A wife who thinks physical intimacy in marriage is unpaid sex and wants to get paid for it thinks of herself as no less than a whore. And a wife who thinks doing household chores is unpaid labor and wants to get paid for it thinks of herself as no less than a maid.
Judge: “Why do you want half of the $40 million? You got divorced at 9 AM. He won the lottery at 12 PM.”
Ex-wife: “I supported him for 7 years. It’s still marital property.”
Ex-husband: “We divorced at 9 AM. I bought the ticket after lunch.”
Judge: “The receipt shows 12:30 PM. The winnings stay his.”
Not many people know Dolly Parton dropped a county's school dropout rate from 35% to 6%
Dolly created The Buddy Program
In 1991, she walked into a room of 7th and 8th graders in Tennessee and told them to pick a buddy
Everyone signed a contract saying if both of you graduate high school, you each get $500 from her personally
But if one of you drops out, neither gets paid
This remains one of the best incentive structures to this day
Wild story. Chinese mom (in her 60s) and son (30s) duo spend 5 years making 86-minute animated animal film “Niu Lai”.
Budget of $200. Hustle to get theatre distribution. Flops with $1,000 in first week. So bad it’s good. Goes viral.
Now made $4m on $200 and 20,000x return easily tops Paranomal Activity ($193m/$15k = 12,890x) and Blair Witch Project ($248m/$60k=4,133x) for most profitable film box office haul against original production budget ever.
India's Defence Minister George Fernandes has this infamous story where he literally packed the Babus in flight to Siachen glacier because they were sitting lameduck on files for procurement of snow scooters for soldiers.
Similarly, Nirmala Sitharaman on record stated how Govt wanted to exempt income upto 12 lakhs much earlier but senior Babus resisted.
Indian Babus are the infamous Deep State who have throttled every possible development, growth story of the Republic. They had the biggest hand in keeping this country poor, dirt.
Residents in Hanamkonda, India, alerted police after seeing what appeared to be a dead body floating motionless in a lake for nearly five hours.
When officers arrived to remove the supposed body, the man suddenly got up after an officer grabbed his hand. He reportedly said he had been exhausted after working at a nearby granite quarry, entered the water to cool off, and fell deeply asleep