Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[Tokitoki]

Is Goodwill and not-for-profit? I can see that they need money for general upkeep of any location as well as wages for employees, but I have a feeling that some of the higher ups are pulling in a salary much higher than they deserve. This is the case with a good amount of not-for-profits which is why they have to be published every year sometime in July I believe it is.

Someone less lazy than me look it up.

[BaneTheBrawler]

I don't know about Goodwill, but the NFL is a not-for-profit. Yup. Chew on that bullshit for a while.

[Melena]

Goodwill has always been notorious for that. They don't pay a dime for their products, staff is paid at minimum wage or less (legally) and the big wigs make a shit ton of money.

[notorious bum]

Goodwill is the definite lesser of two evils when you compare them to Salvation Army.

[Kerberoz]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/9213598/Teen-...alloween-prank

A Halloween-loving teenage boy from Kentucky has tragically died after he accidentally hanged himself while trying to prank his little sister in their front yard.

Jordan Morlan, 16, had spent Sunday decorating the house for Halloween when he decided to play a joke on his sister by pretending to hang from a noose decoration he put up on a tree.

He was found by his younger sister, who ran to get their mother.

His mother, Ginger Rodriguez, said she initially didn't believe her daughter when she said she had found Jordan hanging from a tree.

"I told her, "Well, he's probably playing a prank on you," because he was pranking us on other things that day putting up Halloween decorations.

"She said, "No, he's not moving and he's got drool hanging from his mouth.""

[Silenka]

...just how?

[Melena]

inb4 darwinism

[Qalbert]

what happened after the sister told the mom?
don't leave us hanging

[bluefan]

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2013/09/2...ovaries-cleric

RIYADH - A conservative Saudi Arabian cleric has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom’s male-only driving rules.

A campaign calling for women to defy the ban in a protest drive on Oct. 26 has spread rapidly online over the past week and gained support from some prominent women activists. On Sunday, the campaign’s website was blocked inside the kingdom.

In an interview published on Friday on the website sabq.org, Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan said women aiming to overturn the ban on driving should put “reason ahead of their hearts, emotions and passions”.

Reuters earlier wrongly identified him as Sheikh Saleh bin Mohammed al-Lohaidan, a member of the Senior Council of Scholars, one of the top religious bodies in the birthplace of Islam.

By contrast, Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan, the person quoted in the sabq.org report, is a judicial adviser to an association of Gulf psychologists.

His comments reflect the extent of opposition to women driving among some conservatives in Saudi Arabia.

“If a woman drives a car, not out of pure necessity, that could have negative physiological impacts as functional and physiological medical studies show that it automatically affects the ovaries and pushes the pelvis upwards,” he told Sabq.

“That is why we find those who regularly drive have children with clinical problems of varying degrees,” he said.

He did not cite specific medical studies to support his arguments.

The ban on women driving is not backed by a specific law, but only men are granted driving licences. Women can be fined for driving without a licence but have also been detained and put on trial in the past on charges of political protest.

Sheikh Abdulatif Al al-Sheikh, the head of the morality police, told Reuters a week ago that there was no text in the documents making up sharia, or Islamic law, that barred women from driving.

King Abdullah has pushed some cautious reforms aimed at expanding women’s freedoms in Saudi Arabia, including opening more employment opportunities for them, but he has not addressed the issue of driving

That region never fails to deliver.

[Qalbert]

unless they drive, then apparently they do fail to deliver

[Acevalefor]

I work with a man from Saudi Arabia. He explained it to me like this; they idolize women while at the same time oppressing them. It is a very odd combination that leaves the men in complete control and the women placated because the men dote on them...as long as it doesn't threaten male dominance.

[Stumblingdrunk]

I work with a man from Saudi Arabia. He explained it to me like this; they idolize women while at the same time oppressing them. It is a very odd combination that leaves the men in complete control and the women placated because the men dote on them...as long as it doesn't threaten male dominance.

Its a really good thing women aren't people, otherwise this situation would be horrendous

[Salodin]

I work with a man from Saudi Arabia. He explained it to me like this; they idolize women while at the same time oppressing them. It is a very odd combination that leaves the men in complete control and the women placated because the men dote on them...as long as it doesn't threaten male dominance.

P.much. The Arabs do the things they do to women in order to protect them and their beauty; as long as that beauty is in line with what men want. Its honestly not a bad deal for a trophy wife.

[Stumblingdrunk]

Its honestly not a bad deal for a trophy wife.

yep, great deal

[notorious bum]

What a load of fairytale shit lol

[BaneTheBrawler]

sounds similar to the Graysons in David Weber's Harrington series. Clearly the Saudis just need a military woman to come in, snap some burly male spines with one arm while foiling an assassination attempt on their leader and then save them from utter annihilation at the hands of their archenemies.

[Aristio]

sounds similar to the Graysons in David Weber's Harrington series. Clearly the Saudis just need a military woman to come in, snap some burly male spines with one arm while foiling an assassination attempt on their leader and then save them from utter annihilation at the hands of their archenemies.

http://www.cosplayisland.co.uk/files...02/Olivier.JPG

Just finished rewatching the series. Still awesome.

[arus2001]

They'd never let her in the door. Too much skin.

[BaneTheBrawler]

As if a door would stop her. I should watch that again. Highly recommend you guys read the Harrington books, too.

I hope they do a movie/show of the Harrington novels. I'm not sure how well some of it would translate, but the scene I described, while I read it, was so fucking amazing. I finished, stopped for a moment, and said out loud to myself "I want to see that in a movie." The character literally snaps a man's spine (not neck) with one arm, and the way I pictured it she did it while doing a front flip to throw someone else off her back. Idk, it's hard for me to visualize the exact choreography. But the spine-snapping was very clear, and it was just such a powerful scene it stuck with me.

[Mazmaz]

P.much. The Arabs do the things they do to women in order to protect them and their beauty; as long as that beauty is in line with what men want. Its honestly not a bad deal for a trophy wife.

kill yourself