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Quick answer is "no." Long answer is also "no." After that, the response is "no, and please leave."

They then take all the discarded "r's" and insert them in spurious places. "pahk ya cah on Warshington Street." Guys has largely been re-defined as a sex-neutral term in the northeast, going back several decades. It would never occur to me that addressing a group, "hey, guys!" would be seen as any different from a southerner saying " hey, y'all pay 'tention here!" I grew up just south of Boston and do not have the accent somehow. Growing up I constantly got, mostly from other kids but sometimes grown-ups, too, the query, "How come you talk funny?"

Client makes a ton of money ($400k) and does a Roth conversion which generates an additional tax bill. Sweet. They are in a high tax bracket and couldn't explain why they would do a Roth conversion except the Ed Jones rep suggested it so it's his fault. I give them the extension and which includes an estimated penalty for underpayment and they decide to not pay it and just pay the tax bill - deducting the penalty amount. Now the IRS sends a letter requesting the penalty and the client thinks I should have to pay it because somehow it's my fault and they pay too much in taxes.