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Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 407

I'm an Italian working in the US... from my perspective, Americans are a bit weird on violence. They are very big on gun rights, but if two kids get into a fistfight at school, it's treated as a crime rather than as the natural consequence of cooping up male teenagers in a building for hours on end (And nobody cares about who started the fight, which would be the first thing to figure out back home, to decide who gets punished). Then again I guess that Americans living in Italy think that we're weird for not allowing people to own guns unless they live out in the country and hunt, but treating fistfights as "something that happens" rather than a public safety problem.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 5, Insightful) 407

Happened to me. Workgroup was 11 people, only me and one other guy were NOT on what amounts to amphetamines of various sorts.

So, one day the team leader says "Hey, spiritplumber, you look tired."

"Yeah, the work is exciting but I'm having a bit of a hard time keeping up."

"I know what you should do."

"Thanks, but I only need one Monday off to catch up on sleep."

"No, nothing like that. Go to this one doctor and he'll give you a prescription no questions asked."

"For what?"

"Oh, you know, allergy medication. It's probably why you've been under the weather." (Winks, I miss it because I'm derp).

"What's it called? I have" (herbal remedy) "for allergies."

"ProCentra. Tell him you work here."

So I go home, talk to my girlfriend who's a chem engie, and ask her what the hell that stuff is, so she tells me it's amphetamine. The next day, I explain to my team leader what my family does to people who get any of us into drugs, and quit. My father disapproves of the decision because he says I should also have punched the guy out after quitting.

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