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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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	dragonfangirl 2007-10-31 11:12 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, it's a weird way that feline reproduction operates... a female cat in heat will mate with as many different toms in a night as she can find, and has the potential to get a different kitten with each of them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

jabberwockypie
2007-10-31 04:38 pm UTC (link)

Yup! When our cat had kittens* she had two grey tabby kittens and two sort of Siamese looking kittens. I named them after Captain Planet characters.

*Because my father was stupid and thought she was male, so he didn't get her fixed. My parents were seperated at the time, so my Mom and I were several thousand miles away when Rowlder showed up. (I named her to rhyme with our other cat, Shoulder, who I named when I was 3.) When my mom noticed Rowlder was gaining weight, I believe the phrase used was "God Dammit Tom (my father), this cat doesn't have balls!" And then I changed her name to Mrs. Rowlder, because I figured she was a mommy, so she must have been married. In some sort of nice cat ceremony.

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dragonfangirl
2007-10-31 05:56 pm UTC (link)

Heh! At one point we acquired a cat, from our neighbors next door, named Pebbles, after the little girl on the Flintstones show. This was the biggest, meanest, stinkiest, most vicious tom that I have ever laid eyes on. I am sure his temperment was made just that much the worse by having a little-girl name.

Lesson 1, kids: make sure you are sure of your pet's sex before you give them potentially embarrassing names!

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	mer1973 2007-11-01 04:12 am UTC (link)
	I kind you not, I named a stray cat Isis because there wasn't anything there. Took Isis to the vet to be spayed, and the vet looked at me and told me I had a neutered male. He was use to the name, I couldn't change it on him. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amymccabe 2007-11-02 01:40 am UTC (link)
	One of the students at a library named her cat Miss Kitty, then realized it was a he. It used to constantly attack her. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nymeria 2007-11-02 01:17 am UTC (link)
	"God Dammit Tom (my father), this cat doesn't have balls!" I keep reading this sentence in an outraged British accent, which makes it that much more awesome. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amymccabe 2007-11-02 01:39 am UTC (link)
	I named her to rhyme with our other cat, Shoulder, who I named when I was 3. When I was two I named a cat Meow Meow. My cat naming stories, let me show you them. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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