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Romney, spray tans, and the unemployed

Gordon and I are in good spirits. We will post some holiday snaps (i.e., vacation photographs) later today. In the meantime, we found a great story and headline in the Metro newspaper while eating lunch on the Royal Mile - see below for the photograph I took of the actual newspaper.


Admittedly, the original article didn't come with an accompanying image, so I selected an image (a meme?!) that added the most context to the story. Some of the timelessly and telling quotes from the article include:

"We want to give people that extra confidence... to give people the incentive to find work", "[i]t will recognise those who are doing their utmost to to find employment by giving them a beauty treatment", and "... sometimes people need to feel and look the part when they are going to a job interview".

However, there were some negative reactions to the new scheme. For example:

"It's... skills that will secure a job, not how bronzed you are". So true, so true.

Comments

  1. UnknownNovember 8, 2012 at 10:18 AM

    It is all about the tan, man.

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  2. UnknownNovember 8, 2012 at 10:19 AM

    And it took me 8 tries to prove that I was not a robot.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Richard MiddletonNovember 9, 2012 at 1:35 AM

    Phil: aha, even Google's blogspot doesn't trust you to post things!

    ReplyDelete

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