http://www.nynewsday.com/classified/jobs/ny-mcback3983754sep26,0,2559426.column

An anniversary or birthday present bought on the day, on the other hand, marks you as an insensitive brute who forgot the occasion.

Oh, but wait...I need to purchase diapers for 2 year old twins, milk for all four kiddo's, gas to transport them all to and from school/daycare.

Sheesh! No wonder I'm so freakin broke!
But hey, it sure ain't cuz I'm a single mom or nuthin .

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I'll give it a shot anyway. I've got backup cotton nappies, powdered milk and hopefully enough gas for the day.

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It does say "Well, OK, you are allowed to buy necessities, such as food and medicine."

But apart from that, such one-day boycotts have no economic impact at all. The rate of participation is insignificant and since everyone just makes their purchases a bit sooner or later, it has no impact on any business's sales. Rain (or an unusually nice day that makes people go out and have fun) has a much bigger impact on sales.

What these things do accomplish is making a small group of armchair activists think they're doing something worthwhile. They're not, unless one considers boosting one's self-image to be worthwhile.

There was recently a national gay boycott day in the United States where people were supposed to not go in to work, not open their businesses and not make any purchases, in order to demonstrate the economic influence of the community.

Curiously, while you'll find articles publicizing it on Google, you won't find any about the day itself and how it went.

Those national "don't fill up your car" to protest high gas prices are similarly absurd.

It just isn't that easy. A boycott needs to be ongoing, with more and more people joining it and making others aware they're joining it. These one-day things that 99% of the population never hear about are worthless.

This is a great exercise, however, for people who do make a lot of frivolous purchases. It used to be me, so I'm no saint, and probably would be me still if circumstances were different.

P.S. Happy anniversary, Mr. and Ms Oldgoat! You're an inspiration.

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Mrs. oldgoat and I have a hotel room booked in downtown Toronto for an extended hot date.

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Oh please! Just where is this "broad" getting her information from? Oprah's Book of the Month Club? If Janet Hanson had any real balls at all she take her so-called "boycott" to the advertisers and maketinng executives who push this shit (whatever THAT may be and who MAY BE women themselves) upon the female populace in the first place..but wait, what's this...

" Stat No. 2: Just eight CEO- ships, 13.6 percent of board seats and 15.7 percent of top executive jobs in the Fortune 500 are held by women."

Oh no! Well, I'm sure it's the CEO's and board seat members who hire the advertisers and marketing executives who obviously target women in the first place and no, we wouldn't want to rock the boat that sinks us, do we? Not when we want a better job so we can look good at the "table" in those Armani and Gucci power suits with all our "intellectual firepower" that are so obviously pushed upon us.

Janet Hanson's real problem is she shouldn't have credit care or a checkbook in the first place when living in a consumer-driven society all because she doesn't have a parking space with her name on it. Is this how women are "disrespected" and "not treated right"??? Oh no, indeed.

Wow! I knew that Canada was under-educated and racist (I know, I lived there for over 16 months) I didn't know how oppressive it was, too!

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Or did you perhaps mean "you're." Contraction of "you are," not "your," which is a possessive pronoun.

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You banning me? Just because I think that women is full of crap?

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Didn't hear about this until the 20th, and as I was in the big smoke for the first time in a couple of years, I did shop.

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No, you uneducated moron. I meant "your" as in plural response (since more then one person responded to what I said and there was no need to use a personal pronoun), denoting that I was speaking to more than just you and your annoying ego.

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Eh? What the fuck's that? Dada grammar?

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I'm so bad. You see, I'm not college-educated like you and therefore haven't been brainwashed in believing that by being a woman, I also have to be a self-centered asshole propagated by certain so-called feminists like Janet who tell me what to think so they can in return better their own social position.

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Eh? What the fuck's that? Dada grammar?

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Yes, Hinterland, you're getting it.

Okay?

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You see, I live in a country where my government doesn't pay for everything I want.

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In what country does the government pay for everything people want? Not Canada. Students pay to go to college or university here. They're often paying for a very long time after they graduate.

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Besides, what I said about Canada being racist is true. I've seen it myself.

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Of course there's racism here. There's racism everywhere. Are you telling us there's none in the US?

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As for the Canada-bashing, get a life. This site, like Canada itself is full of American bashing.

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There's much about Canada to criticize, as there's much about the US to criticize. Most people here try to do it from an informed perspective. You might try it sometimes.

Anyway, people who come on here and say "Americans are all ignorant racist fucks" and similar usually get slapped down for it.

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Fine. You obviously have an attitude problem. And don't ever threatening me again.
Okay?

Have a nice day. You "feminist" you.

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I'm sorry, like I said, never did I get the opportuntiy to go for college. You see, I live in a country where my government doesn't pay for everything I want.

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As for the Canada-bashing, get a life. This site, like Canada itself is full of American bashing.

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No, you uneducated moron. I meant "your" as in plural response (since more then one person responded to what I said and there was no need to use a personal pronoun), denoting that I was speaking to more than just you and your annoying ego.

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Um, no. You said "Your really not worth my time."

That was just plain wrong.

You are not really not worth my time.
You're not really worth my time.

Both are correct whether singular or plural and are the only correct ways to express what you wanted to say. "Your" is never anything but a possessive pronoun. Period.

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Tell me again, what was it I heard most Canadians call the native Indian population again...? Oh yeah, "prairie niggers." and "the fucking scum of Canada."

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"Most" Canadians?

I know I plonked you on the other thread, Kristy, but you're both a liar and a fool.

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And you call yourself a "feminist" fighting with other feminist who just happen to have credit cards and their ability NOT to use them.

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I don't call myself anything of the kind. Please to keep in mind who exactly you're ranting at.

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Tell me again, what was it I heard most Canadians call the native Indian population again...?

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"Your" is not a possessive pronoun. But "yours" is. There was no possessive case form to reply to other then in third person.

So, anyway...I'm stupid. Ban me. I don't care, I'd rather be banned then spend another minute on a quasi-facist web forum where the rule is to shut up and agree with us on EVERYTHING we say. Gee, how 1939 Germany is that? I guess if you can't successfully threaten someone, you just tattle-tale on them.

Can't say it's been nice. But you have a nice day now in your oppressive little world.

"Wow. I've never even heard of that epithet before. Maybe Kristy hangs around the wrong sorts of people, both south AND north of the border."

The "wrong people" is it? I'd say a LARGE percentage of the populace of the city I was living in. Funny how you overlooked the whole Amnesty Interantional icidient and instead focused upon your egos instead.

Bye.

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She does bring up a good point about the Amnesty report though - am I wrong in saying it has pretty much disappeared from the media?

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Kristy can start a thread on that. Are you stopping her?

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Gee, how 1939 Germany is that? I guess if you can't successfully threaten someone, you just tattle-tale on them.

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Just fuck off.

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I'd rather be banned then spend another minute on a quasi-facist web forum where the rule is to shut up and agree with us on EVERYTHING we say.

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"Your" is not a possessive pronoun. But "yours" is. There was no possessive case form to reply to other then in third person.

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Yes it is. And a possesive pronoun was not called for, because the only possession in the sentence was time. YOUR time. Not ours.

Look, it's very simple. What you wanted to say was "You are not worth my time." The proper contraction of "you are" is "you're."

If you take nothing else away from your mercifully brief sojourn here, take that with you.

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And you call yourself a "feminist" fighting with other feminist who just happen to have credit cards and their ability NOT to use them. Now, that's REAL power.

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Some of her points are valid. It does suck when we organize around our power to consume ... or not. That does come from a place of privilege.

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You're right, it does come from a place of privilege BUT I'm not so sure that means it sucks, and I really didn't get that as being Kristy's criticism.

[ 21 October 2004: Message edited by: shaolin ]

And, I respect Audra dislike of a pile on.

"Serial killer" my Yankke ass! That kind of brutality, rape and murder only stems form hate and racism. Nice spin. Pathetic.

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