That's ridiculous. Not only is he not making life any harder on the folks that could fix his issue, just on the poor workers who have to deal with the pennies, but he's wasting his own time as well. Assuming that there is actually the right amount of pennies in the bag to pay his bill, and that he's not scamming the company, he had to count them all himself,too. What a waste of his effort. Instead of counting hundreds of dollars in cents he could have had a much better chance at bringing about real change if he had done something real with his time, like calling someone at the company that might really be able to adjust the prices, or calling the government officials involved in energy policy, or something. Maybe they would have been able to do something for him, maybe not, but at least there would have been a chance. Just making a lowly cashier's day harder has a near zero chance of being effective.
It's messed up. Anesthesia makes it so the process of getting the tattoo isn't painful, but anesthesia itself can be dangerous and have unpleasant side effects. Plus, it only helps with the pain of the initial tattooing. What about the poor cat while the tattoo heals? Tattoos on human skin are not terrifically comfortable for the first couple of days (in line with a sunburn), and then get incredibly itchy as they heal up. The itching is awful. I'd hate to try and deal with it as a cat. But as a human, I've chosen that the discomfort of the tattooing is okay because I want the tattoo. That cat didn't get any say in the matter.
But it think there's a ton of animal cosmetic procedures that need to be outlawed,too. If it's only for modification of the looks of an otherwise normal healthy animal, animals shouldn't have to go through any surgical procedures. That goes for the surgery on Dobermans and Great Danes and such that makes their ears stand up and docking tails on pets. I think it's odd that while lots of people are outraged by animal tattooing, they're not "horrified" by seeing Dobermans with unnaturally pointed upright ears . That procedure is really painful. Much more painful than a tattoo. I guess it's just been being done longer. Things that are gross become less gross the more used to them we are I guess.
If people want painful cosmetic procedures to be beautiful, it's up to them. But animal owners shouldn't be able to choose to hurt their animals to make them prettier.
Women and little girls have had issues with their looks and with beauty versus brains issues since LONG before Barbie was invented. Barbie or no Barbie won't make a bit of a difference.
I think part of the lure of renting instead of buying one is the college demographic there. If you want to smoke a hookah very often and you're a regular mature adult with a house and a family and such, yeah, you'd probably money ahead to buy one outright. If you've got a hookah in your dining room or on the coffee table in the den, it's your house and your own business. But for college kids, many are still living under the scrutiny of the parents and other authorities like Dorm officials and such. They might want to use a hookah from time to time for get togethers or just to try it out of curiosity, but don't want to buy one and have to worry about explaining it to Mom and Dad or the RA when it's sitting out in their room. Even if you are genuinely only using it to smoke tobacco, you still don't want to try and convince your Mother of that when she sees it in the room she's paying room and board for. I think the rental appeal is in that it's a way to keep the hookah private.
Those don't strike me as preemptive rules as much as reactionary rules. I bet there's more to the situation at that cemetary than meets the eye.
Maybe it's like the cemetary in France where Jim Morrison buried, and they have to have a bunch of extra rules and security in place to keep things safe and respectful as possible for the other folks interred there? I googled and didn't see anyone famous buried there, but it could be someone of a more local signifigance or even just someone with a rowdy set of personal mourners.
Or maybe the cemetary as a whole has become a bit of a hotbed for seedy activity? I've seen it happen in my area that cemetarys are sometimes popular spots for folks (mostly teens) to get up to some mischief. Especially old ones. Less recent burials means less mourners, and more privacy for the miscreants. The same for out of the way graveyards, ones with high fences, etc. Plus, just the spookiness of it being a cemetary, tends to add to the privacy factor. Not a lot of folks just minding their own business are going to stumble across you doing what you shouldn't be when you're doing it in a cemetary at night. Maybe this cemetary has become a hot spot for sex,drugs, partying, vandalism, and the like?
There's no reason to come out of college and have to worry about paying back student loans. If you want to go to college and don't have a scholarship, pay as you go. Get a job. Pay for as much college as you can afford each semester and have time to attend around your work each semester. It's like pretty much everything else in life. Live within your means and you won't have to worry about your debts.
Yes, it will either take longer to get your degree and/or require tight budgeting. But it can be done. My husband is two classes away from his Electrical Engineering degree. When he finishes next year, it will have taken him 12 years to earn a "4 year" degree. But the day he graduates, we'll be able to celebrate his accomplishment and be excited about our new opportunity instead of having to start worrying about paying back a bunch of student loans.
Plus, you don't have to rush into the first high enough paying job that your new degree qualifies you for because you have to start repaying your loans. You can take your time and find the dream job that inspired you to make the sacrifices necessary to go to school and get that degree in the first place.
Especially with the tough economy and the renewed interest in environment, I see a lot more tips like these being used and shared. A lot of women of my generation (I turned 30 today), grew up in homes where how to make things last and how to get the most use of every single thing in the home wasn't necessarily a priority, so we missed out on some of these tidbits of wisdom. It wasn't fashionable, or even necessary really, in the boom economy to learn that stuff. But now, I can see it really making a comeback.
Hairspray works wonderfully well. It's the alcohol in the hairspray that does the job. But it's diluted enough that you won't bleach or dry out or otherwise damage the dog's hair or gentle skin with it.
Jodie- You're probably right. There's probably a bit more to the story than is being reported at this time. The media does love excitement more than they love reporting all of the facts. At this point the name thing is pretty much all the media is giving us for the state to have based their actions on. But you may be right and the name thing drew attention to the fact that these whack jobs are terrible parents and the state was able to find another good reason to take the kids. But as of yet, we don't have any info on any other causes, just that it's not the obvious reports of abuse or neglect that usually cause parents to have their kids taken from them.
I totally agree that the names are a terrible choice and going to set those kids up for an awfully tough childhood. Hopefully, they'll get some better influences from somewhere else and grow up to be decent people and change their names the day they turn 18.
While I agree the parents are probably horrible people that the kids are better off without being around, the state shouldn't really just be able to remove the children because of they have views that are unpopular. If people support the state in taking away kids from white supremacist families, it's a slippery slope. Today it's being a biggot that will get your kids taken away, tommorrow it could be being a Baptist or an environmentalist or Republican. Even though I feel sorry for those kids being raised by those people and growing up with those warped values, as citizens we can't allow them the precedent to be set that it's okay to take away people's kids for no reason other than your ideas and beliefs.
It's one of those hard things about defending freedom. To genuinely defend freedom, you sometimes have to defend some really awful people.
If you're that ashamed about what your folks see about you on your online profile, something needs to change besides your online life. If you're doing things and saying things that are embarrassing to you, you need to evaluate whether or not those are things that you really need to be saying and doing at all. If they are really things that you're into and are a part of who you really are and who you want to be, you need to accept that about yourself, own it, and stop worrying who sees it. If they're things that actually make you a bit uncomfortable and don't reflect who you genuinely are or want to be, you need to cut it out.
If people are weirded out by their family or coworkers or boss or customers or anyone else looking at their online profile, they need to stop worrying about who's looking and do some looking at their lives. If you're uncomfortable, it's probably because you need to get real with yourself, or with everyone else.
I worry this guy's going to get a LOT more response than he's planning on. There's a ton of curious people on the internet. He's going to have a lot of writing to do. And what about the postage? I can see just the stamps alone being crazy expensive.
But it think there's a ton of animal cosmetic procedures that need to be outlawed,too. If it's only for modification of the looks of an otherwise normal healthy animal, animals shouldn't have to go through any surgical procedures. That goes for the surgery on Dobermans and Great Danes and such that makes their ears stand up and docking tails on pets. I think it's odd that while lots of people are outraged by animal tattooing, they're not "horrified" by seeing Dobermans with unnaturally pointed upright ears . That procedure is really painful. Much more painful than a tattoo. I guess it's just been being done longer. Things that are gross become less gross the more used to them we are I guess.
If people want painful cosmetic procedures to be beautiful, it's up to them. But animal owners shouldn't be able to choose to hurt their animals to make them prettier.
Maybe it's like the cemetary in France where Jim Morrison buried, and they have to have a bunch of extra rules and security in place to keep things safe and respectful as possible for the other folks interred there? I googled and didn't see anyone famous buried there, but it could be someone of a more local signifigance or even just someone with a rowdy set of personal mourners.
Or maybe the cemetary as a whole has become a bit of a hotbed for seedy activity? I've seen it happen in my area that cemetarys are sometimes popular spots for folks (mostly teens) to get up to some mischief. Especially old ones. Less recent burials means less mourners, and more privacy for the miscreants. The same for out of the way graveyards, ones with high fences, etc. Plus, just the spookiness of it being a cemetary, tends to add to the privacy factor. Not a lot of folks just minding their own business are going to stumble across you doing what you shouldn't be when you're doing it in a cemetary at night. Maybe this cemetary has become a hot spot for sex,drugs, partying, vandalism, and the like?
Yes, it will either take longer to get your degree and/or require tight budgeting. But it can be done. My husband is two classes away from his Electrical Engineering degree. When he finishes next year, it will have taken him 12 years to earn a "4 year" degree. But the day he graduates, we'll be able to celebrate his accomplishment and be excited about our new opportunity instead of having to start worrying about paying back a bunch of student loans.
Plus, you don't have to rush into the first high enough paying job that your new degree qualifies you for because you have to start repaying your loans. You can take your time and find the dream job that inspired you to make the sacrifices necessary to go to school and get that degree in the first place.
It's one of those hard things about defending freedom. To genuinely defend freedom, you sometimes have to defend some really awful people.
If people are weirded out by their family or coworkers or boss or customers or anyone else looking at their online profile, they need to stop worrying about who's looking and do some looking at their lives. If you're uncomfortable, it's probably because you need to get real with yourself, or with everyone else.