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15 May

The Graduate: Back on the Street

Yesterday Cracked.com posted the funny-yet-serious article Welcome to Hell: A Real-World Guide for Graduates, which announces: “…unfortunately, contrary to what your self-important professors would have you believe, there isn’t exactly a huge demand for people with a degree in 17th century Dutch artists in the real world.” It then goes on to welcome the unsuspecting […]

13 May

Sex and the Kitty: TV Salaries are a Joke

Carrie in Sex and the City sure had a dream job: she got to write one newspaper column a week about her sexy social life and her friends, and made enough money from it to live alone in a decent one-bedroom apartment in New York, attend glitzy soirees every second night in a new outfit, […]

02 May

Popcorn Economics

I used to work in a cinema. That involved some Candy Shifts, selling all that overpriced stuff people love to complain about. A typical exchange might go like this:
Portly Man: Gimme a large Coke, Enormous popcorn, choc-top ice cream, a Snickers and crisps.
Me: Okay, that’ll be $30. *sympathetic look*
PM: Thirty bucks! That’s daylight robbery! Ah.. […]

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