If you want to be really, really pissed at the current German government this link is for you.
If you are not in the mood for blind rage, ignore the above link.
I see your uhhhhhhhhhhh and raise you a gnyeh.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2005 1:30:57 pm PST #2606 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Hil R. - Jan 31, 2005 1:34:29 pm PST #2607 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
If you want to be really, really pissed at the current German government this link is for you.
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Wow. That's ... I'm not sure I have a word that covers it.
amych - Jan 31, 2005 1:37:11 pm PST #2608 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm not sure I have a word that covers it.
"Insane" is about as close as I'm getting. When I can make words in between all the gaping and sputtering.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2005 1:41:14 pm PST #2609 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, this makes me laugh:
The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars.
On to the meat of the argument -- the high level premise is sound ... no, I don't mean sound. Consistent, rather. But, dude, how could they not see the huge problem coming down the pike?
How much penalising can the US government do on perceived slackers?
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 1:41:49 pm PST #2610 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
My fucking word. That's nuts.
Betsy HP - Jan 31, 2005 1:52:51 pm PST #2611 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
If you read the story carefully, it sounds like this is a possible problem; nobody's actually told her yet officially that she has to take the job.
faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.
When the waitress looked into suing the job centre, she found out that it had not broken the law. Job centres that refuse to penalise people who turn down a job by cutting their benefits face legal action from the potential employer.
So. The job center definitely told her to look into the listing, but she has not yet been told that she has to take the job. And I am assuming that given this fuss the law will hastily be changed.
Thomash - Jan 31, 2005 1:53:02 pm PST #2612 of 10002
I have a plan.
Jesse - Jan 31, 2005 2:01:19 pm PST #2613 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can't believe there are still people who don't know about the LFB anal bleaching thing. But then, I think I know too many things I wish I didn't.
Whatever happened with the gren-ich, CT vs green-wich, RI thing? Didn't the Rhode Islanders get steamrolled?
Finally, I am the poster child for not grocery shopping hungry. I bought pie and mozzarella sticks AND had popcorn for dinner.
DCJensen - Jan 31, 2005 2:22:58 pm PST #2614 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
I like the way locals pronounce "Terra Haute". It's pretty much "Tear-ho".
Is that "teer" or "tare" for the pronucation of "Tear"?
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Jessica - Jan 31, 2005 2:30:09 pm PST #2615 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars.
Um...if people are being paid for sex in the back room, it's a brothel. No sex, it's a bar. Is there a grey area I'm not seeing?
On to the meat of the argument -- the high level premise is sound ... no, I don't mean sound. Consistent, rather. But, dude, how could they not see the huge problem coming down the pike?
No kidding.
This paragraph:
"The new regulations say that working in the sex industry is not immoral any more, and so jobs cannot be turned down without a risk to benefits."
So does it apply if the job centre gives you a phone number, or does she actually have to be offered the job? Because it seems like it would be a pretty easy job interview to fail and make the problem go away.
And I am assuming that given this fuss the law will hastily be changed.
I think so too.