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  1. I think you shouldn't subscribe to whatever it is that had that article, because they seem to be trying to rewrite history. One should remember that the global recession was caused when the housing bubble collapsed, and has shown there's no correlation between a company's profit margin and how well the economy is doing (as many companies today are making record profits despite the down turn). And the other fallacious idea of productivity being lost when has only increased since the 60's. It's kind of ironic that with less workers, productivity and profits have gone up.
  2. I just ordered the custom cover from her and I have to say the service and workmanship was wonderful. She really did take the time to make sure everything was right and I would enjoy what I ordered. For the price, Luvsgurl does an excellent job you won't see from the mass producers or the type of selection. Really wonderful, Triple AAA. Thanks Luvsgurl!
  3. According to your story, we've learned the value of this woman: She's expendable. 22 years and then dropped like spoiled meat. I guess that's what you can expect out of a society like ours.
  4. I think she deserved more than what they gave her. I would expect this kind of thing in a third world country, not here.
  5. When concerned with this question, you just have to ask yourself: Would you sacrifice your children for your own body? If you really are empathic to the environment and the Earth, you should give up eating meat and driving any private vehicle. These are probably the greatest cause of global warming that you personally do.
  6. That's funny. I'm six foot, around 150 pounds and I fit into the XL ones from last fall. Granted, they're a little tight so I'm probably at the cusp of the height limit for them.
  7. Please stop posting. This was a terrible argument that has no citations, no references, nothing but cheap rhetoric.
  8. I have a serious question for you: Can people decide their own fate? Why do they need to be told how to live their lives? "Do no harm"? He made the guy's life more livable. How did he "harm" him?
  9. Best post of the year, why? It's just a statement of the obvious. Seriously, if you find this thing insightful, you're one of the "sheep" he's talking about.
  10. I really have no idea why you said this. Nothing in the thread merited the majority of this post.
  11. How about that old favorite....Disco Duck .
  12. To me bisexuality had it's problem because it is hard to express itself. The structure of relationships as they are now, only allow for one partner, so you have to choose. When the fight for the legalization of polygamy comes around, bisexuals will have a venue to exist. But I do believe you don't have to be one or the other, live is too complicated to be so black and white especially concerning human sexuality.
  13. This was a piece written by Barbara Ehrenreich in the Capital Times(http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/450561) that addresses how the U.S. uniquely adapts to the economic crisis: In most parts of the world, mass unemployment brings the specter of mass social unrest. Not in the U.S., though, where 13 million people have accepted joblessness with nary a peep of protest. Many reasons -- from Prozac to Pentecostalism -- have been cited to explain American passivity in the face of economic violence. But the truth might be far simpler: In America, being unemployed doesn't mean you have nothing to do but run around burning police cars. Unemployment has been reconfigured as a new form of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the white-collar world, where the laid-off are constantly advised to see job searching as a full-time job. As business self-help guru Harvey Mackay advises: "Once you're fired, you already have a job. The job you have is tougher than the last one. It's more demanding." How demanding? He says you need to "plan on 12 to 16 hours a day." Picture it: People across America rising at the usual time, suiting up in full corporate regalia and setting themselves down at their laptops to fiddle with resumes, peruse Monster.com and pester everyone on their address lists for leads. Some people no doubt have found jobs in this manner, but there have been no scientific comparisons of the technique with, say, printing a resume on a sandwich board and parading around Times Square. If there is something familiar in the image of laid-off workers soldiering on, it may be because of films such as "Tokyo Sonata" and the 2001 French film, "Time Out," in which the heroes -- laid-off executives -- conceal their status from their families and continue to mime the daily ritual of going to work. In the movies, this behavior seems pathetic -- a case of terminal denial -- but it's exactly what the American "transition industry" of career coaches and outplacement companies recommends: If you don't have a job, fake one. In real life, it's OK for a man to tell his wife he's lost his job; he should just never reveal that he has time on his hands. A February article in The New York Times featured a laid-off Illinois man who justified his refusal to do more around the house by saying, "As one of the people who runs one of the career centers I've been to told me: 'You're out of a job, but it's not your time to paint the house and fix the car. Your job is about finding the next job.' " At the kinky extreme, laid-off white-collar people are advised to simulate the office environment further by finding someone to play the part of a "boss" -- a spouse, a friend, a paid career coach -- to whom you report every few days on your progress. Is it any wonder there's no time left for lobbying for universal health insurance or reading Marxist tracts on the "reserve army of the unemployed"? It's all a person can do to keep up with the relentless pressures of an imaginary job. The blue-collar unemployed are subjected to gerbil-like exercises of their own. While white-collar layoff victims are encouraged to polish the "brand called you," blue-collar people are told they have nothing to offer unless they start all over with "retraining." Hence, in part, the current surge in community college enrollments. But in his 2006 book "The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences," Louis Uchitelle raised the obvious question: "Retraining for what?" At the beginning of the decade, computer skills were all the rage; then the low-level computer work vanished to India. Air-conditioner repairing is popular right now, and big-rig truck driving is a perennial favorite. There are no guarantees, of course, of eventual jobs. In a recent report for the organization Food AND Medicine on laid-off manufacturing workers in Maine, Steve Husson, who himself was laid off as a DHL driver, found paper-mill workers stuck with intermittent seasonal work and low-paid service-sector jobs despite stints of retraining. Even two or three years ago, when the economy was apparently healthy, average layoff victims "landed" in new jobs paying 17 percent less than the old ones -- if they landed at all. Today, with the country losing more than a half-million jobs a month, both white-collar job searching and blue-collar retraining are becoming surreal exercises in futility. No matter how smart you are -- how flexible, personable and skilled -- you can't find a job that isn't there. At least until the unemployment benefits run out and the credit cards are canceled, you might as well devote yourself to "Madden NFL" and "Minesweeper." Of course, there are a few constructive, work-like alternatives. You could join one of the emerging efforts to organize the unemployed, such as Food AND Medicine in Maine, the Unemployed and Anxiously Employed Workers Association of Allen County, Ind., or the nationwide group United Professionals, which I helped start. Or you could pitch in with one of the several organizations fighting for single-payer health insurance or at least a huge expansion of public health insurance for the unemployed. You could get together with laid-off friends and co-workers to discuss how you would design an economy that made use of people's precious skills instead of periodically tossing them out like so much trash. But the first step, as in any 12-step program, is to overcome denial. Job searching is not a job; retraining is not a panacea. You may be poorer than you've ever been, but you are also freer -- to express anger and urgency, to dream and create, to get together with others and conspire to build a better world. I leave it up to you to determine how much this applies to your life, and any discussion is welcome.
  14. I've often wonder if people who were incontinent went to the beach or swimming in a pool?
  15. For me, I just classified cloth as nappies and disposable as diapers. Just seemed more natural as cloth are more like napkin(cotton) and disposable are an artificial substance(plastic).
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