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Rukia ([info]_rukia) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-10-30 16:45:00
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Current mood:*Snarl*
Entry tags:bad service, urge to kill rising, welfare, why otf_wank is depressing

Bad Service wanks about welfare and made-up statistics
[info]ever_abstract makes a post to [info]bad_service about a trip to the grocery store involving an incredibly obnoxious cashier-manager duo who give her a hard time about WIC.

This prompts [info]starliteunicorn to tell the community that she thinks welfare is absolutely ridiculous. She goes on to inform us all:

I'm all for getting rid of it entirely. People used to help each OTHER out, instead of begging the government. And it bothers me. A lot. I don't get paid to just exsist-I have to work. I know some people CAN'T get jobs... but it seems extrodinarily unfair. Too many people leech off the welfare system without even ATTEMPTING to find work or get themselves to a better position. The stereotype of the drug addict mother to 6 different kids all with different daddies is true for about 65% of people coming through the various types of welfare (taken from a friend who does, indeed, work in a WIC office).

And it just snowballs from there.


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[info]grrliz
2007-10-31 01:11 am UTC (link)
1.01 lbs of LOL American cheese

(all of these are WIC approved, even though they're brand-name)

Tell me LOL American cheese is not a brand name. If it is, that's freaking awesome.

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[info]kadath
2007-10-31 01:15 am UTC (link)
"Land O' Lakes."

In other news, MY THOUGHTS ON GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.

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[info]missdaisy
2007-10-31 02:42 am UTC (link)
Where do we line up for "I was on assistance due to these circumstances which I'm going to explain in detail"? I hope it's not next to the "I once saw someone buy caviar with food stamps" line. That could get messy.

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ealusaid
2007-10-31 02:54 am UTC (link)
Flaming the starliteunicorn and talking about personal experience with government assistance was okay and mildly win... for the first 20 replies.

After that? OH MY GOD SHUT UP PEOPLE.

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Enormous amounts of wanking redacted.
[info]kadath
2007-10-31 03:03 am UTC (link)
Even as a self-centered 16 year-old working at the supermarket for gas money, I was aware that it was a program that was helping people, and thus I kept my annoyance at the impossible-to-ring-properly WIC checks to myself, because it's not like society doesn't already make people feel worthless for accepting assistance, I don't regard the $2 out of my yearly taxes that actually go to helping people instead of building fighter jets as some kind of enormous personal affront, and I have a soul.

And this is why I am better than starliteunicorn, the end.

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[info]frenzy
2007-10-31 03:44 am UTC (link)
What do you know, I have an apropos icon.

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[info]eilisliana
2007-10-31 01:16 am UTC (link)
Upon a Google search, I found a Stupid_Free post where someone said it is an acronym for Land O Lakes.

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[info]ravenscanary
2007-10-31 01:36 am UTC (link)
And a lot of deli counters abbreviate it as "LOL" in the computer, so when I buy cheese it says, clearly, on the sticker:

"LOL WHITE AMERICAN"

There's a joke in there somewhere about racial privilege but I'm not seeing it clearly.

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[info]izzygal
2007-10-31 03:21 pm UTC (link)
One local deli has one of those letter board signs and it always says "LOL American [price]". We giggle every time we drive by.

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[info]coyotegirl
2007-10-31 02:37 am UTC (link)
We buy Land O Lakes butter. LOL butter on my receipt never fails to amuse me.

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[info]hristaesir
2007-10-31 03:43 am UTC (link)
I want to buy Land O' Lakes stuff now, just so I can have my reciept have LOLs all over it.

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[info]cleolinda
2007-10-31 04:56 am UTC (link)
Seriously, I was about to say, "I don't, but I'm about to start."

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[info]amxjm
2007-10-31 06:51 am UTC (link)
Same here.

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[info]funwithrage
2007-10-31 06:21 pm UTC (link)
I bought a packet of Cock Soup for basically that reason.

Also because I was buying refreshments to bring back to friends at the time, and that way I got to play a hilarious joke wherein I pretended that the only things I got were pickled eggs and Cock Soup.

Also because...Cock Soup. Hee!

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[info]erototoxin
2007-11-02 07:35 am UTC (link)
My favorite breakfast place puts buttermilk pancakes as BUTT CAKES on the receipt. How could I NOT eat there?

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[info]lady7jane
2007-10-31 04:07 am UTC (link)
American cheese: It is to laugh at.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2007-10-31 05:17 am UTC (link)
American Cheese kiiiinda scares me. The mozzarella type stuff is okay, but the orange kind is TERRIFYINGLY ORANGE.

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-10-31 06:45 am UTC (link)
When cooking macaroni in Japan, I find I have to add a spoonful of sugar to my cheese or it just doesn't taste the same. Which pretty much tells you all you need to know about american cheese.

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[info]sparkysrevenge
2007-10-31 05:59 pm UTC (link)
A spoonful of sugar helps the cheesiness go down?

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-10-31 08:00 pm UTC (link)
In the most wanklightful way!

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[info]rachelmap
2007-10-31 01:47 pm UTC (link)
We laugh or we must cry.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2007-10-31 08:35 pm UTC (link)
On one hand, I've always been a little bothered that the type of cheese associated with my country is more properly a sort of cheez-food-product, bland and artificially colored and bearing more than a passing resemblance to soft plastic, usually sold as individually-wrapped squares that are all Exactly The Same.

On the other hand, I have to admit that it fits.

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[info]queencallipygos
2007-11-01 06:57 pm UTC (link)
I've actually always been disquieted by the term "cheese food". I always felt like that was a sign that it was so unlike food somehow that they consciously added the word food to be all reassuring and "no, really, it is food, you can eat it, trust us!"

Food so full of self-doubt about its nature that it must reassure others that it is food is food I can't trust.

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