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It's a hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage then rolled in breadcrumbs and deep-fried.

Talk about your heart attack on a plate!

Although, maybe the UK hasn't entirely gotten over it...slashfood also educated me about a Scotch Egg, which looks like the Everlasting Gobstopper of breakfast foods. It's a hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage then rolled in breadcrumbs and deep-fried.

It's even more impressive made out of an ostrich egg.

reads to me like you can't deduct wages for time taken off to vote.

oh, I see where the disconnect it. I was thinking of hourly workers, not salaried. If you are paid by the hour, they don't have to pay you for the time you take to vote. If you are salaried, then they do.

I just got some sort of notice telling me that if I wanted to vote by absentee ballot permanently I would have to do something or other, but I didn't pay attention because I like going to the polls.

There was a movement ten or so years ago, possibly still continuing, encouraging people not to vote as a protest. I can't say I understood it, it seemed to be along the lines of "Don't vote, it will only encourage them", though I'm not certain who "them" would have been. Politicians, I suppose. I only know about it because I applied for a job at a Cheaper! convenience store, and the guy that started that chain also started this movement.

My day is not going according to plan. I have one thing that I want to do today and I can't do it because I can't find my watch. So, do I spend all day looking for my watch, or actually do some of themyriad other things that I could do without it? I'll probably bounce between the two all day.

well, unless the one thing is getting your watch fixed, I say go for the myriad other things.

That's the smart thing to do. I'll probably be able to get quite a bit done in between obsessively searching.

Eta: Ha! This Saturday is apparently an election day. I just figured that out. You can't get much less informed than me right now.

I want Cindy for Grand Poobah of Everything - who's with me?

Naps. Snacks. More paid days off. Better English-language names for some holidays. Upon this platform I build my campaign.

or subjects such employee to a penalty or reduction of wages because of the exercise of such privilege

reads to me like you can't deduct wages for time taken off to vote.

It doesn't read like paid to me either, at least for non-salaried workers.

Donkey voting sounds like Christmas tree-ing on tests --- you fill in the bubbles so it looks like rows of Christmas lights. I knew lots of kids who did that on almost every standardized test, although I guess you can't do that anymore.

I also knew a lot of students who lied on any kind of survey they gave in school about drug use and stuff like that, claiming to be 40 year old crack addicts and stuff like that.

Although, maybe the UK hasn't entirely gotten over it...slashfood also educated me about a Scotch Egg, which looks like the Everlasting Gobstopper of breakfast foods. It's a hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage then rolled in breadcrumbs and deep-fried.

Mmm, Scotch eggs. Haven't had one in a while.

Talk about your heart attack on a plate!

Nah, just sort of savoury.

Often served cold, and sliced, instead of eating the whole thing, which you can do, but they're kinda filling.