Party pooper LJ!
Oct. 7th, 2012 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartWell, folks, it seems that LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But I still have most of the comments in my inbox, and will re-post the original entry and list the available comments with the simple mentioning of the names, if it's all right with you. If not, tell me, and I'll delete yours.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
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(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 07:59 am (UTC)Governments :( Making people miserable seems to be what they are best at.
That seems a particularly nasty thing to do :(
Here they are trying to cut all spending and privatise the health service
- while trying to cut taxes for the rich :(
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 08:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 03:01 pm (UTC)> I hear you, sister! Here they created a tax system where everybody
> has to pay the same percentage. Ministers and bankiers, who earn more in
> a month than I earn in three frigging years, pay 16 percent... and so do
> I and the people who earn even less than I do (although that's not an
> easy task).
> The health service has floored, our doctors flee abroad... we're closing
> up to what was once symbolically called the Balkan. One can say a lot
> about the old regime that wouldn't be compimentary, but at least back
> then we were the country with the best living conditions behind the Iron
> Curtain. Now we are tagging along with the rearguard at best.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 03:02 pm (UTC)Bankers paying 16 % - that's gross.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 05:40 pm (UTC)> yuck! That is horrible, and very stupid of them! I really think things
> would be better if all politicians were paid is what they claim the rest
> of the people can live on (eg minimum wage/benefit levels) -- I predict
> those would quickly rise in that case.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 05:41 pm (UTC)That has been suggested repeatedly - alas, never by people who could
actually have make it happen.