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I look at the Internet as a sort of plane in the sense that it has plenty of rules and one shouldn’t be mucking about there without some expertise.
Get a bunch of men together with disposable income and ye’re going tae have trafficking.
And on the labor side, it’s hotels or other businesses with large buildings contracting for janitorial services. The hotels aren’t intae the trafficking, but they subcontract their labor, and those subcontractors are in it up tae their necks.”
Traffickers will find a way tae supply that demand as long as it’s there. Focusing on the traffickers might make ye feel good, and it gives the polis and the politicians something to point at and say they’re making progress, but they’re no really addressing the root cause. Someone else will step in tae make that money,
“These conventions require contracts between the hotels and the companies holding the event. Vendor contracts, ye know what I mean? If there’s a clause in those contracts that’s anti-trafficking, that will change behaviors. They tell their employees they’ll be fired for anything like that. They’ll be auditing entertainment expenses. They’ll have a meeting in the break room and tell their employees all kinds of fire will rain down upon their heids if they’re perving out on company time.”
a piece of furniture we called a “coffee table” from three A.M. to noon and a “whisky table” at all other times.
vaguely disappointed by everyone but willing and perhaps even hoping to be surprised in a pleasant way.
The Tuatha Dé Danann are obsessed with nine of this and nine of that. Nine Fae planes. Nine Druids dancing in the dark. Nine ways to Nancy.” [What? Who’s Nancy?] “I dunno, but there’s nine ways to her, so she’s probably centrally located. I bet she’s in a train station.”
“Information control is the name of the game. It is the game. Some people think it’s money, but it’s no money at all. Information is what gets ye money.”
There is something about getting off a plane that brings out the worst in everyone. Violations of personal space and nudging, utter rudeness and lack of courtesy that sometimes leads to snappish behavior. But since I learned to think of it as arising from a dire need to go to the bathroom, it’s all made sense, and I can empathize and feel compassion for people
“Do ye have anything nourishing, like chocolate-covered marshmallows?” [No, those aren’t healthy.] “Naw, but they’re important.”
“Who are you?” he demanded again. “Someone who knows exactly what she’s doing,” Nadia replied. “Just wanted tae make that clear before ye say something like, You have no idea who you’re dealing with.”
