerable to eagles.

Looking for an Auburn joke here. Got nothing.

[AlabamAlum]

My wife went to a financial aid meeting for college, my son is graduating this year. Man this is going to be stressful.

Scholarship? Work study?

[Wild Hoss]

"That's what the Bear Bryant mask is for"?

Its late in the day.

[AlabamAlum]

I chuckled.

[whodean]

The top 20% of taxpayers pay 95% of the income tax. Remember that next time a Dem Pelosi bitches (no pun intended) about the cut being only for the rich.

(borrowing)

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this…

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing
The fifth would pay $1
The sixth would pay $3
The seventh would pay $7
The eighth would pay $12
The ninth would pay $18
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59
So, that’s what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve ball.

“Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20″. Drinks for the ten men would now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men ? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?

The bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by a higher percentage the poorer he was, to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using, and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay.

And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% saving).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% saving).
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% saving).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% saving).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% saving).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% saving).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings.

“I only got a dollar out of the $20 saving,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,”but he got $10!”

“Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!”

“That’s true!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back, when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”

“Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison, “we didn’t get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!”

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

[froot loops]

Scholarship? Work study?

I'm sure he'll get a little bit on the scholarship end from his test scores, but nothing that will carry the main freight. Back in my day if you had the ACT score he did, you would have had a full ride, but that was a long time ago! He's had some coaches want to talk to him for football, but it's small schools and he doesn't seem interested.

I'm certain my daughters will end up getting academic scholarships so we might be OK there.

[AlabamAlum]

Just get him the student loan but tell him he's got to take at least one on-line college class a semester after graduation (for the deferment) until you die. When you do die, he takes a portion of the life insuance and pays off the student loan.

I should be a counselor!