In the 1800’s, sewer-hunters scavenged the London sewers for bones, fragments of rope, miscellaneous bits of metal, silver cutlery, and coins. Paradoxically, the men were strong, robust and even florid in complexion, often surprisingly long-lived–thanks to their strengthened immune systems.
Some marathon runners elect…
Some marathon runners elect to have their toenails permanently removed. Their level of running causes friction on the toes and results in toenails routinely becoming damaged and detached. To circumvent chronic nail wounds, some people just get rid of them entirely.
Volvo’s Latest Ad Campaign Has Got a Lot of People Talking
Volvo is the latest large company to jump on board the trend of progressive ad campaigns, the likes of which please many – while also riling up some in the process. Gillette’s recent campaigns discussing body positivity and toxic masculinity have received a decent amount of backlash, but clearly that’s not stopping other companies from testing the waters.
Recently, Volvo stuck a toe in with the ad above, revealing their new parental leave policy. It features an illustration depicting same-sex parents…and some of Volvo’s fans on Facebook are less than thrilled.
Volvo’s idea is simple:
“Being the human-centric and progressive company that we are, our EMEA team wondered: Can we extend those benefits to our employees outside Sweden? Turns out we can. To start with, we now introduce a paid, gender-neutral parental leave policy for all our sales company employees in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) offering parents a total of six months of leave with 80 percent pay.”
The head of the company’s HR department added that the initiative is “one of several activities with the aim to create an inclusive culture and attract and retain a diverse set of people. It improves life-work balance, boosts family time, and fits with a progressive, human-centric company like Volvo Cars.”
It’s worth noting that there were also plenty of people applauding the company’s forward thinking ad.
Volvo explains they’re hoping to erase discrepancies between men and women across the board while boosting the labor market and career opportunities by “reducing career and pay gaps.”
Nice!
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Volvo’s Latest Ad Campaign Has Got a Lot of People Talking
Volvo is the latest large company to jump on board the trend of progressive ad campaigns, the likes of which please many – while also riling up some in the process. Gillette’s recent campaigns discussing body positivity and toxic masculinity have received a decent amount of backlash, but clearly that’s not stopping other companies from testing the waters.
Recently, Volvo stuck a toe in with the ad above, revealing their new parental leave policy. It features an illustration depicting same-sex parents…and some of Volvo’s fans on Facebook are less than thrilled.
Volvo’s idea is simple:
“Being the human-centric and progressive company that we are, our EMEA team wondered: Can we extend those benefits to our employees outside Sweden? Turns out we can. To start with, we now introduce a paid, gender-neutral parental leave policy for all our sales company employees in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) offering parents a total of six months of leave with 80 percent pay.”
The head of the company’s HR department added that the initiative is “one of several activities with the aim to create an inclusive culture and attract and retain a diverse set of people. It improves life-work balance, boosts family time, and fits with a progressive, human-centric company like Volvo Cars.”
It’s worth noting that there were also plenty of people applauding the company’s forward thinking ad.
Volvo explains they’re hoping to erase discrepancies between men and women across the board while boosting the labor market and career opportunities by “reducing career and pay gaps.”
Nice!
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20 Tips to Help You Get Closer to Having Zero Waste
If you and your family are working toward a greener way of life, then chances are you’re looking for ways to reduce your carbon footprint in your daily life. If you’re feeling green, here are 20 ways you can inch your household closer to zero waste.
#1. A compost bin on your countertop.
You know you need to compost, but when you’re cleaning up in a hurry, you don’t want to make two trips – one to the trash and one to the compost bin/pile. This little bin is the answer to all of your concerned-but-lazy prayers!
#3. A solid reusable water bottle.
This one even collapses so you can save on precious cabinet space.
#3. Re-chargeable batteries and a charger.
Do you know how many batteries you toss in the trash? Don’t start counting; it’s just depressing.
#4. Ditch your dryer sheets.
These dryer balls come infused with lovely scents, fluff your clothes, and erase static cling.
#5. If you love baking, silicon cupcake wrappers are a must.
These are adorable, too – bonus.
#6. Toss your pads and tampons for good.
Reusable period panties are all the rage for a great reason – they’re awesome.
#7. Glass storage and meal prep containers.
You’ll literally keep them forever. As long as you don’t lose the lids.
#8. Toss your floss in favor of a Waterpik.
Plus, you know. Actually start flossing!
#9. Ditch your bottles of body wash.
Swap it for a rich lather bar soap, instead.
#10. Replace cling wrap with something washable/compostable.
These beeswax wraps are a good option, but there are many reusable products on the market.
#11. Reusable shopping bags.
A classic! You’ll love these so much there’s no way you’re going to forget them at home.
#12. Switch your plastic baggies out for reusable silicon baggies.
Bonus – you will feel so organized, too.
#13. A washable puppy pee pad.
No more tossing the ones they soil while you’re training them.
#14. A coffee cup you’ll love to reuse.
This one comes with a cork “sleeve” to save your fingers, too.
#15. A reusable earwax kit.
No more cotton swabs! (Be careful with these – they may be satisfying, but you really don’t want to damage your eardrum)
#16. A loofah that lasts.
And doesn’t gather microbes like it’s its job.
#17. Stainless steel coffee pods.
Stop feeling guilty about your Keurig today – just fill with ground coffee, and you’re golden!
#18. Ditch your parchment paper/foil.
These silicone baking mats work even better.
#19. If you’ve got kids, these washable squeeze pouches are a must.
We throw away so. many. pouches.
#20. Get rid of your single-use straws.
Stainless steel, bamboo, or whatever – but make sure you’ve got good cleaning implements, too!
I know I’m going to give a few of these a try!
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20 Tips to Help You Get Closer to Having Zero Waste
If you and your family are working toward a greener way of life, then chances are you’re looking for ways to reduce your carbon footprint in your daily life. If you’re feeling green, here are 20 ways you can inch your household closer to zero waste.
#1. A compost bin on your countertop.
You know you need to compost, but when you’re cleaning up in a hurry, you don’t want to make two trips – one to the trash and one to the compost bin/pile. This little bin is the answer to all of your concerned-but-lazy prayers!
#3. A solid reusable water bottle.
This one even collapses so you can save on precious cabinet space.
#3. Re-chargeable batteries and a charger.
Do you know how many batteries you toss in the trash? Don’t start counting; it’s just depressing.
#4. Ditch your dryer sheets.
These dryer balls come infused with lovely scents, fluff your clothes, and erase static cling.
#5. If you love baking, silicon cupcake wrappers are a must.
These are adorable, too – bonus.
#6. Toss your pads and tampons for good.
Reusable period panties are all the rage for a great reason – they’re awesome.
#7. Glass storage and meal prep containers.
You’ll literally keep them forever. As long as you don’t lose the lids.
#8. Toss your floss in favor of a Waterpik.
Plus, you know. Actually start flossing!
#9. Ditch your bottles of body wash.
Swap it for a rich lather bar soap, instead.
#10. Replace cling wrap with something washable/compostable.
These beeswax wraps are a good option, but there are many reusable products on the market.
#11. Reusable shopping bags.
A classic! You’ll love these so much there’s no way you’re going to forget them at home.
#12. Switch your plastic baggies out for reusable silicon baggies.
Bonus – you will feel so organized, too.
#13. A washable puppy pee pad.
No more tossing the ones they soil while you’re training them.
#14. A coffee cup you’ll love to reuse.
This one comes with a cork “sleeve” to save your fingers, too.
#15. A reusable earwax kit.
No more cotton swabs! (Be careful with these – they may be satisfying, but you really don’t want to damage your eardrum)
#16. A loofah that lasts.
And doesn’t gather microbes like it’s its job.
#17. Stainless steel coffee pods.
Stop feeling guilty about your Keurig today – just fill with ground coffee, and you’re golden!
#18. Ditch your parchment paper/foil.
These silicone baking mats work even better.
#19. If you’ve got kids, these washable squeeze pouches are a must.
We throw away so. many. pouches.
#20. Get rid of your single-use straws.
Stainless steel, bamboo, or whatever – but make sure you’ve got good cleaning implements, too!
I know I’m going to give a few of these a try!
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15 People Share the One Thing They Can’t Unsee
Have you ever stumbled upon something or witnessed an incident that you really weren’t meant to see – and that you wish you hadn’t?
We all have some of those moments, through no fault of our own.
In this AskReddit article, people share stories about seeing things that they definitely shouldn’t have.
1. Cringey
“Just 2 days ago, at a community pool, a teenage couple who entered into the pool area went into the hot tub. Stood up to stretch my legs and looked over to, well, sex in the hot tub. It was mid day!! I cringed pretty hard… but I laughed even harder when the neighborhood cop showed up.”
2. Almost in the buff
“I once arrived early to pick up a girl for a first date. She was renting a small garden apartment behind a bigger house. It was just after dusk and I walked around the corner. The sliding door was standing open and she was inside walking around, brushing her hair, wearing only her underwear.
She did not see me, so I just walked back around that corner and waited another 10 minutes. When I walked round again she had a dress on. I never told her.
edit: Since a few asked. The date went well. I only got to see her underwear again several weeks later.”
3. Dear Diary…
“When I was about 16, I was snooping in my parent’s wardrobe. Found a diary written by my mother when she was 14 (from the year 1970). Read some beautiful and brilliantly written entries about meeting and dating my dad (who was 16 at the time).
Had to read a little between the lines in some slightly later entries as they were written with such flowery language. In one such entry, all of a sudden she discloses that she’s had an abortion. Performed by my grandfather. An anesthesiologist. She never told anyone.”
4. Oh boy
“I found a suitcase full of dildos under my moms bed when I was 8.”
5. Sad
“My dad’s AA chips. Learned it’s why my parents got divorced. Proud of him for being in recovery though.”
6. Don’t make a sound
“Me and a friend snuck away from a house party at 2am once, we wanted to go to this local abbey. We were exploring the grounds and generally having a nice time when we see two cars stop nearby.
Instinctively we hid in some bushes and witnessed what was clearly a large drug trade.
We definitely were not supposed to see that. We waited for them to finish their business and then we headed back to the party.”
7. My eyes!
“Saw my parents having sex. Scarred me for a good 4 years and I forgot about it until you decided to make me relive the pain.”
8. She knows…
“Found out a relative who everyone believes to be filthy rich and always throws extravagant parties, put his kids in expensive private schools, his wife shopping and eating fine dining, is broke and close to declaring bankruptcy. He’s in deep debt and that he hasn’t paid his bills in months and from what I could see, he owes a loan shark too.
Now, every time I see him post an invite to my mom, I cringe at the thought of him owing more money.
My mom knows, but I never told her, she just knows.”
9. Well, that’s ruined
“David Copperfield show: I was at an angle that allowed me to see the volunteers running out from the stage during a disappearing act.”
10. Nudes
“My mom gave me an old laptop of hers when I was about 13 and I was scrolling through random pics she had left on it of my little brothers football games and then boom, nudes of my mother.”
11. Addicted
“Back in 1997, I started work at a new job and took over the office of a salesman who had recently been fired. I was in IT, using the same computer that had been setup for Sales. My first task was to install all the software I’d need.
The computer hard drive was almost full, so I poked around and found a TON of folders filled with porn. Went to my supervisor, and he said to delete it, warning me that the salesman had been fired for downloading porn.
Over the next few weeks, I kept finding secret porn folders on the the company’s network. Not only had he downloaded enough porn to max out his computer’s HD, he had the network at about 90% capacity.
When I was done deleting all the folders I could find, the server capacity was less than 50%. Dude was seriously addicted to porn.”
12. Cooking the books
“Leaving work late one evening, I saw the HR director and CFO in a dark office shredding papers (no, that’s not an euphemism). I didn’t say anything but quietly walked on down the hall. Two weeks later we were raided by the SEC and several people were charged with cooking the books.”
13. Better call the cops
“Worked for a downtown metropolitan hotel for a long time, and I’ve seen a lot I wasn’t supposed to see. Probably the worst was a kid with an old man.
Checked this guy in at like 1 in the morning (not uncommon because people travel t different times) but he was alone. Like an hour later he asked for something like a towel or blanket. Anyways, dispatched our runner to deliver it. After the runner comes to me and says he thinks something is wrong because he caught a glimpse of someone and the old guy was trying hard to block the entrance.
Being that we were supposed to take stuff like human trafficking seriously, I asked our maintenance to cut his power so we would get a call to come up to try and fix the problem. He does and I go up with him to apologize for the inconvenience because the guy was also a tor tier member. Sure enough we hear a kid in the bathroom hiding.
Tried to ask who the kid was and the old guy tried everything to shut us down from throwing his status around to bribing. Called the cops and let them deal with it.
EDIT: didn’t expect this to gain so much traction. Here’s are some additional info for people that have been asking: I don’t recall the specific charge (or if I was even told so, use your imagination), I don’t know the age of the child (I only saw him briefly one time when the cops showed up), I don’t know the age of the guy, this was in Southern California (as specific as I’d like to be).”
14. The poor pillow
“Back when I was a teenager, we hosted a New Zealander at our house for a couple weeks. Guy gets to our place after the flight, and about 10 minutes later I’m walking around my house to see where he’s at.
The door to his room is partially open, and the dude is laying face down on the bed and HUMPING THE EVERLOVING F*CK out of a pillow. I backed away slowly like Homer when he saw Apu cheating on his wife.
I felt bad for the pillow.”
15. Put it down
“Years ago a colleague had an old smartphone that he brought in to give to another coworker as theirs broke. The phone was sitting on the new owners desk but she hadn’t yet tried it out, as it was still charging after months of not being used.
We were talking about how cool it was with the coworker (smartphones were not widespread yet), and I picked it up to see how it felt in my hand. I pressed a button and the first thing that I saw was a Google search for “lump on anus”. I quickly put the phone back down.
This must have been the last thing he searched for when he last used it a long time ago, and forgot about it…”
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15 People Share the One Thing They Can’t Unsee
Have you ever stumbled upon something or witnessed an incident that you really weren’t meant to see – and that you wish you hadn’t?
We all have some of those moments, through no fault of our own.
In this AskReddit article, people share stories about seeing things that they definitely shouldn’t have.
1. Cringey
“Just 2 days ago, at a community pool, a teenage couple who entered into the pool area went into the hot tub. Stood up to stretch my legs and looked over to, well, sex in the hot tub. It was mid day!! I cringed pretty hard… but I laughed even harder when the neighborhood cop showed up.”
2. Almost in the buff
“I once arrived early to pick up a girl for a first date. She was renting a small garden apartment behind a bigger house. It was just after dusk and I walked around the corner. The sliding door was standing open and she was inside walking around, brushing her hair, wearing only her underwear.
She did not see me, so I just walked back around that corner and waited another 10 minutes. When I walked round again she had a dress on. I never told her.
edit: Since a few asked. The date went well. I only got to see her underwear again several weeks later.”
3. Dear Diary…
“When I was about 16, I was snooping in my parent’s wardrobe. Found a diary written by my mother when she was 14 (from the year 1970). Read some beautiful and brilliantly written entries about meeting and dating my dad (who was 16 at the time).
Had to read a little between the lines in some slightly later entries as they were written with such flowery language. In one such entry, all of a sudden she discloses that she’s had an abortion. Performed by my grandfather. An anesthesiologist. She never told anyone.”
4. Oh boy
“I found a suitcase full of dildos under my moms bed when I was 8.”
5. Sad
“My dad’s AA chips. Learned it’s why my parents got divorced. Proud of him for being in recovery though.”
6. Don’t make a sound
“Me and a friend snuck away from a house party at 2am once, we wanted to go to this local abbey. We were exploring the grounds and generally having a nice time when we see two cars stop nearby.
Instinctively we hid in some bushes and witnessed what was clearly a large drug trade.
We definitely were not supposed to see that. We waited for them to finish their business and then we headed back to the party.”
7. My eyes!
“Saw my parents having sex. Scarred me for a good 4 years and I forgot about it until you decided to make me relive the pain.”
8. She knows…
“Found out a relative who everyone believes to be filthy rich and always throws extravagant parties, put his kids in expensive private schools, his wife shopping and eating fine dining, is broke and close to declaring bankruptcy. He’s in deep debt and that he hasn’t paid his bills in months and from what I could see, he owes a loan shark too.
Now, every time I see him post an invite to my mom, I cringe at the thought of him owing more money.
My mom knows, but I never told her, she just knows.”
9. Well, that’s ruined
“David Copperfield show: I was at an angle that allowed me to see the volunteers running out from the stage during a disappearing act.”
10. Nudes
“My mom gave me an old laptop of hers when I was about 13 and I was scrolling through random pics she had left on it of my little brothers football games and then boom, nudes of my mother.”
11. Addicted
“Back in 1997, I started work at a new job and took over the office of a salesman who had recently been fired. I was in IT, using the same computer that had been setup for Sales. My first task was to install all the software I’d need.
The computer hard drive was almost full, so I poked around and found a TON of folders filled with porn. Went to my supervisor, and he said to delete it, warning me that the salesman had been fired for downloading porn.
Over the next few weeks, I kept finding secret porn folders on the the company’s network. Not only had he downloaded enough porn to max out his computer’s HD, he had the network at about 90% capacity.
When I was done deleting all the folders I could find, the server capacity was less than 50%. Dude was seriously addicted to porn.”
12. Cooking the books
“Leaving work late one evening, I saw the HR director and CFO in a dark office shredding papers (no, that’s not an euphemism). I didn’t say anything but quietly walked on down the hall. Two weeks later we were raided by the SEC and several people were charged with cooking the books.”
13. Better call the cops
“Worked for a downtown metropolitan hotel for a long time, and I’ve seen a lot I wasn’t supposed to see. Probably the worst was a kid with an old man.
Checked this guy in at like 1 in the morning (not uncommon because people travel t different times) but he was alone. Like an hour later he asked for something like a towel or blanket. Anyways, dispatched our runner to deliver it. After the runner comes to me and says he thinks something is wrong because he caught a glimpse of someone and the old guy was trying hard to block the entrance.
Being that we were supposed to take stuff like human trafficking seriously, I asked our maintenance to cut his power so we would get a call to come up to try and fix the problem. He does and I go up with him to apologize for the inconvenience because the guy was also a tor tier member. Sure enough we hear a kid in the bathroom hiding.
Tried to ask who the kid was and the old guy tried everything to shut us down from throwing his status around to bribing. Called the cops and let them deal with it.
EDIT: didn’t expect this to gain so much traction. Here’s are some additional info for people that have been asking: I don’t recall the specific charge (or if I was even told so, use your imagination), I don’t know the age of the child (I only saw him briefly one time when the cops showed up), I don’t know the age of the guy, this was in Southern California (as specific as I’d like to be).”
14. The poor pillow
“Back when I was a teenager, we hosted a New Zealander at our house for a couple weeks. Guy gets to our place after the flight, and about 10 minutes later I’m walking around my house to see where he’s at.
The door to his room is partially open, and the dude is laying face down on the bed and HUMPING THE EVERLOVING F*CK out of a pillow. I backed away slowly like Homer when he saw Apu cheating on his wife.
I felt bad for the pillow.”
15. Put it down
“Years ago a colleague had an old smartphone that he brought in to give to another coworker as theirs broke. The phone was sitting on the new owners desk but she hadn’t yet tried it out, as it was still charging after months of not being used.
We were talking about how cool it was with the coworker (smartphones were not widespread yet), and I picked it up to see how it felt in my hand. I pressed a button and the first thing that I saw was a Google search for “lump on anus”. I quickly put the phone back down.
This must have been the last thing he searched for when he last used it a long time ago, and forgot about it…”
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Fiji lost its original declaration…
Fiji lost its original declaration of independence from the UK and asked a copy from them.
Archaeologists routinely find edible honey…
Archaeologists routinely find edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs – the stuff never spoils, due to extremely low water-content, very low pH, and hydrogen peroxide (made by an enzyme in the bees’ stomachs).