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Have I ever mentioned P**** & C********? If not, never mind.
These are our customers. Entitlement taken to it's logical extremes. 2 Excellent long reads for today, one our customers, the others, well, could it be worse?
Link: http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/
&&: http://qz.com/774206/how-to-negotiate-for-what-your-worth-according-to-the-women-of-the-famous-moonlite-bunny-ranch-brothel-in-nevada/
Both courtesy of DIGG. But you know that already...
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The EU. Run by corporations, for corporations, and Bankrupt Greece? Well, don't worry, Spain, Portugal, Italy will be next...
LINK: https://juliareda.eu/2016/09/attack-on-link/
You know what? Like any divorce this doesn't have to be a bad thing. Think of yourselves, people, and fuck the corporations. Government is "For the People, By the People", and when you read "Corporation" read "For the rich, by the rich". Leave it behind and move on, keep your noses down and you might just teach those Krauts a lesson...
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Via Narratively, "Human Stories, Boldly Told"... What happens to your stuff when you die? Usually, this...
Link: http://narrative.ly/when-you-die-ill-be-there-to-take-your-stuff/
Which reminds me, I gotta start cleaning out the locker...
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If you recall Snoopy's line: "It was a dark and stormy night..." was actually borrowed from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel "Paul Clifford", and according to the wiki represents "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing,".
But take heart, there's actually a contest where people compete to write the most melodramatic opening phrase. This year's winner:
Even from the hall, the overpowering stench told me the dingy caramel glow in his office would be from a ten-thousand-cigarette layer of nicotine baked on a naked bulb hanging from a frayed wire in the center of a likely cracked and water-stained ceiling, but I was broke, he was cheap, and I had to find her.
William "Barry" Brockett, Tallahassee, FL
You can read more great entries here: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
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He makes me laugh. And the description in the link:
Acclaimed self-help guru Doug Stanhope delivers a sermon on how to unlock the extraordinary healing power that lay in faith, goodwill, and unconditional love.