I never really felt much sympathy for cockroaches, but I'll be damned people found a way to get me feel sorry for the little bastards. "Why Cockroach Milk is the New Health Obsession."
In The Netherlands his great great great (etc?) father is world famous for having captured the Silver Fleet.PS: A Corollary: "Den som taber sin ene handske, er heldig i forhold til den, som taber den ene, kasserer den annen, og finder den første igen". Piet Hein aka Kumbel. DS.
PPS: It's Danish. DS.
An enormous amount of money at the time.In 1628, Admiral Hein, with Witte de With as his flag captain, sailed out to capture a Spanish treasure fleet loaded with silver from their American colonies and the Philippines. […] Hein captured 11,509,524 guilders of booty in gold, silver, and other expensive trade goods, such as indigo and cochineal, without any bloodshed.
A song praising Admiral Hein's capture of the Spanish "silver fleet" written in 1844 is still sung by choirs and children at primary school in the Netherlands, as well as during traditional drinks by student unions in Belgian universities.
A mother has been jailed for four-and-half years after duping her teenage daughter to go to Pakistan and forcing her to marry, in the first successful prosecution of its type.
The woman was found guilty following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court, where a jury heard how the victim had sobbed as she was married to a male relative 16 years her senior.
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It is the first time a forced marriage case of this kind has been successfully prosecuted in a criminal court in England, with the mother convicted of actively deceiving the girl in order to convince her to travel.
It was just a matter of time. TB died today.
I will not open a new thread, he was not a vain person who'd want monuments or something, he was just one of us.
You don't need to know how much I miss him.
Everybody should know as he exposed many developers and publisher over the last ten years. He will be missed and hopefully his wife takes over as he planned.It was just a matter of time. TB died today.
I will not open a new thread, he was not a vain person who'd want monuments or something, he was just one of us.
You don't need to know how much I miss him.
It was just a matter of time. TB died today.
I will not open a new thread, he was not a vain person who'd want monuments or something, he was just one of us.
You don't need to know how much I miss him.
Hmm time to bring the gun and knife collection to the UK.A CO2 shortage is causing a shutdown of crumpet production in the UK, and is also affecting the production of beer. If anything happens to the tea, it's going to be like The Purge up in here.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-shortage-food-drink-federation-a8422606.html
If clotted cream or scones becomes affected, I imagine the queen will have something to say about it.
Vince McMahon is committed to not repeating his mistakes with the XFL in the professional football league’s second go-around, and the financial commitment he is making proves that more than anything.
Here are the two most honest reasons I can come up with:
In a Venn diagram of things I’m interested in and things I can control, my focus and attention are at the intersection.
- It doesn’t interest me
- It’s not going to change how I live my life
Politics doesn’t fit into this category for me. In fact, at this point in my life, it’s outside the diagram altogether.
Plus, it’s kind of a circus these days.
Like most people, I see political informationthrough the lens of the media.
The media’s incentives are to produce the most outrageous stories possible, not to provide unbiased, useful information that might actually help people understand the issues and how they are impacted.
Social media is even worse. It’s basically every person on earth with their own amateur media outlet following the same formula: shock value over real value. Not to mention a lot of it is complete BS.
I might have found this entertaining at one point in my life and it’s still good for an occasional laugh or two. But it’s not something I’m willing to invest a lot of time in right now.
I never really watched the news and I’ve recently cut way back on social media.
That’s no excuse for me to remain ignorant, but it is a turnoff.
If I cared enough about the issues at stake, I would make an effort to educate myself. I’m just not that interested in them.
Don’t get me wrong. I understand the issues we face as a nation are important. But I find it difficult to relate to them on a personal level at this point in my life.
I’m not worried about what everyone else does.
I try to focus all my energy on making my life the best it can be in whatever situation I’m in.
I know improving the healthcare system is important, but I’m more worried about the things I can do to improve my own health.
I know the economy is important, but I’m taking full responsibility for my own financial situation.
I know education is important, but I’m not going to rely on the government to make sure my future kids are well-educated.
Here’s the truth (and some people look at me like I have two heads when I say this):
I can never seem to get excited about a candidate in any election because I can’t imagine my life would be any different if the other candidate won.
This has been my feeling in every election that’s happened since I’ve been alive.
It’s even true with the most recent election. I am a brown immigrant. If anyone should be angry that Trump won, it should be me. But I’m not.
Ijust don’t care that much because I refuse to let the outcome of the election
dictate the way I live my life.
Maybe I’m naive. Maybe this is a terrible approach. I’m not saying I’m right. This is just how I feel.
I will say this, though: I do care more now than I did 10 years ago.
The only reason for this is that the people in my life that I love and care about care and I hate to see them suffer.
My loved ones are better people than I am. They have the best interest of people they don’t even know at heart. So much that this election brought them to tears. I really admire this.
I did vote in the election. But I did it for the people in my life that I love, not for me. They make me a better person and I might not care much about politics, but I do care about them.