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If you're over 40 and still carrying a student loan balance, you should just be sent to jail


That's like 30% of doctors. You think healthcare is bad now? :lol:
Chaisson had a nice hustle play for the Pats last night as well to seal the win.

re: Seattle in late May

Posted by Teddy Ruxpin on 12/22/25 at 8:48 am to
Wallace Falls

Perfect excuse to eat here after you're done with the hike. Eventually someone on TD will take my recommendation. You could be the first.

Vick's Burger Shack - Sultan, WA
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I can’t speak for every company, but Vanguard definitely offers a traditional IRA as well as a rollover IRA so when we back door each January, we only use the traditional IRA to do that


That's not the issue. You can Google "pro rata rule and ROTH IRA backdoor" to get an explanation. Could be a big tax problem.
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Moving to a new job. Roll your old 401k into an IRA. Many more choices,


Am I the only one who never does this due to the problems it causes for backdoor ROTH conversions? Even before I ever had this issue I was looking ahead. I either keep my 401ks where they are or roll into new plan. With financial apps it's easy to keep up with.

ETA: I see the post above me raised the same issue.
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Why? What are you compacting?


My kitchen has one. It lets me avoid taking out the trash for another 15 minutes or so.
I stopped pulling for the other SEC teams when we started getting the benefit of the doubt around 2006/7.

The five years or so before that we needed SEC teams to show out so we wouldn't get left out like Auburn 2004.
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I’m guessing his summers are pretty easy


I wouldn't. He'd be responsible for all maintenance and construction contracts, including the bid process, and if something were to happen, injury or contractor messes up, well he gets to deal with that too :lol:. Oh, Bill slapped Karen's arse at work? Guess who gets to deal with the employment law too.

General counsel has to deal with 5 different areas of law and be somewhat competent about them to be able navigate some of it, leverage outside counsel when appropriate (and usually not have much of a budget for it), etc.
Being a general counsel of a large organization such as this can be completely life sucking if you're engaged at all.

If he's doing the work, $170k was fricking cheap :lol:
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I fly through LHR pretty frequently, 6-7 times a year. The e-gates are nice and I agree that it is down to 10 min max, but it is easily 15 minutes to get from the plane to customs and another 15+ to get a bag. I think 45-60 minutes is fair estimate to land and leave LHR


Ya, i thought about editing that because I think some people think about the whole thing including walking and getting a cab and some people just want to know how long the passport line is. Plus, he said checked bag in his estimate which was really the longest and possibly most variable part, and OP doesn't have one. Waiting on our bag was probably 20 minutes of the process by itself.

I agree the jet bridge of my flight was a mile long :lol:

Another variable is if I recall the factors correctly and why I used a cab to the city. There is a train from the airport but it leaves every 20 minutes I think and then you have to transfer off it. So if you miss that train you now have a long wait vs a cab, and I believe still have to transfer trains at some point. It really can cut down on the train advantage.
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45-60 Minutes - Debark, clear customs, claim your bag


If I didn't check a bag like the OP it would have been a lot quicker than this. They have E gates now. I couldn't even use them due to having kids with me and it was still only 5 minutes at passport control (since everyone over 10 or whatever could use the E gates that had qualifying passports).

I had one in a rented apartment. It sucked.

Not only do you have the issue on having to wait, God forbid you forget anything since it has to totally drain before you can load another item in.

Hard pass. They are annoying as hell.
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Took about half an hour.


What took so long? :lol:

I've done it myself, and my two kids. Once called back by the officer combined we may have hit 30 minutes across all three "interviews."

Complete waste of time for all involved. On renewal they have an interview stage in the process but it's never done and they just extend you another 5 years.

re: Sherrone Moore arrested

Posted by Teddy Ruxpin on 12/10/25 at 8:56 pm to
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Pretty unhireable in any capacity after this


We believed that when Petrino broke every public sector ethics law on the books and he made his way back to the very same university :lol:

The getting arrested part is the part that will damage Moore.
I'd think they would be doing relatively well being able to jettison a bad coach essentially foisted upon them within 2 years without a buy out.
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Ted Ginn got his leg broken by his own player tackling him in celebration after Ginn took the opening kickoff of the 2006 natty to the house.


One of those injuries I couldn't believe hadn't happened to a big player sooner.

Suddenly jumping on a teammate from behind was so common.
As Eddie Izzard said, the Brits fought the Falklands Islands war for strategic sheep purposes.

re: Japan flights

Posted by Teddy Ruxpin on 12/8/25 at 5:10 pm to
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I disagree here. You are right. But doing this and flying out is not nearly as easy and usually not nearly as cheap as people originally think.

It’s a hell of a lot easier and generally saves time to fly from a 3rd location especially if you can get a flight back to the states from there for close to the same.

You have to get to the train, cost of the tickets, get from the train station to the airport, make it all work time wise, any costs associated like meals, travel, etc from and to the train stations, etc.


I feel like you're speaking from general experience and not Japan specific experience. But maybe you aren't.

Other points were raised above.

For me, I had award tickets into and out of Tokyo.

So I landed in Tokyo Haneda, took the airport train to Shinagawa and then the train to Kyoto. I was on the Kyoto bound train within 1.5 hours of landing, including immigration.

I did Tokyo as my last stop. My point being sure going in and out the other is the most efficient, but don't sweat it if you can't make it work.
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Maybe but Texas & Vanderbilt both finished 6-2 in SEC.

Texas would have been the one to get in with a win vs Ohio State


And, ya know, beating Vandy head to head.

re: Japan flights

Posted by Teddy Ruxpin on 12/7/25 at 7:30 pm to
It really doesn't matter that much considering you can bullet back to Tokyo in 2.5 hours.
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Not true. If you actively communicate with your spouse, you know the colors they approve of, particular equipment that they prefer, and the make & model that they mention. Or, you can do what I do, get a Yukon in either black or white with the most powerful engine available(maybe for me), and ask her to drive it


Who does this if not seriously considering buying a car? You basically supported 95% of the idea people are going to discuss it before making a purchase like this :lol: