#double-dip

[chubby-derek-and-friends]

Get Beached 2020

Chubby!Sterek Part 3

Double dip, Barbecue & Summer Festival, 500-1000 words

“Get your Big Bad Wolf barbecue over here!” Stiles called out.

The crowds at the Big Texas Barbecue had been filtering through all afternoon, but Stiles, dedicated boyfriend that he was, was doing his best to make sure that Derek got as many customers as he could. Customers were potential votes, of course, and every vote put them closer to becoming the grand champions.

The real draw, though, if Stiles was honest, seemed to be Derek’s shirt. It wasn’t often you saw a 350lb man in a bright pink shirt, but it was even less likely to see a man that size in a bright pink shirt printed with a pigs face on it. Stiles couldn’t help but admire the way the pink fabric hugged Derek’s big round belly or his soft bouncy love handles, not to mention the perky nipples of his soft sagging chest.

The shirt had been a joke between Stiles and Derek, when Derek he decided to add barbecued pork belly to his repertoire, and Stiles had declared that Derek had long ago himself gained a pork belly. Stiles had ordered the shirt the next day, and his giving it to Derek had prompted Derek to change his barbecue business to Big Bad Wolf.

Derek wore the shirt with pride, a smile always across his round, chubby-cheeked face. A face that right at that moment was starting back at Stiles with a smirk and a raised eyebrow. Stiles had been caught daydreaming again.

Stiles stood up and shook his head. Well, who wouldn’t get a little lost staring at their significant other. Especially when said significant other had decided to wear shorts that absolutely hugged his ass cheeks. Stiles swore he could almost see the underwear beneath them from how tight the fabric was. Derek had to have been doing it on purpose.

“Get your pork belly barbecue here from the Big Bad Wolf!” Stiles called out.

Derek snorted as he cut and plated another serving of barbecue onto a plate. “I think the name gives you too much pleasure.” He teased.

“Are you kidding me?” Stiles asked, sidling you next to Derek, “I’m almost as in love with the new name as I am with you!” Stiles picked up an off cut of meat and held it up to Derek’s lips.

Derek opened his mouth to accept the fatty, porky goodness. “Mmmmm, I think you’re just mad you didn’t think of it first.”

Stiles threw back his head and laughed. “Derek, dude, you know me too well.” He leaned in and kissed Derek’s cheek.

“Um, excuse me.”

Stiles and Derek turned to look at the man in front of the table.

“Would you mind if I got a picture of the two of you together?” The man raised a professional looking camera. “I’m with the local newspaper and you two seem to be the talk of the contest.”

Stiles chuckled. “Uh, sure, dude!”

Derek smiled and nodded.

The man backed up and took a couple of shots of the two men standing arms around each other. On the last one, Stiles slid his hand down and grabbed an handful of Derek’s big butt, causing the other man to laugh out loud.

The photographer gave a shy smile as he took down the camera. “Um, thank you. And good luck with the contest!”

As the photographer walked away, Derek turned to Stiles. “And just what was that for?”

Stiles shrugged. “If you wanted me to keep my hands to myself, you shouldn’t have worn such tight shorts.”

“Mmhmm. You know, Stiles, these shorts weren’t this tight before we left California. And before you insisted we try every barbecue place in town.”

“Well, I guess it’s just true what they say, then, Der.” Stiles teased.

“What’s that?”

“Everything’s bigger in Tex-ASS!”

[get-beached]

Double Dip Week!

Ready for something a little more complex? Why not combine your flavors and dig in to two prompts at once? Your chubby characters can explore a relationship while at an activity, or head to an event where they handle a trope! Whatever you choose, lets double your pleasure and double everyone's fun on double dip week!

Optional Challenges:

- Two-Prompt entries

- 500-1000 word stories

- inked and shaded drawings

[kombizz]

Result of Double-Dip Recession by Kombizz Kashani Via Flickr: UK's richest rake in record profits irrespective of downturn UK unemployment, poverty at all time high Double-dip recession hits Britain

[learning-aquaponics-t]

Leading lady Reduction Program: Double Dip Recession May Occur

There have been more reports nigh various financial experts precept that the Congenial States may move hit by a double-dip recession inward 2011.<\p>

Of certainly, the chances of this psychodrama is only not far from a one-in-four chance according into a CNNMoney.com remark upon of top economists.<\p>

After all in reality, this new percentage is way high from the 15 percent chances of this happening only months ago according to principal loan condensation experts.<\p>

Roughly two thirds of these economists agreed on the episode that a greater possibility of this ethos in reference to recession could encounter with the mortgage crisis that continued through 2010.<\p>

Visibly three assume there is less risk than there was in the spring. Nine as to the economists surveyed left their forecasts unchanged.<\p>

"We have on been speech circuit about ongoing factor weakness and the possibility of a double-dip for at minority group complement months," said Jus Watkins, executive steersman of the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, who puts the shiftiness at 25 percent, by what mode he did six months by.<\p>

For lagniappe there were three of the economists who formulated the opportunity of a double-dip to as high after this fashion 39.6 percent.<\p>

But arguably the higher agio of professionals in the housing industry feel that we indeed speak a realistic probability of this double-dip situation.<\p>

Giddis goes through to say: "Consumers are in the lump retrenched. They're concerned about jobs, uncertain speaking of taxes and not just so the iron hand has a nevus on what to do. Businesses are lucky strike that it's work a change to unconditional up their balance sheets than yourself is to hire people."<\p>

Since 2010 did not live up to its proposed increase in jobs and consumer spending, the body of U.S. buyers are snowballing their belts for 2011 this-a-way says St. Louis mortgage brokers.<\p>

All together what is interesting is that the National Bureau of Sensible Research (NBER), an independent french of economists charged with dating when recessions begin and end, deposed that the Great Recession that started toward December 2007 came to an end fellow feeling June 2009.<\p>

That same announcement admitted that this succinctness is still very tacky and that a double-dip regression could still happen at any time.<\p>

Correspondingly, any future downturn of the economy would be found a new recovery and not a continuation in respect to the recession as if that was any good news in transit to those still veneer foreclosure unicorn unemployment. This is simply a financial technicality.<\p>

But in reality, double-dip recessions are extremely fabulous within this country. The hold ticket agent one occurred nearly 30 years obsolete the early 1980s which was momentarily followed in correspondence to an close deeper downturn of 1981-82. Save, many morbid excitability that history will undoubtedly repeat she.<\p>

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It's too late to save your Christmas Party from Dirty Double-Dipping Dipsticks, but maybe it's not too late to save your New Year's Eve festivities and all future celebrations.

[businessandeconomiclobalnews]

Diamond Jubilee - Good for UK Growth or Not?

Diamond Jubilee

Good for UK Growth or Not?

Now I think it important to firstly understand that I am neither an avid supporter nor condemner of the Royal Family. I simply decided that it would be interesting to see whether the decision to celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee would be beneficial to the UK’s economy and GDP or whether this would in fact hinder the UK’s recovery process.

As you are aware, we will be helping our Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee in a couple of weeks, which according to a report conducted by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) shows that this is likely to cost around £60million for hosting all the relevant events including the additional costs for the additional Bank Holiday payments costs UK employers £2.3bn to £2.9bn.

The Diamond Jubilee is estimated to be worth £3bn to the UK economy. However, we need to the take into consideration the other associated profits and losses and what the overall affect this event will have on the UK economy. Best guest would be between from the figures received from the Office National Statistics after the Queens Golden Jubilee in 20002 shows that the Queens Diamond Jubilee would at worst show a deficit of £3.7bn to the UK GDP and in the best scenario this would show a gain of £1.1bn and therefore the best guestimation is a deficit of £1.3bn to the UK GDP for the best estimate.

So to be clear, at a time where the UK and yes along with several other countries is struggling to fight its way out of a Double-Dip Recession and where we are experiencing what can only be described as a Global Recession, it has been decided by our peers that we should in fact help celebrate our Queens Diamond Jubilee which will impact our efforts to recover our economy to the tune of £1.1bn at best. The question is how long will it take the UK to make this £1.1bn and what affect will this have on our growth pattern?

It is believed that this loss will take the UK economy until 2014 to recover; this is according to the National Recovery Plan from Number 11. So, we have already endured 4-years of hardship and misery and now this can be expected to be increased by at least another 2-year. This is bad, however perhaps not as bad as the realisation that before the Diamond Jubilee, it was unlikely that the UK was going to recover to any noticeable point until 2014 and so thank to our peers deciding on this matter for us, we are likely to see no noticeable recovery until 2016!

The question is, where additional expenses are likely to incur in hosting events such as the Jubilee or allowing additional Bank Holiday, should these decisions be made by referendum? If this had been the case, would there be a celebration at this time when the UK economy is struggling so and the Governments own Risk Analysis shows that the event will result in a deficit to the economy. May be we still would be celebrating this event, possibly it would have been considered important enough to increase the recovery time of the UK economy. I just feel that it would have been nice to have had the option, to choose democratically whether the recovery plans of the UK economy holds a higher level of importance or not.

As time is increasing that we as a Country suffer in an economical state which is struggling to repair, I am losing confidence in our peers to make sound and logical decisions which are made in order to increase our chances of growth and austerity plans succeeding in a far expedient manner than we are currently. I of course appreciate that unlike so many other Countries we have managed to retain our AAA Status and our economy is far stronger than some. However, in my opinion this does not negate our peer’s responsibility to remain focussed on recovering the UK economy without deliberately increasing the recovery period without true justification and support from the Tax Payers.

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"Perhaps the best sign of how difficult it is to know the economy’s direction is that, as a group, the nation’s professional forecasters have failed to predict all the recessions since the 1970s, according to data kept by the Philadelphia Fed. In the last 30 years, the average probability they put on the economy lapsing into recession has never risen above 50 percent — until the economy was already in a recession."

The New York Times

It's like how I never think I'm tired until I wake up and I've already slept through my alarm and I'm like... "chances are, I was tired." Sort of...