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Of Unions and Onions

A tale of two opinions.

Stateside specifically in the SF bay area, a lazy and super entitled transit rail workforce is asking for more to do less (not doing more with less mind you).  Those would be the lazy and incompetent Union staff that leave dirty trains for the enjoyment of commuters.

Then there is India with an Onion crisis on its hands.  I wonder if that is causing anyone to tear up?  As they peel this one it appears that prices are rising faster than gold and petrol.  What gives?

Groupon (yes the very same that provides 90% discount on Thai massages stateside) is/was offering 80% off a bag of 10 kilo onions in India (that is 20 lbs for igno-runts) that caused the site to crash.  This inspite of Onion vapor's tendencies to revive someone who has crashed.

A black market in white onions is now operating in parts of India.  To add color to this story its reported that people are developing bunions while walking in banians to fetch the onions from distant towns.  Its like minions (in Despicable Me 2) except instead of creating jams and jellies these people are merely risking life and limb to craft their next sabji.

While unions are nothing new to society so it is with onions.  Perhaps its the lack of unionized onion growers that caused this calamity to happen in the first place.

In unrelated rumors Lindsay Lohan has decided to try out an exclusive Onion Only diet.

Also it is believed that ManMohan (figurehead leader of India run by LadyGandhi) will in taking lessons learned from his stateside brethren will host the STATE OF THE ONION speech come January.

Bollywood not to be left behind is crafting a new flick titled PYAJ KI PYAS with spicy dances involving onion juggling acts done by skimpily clad ladies who will continue to peel both the onion and their clothes as the routine progresses.

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