If all a man needed was food, modern society already solved that problem.
Restaurants exist. Delivery exists. Meal prep exists. Private chefs exist. Groceries exist. Appliances exist.
Buying a functional service is often much simpler than building intimacy.
The same is true the other way.
If all a woman needed was money, she could chase money directly.
Human relationships were never supposed to be only functional exchange.
A real relationship is about love, loyalty, peace, warmth, respect, children, home, trust, and building a shared life.
Once both sides reduce themselves to “what service do you provide,” the relationship is already dying.
I accidentally gaslit my entire family when I was 9.
And they're still falling for it.
When I was a kid, my grandma used to babysit me during summer breaks.
One afternoon she was making bacon for lunch.
She threw it in a pan, turned on the stove, and sat down on the couch to wait.
A few minutes later she was asleep.
Completely out.
Meanwhile, I was staring at that bacon like a starving wolf.
So I did what any responsible 9-year-old would do.
I ate all of it.
Every last piece.
Then I looked at the empty pan.
And immediately realized I had a problem.
My grandma was going to wake up expecting bacon.
I had evidence to dispose of.
So I left the pan on low heat with the grease still inside and went back to watching cartoons.
About twenty minutes later she woke up.
Grandma: Oh no.
Grandma: The bacon!
She rushed into the kitchen.
Then stopped.
The pan was empty.
No bacon.
Nothing.
Just a little grease.
She looked confused.
Then looked at me.
Grandma: Where's the bacon?
And before my brain had time to stop me, I said:
Me: I think you left it cooking so long it just... disappeared.
Grandma: What?
Me: Yeah.
Me: It fried away.
Grandma stared into the pan.
Then back at me.
Then into the pan again.
And somehow...
She believed me.
Not only did she believe me.
She told the rest of the family.
For years.
Apparently "if you leave bacon on the stove too long, it'll completely cook itself out of existence."
Nobody questioned it.
Nobody challenged the science.
The story spread.
Fast forward more than 20 years.
I was at a family cookout recently when someone yelled:
"Hey, don't leave the bacon unattended."
Another person immediately replied:
"Yeah, remember what happened to Grandma's bacon?"
And that's when I realized something.
My entire family still thinks bacon can evaporate if you cook it long enough.
I have considered telling them the truth.
But at this point, the lie has been alive longer than some of my cousins.
I think it deserves a chance to keep going.
Aspiring barrister, 20, was treated 'like a time-waster' in hospital by doctors who sent her home before she died in agony, inquest hears
Libby Instone, a 20-year-old aspiring barrister and Newcastle University law student, died in agony after being repeatedly dismissed as a “time-waster” by staff at North Tees University Hospital.
She visited the urgent care centre three times in just over 24 hours in August 2023 with severe vomiting and abdominal pain, only to be misdiagnosed with gastroenteritis and sent home twice without proper examination or scans.
On her final visit she waited nine hours in A&E, was given a drip and painkillers, then admitted, but it was too late. She collapsed at home the next day and could not be saved.
An inquest in Middlesbrough ruled her death was contributed to by neglect and “gross failures in care”, with multiple missed opportunities to spot a blocked small intestine that a simple scan and operation could have fixed.
Her devastated mother Susan said: “Libby was treated as an annoyance, a time-waster and was never shown any compassion.”
The coroner recorded a narrative conclusion highlighting the failure to investigate persistent symptoms despite four days of black vomit and extreme pain.
POLÊMICA NA FIFA! 🚨🇳🇴
A Federação Norueguesa de Futebol pediu que o Comitê de Ética da FIFA investigue a própria entidade após a concessão de um prêmio da paz a Donald Trump.
A federação questiona a decisão e quer esclarecimentos sobre os critérios utilizados para a homenagem.
@Reuters
For any British viewer, watching these Irish commentators explain why it is important for Ireland to boycott a football match against Israel is like being thrust into an alternate universe. One where morality – not money – guides the agenda.
A different world is possible.
The US has refused to host Iran's national team for the World Cup even though they have to play all their games there
Which means they're based in Tijuana and will have to fly on the day of their games
I've never heard of this kind of discrimination in World Cup history
Imagine feeling the life leaving your body as you beg for help, your murderer standing over you chatting casually with the police as they handcuff you, at the whim of the murderer's lies. All whilst making sarcastic comments about your cries for help.
Our entire two tier system laid bare in a scene of sick ideological corruption and unadulterated evil.
Imagine being stabbed 5 times lying on the floor dying then see the police arrive and think they’ve come to save me BUT instead they hand cuff you for nothing laugh at you and drag you across the floor. There is NOT enough out cry over this.
The PM of the UK welcomed President of Israel Isaac Herzog - cited in a UN report on genocide in Gaza - on the steps of No 10 Downing St, but is denying entry to @cenkuygur allegedly due to his criticism of Israel.
Dreadful decision which should be overturned immediately.