"Getting into a pissing contest with the IRS is just not worth it, " warns Loggans, 51.

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The dogs plodded along, running to and fro, sniffing at trees and pissing wherever they could, seemingly unaware of their purpose on this trip.

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Not least, Apple would avoid pissing off half or more of all smartphone owners who just wanted a good smartphone and got caught in the patent crossfire.

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So the TSA, an already embattled agency, is annoying most of the country and pissing off hoards of flight attendants for the sole benefit of their own screeners and the apparently powerful knife-nut lobby.

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Yet in this case, it's not a liter of liquor but a container of urine from Blake's long drive -- a sign of his degradation, emptied in a slosh of yellow liquid in the parking lot of the next crummy stop on his two-bit road tour: It's the by-product of a man pissing his life away.

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