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** This might not technically count, since it's actually a ''design feature'' of the U.S. system.
* Presidents often receive a similar rap, as in Michael Moore's allegation that George W. Bush spent most of his first term on vacation or Republicans' criticism of Barack Obama's golfing, vacations and parties during the Deep Horizon oil spill crisis. Dwight Eisenhower was similarly portrayed as a golfer-in-chief.
* Heck, vice-presidents (or any political leader with the prefix vice-) e.g. in the United States and the Philippines get a similar rep as they are, at least on paper, only there to wait for that moment where the president or leader gets incapacitated or is unable to fulfill his/her duties. Though as a gesture of courtesy, veeps in the Philippines do get appointed into Cabinet-level positions, though in practice this depends on the President and the vice's party affiliations given the highly egocentric and partisan nature of Philippine politics: if the veep is from the same political party or is lucky enough to have a more benevolent president, he/she would be given a post at a more prominent department e.g. the Interior or Foreign Affairs; however as in the case of [[Rodrigo Duterte]] and his vice-president Leni Robredo (whom Duterte doesn't exactly have a glowing opinion of, especially being from a rival party), Leni ended up getting a rather paltry role in the Cabinet though she was later appointed an anti-narcotics czar presumably out of spite.
* According to [[Stephen Fry]], rules at Oxford and Cambridge were so lax thirty years ago that students could (and many did) get away with going to almost no lectures or tutorials their entire four years there.
** Not just the students, either: ''professors'' were at least rumored to get away with this.
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