Haven't listened to the podcast since the Smosh episode for chuckle week summer 2023. Just found out that it ended and Take It Easy shall rise from the ashes. Was looking on Spotify as I was curious to catch up and saw the final episode was up! Looks like I missed a ton of episodes and have a lot to catch up on.
CHEERS
Eps: 270+
Writers: 51
F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Eps: 230+
Writers: 43
THE BIG BANG THEORY
Eps: 270+
Writers: 24
HIMYM
Eps: 200 +
Writers: 35
TWO AND A HALF MEN
Eps: 260+
Writers: 30
KING OF QUEENS
Eps: 200+
Writers: 51
WILL AND GRACE
Eps: 240+
Writers: 49
FRASIER
Eps: 260+
Writers: 51
SUPERSTORE
Eps: 110+
Writers: 29
This people is why there are plot holes and storyline/character inconsistencies in sitcoms (and all T.V. actually) SO CAN YOU ALL PLEASE JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT!!
You are not the only person to notice it we all do... sure it shouldn't happen it's not that difficult to check things first, but it just happens so get over it and please shut up about it.
Hi all, Im taking the big leap into self employment soon and would value some advice. Im on a good salary but have just come out of a separation (~4 years now). I now have a house that I own 100% and 2 kids. My needs are fairly simple/cheap (although not much is cheap nowadays) and the near term financial objective is to clear the mortgage, which is about 600k currently. If it matters, Im 49 this year.
In April/May, I will cease my salaried position and take on 2 clients, with a total income of between 400-500k p.a. This will fluctuate but Im budgeting based on 400k income to the company. I own my company 100% and my current view is to pay myself ~200k p.a. and if there is a surplus at the end of the FY this can be paid out to me as dividends or salary (I dont yet understand if there’s tax implications/ difference here)with a small portion held as retained earnings. I work from home and clients are in NZ at this stage, could change. I will use my personal car and will expense petrol. This part is fairly straightforward, some learning to do on the finer details eg how to claim ‘rent’ on home office etc.
The questions I have relate to the house and trust:
I am considering starting a family trust and placing the house in the trust to protect the asset. I also have small shareholding in a company which I will place in the trust. Is this still a good idea nowadays? I was wondering if I can split my personal salary to paying myself + trust, with the trust servicing mortgage, but I believe this is not allowed. Im also unsure if there is any benefits to the trust being a shareholder of the company.
More broadly, I am trying to set things up to be more tax efficient. I am considering an accountant to help me work through some of these. I am in Eastern Bays in Auckland and would welcome any recommendations. I will likely use Xero.
I would appreciate your collective wisdom / experience.
TIA!
It’s been days since I last saw you, yet it feels like a lifetime. There isn’t an hour that goes by where I don’t check my phone for anything from you.
I think about the last I saw you, playing it back in my head - what I wish I had done, what I was sure happened. I told you what I thought about you, how special you were to me, how in another time I wish I could make you mine. It was a lie.
I want you in this life, and any others after that. You’re one of a kind, you’re special. You’re one of the people that has brought something into my life that I’ve not felt in a long time: worth. You’re charming, funny and someone who I have literally spoke with until the small hours of the morning. I’d throw in how beautiful you are, but I think you know my stance on that by now.
I know you saw me staring, as you lay on that couch fighting the weight of sleep. You have never looked so peaceful, and in truth I wish I could have stayed with you.
I want to hold your hand again. I want to hold it and never have to let go. I want you to tell me how I matter, at least to you again. But you have different plans, a different path ahead than I do.
I wish I could tell you how I feel, however I think you already know. The truth is, that I am too afraid of the rejection, and have accepted that people like me don’t get people like you. A small part of me wishes you were reading this, to just take all the agency away.
I think about you all the time, P.
I got a CFA Level 1 scholarship, but due to personal reasons, I can’t take the exam as planned. I know I cant for paid deferral directly . Emergency deferrals have specific criteria, so if mine gets rejected, can I still go for a paid deferral?
Writing a project in mind. Who is the closest to a living Gilbert Gottfried? Since he is sadly no longer with us, May he rest peacefully.
Doesn't have to sound similar, but something similar in spirit. And a nice rasp would be nice.
(Extra points I'd it's someone in anime dubbing, like Funimation).
Has anyone got experience of actually using the civil enforcement process . We have been awarded the verdict at a dispute tribunal but the other party is refusing to pay so i need to go to civil enforcement, but there's loads of options & i have no idea what i can claim back .
I've had PT for 2½ years now. It comes and it goes - it'll be loud for a couple months, go away for a bit, come back in full force. It's even switched ears. Hearing normal, ENT's exam normal, blood pressure on the high side of normal. MRI and MRA (with contrast) normal - no abnormal blood vessel structues, no dural AV fistula or AVM, no aneurysm. No tumors, generally "nothing that explains the symptoms". Optic disc isn't swollen, so it isn't IIH.
I can't think of anything else to get done, and it's not like I could afford it anyways. I'm happy that the potentially scary reasons have been ruled out, but it's still *there*, and having to listen to it is really affecting my mood. I know that with normal tinnitus your brain eventually tunes it out, but since the noise of PT varies and isn't even, will that ever happen? Am I just going to be conscious of this thing *forever*? So, people who have lived with this thing for longer than I have, what are your experiences - have you gotten used to it, and does it still bother you (as much as it used to)?
Ok, this was on a car with a white plywood sign duct taped to the bumper that reads: PUTIN: HITLER’S ILLEGITIMATE SON. The U in Putin is drawn as the hammer and sickle.
Any ideas? Thanks.