Ate Guard: Alam mo, Atty. dati BBM ako ‘tas nung ilang beses kita nakita na naka #Leni2020 shirt, medyo napaisip ako.
Me: Bakit naman po.
AG: Kasi isa po kayo sa sobrang mabait samin dito at alam ko na mabuti ang dahilan bakit kay Leni Kayo.
Me: 🥺
Kaya be kind always.
Manager: We need to terminate David immediately.
HR: Wow, that’s serious. What happened?
Manager: He went ahead and took his unlimited PTO even though I didn’t approve it.
HR: Had he requested it before?
Manager: Yes. He’d been asking for the past five months.
HR: Then why was it denied?
Manager: Because we have a critical project to deliver right now, and he’s the key person we depend on.
HR: Okay. Let me get in touch with him and find out more.
3 days later
HR: I still haven’t been able to reach him.
Manager: What do you mean?
HR: I’ve tried email and phone calls. He hasn’t responded to anything.
Manager: This is gross misconduct. Write him a termination letter immediately.
HR sends David a termination notice by email.
7 days later
A call comes in from David’s number.
Manager: Hello, Dave. Where have you been? You’re no longer...
Caller: Hello, this is Dave’s wife. He passed away 2 days ago after a critical surgery.
Manager: I’m deeply sorry for your loss. Please accept our heartfelt condolences. David was valued here, and our thoughts are with you and your family during this painful time.
The call ends. The manager summons HR.
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I hate it when Filipinos these days speak English because a lot if them try to hide the accent but instead emphasise it
Filipinos from the ‘40s to the ‘90s that spoke English spoke more elegantly because they focused on what they’re saying rather than the American accent
I love how rhaenyra never bowed down to the false ‘king’ and stayed brave until the very end meanwhile the man who brutally killed her in order to rule died just a few months after because he was poisoned by his own council member. I call that miserable.
In an airport, a “bomb joke” isn’t treated as a joke. It’s treated as a security threat. Context doesn’t save you. Intent doesn’t save you.
So why should presidential threats be dismissed as humor? When you are President, your words are CLEAR signals to police and military.
In Ancient Sparta, Husbands Were Expected to Share Their Wives With Younger Men — And Jealousy Was Literally Illegal....
In ancient Sparta, a husband who refused to share his wife was considered selfish — not toward her, but toward the state.
This is one of most uncomfortable truths about one of history’s most celebrated warrior civilizations. And it was documented by none other than Plutarch and Xenophon, two of antiquity’s most respected historians.
Here’s how it worked.
In Sparta, marriage had nothing to do with love, companionship, or personal fulfillment. It was a breeding contract, designed with one goal: producing the strongest possible warriors for the Spartan military machine.
If an older husband could no longer fulfill that duty, he was socially expected — and in some cases pressured by law to select a younger, healthier man to father children with his wife.
The chosen man was never random.nHe was carefully evaluated for physical strength, battlefield record, and genetic fitness. The wife’s consent is largely absent from the historical record. The arrangement was between men, sanctioned by the state, and monitored by Spartan
elders.
The resulting child did not belong to the biological father. It belonged first to the husband’s household — and ultimately to Sparta itself. And here’s what truly sets this apart from anything in the modern world:
jealousy was actively shamed.
A Spartan man who displayed possessiveness over his wife was publicly ridiculed. Emotional attachment was seen as a weakness that compromised the collective mission. The individual did not matter. The family did not matter.
Only the next generation of soldiers mattered.
Every child born in Sparta was inspected at birth by state elders. If deemed too weak, the child was abandoned. If deemed strong enough, the child was raised until age seven — then taken from its mother and enrolled in the agoge, Sparta’s brutal military training system.
This is the civilization we romanticize in movies and memes.
The “warrior culture” we admire came at a cost most people never talk about — the near-total erasure of personal agency, love, and parenthood in service of war.
History isn’t always comfortable. But it should always be told.
#drthehistories
As someone who easily misplaces things, having the car key hooked this way is such a lifesaver,
especially for people who don’t carry bags.
Not that deep, just practical.