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Feel free to brush coyly against my thighs, the air redolent with the hint of indiscretion. Or tell me I’m a boring twat. Your choice.
“Japanese officials say a McDonald’s store manager who died of a brain haemorrhage was overworked to death. About 150 Japanese deaths are attributed to excessive working hours every year. The labour office says the McDonald’s manager was doing more than 20 hours a week overtime when she suffered a brain haemorrhage and died in 2007.”
Hobo Loco
For what it’s worth, I’ll be gone again after tomorrow but this time my absence won’t be the result of yet another flounce. We’re moving to a new place and once the extortionate fees are paid to the letting agency there’ll not be much left to fund getting online. Nor can I see the situation changing come the end of November, when my blood pressure will reach hitherto unseen heights as I deplete my monthly pittance on new furniture from Ikea. Hey, you never know: maybe the rentier class* scumbags from whom we rent our current domus will part with the deposit and I’ll be back soon, but as i) I’ve smoked pretty much continually in here for the last three years, turning the walls and ceiling yellow in a manner which entirely violates the contract and ii) we’re ditching two months earlier than we agreed owing to yet another infestation of mice, I doubt it very much.
Over the coming days my Tumblarity will flatline from its current high of 12 but don’t forget me. In the meantime, thanks in particular to Crowth and John for reliably liking any old shit I’ve posted. I know essentially they’re pixelated pity fucks, but I take what I can get.
“The fact that we’ve got a fifty-year history of British fascist arseholes - mysteriously disappearing while Margaret Thatcher addressed working class Concerns by tossing them out of work and sending in the riot police to break their heads when they got uppity - does quite strongly support the notion that, well, there are about a million fascist arseholes in Britain. Not to mention the very obvious point that the idea that working class people are inherently racist idiots, just begging to be brainwashed with the most hateful and insane propaganda, is a thoroughly ridiculous insult to working class people themselves.”
Invisible pirate hats are in early this year.
“Like a lot of other observer-interlocutors, I’d like to know what folks imagine we are recovering to. To a renewed orgy of credit-card spending? To yet another round of suburban expansion, with the boys in the yellow hard-hats driving stakes out in the sagebrush for another new thousand-unit pop-up “community?” For a next generation of super-cars built to look like medieval war wagons? That’s the “hope” that our officials seem to pretend to offer. It’s completely inconsistent with any reality-based trend-lines, by the way.”
“Ah the NHS. Secretly giving powerful enemas to racists since 1945.”
September 09 2009, 20 Years High and Rising Tour: De La Soul. At Jazz à la Villette, Paris, France.
“According to reports that we have received, there are about 10,000 nuclear warheads here in the United States. Don’t you think that it is hilarious to say that it is potentially dangerous for the whole world if Iran were to possess one nuclear warhead but the fact that the United States possesses thousands of them poses no threat whatsoever? Isn’t it hilarious to imagine that you can basically withstand the force of 10,000 nuclear warheads with only one nuclear warhead? The atomic bomb belongs to the previous generation. The time has passed for the ability to use these weapons any longer. Honestly, if they were of any use, the Soviet Union would not have collapsed — it would have used them somehow. They would have helped NATO win the war in Afghanistan. They would have helped the Zionist regime win in Gaza and in Lebanon. The nuclear bomb is the most antihumanitarian device ever produced in the history of mankind.”
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran (via everythingisok) (via respondr)
