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GAYS FOR DAYS posted:Did the wife get the pool table? What's the story behind the pool table? I never read the archived thread, all these references are like inside jokes.
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May 8, 2016 01:35
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Mojo Threepwood posted:drat, first Caro is found alive and well (?), we've got the triumphant return of Zaurg, and the New York Times is linking to front page posts. What a time to be a goon. Whoa, Caro's alive?
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May 8, 2016 01:52
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Nitrox posted:I never read the archived thread You really should: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3175682
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May 8, 2016 02:52
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zaurg is probably unknown to non-BFC posters, but to me, he's as classic SA as bigpeeler and p-p-p-powerbook.
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May 8, 2016 03:23
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pig slut lisa posted:You really should: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3175682
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May 8, 2016 03:34
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Uranium 235 posted:zaurg is probably unknown to non-BFC posters, but to me, he's as classic SA as bigpeeler and p-p-p-powerbook. edit: I feel like I've even seen it on reddit Jeffrey of YOSPOS fucked around with this message at 15:19 on May 8, 2016 |
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May 8, 2016 03:48
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I bring you a story of governmental BWM. From 2012 to 2015 the Danish tax service was defrauded of about $1.35 billion. How did the fraudsters go about doing that? Well, if you own shares in a Danish company and the company pays you a dividend, you are taxed 27% of the dividend. However, if you don't live in Denmark and has already paid the tax in your home country you can apply to get the 27% refunded from the Danish tax service. So the fraudsters cunningly made forged documents that made it look like they owned shares and had paid the 27% in Denmark and the appropriate tax in their home country. On at least 2120 separate occasions over 4 years they then applied to have the 27% refunded. The tax service, which has become chronically understaffed in recent years (because digitalization! efficiency! synergy!), merrily approved these applications and paid out the $1.35 billion. They would have been none the wiser if they hadn't finally been tipped off by a foreign government agency.
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May 8, 2016 12:18
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Nitrox posted:What's the story behind the pool table? I never read the archived thread, all these references are like inside jokes. To be honest, spending a weekend reading all the Zaurg threads is what got me motivated to, well, not be like Zaurg.
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May 8, 2016 14:58
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Per posted:The tax service, which has become chronically understaffed in recent years (because digitalization! efficiency! synergy!), merrily approved these applications and paid out the $1.35 billion.
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May 8, 2016 20:40
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pig slut lisa posted:You really should: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3175682 I feel much better about my own finances now. I can't guess someones personality from a description of their spending on an internet forum but at least on a financial level, that wife of zaurgs looks like a real... complicated woman.
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May 8, 2016 22:11
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Dawncloack posted:Rather I'd say those buzzwords were used simply to make it easier for large fortunes to avoid tax. I mean, if it's anything like what's going on in Spain where it has been made practically impossible to catch a rich person not paying tax. I don't know, I think this is one of those "Don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence" deals.
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May 8, 2016 22:16
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Whoa, Caro's alive?
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May 9, 2016 00:29
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zaurg posted:bad with money question: Wait, so you're still around? Are you still married?
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May 9, 2016 02:20
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Pillowpants posted:Wait, so you're still around? Are you still married?
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May 9, 2016 03:40
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ok. I'll make a new thread. Sorry for cluttering up this one.
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May 9, 2016 03:53
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christmas in may
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May 9, 2016 03:56
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:christmas in may
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May 9, 2016 04:45
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Per posted:I don't know, I think this is one of those "Don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence" deals. So we have the EC breathing on everybody's neck about the budget deficit, and the media going on and on about the debt crisis, and countries defund their tax services, preventing them from getting tons of money owed in taxes? And all throughout the continent as if it was coordinated from the EU (whose president has been proven to help corporations throuhhout tje continent avoid taxes ? Incompetence is hard to believe for me at this point. But enough of this derail. Being in the EU is bad with money. VV Let me answer by PM so I stop this derail, but to sum up: It's not your tax service being hilariously incompetent, it's the european elites launching a coordinated offensive against them paying taxes. Dawncloack fucked around with this message at 11:38 on May 9, 2016 |
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May 9, 2016 07:08
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Zaurg rises.
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May 9, 2016 07:30
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Dawncloack posted:So we have the EC breathing on everybody's neck about the budget deficit, and the media going on and on about the debt crisis, and countries defund their tax services, preventing them from getting tons of money owed in taxes? And all throughout the continent as if it was coordinated from the EU (whose president has been proven to help corporations throuhhout tje continent avoid taxes ? I have no idea what you're trying to say. Are you suggesting that Juncker has asked succesive Danish governments from both sides of the aisle to torpedo the tax service so that corporations can avoid paying taxes?
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May 9, 2016 09:34
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Did everyone forget or just aren't aware that zaurg stopped being funny or interesting for about the last entire year when he was still posting?
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May 9, 2016 10:29
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Where is zaurgs new thread?
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May 9, 2016 10:48
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here
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May 9, 2016 12:21
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He hasn't posted in that thread...
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May 9, 2016 15:03
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daggerdragon posted:He hasn't posted in that thread... Yeah. I mean, I know how zaurg was, and perhaps is. But this might be his chance to start fresh and he might need some actual good advice which he might actually follow! Because he's not in (what I think was, at least) an emotionally abusive relationship anymore. We could give him a chance without just outright making GBS threads on him.
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May 9, 2016 15:15
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RheaConfused posted:Yeah. I mean, I know how zaurg was, and perhaps is. But this might be his chance to start fresh and he might need some actual good advice which he might actually follow! Because he's not in (what I think was, at least) an emotionally abusive relationship anymore. We could give him a chance without just outright making GBS threads on him. Nah man he'll just find a new partner for his next abusive relationship (goons).
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May 9, 2016 15:29
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NancyPants posted:Nah man he'll just find a new partner for his next abusive relationship (goons). We're your girlfriend now, zaurg. We're good with money and we'll never leave you 
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May 9, 2016 15:32
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RheaConfused posted:Yeah. I mean, I know how zaurg was, and perhaps is. But this might be his chance to start fresh and he might need some actual good advice which he might actually follow! Because he's not in (what I think was, at least) an emotionally abusive relationship anymore. We could give him a chance without just outright making GBS threads on him. It's basically guaranteed that zaurg was the bigger problem in the marriage. Everything we hear is from his POV and he still sounds as much of an rear end in a top hat as his wife. So in reality it's probably just him being a gigantic shitbag. Anyway his posts are bad now, posts about him about bad now, so this is a bad post, and so is yours.
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May 9, 2016 16:29
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His posts have always been bad
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May 9, 2016 20:28
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Post the thread zaurg, this is a (divorce) lawyer
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May 9, 2016 23:20
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New Zealand as a nation is still BWM. This time the current Government has passed laws to make the country a tax haven via trusts. Apparently ruining our international reputation nets a mere $24m NZD in fees each year. Of course our trusts are apparently threaded through the Panama Papers and includes an Elvis Impersonator that controls the trusts that have received bribes for access to Iraqi oil. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11636474 quote:Jensen, who has advertised his services as an energy healer and was at the time into his second bankruptcy, told the Herald this morning he had no comment on his relationship with Al Jarah or Mossack Fonseca, then hung up. He exited bankruptcy in 2013. If the US military is looking to get some of the money back that disappeared in Iraq this seems like a great starting place.
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May 10, 2016 01:37
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I was going to post this in the schadenfreude thread but then I read the second to last line. High school art project mistakenly appraised for $50,000 on Antiques Roadshow Alvin Barr's eyes nearly popped out of his head when his ugly-face pottery jug was appraised on PBS' Antiques Roadshow for $50,000. It was dated to the 19th or early 20th century. But recently, PBS published a corrected appraisal of $3,000-$5,000 on its website after it was discovered that the jug was not as old as first thought. "I made it sometime around 1973, or 1974, in high school art class," says Betsy Soule from her home in Oregon. As Soule tells As it Happens host Carol Off, a friend had seen the "Grotesque Face Jug" episode of the Antiques Roadshow and called Soule to tell her about it. The friend had once owned the jug and mentioned that the "weird pot" Soule had made was on the show. The pottery jug has six faces on it and according to Antiques Roadshow appraiser, Stephen L. Fletcher, it appeared to be influenced by Spanish sculptor Pablo Picasso. "It's pretty grotesque. If you put flowers in it they'd probably just wither." Soule's friend had encouraged her to contact the Antiques Roadshow to make them aware of the error. "They have to do those appraisals on the fly without that much information. And probably if it really was made in the time period they'd guessed it was made in, I don't know, I think that's pretty outrageous." The show's staff got in touch and although Soule had no proof the jug was hers, she was able to provide a picture of herself surrounded by similar sculptures in the 1970s. She's amazed that the jug is now appraised at $3,000-$5,000. "I thought Alvin Barr paid too much for it at $300. He bought it at a barn sale, and it was covered in dirt and chicken manure, but he just really liked it … if I'd known he was that fond of it I probably would've just given it to him." "Have you gone on to a successful career making works of art and pottery?" asks Off. "Are you kidding me? No, I'm just a lowly horse trainer and riding instructor," says Soule with a laugh. Soule muses about returning to pottery one day. But when asked if those jug faces are still in her, Soule cries, "Oh God, I hope not!"
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May 11, 2016 05:43
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I was expecting her to get insulted at them calling her work grotesque until I clicked the link. Jesus christ
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May 11, 2016 13:31
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Dillbag posted:"Have you gone on to a successful career making works of art and pottery?" asks Off. Local horse person makes good
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May 11, 2016 13:52
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Renegret posted:I was expecting her to get insulted at them calling her work grotesque until I clicked the link. It looks like it would eat your soul
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May 11, 2016 15:26
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I like it.
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May 11, 2016 15:42
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Why is art-school pottery from 1973 worth $5000?
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May 11, 2016 16:30
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Aliquid posted:Why is art-school pottery from 1973 worth $5000? Because the guys doing the appraising thought it was something Jesus drank from 2000 years ago. Then they got corrected on the origins, and believe that Jesus came to 1973 and drank from it. I got nothin.
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May 11, 2016 16:33
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Aliquid posted:Why is art-school pottery from 1973 worth $5000? I think the reappraisal at $5000 is just an attempt to save some sort of face. If they admit it's worth like $50 or whatever, they look even worse than they do now.
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