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382839 No. 382839
Seriously though, Eat your roommate.
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>> No. 383386
>>383384
Dungeon Master. She sets up dungeon plots for her grandkids.
>> No. 383388
>>383385
Why would they want to talk anyone else who isn't a supervisor?
>> No. 383392
>>383386
I know what it is, brainiac, I'm expressing surprise that she is one.
>> No. 383396
>>383385
>I have to ask some coworkers if they'd be cool vouching for me
You're supposed to ask before you list references?
>> No. 383397
>>383385
>I have to ask some friends and family if they'd be cool with pretending to be my bosses from a bunch of jobs I've never worked at.
Fixd
>> No. 383398
>>383388
Many companies, especially the larger ones, forbid active supervisors/bosses from giving references for anyone beneath them. Mainly to protect themselves from lawsuits, because the supervisor is seen in acting in an official capacity. If someone does put them down, all they can do is forward the caller to HR, who will give them the years and positions the person worked there, nothing more. So a lot of companies have that requirement just to avoid the whole thing.

>>383396
Absolutely. Not only is it a courtesy thing ("Hey man, can I put you down?" "Yeah" "Cool, don't be surprised if someone calls over the next month or two"), but it also gives you a chance to better gauge how someone would respond to such a call; if you've worked with someone but don't know them well personally, they might give you a bad reference, especially if they're called out of the blue.

Or, if it's a really old co-worker, they might not remember you right away when someone calls if you don't touch base first, which is also a negative against you.

Finally, you can make sure you have up-to-date contact info for them. Nothing worse than having a reference that has "This number is no longer in service" when someone calls it.
>> No. 383399
>>383398
I know all my references on a personal level, so I don't really have the risk of running into any of those problems.
I've really never considered it though, cause if I ever got a call and they were like "What's up Mr. Poke, we're [x] and would like you to give a reference on Mandy" I wouldn't even begin to give a fuck that she didn't ask first, I'd just give them my recommendation.
Maybe that's kind of rude of me.
>> No. 383400
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383400
lol
>> No. 383402
Goddamn, drawing porn is so hard.
>> No. 383405
>>383402

yeah
>> No. 383406
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383406
>>383402
if its soft youre doing it wrong
>> No. 383407
>>383406
Soft is easy. But drawing people fucking, blowing and fisting each other from an angle that still makes you see everything without looking unnatural is really, really fucking hard. It's a tour de force of anatomy. And I haven't done life drawings in over two years, so I'm appropiately rusty. It's disheartening.
>> No. 383409
>still makes you see everything
hiding some things is nice, that's why we invented lingerie.
>> No. 383410
>>383409
That's very nice and romantic of you to think that way. But hiding things is not really the point of hardcore pornography.
>> No. 383412
>>383410
It is of good hardcore pornography. One of the best ways to tell an amateur pornographer from a skilled one is that the amateur always tries to show everything at once and their finished art suffers for it.

This is also why comics can be useful rather than single drawings--you can see more when you can do multiple panels.
>> No. 383415
OK I recently had a kind of thought provoking discussion about a sensitive subject, so I'm gonna ask you guys.

If you skip out on paying a prostitute, is it rape, theft, fraud or breach of contract?

If a pimp sleeps with a prostitute, is it rape, embezzling or kickbacks?

>> No. 383416
>>383415
(This is all ignoring the local illegality of prostitution in the first place.) Neither case would be rape; the prostitute (supposedly) willingly had sex. It would only be rape if the prostitute didn't consent, was coerced into the act, or had impaired decision-making (drugged/drunk).

For the first, it's the same thing as what happens when you hire a gardener, he does his work, and you don't pay him after the fact. I think that if you never intended to pay the person in the first place it would be fraud, but if you just refused to pay them after the fact (perhaps for unsatisfactory work) then it's breach of contract. Theft doesn't work because you don't deprive someone of a possession (if you agree to pay after the service, the money isn't theirs yet). If the reverse happens, where you pay someone and they don't do the promised work, then it could also include theft since they're depriving you of money you already have.

In the second case, it can't be kickbacks because those are from an outside party. If the prostitute was a contractor and, in exchange for taking her on and promoting her more than the other prostitutes, she gave you a cut of her take then it could be kickbacks. Embezzlement is a specific form of theft, where the theft is from one's own company. If she's on the clock and the "pimp" (or manager/agent, in a civilized world) had sex with her during that time he might be depriving the company of potential income, but this act alone isn't illegal as it's just incompetence/poor management.

It would be embezzlement if she passed on payment and, instead of recording it properly, the manager took it for himself.

Now, if he was going to pay her for the act and then didn't, it would be the same as a client who didn't pay up for the first example.

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, yadda yadda.
>> No. 383417
>>383415
I'd charge them both with all crimes. Simple solution.
>> No. 383418
if the consent of the sexual contact is conditional and those conditions are not met (eg 'we can have sex but only if you wear a condom' and the guy take it off halfway through), then consent is withdrawn and it's sexual assault...or something like that. there was a recent case along those lines in the news not long ago, i don't really car enough to look it up. i think it depends where you're from, really.
>> No. 383419
>>383417
"There is no such thing as a plea of innocence in my court. A plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time. Guilty."

~ Inquisitor Lord, Fyodor Karamazov
>> No. 383420
>>383415
If prostitution were decriminalized, I would suggest specific laws be written to define situations like the former scenario. I would say that it was at the very least sexual assault/rape for the reasons >>383418 gave AND breach of contract--not sure if fraud really enters into it unless they forge their signature on the contract or something.

For the second case, of the pimp sleeping with the prostitute, it would depend on the situation. If her career was threatened if she didn't sleep with him, it'd be exactly the same as if a manager at Denny's threatened to fire a waitress that didn't sleep with him. And obviously if he just talked her into it, there'd be no crime, as long as she was okay with it. And of course if he paid her, it'd just be a standard business transaction.

The question comes interesting when it comes to the Pimp giving her a bigger cut of the profits for agreeing to sleep with him--obviously in any other business, this would be considered sexual harassment and verboten. But in a sex-for-hire business, it is essentially just giving her an extra assignment of work she already agrees to do for "overtime" pay, so to speak.
>> No. 383421
>>383418
> i think it depends where you're from, really
Indeed. This looks like a good run down for some countries: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19333439

And are you referring to Julian Assange? One of the two women that filed claims against him included consent with a condom, but said he later had sex with her without one. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/how-is-rape-defined-around-the-world_n_1823272.html half way down the page.)
>> No. 383422
Prostitution is legal/decriminalised in more or less every civilised country in the world, go find what the laws say for them,

>>383421
Nah, it was a husband and wife. I think they had a shitload of kids and she didn't want any more and then pressed charges when he refused to wear a condom/took it off or something like that. idk, it doesn't matter much.
>> No. 383423
>>383421
So you're saying if you can put conditions on saying yes to sex (condom/money/favors etc) then that applies to this hypothetical scenario as well?

I guess in that case it would be some kind of consent issue.
>> No. 383424
>>383422
Yeah, but pimping is legal in most of those countries, is it? My understanding was that pimps were the guys in charge of street walkers, and even in countries where prostitution was legal, street walking wasn't.
>> No. 383425
>>383420
> I would suggest specific laws be written to define situations like the former scenario.
Ehhhhhhhh if that's what it takes to decriminalize prostitution, so be it. But I think that's going overboard.

Prostitutes, deliverymen/mailmen, and NFL players have one thing in common: They primarily use their body. NFL players use it to move a ball and/or smash into each other, mailmen use it to sort, parse, and carry mail, and prostitutes use it for sex. It's this last thing that seems to send everyone a-twitter (or to Twitter.) Especially when done in conjunction with a condom and/or birth control, this is just another physical act but the majority of (American) society treats it as some special act, evangelical or not, when the only big difference is the amount pleasure you get from it. (Yes, there's that whole baby thing involved, but that's only possible in the specific case of sperm in vagina; not all sex acts end with this, and with birth control the chance of babby drops dramatically, so I don't consider it part of the issue.) From an anthropological stand-point, this was probably done by early human societies as a way to stop over-population or, perhaps, health problems from women getting pregnant at older ages. With the birth control we have these days, this is moot.

At least in America, we already have laws to handle any situation. If the prostitute doesn't consent to the act, then it's rape. Otherwise, it falls under the same laws that apply to any other service person that goes unpaid, such as the gardener I mentioned earlier. Creating special, unnecessary laws regarding prostitution just makes things more complicated and would keep the whole industry under a darker cloud than it would already be.

Or, look at it from a different angle: If the gardener doesn't get paid, does the one who commissioned the work get charged with slavery? Either that person gets charged with slavery and the person who fails to pay a prostitute gets charged with rape (at least until they pay up, and then the charges magically vanish,) or neither gets charged with either.

In any case, the moral of the story is to get the payment up front.
>> No. 383426
>>383425
>Sex not sacred
Don't be silly. That's like eating or shitting not being sacred. But I guess that's a digression.

>>383419
It's useful to have precedent, and the court system would probably pick at least one. Personally, I consider the first a breach of contract, and the second is rape if she felt coerced into it and otherwise just sexual harassment in the work place. Then again, I've never met a pimp that didn't advocate coercion.
>> No. 383428
>>383426
>That's like eating or shitting not being sacred. But I guess that's a digression.
Please do so, because I have no idea what you mean by this.
>> No. 383430
oh son of a goddamn fucking bitch i think i've been misrepresenting/misinterpreting data for the last four months.
it's not the end of the world but fucking shit fucks. goddammit balls crap butts.

not happy.

not happy at all.
>> No. 383432
>>383425
Obviously it's rape regardless, but I meant that defining the type of civil offense it is would benefit from having some specific laws to define what would otherwise be a gray area. Defining whether prostitutes are contractors, for example, and therefore whether failure to pay would be breach of contract or what. A lot of businesses have unique laws dedicated to the civil side of things.
>> No. 383435
>>383430
Fucker keep a clean journal!

Repeat this x10:
This is my journal. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My journal is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

My journal, without me, is useless. Without my journal, I am useless. I must write only truth in my journal. I must write more correctly than my rivals who are trying to take my grants. I must outdo them before they beat me. And I will...

My journal and I know that what counts in this battle is not the words we write, the results of our calculations, nor the hypotheses we make. We know that it is the experiment that counts. And we will analyze...

My journal is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its margins, its accessories, its pens and its paper. I will keep my journal clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. And we will...

Before God, I swear this creed. My journal and I are the defenders of my university. We are the masters of plebs. We are the saviors of life.

So be it, until victory is science and there is no pleb, but peace!
>> No. 383437
>>383435
good news everyone (you)
i did look at my old presentations and lab notebooks and i had a brain fart this week that made me think that my shit was retarded and i was sciencing like a fag.

i'm in the clear, bra but i can't help but feel like you're onto something.

i will pour my lifeblood into my lab notebook from here on lest i bleed out on the lab floor.
>> No. 383438
>>383150

Seriously though, if anyone knows of anything like this holla
>> No. 383440
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383440
Again on a spree of looking up vastly superior artists and feeling inadequate in every single possible way.
>> No. 383441
>>383437
>i was sciencing like a fag

But fag science is the best science.

>>383440
There will always be someone better than you. Instead of comparing yourself to others, compare yourself to the you of the past and the you of now, then ask yourself how you can improve.
>> No. 383443
>>383440
i hear that. there's this amazing artist on tumblr i follow and i adore her art (even if 90% of it is of a character I don't even especially like) and she's 17 and self-taught and sometimes i just browse her art-tag and alternate between swooning and getting angry at myself because if i had worked hard enough when i was younger i could be that good now (maybe). feels bad, man. however it has motivated me to try properly drawing again for the first time since i went to university. maybe i could be that good in 100 years.
>> No. 383444
Welp, I'm back home now.
Back to the daily grinding of teeth over shit I've should have done months ago.
>> No. 383445
>>383441
>There will always be someone better than you.
Unless you're bruce lee.
>> No. 383448
>>383445
I got some bad news for you...
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>> No. 383449
>>383445
something i always loved about bruce was that he was perpetually afraid of running into the one kind of person who he knew could beat him -

a younger, healthier, more naturally gifted version of himself.

but no one is another version of bruce lee. he tried to depict a version of this nemesis in the game of death with kareem, where the only way he could win was by taking advantage of a weakness that was outside of the typical rules of engagement. it wasn't cheating, but it wasn't fighting fair, and that's the point. real fights are life or death.
>> No. 383451
>going to wedding for super religious friend
>halfway across the country (south to north)
>was invited for an all weekend
fooling around, alcohol, and tv-show watching weekend with girl i'm dating because her roommate is gone.
...
we're not exclusive yet so... uhh...
i...
goddammit.
this wedding better be in-fucking-credible or i will fly back down saturday night to break that girl in half.
>> No. 383453
>>383451
Uhh... do something before you leave? Or bring her with.
>> No. 383457
>>383297
so she took a look at it and it turns out the automatic prefill put my income in TWICE. once as my income and once as a fucking fringe benefit

also apparently i could claim a volunteer disability carers benefit but its not going to be worth it for just this year
>> No. 383463
>>383453
i would have payed for her plane ticket if i she could have been able to come to the wedding (limited guests) and i don't know her well enough to leave her with my brother and his gf.

also we're both too busy to meet. i'm dying. i'm died.
>> No. 383467
>>383457
So does that mean you get a refund (or at least pay nothing) now?
>> No. 383468
>>383467
yeah not much but its something
>> No. 383470
>>383463
Give her something to remember you by. A kiss, a poem, a present, a hickey, an ear... Bitches love ears.

But seriously, is this girl so starved for it she's going to drop you like a hot potato if you're gone for 2 days? If the answer to that question is yes, please give me her number and I'll take care of her while you're gone, scouts honor.
>> No. 383472
>>383468
Better than owing monies to the government.
>> No. 383473
>>383470
no you misunderstand.
i'm the one who's starved. famished. ravenous. I AM A MAN. I HAVE NEEDS.
>> No. 383478
>>383473
It's a wedding, man. Do one of the bridesmaids.
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