The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

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Hard-working Britain: The Birmingham City Council revealed in October, first, that a man whose job is to paint white lines in the street made more than twice the average annual British wage, and then that a city lightbulb-changer was paid at about the same rate. [Reuters, 11-1-06]

Well, that's to be expected. I mean, imagine a street with screwed up painted lines and no lightbulbs. People would be driving all wonky and all, accidents would be through the roof, and pedestrians would be bumping into each other constantly.

Plus, street line painting is a prestigious occupation. Wouldn't you like that job? I know I would.

Heh heh heh.

And in October, London's Daily Mail profiled Keith Jackson, 57, an engineer for the AquaTec Coatings company in Wales, whose occupation for the last 30 years has been watching paint dry (to gauge its application time). He said the job pays "fairly well" but "can be stressful." [Daily Mail (London), 10-5-06]

Lol, does this really require a comment?

How f*cking lazy is this guy if he gets stressed out over WATCHING PAINT DRY?

Lawrence Roach of Seminole, Fla., complained in October that the $1,200 monthly alimony payments he has been making to his ex-wife should end, now that she has undergone a sex-change. Said Roach, "I'm a man, and I don't want to be paying alimony to a man." (Legal experts were pessimistic about his chances.) [BayNews9.com (Tampa-St. Petersburg), 10-4-06]

That is quite a conundrum. And, what probably really irks him is that his alimony cheques are probably paying for her surgeries.

Sucks for him, but I'm sure he'll have to pay anyhow seeing as it's the person, not the gender, that he is obligated to.