Well, got a call from a recruiter today (head hunter) for a project in Toronto, well.. the GTA really, and that isn’t Toronto proper because I can’t get there by public transit.

That pretty much clinched my not wanting to go there. I’d miss BF too much, and the GTA is kind of far from where I’d be living. It’d be another 3 hour daily commute.

Anyway, the ironic part of the story is that they were doing the recruiting on behalf of another corporation.

Yep. You guessed it.

My old corporation, my old boss, and my old manager are looking for someone JUST LIKE ME to go for a project for them because they are desperate and out of luck and cannot find anyone in my skill set in Toronto itself.

Ha. Haha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAHH!

Life can be so sweet sometimes.

I turned it down, because I don’t want to ever be on a project with my old corporation in my old city.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d go for a job with my old corporation in a NEW city, but not in a city where I quit unexpectedly without notice, and crossed the bridge while singing “FLAME ON BITCHES! FLAME ON!”… *bridge goes up in flames*

Besides, the offered rate was a slap in the face. Atrocious.

Guess they should have treated me better.

Can someone be literally too fat to work? And get $45,000 CAD (equivalent) a year from the British government because they’re too fat to work?

L.L. is right.

We are being to PC to people who are clearly eating too much, loving it, and getting paid to sit around on their (literally) fat arses and do nothing.

And the kicker is that they kind of look normal to me.

I mean, they can still stand, can’t they? They can still walk? And pose in the shot? I’ve seen fatter walking in and out of Wal-mart! But maybe in Britain that is really too fat for them?

I have no idea.

To me, if you can walk and talk, you can work. Period.

They can’t seem to work into their busy non-working schedule, a way to lose weight, eat healthier, and get out of the house and earn their own way through life.

The British taxpayers are supporting a family of LAZY lard butts! It’s not like they CANNOT lose the weight, they choose not to, or so it seems.

Is that what it has come down to? We’re now going to support people who are too lazy? That is total abuse of the system. If they stopped eating completely, I’m sure they could live off their fat for a while and save money on food.

Enough to lose weight, then get out there and find a damn job.

Read the entire sickening story here on L.L.’s blog, and the actual story from Telegraph Britain is here.

You know, that $45,000 CAD equivalency could go to improving roads in Britain, I’m sure.

I just hope that in Canada we don’t have anything as ridiculous because I will go BANANAS all over this blog.

What’s an acceptable age gap between men and women? To date that is?

I have this theory that when we’re younger, anything over one or two years can make a HUGE deal. Like the age of an 16 year old dating a 20 year old is a big age gap. But if you’re older in your twenties or thirties, you don’t mind if you are 30 dating at 34 year old. In fact, your age gap tolerance becomes larger as you get older.

If you were a 90 year old dating a 70 year old, a 20 year age gap would not be a problem at all, at least not in my mind.

I’m in my mid-20s right now, and BF is currently edging close to 40.

People hear this age gap and give me this reaction:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And of course BF gets this reaction:

But the intention behind both are very different. Mine is more of a “Umm, he’s kind of old” reaction, and his is more of “You lucky guy you! *tinge of jealousy*”.

However the good news is that he doesn’t look anywhere near 40. People would peg him to be in his early 30s, even late 20s. So we don’t get a lot of those reactions from people we just casually meet.

But the minute I open my mouth and say I’m in my mid-20s and they KNOW that he’s in his late 30s (or vice versa), they do that little freakout show written above.

I think the best answer for this is: It Depends.

It depends on each person’s personality in the relationship (I’m saying this, clearly because I’m in one right now), and circumstances, like whether or not you really get along well as a couple or basically “what keeps you in the relationship”.

It reminds me of an episode with Samantha and Carrie where Samantha starts dating a “cute older man”, and asks Carrie what her age limit is. Carrie keeps saying “50?”, “50″? And when Samantha finally admits that the guy is older, MUCH older, Carrie gives her a look like she’s mad.

I originally thought my age limit would have been 35, but it turned out to be a couple of years above that which I was willing to let slide since we got along so well. So I can’t really say what my hard age line would be, but I suppose 50 would have really done the dog in. I could not have continued a relationship with a 50 year old, that’s for sure!!!! Even if we got along really well.

Maybe all single ladies out there should ask to see driver’s ID to check a guy’s age before falling for them. Or not. It depends on what you’re looking for in life, of course.

In the past, I KNOW they used to marry girls as young as 12 to men as old as 30 or 40. That I find sickening (just because I’ve been brought up in this type of culture and society), but it has happened before, so it’s not something totally new.

I’d like to know what you think though!