Razor burn. It's a bitch.

[p0tat0es]

Anybody know why razors are so goddamned expensive? I'm sure there's all sorts of tooling involved to get those three or five or howeverthefuck-many blades sharpened just so and stuck into that little plastic casing, and then you have to add the (dis) comfort strip and whatnot.

But I say goddamn. GOD-DAMN!

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I redid my taxes. I still owe $49.30. What the f.

Comments

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Point one:
We are totally continually jacked by the Razor Bastards. I'm considering moving to a straight razor because it's reusable, has mad mad cred, and can serve as a nifty infighting weapon.

Point two:
I have my workplace withold extra so I can be relatively sure of being able to pay taxes when they come around: I generally get a little back from the feds and promptly get it shoved up my ass by the state and the city. Which is why I'm surprised to see that my calculations grant me An Absurd Sum for my state return.

There is no way I'm getting any money back from the state. Much less the Absurd Sum that my calculations show I'm owed.

But I had no more time to go over my work again. They'll tell me I got it wrong, send it back, and I'll owe five hundred bucks. Blarg.

Re: point two

[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

Unless I really bollocksed something up, my work should be withholding the maximum amount possible, so that I wouldn't (theoretically) have to pay out.

I never had to send the IRS a check until Bush came into office. Makes ya wonder...

Re: point two

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Thereyago. Although under a different regime, I might not mind paying my taxes as much. As it is...

You know, I have never, ever understood the phenomenon of the Young Republican - how anyone under the age of fifty could ever imagine that conservative types could ever operate in the interests of anyone but the absurdly rich and the corporate is utterly beyond me.

How does it happen? Does it come from reading Rand and failing to recover?

Re: point two

[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either. I guess if you're just born square, you don't really have a choice.

I know lots of people who have Atlas Shrugged on their bookshelf, but I don't think any of them have read it...

Re: point two

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to tackle it in a Know Your Enemy sort of way, but I always have something else more enticing on my reading list. Shopping lists. Obituaries.

Re: point two

[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

Instructions.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Re: point two

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Laundry.