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30 days of that is legally mandated, 30 days I’ve negotiated for, plus I have 15 days of comp time saved from overtime, which starts running after 7.5 work hours per day.
Plus bank holidays like today: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helatorstai
Did you know that we get an extra half month’s wage (“lomaraha”) when we take the annual vacation time? It’s been collectively negotiated for by the employee unions.
Somehow, in this (clearly) socialist hellhole, our public debt is still 60% of GDP ($29,930 per capita), compared to US’s 107% ($58,604 per capita).
Well your Socialist Hell Hole would certainly be a hell hole by my standards!
I shudder to think about a place where the peasants aren’t scared to “death” about getting ill and not being able to afford treatment, or bankrupting themselves in the process. A place where they didn’t have to worry about a single stroke of bad luck could leaving them penniless, homeless and sleeping on the street with their children? A place where people could just go on lots of paid vacation and get spending money–makes me nauseous.
Ugh. What a horrible horrible place! How are the Corporate Overlords supposed to make ungodly sums of money and grind the peasants into the dirt?
Where is the fairness for them?
Oh, and I’ve heard these Socialists Hell Holes often have these namby-pamby prisons where they “reform” criminals and turn them into once more law abiding citizens? No gruesome living conditions, no years at a time locked away in solitary confinement and never seeing another person. No fear of prison rape or torture, no waterboarding?????
Seriously, what an incredibly dull place. Just thinking about it causes me to break out in a cold sweat. Well, OK, a 50 degree Celsius sweat, but for the Abyss that’s cold!
BTW, the only kind of money I like is ungodly money, like we use here in the Abyss.
[quote=Tizzy;3412]BTW, the only kind of money I like is ungodly money, like we use here in the Abyss.[/quote]
Would godly money have item links to the All-Seeing Holy Eye Pyramid on the astral plane?You know, to keep track of who’s naughty and who’s nice.
I think you are probably correct.
That Illuminati pyramid on the back of US Currency has always seemed a bit creepy to me.
On the other hand/side, do you ever feel like the eyes in the portraits on both paper and metal money are following you? I do.
Of course, maybe I’m just over extrapolating, just because the Demon Prince Moloch issues coins imbued with the souls of the damned within his domain and uses them as spies doesn’t mean others are doing that.
[quote=Tizzy;3414]Of course, maybe I’m just over extrapolating, just because the Demon Prince Moloch issues coins imbued with the souls of the damned within his domain and uses them as spies doesn’t mean others are doing that.[/quote]
With so many gods, demons and other astral beings, someone could well craft an such an elaborate automated system of spreading item links to planes otherwise severed from the localverse, and just forget about it for a few millenia. Who knows how many forgotten or hidden back doors these energy beings have going on, or at least the ones who like to take matters into their own hands and start building things, instead of just going where the consensus highway points them.
Are we going to hear about life after death, and soul extradition treaties, in book 3?
You have no idea how long demons have been after that white haired chick to come free some demon slaves, but apparently she’s been horsing around again.
Interesting note on the back doors. That is exactly what Vaselle has been making lately, this little things with a mana pool, item link, fire lighting spell, geo-lock, and “Rune of Unnoticing” that the shamans can plant at various locations. They’ll put them in a sheltered space, lock them in place, emit a low level (less detectable) Unnoticing and be ready to have the fire spell activated to create a small flame for Tom or the Shamans to create a portal.
[quote=Tizzy;3418]Interesting note on the back doors. That is exactly what Vaselle has been making lately, this little things with a mana pool, item link, fire lighting spell, geo-lock, and “Rune of Unnoticing” that the shamans can plant at various locations. They’ll put them in a sheltered space, lock them in place, emit a low level (less detectable) Unnoticing and be ready to have the fire spell activated to create a small flame for Tom or the Shamans to create a portal.[/quote]
Crafting!!! *fap* *fap* *fap*
Seriously, though, sounds like Tom’s Army of Darkness is going to resemble
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whvDmNkJhUk[/youtube]
a lot more than Generallissimo Bison’s
[img]http://i.imgur.com/f3SNmvJ.jpg[/img]
or
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV4Ijs_YMRw[/youtube]Yes, Tom has been very worried that he might be in a fight club sort of situation in volume iii.
However, you can’t go wrong with an Army of Darkness. Boomsticks are great, but a chainsaw hand would be very nice in the Abyss, a lot of people end up with very tough old meat on their plate, a chainsaw would really help cut the meat up. And better yet, the roar of the chainsaw would drown out the curses and screams of the meat as you cut it.
Unfortunately, we don’t Starz down here in the Abyss, so in order to watch Ash and the Friendly Undead, we have to wait for it to come on Netflix DVD service. Sure it’s on Amazon streaming but trying to watch it on my 56K modem is rather painful.
[quote=Tizzy;3420]Boomsticks are great, but a chainsaw hand would be very nice in the Abyss, a lot of people end up with very tough old meat on their plate, a chainsaw would really help cut the meat up. And better yet, the roar of the chainsaw would drown out the curses and screams of the meat as you cut it.[/quote]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieioDh_NrXE[/youtube]Now these guys are seriously wacked.
10-15 years ago they would come by this Methodist church about half a block from my home, to protest the local church’s decision to do gay marriages, it also had a gay minister and the local church was battling the national church to do/have the right to do this, which was in some national news, hence they found out.
They’ve come by periodically since then (when they were there for several weeks) both to the church and other local events. Usually around nearby at least once a year. Chicago is about a nine hour drive from Topeka, so it’s an easy van ride for batches of them to invade. As their fame has increased, they’ve had to tour more widely, so they don’t get by as much as they used to.
I’ve actually seen Phelps himself during their stakeouts of the local church in the early 00’s.
Numerous members (most all are family members) have broken free. There is one, a son, that wrote a book on their cult.
They must have one serious kool-aid budget.
[quote=The Author Guy;3422]They must have one serious kool-aid budget.[/quote]
http://www.suol.fi/index.php/uskonnonopetus-suomessa/religious-education-in-finland
I’m pretty happy with our mandatory religious education. Everyone gets told pretty early in life by really pretty neutral university-educated teachers, what various other groups of people believe, why, and how it relates to the society.
Back in the day, my religious education teacher let me sleep and read science fiction in the class. She also taught Psychology, where I paid close attention.
If you had gotten started three decades earlier, I’m pretty sure I would have made a presentation of the Gods and Demons of Astlan for that class.
3 decades?
Must have been a very short class! 3 Decades, that’s like a single period at Demon U!
Heck, I once spent 4 centuries in detention!
OK, maybe a couple more times than just once.
Hey Oryn,
Just got to thinking if you’re a demon of metal and radiation, I wonder what would happen if you and Geiger Rat got together?
I’m betting you’d really set him/her off.
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