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Kiosk where you pay money to be really mean to someone.
Before you go home to beat your wife or scream at your kids
you can get the negative energy out of your system.
Kiosk operatives are trained to tolerate the most intimidating
of customers.
Counterparts
http://www.literatu...-joyce/dubliners/9/
[rcarty, Aug 10 2010]
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//I don't think I could turn up at a kiosk, hand over a £20 note and start spitting bricks//
I think that your link demolished your own argument there z_t...
z_t: "Right you bastard I'm really gonna let you have it!"
kiosk attendant: "Not until you pay you aren't."
z_t: "But I just paid you..."
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I realize that Monty Python is fiction, so this isn't,
technically, widely-known-to- etc. But still.... |
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Future Shock was a good book, psychological economies and all that. That notion probably relates to the following somehow, I can't be bothered though. As illustrated in fine style by Joyce in the link, the services sector provides many clerks for those in management professions to take out their aggressions. That is well understood. The invention by the poster is an interesting idea, because it bestows abuser privilege upon all, perhaps even to the very kiosk worker himself. However, this is most certainly thoroughly baked, so the idea makes for good satire on the contemporary postindustrial condition. Perhaps this is the real manifestation of Toffler's psychological utopia, where each can abuse the other in turn in a perpetual reciprocation of servile roles. The clerk abuses the waiter who abuses the bus driver who abuses the clerk etc. and a 50%+ services economy is possible. Counterparts. |
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