December 3, 2008
Being a Day Laborer is Sexy!
As the editor of a news web site, I can sympathize with the need to find a quick photo to accompany a short item. Sometimes, when you're in a hurry, you just need to grab the best thing you can find and slap it up there. But this Getty Image that NBC4 picked to go along with its story about how the city of Herndon is launching a campaign to educate citizens about how to hire day workers is still making me giggle hours after it was first pointed out to me. NBC4 commenter matt robles said it best:
i love that picture. i sure as hell don't see that guy in herndon. i'd like to eat his chorizo con huevosIndeed. Had I known that day laborers come without shirts and with perfect six packs, I would have hired some to do a little work around the house a long time ago.
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Herndon is telling people how to hire day laborers.
Hire them to do what? Enact bored suburban housewife porn fantasies?
[DING DONG]
"Hallo. Mein dizbatcher says zere iss problem mit deine kable?"
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day laborer = pool boy?
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The comment on that article about lawsuits if someone's injured and they're not bonded or insured is quite accurate.
It would be nice if legislators actually came up with a practical way to solve this whole mess, sexy day laborers notwithstanding.
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A sex worker is a day laborer, yes?
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Watch out! They might set you on fire.
What happened to: The kid down the street.
Craigslist
The unemployment section
What's next: Sexy Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts selling lingerie
Brownies giving lap dances
Oh my...I'm getting the vapors.
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If you enjoy doing it, it's not "work."
But don't try telling that to the IRS.
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perhaps more of a night laborer, Hillman.
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OK-- this is bullshit. I did NOT authorize anyone to use that picture of me.
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Wait, Sommer's the editor of a news web site too? Where does she find the time?
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Okay, I have to say this because no one else has yet:
My, that's an awfully nice tool belt he has.
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Steamfitters Local #13" ready to lay pipe and reporting for duty, ma'am!
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When did DCist become Wonkette?
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Relax. At least they're not Jezebel. If they were, and this was a pic of a woman in booty shorts, they'd be going ape$h!t.
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QUICK! QUICK! Lock him up and give me the key.
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So it was a "commenter" and not an NBC "commentator" who wants to eat that guys sausage and eggs? Important distinction. For a second, I thought "wow, the anchors are really getting earthy there"
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The Duron in Wheaton is gonna be the new dating hotspot. they should open up a bar in there...
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Thank you Fluxgirl for making that comment. That was the same thing I thought and I almost peed myself in my office.
I was just about to google newscasters...
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Whenever I see a gut like that, either on women or men and usually in weight-loss ads, I get this urge to just gutpunch them. Kinda like when I see Reese Witherspoon's chin, or Heidi Montag's lantern jaw.