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  • CatograndeC Offline
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    Catogrande
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    #3260

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="566560" data-time="1458639784">
    <div>
    <p>I just saw it was number one for 5 weeks here, sterling work there 80s kiwis. </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Also that other 80s icon Samantha Fox is a lesbian now apparently.</p>
    </div>
    </blockquote>
    <p>As is Kelly McGillis.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Someone, somewhere back in the 80s was not pulling his weight.</p>

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    #3261

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="NTA" data-cid="566272" data-time="1458526356"><p>
    Finland doing something on this as well?</p></blockquote><a class="bbc_url" href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/study_over_half_the_population_supports_basic_income_scheme/8583547">http://yle.fi/uutiset/study_over_half_the_population_supports_basic_income_scheme/8583547</a><br><br>
    "According to a recent survey conducted by the Foundation for Municipal Development, 51 percent of Finnish respondents support the idea of a basic income provided to all citizens of Finland. Just 23 percent indicated their opposition, with the rest undecided. <br><br>
    The clear majority, 68 percent, believe that a basic income from the government would make it easier to start a business, and would also mitigate the financial difficulties after the fact, if the business failed to succeed. Support for the idea came from all segments of the population, but the most backing came from entrepreneurs, the unemployed and students.<br><br>
    "The government has commissioned Kela, the national social insurance provider, to study the concept, calculate the costs, and run a two-year experiment to judge the feasibility of rolling it out across the country. The results will be evaluated in 2019."<br><br>
    The finnish social services are a mess and very expensive for the taxpayer as there are two instances, the aforementioned Kela and a Social welfare office and about a hundred different support payments. Anyone with half a brain understands that there is too much bureacracy and too many bureacrates running this shit. <br><br>
    That is exactly why the majority are leaning towards basic income and also becouse at present, if you are on social support/welfare and get a short term job, say 1-2 month with "possible" extension, you loose the welfare for 1-3 months afterwards, so long term unemployed people cant afford to take short term jobs and I can assure you, it is a MASSIVE shame in Finland to be unemployed, so the majority of unemployed people would take those part time chances of it wouldnt wreck their personal economies for months.<br><br>
    And to stay ontopic, I give you the former sports and Culture minister of Finland Tanja Karpela(Saarela)<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="https://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/m10001/483241510.jpg">https://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/m10001/483241510.jpg</a>

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    #3262

    <p>Guess we're all remembering this one too?</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>

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    Nepia
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    #3263

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MajorRage" data-cid="566480" data-time="1458615359">
    <div>
    <p>I weight discriminate.  And I will continue to do so.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>If you are interviewing and you have 2 identical candidates but one is obese and one isn't, why would you choose the obese?</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p><strong>In fact, I would probably go so far to take a lesser candidate who was fit and healthy over a better candidate who was obese.</strong></p>
    </div>
    </blockquote>
    <p>The problem being that 'skinnier' people can be as unhealthy and unfit as a fatty - unless of course you just hire gym bunnies, but they'll likely be on the juice anyway ;).</p>

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    gollum
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    #3264

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Catogrande" data-cid="566564" data-time="1458640457">
    <div>
    <p>As is Kelly McGillis.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Someone, somewhere back in the 80s was not pulling his weight.</p>
    </div>
    </blockquote>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Or over pulling his weight, given she was raped.</p>

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    Catogrande
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    #3265

    <p>Not wishing to appear to trivialise such a thing but she had been treading the left hand path for sometime before that incident.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Edit: My bad. I read her and her girlfriend before realising it was before she came out. And before she got married. However she was by all accounts struggling with her sexuality long beforehand.</p>

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    #3266

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Catogrande" data-cid="566587" data-time="1458658619">
    <div>
    <p>Not wishing to appear to trivialise such a thing but she had been treading the left hand path for sometime before that incident.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Edit: My bad. I read her and her girlfriend before realising it was before she came out. And before she got married. However she was by all accounts struggling with her sexuality long beforehand.</p>
    </div>
    </blockquote>
    <p> </p>
    <p>She said at some stage that she was gay, got married, got divorced (because gay) got raped, viewed that maybe the rape was gods judgement on her for being gay. Then got married again. Thats some messed up shit. Good ole religious guilt...</p>

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    jegga
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    #3267

    This thread was progressing quite swimmingly there for a while .

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    Virgil
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    #3268

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="566604" data-time="1458667295"><p>This thread was progressing quite swimmingly there for a while .</p></blockquote>
    <br>
    Never underestimate the power of the fun police.

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    Virgil
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    #3269

    Speaking of tuning into RTR <br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="

    ">
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    #3270

    Mel and Kim , excellent . The poms had some very talented female artists in that era, transvision vamp was another .

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    #3271

    <p>That's quite some respectable jiggle and bounce going on there.</p>

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  • V Offline
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    Virgil
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    #3272

    Not to do a Gollum but I suspect the jiggler (Mel, Kim?) died a few years back of cancer.<br><br>
    These days off course every rap video has chicks in bikinis, u see the fat ass of hoes like Nicki Minaj and titless and talentless Hannah oops sorry Miley Cyrus all the time.<br>
    But in the 80's jiggling like that was enough to set impressionable 15 year olds like me 'off'

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    JC
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    #3273

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="saulityvi" data-cid="566568" data-time="1458641809">
    <div>
    <p><br>
    And to stay ontopic, I give you the former sports and Culture minister of Finland Tanja Karpela(Saarela)<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="https://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/m10001/483241510.jpg">https://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/m10001/483241510.jpg</a></p>
    </div>
    </blockquote>
    <p>Very, very interesting. Top post.  :drinks:</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Sorry, you were saying something about benefits or something?</p>

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    jegga
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    #3274

    I notice none of these songs are appearing in the " what are you listening too right now?"thread, I'm guessing you're all watching them with the volume down too?

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    Paekakboyz
    wrote on last edited by
    #3275

    <p>some of them are good tracks, </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>One more to add</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='

    '>[media]</a><br>
     </p>
    <p>
    </p>
    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='
    '>[/media]</a></p>

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    Hooroo
    wrote on last edited by
    #3276

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="566623" data-time="1458675810">
    <div>
    <p>I notice none of these songs are appearing in the " what are you listening too right now?"thread, I'm guessing you're all watching them with the volume down too?</p>
    </div>
    </blockquote>
    <p>Do we need to start a "What are you whipping the head off it to?" Thread?</p>

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    jegga
    wrote on last edited by
    #3277

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Hooroo" data-cid="566629" data-time="1458679475"><p>
    Do we need to start a "What are you whipping the head off it to?" Thread?</p></blockquote>
    <br>
    Merge it with your Nick Willia thread

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    NTA
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    #3278

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="saulityvi" data-cid="566568" data-time="1458641809">
    <div>
    <p>The finnish social services are a mess and very expensive for the taxpayer as there are two instances, the aforementioned Kela and a Social welfare office and about a hundred different support payments. Anyone with half a brain understands that there is too much bureacracy and too many bureacrates running this shit.<br><br>
    That is exactly why the majority are leaning towards basic income and also becouse at present, if you are on social support/welfare and get a short term job, say 1-2 month with "possible" extension, you loose the welfare for 1-3 months afterwards, so long term unemployed people cant afford to take short term jobs and I can assure you, it is a MASSIVE shame in Finland to be unemployed, so the majority of unemployed people would take those part time chances of it wouldnt wreck their personal economies for months.<br><br>
    And to stay ontopic, I give you the former sports and Culture minister of Finland Tanja Karpela(Saarela)<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="https://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/m10001/483241510.jpg">https://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/m10001/483241510.jpg</a></p>
    </div>
    </blockquote>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Someone at work here did the back-of-napkin calculations: social welfare versus a basic living wage in Australia worked out to be within $2B of each other.</p>

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    taniwharugby
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    #3279

    <p>I thought I saw something the other day saying it would be another 1/3 on top of the existing budget in NZ?</p>

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