Complaining - requirements - bribes - I dunno

Avery But quite literally the bill. So the monthly rate, averaged over the whole year and based on last year's actual consumption and prices. Given that winter months typically require more heating and prices have recently increased, it sorta is less than it sounds like.

Sure, it is better than nothing, but in the end, we will still end up paying for it via taxes, and unlike social security or infrastructure projects, this is not something where pooling payments into a single entity who manages the money is useful or effective, and with how much of our country's tax income is from VAT, a flat, if not even regressive tax, it is not really great at moving wealth from people with money to spare to those barely scraping by, nor does it really stop the people who are profiteering from this crisis at the general public's expense.

youdontknowme But quite literally the bill. So the monthly rate, averaged over the whole year and based on last year's actual consumption and prices. Given that winter months typically require more heating and prices have recently increased, it sorta is less than it sounds like.

Right. I listen to "Feli From Germany" on Youtube and she did explain about the average billing but I didn't really connect it with the December payment.

Avery
It is actually not all cool.
In Germany social security standards are pretty high, that's right. The downside is, that taxes and compulsory payments to social security are among the highest in the world. As a result, even if you have a decent gross income, after taxes and necessary payments for rent, food, etc there is for many families hardly anything left to save. So the German government was more or less forced to hand out that payment because many families could just not afford the increased costs.
in Switzerland by comparison, taxes are much lower and salaries higher. Here people frequently have the ability to save money and accordingly, Switzerland has not needed to hand out extra money for increased energy costs and most people still get along fine.

curious At least you hd help with the costs. In Britain wages are generally lower and prices are higher, and government help has been basically non existent.

reactionary69 He probably ment this kind of escort: https://carhumor.net/25-years-old-escort/#

not this bunga wax figure.... no

youdontknowme Your girlfriend is Bruce Springsteen?

Avery Cool. Mind saying what part of the country? I also heard your government is going to pay household's gas bills for December. That's cool too.

she was born near tucson (arizona). no our government doesn't really pick up our bills. @youdontknowme explained it well

curious The downside is, that taxes and compulsory payments to social security are among the highest in the world.

correct, only belgium is higher

Hey @Jen I'm a bit late to the party and I know I've been supportive of you in the past, but I'm with your Mum on this one... you absolutely should stay locked for schoolies. I'm sorry!
Hope it goes well for you. If you were my daughter I'd be welding that thing on to you for the week.

Sin Hope it goes well for you. If you were my daughter I'd be welding that thing on to you for the week.

Sin Give her some credit. So far, she has reliably shown her will to persevere. I think she will also be able to hold her own during the party.

Joh I guess we could consider the value of recommending chastity to everyone who goes there, but out of all the girls celebrating, Jen is probably among those who least need a belting.

Joh Well the parent in me would say something like "It's not that I don't trust Jen, it's everyone else I worry about."

But to be honest that's just a polite way of saying "There's no way in hell I would trust my kid at schoolies!"

It's like a Full Moon Party for 17yr olds. I'd lock her up and swallow all of the keys.

youdontknowme I guess we could consider the value of recommending chastity to everyone who goes there, but out of all the girls celebrating, Jen is probably among those who least need a belting.

If I translate your last sentence it means something else as you wanted to say or was is on purpose? Do you meant she is the last who needs be in a belt? If yes, I agree.

Sin But to be honest that's just a polite way of saying "There's no way in hell I would trust my kid at schoolies!"

I can understand you but here is the hard part of parenting. One day you have to trust your kids and let them go.

Joh If I translate your last sentence it means something else as you wanted to say or was is on purpose? Do you meant she is the last who needs be in a belt? If yes, I agree.

I assume she needs a belt less than pretty much all of the other girls that will be there. That is what I said. "She needs it least", not "she needs it at least".

I mean, she has negotiated to mostly control her belt-wearing schedule herself and still manages to voluntarily abstain from even the most harmless orgasms for months. If that is not a girl in control of her sex drive, I do not know what would be.

That said, I think it might still be a good idea to give her both the belt and a key for the trip if she wants to take part in the drinking. I am sure sober her is quite capable of avoiding temptation, I am more concerned about drunk her. Both in terms of impaired judgment, and because those holiday events are pretty much giant targets. An event full of drunk teen girls is the perfect opportunity for people who enjoy taking advantage of drunk teen girls. Not necessarily violently, but also simply stuff like being pushy and offering to pay for drinks in exchange for certain favors and all that.

So, if she already has a belt, she could just lock it on before hitting the bars at night, and leave the keys at her sleeping place or with one of her friends. Then she would be protected while being hit on and can still unlock the next day for all the chaste fun that such a holiday offers.

youdontknowme If I translate your sentence I got this in German
Jen gehört wahrscheinlich zu denjenigen, die am wenigsten eine Tracht Prügel braucht.

Angelina are these parties so extreme? i only had one small party after i graduated from school. also with alcohol, but everything within a reasonable framework.

These parties can get pretty extreme, sometimes even with tragic accidents. Pretty much every year something bad happens and you can read it in the news, when participants under heavy influence of alcohol do very stupid things. And I mean really stupid, not just having sex lightly with people they hardly know.
Examples that I remember from the news include:

• jumping into the pool from the balcony of hotel rooms (sometimes level 2 or above) - with tragic consequences when the pool was not deep enough for this.
• trying to climb over the balconies from one room to the other - with tragic fall because the last thing you should do is free climbing under influence of alcohol).

Joh That is why you do not auto-translate. It sometimes finds idioms when the meaning is literal. It is a pretty rare use case that a girl's behavior determins whether she should wear a garment that is called belt. Usually the only belt whose use is based on a person's behavior is dad's belt to the butt cheeks, which in some communities is sadly still a thing - and probably far more common than involuntary chastity belt wear.

youdontknowme who least need a belting

curious "needing a belt"

I agree but he wrote "need a belting". And so it is ambivalent.

Jen Yeah like literally yeah gotta agree. My friends are naughty! Well me too I guess but less naughty but anyway I'm wearing a damn chastity belt I get to not care!
Belt is much less a secret now.

Who knows, maybe you inspired a trend...