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Let's get to the point: Boobs. Inflatable boobs.
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If you get the joke in this, it probably means you are old
Felicia Day Explains Colliding Galaxies
There Will Be Blood (sweded)
Amateur Video World Trade Center - 9.11.01
Brian Cox on The Colbert Report
I'm sure he's a nice enough man in person, but for some reason there's just something about him that's extremely irksome. Just seems like some people just can't stand each other, most of the time for little to no real reason. For me it's this guy and that newswoman Amy Goodman.
The Definition of No Shame
Firemen and Police in Sweden attacked by Immigrant Youth
There's of course the cold reality that the cheap rental prices of apartments in the area along with the relative closeness to others of their respective native culture makes it much more attractive to reside in than other places. However, the welfare agency who supplies people with welfare money does regularly hold free-of-charge courses on language, traditions, integration and society, aswell as doing regular followups on job searches and further education. The bureau also works with the employment service to get people jobs, and the employment service in turn holds courses in interview techniques, CV writing, job searching and starting ones own business, for all who are interested. Also free of charge. They also try to help people get into various different educational bodies or start their own business if that's their perogative.
So the help is there. It's a matter of taking it into ones own hands and actually take the trouble of accepting the help that is offered. It's the apathy that comes with unemployment, initial feelings of alienation and not venturing out into the discomfort zone outside ones apartment that breaks the integration chain for the vast majority of families who turn out the way these people in the video did. The government can't force them to take that step, it can only supply the tools necessary to take it. At some point there has to be some form of initiative on the part of the person, and the majority of immigrants handle it exceptionally, which is why I don't believe closing our borders further would do any good. These might have had some very bad experiences that made them so bitter and hostile, but eventually they will have to rise above that and actually become part of the society that has made their life possible, otherwise I don't want them here. Not because they claim to be muslim and not because they're second generation immigrants, but because they're vandalising, robbing and generally scorning productive citizens who've done nothing against these people.
Also, attacking the fire department and police officials for no other reason than coming to help put out a fire or stop gang fights in gradeschool doesn't help their case.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man trailer
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Modern Japan - The Otaku
Man Pays Impound Fee With Pennies
Not to mention that calling the police for a stupid prank would most likely land them another fine. Kudos to the police officers here who took the waste of their time remarkably well.
It's not that the pennies aren't legal tender, it's just that paying such a big fine with them makes the process of counting them unnecessarily difficult and slow. You'd get the same reception when trying to pay a bus fee, a stamp or ice cream with 500-dollar bills, regardless if it's legal tender in the state or not. That being said, if the cashier was told by the police officers to take the money, she really didn't have to keep refusing.