Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 08, 2024

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    BasilBruce  about 7 hours ago

    For some reason, I was reminded of Jack Benny; even when he was in his 70s, he wouldn’t admit to being older than 39.

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member about 7 hours ago

    Just trump and vance….well, pretty much the maga republicans

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    Qiset  about 7 hours ago

    Don’t women live 6 to 7 years longer than men? Even things out.

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    iggyman  about 7 hours ago

    I had a lot of female bosses, so I wonder! (Most were nice and treated me well)!

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    parforden  about 7 hours ago

    For my current biology class, I’ll be writing a 10 page paper on an environmental toxin. I wanted to do it about Trump. Unfortunately, my instructor said the toxin could only have one deadly element that would upset human homeostasis. Since Trump has killed in many different ways, I chose the Death Camus instead. It only has one poison in its makeup.

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    lavender headgear  about 7 hours ago

    Fun fact: Even before wokedom, women earned more than men per unit of value they deliver, Today, in the era of DEI (didn’t earn it), the problem is sure to be even worse.

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    B UTTONS  about 7 hours ago

    Pig is having difficulty proving he is not a robot. reCAPTCHA won’t let him access the data.

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    jonnytest  about 5 hours ago

    The new VP of Marketing never produced any new sales from several trade shows. Instead of calling existing customers every day from her desk to try to increase business, like her very productive predecessor, she got caught shopping for shoes online with her huge paycheck. Fired the next day.

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    smartty cat  about 4 hours ago

    Not the men in my family nor the friends I have made. Of course, we all be Southerners which can be a saving grace some times. Disappearing grace though it be.

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    Pogostiks Premium Member about 4 hours ago

    She has really learned the Mantra well! In fact they now know that women who are neither married nor have kids end up generally making 13% MORE than men in the same position!! So the real problem isn’t Gender but rathet the Life Choices one has made. If one wants to be married and have children; then why should a business have to pay her the same when it is already making more work for those who aren’t leaving early to pick up kiddies? And a pregnancy and birth often mean finding a temp to take over… I think businesses would be happy to pay equally to those who signa contract where they promise not to marry or have kids. If they do, then they revert to a different pay scale as it shouldn’t be up to the bosses to pay more and to the workers to do more just so she can follow her personal choices.The reason I say this is that men are always being blamed for women"s unhappiness, but in a company men usually work longer hours, and don’t het all the perks of leaving early or taking several months off because tehy want to do something special. The ones who really lose out are the men and women who aren’t married and don’t have children. They get the same pay but none of the perksYet it is thewomen who are always complaining.

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    Charles  about 4 hours ago

    Women don’t get equal pay for equal work. They get more pay for the same work, or equal pay for less work.

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    Denver Reader Premium Member about 4 hours ago

    The paid less for equal work isn’t as prevalent as the media would have you think especially when you consider that many women still leave the workforce during child rearing years.

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    mrwiskers  about 4 hours ago

    Now that the age topic is covered, let’s entertain the gender discrimination issue because according to the John Roberts’ Supreme Court, we no longer have racial discrimination./s

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    waknoch  about 3 hours ago

    Nice myth you’re spreading there, Stephan. I guess if something is repeated enough people believe it’s a fact.

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    Lenavid  about 3 hours ago

    Now that the systematic destruction of the nuclear family is nearly complete, equality in the workplace should manifest. Of course there will be fewer children to grow into workers. But hey, equality!

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    Gandalf  about 2 hours ago

    Not true, if you control for job experience and the job itself.

    Think about it: why would anyone ever hire a man, if a woman can be hired so much more cheaply.

    As a wise man once said, there are statistics, darn (the real word is banned) statistics, and lies…

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    suelou  about 2 hours ago

    If truth be told… to me it looks like the men are usually being “spoken down to” by the women… well… in the comics, anyway!!

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    Steve Dallas  about 2 hours ago

    The equal pay for equal work slogan is a canard. When adjusted for things like years on the job (that is, people with more experience receive higher salaries), they’re paid approximately the same.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 1 hour ago

    Plus many have beepable bewbies.

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    WaitingMan  about 1 hour ago

    And one major political party thinks that the medical care you are eligible to receive should be determined by your ZIP Code.

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    Ellis97  about 1 hour ago

    We all have to go sometime.

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    karencloy  about 1 hour ago

    I keep hoping that one day Pastis will get funny again. It’s been a long time.

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    SquidGamerGal  about 1 hour ago

    Whoa! Why are people so touchy these days?

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    kjnrun  28 minutes ago

    Why do husbands usually die before their wife? Because they want to.

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    Malph  12 minutes ago

    Groan

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