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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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AutistocLolCow said:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/29/us/ohio-factory-owner-cnntv/index.html

"Regina Mitchell, a co-owner of Warren Fabricating & Machining in Hubbard, Ohio, told The New York Times this week that four out of 10 applicants otherwise qualified to be welders, machinists and crane operators will fail a routine drug test."

Why you clowns can't be sober? :story:
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The trades are easy enough to get into, you just need a high-school degree. Then the entire atmosphere is high-school shop class.

So low entry qualifications means you see more down-and-out people in there. Statistics show the construction industry has a very high percentage of illegal drug users.
 
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Goofy Logic said:
The trades are easy enough to get into, you just need a high-school degree. Then the entire atmosphere is high-school shop class.

So low entry qualifications means you see more down-and-out people in there. Statistics show the construction industry has a very high percentage of illegal drug users.
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I used to work with a pool construction guy that didn't mind if his crew smoked pot on their own time but he got annoyed when they'd smoke green and milds out on job sites.
 
Why the lack of Indian and African faces in Dunkirk matters

What a surprise that Nigel Farage has endorsed the new fantasy-disguised-as-historical war film, Dunkirk. Christopher Nolan’s movie is an inadvertently timely, thinly veiled Brexiteer fantasy in which plucky Britons heroically retreat from the dangerous shores of Europe. Most importantly, it pushes the narrative that it was Britain as it exists today – and not the one with a global empire – that stood alone against the “European peril”.

To do so, it erases the Royal Indian Army Services Corp companies, which were not only on the beach, but tasked with transporting supplies over terrain that was inaccessible for the British Expeditionary Force’s motorised transport companies. It also ignores the fact that by 1938, lascars – mostly from South Asia and East Africa – counted for one of four crewmen on British merchant vessels, and thus participated in large numbers in the evacuation.

But Nolan’s erasures are not limited to the British. The French army deployed at Dunkirk included soldiers from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and other colonies, and in substantial numbers. Some non-white faces are visible in one crowd scene, but that’s it. The film forgets the racialised pecking order that determined life and death for both British and French colonial troops at Dunkirk and after it.

This is important, firstly, because it is a matter of factual accuracy in what purports to be an historical portrayal – and also because it was the colonial troops who were crucial in averting absolute catastrophe for the allies. It is also important because, more than history books and school lessons, popular culture shapes and informs our imagination not only of the past, but of our present and future.
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http://archive.is/8ds1z

Not news, but nonetheless an opinion piece on the Guardian that is making the rounds. A poo in loo is upset because Nolan's historically-accurate Dunkirk doesn't contain many Indians. In particular they are angry because the British sailors who come to rescue the troops are, well, British sailors:
But why is it so important for Nolan, and for many others, that the film expunge all non-white presence on the beach and the ships? Why is it psychologically necessary that the heroic British troops be rescued only by white sailors?
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What would change if brave men fighting at Dunkirk wore turbans instead of helmets? What would alter if some of the soldiers offered namaaz on the sands before rising to face the advancing enemy for that one last time?
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What would change if brave men fighting at Dunkirk used party poppers instead of guns?
 
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What would change if brave men fighting at Dunkirk used party poppers instead of guns?
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what would change if we replaced all the women in "A league of her own" with fat neckbeards?
what would change if we removed all the zulu in "zulu" and replaced them with that one japanese guy who did louis armstrong in blackface?
what would change if john henry was played by a fat pink haired triggered woman?
 
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D.Va said:
http://archive.is/8ds1z

Not news, but nonetheless an opinion piece on the Guardian that is making the rounds. A poo in loo is upset because Nolan's historically-accurate Dunkirk doesn't contain many Indians. In particular they are angry because the British sailors who come to rescue the troops are, well, British sailors:




What would change if brave men fighting at Dunkirk used party poppers instead of guns?
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Apparently there were only a couple hundred Indians at Dunkirk out of a force of hundreds of thousands, so they were just a tiny drop in the bucket.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40724861
What happened with the Indian soldiers in Dunkirk is less clear. Yasmin Khan, historian and author of The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War, says she has often wondered why there is very little factual data on their role in the battle, which many say cost Germany the war.

What is well known, she told me, is that four companies of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, including a unit of the Bikaner State forces, served in France during the campaign on the Western Front, and some were evacuated from Dunkirk. Among them were three contingents of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps. One contingent was taken prisoner by German forces.

According to one account, India also provided more than 2,500 mules - shipped from Bombay (now Mumbai) to Marseilles - to the war effort as the British animal transport companies had been phased out. An Indian soldier, Jemadar Maula Dad Khan, was feted for showing "magnificent courage, coolness and decision" in protecting his men and animals when they were shelled from the ground and strafed from the air by the enemy.

The Indian soldiers and the mules were eventually ordered towards the coast. Many of the men could not take their animals on the retreat and gave them away to local people in France, according to the same account.

Historian John Broich says the Indian soldiers in Dunkirk were "particularly cool under fire and well organised during the retreat".

"They weren't large in number, maybe a few hundred among hundreds of thousands, but their appearance in the film would have provided a good reminder of how utterly central the role of the Indian Army was in the war," he told Slate.
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https://patch.com/pennsylvania/bens...y-nurse-admits-secretly-filming-patients-nude

A 45-year-old nurse who worked at a Bucks County dermatology practice has admitted to secretly videotaping eight female patients. The Intelligencer reports James Close, an Abington resident who worked at Penn Medicine Dermatology in Lower Makefield's Floral Vale professional complex, made a court appearance Friday during which he pleaded guilty.

Close was charged in February after a 17-year-old patient noticed she was being videotaped while undressed for a skin treatment. He was then charged with 43 additional counts involving the original victim and seven others.

Close's sentencing has been deferred so a sex offender evaluation can be done, The Intelligencer reported. He faces "significant" jail time, the publication said.

The investigation into Close began on Feb. 13 around noon, when a juvenile reported being filmed at the practice.

The victim told authorities that Close was her technician that day when she went for her regular skin treatment. The victim was undressed in the treatment booth when she noticed an iPhone on the ground, lying at her feet, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

The phone's screen indicated it had been recording her for 25 seconds and she could see "her full nude reflection" on the screen, the affidavit said. She turned the phone over to staff at the facility upon noticing it at her feet and police were notified.
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You know, you've got to be pretty exceptional to stick an iphone underneath the booth and think no one's going to eventually notice. How dumb did he think people were?
 
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A Chinese restaurant has come under fire for offering discounts to women depending on their bra size, it's reported.

According to the Qianjiang Evening Post, local people complained to the council after seeing posters advertising discounts for the Trendy Shrimp restaurant at a mall in Hangzhou, the main city of coastal Zhejiang province.

The company's adverts showed a line-up of cartoon women in their underwear with the slogan "The whole city is looking for BREASTS". It listed discounts for women depending on their cup size, with greater offers available to women with bigger busts.

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One representative complaint said the posters were "vulgar advertising" and "discriminatory towards women".

The posters first appeared on 1 August and have since been removed, but Trendy Shrimp general manager Lan Shenggang defended their sales strategy. "Once the promotion started, customer numbers rose by about 20%," he said, adding that "some of the girls we met were very proud - they had nothing to hide".

He reassured readers that customers could claim their discounts from the waitresses rather than dealing with male staff, in order to "avoid embarrassment".

This is not the first time that a restaurant in China has offered discounts based on appearance. In January 2015, a restaurant in Henan rewarded diners it deemed "good-looking", a month after an eatery in Chongqing gave discounted food to overweight men and thin women.
 
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