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The very next time that I ponder the rotten luck and the bad choices checkering my own career, that will pull me up short.
I am rather disappointed in The Guardian for promoting dioxin-containing, non-sustainable tampons instead of reusable alternatives such as the Diva Cup and, yes, natural sponge (as in the dead marine animal) tampons that can be rinsed out and then reused – just make sure you’ve washed all the sand out before inserting!
Men require more calories than women. It’s not fair that we should pay more for them. We deserve free food.
Must not make String Theory joke…
I wonder about the quality of free tampons from the Glorious People’s Hygiene Products Collective. Would they be as good as Soviet shoes or cars from the Socialist Republic of Romania?
Surely you jest. “A [ your choice here ] by any other name…”
Well I wasn’t going to go there but since Midge already made a joke about sand………I hear Soviet toilet paper used to have splinters………
That sounds like a deliberate (and socially enlightened) measure to preserve the forests and forestall global warming/climate change.
Don’t forget the energy usage angle. You use a whole lot less juice if you aren’t concerned with grinding up every last bit of wood. I mean what’s a splinter between comrades?
The Dacia was a marvel of human achievement. The fact that it managed to run at all was proof in the existence of a merciful God that loves mankind despite our sins. My parents to this day are still talk about how we managed to all fit in that car with our luggage and an extra passenger every summer to drive down to the Black Sea. A trip of some of some 250km that took 5 hours on terrible Romanian roads and was done without air conditioning.
So if tampons are provided at no charge to women, the chains that have enslaved this gender for centuries will magically unlock and dissipate, a rainbow will appear in the skies above them, and cares and worries will evaporate into the aether?
Well. Sign me up then. Take more of my money to provide something to someone else under the guise of, well, something. It’s so wonderful to have the gov’t here to make things right amongst the people who are clearly too stupid to be able to care for themselves.
I think that might be the car they raced against a Dog on the real Top Gear (The BBC version). The Dog won.
I used to have a collection of (unused) Warsaw Pact toilet “paper” I picked up in my travels.
The worst had the texture of a granola bar.
Once again, marriage and husbands are out and Uncle Sam/Stalin/Mao/Castro is going to take care of everything. Good luck with that.
In 1993, the then-First Lady considered it a scandal that childhood vaccines were not free. She blamed profit-seeking drug companies for standing in the way, and made clear that they were in her sights. “Unless you’re willing to take on those who profited from that kind of price increase and are continuing to do so, you cannot provide the kind of universal immunization system that this country needs to have.” [http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/12/us/hillary-clinton-sees-hurdles-in-forging-health-care-plan.html] She proposed a program under which the federal government would buy and distribute all vaccines.
The majority-Democrat Congress passed the Vaccines For Children act, a watered-down version Hillary’s plan under which the government would buy 1/3 of the national supply, at half price, and provide vaccines free to lower-income children.
The result was predictable. Many companies went out of business, or stopped manufacturing vaccines. Some vaccines are produced today only because the government bribes a single company to make them. If that company experiences production problems, shortages result. Shortages and supply problems are common. And innovation on childhood illnesses has ceased.
Relearning everything, indeed.
The one thing that I think should be free is lunch. I’m tired of spending so much on my lunch. Even if I bring it from home it still costs a lot, if I put any meat on the sandwich. And 100% of people need lunch. Besides, it’s time to prove Milton Friedman wrong about something.
Does anyone know what “free” means anymore?
I do. It means “I” don’t have to pay for it.
Wow. There are lots of things that we “need” as humans to survive, and, er, for generations to continue. What I’m, um, getting at, er, here, is that maybe… well considering what we all think of politicians anyway… I mean it’s not like it’s a major change of career… I mean governments have to have tried this before… right? I mean with the lottery they already subsidize gambling, why not other vices too?
What is interesting is to read the comments on the original article. At least a couple people seem to think that feminine hygiene products are all just a scam pulled on women by greedy (typically male) manufacturers and retailers, selling women something they don’t really need. I’ve heard similar sentiments by people saying that nobody really needs things like mouthwash, deodorant, etc. Apparently anything we regularly use that wasn’t used in the bronze age is the result of patriarchal/capitalist brainwashing.
Relearning. Everything.
… this is why we love you, Frank.
That will be a great stand-by when the 5-year plan inadvertently results in the collapse of production of mouthwash, deodorant, etc. You see comrades, it was a feature, not a bug.