The Peasant Observer

The Emperor has no clothes.

[The Peasant Observer @PeasantObserver]

@manilabulletin Oo nga, parang prejudging the verdict of the impeachment trial. Very inappropriate of Ping Lacson.

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This is the flood control project we need. Could have been funded by Maletas that are now funding narcopoliticians and nepobabies. 🙄

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Fifty meters beneath a quiet soccer field outside Tokyo sits a concrete cathedral big enough to swallow the Statue of Liberty.

It is not a movie set. It is Japan's frontline defense against typhoons, officially called the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel.

Inside the main pressure tank, fifty-nine concrete pillars rise eighteen meters into the dark. Each pillar weighs 500 tons.

When a massive typhoon slams into eastern Japan, five rivers overflow into giant underground silos. Those silos feed a four-mile tunnel that channels the floodwater straight into this subterranean temple.

People always ask why the pillars have to weigh 500 tons each. They are not just holding up the ceiling. When the tank is empty and the surrounding ground is soaked with rain, the upward pressure of groundwater is so strong that the entire cavern would float up through the earth like a submarine if those pillars did not pin it down.

At full power, four jet-engine turbines pump 200 tons of water per second out into the Edo River. Since it opened in 2006, flood damage in the surrounding basin has dropped by nearly ninety percent.

On dry days, you can walk across the floor for about twenty dollars.

Politicians love to build monuments people can see from space. Japan spent thirteen years building a masterpiece fifty meters underground so millions of families could sleep dry in the rain.

[boy_patatas @rolem03_chick]

No one is asking us to surrender our rights. Every Filipino would fight to defend them. The problem is how you handle relations and diplomacy. You strut around acting tough while deep-throating Uncle Sam and praying they’ll show up when it actually counts.

Reality check: they’re not reliable, and why would they risk their own economy for a country that offers them little to nothing in return. We don't want to be the Ukraine of Asia. Fighting an unwinnable war.

[TOM’s_X @Du30PLANET]

Vhangag TUTA ng ICC…

[The Peasant Observer @PeasantObserver]

@TheRoyalGrift MM is an agent of chaos. The RF should distance themselves as far as possible and remove them from the LOS. The writing is on the wall already.

[Вrеаthe_Ме @EyesWideShut996]

@MeghansMole @RoyalFamily instead of giving them roles at your funeral, remove it from your site,remove their commercial link from the royal website;
remove their titles,all you need to do is sign a letter of patent;
remove haz from the state councilors, as you should have done many years ago

[More Random Advice🦖(Dino Accredited)👑 @ARandomKaren]

@MeghansMole Who honestly uses a title to write to a family? She is vile and those titles need to go.

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@Gosleepriya the letter S

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@pinoyanghang Bakit ba palaging naka turtleneck si Johnweak? Eh ang init init dito sa Pinas.

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DAHIL NABUKLAT ANG "GAA" 😂🤣😂🤣 NAG HAHANAP SILA NG PAG LILIBANGAN KAYA SI SENATOR BATO NAMAN NGAYON ANG KANILANG PANTAKIP SA ISSUE 😂😂😂

HINDI NIYO PA NAHUHULI SI ATONG ANG 🤣

[Theresa Longo Fans @BarkJack_]

There’s no formal “Royal Protocol for the Royal Toot” written down in the palace rulebook (they’re not that organized about toots). But there is a whole lot of etiquette around the loo and generally not drawing attention to bodily functions,

The bathroom rules (closest thing to protocol)
Royals are trained from childhood to handle these things with maximum discretion:

They never say “toilet.” It’s the “loo” or “lavatory.” “Toilet” is considered too French and too common. Same with avoiding words like “pardon.”

At formal dinners or banquets, they don’t announce “I need the loo.” They just say “Excuse me,” get up quietly, and leave. If they’re not finished eating, they cross their knife and fork on the plate so staff know not to clear it. If they are finished, they place the silverware at an angle with the handles toward the bottom right.

At events where a senior royal (especially the late Queen) was still at the table, guests often weren’t supposed to leave until she did. You held it.

There is no reading material or scented candles in royal lavatories (deemed unhygienic), and King Charles travels with his own preferred loo seat and specific toilet paper. They also avoid certain foods (like shellfish) before public duties partly to reduce the chance of stomach drama mid-event.

What about a public toot?
The real strategy is the same one used by polite people everywhere, just with better posture and a straighter face:

Hold it as long as humanly possible.

If it escapes, pretend nothing happened (the royal stare into the middle distance works wonders).

Cover the sound with a cough or by shifting in your chair if you can.

If you’re near animals, blame the horse/corgi/dog.🐕🦮

If it’s truly catastrophic and you can step away, do the quiet “Excuse me” exit described above.

There isn’t a secret hand signal or a designated courtier whose job is to take the blame, tho ….excellent suggestions include “blame the corgi” and “the lowest-ranking courtier must announce they stepped on a duck and then leave forever”).

The most famous toot (in many slightly different versions) involves Queen Elizabeth II in a carriage with a visiting dignitary. One of the horses lets out a massive, stinky one. The Queen apologizes for the noise. The guest replies something along the lines of “That’s quite all right, Your Majesty… I thought it was one of the horses.” Paul Burrell (Diana’s former butler) told a version involving the Sultan of Bahrain;

There’s also an older (probably apocryphal) tale about Elizabeth I tooting while getting into a barge. A quick-thinking bargeman immediately apologized, and she knighted him for his good manners.

So, to recap Royals manage… by pretending they are above such things until they can privately deal with it. The protocol is essentially “do not acknowledge the fart, and never let the stench disrupt the occasion.” 💨

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@IndAy_eM28 Dahil court at member of the Judiciary si BBM? Hmmm.

[TV5 News @TV5NewsPH]

‘A REWARD SYSTEM BUILT ON PHILIPPINE WARRANTS CANNOT BE USED FOR A PERSON WHO HAS NO PHILIPPINE WARRANT’

Kinuwestiyon ng Law Firm of Torreon & Partners ang legal na batayan para sa P50 milyong "bounty" o pabuya ng pamahalaan para sa pagdakip sa kasalukuyang pinaghahanap na si Sen. Bato dela Rosa.

Giit ng law firm, walang Philippine court warrant at criminal case laban kay dela Rosa na maaaring gamiting batayan kaugnay nito.

Dagdag nila, kung igigiit daw ng pamahalaan na naaayon sa batas ang naturang bounty, dapat daw na matukoy nila ang Philippine court na naglabas ng warrant, criminal case number, DILG memorandum circular na nag-awtorisa sa reward, at legal na batayan para sa pagbabayad nito gamit ang intelligence funds.

“If it cannot produce these, then the P50 million is not a reward under Philippine law. It is a price placed on a sitting senator’s head, paid for by the Filipino people, for the benefit of a foreign court.”

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

Last month, my sister's name appeared in an obituary in Iowa.

In 1998, she was a 16-year-old exchange student. Shy. Terrible English. She landed in Des Moines with one suitcase and a dictionary.

Her host family had a farm and four sons. She became the daughter they never had.

Her host dad taught her to drive a pickup in a cornfield. In Japan, you can't get a license until 18. In Iowa, she was driving before she could pronounce "Des Moines."

When she left, he cried at the airport. She had never seen a grown man cry. In Japan, fathers don't.

Every Christmas for 28 years, a card came from Iowa. Always the same first line.

"To our Japanese daughter."

When she got married, he flew to Tokyo. He sat next to our father at the wedding. Neither spoke the other's language. They shared a bottle of sake and nodded at each other for three hours.

In August, he passed away.

My sister flew 14 hours to the funeral.

At the church, her four brothers walked her to the front row. The family seats.

Then she read the obituary.

"He is survived by his wife of 52 years, four sons, eleven grandchildren, and his daughter, Yuki, of Tokyo, Japan."

Not "exchange student."
Not "host daughter."

Daughter.

When she came home, she told our father.

He didn't say a word. He went to his room.

The next morning, there was a new photo on our family altar, where we keep our ancestors. A big man in a seed cap, smiling in a cornfield.

Right next to my grandmother.

Some families are too big for one country.

[Princess CarParkle 👑 @unreMARKLEble]

#PrinceWilliam on the Graham Norton Show-he’s actually quite funny! He talks about what else he wanted to be when he grew up instead of King…
#GrahamNortonShow #PrinceofWales

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@gmanews No, it's meant to keep journalists HONEST and RESPONSIBLE. Not this AC/DC journalism with info that is not verified disseminated to the public as truth when it's false.

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@Du30PLANET Kaya pala billions ang insertions sa District ni Speaker Dy sa 2027 budget. Napanuod ko lang sa mga budget watchdogs. Hmmm.

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@ericab17619 Time to see how independent our judiciary is.