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A Tennessee judge ordered a name change for a baby named “Messiah”. He was later fired after her decision was found unconstitutional on appeal—she had previously stated, “That title has only been earned by one person and that person is Jesus Christ.”
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Sandwich is an English town, and ‘wich’ literally means street, town, or dwelling. Also, the sandwich was ‘created’ following the Earl of Sandwich’s request for beef between two slices of bread. It was previously simply known as bread and cheese.
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In 1983 a Royal Navy pilot landed his Sea Harrier fighter jet on a container ship when he got lost during a training exercise. The ship completed its journey 4 days later and the plane was returned to service. The ship’s crew and owners filed a salvage claim and were awarded some £570,000 ($1.14 million […]
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The long-standing notion of late WWII ‘Kamikaze’ pilots as hyper-nationalist zealots was largely fiction. Many pilots were reluctantly drawn from the educated and liberal in Japan, and many expressed frustration at the futility of their nation’s cause and the sanctity of the Emperor.
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We’ve all heard stories about bridezillas – seemingly normal female people who get engaged and immediately morph into a monster whose only care in the world is about creating the illusion of a perfect relationship with a perfect wedding.
There’s even a television show about it, so it must be a real thing.
That said, it seems like there are lines to be drawn in the sand, and if you ask most people, asking a prepubescent child to wear shape wear is definitely one of them.
She prefaces the post with “definitely not body shaming,” but when that’s followed with her giving details that the girl in question is a “plus-sized kid” whose waist needs some “smoothing out,” well…
You be the judge.
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The top two comments point out (rightfully so) that asking her to smooth out anything to look better for other people is a harmful message that doesn’t need to be taught at such a young age.
Or ever, but we know that’s probably not possible.
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Once it was revealed that the child in question was to be the bride’s stepdaughter, people really flew into a fit. This is a girl who is probably going to look to this bride for approval for years.
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“How dare she” was pretty much the prevailing sentiment.
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We all wish the mother would have weighed in, honestly. Hopefully someone other than random internet strangers is on this girl’s side.
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And yeah, kids aren’t plus-sized. They’re kids.
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I don’t know about you, but now I’m mad, too.
What would you have done if you were this girl’s mother or the woman’s fiancee?
Because I’m thinking this whole wedding might be a mistake…
Then again, we all have to un-learn what the patriarchy has taught us about body image and the ideal shape, and hopefully, since this woman is about to become a stepmom, she’ll take the feedback, work on herself, and do better next time.
Fingers’ crossed.
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When people find an item they love – maybe a piece of clothing, a tool, a piece of media or technology – we tend to not only use it a lot, but to hang onto it as long as we can. There’s no promise, after all, that we’re going to be able to find the exact same replacement, and even if we do, will it really be the same?
If that’s a worry any of these 13 people had it was surely assuaged – because it was definitely time to go out with the old and in with the new.
That’s a lot of weight lifting.
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It’s a classic for a reason.
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That is a well-made sneaker. Or a lazy person.
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I’m not sure I want answers to all of my questions, however.
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10 years of cuddling looks good on him.
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A backup of a favorite is always a good idea.
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On your bike and your car.
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I’m so happy they could find a new one.
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I’d like to know how long they held up.
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I’m not judging, just observing.
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Just imagine your furniture if you hadn’t bought it.
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I want to go home and check mine now.
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Look at that little nub.
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There’s something so satisfying about these pictures and I’m not sure what it is.
What’s something you’ve bought multiples of because you love it that much? Tell us about it in the comments!
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If you’re not a woman, it can be hard to understand what it’s like to walk around feeling not exactly secure, pretty much all of the time.
Women and girls have to be on their guard, watching their surroundings, picking out exit strategies, prepared to lie or laugh and jokes that aren’t funny or actually run for their lives if something goes south.
Actress Shay Greyson, who lives in London, does a great job illustrating what it’s like on a day-to-day when she describes and encounter with a man in the park who asked to take a picture of her dog.
It was daytime and there were people around, so she figured there was no harm in saying yes.
Until…
“My dog was on a leash, it was daytime, and there were a lot of people around.
With that in mind, I figured he had no malicious intentions, so I said yes.
As he was doing it, I noticed that his hand was holding her collar.
That’s when I realized he was actually taking a picture of my address on the dog tag, not my dog.”
I think many of us would have gone into flight mode at that point, but Shay didn’t – she went after him and stood up for herself instead, insisting that he delete the photos and then verifying that he did.
Then, she insisted that he delete them from his “recently deleted” folder.
“My gut told me to keep insisting, so I told him that I would not stop or leave until he showed it to me.
He then agreed to show me the album, and as I suspected, the three pictures were still there.
I then made him permanently delete them all.”
She shared her story on TikTok, where other women chimed in with their own stories and how they believe their own quick thinking perhaps saved their lives.
@heysheybae What if I didn’t realize what he was doing? #fyp #safetyprotocol #womensafety #foryou #storytime #feminism #foryoupage
If you’re not a woman and are wanting to better understand what it’s like to live as one – and why we often have escape strategies and don’t want to be friendly – there are plenty more posts on TikTok like Shay’s.
Women are out there trying to make you understand, so take advantage!
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Employee-employer relationships are as complicated as any other human interactions, and the way this employee describes her boss’s oddities is more than enough to spark your curiosity…and then you hear the rest of the story.
Wow.
This woman has worked as an executive assistant for a man just a few years her elder for several months. At first she found him “strange,” and noted that he’s extremely religious.
I (26F) work for a large aviation company in the US. It is an amazing company to work for and I have been there for the past 4 years as an Executive Assistant.
My role can move around based on where the company needs admins. I started a new rotation at work about 6 months ago and I am now working with my new Boss “James”(32M).
James is a pretty decent guy but at first I found him a little odd. He is very quiet and shy. At first he couldn’t even seem to look me in directly in the eye.
Over time, the two of them have settled into working together, though, and she considers him a friend (who she’s maybe attracted to), and everyone is happy enough.
I noticed right away that he seems to be very religious. He had more crosses in his office than I have seen in most churches. I am from a Christian family as well and it’s quite common in my state to be religious. Some things just seemed a little over the top to me and that’s saying something.
James is a good guy though and over the past six months we have grown close. He has started to let his personality show. We get along well and work great together. We have now become good friends and he has opened up to me a great deal. Sometimes I even feel like there’s a spark between us but neither of us have ever acted on it.
It seemed like business as usual when he said that his mother was going to drop by one morning with lunch, and because he was in meetings all morning, asked that his assistant take the food and put it in the fridge.
No problem, right?
Yesterday James told me that his mother was in town and would be stopping by to bring him lunch today. James has never talked much about his family other than telling me they live out of state. He had meetings all morning and asked me to put it in the fridge once she arrived.
Well, when she greeted the mother, all hell broke loose. The woman screamed Bible verses at her and insisted that she couldn’t be her son’s assistant because her son would never work with a woman who “looked like her.”
She went into her son’s office and locked the door.
At 9:30 am his mom arrived with his lunch. I greeted her and introduced myself as James assistant. She just stared at me and then suddenly started to cry. I tried to ask her what was wrong but she just yelled bible verses at me.
She told me I can’t be James assistant because his assistant is male (My name is unisex so I don’t no if she assumed I was male). She than demanded that I leave her sons office immediately and told me that I am fired. She went into her sons office and proceeded to locked the door.
OP wasn’t sure what to do, as no one is supposed to be in her boss’s office when he’s not there and she didn’t believe there was a way to reach him, as he’s usually out of touch while in meetings.
So, she called security and had her escorted in the midst of a giant fit.
Her behaviour was really frightening and I didn’t no what to do. I am not supposed to allow anyone into his office when he is not present for confidentiality reasons. I tried to get her to leave but she wouldn’t open the door.
My boss is unreachable when he is in meetings, so I panicked and I called security. Security came and escorted her off the property as she threw a fit for everyone to see.
Her boss was upset about the scene, saying that he wishes she’d handled it differently and called him instead of security. He’s embarrassed about what happened.
James was very upset and says he wishes I handled it differently instead of “causing a scene” by calling security. He said his mother is just not used to “women like me being around her son” and that she was very protective. He said I should have called his cell phone instead of security and that I embarrassed him.
Some of my coworkers agree with me while others think that I was an asshole for calling security on his mother. I don’t think that I did anything wrong. I can’t shake this feeling that I’m an asshole for doing this.
If you ask me he should be embarrassed, but not about the way his assistant handled things. Yikes.
What does Reddit say? Let’s find out!
Short, sweet, and wise words.
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It’s all just a bit creepy.
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There are so many red flags it’s ridiculous. (2)
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There’s faith and there’s religious fanaticism and the latter is to be avoided at all costs.
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She’s definitely NTA here.
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Whew. I think it’s time for her to go job hunting, honestly. How weird.
What are your thoughts? Rant away in the comments!
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Just when you thought you knew how the world works, science throws something new at you.
There’s a ton of great research coming out of PhD programs these days–new discoveries and new ideas.
One such researcher is Qian Yuan from the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.
His research suggests that parts of the Earth are not actually Earth at all.
His team’s research was presented at the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this past March.
For years it has been widely believed that a proto-planet called Theia helped to form life as we know it.
The Moon-Forming Impact And Its Gifts – Based on high pressure-temperature experiments, modeling and simulations, a team at @RiceUniversity makes the case for the central role of the proto-planet called #Theia in enabling life. | Many Worlds @nexssinfo https://t.co/6XCleTAVvA pic.twitter.com/SzbQo4JyhJ
— The SETI Institute (@SETIInstitute) January 29, 2019
According to Popular Mechanics:
In 2016, UCLA researchers proposed that Earth could actually be two planets that fused together after colliding: itself and Theia. At the time, scientists said they believe the two planetary masses mixed together uniformly. Now, Qian Yuan of Arizona State University and his colleagues suggest the mysterious dense spots in Earth’s interior are the specific pieces of Theia that are still intact.
Theia is thought to be very similar in size and structure to Mars.
Scientists also believe that the Earth’s Moon may have formed during this impact.
You might remember from science class that the Earth is made up of 3 layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core.
#Earth #mantle is 60 degrees Celsius hotter than previously thought through #massspectrometry – https://t.co/D7GKSehU41 pic.twitter.com/MYxbDQLt1z
— Mass Spec (@spec_mass) March 6, 2017
The mantle itself is also made up of layers of varying density, and is at the center of Yuan’s research.
In some cases, there are massive pockets that are more dense, called “Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces” or (LLSVPs).
Check out my AGU2020 poster! Giant Impact Origin for the LLSVPs. Listen to the 1-min "Voice of Mantle Convection", inspired by Leif Karlstrom @VolcanoListener in Earthbirds seminar held by @CinTyLee1. https://t.co/hQZbaZ2K1v. Best poster for birthday: gifs, movie, music, beer!!! pic.twitter.com/uqi6e3giVX
— Qian Yuan (@qianyuan_geo) November 23, 2020
I honestly don’t understand most of Yuan’s science-related tweets, but he compares the Earth to chocolate, which is always a language I can understand:
Hi, I am Qian(Chan) Yuan, a PhD candidate from @SESEASU. Earth’s mantle is like a chocolate shell. I use geodynamic modelling and microanalysis of mantle rocks to explore how the “chocolate” convects and leads to profound geological processes. #AGU20RollCall #AGU20 @theAGU pic.twitter.com/GuPOvVb97g
— Qian Yuan (@qianyuan_geo) December 10, 2020
The team did a lot of math, and they have been able to compare the objects of their study with the mantle on Mars, which can be examined in the form of meteorites that have landed on Earth–over 100 of them.
What the researchers found is that:
“The total mass of the moon, together with the LLSVPs, is almost perfectly matched with [Mars’s] mantle.”
Unlike the original supposition that the two planets fused completely, Yuan’s team believe that the heavier Theia material sank into the deepest part of the Earth’s mantle, closest to the core, and there it stayed, like the gritty dregs at the bottom of a cup of coffee.
Popular Mechanics explains it this way:
How have the dense Theia materials stayed intact for billions of years?
It’s a function of the way Earth’s mantle works, where convection circulates materials that are a certain temperature and density.
The Theia materials are so dense that they sank and never floated back into the convection zone.
Think of this like the stuff that accumulates in a sharp corner that’s hard to reach with the vacuum cleaner.
So now you know. The Earth is like an Easter candy egg with a vacuum cleaner hidden deep inside.
And even though Mars feels very far away, we are all technically walking on a foreign world.
Did Yuan’s research completely blow your mind like it did mine? 
Tell us in the comments.
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When we take jobs in customer service – jobs that involve working with human beings we don’t know – we know that we’re signing up for a certain amount of frustration.
Humans, after all, come in all shapes, sizes, and attitudes – and on any given day, we’re all capable of being our worst selves.
This girl is a cashier at a grocery store, and saw a family come in with an army of coupons, ready to make everyone’s life a living hell.
I (18F) am a cashier at a grocery store in my town.
This afternoon we had a large group of people come in together. Turns out they were extreme couponing. For anyone unaware of this, it’s basically people who clip coupons and shop for a shit-ton of groceries and they hope to pay as little as possible.
We see couponers all the time but I’ve never seen anyone go as crazy as this family did.
She ended up with 6 carts of groceries and expected to pay exactly $0 for her haul.
So, basically the mom had hundreds of coupons and a she didn’t bring any money because she thought if she didn’t bring money it would encourage her to do her best and get her groceries for free. Her family stayed by the cart corral while she shopped and every time she needed a new cart they’d give her one and take her full cart.
Eventually she finished shopping and she had about six carts of stuff. My manager shut my lane down and helped me bag and then we started ringing.
She and her manager worked together to try to ring up the order but the machines kept saying there were too many coupons to go through, and the couponer was holding up everyone else’s shopping trip.
We get to the end and I’m ringing in the coupons when I get an error message on my screen that says my POS reached the maximum number of coupons for the transaction. So, my manager voided the transaction and we started again and tried to keep each group items together but we kept having the issue with the coupons.
We even tried multiple transactions but my store only had five registers and there were people waiting to check out and we couldn’t get the coupons to go through properly.
The woman refused to buy anything, leaving it all at the register. OP got angry, letting her know that she had wasted everyone’s time and that now she would have to return everything to the shelves.
Her manager yelled at her and there was generally a whole scene.
So, the lady just decided she didn’t want to get anything after all and wouldn’t be buying anything in her carts. Her total after tax, before coupons, was $789.78. There were roughly 500 items listed on her receipt per diem, and her stuff wasn’t just in carts, she was also purchasing flats of sodas, big bags of dog food on rolling carts, flats of canned food.
And, the rule at my store is if a customer decides not to buy something at the register then the cashier has to put it all back before they can go home. I had been at work since 5am and I was scheduled to leave at noon and because I had to put everything back I didn’t get off work until about thirty minutes ago. She had taken three hours to shop, herself.
Anyway, when she said she wasn’t going to buy anything after all I had a visceral reaction and said to her, “are you fucking serious? I have to put all this back by myself.” I should add that she left the store in shambles. The customer started bitching, so did her group, my manager got in my face, I think the phrase “lazy brat” got thrown around.
Her parents think she was wrong, her coworkers have her back, but what do you think?
Reddit definitely has some thoughts below!
The customer might always be right, but was she even a customer?
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The woman definitely didn’t care about anyone but herself (and her bank account).
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Not to mention, she probably wasted a good amount of decent food.
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Some people didn’t agree there was anything wrong with what the woman was doing, but the computers at the store need to be upgraded (and OP will probably learn more finesse with age).
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And no, the customer is not always right.
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Whew. I do believe that a more experienced cashier probably would have handled things better, but this was a stressful and annoying situation.
The computers need to be updated or they need to stop offering coupons.
Agree? Disagree? Drop your thoughts in the comments!
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