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one of the realest things in the song of ice and fire books is when this bard comes to tyrion and is like "I wrote a song about how you have a secret mistress and if you don't pay me off I'm going to sing it in front of the whole court. here's the first verse and the refrain" and tyrion immediately has him killed and then for the next three books he's like "actually that was kind of a bop. wish I'd let him sing me the rest"
Ten and Donna end up on a fucked up deadly space newlyweds show despite uh. Not being newlyweds but they get almost all the questions right. They start to sweat when the final question is "what's one secret desire you have involving the other?" And Donna writes "sometimes I wish I could occasionally shrink down the doctor real small so I could carry him around in my pocket and make sure he doesn't get lost' while Ten writes "sometimes I wish I was small enough that Donna could carry me around in like a cat backpack or maybe a shirt pocket" and they look at each other like AYYYYYY because not only are they deeply drift compatible they're also fuckin weird about it đ
BARBIE POSTERS feat. Doctor Who: The Giggle characters (insp)
Donna has seen this mf regenerate three times and it was into David Tennant all three times
I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."
"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.
"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?
"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.
If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.
You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.
"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.
I'M SO HERE FOR THIS
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A real thing that happened to me as a teenager.
I had what turned out to be a dangerous walking pneumonia, for a week, but the manager at Burger King wouldnât let me off. My breathing was very loud and ragged. I was coughing on and breathing on the food.
I wasnât allowed to leave. I was told if i called out, I was fired.
So Im shuffling around wheezing loudly swaying with my high fever as I work drive thru by myself, and a paramedic walked in to order dinner.
He goes ballistic, My friends. He demands to see the Manager. he chews him out at the top of his lungs so the whole restaurant can here. Guys working the back came up to watch. Customers staring and thinking hard about the infectious food they were eating. Dude losing his shit about how infectious I was and all the people management had been endangering for days judging from my breathing and I needed to be home on antibiotics RIGHT NOW and the health Department was going to hear about this.
I went home. i got the week off. Didnât even need a doctorâs note.
Getting friends management doesnât know to do this WOULD WORK.
Same manager not letting me take my influenza home a year later despite repeated vomiting? Threw up in front of customers. Customers demanded money back and started threatening the manager with lawsuits.
I got to go home and got time off until I stopped vomitting.
GO AHEAD and THROW UP in front of Customers. THEY will Complain.
Donât be shy. Â
They are supposed to let you stay home when you are sick. Stop protecting management. (Hiding how sick you are protects management). They are abusing you. Let them reap what they sow.
One single republican decided to base his vote on a reasonable evaluation of available data and it quite possibly improved thousands of lives. I hope maybe in my lifetime Iâll see an America where that isnât shocking for a politician to do, and maybe one in which peopleâs entire well being doesnât come down to just one extra guy having a shred of decency.
something very charming about âI donât really know whatâs going on here but I donât think itâs my problemâ as a response to the anti-trans hysteria
my favorite work memory from this store will always be âhey remember when the subway inside the store closed down and they let me take a bunch of their shit for free and now it lives inside my house?â
my life is a joke
stacys mom turned me into a frog!
im eating flies and live inside a log!
stacy cant you see she has placed a spell on me!
now im in a bog and look just like a small green frog
I keep seeing barbie blorbo memes saying âthis ken is a mass murdererâ âthis ken does drugsâ âthis ken is so specialâ like no you donât understand. Gender is irrelevant. If your blorbo is special and unique your blorbo by definition is a barbie, not a ken.
You know, it occurs to me that the known internet phenomenon of Reddit âam I the asshole?â posts having completely misleading headers is actually a really great example of a far less known but far more common practice of extreme journalistic spin in cases where there are large monetary incentives to diminish the story in question.
Like, if you see a Reddit post titled âAm I the asshole for buying my wife a new dress?â, the post is pretty much always something totally deranged like: âI (48) really dislike the way my wife (20) dresses, because I think itâs too revealing and makes her look slutty, which was fine when we started dating five years ago, but it makes me feel like sheâs going to cheat on me now that weâre married. Iâve politely asked her to get new clothes multiple times, and every time she refused because she said she liked her clothes, and didnât want to waste money buying new ones. Yesterday I couldnât take it anymore so I threw out a bunch of her old dresses and bought her a new one that was more modest looking. She started crying because one of the dresses I threw out had been left to her by her mom who died when she was a teen, but I couldnât have known that it had sentimental value. She said that I should have asked, but obviously if I asked sheâd have just told me not to throw out any of her clothes, including the ones that werenât sentimental. Also, the more modest dress I bought was pretty expensive, and she never thanked me for it. Am I the asshole here, or is she being unreasonable?â
Similarly, whenever you see a headline like âWoman Wins Millions From McDonaldâs Because Her Hot Coffee Was Too Hotâ, if you dig a bit, youâll almost always quickly find out that what actually happened was: A 79-year-old ordered coffee which, unbeknownst to her, was being served extremely dangerously hot, because McDonaldâs was trying to have coffee that stayed warm over a long commute without spending any extra money on cups with better insulation. The coffee spilled on the old womanâs lap, giving her severe third degree burns over a huge portion of her body, including her genitals. She got to a hospital and they managed to save her life with skin grafting, but she became disabled from the accident, and her genitals and thighs were permanently disfigured. She tried to settle with McDonaldâs for her medical costs, and McDonaldâs refused to cover any portion of her medical expenses at all, and so she sued. At trial, the jury discovered that this same exact thing had happened seven hundred times before, and McDonaldâs had still decided not to change their policy because paying out individual suits was cheaper than moderately reducing their coffee profits. As a result, the jury awarded punitive damages designed to penalize McDonaldâs two days worth of their coffee profits, in addition to the womanâs medical costs.
I think itâs largely the same phenomenon, but I know a lot of people who are familiar with the first case, but donât know to look for the second. If you see some totally outrageous âhow could a person ever sue over this stupid thing?â case, you should immediately be incredibly suspicious that thatâs all that actually happened, because a lot of the time, it absolutely isnât. The people who have the most incentive to make their opponent look not only wrong, but completely crazy for having any sort of grievance at all, are often the actually unreasonable ones.Â
Anyway this is all to say that if I see ANY of yâall automatically siding with McDonaldâs over the recent case where 4-year-old girl was severely burned by their chicken nuggets because âhurr durr dumb kid didnât know that chicken nuggets were hot, people sue over anything lolâ, I will grab that McBoot youâre licking and shove it all the way up your McFuckingAss.
lawyer fun fact! sometimes you need to sue someone before your insurance will pay for your medical bills (because your insurance would rather the other person pay for your medical bills so they donât have to)! sometimes you need to sue because what youâd get from insurance isnât enough to pay for all of your medical bills! sometimes you want to change a specific thing, like a dangerous practice or defective part, and thatâs not going to happen if you just ask nicely!
most truly ridiculous lawsuits get screened before theyâre even filed (because someone goes to an attorney and that attorney is like âyeah you donât have a case hereâ) or very shortly after theyâre filed (because judges can toss out cases that have zero merit). 99% of the time, if it sounds ridiculous but somehow it went all the way to someone suing and winning in a jury trial, it probably wasnât actually as absurd as it sounds.
NSFW/Not Safe for Work is a funny concept to me because I have on separate occasions worked as 1. a creator of porn comics for an online subscription service, 2. a film archivist, digitizing material for the The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. I got to experience the dissonance of writing a crisp, professional email to my editor like I was taught to in art school and then attaching 18 pages of dong pictures to it. I've called a coworker over to dispassionately watch hardcore pornography over my shoulder so that they could help me make sure I was scanning a film at the correct frame rate. We were both wearing lab coats at the time. In terms of raw percentage, I have likely spent half or more of my professional life working in situations where it would not be all that unexpected to see someone's hole(s) in the course of my duties.