“I am using this opportunity to make a difference and stand with the victims of Oyo state currently suffering in the hands of bandits please share and make a difference”——woman at the Arsenal parade …
🚨 NEW: Statistics from the Government's youth unemployment report:
- Mid- and lower-skilled jobs have fallen by around 1.6 million over the past 20 years
- Hospitality vacancies have nearly halved in the last 4 years
- Apprenticeships for 16-24-year-olds have fallen by 35% since the Apprenticeship Levy was introduced in 2017
- The proportion of 16-17-year-olds in paid work has nearly halved from 35% in 2006 to 19% today
- If every current inactive 18-24-year-old was in full-time work, this would contribute an additional £38 billion to UK GDP
- 58% of inactive young people (6 in 10) have never had a job
- Nearly half of all PIP claims among young people are now for autism and ADHD, compared to less than 1 in 10 among all PIP claimants
- 7 in 10 young people claiming a health and disability benefit are still claiming 10 years later
- Of those who first claim aged 16-24, 53% are still not in work after 5 years - dropping to just 48% after 15 years
- The number of 16-24-year-olds receiving DLA or PIP has risen from around 200,000 in 2012 to over 400,000 today, and is projected to reach 700,000 by 2031/32
It's Children's day and there are children in the forest. Scared, exhausted, hungry. The president of Nigeria did not say anything. Nothing. The Vice president too. Fuck!!!
Mel Gibson spent $70M of his own money making two consecutive films in languages nobody on Earth speaks conversationally. They generated $733M at the box office.
The Passion of the Christ. Aramaic, Hebrew, and Latin. $30M self-financed after every studio in Hollywood passed. Gibson marketed and distributed it himself through Newmarket Films. It opened on Ash Wednesday 2004 and grossed $612M worldwide, held the domestic R-rated box office record for 20 years, and remains the highest-grossing self-financed film in cinema history. His personal take cleared $400M.
Two years later he did it again. Apocalypto. Entirely in Yucatec Maya. $40M budget. Zero Hollywood actors. His lead, Rudy Youngblood, was working at a Lowe's in Texas when Gibson pulled him from a general casting call. Youngblood had less than a month to learn Yucatec Maya, performed every stunt himself including a 175-foot waterfall free fall and sprinting in front of a live 200-pound jaguar. The stunt coordinator called him "the purest athlete I've ever met." The film tripled its budget at $120M worldwide.
The part nobody talks about: the language barrier was the competitive advantage. When your audience can't understand a word of dialogue, every frame has to communicate through blocking, expression, sound design, and camera work. Both films play identically whether you speak English, Mandarin, or Swahili. The subtitles are almost beside the point.
Two dead languages. Two unknown casts. $733M. Gibson funded every dollar himself because nobody in the industry believed the math would work.
The math worked.
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Do I have G Wagon? No
Can I buy it if I want to? Yes
Will your G wagon vote for you? No
Are the people happy that you lost? Yes