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Although I have to admit I'm a little worried about the whole it's better to not know how your sausages are made thing...

susanarosa wrote:Although I have to admit I'm a little worried about the whole it's better to not know how your sausages are made thing...

I bet your happy I posted that because it proves that I remembered we have plans this Saturday.

Brownie points?

The Beav wrote:

susanarosa wrote:Although I have to admit I'm a little worried about the whole it's better to not know how your sausages are made thing...

I bet your happy I posted that because it proves that I remembered we have plans this Saturday.

Brownie points?

Yeah, that would be Sunday...

susanarosa wrote:

The Beav wrote:

susanarosa wrote:Although I have to admit I'm a little worried about the whole it's better to not know how your sausages are made thing...

I bet your happy I posted that because it proves that I remembered we have plans this Saturday.

Brownie points?

Yeah, that would be Sunday...

DAMN!

does anyone find it kind of amusing that this married couple are having a conversation on HFD...

sort of reminds me when I iChat with my wife from upstairs.

We're not as unhappy as those miserable New Yorkers.

http://www.freep.com/article/20091218/N ... -50-states

Happiest to least cheery

1. Louisiana

2. Hawaii

3. Florida

. . .

49. Michigan

50. Connecticut

51. New York

Mulligan wrote:
1. Louisiana

They look pretty happy.

I had pretty much forgotten about Sean of Dad's blog ( http://campusmartiuschronicle.blogspot.com/ ), I guess I didn't know he was still doing it, but I saw the link and I read a page and I thought it was a decent diary of a guy who's excited about living in Detroit. I mean, if you separate him from the DYes train wreck who earned himself this thread, it's an okay blog for what it is.

Then again, I've got some bourbon in me.

Doctor Detroit wrote:

Mulligan wrote:
1. Louisiana

They look pretty happy.

Ain't no tail gatin' like Superbowl tail gatin', 'cause Superbowl tail gatin' never stops!

CBS '60 Minutes' Bob Simon: Detroit reminds me of Mogadishu, Somalia

Veteran CBS correspondent Bob Simon said he was struck by the contrast between Detroit’s ailing neighborhoods and a revitalizing downtown during his recent visit for a “60 Minutes” TV segment set to air Sunday.

Simon, who interviewed a half-dozen residents, civic and business leaders for the news program’s segment on Detroit, said that from downtown it was hard to tell he was in a bankrupt city “until you get in the car and drive for 5 minutes.”

Yet once he toured through the city’s vast neighborhoods, he was surprised by the extent of the decay and number of burnt-out buildings.

Speaking by phone Friday, Simon said that of all the places he has visited in more than four decades of reporting, much of it as a foreign correspondent, Detroit reminds him most of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.

“And Mogadishu is the worst place I’ve ever been,” said Simon, 72. “Not the worst place in terms of danger, but the worst place in terms of what it looks like.”

http://www.freep.com/article/20131011/B ... an-Gilbert

The segment I saw inferred that Gilbert's $1B spending spree of old buildings was the equivalent of a buzzard picking away at the bones. If I had a rubber brick, I would've thrown it at my tv.

Whenever Detroit ruin porn stories air, I'll get an email or two from someone I haven't seen in awhile who wants to know if it really looks this bad. Yep, pretty much....

Mogadishu? Please. I guess he's never been to Gary.

jmy wrote:Mogadishu? Please. I guess he's never been to Gary.

What no love for the Railcats? But seriously, Gary is the worst. Shit, The Jacksons left there for Detroit.

Last night my City of Detroit 2012 income tax refund check was in my mailbox. Yeah for Detroit !!

I file every February and usually get the refund by mid summer. Typically, when an envelope addressed from the City of Detroit Finance Department shows up in August, there's no check but a poke in the eye letter stating I did not file and owe them (even though I did file and they owe me. That leads to a couple of long phone calls explaining the situation to a weary civil servant at the CAY building and navigating their byzantine filing process. Resolution ultimately occurs, with an excuse that the staple holding my W-2 fell off or something equally inane.)

Whenever I wondered about what happened this year, I figured my refund probably just got mucked up in the whole bankruptcy debacle, and I was no different than the hundred thousand other creditors owed twenty billion dollars. Yesterday I half-expected to find a check for $24.00 and a letter from Kevin Orr stating that Michigan municipal bankruptcy law allowed for tax return obligations to be settled ten cents on the dollar, so please enjoy a buffet for two at Perkins.

When I saw a check for the whole shebang it lit my heart. Like a hunter who offers up the spirit of a vanquished beast or a G who spills a forty for a fallen homie, I gratefully intend on spending it in a way that honors the city- a couple of hours playing craps at MGM or making it rain at the Bouzouki, or maybe even a nice leather murse from Shinola that I'll never use.

Mud Bug wrote:I file every February and usually get the refund by mid summer. Typically, when an envelope addressed from the City of Detroit Finance Department shows up in August, there's no check but a poke in the eye letter stating I did not file and owe them (even though I did file and they owe me. That leads to a couple of long phone calls explaining the situation to a weary civil servant at the CAY building and navigating their byzantine filing process. Resolution ultimately occurs, with an excuse that the staple holding my W-2 fell off or something equally inane.)

Not just CoD, I'm afraid. Some years back my refund for federal income tax was reduced because some of my deductions were denied, and in that I usually work in a big formula-heavy workbook of my own design in Excel ($80 for TurboTax! Why would I do things the easy way?!?!) I just shrugged and concluded that I must have bungled a computation.

Anyway, the next January I reviewed the prior year's work in preparation for the next filing and I was like "WTF, I didn't screw up last year." I got a friendly (really; I've found that they all are) IRS agent on the phone and he was able to pull up scanned images of the prior year's return. He's looking at the images and going through things with me and trying to find why some of my deductions were denied, when goes "oh" in an aw-shit kind of way. We really do have more kids than the typical American family, and because the federal 1040 form only has spaces to list five or six of the family/dependents we must do as instructed and attach a note containing lisiting the overflow. Seems that the note was received and scanned but not taken into account when the IRS reviewed my work. Like I said, the guy on the phone was friendly and helpful, and so I got the balance of my refund, plus interest, which came to something like two grand. Talk about happy windfalls...

frank - up in grand blanc wrote:

Mud Bug wrote:I file every February and usually get the refund by mid summer. Typically, when an envelope addressed from the City of Detroit Finance Department shows up in August, there's no check but a poke in the eye letter stating I did not file and owe them (even though I did file and they owe me. That leads to a couple of long phone calls explaining the situation to a weary civil servant at the CAY building and navigating their byzantine filing process. Resolution ultimately occurs, with an excuse that the staple holding my W-2 fell off or something equally inane.)

Not just CoD, I'm afraid. Some years back my refund for federal income tax was reduced because some of my deductions were denied, and in that I usually work in a big formula-heavy workbook of my own design in Excel ($80 for TurboTax! Why would I do things the easy way?!?!) I just shrugged and concluded that I must have bungled a computation.

Anyway, the next January I reviewed the prior year's work in preparation for the next filing and I was like "WTF, I didn't screw up last year." I got a friendly (really; I've found that they all are) IRS agent on the phone and he was able to pull up scanned images of the prior year's return. He's looking at the images and going through things with me and trying to find why some of my deductions were denied, when goes "oh" in an aw-shit kind of way. We really do have more kids than the typical American family, and because the federal 1040 form only has spaces to list five or six of the family/dependents we must do as instructed and attach a note containing lisiting the overflow. Seems that the note was received and scanned but not taken into account when the IRS reviewed my work. Like I said, the guy on the phone was friendly and helpful, and so I got the balance of my refund, plus interest, which came to something like two grand. Talk about happy windfalls...

What the hell do the Duggars do when they file their return?