Sure, if you're on a punch clock job. Soon as you're in a "cadre" position, you can kiss the 35h good bye, even if it's illegal.

US centric? Think again.

And which Europe is this, pray tell?

Only A friend would have been even worse. Shame, really.

Cant see how. Or very incompletely. Have you got any language besides English? (not trolling, I'm trying to see if your comment is biased in a way or another)

... when it finds the cat

Plus, if things have not changed since the 90s, Finns have something of a problem with hiring personal servants. I mean, in 1990 people in Helsinki were hiding the fact they hired a maid. That said, two of the most luminous and happy years of my life were lived in that collectivist hell :-).

Wish I had mod points for you, sir. The actual French problem with advertising revenue is that the printed press is moribund from its steady decline; thriving journalism seems to relocate in the pure players sector (Rue89, Mediapart, Slate, etc). Which means there *is* advertising revenue, just not for the printed press anymore. Another law to try and protect an already dead economic sector, I wish we could conform to the stereotype and surrender more readily (the cheese eating part is fine, though)

Yeah, but the drawback is you have to invade the rest of Europe every 40 years or so (it's a bit overdue now, what happened to the legendary punktualität?)

Wooosh?

Ah, you forgot to smite grammar nazis and their semantic brethren. General consensus is a pleonasm, you insensitive clod.

Hoard! (and this comes from a cheese eating surrender grammar nazi monkey)

I'd buy a case of 8.6 beer and beg for spare change in front of my local superette. Those guys never get a second look.

Muslim do not hold a monopoly on sick books, I'll give you that.