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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14973789 times)

Simmura McCrea

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #6000 on: March 02, 2012, 03:49:17 pm »

More importantly, what's the UK's employment picture look like? You only get awesome work benefits if you have work.
Fucking terrible, at least up here.
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« Reply #6001 on: March 02, 2012, 04:13:26 pm »

More importantly, what's the UK's employment picture look like? You only get awesome work benefits if you have work.

Absolutely lovely, if you can get the job. Otherwise, absolutely dreadful and competitive, although it's picking up... Slowly.

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« Reply #6002 on: March 02, 2012, 04:14:04 pm »

I was under the impression Americans get q whole lot of more holidays, though? Of course, that doesn't make up for all of it, but you could think of it as a band aid least. Or maybe I'm thinking of Spain? I'm suddenly very uncertain.
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« Reply #6003 on: March 02, 2012, 04:15:55 pm »

Depends on what you do for a living. Most restaurants are open on holidays, as are some grocery and bargain stores. If you work as an accountant or something, you usually get more days off.

My WTF for today: My browser's spell checker recognizes "edutainment" but not "dystopia".
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #6004 on: March 02, 2012, 05:04:20 pm »

Why is it that America, the world superpower, is getting beat out by Great Britain, a tiny little island? Exactly why is it that America is acting like a "rebelious" teenager and simply refusing to do anything it's mother does simply because it can?

Da fuq, home country?

Also yes, I consider Britain to be America's Mom. Because the idea of the Queen wapping a young America over the head with a rolled-up newspaper appeals to me.
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« Reply #6005 on: March 02, 2012, 05:11:11 pm »

The UK has a population of 62 million. The US has a little over 5 times that amount. That's a lot of people to employ.

That doesn't account for all of it, of course, but it can't possibly help.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #6006 on: March 02, 2012, 05:11:33 pm »

My WTF for the week is that school was canceled two days in a row. Both of those days were nice and sunny. Wut. Also Canada FTW!
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« Reply #6007 on: March 02, 2012, 05:14:41 pm »

The UK has a population of 62 million. The US has a little over 5 times that amount. That's a lot of people to employ.

That doesn't account for all of it, of course, but it can't possibly help.
Too many people leads to the idiots that are the loudest drowning out rather nice things we don't have, usually because of socialism being combined with ye olde red paranoia again.
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« Reply #6008 on: March 02, 2012, 05:28:25 pm »

The UK has a population of 62 million. The US has a little over 5 times that amount. That's a lot of people to employ.

That doesn't account for all of it, of course, but it can't possibly help.
Too many people leads to the idiots that are the loudest drowning out rather nice things we don't have, usually because of socialism being combined with ye olde red paranoia again.
True. I guess 20 years still isn't long enough to quit being afraid of the commies.
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« Reply #6009 on: March 02, 2012, 05:44:07 pm »

The UK has a population of 62 million. The US has a little over 5 times that amount. That's a lot of people to employ.

That doesn't account for all of it, of course, but it can't possibly help.
There'd surely be 5 times as many job creators too.  And probably greater than 5 times more area and natural resources to work with.
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« Reply #6010 on: March 02, 2012, 05:52:15 pm »

Economic problems are not linear. They're exponential, maybe even logarithmic. The US is the only developed country with an economy on such  a large scale, so the strain shows more.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #6011 on: March 02, 2012, 05:54:44 pm »

The UK has a population of 62 million. The US has a little over 5 times that amount. That's a lot of people to employ.

That doesn't account for all of it, of course, but it can't possibly help.
Too many people leads to the idiots that are the loudest drowning out rather nice things we don't have, usually because of socialism being combined with ye olde red paranoia again.
True. I guess 20 years still isn't long enough to quit being afraid of the commies.
Better broke than red?  :P
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #6012 on: March 02, 2012, 06:01:22 pm »

Are you asking us, or are you asking the people who are well known enough to get shouted at for supporting anything but that?
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« Reply #6013 on: March 02, 2012, 06:12:54 pm »

They're exponential, maybe even logarithmic.
Except that log functions are some of the slowest-growing functions that reach infinity, whereas exponential are the fastest.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #6014 on: March 02, 2012, 06:17:07 pm »

They're exponential, maybe even logarithmic.
Except that log functions are some of the slowest-growing functions that reach infinity, whereas exponential are the fastest.
They are, in fact, even inverse to each other. The faster one goes, the slower the other rises. So yeah.
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