It’s easter. Why are you on the internet? GET OFF THE INTERNET.
Yes I am aware of the hypocrisy.
Go eat some fattening food or something. Unless you can’t afford it or something.
Yeah, “the economy” is in da pooper.Have you seen this?
I already knew that Fox hasn’t even heard of things like “standards” in years, so this honestly didn’t surprise me at all. I’m honestly expecting there to be reality show about putting small animal’s in your loved one’s rectums in the next couple years.
It could be called the “Felch Bunch”!
So that marks… what, the third time I’ve used a felching joke on this blog? At least this time I ruined somebody’s childhood memories when I used it.
Oh man, I’ve even thought of the theme song. It could be the Barney song, just taken in very strange and interesting directions. It practically writes itself!
Don’t worry, all readers will receive a complementary jug of brain bleach in the mail.
So yeah. Economy. The Big Bear himself has a rather long and awesome post on the matter, and it quite handily describes what, exactly, Fox is exploiting.
To quote somebody much cooler than me, I feel ya, bro.
I mentioned it earlier as a throw-away comment; suffice to say, the downturn in business resulted in my job being outsourced to the Philippines.
I used to work for Comcast, indirectly anyways, as part of an outsourced call center here in Canada. Last year, Comcast made the decision to let all of the Canadian call centers go, and outsource them to somewhere else that was cheaper.
So I found myself jobless, without any education beyond High School, and skills applicable only to a market that no longer exists.
Thankfully, being the young virile dude I am, I don’t have any living creature depending on me for income. Not even a goldfish. Even when I was working, my expenses ran roughly half what I was making, so I managed to save up quite the cushion of currency.
I was laid off last August. August 31st to be precise. I haven’t been able to get a job… I haven’t even been contacted by any employers besides the odd e-mail “thanks for applying!” from a couple places.
I really don’t get it. I even got my dad (a lot of experience as a business manager) to build my resume for me when I suspected that might be an issue. Places advertise “No experience required! We’ll give you all the training!”
Safeway won’t even hire me to carry boxes.
And yet…. and yet, I still have nearly all of my money left. Employment Insurance (that’s what they call it in Canada) is actually enough to cover all my bills/expenses.
Don’t get me wrong, I live a frugal life. I use public transit to avoid the massive costs of driving; the only downside is that “taking the bus” costs time. Now time… I have a lot of that. I don’t have cable, I “eat out” once a month, maybe, even then it’s just ridiculously cheap Chinese or pizza.
I don’t have any credit cards or even a checking account. I use a debit account that costs me nothing so long as I keep a minimum of $2k in balance and restrict myself to15 or less non-ATM transactions a month. Even then, I always pay with cash to avoid stores arbitrarily charging me for using debit.
(This also has the convenient benefit of preventing people from tracking my purchases via digital information – yes, I really am that paranoid.)
I don’t even have a phone, as I prefer using Skype.
But hey, the communications industry up here is a whole different rant. Suffice to say, paying for Skype for a year is cheaper than regular bare-bones phone service for a single month.
I do what I must to survive.
So on that cheerful note, happy easter everyone! Hope you all have some wonderful dinners, I have mine all figured out: girl guide cookies and milk!
I keed, I keed. I’m having chili! Tomatoes were on sale. Only three of them were rotten.
(Though I actually did have girl guide cookies and milk for dinner on Tuesday. It was surprisingly tasty!)
Chili! No bacon?
This would be a completely inappropriate time to whine about being on the internet because I am stuck at work all weekend, wouldn’t it… >.>
Americans don’t do family get-together holidays anymore. They do “let’s drag the kids to the zoo” holidays, and of course the zoo can’t afford to lose out on the opportunity to rake in more gold, so .. yeah. Here I am. Crap, I just whined about it anyway, didn’t I. Sorry Rip.
I think I will crank up some Prodigy to drown out the sound of screaming brats outside my office window though. Good suggestion.
<=(
I hope things turn around Euripedes. Sooner rather than later, mind you.
I am at work all weekend as well…. they dont close prisons, not even for Easter
@repgrind …. 1) you can put bacon in chili (bacon goes with anything) and 2) my son is at the zoo today… go figure
The more and more you share about yourself Rip…the more I get this image of a young Canandian “Grizzly Adams” (old TV show) living in a log (apartment) building in the middle of a forest your only connection to the ouside world being a high speed fiber optic cable that happens to run thorugh your forest and you hacked into it ….
Happy Easter all 🙂
Sorry Euripedes 😦 However, you are better off than some others since you did save and seem to have always watched your spending.
Trying to search for a job is very difficult right now… I work with plenty of clients that are court ordered or otherwise to find jobs, but there is a major lack of jobs to be found (that they are qualified for via degrees, at least). It’s like setting them up to fail. “Couldn’t get a job, well, now you go to jail.” Umm…
@Repgrind – Saying that Americans don’t “do” family get together holidays anymore is a bit of a broad and bold statement. Because, well, I’m American and we have too many family get together holidays.
I’m online right now because we are getting together tomorrow. We have family gatherings for every holiday and alternate between my family and my inlaws…. except around Christmas…. it’s pretty much a week filled with familiy togetherness.
I am in a very similar boat. I also was laid off the end of last August and lack anything veritable besides a high school diploma.
Unfortunately for me however, I have a car, cell phone, and credit cards. Kudos to you for being frugal (i know i will be now).
I had chili with corn chips for lunch. Yummy.
Girl Guide the Canadian equivalent to Girl Scout I am guessing?
Do they have a northern version of Thin Mints?
My dinner recipe is take one sleeve of Thin Mints (yes, half the box), break each cookie in half in a bowl (takes a big bowl).
Cover with milk (whole milk, if you’re going to do this do it right).
Eat like cereal. Then drink the remaining mint-chocolate-milk.
Breaking the cookies is important as each is covered with an impermeable chocolate layer. Failure to break the cookies will result in no milk being able to soften the cookie center.
I forgot to eat dinner last night. I was in Naxx. >.<
As the god of chili, I bless you for eating it. Please don’t spoil it with spaghetti or cinnamon, but bacon gets two thumbs up. I talked about why I like chili in my most recent blog. I also picked Critical QQ as one of my top 7 blogs. I don’t care if you follow the rules, I just wanted to let you know I think you rock.
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