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
ever_abstract makes a post to 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 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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	onaga 2007-10-31 03:31 am UTC (link)
	Okay, see, that was actually funny. Although it would have been funnier if the wanker had come back and replied to everybody, because I think her tiny little brain would have exploded. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2007-10-31 03:37 am UTC (link)
	Rather than give my thoughts on WIC, I'll confess that I once brought my PS2 to an anime convention and was disappointed when I found out that I could not, in fact, hook it up. I had no idea, since someone I know used to do that in motel rooms all the time. I went out and bought a little TV, because I was there all alone and I suck as a human being. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	squib 2007-10-31 07:01 am UTC (link)
	We brought our xbox when we went to visit family this summer and had no problem hooking it up at the Wyndham there. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2007-10-31 07:21 am UTC (link)
	I guess some hotels don't have the same set-up, which sounds like a good thing. I do find all the people saying "You're on vacation; you should go outside anyway," kind of funny though. Why is there a TV in the room at all then? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dejana 2007-10-31 07:46 am UTC (link)
	I've noticed some hotels are starting to order nice flatscreen TVs with handy A/V hookups on the side that connect to anything. Yays. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

squib
2007-10-31 08:41 am UTC (link)

I find it odd, too. Some people travel on business. The last thing in the world you want to do after being on your feet all day manning a booth is go *anywhere*. Room service and a TV were god when I was working my company's convention. Some people are visiting people who are only available at a certain time-- both my husband's dad and my mother go to bed at 9 and get up at 5am. I work nights and am used to sleeping days. So we brought the X-box in the hopes of being able to use it when I couldn't sleep. Turned out to be a really good decision.

Even on a normal, go-see-shit vacation, who the hell wants to be going going going all the time? Wear yourself out in an awfully big hurry that way, unless you're extroverted and healthy enough to keep that pace up, neither of which apply to my husband or I.

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	risha 2007-10-31 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	My husband went away on business for three days a couple of months ago. The first night he called and told me that he was so bored that he had bought a copy of Burning Crusade to install on his laptop. (Reply to this)(Parent)

sparkysrevenge
2007-10-31 06:05 pm UTC (link)

I'm extroverted, consume mass amounts of caffiene (ADD, what?), tend to inhale vitamin C drops, and I still wear myself out after being go-go-go for a couple days on vacation.

Last time my parents and I went to London, I think they were glad it rained on one of our touristy days, so we could chill for the day. Shame the only good things on TV were mocking the German-language infomercials (my dad speaks German) and Cartoon Network.

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	funwithrage 2007-10-31 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, plus many places have this thing called "rain." Or, God help us, "snow." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	evilsqueakers 2007-11-01 04:24 am UTC (link)
	Visit Atlanta. That won't be a problem. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	onaga 2007-10-31 07:40 am UTC (link)
	I view consoles as too damn heavy and/or breakable to be lugging around, but that is me. Mostly I was amused by the bint's raging entitlement complex, though. Suing a company because they charged you to replace the shit you broke? WTF LOL. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2007-10-31 07:48 am UTC (link)
	I have one of those flat portable PS2s, otherwise I might not be tempted either. I was having trouble finding the part where she actually said she sued. I mean, she was ridiculous anyway but that's just insane. I was annoyed that I couldn't hook the thing up but not with the hotel, just with the situation. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onaga 2007-10-31 08:13 am UTC (link)
	I don't think she actually did, she just said "If they charge me I WILL TOTALLY SUE THEM." Which... is still pretty dumb. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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