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For YT
This just seems like your perfect news story:
"Protesters angry over proposed layoffs stormed an Air France executive meeting and cornered Director Pierre Plissonnier and Resources Director Xavier Broseta, tearing off the men’s jackets and ripping their shirts off, forcing them to scale a fence to get free.
Air France/KLM failed to get their pilots agree to longer hours, so they announced 2,900 layoffs."
"Protesters angry over proposed layoffs stormed an Air France executive meeting and cornered Director Pierre Plissonnier and Resources Director Xavier Broseta, tearing off the men’s jackets and ripping their shirts off, forcing them to scale a fence to get free.
Air France/KLM failed to get their pilots agree to longer hours, so they announced 2,900 layoffs."
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Guillotine!!!!!
We need more of this kind of thing (tearing men's clothes off)
Yeah, that's how I handled adding support agents at my last company. I contracted another company to do it. That way I didn't have to deal with training, benefits, stock options, and most importantly, being responsible for satisfying workers' desire to get promoted out of customer support.
The company I picked was very good to its employees.
and that it's, like, an important aspect of the narrative that the Creature has no name
it's interesting because this nomenclature mix-up is clearly only due to the movie version of the book. No one who had read the book (and never seen the movie or the iconography associated with it (neck bolts; square head; big old wooden shoes; fear of fire)) would think to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein." It would make no sense
MOVIES
POOR ME
ONE OUT OF TWO AIN'T BAD
KEEP THEM COMING FELLAS
VERY HELPFUL THREAD!!!!
Looking forward to more contributions.
karaj.tumblr.com/post/130593896465/themauveroom-distractedbyshinyobjects
“As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”
“To Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she sarcastically said “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.”
great question
I will see if I can find out
like always in neoliberalism the fault is laid at the feet of individuals instead of at the system. Oh, "academics" are elitist and exclusionary and don't want anyone to join their fancy fatcat club where they have such prestige and power (LOL) so that's why they write this way. I guess this could be true sometimes.
but I think so much academic writing is so bad because so many academics are writing out of pure adrenaline-based desperation, just trying to churn shit out in hopes of maintaining employment. I have to write 6 articles and a book in 5 years or I get fired, and you can bet if I could churn out some horrible bullshit and get it published in a decent journal I'd do it. Academics of years past didn't have to contend with this shit.
the imperative to constantly ramp up how much professors are supposed to publish has led to an unmanageable glut of half-baked stuff that wouldn't have been published 20 years ago. The system rewards people who can churn shit out. I think that is bad for literally everyone concerned, but lord knows no one ever asks for my opinion
I guess it's easier to make fun of stuffy ol' fat-cat professors with their Swiss bank accounts and their pedantic lives devoted to shit everyone else thinks is boring
Also no one ever gets mad at scientists for writing impenetrable jargon. We all understand that to become a brilliant astrophysicist must necessarily mean that a person has risen to a level of discourse that is quite different from the one of our regular daily lives. I think we are all comfortable with that concept. But how dare a literature professor--who has spent just as many years rising to a comparable level of discourse in their own field--use a big word that makes some regular joe feel bad about themselves!
bluh
now i have to go to a meeting
http://www.benjaminmackey.com/twinpeakstarot#
http://deadline.com/2015/12/idris-elba-the-dark-tower-stephen-king-matthew-mcconaughey-1201663530/
very interesting!!!
OH BOY!
I mean, like, maybe I'm not as interested as I thought.
i am not interested in doing psychedelics so please change the subject to something I am interested in, or that applies to me in some way.
thank you
NEO-LIBERALISM
CIDER
GARY
SNOOPY
LEAVES
FRANKENSTEIN THE MONSTER
it was fun