@jchannell said:
It had to do with the whole "all the cops got fired and the city went to shit" thing... one girl I knew got gang raped at a frat party on top of a Fire Truck. :(
I will now never look at that fire truck the same way again.
@jchannell said:
It had to do with the whole "all the cops got fired and the city went to shit" thing... one girl I knew got gang raped at a frat party on top of a Fire Truck. :(
I will now never look at that fire truck the same way again.
@jchannell said:
When I lived there, highlights included:
- Getting drunk with the mayor when I was 19 at a frat party
- Witnessing a drive-by shooting
- being mugged (which was funny, because I turned my pockets out & laughed at the guy - "I have 2 cigarettes and a handshake, buddy - you can have one of my smokes." - he left me alone after that)
- meeting a 49 year old Vietnam veteran that was drunk, taking Lortabs and high on Morphine, that had 2 wooden legs and called himself "Kickstand" - and racing him across Waterfront Park on foot.
- 4 out of 5 girls I knew got raped
- There was about 9 months or so where a lot of the police force was laid off and we only had 18 officers for the entire city, and while the whole place went to shit you could rest assured that there would always be 2 sitting at the gas station across from the college drinking coffee and oogling the college girls.
Yeah, stay the hell away from Huntington WV
I call shenanigans. It's Riverfront Park.
@jchannell said:
There was about 9 months or so where a lot of the police force was laid off and we only had 18 officers for the entire city, and while the whole place went to shit you could rest assured that there would always be 2 sitting at the gas station across from the college drinking coffee and oogling the college girls.
Shenanigans again. The police have never been good at their jobs so its impossible for the city to go downhill after laying them all off.
Huntington is the fattest city in America because the water is so bad and everyone drinks gallons of soda pop instead.
They did leave an easy way to use google. Go to google.com or make the two clicks to change your provider. If this is too complicated for you, then you probably do need to stick with IE6.
@stratos said:
If I earn more I will also have to pay more salary tax, if I for instance started making more then 50K EUR a year it becomes 50% salary tax while if I would make less then 17K a year I would probably pay less, but i'm unsure how much.
In most (if not all) progressive tax systems, you only incur the higher tax percentage on the amount of money over the threshold. Your base tax rate doesn't change.
Example:
Base tax rate - 20%. Upper Income (50,000+) - 50%
If you make 50,000 you get taxed 20% of that, which turns out to 10,000, leaving you wisht 40,000
If you make 52,000 you get taxed 20% of the first 50,000 (again, 10,000) and then 50% on the remaining 2,000 (1,000) for a total tax of 11,000, leaving you wish 41,000. You are NOT going to pay 50% on the whole thing (26,000) and end up in the poor house.
Moving up in tax bracket should never equate to a loss of take-home income.
@morbiuswilters said:
I was talking about you, silly.
Wow, it must really suck for you to make less money than me.
@morbiuswilters said:
@TheTXI said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@Weng said:
Congratulations, you make 5 times what you made in 2005 - give or take a few pennies on the dollar.Wewt! I started out making $100 a week working as a "cable jockey". I spent most of my time underneath desks, working amongst massive webs of cabling; plugging, unplugging, tracing and replacing. Of course, I graduated beyond that awhile ago and now I'm in charge of managing almost a dozen servers and I even program software sometimes. The sharp ascent of my career has been deeply rewarding (both financially and emotionally) and deeply deserved.
Does this include the deep nadir of being a PHP-tard who was unemployed for several months thanks to a Canadian company buying your employer out?
I guess I should applaud you just for finding a job.
It was pretty boring being unemployed, but still far better than being a fat, teetotaling (because his mother was a drunk whore), Obama-loving, marginally retarded (oh, redundant) DotNetNuke themer from backwater West Virginia (redundant again) who thinks a Mitsubishi Eclipse is an "expensive car", who gets paid about as much as McD's assistant manager and who married his ugly whale of a girlfriend after a pregnancy scare that ended up being a false alarm that wasn't all that surprising seeing as his weak, genetically-inferior sperm has trouble navigating its way completely into his cousin's toothless mouth, not to mention through the rancid, hellish cavern that is his wife's diseased womb.
Wow, it must really suck for you to make less money than that guy.
@morbiuswilters said:
@Weng said:
Congratulations, you make 5 times what you made in 2005 - give or take a few pennies on the dollar.Wewt! I started out making $100 a week working as a "cable jockey". I spent most of my time underneath desks, working amongst massive webs of cabling; plugging, unplugging, tracing and replacing. Of course, I graduated beyond that awhile ago and now I'm in charge of managing almost a dozen servers and I even program software sometimes. The sharp ascent of my career has been deeply rewarding (both financially and emotionally) and deeply deserved.
Does this include the deep nadir of being a PHP-tard who was unemployed for several months thanks to a Canadian company buying your employer out?
I guess I should applaud you just for finding a job.
@tgape said:
That's not kissing his ass. It's called a compliment. I did it because he's more entertaining than you are: he tells stories; you mostly make lame comments about how people who aren't Americans act differently from Americans, including spelling things differently and using different units.
That's really sad (and hilarious) when
@tgape said:
he tells stories
Is considered more entertaining than morb.