Aint No Right

The standard corporate policy these days for entry-level positions is: never hire full-time, but try to get your part-timers to take full-time or higher equivalent hours and responsibilities. Deny overtime pay. Never promote to management from within. These are, and have been, standard policies for...

I am curious to know and you don't have to answer...under what circumstances would a gentleman who you don't know be able to approach you? I'm with farrellgirl on this, it's not ok to just say stupid stuff like 'smile'. I hate that shit too. Guys just have to be nice, I've talked to people on publi...

I think Gene is trying to point out those people who say they are depressed when they really aren't and/or they seem to be alright when everyone is paying attention to them, but as soon as that stops they go stupid things just to get that attention back. I'm thinking about people who call their ex-...

The truth is that there are countless situations where people of color are profiled and mishandled by the police and more often than not as is human nature the police will do and say whatever they need to to cover their tracks. The truth is the police in this country and a lot of places act like th...

What, the muslims, nazis, Russians, Japs etc aren't convenient bogeymen to a Heritage audience? As for the latter: of course?

When you look at Americans... When you look at the British... When you look at the Jewish... (but we'll use the convenient bogeymen, not the Heroes , and I'm sure those attending all rail against the political correctness that says to apply the same standards to your state is "unpatriotic", s'port t...

Warped wrote:Anyway i have to say i am not enjoying the WC so much this year...Don't know, can't get into the mood.
Also, i am not a fan of the german team...

Can we swap? Pretty please.

I thought this was funny:

Not going to lie - the ending of this week's episode was a little traumatic to watch. One of those scenes that you kinda wish you'd never watched. :conf: http://www.chartattack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/29-Camron-NP.gif Come on son! This what show? :lol: I was more uncomfortable with the scene...

Did enjoy the first series, looking past the at-times painful attempts at British accents.

Not going to lie - the ending of this week's episode was a little traumatic to watch. One of those scenes that you kinda wish you'd never watched.

I've followed these elections closely, including the events leading up to them for well over a year. Things came to pass as I (and many others) said that they would, in some cases vastly exceeding my expectations. I couldn't be more pleased that we finally hear the voice of the people over that of ...

Despite UKIP's success, Farage's EU grouping ( EFD ) is disintegrating, with Tories ' more 'respectable' ECR and Le Pen's more powerful and less discerning EAF the only games in town - so they look set to leave this election more marginalised than ever, unless going cap-in-hand back to EAF /Le Pen. ...

France's far-right National Front has won a nationwide election for the first time, as far-right parties across Europe caused a political "earthquake," with a string of victories in voting for the European Parliament. The National Front, led by Marine Le Pen, notched up 24.95% of the vote in France...

In the 1980's the Labour Party split in two (SDP: the liberals, leaving Labour: the socialists), and a divided opposition in our voting system got crucified and locked out of power for decades. In a bid to redress this, Labour Party reforms since then have made the party completely unaccountable to ...

Not sure if he's well-known outside the UK, but this titan of the left and torchbearer for Old Labour has died. A politician I hugely admired and I was dreading this day - every year bringing the British left closer to extinction.

lol why? You raise a number of worries that I agree with. However, I want to point out that "unelected regime" is too pejorative. The ouster of Yanukovych was done through legal parliamentary means, as was, as far as I know, the appointment of Yatseniuk as PM. The people running the country are stil...

Kind of ironic (and some might say deserved) that all the ultra-nationalist Ukranians and their governing coalition of neoliberals and fascists succeed in doing is breaking up their country, having successfully pushed the ethnic Russians into the arms of an invading Russia. It's true that Svoboda i...

Kind of ironic (and some might say deserved) that all the ultra-nationalist Ukranians and their governing coalition of neoliberals and fascists succeed in doing is breaking up their country, having successfully pushed the ethnic Russians into the arms of an invading Russia.

But seriously, I'm not that far from the Montagnards these days.

I was going to make the same point in the American thread in response to Hypersonic's point, but more about how the Western Left have used the lesser-evil reasoning of its voters to triangulate even further to the Right knowing they can rely on the Left/working-class to habitually vote for them ("no...

I disagree, but can see where you're coming from. The problem I have with that is: yes, allegiances change, but they're different from ideology - which stays constant. I don't think the papers have ever significantly changed their ideology (excepting The Sun when it was took over by Murdoch entering...

My folks were both teachers for the best part of 40 years. I can assure you the term 'black board' to 'white/teaching board' was definitely batted around by teaching unions during the 90's as my mum thought it was a tad ludicrous. White boards also became commonplace soon after. Maybe they ran out ...