Just Out Here Ballin’
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I think her adoption fee might have been $250, but we've spent over $30,000 in vet bills and surgery costs chasing the root cause of an autoimmune disorder that caused her paralysis and over half a dozen tissue inflammations that turn into tunneling wounds if not debrided and affected tissue removed in about 48 hours tops.
She barely made it out of the puppy mill she came from. Her brother, surrendered with her, died and they thought she was brown because she was so dirty:
The breeder didn't see her as viable to sell because of a jaw defect she has and just neglected her until finally surrendering her.
We maintain her health with several medications a day, twice a day, to keep the flare-ups in check that have caused her so many issues in the 2 years we've had her. In short, if we hadn't adopted her and a person not had my wife's tenacity, she'd be dead.
I never thought I'd enjoy a little chihuahua so much that my wife dresses in pink outfits, but, here I am. She has a fanbase with my work colleagues when I work remotely. She'll hop on the video calls frequently.
The audience thinks otherwise. For someone that says he's in the entertainment business you'd think you would understand the audience's opinion is the one that matters.
I feel like I remember pictures of rox's house with lawn stripes in the past and some mention of the area he lived in. If he's still there in that same house if day there is 0% that house appraises for less than $400K.
Sorry... Hope I don't cost you $20k
I totally agree with this post. Old lady and I have talked this over numerous times about how to spend a winning jackpot. We currently have 3200 square feet which is way too much. 2000 is plenty for a nice farmhouse, and maybe 20 wooded acres to put up some Amish cabins to use as partying spots, along with a kickass pole barn to park vehicles and setup the woodworking equipment and her quilting bullshit. Maybe separate barns for that. All you really need is a nice $500,000.00 RV, and just travel the damn country. Stay a few steps ahead of the assholes that want a piece of those jackpot winnings.
That's funny coming from the self-proclaimed expert of all things other than showerheads and water heaters...
Hmmm... Let's look at that. If I give someone $1 and they give me back $.09 in change I'd likely have one nickel and 4 pennies. If they didn't have a nickel I would have 9 pennies, or pennies from a dollar. If I received back $.36 I would likely have a quarter, a dime and a penny. Likewise at $.60 I'd likely have have 2 quarters and a dime and no pennies. The latter two are hardly "pennies from a dollar".
I've had businesses settle amounts owed for less than carrying amounts or buy back businesses for considerably less than they were sold. If these amounts were less than say $.19 you would often hear the expression "pennies on the dollar". Anything greater is usually referred to as $.20, a quarter, 50 Cent, or 75 cents on the dollar.
These are just common sense sayings and it is funny that the person on this forum with arguably the least amount of common sense sees himself as the most qualified to define a common sense saying...
There is an intentional misspelling just to see if you get it...
Your history of bets on here:
1) When presented with a very lucrative opportunity based on something you claimed, you ran from the bet. That makes you a liar or a blowhard to not stand up for what you claimed.
2) When you lost a previous bet on here and had to make a donation to fulfill your part of the wager, you made a very small donation to get the receipt template and then forged the amount to make it look like you actually fulfilled your end of the bet.
Considering you're too cowardly to accept a bet on something you claimed and then cheated on your end of the wager in a previous bet on here, even an insurance salesman from Williamson High School West Virginia wouldn't be stupid enough to accept.
Let me know when you're willing to bet based on your previous claim that I called you out on before, and we can revisit your bet request.
In the meantime, enjoy sleeping in the house that you know is worth less than half of mine . . . and thank your wife for being able to afford that mortgage.
Not according to the people I wear nearly a quarter-million dollars of diamonds in front of.
Mines is 7001 sq ft.
🤣🤣. Paying taxes and paying others you are contractually obligated to pay ruins the point of working…..Interesting take.
I think most of us fully understand your willingness to work with folks intentionally desiring to defraud govt and business relationships…but it makes zero business sense why you would intentionally be looking to pay them under the table as it relates to your own tax/business expense/deductions. Unless of course you too, in the course of that or future transactions, are essentially doing the same thing the ghost producer is doing (illegally hiding income).
Another interesting role you mentioned earlier….you being the producer…needing a ghost producer to step in and do the work so you can get the credit. This thread got me to read up on the ghost producer/writer role. Fascinating how the industry works.
Speaking of needing some common sense, here are some pointers for the self-absorbed "smartest guy in the room"...
ponderinglife.blog
Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
Keep skunks, bankers, and politicians at a distance.
Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
The best sermons are lived, not preached.
If you don’t take the time to do it right, you’ll find the time to do it twice.
Don’t corner something that is meaner than you.
Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.
It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.
You cannot unsay a cruel word.
Every path has a few puddles.
When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
Don’t be banging your shin on a stool that’s not in the way.
Borrowing trouble from the future doesn’t deplete the supply.
Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.
Don’t judge folks by their relatives.
Silence is sometimes the best answer.
Don‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin’ you none.
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.
Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
The biggest troublemaker you’ll ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin’.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Good judgment comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgment.
Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.
If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
Most times, it just gets down to common sense.
Hillbilly ‘old school’ wisdom
𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦: Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. Keep skunks, bankers, and politicians at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. A bumble bee…
ponderinglife.blog
Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
Keep skunks, bankers, and politicians at a distance.
Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
The best sermons are lived, not preached.
If you don’t take the time to do it right, you’ll find the time to do it twice.
Don’t corner something that is meaner than you.
Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.
It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.
You cannot unsay a cruel word.
Every path has a few puddles.
When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
Don’t be banging your shin on a stool that’s not in the way.
Borrowing trouble from the future doesn’t deplete the supply.
Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.
Don’t judge folks by their relatives.
Silence is sometimes the best answer.
Don‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin’ you none.
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.
Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
The biggest troublemaker you’ll ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin’.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Good judgment comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgment.
Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.
If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
Most times, it just gets down to common sense.
No, it ruins the point of giving away points, not the point of working. And they aren't contractually obligated if they don't get points.
It entirely makes sense in multiple ways, and the fact that I have to explain common things like this is why you've earned the nickname ITT.
I have more of an ability to absorb that additional income and legally not to have to pay as high of taxes as them for multiple reasons. And thanks to TCJA, we now can roll over losses to cover tax burdens for profitable years. Surprisingly, music consumption, even outside of touring, greatly decreased during the pandemic, so there were plenty of losses to show.
I don't "need" any of that. I have plenty of credits where I was the actual producer and/or received points as a writer. I've played two instruments since I was in fourth grade. If your daughter joined me, we could form our own band, since @AmeriKenny told me she plays the skin flute.
There's high value in knowing people and having their trust. The old way for a producer to make it big was to hope to get signed by a major publishing deal. They'd give you an advance against your next X number of major label placements, and then they'd own the rights to those royalties to recoup that advance and much, much more. And you're stuck in a contract with them until you fulfill the terms of the contract, at which point, you are stuck having to do the same thing since you've given up most of the royalties and probably have burned through the advance to pay for normal living expenses.
Now, you don't need that. Smart people can go to people who have the relationships with artists, and the tracks can go directly to those artists. You don't need a pub deal. Instead of giving up almost all rights to the royalties and getting tied into a contract, the creatives can pay a lump sum (consider it a "finder's fee") and keep the points, give up some of the points and keep some royalties, or take a lump sump, not have to deal with the tax burden, but give up all points.
Because the follow up “skin flute” jokes don’t fall in those categories.
I forgot. It's because you said brass. I was surprised when I read this years ago because I played brass.
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It’s exactly why you bring in a ghost producer/writer. You need them. It’s OK to say you need someone else’s expertise.
It’s apparently why the industry created these roles. They have a skill set (you don’t) and you can find the input necessary for a successful project, pay them less, while publicly claiming all the credit for the creation.
Yeah. Apparently he forgot that claim too.
Not surprisingly rifle seemingly contradicted himself (again) in this thread by first inferring that he paid the taxes for these individuals (presumably by not claiming the payments made to them as business deductions) and then later saying he didn't know or care what they did and that it was up to them and their CPA to report.
One can't take the position that since I didn't take the deduction they don't need to pick up the payments as income since I in effect "paid their taxes".
Section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code basically says an individual has to include on their tax return income from all sources. This is in direct contradiction to what he has indicated he is doing. Here is a link to a wiki page for IRC 61.
Internal Revenue Code section 61 - Wikipedia
With regard to reporting annual payments in excess of $600 to unincorporated contactors that is required by IRC 6041. Current penalties for not filing Forms 1099 are $570 per each payee plus it opens one up for further scrutiny should an examination occur.
I mean if the guy would just make random unprovable boasts and move on here he wouldn't look like such a pathetic stooge.
The more he blathers on, that's what gets him in trouble. If he just boasted, we'd laugh and think it's pathetic but he wouldn't look so bad.
The more he blathers on, that's what gets him in trouble. If he just boasted, we'd laugh and think it's pathetic but he wouldn't look so bad.
Birthinghips the tax cheat should have spent more time crafting his fantasy before presenting it to people who understand tax code.
Take it easy on him. His junior high oboe skills set him up perfectly for delivering sandwiches to recording studios everywhere.
Just wanted to let everyone know that I bought my wife new wiper blades for her Tahoe today. And no, not generic but the kind with Rainx infused. Bam!
Put a note under the blade with the current date and your third grade teacher’s maiden name then take a photo or no one will believe you.
I have a picture of me and Dr. Dre holding the empty packaging they came in. I’ll post it when I get back to my Jamaican villa, I’m in Wonder Woman’s invisible jet right now and don’t have access.
I just want a video of him playing "Mary Had A Little Lamb" on the trumpet. I could do it, but I don't have mine any longer. If someone would lend me a trumpet/cornet/flugelhorn I could.
I just figured it would be too dorky for him but I'm wrong.
I just figured it would be too dorky for him but I'm wrong.
Not in any way, ITT. You continue to fail with your attempts.
There are multiple reasons why it happens. Pay them less? No, they earn more from it, which is why even established writers, producers, and artists do it instead of just newcomers doing it.
It wasn't about forgetting. He mentioned two of four families. He claimed that he mentioned brass since I had previously mentioned it, but then why did he mention one other family and not the two more popular instrumental families? I still don't know the answer to that.
You have reading problems (and now writing problems with your claim that I inferred that I paid their taxes for them). I clearly said that how they handle their taxes is their own business. What I said was that I handle the tax burden, not that I "paid their taxes." In fact, I even said "my tax burden," as it's mine, not theirs.
Sure I can. Reference any of my tax returns since 2008 for proof. But you keep introducing straw men by claiming that I said that I pay their taxes. I take on the tax burden. Again, I even said it was "my tax burden."
Wrong, again. How can it be in "direct contradiction" to what I indicated I am doing when I have no control over what anybody else does with their taxes?
Only after you changed your originally story because you had painted yourself into a corner.
You really need to be better at this because your contradictions and outright lies give you away...
My reading comprehension allows me to recognize that...🙂👍
So you still weren't able to show where I said that I pay their taxes, which is the claim you made.
Hell, I even said that I don't have to "pay as high of taxes as them," which should have been enough of a hint for you to realize that 1) I don't pay their taxes 2) they still are paying taxes, just not on the money that I earn.
🥱🥱🥱 I most certainly did...
Speaking of reading and writing problems...😂😂😂
Dude, that's three strikes...
That’s not paying their taxes. Think about it: if you’re arguing that they still have a tax obligation, how could I be paying their taxes?
Ummm... Reading comprehension...
That is exactly what you originally posted...
"They pay no taxes from the money I give them. I handle the tax portion since I am the one receiving the payment."
Are you really this stupid or do you just like being argumentative?
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Honest question. I’m not an accountant (so I may very well be wrong) but I do some 1099 consulting from time to time.
If rifle pays them any money at all he’s got to file a 1099, no? There’s pretty much no labor income in the American tax code that you can get tax free, right?
I mean I don’t pay my baby sitter as a 1099 but if you’re talking real money here…
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