If you collect alimony, you're a moneygrubbing whore.
Okay, so

bad_service about her father-in-law passing away and his girlfriend of five years, claiming to be the man's wife, cremating him within 24 hours without consulting his family/next of kin or having any legal paperwork of any kind. Distressed because she and other family members did not get a chance to pay their respects and receive closure, she calls this bad service on the part of the funeral home.

Cue.... alimony wank!

Yes, that's right. Forget the possibly irresponsible/unethical funeral home and the possibly shady circumstances, it's all about them moneygrubbin' hos because alimony is charity and true feminists would have none of it.

Some lone voices of reason pipe up, nobly excusing

cbpiz due to her distressed state while at the same time patiently disagreeing with her, but no, alimony is for the weak.

Uh-huh.

The wank is dying down, as the OP seems to realize this isn't the time/place, but was it ever vociferous.

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sticks
2007-06-11 07:08 pm UTC (link)

After fifteen months as a receptionist at a law firm, it is my humble opinion that alimony can be ridiculously unfair to the spouse paying out (yes! Sometimes alimony does cover a spouse keeping her horse in a private stable!) and ridiculously unfair to a spouse who really needs the money (yes! Sometimes a spouse gave up their job for years because of marriage!). Sometimes it's too much, sometimes it's too little, sometimes it's spot on -- just like plenty of other things in the legal system.

*towels*

Also, wow. That is bad service.

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	kadath 2007-06-11 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	A situation that can't be described in absolutes? I don't know if I can handle this! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2007-06-11 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	OMG CTHULBADIL ICON! steals (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kadath 2007-06-11 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	'Mote made it! If I have not credited, I am bad. Oops. I didn't. Fixed! (But now that means your comment doesn't appear to make a lot of sense.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2007-06-11 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	S'okay, I figured it got posted there, so I went and looked before ganking it. :D I can't believe I missed it when he first posted it, though! For it is joy and love and all things good and right with the universe, which is, of course, ironic, since, y'know, Evil From The Dawn Of Time and all that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kadath 2007-06-11 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	Yay! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

puipui
2007-06-11 11:47 pm UTC (link)

All we need now is fic. Preferably something sweet and mushy where they're an old married couple, and maybe Tom Bombadil sings some mind-bendingly stupid song and Cthulhu just sort of sighs and shakes his head and goes "Oh, Tom" as if this happens all the time, and maybe it's annoying but Cthulhu kind of loves him for it, and besides, anything that makes the neighbors scream like that can't be all bad.

And then they have cuddly tentacle sex. Off screen.

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	kadath 2007-06-12 01:07 am UTC (link)
	NOT IT. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mmanurere 2007-06-12 04:01 am UTC (link)
	The Cthulu cheerleader icon will never cease to be funny. Ever. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	irised 2007-06-12 06:42 am UTC (link)
	omg ... THAT'S what it is! XD thankyou. You have just transformed that icon from puzzling to awesome. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	manasseh 2007-06-12 09:47 am UTC (link)
	That's one creature?! I always thought it was a line of cheerleaders doing a half-assed can-can while shaking their pompoms. O_O (Reply to this)(Parent)

	puipui 2007-06-12 05:24 pm UTC (link)
	agrees heartily (Reply to this)(Parent)

	major_fischer 2007-06-11 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	But but... gradiation of social conditions is ... Earth Logic. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	notjo 2007-06-12 01:31 am UTC (link)
	But but but.... that would make sense! And be reasonable! You are obviously a figment of my imagination. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wankismyfandom 2007-06-13 05:17 am UTC (link)
	That's okay. We'll keep her over here with the bisexuals. >:D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	isobelsomething 2007-06-13 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	Receptionists unite! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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