What first world problem did you have today?

[Red Squirrel]

Seems to work for me, but was glitchy. Probably updating NSA code in prod instead of testing it on dev.

 

[Chaotic42]

I can't find a contractor to come out and install a french drain. Also, I woke up at like 0100 with a sore throat.

 

[highland145]

Bought a townhouse for a rental to list on VRBO last Sept. So far it's been decent but today, the (sales) tax man has just about pissed me off. It's passed onto the renter, 6% state, 2% county, 1% city. My cpa just told me the city also has a additional 3% accommodations tax on short term rentals. WTF? Billing a renter 12% for tax? A friend of mine is over the finance dept so I called him and confirmed. Told him that the city/county/state were about to be getting ZERO because I might turn it into a 6 month/yearly rental.

Worse than loan sharks.

 

[snoopy7548]

Bought a townhouse for a rental to list on VRBO last Sept. So far it's been decent but today, the (sales) tax man has just about pissed me off. It's passed onto the renter, 6% state, 2% county, 1% city. My cpa just told me the city also has a additional 3% accommodations tax on short term rentals. WTF? Billing a renter 12% for tax? A friend of mine is over the finance dept so I called him and confirmed. Told him that the city/county/state were about to be getting ZERO because I might turn it into a 6 month/yearly rental.

Worse than loan sharks.

Aren't you a loan shark or am I thinking of someone else?

 

[highland145]

Aren't you a loan shark or am I thinking of someone else?

<---- The picture of innocence so it must be someone else.

@Zanovar maybe.

 

[clamum]

I'm at work for another 4.5 hours. But at least it's Friday. After I get off I'm gonna take a glorious, glorious nap. I cannot wait.

 

[Zanovar]

My Vapefly Galaxies has started leaking all of a sudden(my fave RTA).Ive also snapped the 510 pin on my siren 2,due to juice seeping out of the 510.I didnt overtighten it either.Smoking cigs was a lot fucking simpler,and less annoying.

 

[Ajay]

Aren't you a loan shark or am I thinking of someone else?

Highland is an honorable businessman, you know, for a pimp.

 

[highland145]

Highland is an honorable businessman, you know, compared to a pimp.

fixed

 

[lxskllr]

Ordered some chainsaw files from Amazon, and I got half the files I thought I was gonna get, and didn't get the handle I know I was supposed to get. The count may be a case of me being stupid. I was looking at several listings, and may have gotten them confused. The price was on par for 12 files. A bit cheaper than some other sellers, but on par with what I can get elsewhere. I definitely should have gotten a handle though, and that didn't come. I'll eat the cost as part of a stupid tax, but I at least want all the stuff I'm supposed to get.

I don't know how to view a product's edit history, or if I even can. I need to start taking screenshots I guess. Should have known better. They advertised significantly as being a conservative Christian company. That's usually the cue to bring your vaseline. I balked a bit when I read that. I don't want to support religion in any way whatsoever, but I figured it's a free country, and business is business. When someone's eager to tell you how religious they are, you're probably gonna get fucked. Just another bit of evidence to add to my bag, and I'll need to reflect on how I conduct business going forward.

 

[lxskllr]

Ordered some chainsaw files from Amazon, and I got half the files I thought I was gonna get, and didn't get the handle I know I was supposed to get. The count may be a case of me being stupid. I was looking at several listings, and may have gotten them confused. The price was on par for 12 files. A bit cheaper than some other sellers, but on par with what I can get elsewhere. I definitely should have gotten a handle though, and that didn't come. I'll eat the cost as part of a stupid tax, but I at least want all the stuff I'm supposed to get.

I don't know how to view a product's edit history, or if I even can. I need to start taking screenshots I guess. Should have known better. They advertised significantly as being a conservative Christian company. That's usually the cue to bring your vaseline. I balked a bit when I read that. I don't want to support religion in any way whatsoever, but I figured it's a free country, and business is business. When someone's eager to tell you how religious they are, you're probably gonna get fucked. Just another bit of evidence to add to my bag, and I'll need to reflect on how I conduct business going forward.

Might have to take back the bad things I said about them. Got a quick reply through the amazon contact seller form. They said the listing was for 6 files, but that it didn't come with a handle, and shouldn't have been listed as such. Offered a full refund, and I keep the 6 files. Assuming I do get my account credited, it's hard to complain about that service.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Bought a townhouse for a rental to list on VRBO last Sept. So far it's been decent but today, the (sales) tax man has just about pissed me off. It's passed onto the renter, 6% state, 2% county, 1% city. My cpa just told me the city also has a additional 3% accommodations tax on short term rentals. WTF? Billing a renter 12% for tax? A friend of mine is over the finance dept so I called him and confirmed. Told him that the city/county/state were about to be getting ZERO because I might turn it into a 6 month/yearly rental.

Worse than loan sharks.

It pisses me off how everywhere you turn in life the government has some other trick up their sleeve to try to tax us even more. Is taking 33% of our income already not enough, and taking 15% of all our purchases not already enough, and taking like 5-10k per year from us just for owning land not enough? Apparently not they find all sorts of other ways to tax us again on top of all that. About 60% of the money you make ends up in taxes, it's crazy. And most of it gets wasted on super stupid crap. IMO they should have 40-50% income tax, and that's it. It should be the absolutely only tax we pay. The money would get spread out to the various tiers of government. Municipal, Provincial, and Federal, and each tier would then spread it to the right budgets accordingly. They should have to budget their costs on a fixed income just like we have to budget our costs on a fixed income.

 

[highland145]

It pisses me off how everywhere you turn in life the government has some other trick up their sleeve to try to tax us even more. Is taking 33% of our income already not enough, and taking 15% of all our purchases not already enough, and taking like 5-10k per year from us just for owning land not enough? Apparently not they find all sorts of other ways to tax us again on top of all that. About 60% of the money you make ends up in taxes, it's crazy. And most of it gets wasted on super stupid crap. IMO they should have 40-50% income tax, and that's it. It should be the absolutely only tax we pay. The money would get spread out to the various tiers of government. Municipal, Provincial, and Federal, and each tier would then spread it to the right budgets accordingly. They should have to budget their costs on a fixed income just like we have to budget our costs on a fixed income.

VRBO doesn't send 1099s so I could have tried to avoid all of it. Never try and get ahead....

 

[sonoma1993]

Directv now is raising the price of my current plan Go Big by $10. If I go with one of their new service plans. I'll end up paying more but get half the channels.

 

[Zanovar]

My sis/nephew/dad are down, these bastards have drunk all my alchohol.(i love them)A beer run incoming.I will say yes 10 times.Btw saying yes 10 times is cocaine at 80%+

 

[lxskllr]

Just spent $350 at the vet, and it'll be another $50 tomorrow when I pick up the drugs. Maintenance/repair are the worst bills, cause you don't really get anything new. You just pay money, and get what you already had.

 

[IronWing]

Yeah but you have a kitty, that's pretty cool.

 

[clamum]

I get kind of a sharp/searing stomach pain after my first meal of the day. It sometimes, or maybe usually, indicates an upcoming poop but not necessarily. Until fairly recently I've never had this before. My body is crap.

So I was gonna have my delicious Honey Bunches of Oats Strawberries cereal for breakfast, cause I knew my milk I had brought to work was expiring today and I wanted to use it up. I verified that yep, today was its expiration date. Opened the cap and smelled it and it smelled kinda sour. So I took a sip and BLEH had to spit that feces out. Dang it was stank. Wtf?! Soured/bad on its expiration date? This was Meijer-brand milk. And actually last week I had the Country Fresh brand from Walmart, and it was two days overdue. Now I've drank one day old milk before, maybe even two days, and it was ok but WOOOOOW this stuff was NASTY smelling. It frickin stunk up my drain/garbage disposal for several frickin days it was so bad. And that was only two frickin days overdue! My mom thought it was strange too, for it to go that bad that quick.

 

[rh71]

This doesn't qualify as a 1st world problem... when you have to fast for 24 hours (before my colonoscopy). /tears for starving people in the world.

As soon as I'm out, I'm chowing down on 2 Big Macs, some fries. And a couple slices of pizza. Yes, that's what I want.

 

[rh71]

It pisses me off how everywhere you turn in life the government has some other trick up their sleeve to try to tax us even more. Is taking 33% of our income already not enough, and taking 15% of all our purchases not already enough, and taking like 5-10k per year from us just for owning land not enough? Apparently not they find all sorts of other ways to tax us again on top of all that. About 60% of the money you make ends up in taxes, it's crazy. And most of it gets wasted on super stupid crap. IMO they should have 40-50% income tax, and that's it. It should be the absolutely only tax we pay. The money would get spread out to the various tiers of government. Municipal, Provincial, and Federal, and each tier would then spread it to the right budgets accordingly. They should have to budget their costs on a fixed income just like we have to budget our costs on a fixed income.

Well you guys do have "free" healthcare. Families pay something like $500-$1k a month for healthcare here. But your numbers are pretty hefty even when you compare it to high-tax states like NY.

 

[clamum]

Well you guys do have "free" healthcare. Families pay something like $500-$1k a month for healthcare here. But your numbers are pretty hefty even when you compare it to high-tax states like NY.

Except for single losers like myself, I pay under $50/month (employer-sponsored).

 

[highland145]

Except for single losers like myself, I pay under $50/month (employer-sponsored).

 

[lxskllr]

Yay Obamacare! $20k for the privilege of paying $14k before you get anything. What a deal! You should buy two.

 

[highland145]

I wish this pain on all bummer care proponents. If you are paying a little, you're employer is getting hosed.

Eff congress, they are exempt.

 

[IronWing]

The Amazon vs Google thing sucks. I wanted to install Android Auto on a Fire tablet.

Amazon: No Google Play store for you.
Me: Fine, I'll download the app file and install it anyway.
Google: Nana nana, you need to sign in and register your device to get to even get to the app file.
Me: A plague o' both your houses! I found the hack to install the Play store on the tablet (it works too!)
<installs Play store, signs into Google>
Google: You still can't have the Android Auto app because your device isn't compatible because of reasons. (reasons being that Google and Amazon are in a pissing match over shitty, zero margin tablets.)

I will continue the battle.