In the last few months I've written lu et approuvé on forty six thousand pieces of paper.
Give or take a factor of a thousand.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 22:51, 2 replies)

It's like some kind of hazing ritual, isn't it?
If you can write out half a fucking page of text in capital letters and sign it at the bottom of the printed contract/lease/purchase agreement you've just read, without your hand cramping up and falling off, you win some sort of prize.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 22:53, closed)

It's filtering by attrition.
They work out the percentage of things they want to pass in a year and then adjust the pain of the bureaucracy to an appropriate level to dissuade the rest.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 22:55, closed)

Not so sure about that one.
I think it's more entropic: if I ever have to ring up the same administration more than once, there's a cast-iron certainty I'll get a completely different answer every time, just because I'm speaking to somebody different. I've actually got into the habit of taking a half-day off work and going down there in person, because that's the only way anything ever gets done and I avoid getting fucked over.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 23:02, closed)

sarcasme, nom masculin
Moquerie ironique et méchante. Synonyme ironie
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 7:38, closed)

Au temps pour moi wesh

( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 8:32, closed)

Sounds like The Trial
distinct danger of becoming Josef K there.
(fivetide, Mon 31 Mar 2014, 12:44, closed)

^can't afford an avocat

( Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 8:45, closed)

If I could afford avocados
I'd buy a job lot of them and hurl them at the troglodytic denizens of local administration.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 8:51, closed)