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Comment Grey Ecology (Score 1) 175

Comment Lawyers are not firefighters... (Score 1) 735

"Most of the time, a fire fighter is off-duty but on call, hanging around the firehouse, cooking, sleeping, or whatever" Bunk. When I was with the fire service when at the fire hall we were not 'on call'. The guys who were at home with a pager - and who only came in if the resources on duty were stressed, were on call and they were paid a percentage of their wage for those hours and had some restrictions placed on their time (i.e, they were not allowed to drink or to travel outside the city). Our service had two 12 hour shifts, one for day, one for night. The 'on call' shift was the day shift at night; and the night shift at day. There were four shifts in total. So, work a week - a duty shift and an on call shift, then get a week off. Welcome to the world of the white collar proletariat. On call without compensation 24/7 - get *&^&*Y*(&^!

Comment ever use a fountain pen? (Score 1) 921

When you lift the nib off the paper and put it back down again (as in printing) a fountain pen tends to leave a sometimes large drop of ink. But cursive writing does not have the pen leave the page for each and every letter or for that matter the independent strokes for each letter. Hence cursive writing's purpose. Since people rarely use fountain pens or quill pens but rather use ball point pens (which are supposed to control the flow of ink and prevent the drops from forming when pressing and lifting the pen from the page) there is little reason for cursive writing save for the pedants who confuse the appearance of style with substance.

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