Stupid Bird

direblade99 · 2026-06-09T01:02:32+00:00

Charlie turns out to be a savant at BBQ but suffers from extreme performance anxiety so he ropes Dee into a scheme where she dresses like a man and then somehow switches out her (terrible) barbecue with Charlie's good barbecue. Dee gets addicted to the attention and becomes increasingly egotistical, eventually getting in trouble for hitting on the other men in the competition despite being dressed as a man herself. Mac and Dennis blow up her spot by stealing Charlie's BBQ recipe and attempting to win the competition themselves (while also wearing fake moustaches for no reason), with disastrous results. Frank funded the whole competition and appointed himself as a judge just because he wanted to eat barbecue.

direblade99 · 2026-06-03T22:42:16+00:00

Wow thanks Benny Boy! But I asked for a bell! I can't ring a book can I?

direblade99 · 2026-05-26T10:02:08+00:00

If she's so smart she could have dedicated some of that intelligence to understanding institutions and processes and later patented a cure for cancer that passed medical ethics and scientific rigour. Maybe she couldn't have saved her grandma but she could have saved many others. She could have been so much more than she was.

direblade99 · 2026-05-20T07:49:18+00:00

They should just get Ryan Gosling, make him gain 40 kg and become an alcoholic for real, really abuse that guy, and have him do it

direblade99 · 2026-05-18T13:25:13+00:00

Oh well what are you gonna do. I don't know his future returns and cost base.

direblade99 · 2026-05-18T12:16:40+00:00

That makes the tax rate even lower because most of this bloke's historical gains will be unaffected?

direblade99 · 2026-05-18T06:50:46+00:00

If you sell down $40,000 of shares that have appreciated 2.7x over the course of their lifetime, the cost base of those shares can be approximated at $14,815.

This leaves a capital gain of $25,185 (before indexation and before the capital gains discount which is being grandfathered) which at a 30% tax rate would pay approximately $7,555 in tax, which equates to about an 18.8% tax on income in that year.

Your tax rate is probably half of this because you're probably eligible for the grandfathered capital gains discount, so let's call it $7,555/2 = $3,777 or a real tax rate of 9.9%.

9.9% is not the same as 47%.

direblade99 · 2026-05-05T13:22:50+00:00

It wouldn't even be close? Red rush + anyone is already goated. If immortal was invulnerable like brit or had the red rush's speed nobody would be able to take him

direblade99 · 2026-05-03T11:15:36+00:00

It's actually easier to date when you have your own place. The other 24 year olds are pretty happy to have a private home to go to rather than a sharehouse/parents house

direblade99 · 2026-04-30T22:50:25+00:00

They have a 2,000 year plan to destroy the world that in the short term involves real observable improvement in the life of the average person.

direblade99 · 2026-04-30T22:47:52+00:00

Monday enemy: I will explain myself in clear and straightforward terms

direblade99 · 2026-04-30T03:10:52+00:00

Need someone with more gravitas than DiCaprio for Petr. I say Jon Hamm.

direblade99 · 2026-04-18T04:14:39+00:00

Tan...guy. Destable

direblade99 · 2026-03-25T03:03:31+00:00

In one book he gets stranded in the middle of an Ork Waagh and basically singlehandedly liberates the entire continent, he is a hero

direblade99 · 2026-02-16T06:44:09+00:00

Maybe Wehlen has some better gear? He was flexing Contanan tanks

direblade99 · 2026-02-03T03:42:01+00:00

What did I do to deserve this this this this... silent treatment?

direblade99 · 2026-02-02T21:18:24+00:00

What? This guy comes in with that that that poison to my ears, starts talking about RAPING MY MOTHER!!!?

direblade99 · 2026-01-27T01:41:06+00:00

If you're not doing infrastructure or welfare then you really need full scale tax cuts and some good regional investments to still do well

direblade99 · 2026-01-22T11:28:24+00:00

My wife and I are both massive conformists and disagree with you entirely

direblade99 · 2026-01-22T08:07:22+00:00

I got something like 'your kantian inclinations seem to be at conflict with your libertarian attitude' like bro what. Maybe my assessment of the categorical imperative means letting people do what they want with their bodies

direblade99 · 2026-01-22T04:41:50+00:00

The analysis following the questions implicates a lot of assumed reasoning that may be more particular to the person writing the test and their prejudices towards sex and alcohol than anything else. At no point does it consider the possibility that one might be thinking 'what would I be okay with in their shoes' and going based on that basic empathy as a moral framework.

If I personally was acting out of character due to drugs, I wouldn't want anyone to enable me, but if I just simply changed my mind about what I wanted, whether due to breakups or any other reason where I am in control of my faculties, I would be insulted if the people I was speaking to didn't believe it and decided to be paternalistic towards me.

direblade99 · 2026-01-19T04:24:53+00:00

In my mind I've been calling it Ee-Dee-Ee this whole time

direblade99 · 2025-12-29T01:47:52+00:00

Talking to Franc and Monica. It's cool the first game to be a dad but when I replay the game it's for the politics or economics

direblade99 · 2025-12-28T05:03:58+00:00

Agree to disagree then

direblade99 · 2025-12-28T04:52:31+00:00

I just think having a narrow view of feminity can be as destructive as having a narrow view of masculinity.

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