These two were supposedly based on a real couple, who said they wouldn’t board a life boat as long as there were younger people still aboard the ship. They both went below deck, presumably to their room, and that’s the last time they were seen.
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Isador & Ida Straus
The couple had been married for 41 years at the time of the disaster. They raised six children together, and were almost inseparable. On the rare occasion that they were apart, they wrote each other every day. They even celebrated their birthdays on the same day, although they were well apart from one another. During the sinking, Titanic’s officers pleaded with the 63 year old Ida to board a lifeboat and escape the disaster, but she repeatedly refused to leave her husband. Instead, she placed her maid in a lifeboat, taking her fur coat off and handing it to the maid while saying, “I won’t need this anymore”. At one point, she was convinced to enter one of the last two lifeboats, but jumped out as her husband walked away to rejoin him.
When last seen by witnesses, they were standing on deck, holding each other in a tight embrace. Their funeral drew some 6,000 mourners at Carnegie Hall.
A monument to them still stands in a Bronx cemetery, it’s inscription reads: “Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.”
but why do we have to get married and have children
why can’t we just get a group of friends and live happily ever after in an apartment and share the profits
i’d be much happier that way
this is the most millennial thing ive ever read
Nothing wrong with this, you can have roof parties and grill food. Better yet just save up together and buy a small house split the bills and mortgage.
- the nuclear family as an economic unit has really only existed for a few hundred years, across part but not all of the world
- the nuclear family unit is the easiest to exploit under capitalism, because parents have to work externally to provide for their children. They work to pay for child care for their children while they work. They work to earn money to feed their kids and to give them nice things to make up for all the time they spend away, at work.
- a huge amount of labour is necessary every day to keep a family fed, their house clean, etc. some families are wealthy enough to outsource this by hiring staff, most are not.
- capitalism is a pointless middleman in this. we should just live cooperatively.
- share houses and intentional communities are awesome
- people of different life stages function well together because they have complimentary needs and abilities
- kids are less of a stress and burden in a home with lots of different adults to provide support and love, as well as sharing household tasks.
- destroy capitalism through cooperativism.
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And think how GREAT this would be for folks who want non-blood family, or polyamorous relationships, or like kids but don’t want to have their own, or like having housemates but don’t want to get married.
I’m telling you, as long as I could have a space that was mine (small group of houses or one very large house), I would be so happy with this setup.
capitalism is defeated,,, qhen friendhsip is fuckiing magic,,,,, im living the strider dream,,,,
Like, 90% of infomercial style products were designed by/for disabled people, but you wouldn’t know that, because there is no viable market for them. THey have to be marketted and sold to abled people just so that any money can be made of off them and so the people who actually need them will have access.
I think snuggies are the one example almost everyone knows. They were invented for wheelchair users (Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a coat on and off of someone in a wheelchair? Cause it’s PRETTY FUCKIN HARD.) But now everyone just acts like they’re some ~quirky, white people thing~ and not A PRODUCT DESIGNED TO MAKE PEOPLES DAY TO DAY LIVES 10000X EASIER.
But if at any point you were to take your head out of your own ass and go “Hey, who would a product like this benefit,” that would be really cool.
This makes informational make so much sense now.
Like… of course there’s no reason for that guy to knock over that bowl of chips. However, the person it was actually designed for has constant hand tremors that would make this pretty rad, but since we don’t want to show that in a commercial, here’s an able bodied guy who can’t remember how gravity works.
Shit. Those commercials suddenly get a lot less funny when you realize it’s pretty much just people ineptly trying to mimic disability.
Or like the thing for the eggs? Like, oh, it cracks eggs perfectly, you only need one hand?
IT WAS DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO ONLY HAVE THE USE OF ONE HAND.
Or the juice bottle pourer? For people who’re TOO LAZY TO POUR THEIR OWN JUICE? Or FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIFFICULTY BEARING WEIGHT IN THE HANDS.
It’s amazing how with just a few words by a few people, my whole perspective on something can shift entirely.
I feel so ignorant for never having realized this before.
Most people I know who own infomercial products are elderly, disabled and poor.
thank you - best public service announcement I have seen in a really long time
These “sidewalk counselors” are wearing attire that is very similar to PP’s logo and name to trick patients into thinking they are actual clinic escorts. These are the most deceptive ones I’ve seen yet.
Well this is fucking nauseating.
If you have to trick people into talking to you that means they probably do not want your help or opinion.
-Mod Rayquaza
PSA
PSA
Can they be charged and sued for impersonation? Like Im pretty sure thats a First Degree offense.
Reasons Why Retail Jobs are Harder than Office Jobs.
And yet people don’t think retail workers should get a living wage. I’ve literally gotten a five cent raise myself.
8 cent raise right here
Raise? Nah. More like, “Great job! Here’s a candy bar.” I don’t even like candy that much, so that “incentive/reward” always just made me mad. Gimme money!
Me: Uh uh. Look here.. right now it’s September and approximately 9 months from now it’ll be around June, which means there’s a strong chance our baby could be a Gemini. Too Risky. Let’s not.
why are boys so loud why do they have to yell and push each other around in the hallways all the time shhhhhhhhh ssshhhhhhh shhh it’s alright calm down
Because it’s how we both demonstrate that we’re dangerous enough to defend those we care about, and also show that people should respect us because we are powerful. Also play aggression demonstrates familiarity and trust and is a very important part of masculine friendships.
Lol no. Girls are bitches to each other more often than not. If it isn’t to your face it’s behind your back.
maybe they are mean to you only. everybody in my group is supportive and we share hand cream.
My world changed forever when I stopped looking at other women through the lenses that society had given me.
I learned how easy it is to ask a stranger for a pad.
I learned to share my lotion.
I learned how quick women are to compliment.
I learned how easy it is to make a girl smile.
I learned how to find good sales - hint: compliment an item and you learn where it was purchased and if it was on sale.
I learned how to see fear on a face across a bar.
I learned how to step in.
I learned how to ask for help with my eyes.
I learned about bathroom friendships and how deep they can feel for their short lived lives.
I learned how to signal complex thoughts and ideas through straw placement and head tilting.
I learned how to feel safe and make others feel safe.
Girls are so good.
The world is seriously a better place now that I enjoy the presence of other women. I haven’t had a single catty incident since I stopped hanging out with exclusively dudes and not-like-other-girls.
I am like other girls and other girls are wonderful. You can never have too many sisters.
I’m so glad I learned to love women.
Same. It changed my life. It saved me.
Funny thing that it’s only men who tried to perpetuate the myth that women are bitchy and would claw each other’s eye out (usually for men). The women in my life have been always supportive in my life and my work.
i still do not understand what possessed so many well-respected actors to do the spy kids movies like
did they pay really well? did you want these beautiful, terrible movies to be a blemish on your career forever?? why
antonio banderas did so many high-profile movies then in spy kids he looked like this
tony shalhoub has won multiple emmys but he did spy kids and
even fucking george clooney wtf
steve buscemi is pretty goofy but still
salma hayek’s pigtails in this wow
elijah wood was the lead in a movie that’s tied for the largest number of oscars of all time and he played a character creatively named “THE GUY”
sylvester stallone is like a cultural icon and he played not one but FOUR ridiculously dressed weirdos
alan cumming is the only one i can understand
i will not tolerate this slander
“When I was doing ‘Spy Kids,’ the Weinsteins asked me […] ’Why are you making
the characters Hispanic? It doesn’t make any sense, isn’t this supposed
to be for everybody?’ ‘Well, it’s based on my family.’
[…]
People have come up to me for a lot of years since and said ‘You changed
my kids’ whole life. They see little kids who are Hispanic that are
spies and they saw your name as the writer and director and you changed
their idea of what their future could be.’ The ripple effects of that
one movie were enormous.”
Also maybe sometimes actors like to play roles that are silly and fun? I can’t imagine any of these actors didn’t know exactly what they were getting into and, based on their performance, didn’t have a good time
CRITICAL INFORMATION: The entire concept of Spy Kids came from Robert Rodriguez’s desire to make an action film he could watch with his kids. With intentions like that, it’s pretty easy to understand why so many famous actors with kids of their own would be interested in it.
