Dragonfly and Bunny went late night shopping* tonight so we've only had time to watch one ep of something tonight. I gave Dfly the choice of
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I don't usually even get off work before 6 pm, I would starve if we had schedules like that :) Not that we have much of 24/7 going on either, but the big grocery stores are always open until nine on weekdays. Not really sure about weekends, we tend to avoid stepping a foot out of the door on the days when it's not absolutely necessary ;)
Yes, a lot of our supermarkets are now open til 8pm and Sundays, but speciality stores and shopping centres (malls) aren't. So you can shop for food pretty easily now, but Saturdays and Thurs nights the shops are always pretty mad.
Suzan and I feel exactly the same about Thomas (vicious, too few redeeming qualities). Frankly, all he needs are mustachios to twirl, and the Disney Villain image will be complete. Really, he's just too much of a caricature, and not even an enjoyable one (which most Disney villains are).
Yes, well, I don't think Julian Fellowes is too concerned about things like feminism or positive portrayals of gay people. This is the guy who talked about how he wanted to show that Anna was raped even though she was a good girl, not dressed provocatively and "didn't deserve it." (I wanted to find him and beat him to a bloody pulp for that. Well, figuratively. Sort of. I mean, I wanted to, but I never would have. I might have shouted some pretty strong invective at him. *g*)
I don't know this guy at all. Did he mean to infer that some women DO deserve it, or was he meaning that society's perception of women is like that, and he was showing that it can happen to anyone?
I...I am struck dumb by the whole lack of convenient shopping hours for working people in Australia. In this day and age. Even where I live (Missouri, a very conservative state), where we had "Blue Laws" (no shopping on Sundays for religious reasons), we had weeknights (until 9 pm in the Sixties, now many until 10 or 11 pm or open 24hrs) and Saturday hours. And the Blue Laws were struck down in the early 1980s in Missouri. (*g* Because businesses were sick of losing paying customers across the state line to Illinois, which already allowed shopping on Sunday. I remember for years picking up my friend who lived just across the river in Illinois and the two of us driving to the nearby towns with shopping malls.)
Most of us don't mind - it's what we've always known, and it's not actually a bad thing having Sunday as a literal day off. We're not a super religious country, so it's not about going to church for most people, just about relaxing. Australia still has an excellent social system (although our government is currently doing it's best to systematically dismantle it) so most of us don't have to work long hours. For the 9 to 5 ers, Thurs and Sat - and now Sundays for the supermarkets and home depots works fine. In fact, given that the supermarkets are almost all open to 8, I often just stop at the shops on the way home and grab groceries.
The main reason (I think) it keeps getting shot down is because of our excellent pay rates - if people work outside normal business hours (nights, Sundays) they have to be paid penalty rates on top of that. There's a concern that changing to 24/7 would give businesses an excuse to demand a drop wages and getting rid of penalty rates.
Well, you know, that makes a lot of sense--both that your hours aren't bad and that the pay is also good (and no one wants to mess with that or pay overtime. Although maybe they would make enough on the extra sales to pay some part time people to staff the extra hours).
Although as someone who likes very late nights and the wee hours for creating, it was great that I could go to the store if I needed something at o-dark-thirty. :-) (Without a car now, in the boonies, that's no longer an option. But in the city, I could walk to the store.)
I"m sure there'd be some extra sales, though I think it'd be a diminishing rate of return.
...though I do wonder how much extra do people really buy having longer hours? or do they just spread out their shopping? and if it does make that much difference, then as a sustainably advocate I'm against it :)
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The main reason (I think) it keeps getting shot down is because of our excellent pay rates - if people work outside normal business hours (nights, Sundays) they have to be paid penalty rates on top of that. There's a concern that changing to 24/7 would give businesses an excuse to demand a drop wages and getting rid of penalty rates.
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Although as someone who likes very late nights and the wee hours for creating, it was great that I could go to the store if I needed something at o-dark-thirty. :-) (Without a car now, in the boonies, that's no longer an option. But in the city, I could walk to the store.)
Also, as you say, it's what you're used to.
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...though I do wonder how much extra do people really buy having longer hours? or do they just spread out their shopping? and if it does make that much difference, then as a sustainably advocate I'm against it :)
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