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Need recs for tickets
You have to be a member to buy Arsenal tickets unless you purchase one of the hospitality packages offered by the club or by 2 authorized 3rd party company . There is a decent chance this game will be sold out of packages and expect to pay $600 plus per ticket.
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What happened to Chris Richards?
Looked like he had bad cut on the top of his foot but it was hard to tell.
12 shots and lots of good chances. Just need to finish
Palace went strong. Pretty much their normal starting PL squad minus 1 or 2.
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I'm not saying it didn't happen, but.... You are telling me that in 1969 we went to the moon and have never once gone back??? Why not??? Technology is 100x what it was then. You would think at this point we would have people living on the moon. I have no facts to say it isn't real, I just don't think it happened. It doesn't make any sense.
We did go back 5 times after the original landing.

re: Kids and Santa Claus

Posted by saderade on 12/21/25 at 9:35 pm to
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When they find the internet around age 6
What parent lets their kids have unsupervised use of the internet?

My oldest son is 8 and in 3rd grade and I can tell he’s starting to really question things but hasn’t said much yet. But I know they are talking about it at school.
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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.
Ahh so they look at the total amount of every IRA you have, not as separate entities.
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Good answers unless OP ever wants to do backdoor Roth contributions…
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
We need to put this game away with another one. Can’t let them hang around
Need to finish this. Let Gyo blast one
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hat guy mated with that
Well he does kinda look like a creepy clown
It’s kind of wild that it’s recreationally legal in 24 states and medically legal in 40 states but still classified as schedule 1. Which means it has no medical use and is extremely addictive. Figured the feds would have changed that years ago.
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Why would you have a voluntary surgery if your vision is fine and its hardly noticeable? I get it if it bothers you or makes you self conscious but you said it doesn't.
Agreed, I would not have an elective surgery for something that wasn’t bothering me.
I really hope to be proven wrong on Gyokeres and would gladly eat crow. I really like him personally, he is passionate and works his arse off. But definitely has a lot of deficiencies in his game.

His supposed strengths were making runs into channels, ball striking, and his overall strength as a player. Facing a low block (probably half our PL games) negates the first strength and he has average speed. I’ve yet to see him run by any defender this year and usually gets outrun. He’s also not very quick or agile which is why he has trouble getting onto crosses and he’s been tossed around by many of the PL CBs he has faced this season.

Then the attributes we knew going into this season that weren’t his strengths; playing with his back to the goal, headers, ball retention (passing), pressing, or creating his own shot. Havertz does everyone of these things better than Gyokeres and there is no signs for significant improvement other than his touch and passing has slightly improved since the beginning of the season.

Like I said I hope to be proven wrong and if so that means we are lifting trophies at the end of the season.

re: 401k vs Roth 401k

Posted by saderade on 12/15/25 at 12:22 pm to
Real estate investments are a lot of work and have additional stress and risk that traditional financial retirement funds don’t have.
Money is autodrafted into my 401(k) each month with a company match. If there’s a downturn in the stock market, I still own the same number of funds as long as I don’t panic and sell. There is no work involved here.

On the other hand with real estate, I have to deal with tenants, insurance issues, scummy contractors or sub contractors etc. It’s just not worth it imo.
I just don’t think Gyokeres is good enough for the level we need and never will be. I’m just curious to see if and when they cut their losses.
Why the frick are this sitting back and absorbing pressure