Today In Reasons to Throw Up a Little In Your Mouth: A woman in Utah is suing her former employer for allegedly subjecting female employees to a creepy dress code including but not limited to “Tube Top Tuesday” and “Wet T-Shirt Wednesday,” according to a complaint filed in US District Court.
London’s Burning: Violent riots broke out in the Tottenham area of London late last night when protesters marched on a police station as a statement against of the death of Mark Duggan, a man who has four children and was killed by city police officers on Thursday. According to the NY Times and a statement from the police, protesters hurled projectiles at them and set fire to two police cars.
Meanwhile, In Other Protests: The BBC reports that a quarter of a million Israelis marched in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem yesterday against the increasing cost of living, even though their “economic growth is “relatively healthy,” with unemployment at 6 percent.
What Is This, Protest Day? 450,000 45,000 Verizon workers are going on strike.
That Blows: A typhoon, named Muifa, is headed to China, having already caused heavy flooding in Japan and the Philippines.
The Plot Thickens! The Guardian reports that Albert Camus may have been killed by KGB spies, according to a new report in an Italian newspaper, but a Camus biographer has his doubts.
Secret Admirer Update! Mitt Romney’s mystery date donor has been revealed. The milli-dropper is Ed Conard, who was once a “top official” at Romney’s private-equity firm and announced his identity to Politico.
Today In Things You’ll Feel Bad Laughing About: Two men allegedly robbed a jewelry store on Rainier Avenue South yesterday while sporting skeleton masks, reports the Times. They remain at large.
Today In Possibly Redundant Advice: Yesterday Texas Gov. Rick Perry encouraged 30,000 praying folk assembled at a national prayer rally to pray for America, and mentioned to God that his heart is broken for America.
And finally, I don’t know about prayer, but here is Bill Maher with his own solution. (Hint: It involves the Donner party.) Good morning!
Creepy dress code story sounds unreal. Any reason why they’re unable to name the business, other than to tell us “it’s in UTAH!!!!111”?
@1, RTFA and I think you will find the name of the asshole and his business.
Unpaid Intern, looks like you added a zero to that striking verizon story. 45k is a bit different than 450k.
Fuck, sign me up for the Donner Party! Though I still think the Guillotine Party, as suggested last week, has a much better ring to it.
@2: Great. Now I don’t understand why this woman continued to work for a company whose dress code creeped her out.
I think your Verizon striker number is off by 405,000.
Why would a babe in a wet t-shirt make u wanna throw up in yer mouth? I mean, unless she’s some butt ugly chick from Seattle.
@4, I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the economy is in the shitter right now, and good jobs are hard to find. Maybe she needed the paycheck, despite the creepy boss.
‘Father of four’ or ‘man who shot at police’?
Sorry, @9, it’s OK to shoot at the police as long as you’re black. You obviously didn’t get the memo.
So, why, exactly, is armed robbery funny because the robbers were wearing skeleton masks? I don’t get it.
Ms. Moore has the best line for today (in the link which suddenlyorcas chose not to read, re: Utah)–
Obviously, the question here isn’t why this woman filed the suit (and if it is, please re-read virtually every single word above)…”
Fucking A he is Raindrip, and you’re an uptight little priss with the linguistic discernment of a six year-old. Seriously, what adult actually uses the term “potty mouth” in a normal conversation? Are “butt head” and “poopy drawers” also part of your regular lexicon?
Adults swear, they curse, they utter profanities; they have been since such words were invented, and they will continue to do so until language itself ceases to exist. So, either get the fuck over it already, or else take your hypersensitive ears somewhere else.
Adults speak respectfully and intelligently.
Morons swear, they curse, they utter profanities-
Dearest @2 and @5 — you are so right! It’s been stricken through. What is this, extra zero day?! Thanks for letting me know.
Communication Workers of America (CWA) to Verizon: “Can you hear me now?”
“OK to shoot at the police as long as you’re black”
Well to fair: black, armed and shooting at the coppers.
@14:
No, ADULTS express themselves using a large and diverse vocabulary, which includes profanities; or are you going to argue that Shakespeare, Hemingway, Gide, Steinbeck, D.H. Lawrence, Joyce, or just about any other author or playwright of adult literature in the past 100 years were “morons”?
Intelligence isn’t denoted by limiting one’s vocabulary, it’s denoted in part by the ability to make use of language appropriate to the given circumstances.
And in this case, since you’ve done nothing to show you deserve my respect, I therefore feel it is entirely appropriate for me to respond to your pathetic remonstration thusly: “Fuck off, you stupid wank.”
RE: the bankrobbers wearing skeleton masks. I saw a guy on a motorcycle wearing one about a week ago. It was really weird because he was dressed pretty conventionally otherwise. I was surprised at myself because I was creeped out by his presentation and just general vibe. He looked like an office worker but for the mask.
It sound like that Utah man had a right twer pretty old harem to hisself until that thar Glorian Steinberger got in and started sassifying him and making all the other honeys get filled up with thoughts in they head with Women’s Lib.
Reading the article about the London riots, I’m a little annoyed that they had more to say about Duggan’s parental status than the circumstances of his death (and that that is reflected in the news post here). It’s not that I doubt it was unjust or anything, but that his being a parent is somehow presented as more relevant than the actual situation that got him killed.
Were the kids there at the shooting? Were they involved in the incident somehow? If not, why does it need to be mentioned with such prominence? Is it anything other than a method to build up sympathy for the victim? If he was, in fact, murdered by police acting in an unjustly aggressive fashion, then that alone should be enough to inspire sympathy.
@18: Reading this thread from the bottom up, I came to your comment and thought that Seattleblues had graced us with his presence.
I think I know Glen. Skilled.
Bill Maher has really improved since I last saw anything of his. Which was in like 1995. I guess he’s been doing stuff since then.
“London’s Burning”
Well that’s what they fucking get for downgrading our credit. Limey fucks.
@3 me too.
18
sorry chris
cussing doesn’t make you a big boy.
shove your respect up your ass.
The Donner Party’s a pretty bad name, considering they were starving to death. Unless we’re supposed to eat the Republicans, and they’re not in the least appetizing.
See @27, NOW you’re getting into the spirit of things! You CAN express yourself like an ADULT when the mood strikes you! Although, clearly, you don’t appear to have much experience with cussing, as you’ve elected to make use of a rather pedestrian, not to mention extremely mild expletive. You’re really going to have to do much better than that, if you want to play with “the big boys”, to echo your somewhat puerile invocation.
And so, solely in the interest of expanding your repertoire, and by way of introducing you to the amazingly varied and imaginative uses of profane elocution, I’ll see your ass-shoving of my (lack of) respect for you, and raise you by extending your mildly colorful metaphor with this pithy phrase from la España:
“Me cago mi respeto en tu puta madre”.
Or, if that doesn’t twitch your Insult-O-Meter quite enough, here’s one in Serbian that will have to suffice:
“Sa-mi bagi mana-n cur si sa-mi faci laba la cacat.”
Either way, I’m sure you’ll agree, profanity is an extremely useful method for communication, as it renders the sentiments of the speaker unambiguously clear, regardless of the language.
29
profanity- the attempt of a feeble simple mind to be emphatic….
when you don’t have anything substantial to contribute crudity and bluster will do the job, is that it, chris?
let us fix that for you:
profanity CAN an extremely useful and enlightening,
as it renders the limited communiucation skills of the speaker unambiguously clear.
I agree with the troll. Profanity is bad. Almost as bad as posting anonymously because you don’t have the courage of your convictions.
Dear @30:
I think it’s admirable that you’re attempting to expand your vocabulary with junior high school level polysyllabics, but I would seriously hold off on criticizing someone else’s “limited communiucation (sic) skills” until you learn to fucking spell the big words, m’kay?
@30: I’m from the Department of Redundancy Department. The redundant phrase “unambiguously clear” is redundant. Have a nice day, thank you, and have a nice day.
32
no fair! no one told us spelling counts….
33
you mean @29
@34:
Spelling ALWAYS counts, as does grammar and syntax. So, you might want to ask your parents to consider enrolling you in some summer school courses, get a little remedial help with those English Comp credits, otherwise I doubt even your local community college is going to consider you worth their time – assuming your GPA is even close to enough to meet current graduation requirements, that is.
OTOH, I understand the military has really lowered its recruitment standards the past few years, so at least you’ve got that to fall back on…