is this your spoon? are you the friend in OPs post?

you really got me there man! I mean I’ve met some pretty smart and cool people in my travels but holy fuck you made me look like a complete idiot and I am absolutely in awe of you.

i feel you. its wack. ive never liked soup spoons. i eat cereal and soup with a teaspoon

if theyre quite large then its a tablespoon

thats a teaspoon, dude

i had trouble with jeborah doing this thing where it would say my account isnt authenticated yet for a full day or so about once a week. using summit now and it works very well

yeah that’s more likely

Do get a broad array of people’s impressions on the topic, but I read everything you wrote, including the extra information in the one reply to someone else, and I’m not reading anything that suggests that he wants to be in a relationship. Giving hugs is nice but it’s not an expression of interest. Flirting is often just flirting.

I might be wrong- you can always just ask him directly if he’d like to go on a proper date.

man I’m not going to read all that garbage. the fact is, your tax professional who didn’t know about the 2555 was an utter hack. someone else mentioning it to you is fortuitous for yourself, but its not the secret sacred hack you think it is. it’s understood by everyone else I know that lives outside the US. if you were paying taxes on your income to the US under 125k its because you hired an incompetent to help you with your taxes, or can’t read.

you’re honestly a strange person.

so, ive lived outside of the US for over 15 years and have filed taxes where i live and back in the US, where I file the 1040 and the 2555, because you have to. You don’t only fill out the 2555. I know a bunch of americans here and never once have I heard of the 2555 called a “FEIE Form” the way you’re describing it.

You said “you don’t pay tax on the first approx 125k”, and I pointed out that you absolutely do pay tax, just not to the US, you pay to the government in the country where you’re living. its not tax free, its just to the government of Australia or wherever you live instead of the US.

I also mentioned that people will pay tax on earned income under that 125k if youre in the states over 35 days, but that its prorated, so its not that you pay 100% of taxes all of a sudden, it’s what you would pay divided by 330 (if you were one day over, or 329 if you were over by two days, etc.)

just trying to expand and clarify on your post. apparently its your area of complete expertise and anyone saying anything is just googling shit to bask in the glory of your genius, though. stay cool

you know, it’s clear that you’re trying to be helpful to folks, but you come off like an asshole. just an fyi!

yeah ok the 2555 is the FEIE you mentioned.

its important to note that if youre within the US for more than that 35 day exemption, you start to pay taxes pro-rata.

I think you agreed with what I said just using different words about paying taxes where you do live- yes, you pay them directly to the government where you are domicle.

pretty sure you have to fill out the 2555 as well bro

you also have to pay tax where you are domicile, aka where you live

wow

que the walk in the snow in magitek armor… i mean god damn

Man… I still use FF 6 (3 on snes) music as transition music on a community radio show (devil’s lab, the magitech factory music) I do. guys a fuckin legend

classic

can confirm

I actually remind myself this is the worst moment of the day. It gets better and better.

I wake up with rather dark, pessimistic thoughts. They tend to fade toward mid-day.

So, again, I say “this is the literal worst moment of the entire day” (Its very rarely not true)

it was utterly macabre