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Russian military used foot wrapping instead of socks. Technique of wrapping feet in cloth was used since 17th century up until 2013 when they allowed the use of socks and announced the abolishment of centuries old practice. However thick your socks are, you’ll get holes in them. Which requires replacement or stitching. And if you […]
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The first traces of carbonara pasta dates back to the 1940s. The name “carbonara” means coal burner in which it is assumed that the recipe originated from those working in mines or outdoors for long periods.
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India and Bangladesh are the only two countries in the world to follow the concept of MRP (Maximum retail price) that is the highest price that can be charged for a product. Shops cannot charge customers over the MRP.
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If you rub fresh garlic on the soles of your feet, about an hour later you can actually taste the garlic. This is because the molecule that causes garlic’s smell, allicin, is small enough to penetrate the skin and blood vessels, where it goes all the way up to your mouth and nose.
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There are fossils of marine life found on top of Himalayan mountains.
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John Harvey Kellogg wrote a book about abstinence, 156 pages of which being written on his own honeymoon.
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Anti-littering legislation date back to ancient Greece, a marker on the island of Paros has the inscription “whoever drops their litter on the street owes 51 drachmae to whoever wishes to claim them”. In modernity cigarette butts are the most littered item, with 4.5 trillion discarded each year.
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We all make mistakes at our jobs sometimes, but most are quickly forgotten.
The big ones though? The ones that leave a scar on your brain? Those are the ones you’ll be talking about for years.
Or in this case, sharing with strangers on Twitter.
what’s the worst mistake you’ve ever made at work? after a long & stressful day speedwriting summaries i mixed up the names of (BBC director general) Tony Hall & (disgraced paedophile) Stuart Hall in a report i sent to… BBC DG Tony Hall, all the BBC top brass, the BBC trustees,
— Dan Douglas (@dandouglas) May 12, 2021
What are some other big blunders worth spreading? Let’s find out.
Careful, he might just sue the pants off you.
Perhaps not the *worst* but certainly the most bizarre was finding out I’d taken, folded, and put up for sale the trousers of a customer in John Lewis’ menswear department while they tried something on. They still had his wallet in the pocket.
He also turned out to be a Lord.
— Joe Skrebels (@2plus2isjoe) May 13, 2021
Must have looked like the aftermath of a Tarantino flick in there.
Not me, but a long reach fork truck driver in my workplace. Bring a pallet of red wine (roughly 80 boxes, 6 bottles per box) down from a high shelf (80ish ft up). The pallet slipped off the forks and fell to the ground. Not a bottle unbroken. Red wine everywhere.
— Liam (@liamjmellor80) May 13, 2021
Why would that be so…ah.
Missing the ‘O’ when typing ‘account’.
— Tommy (@TWOD87) May 13, 2021
(It’s healthcare for the terminally ill.)
As a baby barrister I went to the Mags Court to ask for an adjournment ‘as the defendant is in a hospice’. They asked how long and I said “well 3 weeks and then hopefully he can join us”. The prosecutor whispered “do you know what a hospice is?” “Er not really
”
— Will Da Force (@WilberDaForce) May 13, 2021
Oh the chaos.
Someone in my company accidentally emailed all 25,000+ employees around the world on her first day, leading to hours of people replying ‘please stop replying all’ and ‘please remove me from this’ before IT sorted it. Her name is now legendary.
— Becca (@BeccaH88) May 13, 2021
A lot of red wine disasters in this thread.
Waitressing for a company that did catering for expensive weddings, had to carry drinks on a v stylish slate tray. Slate heavy, arms weak, eventually lost control, red wine exploded all over bride’s dress as she prepared for photoshoot in specially constructed Japanese tea garden
— Ruby Stockham (@stockham_ruby) May 13, 2021
Um, I sure hope the other waiter was also fired?
Oh god. Nightmare.
My cousin was waitressing in a posh restaurant. One of the waiters was baiting her for her accent, he threw pepper in her face as she was carrying soup out to some little old ladies. She shouted Fuck off ya cunt whilst dropping the tray.
Sacked on the spot.— Gallus Effie
(@GallusEffie) May 13, 2021
Don’t put metal in the science oven.
I knocked out the electrics in the whole of Canterbury high street by microwaving a soup which had metal on the rim.
— Mac (@Tweetgood_Mac) May 13, 2021
And then when the balance sheet is off at the end of the day, guess who looks like a thief.
One day when I was a teen at [redacted large department store] I was just giving away money to everyone who bought a gift card. So they’d buy a gift card and I would also give them the cash amount. My brain was like “yes this is right”
— Beth McColl (@imteddybless) May 13, 2021
WTF was on that stick?
I brought down an entire department of a national broadcaster for three hours by plugging in a USB stick without having it scanned for viruses first.
— Johnny Chiodini (@johnneh) May 13, 2021
I can’t say you didn’t have this coming.
Driving back after lunch. Milton Keynes, the moronic driver’s (me) wet dream. Overtook some rich dude in his Aston Martin, giving him the “wanker” hand. Was going in & saw the car parking up next to mine. Shit. Turned out to be Steve Jackson to meet my boss. I hid in the toilet.
— Philip Bak (@niinegames) May 12, 2021
She’s nicer than me, I would demanded to keep it.
Accidentally put £40,000 in a child’s account instead of £40 while working for a bank. Thankfully his mum noticed, gave us a call and found the whole thing very funny.
— Lydi_A (@LydiaMizon) May 13, 2021
Hope you like angry phone calls as gifts.
In my ill fated bank call center career, remember this was a long time ago so wasn’t as easy as “app” to fix it I accidentally transferred £100 instead on £10,000 between two customer accounts just before the call center closed for the day
On Christmas Eve
— Pink Elephant Suit (@ElephantSuitFan) May 12, 2021
Yikes.
Slagged off one of the brands I worked with on Twitter, forgetting that they had the finest social listening tools that money could buy. Nothing more humiliating than being called to a meeting with HR where they’ve printed out a month’s worth of your tweets.
— Christina McMc (@ChristinaMcMc) May 12, 2021
Oops.
Two months into a fairly grueling tour and it’s time to fly home. Got everyone up, checked the rooms, passport check, into the taxi, to the airport, an hour to spare, time to go home.
Turns out Brussels has two airports.
— Andrew Ellis (@Ellis_Samizdat) May 12, 2021
Man. Makes me glad the worst I can mess up with this job is seplling thngis worgn.
What’s your big work mistake?
Tell us in the comments.
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This certainly is a weird story…
I guess every person thinks about their finances differently and some also like to portray a certain image about their money to the outside world.
Check out this story from Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole?” and stick around to see how readers reacted.
Start now!
AITA for revealing our net worth when my wife constantly says we are broke and making me look bad with money?
“I (31M) have been with my wife (30F) for 10 years now and she always has had this habit of making me look bad with our finances.
Whenever anything regarding spending money comes up she will always say how broke we are and she doesn’t have the money to do this or buy that. The thing is we are doing well financially. We have decent jobs and combine our salary is roughly $125k/yr.
As of today our net worth is more than $1 million but less than 2. I had saved/invested a lot before getting married so I gave us a good head start. I control the finances/take the lead but we both agreed to living a very modest life. We both have our cars from college for example (Honda & Toyota). She knows everything about our finances because at least once a month I go over it with her every time I deposit money in our investment accounts or our kids college funds.
For banking we have an emergency fund and I budget everything else to go straight into investments. We basically stay right at $10k in our banks savings account and $500 in our checking account after bills. EDIT: Most of the time there is more than $500 in our checkings but once I pay our CC each month I then move anything extra. We always use the CC so its not like we only have $500 to spend. Our CC limit is $25,000.
A few months ago we had dinner with her friends and they talked buying a new car. My wife said something like, ‘I wish I could get a new car but I’m always broke after paying the bills. We still have our college cars!’ (EDIT: Wife does not want a new car). She will go on to talk about if she had money what she would want to buy and it always makes me feel ashamed.
This ‘I’m broke story’ has been happening for years. When we were driving home I asked her about. She understood we have the money but its how she feels because her bank account is always low. I said I can increase our budget or keep more money in our bank if she wants. Since we are doing well I’m okay with spending more. She said no and again was happy with our finances. I explained that when she says we are broke it makes me look bad and I feel ashamed. Its as though I can’t provide for the family and/or I am bad with money. She doesn’t see it that way.
The same conversation has come up numerous times about us being broke. Recently, I reminded her numerous tikes it makes me feel and look bad infront of friends and family. I told her if she keeps saying stuff like that I will reveal that we are doing well with money. I gave her a few reminders I’d eventually do this but she kept going with the I’m broke story.
At a dinner with her sister and parents the same I’m broke story came up. I piped in and said, ‘It’s weird to hear a millionaire say they are broke.’ My wife said, ‘Haha, I’m not though.’ And I quickly say, ‘We are millionaires and you know that. We go over our finances every month.’ Well the I’m broke story stopped after that and the night went on as usual. A little later the same thing happens with her friends and I use the same line.
Now my wife is mad at me for using that line and revealing roughly how much money we have. She said it seems like I’m gloating. I say its better than making me look like I’m running us into the ground fincially.
So AITA for revealing our net worth when my wife says we are broke?”
Well, that was interesting…
Let’s see how Reddit users responded to this story.
A person said they think the wife behaving this way without being prompted is pretty strange.
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Another reader said they think everyone sucks in this situation. Read on to see what exactly what they think.
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This Reddit user said it’s just odd that someone with this much wealth and assets is complaining about being “broke.”
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And this person said that it’s a good thing the husband called his wife out on it because it’s offensive to people who are actually struggling with finances.
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Now we want to hear from you.
In the comments, tell us what you think about this story.
Please and thank you!
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When I was a young kid visiting my grandparents, there was a little macrame picture hanging on the wall.
It featured a kind of skinny little building on a hill, and beneath that, a short poem I’ll never forget:
“On a cold dark night
In a sleepy haze
Be glad these ain’t
The good ol’ days”
I stared at that thing every time I was in there, completely lost as to its meaning. I don’t know why I never just asked my grandparents what it meant, other than the fact that I felt like there was a joke in there, and I hate admitting that I don’t get a joke.
It wasn’t until I was maybe 15 or so, visiting again for some holiday, that the penny dropped. It was an outhouse. The kind my grandparents had actually grown up using. The poem was about being grateful nobody has to go poop outside anymore. What a time to be alive.
But bathroom innovation didn’t end with, yanno, the bathroom. Check out these Reddit posts about the cutting edge in poopoo peepee tech.
Well that’s…bleak.
All of the toilet lights in my town have been changed to fluorescent blue, in an attempt to prevent heroin users from being able to find a vein to use. from mildlyinteresting
Way to go, bar.
This brewery has a sign in the bathroom that offers a backup plan incase your date isn’t going so well from mildlyinteresting
That seems a lot more sanitary, actually.
My school’s bathrooms have pedals instead of handles from mildlyinteresting
Well well well, look at fancy office Maria over here!
The toilet at my work has a wall of strong scented wood to replace an air refresher (it works surprisingly well!) from mildlyinteresting
You might call it a sink sink.
These kids toilets in a London museum whose sinks slope to cater for progressively shorter children. from mildlyinteresting
I’m totally on board for this. But also my neck hurts from reading it sideways.
This disabled bathroom has a sign to say it’s OK for anyone of any disability to use it. from mildlyinteresting
Just don’t mix it up with the soap.
This zoo has a complimentary sunscreen dispenser in the bathroom. from mildlyinteresting
Seriously, this should be widespread.
Japan is so far ahead of us with toilet stuff.
Japanese toilets often have a button that plays white noise/water sounds so you can poop without other people hearing your business. from mildlyinteresting
Clever and discreet.
The bathroom at my doctor’s office has a discreet way for victims of abuse, violence, or human trafficking to get help. from mildlyinteresting
For the tiny butts among us.
Public toilet at shopping centre has a extra smaller toilet seat for little humans. from mildlyinteresting
As it ought to be.
My office flipped all the women’s restroom vending machines to be free. from mildlyinteresting
The way of the future.
I have a Gender neutral bathroom at my High school from mildlyinteresting
For when you gotta temporarily hang up your style.
This toilet lock that doubles as a tray so you can’t leave without taking your stuff. from mildlyinteresting
Puppers need poopers too.
The future of 1 and 2 look bright.
If you were redesigning your bathroom any way you want, what would you do with it?
Tell us in the comments.
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