Clarifying but disappointing all the same…
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Surely somebody is overlooking something here! I should think any taxidermist worth their salt could have former librarians stationed around any public library glowering over their half glasses helping to keep noise at bay.
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Hadn’t thought of it that way. Thanks for perspective, Merv.
Ironically, I have often been the one shushed! Fortunately, the main floor at my library is seen as a place where we work with information, which means having spoken (not whispered) reference interviews with and giving bibliographic instruction to patrons. I could never survive as an employee or conscious person in an old-style study library.
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That’s nice. My wife was once a small-business owner who worked without pay for two years so she could keep her employees paid, as minimum wage went up something like $2 in less than three years.
Then we spent close to a decade paying off the loss.
Not every business owner is buying yachts.
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I took the meme to be criticizing billionaire investors whose bottom line depends on governments supplementing starvation wages with social services at taxpayer’s expense. Your wife’s experience is not the subject of the meme nor a meaningful exception.
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Is this about the food or the observed frequency of proselytizing?
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I would suggest that it is the billionaires that are the exception.
Here I am dreaming of Weird Al doing This Time for Qater… in the dress and all 
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In French, they are a bit more obvious to those more familiar with Roman deities than Germanic ones:
Dimanche
Lundi
Mardi
Mercredi
Jeudi
Vendredi
Samedi
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Recently stumbled across this video on YouTube, very funny… very accurate. The tropes are strong with this one:
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Just PERFECT.
OMG! Nailed it.
However. We have not gotten to the end yet, when she gives in to love and her lover, and then dies. Because it’s written in the code of the fictive universe that she may not have her intellectual, personal, spiritual and physical felt needs all met in one life.
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If you like that one check out “how women are written in action movies” by the same YouTuber.
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Thanks for these tips, @LM77! I will add to them with:
I’m watching “Solaris” (1972), and Kelvin’s father has at least twice sent his wife, Krisa Kelvina, out of the room to have important discussions with the menfolk. However, any science fiction movie that has a traditional Russian fine knitted-lace shawl in it automatically gets a few gold stars! And some serious visual study accompanied by graph paper.
The action movie thingy was awesome, too! Thanks!
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I don’t have too much trouble with the irony – the world is still not escaping him: BCE/CE → Before Christ’s Era/Christ’s Era.
There is irony in the frequent naming of God and Jesus in profanity as well. Why not Krishna or Buhda?
Actually, I think “BCE” is supposed to mean “Before Common Era” … so (sneaky as it might seem), it still does succeed in being a non-sectarian label. We now live in the “Common Era” … you wouldn’t suppose for a moment that those trying to escape the sectarian labels (not all of whom are non-Christians, btw) would have intended our present moment to give privilege to a label such as “Christ’s Era” do you?!
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