Talk:1566: Board Game - Revision history

DollarStoreBa'al at 18:28, 12 November 2025

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DollarStoreBa'al at 18:27, 12 November 2025

2025-11-12T18:27:45Z

DollarStoreBa'al: oh god

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oh god

82.132.245.237: Must have missed it. Just awaiting the "retrosigned" templates... ;)

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Must have missed it. Just awaiting the "retrosigned" templates... ;)

82.132.245.237 at 16:15, 12 November 2025

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2A0A:EF40:F72:7301:3385:C08:15D2:F35E at 08:45, 12 November 2025

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Jacky720 at 10:05, 2 May 2017

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141.101.106.113 at 12:39, 9 October 2015

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YourLifeisaLie at 14:33, 20 August 2015

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YourLifeisaLie at 14:32, 20 August 2015

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 :: ...or so my friends and colleagues, from across the pond, tell me. Plus there's that time I had to fill in a WD40 (no, wait, that's a lubricating spray... Whatever the US tax form for furriners is...) when I needed to once receive a trivial bit of income from the US head office rather than my 'home' site of my international company. {{unsigned ip|82.132.245.237|16:15, 12 November 2025|...this was me}}
 :::Here's your answer from someone in the United States of Crappy Politics (USCP): Everything here in relation to the government is an absolute shitshow here. There is an industry, and it's VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY big. Need to file an insurance claim via Medicare (crappy government health insurance)? Takes about two months. Need to file your taxes? That takes at least a couple weeks and a LOT of paperwork. Pro tip: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SAVE YOURSELVES FROM OUR FREE-MARKET CORPORATE HELLSCAPE.
-:::Although, I have literally never seen two prices for a product in my 14.5 years of living here. If they did that, the customers would be able to see how much money they're spending and Amazon would gain $30 billion instead of $30.01! <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px;">--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#E3C6BE">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#CC9A8B">Converse</span>]]</sup></span> 18:27, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
+:::Although, I have literally never seen two prices for a product in my 14.5 years of living here. If they did that, the customers would be able to see how much money they're spending and Amazon would gain $30 billion instead of $30.01 billion, and we couldn't have that, now could we?<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px;">--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#E3C6BE">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#CC9A8B">Converse</span>]]</sup></span> 18:27, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

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 :: ...or so my friends and colleagues, from across the pond, tell me. Plus there's that time I had to fill in a WD40 (no, wait, that's a lubricating spray... Whatever the US tax form for furriners is...) when I needed to once receive a trivial bit of income from the US head office rather than my 'home' site of my international company. {{unsigned ip|82.132.245.237|16:15, 12 November 2025|...this was me}}
 :::Here's your answer from someone in the United States of Crappy Politics (USCP): Everything here in relation to the government is an absolute shitshow here. There is an industry, and it's VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY big. Need to file an insurance claim via Medicare (crappy government health insurance)? Takes about two months. Need to file your taxes? That takes at least a couple weeks and a LOT of paperwork. Pro tip: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SAVE YOURSELVES FROM OUR FREE-MARKET CORPORATE HELLSCAPE.
-::::Although, I have literally never seen two prices for a product in my 14.5 years of living here. If they did that, the customers would be able to see how much money they're spending and Amazon would gain $30 billion instead of $30.01! <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px;">--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#E3C6BE">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#CC9A8B">Converse</span>]]</sup></span> 18:27, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
+:::Although, I have literally never seen two prices for a product in my 14.5 years of living here. If they did that, the customers would be able to see how much money they're spending and Amazon would gain $30 billion instead of $30.01! <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px;">--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#E3C6BE">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#CC9A8B">Converse</span>]]</sup></span> 18:27, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

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	:: But apparently everyone is used to it. And there's a whole industry reliant upon (almost all) wage-earners needing at least a little help (in person, by software or through some sort of instruction manual updated every year for every jurisdiction) rather than a simple tax-code sufficing to deal with most of the wages issues via their employer's accounts department.		:: But apparently everyone is used to it. And there's a whole industry reliant upon (almost all) wage-earners needing at least a little help (in person, by software or through some sort of instruction manual updated every year for every jurisdiction) rather than a simple tax-code sufficing to deal with most of the wages issues via their employer's accounts department.
	:: ...or so my friends and colleagues, from across the pond, tell me. Plus there's that time I had to fill in a WD40 (no, wait, that's a lubricating spray... Whatever the US tax form for furriners is...) when I needed to once receive a trivial bit of income from the US head office rather than my 'home' site of my international company. {{unsigned ip\|82.132.245.237\|16:15, 12 November 2025\|...this was me}}		:: ...or so my friends and colleagues, from across the pond, tell me. Plus there's that time I had to fill in a WD40 (no, wait, that's a lubricating spray... Whatever the US tax form for furriners is...) when I needed to once receive a trivial bit of income from the US head office rather than my 'home' site of my international company. {{unsigned ip\|82.132.245.237\|16:15, 12 November 2025\|...this was me}}
		+	:::Here's your answer from someone in the United States of Crappy Politics (USCP): Everything here in relation to the government is an absolute shitshow here. There is an industry, and it's VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY big. Need to file an insurance claim via Medicare (crappy government health insurance)? Takes about two months. Need to file your taxes? That takes at least a couple weeks and a LOT of paperwork. Pro tip: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SAVE YOURSELVES FROM OUR FREE-MARKET CORPORATE HELLSCAPE.
		+	::::Although, I have literally never seen two prices for a product in my 14.5 years of living here. If they did that, the customers would be able to see how much money they're spending and Amazon would gain $30 billion instead of $30.01! <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px;">--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#E3C6BE">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#CC9A8B">Converse</span>]]</sup></span> 18:27, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

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 :: Then there's finding (when you wander over the pond and go into a shop) the tendency for ''every'' price-label to have different values for with and without various taxes. As opposed to normally only seen in trade/wholesale-orientated outlets where they show the "ex-VAT" price for the benefit of those who will need to consider the post-reimbursement cost by the time the accounts get settled.
 :: But apparently everyone is used to it. And there's a whole industry reliant upon (almost all) wage-earners needing at least a little help (in person, by software or through some sort of instruction manual updated every year for every jurisdiction) rather than a simple tax-code sufficing to deal with most of the wages issues via their employer's accounts department.
-:: ...or so my friends and colleagues, from across the pond, tell me. Plus there's that time I had to fill in a WD40 (no, wait, that's a lubricating spray... Whatever the US tax form for furriners is...) when I needed to once receive a trivial bit of income from the US head office rather than my 'home' site of my international company.
+:: ...or so my friends and colleagues, from across the pond, tell me. Plus there's that time I had to fill in a WD40 (no, wait, that's a lubricating spray... Whatever the US tax form for furriners is...) when I needed to once receive a trivial bit of income from the US head office rather than my 'home' site of my international company. {{unsigned ip|82.132.245.237|16:15, 12 November 2025|...this was me}}

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	IE just do your job and collect your pay, the tax is taken off on a per-paycheque basis with nothing more needing to be done on your behalf unless you spot a glaring error (such as the dreaded "emergency tax" band if the employer forgets to inform the authorities that you've taken up a new job at their company and what your annual salary is likely to be, so instead they detect you're suddenly getting a lot of regular income and apply the highest possible deductions in case you've taken up as a high-rolling drug dealer or something...). All taxes, national healthcare, pension, union etc contributions come out of the packet before it even hits your bank account, any errors are assumed to be someone else's fault, and even the "emergency" things are eventually flagged and dealt with by the system (even if it might take a year or two) so you don't get _permanently_ bilked of what you're rightly owed. So you don't end up with those clever enough and evil enough being able to game the system to minimise their tax bill even in some unethical ways, whilst a dyscalculic day labourer having to do two jobs to feed their kids gets bent over a barrel. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.113\|141.101.106.113]] 12:39, 9 October 2015 (UTC)		IE just do your job and collect your pay, the tax is taken off on a per-paycheque basis with nothing more needing to be done on your behalf unless you spot a glaring error (such as the dreaded "emergency tax" band if the employer forgets to inform the authorities that you've taken up a new job at their company and what your annual salary is likely to be, so instead they detect you're suddenly getting a lot of regular income and apply the highest possible deductions in case you've taken up as a high-rolling drug dealer or something...). All taxes, national healthcare, pension, union etc contributions come out of the packet before it even hits your bank account, any errors are assumed to be someone else's fault, and even the "emergency" things are eventually flagged and dealt with by the system (even if it might take a year or two) so you don't get _permanently_ bilked of what you're rightly owed. So you don't end up with those clever enough and evil enough being able to game the system to minimise their tax bill even in some unethical ways, whilst a dyscalculic day labourer having to do two jobs to feed their kids gets bent over a barrel. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.113\|141.101.106.113]] 12:39, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

−	: Wait... so in America they DON'T just pay their taxes through their normal paycheck??	+	: Wait... so in America they DON'T just pay their taxes through their normal paycheck?? {{unsigned ip\|2a0a:ef40:f72:7301:3385:c08:15d2:f35e\|08:45, 12 November 2025}}
		+	:: It surprised me too, when I got the fuller detail. Beyond the "I've got to do my taxes, this week"-episodes of various US dramas/comedies, where you're perhaps at first assuming that these individuals have the more complicated personal finances that means PAYE doesn't just silently shave it off and significant extra needs to be paid/reimbursed only upon application.
		+	:: Then there's finding (when you wander over the pond and go into a shop) the tendency for ''every'' price-label to have different values for with and without various taxes. As opposed to normally only seen in trade/wholesale-orientated outlets where they show the "ex-VAT" price for the benefit of those who will need to consider the post-reimbursement cost by the time the accounts get settled.
		+	:: But apparently everyone is used to it. And there's a whole industry reliant upon (almost all) wage-earners needing at least a little help (in person, by software or through some sort of instruction manual updated every year for every jurisdiction) rather than a simple tax-code sufficing to deal with most of the wages issues via their employer's accounts department.
		+	:: ...or so my friends and colleagues, from across the pond, tell me. Plus there's that time I had to fill in a WD40 (no, wait, that's a lubricating spray... Whatever the US tax form for furriners is...) when I needed to once receive a trivial bit of income from the US head office rather than my 'home' site of my international company.

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	IE just do your job and collect your pay, the tax is taken off on a per-paycheque basis with nothing more needing to be done on your behalf unless you spot a glaring error (such as the dreaded "emergency tax" band if the employer forgets to inform the authorities that you've taken up a new job at their company and what your annual salary is likely to be, so instead they detect you're suddenly getting a lot of regular income and apply the highest possible deductions in case you've taken up as a high-rolling drug dealer or something...). All taxes, national healthcare, pension, union etc contributions come out of the packet before it even hits your bank account, any errors are assumed to be someone else's fault, and even the "emergency" things are eventually flagged and dealt with by the system (even if it might take a year or two) so you don't get _permanently_ bilked of what you're rightly owed. So you don't end up with those clever enough and evil enough being able to game the system to minimise their tax bill even in some unethical ways, whilst a dyscalculic day labourer having to do two jobs to feed their kids gets bent over a barrel. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.113\|141.101.106.113]] 12:39, 9 October 2015 (UTC)		IE just do your job and collect your pay, the tax is taken off on a per-paycheque basis with nothing more needing to be done on your behalf unless you spot a glaring error (such as the dreaded "emergency tax" band if the employer forgets to inform the authorities that you've taken up a new job at their company and what your annual salary is likely to be, so instead they detect you're suddenly getting a lot of regular income and apply the highest possible deductions in case you've taken up as a high-rolling drug dealer or something...). All taxes, national healthcare, pension, union etc contributions come out of the packet before it even hits your bank account, any errors are assumed to be someone else's fault, and even the "emergency" things are eventually flagged and dealt with by the system (even if it might take a year or two) so you don't get _permanently_ bilked of what you're rightly owed. So you don't end up with those clever enough and evil enough being able to game the system to minimise their tax bill even in some unethical ways, whilst a dyscalculic day labourer having to do two jobs to feed their kids gets bent over a barrel. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.113\|141.101.106.113]] 12:39, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
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		+	: Wait... so in America they DON'T just pay their taxes through their normal paycheck??

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	Someone needs to make an actual board game based on this comic. Any aspiring or wanna be board game makes out there? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.149\|173.245.54.149]] 15:44, 19 August 2015 (UTC)		Someone needs to make an actual board game based on this comic. Any aspiring or wanna be board game makes out there? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.149\|173.245.54.149]] 15:44, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
		+	:Upvote [[User:Jacky720\|That's right, Jacky720 just signed this]] ([[User talk:Jacky720\|talk]] \| [[Special:Contributions/Jacky720\|contribs]]) 10:05, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

	I think the title "Board Game" could imply a double meaning since doing taxes is such a chore. Hence, the homophone ''bored''. Also, paragraph 4b is an assumption. We don't know Cueball's actual reasoning for tricking board game hobbyists into doing his taxes. Perhaps he is cheap and doesn't want to pay a professional. Perhaps it is an experiment. IMO it wouldn't be because it is too confusing because he would need to thoroughly understand the rules in order to explain them, thus leaving him fully qualified to complete it personally. I think the fave value explanation is just laziness. Same reason I hire someone to cut my grass. --[[User:R0hrshach\|R0hrshach]] ([[User talk:R0hrshach\|talk]]) 16:30, 19 August 2015 (UTC)		I think the title "Board Game" could imply a double meaning since doing taxes is such a chore. Hence, the homophone ''bored''. Also, paragraph 4b is an assumption. We don't know Cueball's actual reasoning for tricking board game hobbyists into doing his taxes. Perhaps he is cheap and doesn't want to pay a professional. Perhaps it is an experiment. IMO it wouldn't be because it is too confusing because he would need to thoroughly understand the rules in order to explain them, thus leaving him fully qualified to complete it personally. I think the fave value explanation is just laziness. Same reason I hire someone to cut my grass. --[[User:R0hrshach\|R0hrshach]] ([[User talk:R0hrshach\|talk]]) 16:30, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

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	Its a shame that so many people resort to such ludicrous methods every day to do their income taxes.		Its a shame that so many people resort to such ludicrous methods every day to do their income taxes.
	End Tax Discrimination [[User:YourLifeisaLie\|Yourlifeisalie]] ([[User talk:YourLifeisaLie\|talk]]) 14:33, 20 August 2015 (UTC)		End Tax Discrimination [[User:YourLifeisaLie\|Yourlifeisalie]] ([[User talk:YourLifeisaLie\|talk]]) 14:33, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
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		+	This right here is one of the big reasons I'm glad to have been born and raised in the UK. Automatic, systematic tax calculations - including the occasional refund when the error-detection system finally sweeps round to your particular record (not sure if they ever issue demands if the error is in the other direction, though...) - for everyone except the self-employed. Naturally this means any business over a trivial size needs some kind of accounts and payroll department to deal with all the sums, but you should have that anyway.
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		+	IE just do your job and collect your pay, the tax is taken off on a per-paycheque basis with nothing more needing to be done on your behalf unless you spot a glaring error (such as the dreaded "emergency tax" band if the employer forgets to inform the authorities that you've taken up a new job at their company and what your annual salary is likely to be, so instead they detect you're suddenly getting a lot of regular income and apply the highest possible deductions in case you've taken up as a high-rolling drug dealer or something...). All taxes, national healthcare, pension, union etc contributions come out of the packet before it even hits your bank account, any errors are assumed to be someone else's fault, and even the "emergency" things are eventually flagged and dealt with by the system (even if it might take a year or two) so you don't get _permanently_ bilked of what you're rightly owed. So you don't end up with those clever enough and evil enough being able to game the system to minimise their tax bill even in some unethical ways, whilst a dyscalculic day labourer having to do two jobs to feed their kids gets bent over a barrel. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.113\|141.101.106.113]] 12:39, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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 This kind of reminds me of when they made a Magic: The Gathering turing machine. http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/ Just replace "Magic" with "Cueball's tax board game" and "Calculating anything a turing machine can" with "Doing my taxes."[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.48|108.162.219.48]] 03:18, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 Its a shame that so many people resort to such ludicrous methods every day to do their income taxes.
-End Tax Discrimination [[User:YourLifeisaLie|Yourlifeisalie]] ([[User talk:YourLifeisaLie|talk]]) 14:32, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
+End Tax Discrimination [[User:YourLifeisaLie|Yourlifeisalie]] ([[User talk:YourLifeisaLie|talk]]) 14:33, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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 Zetfr 20:43, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
-This kind of reminds me of when they made a Magic: The Gathering turing machine. http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/ Just replace "Magic" with "Cueball's tax board game" and "Calculating anything a turing machine can" with "Doing my taxes." [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.48|108.162.219.48]] 03:18, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
+This kind of reminds me of when they made a Magic: The Gathering turing machine. http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/ Just replace "Magic" with "Cueball's tax board game" and "Calculating anything a turing machine can" with "Doing my taxes."[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.48|108.162.219.48]] 03:18, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 "This is one of several xkcd comics" should include links to examples [[User:Ehusmark|EHusmark]] ([[User talk:Ehusmark|talk]]) 09:52, 20 August 2015 (UTC)